WWFM III - Kiwi Stylie (Auckland) Auckland, NI, New Zealand
By KiwiGary on Saturday 10 May 2008. Waypoint GC18W59

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May 2008

27th KiwiGary Hi everyone, thanks again for all coming along and making the event such a success. Our event did get a mention on a podcast, check out this link http://www.podcacher.com/?p=532. Thanks to Radionut, Butterfly Lady, Rumo and Rala for such a great video. Well done guys a very professional bit of work. Can anyone that picked up a TB from the event, please make sure you have logged it out of the event. I will then get the event archived. Thanks again for coming....Gary and Margaret

17th Gr8dad Exellent job R&R, that video is just brilliant!!!

17th TheWonderStuff Fantastic Vid R&R!

16th Rumo and Rala Hi again everybody. Finally, after... - having to find out that the borrowed video camera did not record properly, - getting supplied with video footage by Radionut50 (thanks again - you made our day) - struggling with the file format of his video camera - fighting with a constantly crashing Windows MovieMaker - (de)installing countless codecs, ...it is done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzobSPPBUs Those who were there: Enjoy and remember Those who weren't: Enjoy and be there next time And sorry, if we forgot someone in the credits.

11th Vyrembi Hello to all the Kiwis! The organisation team of WWFM III in Zurich, Switzerland is happy to read, that you had a successful, funny and great Kiwi-WWFM! Greetings and all the best for you guys and HAPPY CACHING! Homesick for New Zealand... Vyrembi from Switzerland

11th gislong Great fun to meet everyone. the look on the faces of the staff in the coffee shop was priceless. Thanks Gary. Could someone post a photo here?

10th smeenz D'oh.. only just got the email about this.. and will be busy with the firefighter's skytower climb (although I'm not climbing it myself). Everyone come and watch it after you break up. Runs from 7am until about 11.30am.

10th Rumo and Rala Wow, what a cool and fun event. It was so great to see everybody gather and to behave muggle-like until - "bang" - the "cytoplasm" was surrounded by red and yellow weirdos who - for some unobvious reason - kept clapping, pointing and chatting. And another "bang" and the spooky thing was over. Cool. Thanks to Gary and Margaret for organising this event. And good to see all you guys. Always great to catch up. TNLNSL, TFTC

10th Aeronauts Wow, that was so cool!! Thanks Gary for organizing this! Great to meat all!! Thanks from all the Scouts!

10th Gr8dad Well, that was a great occasion!! well executed. Thanks Gary for creating this event. Great to meat all once again!. Coffee after was good as-well! TFTC PS - wonder who grabbed the FTF!! ( First to Flash)

10th ags That was fun! Great event, and even the rain held off. Thanks Gary!

10th Zork V ***FIRST MOB III EVENT IN THE WORLD**** Well done Gary a very well orginised event, great to see everyone got in to the spirit.

10th tofska What a hoot! So are we now going to be classed as 'orange' or 'green' geocachers? Mental note not to use a flash when taking group shot of geocachers in uniform . Great stuff - Cheers, M@

10th Adnshe That was fun! Had heard about Flash mob events from the podcasts on podcacher.com so we were very excited about attending the Kiwi version. Thanks KiwiGary for doing such a great job of organising.

10th Navigull That was a hoot. Thanks for setting it up Gary. Did many of you participants see the "real" vest wearer's (from the garbage truck) face as the group broke up. He looked as if he so desperately didn't want to be associated with all those nutters. Note: I have posted a photo you can look at with out donning dark glasses (Hah Hah!)

10th glyn(the only one) Great event, well organised & attended, again great to be able to put more faces to names, a big thanks to Gary & Margaret (the Dahl's) for putting it all together & no-one got hurt, dirty or even kidnapped!! [This entry was edited by glyn(the only one) on Friday, May 09, 2008 at 9:14:58 PM.]

10th Tufty Nice to see some new faces at this great event. Gary, thanks for organising it. Cheers.

