The Philosopher's Stone - Reborn! (Canterbury) Huntsbury, South Island, New Zealand
By flobberworm! on 15-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MDFG

Has been muggled!

Has been muggled! Will leave the spot open for another hide by someone else.

Hopefully still there hahaha

Muggled

Could not find, could have been muggled.

Looked for about half an hour with two others. Read the clues extensively, the cache may be missing or the tracker may be off?

Couldn’t find anywhere

Mothers Day and although a DNF ... so nice being out together

I follow marks were people had walked but couldn’t find it

This is a cool wee spot

Great cache!!

Hot

Found it

Ahaha i walk past and picked it up before realising I had to turn it over! Well done guys. GPS worked ok for me.

A quick easy find of a nicely hidden cache, which gets a favourite from us, after a short walk into a pleasant reserve. TFTC

Clever! 6 minutes looking.

Found on 2nd attempt. Forgot my pen. Will come back and Ian it tomorrow

Just wow, that is an awesome cache, very clever and fits so well with its name. Kudas to the CO for such a clever hide.

What a cool idea for a cache totes love this one. Had to take keys off keyring to open it but such a clever hide.

TFTC. Great track have never walked in here before.

Wow that was a tricky one but our persistence paid off! Great idea for a cache!

A nice longish walk on a sunny Friday afternoon. Cool hide, even though the GPS was confused. TFTC!!

Love it. So clever

Found this one while in NZ for a week with my daughter.
TFTC

Picked up the cache without realizing it. Then did a double take. Found it! TFTC I Harry Potter

Well, I just about walked away from this one until I consulted a previous log and got the hint I needed.
I soon had the cache in hand after giving it’s hiding spot a second glance. Should have done that much sooner.
The retrieval was pretty tough, but luckily I had my Swiss Army knife in my backpack. Finally a chance for that strange hook thing to earn it’s keep!
Alas, no. Still no idea when that will be put to practical use.
Instead it was the corkscrew, of all things, that got the lid off.
I see others are coming back with other tools for retrieval - so I have tried to keep the lid on tight enough for the seal to work, but not too tight. TFTC flobberworm!

Second day in Christchurch on an extended holiday. Caught up with both sisters and my niece in the morning, including some retail therapy, but with everyone else working I get a few hours to trundle around Christchurch in a random manner picking up caches.
Thanks to all the COs.

Found but no pen. Awesome. Thanks

Nice! TFTC

VERY well hidden in plainsight, easy to overlook, who would think it's there! At first clue seems random, actually genius! Great

Nice little muggles free spot. Easy find and worth the look. Great hide thanks

A clever camo! Uncrewing it was a challenge. Number 8 wire was too thick to fit the hole. Managed with a crochet hook, but broke its tip in the process. With the broken crochet hook we did unscrew it, and signed the log. TFTC

Great spot. Couldn't open it though, will come back with pliers and CRC...

Awesome hiding spot

TFTC

Quick and easy find!!

Found it!!!!
Is there a piece of it missing? Clever hide. I looked in the activity comments and they helped so much!

Found it!

Fantastic hiding spot, initially saw it in plain sight but over looked! Came back and volla

Today we decided to go for a hunt in Huntsbury, this was the first on our way up and a quick and easy find. However, it was a bit hader to open the container, but managed and signed the log. Great work on this cache, TFTC

Nice work on the container, that must have taken a wee bit of fiddling to get that done. A peaceful little place, but things sure have grown since I was last here with my DNF back in 2011! Cheers

12:33
Found on a dog walk.
Yet another one of those places where a reserve and a walking track is kind of hidden and unknown to a passer-by. Well, I'll make it a bit more known now by mapping it on OSM.

Brilliant cache container! I dismissed it first, after seeing the spot that looked like an obvious hide spot but seemed empty after the initial investigation. I stumbled up and down the slope but eventually returned, checked again - haha, good one - there it was!
I removed the old logbook and replaced some new sheets of waterproof paper in. If CO wants to get the remains of the old logbook, he's more than welcome to get in touch with me and I'll hand it over.


TFTC!
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Amazing and fun geocache! Well done!

Great hide, cool idea! Needs maintenance as log book full and quite damp. Tftc!

Cool cache! Found after a little afternoon adventure around the Port Hills and Cashmere. Needed a tool to get the cap off, log is damp and has no more room for signatures, so I've attached a pic. Tftc.

