Bridge over Waipa River (Waikato) Ngaruawahia, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 16-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2KCAF

Gone missing again, so it's time to put this one to sleep and open up the area for someone else to place a hide.

Searched for a bit with mike-miss but we couldn't locate it, and we decided it was home time and called it quits - it has been a long day!

After about 4 attempts we finally got this one. I love the crazy looks people give us as we almost always nightcache. TFTC

finally found it. was about to go climbing but found it in the end

Found on the way to get some cards with Davycrockpot...TFTC

2nd time lucky. TFTC.

First geocaching endurance adventure for Geomatt123 and I, we loved it . The waipa river is fast flowing right now.

Found this one while on a 14 hour caching raid around Huntly and Hamilton with Friwinz! Really enjoyable day. Having a good run on nanos today tftc

This one's got me beat (for now!)

Good hide, thankfully not too muggly today

Quick find on a day of caching. TFTC

Put our fingers through quite a few cobwebs and found one marble, but came up empty handed today.

found it at 7a.m. a few muggles starting to emerge from their homes. TFTC

Grabbed this one early in the morning before starting the power trail close by. Thought s was on the wrong side but as always i just had to trust the gps

Second DNF for me on this cache.

This entry was edited by stretch.kerr on Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 10:11:04 UTC.

No luck finding this one today. We were abit exposed with the passing traffic and pedestrians so had to leave this one for another day.

Going for an evening walk with the doggies and an easy find for this one.

Second cache find for the evening quick and easy. TFTC

Quick find TFTC

a bit difficult but found it:)

First day of Geocaching no 2 on our list TFTC

Quick find
T4TC

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Found!!! looked and looked for this quite a few times.
was ridiculously happy to stumble across it today. eyeballed a few cars driving past that were wondering what i was up to. didnt have pen so no log signed, but i did check it for any sign of Agent Smith and found it clean. TFTC

I took this on as a bit of a warm up exercise before tackling the power trail on the other side of the river. I didn't spot the cache immediately but it didn't take too long to put my hands on it. As noted the rubber ring has split. TFTC, Biggles.

Didnt have me fooled..........well only for a short while anyway.
You will need to replace the rubber ring on the cache as it is split. TFTC

Easy find.
TFTC

A tiny cache and a lot of metal it could be on! Got there in the end though. Tftc. Centuryson from Australia

Last cache before starting power trail, took a little to find but got it. TFTC

Quick find while working through the town, TFTC

Took a little bit of hunting. TFTC.

Yeah Mrs Toffee finds it. After telling Master Toffee were it was and him going completely the wrong way!!!!
Haven't done a nano for a while.
TFTC

TFTC

Easy find today. Went straight to it. Thanks very much McCutchan Cache Clan

Finally bagged this one after a previous DNF. My GPS didn't like it here and kept leading me up and down the bridge a few times (a bit worrying considering its a nano and there's a lot of hiding places!) before finally settling down. A nano seemed a bit unnecessary for this placement

Found with GuanoGerbil. Thanks for the fun!

Found this one though, funny watching the other 2 walking past and back
TFTC

Coordinates spot on.
Found quickly with my fingers.
TFTC

No joy for us. Too many possibilities, too much traffic and rain, plus we were getting pushed for time by this stage of the day.

Oh so wet. My boots are full of water and mud. Must be mad to cache in this rain. Needed a Coffee but didnt have the cache owners phone number. Think they live close by here maybe.
Will return again for this one.

Off down South to attend an event in Hamilton today. So might as well do a few caches on the way.

Took a little to locate this one. Luckily the grass was wet and there were puddles so that I could wash my dirty hands after searching for the cache.

Cheers for the cache.

Short search and it was in hand.

TFTC

Quick grab. Thanks

Couldn't find it.
Will come back later.
Read through the discussion, do you update the cache co ordinate when you note the cache to a new place?
Bit hard to really search in daytime, but i've lived here all my life and wouldn't go out go the dark either Lol!

Found with Petesnz on our way to Waitomo I looked for this at Xmas but never found it when on the other side of the bridge.