10th Beauty & The Beast Yay! we were able to attend this one. So great - THANKS for organising this cool event ;-)

10th Butterfly_lady Once upon a quiet Saturday morning somewhere near the pirate ship Esther, all was well. Dogs were walked, sightseers took photos, a lady reclined on a bench seat chatting on her cell phone, a mother fed her baby, a photographer took photos, a group of scouts investigated the docks..... When suddenly from nowhere a Kiwi arrived and donned on a BRIGHT vest.... a moment later all one could see was an ocean of vivid orange and lemons.... as strange beings gathered around the revolving artwork. Applause burst forth and they pointed at that thing. Blink - where have they all gone... seems to be an elusion, or was it? Thanks KiwiGary & co. This was great fun, being part of the first in the world for the WWFMIII event. Poor coffee house staff afterwards, when asked if normally this busy on a Saturday morning, replied "no, they had no idea where they all came from".... if only they knew.

10th geocooley Team geocooley were there! A fun event. Felt a bit sorry for the poor staff at the coffee shop, who were well and truely taken aback by the sudden Saturday morning rush.

10th radionut50 Wow - that was a great hoot - well done Gary for the organising - well done all for coming together and proving this is a hobby of real nutcases! A fun event, lots of great fellowship at the coffee house after (once we found it!). It is pretty difficult to video something as strange as this while you are participating, but some shots are stored here: (visit link)

10th Seattle's Best What an awesome event! Great to see lots o familiar faces out on a Saturday morning. Was also great meeting pacawrights (Paul) from my home town (Seattle). Many thanks to Kiwi Gary for putting this event together so we could have some fun, meet new people, and drink coffee in real Kiwi style. Well done and thanks!! [This entry was edited by Seattle's Best on Friday, May 09, 2008 at 11:17:43 PM.]

10th Indiana Jill Woohoo! Two's became clusters . . . funny how we all ended up in the city on the same Saturday! Clusters became a FLASH MOB! Great to see everyone! KIWIGARY . . . . thank you for the initiative, the effort and the fun we all had. Met new people and ran in to some old ones . . . . . I mean folks I'd already met. Did a few more caches in town on a quiet Saturday. A good day. Who prayed for no rain this AM?

10th Mistcube A big thanks to Kiwigary for a great event. Met up with acquaintances from Rangitoto who are now becoming friends and met new people and hopefully future friends too.

10th Skiingdemon My first Event! Great Fun! Thanks Kiwi Gary. Finally able to meet some geocachers (put a face to the name!)

10th KiwiHarvs Good event. Thanks to glyn(the only one) for lending me a high-vis vest.

10th Spy3 This was great fun and we would definitely join in again. Thanks for the event.

10th Tramper Ted What great fun, half of which was watching people trying to be 'not there' prior to kick off. Cool concept Gary - well done on organising this. Love all the photos thanks folks. Thanks, well and truly, for the event. :) :)

10th skatelong My first event cache!!! went with skiingdemon and archiebalfe this was very cool. Also very well organised by kiwi gary thanks kiwiGary!!! Skatelong

10th KiwiGary 10:00 Wow what a great turnout, and we thought we were the only mad ones around these parts Congratulations to everyone that came along and made this such a special event, without you guys this wouldn't have worked at all. Congrats to the three Raffle winners, YeoGeo4, Seattle's Best and itisme93 and thanks again to Kathy and Andy (http://geocaching-zone.co.nz) for supplying some of the raffle prizes. We were amazed by the turnout on a day that did look like rain; we were expecting around twenty when we planned this event a couple of months back. But the final count was Eighty-Six people ; the event was probably the first WWFM III event in the world and the first for New Zealand. It will be interesting to read the logs of the other 166 WWFM events that happened today and are due to start tomorrow. Great to see some new people and some old hands at the game come along and admire the great artwork on the waterfront, it was great that everyone joined in and wore a HiViz jacket and had some fun. We even spotted one dog and a small Teddy Bear with HiViz jackets In the sport of Geocaching we are always trying to blend into the background and not be noticed, but today we turned the tables and stood out. It was also great to outnumber the muggles for a brief period of time . I would be interested to hear what the muggles thought we were doing? It was hectic trying to fit everything into fifteen minutes, so thanks to everyone that helped hand out the event meals and the log sheets. Thanks also to everyone that took photos, we look forward to seeing more as people log the event. Also big thanks to Sonny and Sandy "iTrax and FoxTail" in San Diego for coming up this idea and arranging the events world wide, keep on caching guys. It was great to catch up with most of the people at the after event coffee as well, everyone was asking about the next WWFM event. We will have to get our thinking caps on.

