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Geocaching in Tauranga

We were down in Tauranga last week. Tauranga is a large city by New Zealand standards and we were there to visit my in-laws. Their house is withing walking distance of several geocaches, so we decided to drag them out for a spot of geocaching to see how they liked it.

We went off to find a multicache, Parkvale Walkabout (Bay of Plenty), as the first cache was only 350 metres from their house. We found the first location without any trouble. We though the cache would be easy to find since the clue was quite obvious. However with five of us looking for it and myself nearly up to my knees in water, we had to give up.

Luckily, due to our knowledge of the area, we guessed where the second cache might be, and managed to find it without too much trouble.

The in-laws had heard about geocaching at the same time that we did – on the Close Up TV program that screens here nightly during the week. Grandalf was explaining all about geocaching and I thought ‘that looks cool’, the inlaws thought ‘who would want to do that?’. But after keying in the co-ords for the 3rd cache, my father-in-law took the GPS and took off at great pace to find the third cache.

When we caught up with him he was busy foraging in the undergrowth at the next location. It looked like the weeds had grown quite a bit recently and this was hampering our search. We were also pestered by muggles who wanted to help us look. I told them we were looking for a film cannister that we had dropped (which was almost the truth).

Admitting defeat we then went off to where we were pretty sure the fourth cache would be – again because the clue was quite descriptive. We bumped into some family friends on the way and still failed to find the cache after nearly an hour with seven of us searching.

Never mind. There’s always next time.

The funny thing is that the in-laws went for a walk a couple of days ago after we came back to Auckland. They passed by the spot of the fourth cache and my father-in-law had to go an have another search just to be sure

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