Short search for me to locate this one. TFTC

Easy find, TFTC

G-dad found this one. TFTC

Nice easy find and straight to it. TFTC

After a DNF last time when it was at the other end of the bridge, this was a very quick find. Thanks.

7.55pm - Another one to come off the watchlist. Appears that we found the new cache as first to sign the log sheet. Another cache best done at night I reckon. TFTC

Found the one with the used logsheet in it and signed in after P and P.
Actually the fingers done the walking but could only produce 1 cache.
A lot easier in the dark
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Surprised, a quick find this time BUT the logbook wasn't bare...it has entries by TWS, NZ Skyliner and so on ....up to Willbuild. Does this mean we have found the latest "missing" cache? Are there now two caches in place? Anyway, third time lucky for us! TFTC.

Doh, I had a quick look on Monday and didn't find it, so put a new one in place. I'll make a re-visit on the weekend and try to locate the old and new.

checked out cache, gone.....replacement now in place

Wrong time of the day with this, only a very cursory look, then realised the number of DNF didn't warrant anymore searching. Perhaps another day.

TFTC.Thought I better go grab this one as it is only a couple hundred metres from my house

5pm - Second attempt on this one and still no find, I think it has gone as many have stated.

I think this one might be gone-burger

No luck today, will have to try again when i have more time up my sleeve.

This one turned into quite an adventure, we'd only just arrived when a cop pulled up with flashing lights looking for someone who said he was going to jump off a bridge. He asked Punga his name and was he going to jump off the bridge? And had we seen a man here of a certain description? We can log a DNJ for that (did not jump) and a DNF for the cache, then we spotted the cop down the road, he had tracked down his man and was leading him out with handcuffs, either for a ride in his police car or maybe he was going to push him off the bridge!!
Very busy noisy place to search, no luck, but not sure what we were looking for and didn't want to hang around too long. Perhaps Agent Smith has struck again?

Searched and searched for this cache but could not find it. Thanks anyway McCutchan Cache clan

Busy road today but able to have a quick find. TFTC

A tough hunt.... searched the footpath side first, then the other..... GZ today was middle of the road, so both options had to be explored. Got it! Home made log had to extract, is torn a little, and even harder to replace. Another nano cache off the list.....

This entry was edited by Butterfly_lady on Friday, 04 March 2011 at 23:21:02.

Also a return visit after a DNF when this was out of order.. Neat little nano. TFTC

Few cars about. TFTC

Fantastic, absolutely loved it! Took about 5 minutes to get the log out though, so finger-nail biters beware!

Nice spot for a cache
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TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 39.870 E 175° 08.635

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 39.890 E 175° 08.710

Distance from original: 380.9 feet or 116.1 meters.

Moved to other end of bridge, away from "Agent Smith's" prying eyes

Up and running at a new location away from nosey muggles

I guess agent smith has been paying a visit again, and this time took the whole cache, I'll check it out and see if I can find a better place

Nope.

Glad to see others can not find it. Went back twice as the first time the people across the road were around. Second time was early morning and had what I thought was a good look around but no luck.

Had to stop looking when the neighbour took an interest in me.

Maybe Agent Smith was keeping and eye on you!

Stopped by to do a quick check on the cache and found quite a curious note written in the log......I bet Agent smith is a very nosy person *grin* (see attached picture)

Quick find thanks.

Nice and straight forward. TFTC

A quick find on the way north TFTC

Coordinates spot on for us this morning. Interesting historical notes on the cache page.
Many thanks

Another quick find on our way to Hamilton.
SL TFTC

Found on our journey south to the Christmas Event in Hamilton. Quick find T4TC.

Nice cache and beautiful river. TFTC.

Got on way to Waikato event. Thanks.

Found easy enough but I'd have to say I don't think it's a terribly safe location. 3rd ftf today. Now off to work

Thanks for the cache,When down in Lunchtime.Nice and quick.

what a great cache to go and do but only got to be 3 all good thow niced place.

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