10th XenaCommander Yaay.. What great fun this hobby is.. It was wonderful to see so many other crazy people gather for this flash event.. Talk about flash... it was over in a jif.. Managed to meet up with some familiar faces and some new ones. Big creds to KG and M for their efforts.. Always appreciated. Thanks to those who posted pics. Happy Caching. TFTE #728 XC

10th TEALNZ Thanks KiwiGary for organising the event. We managed to arrive just on time, got out of the car donning our hi-viz vests. Great to catch up with some familiar and also new faces. Took a couple of the travel bugs, as PickleNZ, Roxbury and I are making our way to Hamilton for a weekend of caching and we can drop them off on our way. Look forward to more get togethers as they are always enjoyable.

10th the.pud 10.00am. Nice work Gary, managed to sneek away from work to attend. Sorry didn't get to the coffee shop. Cheers for smoko Cheers M+S [:O)] (1062)

10th GenCuster 10:00 Very cool Well worth the 480km round trip! 2nd time in a week actually! It was great to catch up with the Auckland crowd again - everyone is sooo friendly up here. Wish I'd been able to say Hi to eveyone but got tied up with coins & food and coffee and dogs! Yes, 'The Boss & I' attended - thanks TT for the loan of the hi-viz jacket for him. Reckon we could 'spread the word' next year around NZ! Oops - anyone who had a gander at the coin collection, email me if you want the trackable numbers. Cheers, GC.

10th Xmuggle Great Event - and not a flash in the pan!! The warm atmosphere and friendly Auckland Geocachers made the day. I caught up with a lot of friendly names, now if only I can remember them all but I won't forget the faces!! A long trip and an afternoon spent North of the city and not a cache in sight, Oops we forgot to load the caches into cachemate and our GPS'rs. This trip was all about visiting new and old friends :-) Now if only I lived North of the city, I know just the spot for a great cache placement ;-)

10th The Boss & I Woof Woof Bark Yip

10th Usat31 Wow - It was really interesting to see how this event unfolded & that it all went to plan. There were a few oddlooks around the muggles - very good to see. Our first International even & Mr Us was able to be there due to work - what a change! Sorry I wasn't able to join you all for coffee afterwards, but at least I made the event. Thanks KiwiGary for organising the event & also to all your helpers. Well done to all. Cheers PS Dropping off a TB, but will have to take hime back out again, as I forgot to drop it in the bucket. [This entry was edited by Usat31 on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 2:35:42 AM.]

10th Zorgon Well that was a bit different. Huge turnout and nice to meet some of the newer names that have been popping up in cache logs. Many thanks to KiwiGary for the effort in putting it all together The day didn't finish so well for team Zorgon as car troubles meant it took 6 hours to get home to Hamilton and the car still hasn't made it yet :(

10th s01ipsist My first event. :) nice to finally put some faces to names. Cheers!

10th Technokitten WOW thanks so much for the fun KiwiGary and all organisers and attendees. Special thanks to Glynn for tech tips on getting my reluctant GPS to find some sats after waiting 15 mins....... ooh er red face, gps dont like being shut in a drawer for months/years .. they sulk :-) Steamed in on the manual cycle while XC thundered in aboard Splat... without working GPS TK cunningly followed the roar of Splats Neptune tailpipe. Thanks again for the fun and it was sooooo nice to catch up with old hands and a few new chums.

10th peteznshellz Everyone looked 'flash', some even 'flashed' their legs in shorts. Our four legged friend looked very 'flash' in his vest. Esquires had a 'flash flood' of customers and there were a few 'flashes' of sunshine too. All in all it was a 'flash of brilliance' on your part Kiwi Gary and Margaret. Many thanks and what next?

10th recordnut Thank you for organising this event. Really enjoyed, brought mum who thought it was great too. Met some lovely people. Regards to you all. Cheers.

10th Helefant Thanks Gary, enjoyed meeting everyone and puting faces and names (and paws) to geonames. Also good excuse to spend day in city finding other caches. This is already my 3rd of yours today. + One Dead Duck TB, Flutershy blue coin, Wretched Skull coin.

10th psychrn What a marvelous event and a 1st for NZ/. Good to catch up with everyone and have a coffee and a bite to eat after. I felt sorry for the coffee people. I had had an early start this morning driving up from Hamilton via Monty's cache for a FTF at 7am. Discovered a few coins here as well. Thanks for the effort there Kiwigary & team

10th PickleNZ What an excellent event! Great to see some old and new faces and bummer I didn't meet some more of you! Next time! Thanks Gary & Margaret for organising this, and hope you got your free coffee from Esquires for bringing in that extra business for them!!

10th YuGeo4 (1380) Woohoo!!! Wow!!! Many thanks Gary and Margaret for organising an awesome event. Special thanks also to Andy and Kathy for supplying a fully stocked cache as an event prize. We have something special planned for it - so watch this space. Always great to catch up with everyone, both old and new - cheers YuGeo4.

10th TheWonderStuff Yep, this was a pretty cool event - was getting worried that Kiwigary had got stuck in traffic, but then he appeared and it happened! Great to catch up with sp8sm8, yugeo4, indianna jill, and da general - and others! Took some pics. Thanks for the fun.

10th sp8sm8 Wow! what a flash event, really enjoyed it. Did notice the council worker as per tofska's log. He looked very confused, or was that worried. Did feel a bit sorry for the staff at Esquires, but bet the management enjoyed it as much as we did. [^] TFTE

10th Mistcube Mistcube can make it. See you all there. TB and Coin drop

10th St. Ouens A Blast! What did the neighbours think? Thanks KiwiGary.

10th itisme93 First event and oh what an event, it was very fun met some very nice people, handed over my travel bugs to this nice american geocacher who is flying back soon. Thanks very much to Kathy and Andy for supplying the ammo container, will get that done up and ready to plant. Drinks was cool heard the lady who was serving all us geocachers say "wow it's scary, all these people coming out of nowhere!" . Can't wait for the photos to be uploaded. Thank you very much Gary for organizing this, had a great time.

9th TheWonderStuff pin drop

9th Gr8dad Did anybody hear that!!!??? No? Aahh well, it must have just been a pin dropping!! See ya in the morning! BTW - we're taking the bus again - 9:04 am from Constelation Station. Feel free to join us!

9th sp8sm8 Might pay to bring raincoats!

9th the.pud Sorry Gary, due to a big push at a hotel in the city we won't be able to attend anymore have to work.

9th Helefant Looking forward to meeting everyone. TB & Coin drop

9th bigfatrob Just not fair... I can't even attend the one that I'm near damn work and distance.

9th Aeronauts We will be there!!

9th pacawrights Very Cool!!! Thank you to all for the warm welcome! I was great meeting everyone. My daughters and I will enjoy moving along all the great travelers you sent with me. God Bless, pacawrights (Paul)

9th Technokitten Will be there ..... crikey !I wonder if my GPS still works..... got too used to relying on XenaCommander for the technology and have not used my own gps60 for far too long

9th Greenblat Highly visible! cheers & thanks Gary for organising.

9th XenaCommander Owing to the inclement weather the decision is not to go camping..!! So... a nice alternative... XC and TK will attend this event.

9th the.pud bug drop

9th The Boss & I I'd like to attend but Dad (probably) won't take me to Auckland... So I'm dropping all his event geocoins off - takes him ages to log them back out again! Ha Ha (Woof).

8th KiwiGary Only one day until the Flash Mob, hopefully we will have some great raffle prizes kindly supplied by the great people at http://geocaching-zone.co.nz "Thanks Guys". Be sure to bring along a pen and sign one of the log sheets or you won't be in the raffle Looking at the weather today it might pay to bring along an Umbrella. See you all at 10:00am tomorrow , lets hope its a fun time for all. Also dropping some TB's for the days fun...

8th archiebalfe im cumming along with that skiingdemon.

8th Seattle's Best Looking forward to seeing you there!

8th Zork V Jeep Drop

8th Adnshe Dropping off our Podcacher coin. It seemed to be an appropriate event for it!

8th glyn(the only one) Will be there, I have about 5 hi-viz jackets.

8th GenCuster I'm coming... Yippee! Dropped in my personal Geopin. If I am 'discovered', I promise that I will remember you in my Thank You speech

8th Xmuggle Looking forward to attending this event -

7th Butterfly_lady Flash Mob WWFM III coin drop. Hoping for good weather and looking forward to meeting up with old friends and making new friends.

6th peteznshellz Will be two- Petez saw a hi-viz vest on the road - risked life and limb to retrieve. Now that's tight

5th Zorgon Sounds like fun and am hoping to attend. Will be catching an early flight from Wellington that morning.

4th Usat31 Depending on work committments, Mr Us from Usat31 in Sydney may be able to make this event. Will you acccept international cachers?

4th PickleNZ Will be there with hubby and son in tow! Will have camera for photos if required.

3rd KiwiLeon Hi KiwiGary, Sorry I can't, I'm going to the Coromandel for the weekend. But I'll probaly find some nice Caches over there. Cheers

3rd tramper2 Would love to attend,but unfortunatly will be out of town.

1st Tufty I will be there.

April 2008

30th Gr8dad Dropping some TB's.

28th itisme93 yep! Will intend, so will a mate of mine who is a geocacher without an account :) now to get a high vis jacket........

27th KiwiHarvs Flying in from Christchurch for a work event the night before. Hangover permitting, I'll be there.

26th kaimaikid crossing that I can make this one - sounds good...

24th harrybee This looks like fun! Would love to come but don't get back from Australia til 11pm that night....

24th XenaCommander Mumble Mumble... XC and TK are taking Xena down to Hawkes Bay on the Cold Duck Motorbike Rally... so can't attend this one... Xena's turn for some fun so she has precidence this weekend.. Have fun though...

23rd MORDOR&ANDRE Mordor without Andre is looking into the possibility of attending this event. Checked out the u-tube entries, what fun! Still not sure as I need to be in Akaroa the previous weekend for a 50th and Wellington the following weekend for a seminar.... Thanks to Recordnut for offering accomodation.

18th KiwiGary Only two weeks to go now, fellow flashers. If you have a camera can you bring it along. So we can record the event. See ya...Gary

17th durbanite I'll be there, to beat Dean!

17th Butterfly_lady Hoping to be there.... where's the best parking spot for out of town-ers with baby buggy etc...?

17th evofreak? Would love to attend, but heading to Canada that afternoon so will have other stuff do do. Have fun

15th Skiingdemon I'll be there. This will be my first event cache! might go with skatelong and archiebalfe. won't be able to meet afterwards though Thanks! [This entry was edited by Skiingdemon on Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2:06:45 PM.]

15th Grobyc just have to be part of this :)

13th the.pud Yep we'll both be there.

12th Rumo and Rala Alternative to Warehouse or Mitre10: We bought two yellow Hi-Vis-Vests for $6 at the $2 shop.

12th itisme93 Im only 14 will i fit in??? anyone please reply, this would be my first event so yeah

11th Mistcube Sounds like fun. Mistube will try to be there. [^]

10th recordnut will be there, have a hi viz lying around somewhere

10th Indiana Jill looking forward to it!

10th bigfatrob Sigh.... wish I could attend but alas no will still be traped in Korea oh well have fun all

7th Greenblat We'll be there

7th YuGeo4 Count us four in...

6th Gr8dad Great fun - Will be there!!

5th psychrn At this stage Team Psychrn will attend-looks like a lot of fun

5th Tramper Ted Team TT will be there. Will we find a high Viz small enough for the bear at the Warehouse?

5th Adnshe Yay! We've heard about WWFM events before.... Really looking forward to the Kiwi Version. Hmmm... now to purchase HiVis vests...

5th Zork V "I'll be there with Hi-Vis on" Hi-Vis jackets are available from "The Warehouse" Hardware section. In: Yellow Jeep (A REAL one)

5th St. Ouens Yep!

5th sp8sm8 Bring it on!

5th FaberOptimé Sounds like FUN! [:-D] Count me in! Couldn't find hi vis vest at the Warehouse - scored one from Mitre 10 instead - $9 [:-)] [This entry was edited by FaberOptimé on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 2:38:54 AM.]

5th TheWonderStuff Sweet. Sounds fun. Will need to buy another hi res Jacket. Team TWS will be present. Neat concept.

5th Rumo and Rala Wow, yippiee, yes, yes, yes. We'll be there. That will be fun. Woop, woop. Hopefully, we'll be able to organise a video camera for that day.

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