Amazing cache. Tftc

Tftc super awesome! Sadly the log is completely drenched and can not be signed

TFTC. Awesome cache! Log is unretrievable due to how wet it is.

17.38
Tftc!! Nice hide.. log full and a bit wet.. needs new log

That's awesome, love the theming TFTC:-)

Log full. Managed to sign sideways!

Lovely wee spot for a cache. Geocacher's kit came in useful here. Tftc

I found this twice but didn't look closely enough. Went back through the logs and found that if I were more observant I would be a far better geocacher. I had a tool with me but it just bent. Found a useful thing on my keyring though. I haven't done it up quite as tightly. Log full. Thanks for this cache. FP from me.

Came back prepared with a better tool to get into the thing and sign the log. This time it was only on finger tight so no tool needed but log full. Managed to squeeze my initials in but really needs a new one. Thanks again for the clever cache.

Had the right tool to deal with this one. Very crafty hide. Tftc

Lovely hide....even though in plain sight kind of !
Ric took us on a tricky short cut but I showed him the track to return on .....
Love it thanks Flobberworm!

A fun little cache that we took a shortcut to get to so we were looking in the wrong spot initially but then quick spotted the obvious hide. We used jf2004's idea the use a keyring on the car keys because the lid was soo tight. Unfortunately the log was full. I then dropped the lid while putting it back on and we spent another couple of minutes looking on the ground before I found it in my pocket! I couldnt believe it, we couldve been there awhile looking. We then took the shortcut back aswell. Thanks for the fun cache

Lovely spot, cache easy to find, using a key ring helps! Log is over-full, but completely dry

What a cool wee spot, never knew it existed. As I set off I was a bit concerned the buggy wouldn't make it but all was well. The philosopher's stone jumped straight out at me as soon as I got to GZ but try as I might it wouldn't reveal it's secrets to me. ( so I couldn't sign the log - I have photographic evidence I was there and will try coming back with something that might help get in). Tft cool cache - obviously a lot of work has gone into it.

This entry was edited by Clurbee on Tuesday, 01 September 2015 at 06:23:13 UTC.

We have found the cache but we feel part of it is missing. Maybe the part that screws onto the 'stone'. We couldn't get anything off anyway never been here before so thanks so sharing this location with us.

Great place, views at car park were awesome this morning. Log sheet needs replacing. Had to write on side of log sheet. Fun cache thanks

Very creative! Log is full!!!!!

TFTC. Well constructed hide.

Very interesting cache. Good hide. TFTC

Nice area. This is a clever cache, loved it!

Log book full, needs a new one please.

Nearly missed it. Very good. TFTC

Took a few minutes for gps to settle, then a couple more minutes of honing in.. Got em.. Tftc

Cache for the day and picking ones that have other or not chosen sizes atm. Parked up and headed to GZ by the most direct route it seems... over the rocky overflow/dam. The search started and cache was found twice the first time not realising it was the cache so took about 5 minutes longer than it should have. All good in the end and a great cache.

The cache was in my hand when I told Sevren it's not here. Then Sevren take a look on the obvious spot again then he found it.

Didn't find it sorry, couldn't understand the clues well enough

This area was very familiar as we had found a cache here before, several years ago. Today, we appreciated the coolness of the shade on what was probably the hottest day of summer so far. A quick find for StreetWalker. Great hide, thanks for the effort with it.

#8798. I wasn't doing a great job of following Troodles list. This one wasn't on the list, but I'd managed to bring us this way, so we stopped to find the cache. Nice hide. TFTC.

Tftc very cool little spot nice and peaceful

28/10/2014 05:39PM
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Today I had a lazy day, as I was so tired from being out hiking over the weekend! Foot was also sore covered in blisters! So it was time for a nice easy cache after going out and getting some fruit and veg supplies from funky pumpkin.

This cache didn't look too tricky, and not too far from the road either!

I parked on up, and went to find the cache - but trying to get to GZ was hard! In the end I think I walked over some stream overflow, but got there!

Cache was quickly found too, when I realised that I didn't have a pen! Eeek!
So I ran back, and grabbed the pen from my car, and then returned the cache. Phew! A bit of up and down running was not what I had planned on today though! Lol.

Nice and peaceful reserve.


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Nice hidden thanks a lot! Czech team

A lovely, peaceful place that we would never have found without geocaching. Clever hide Found with Aoraki Sheep.

There didn't seem to be many hiding places but then spotted a likely hiding place but no . . . hang on . . . sneaky! Found with debsnz

Gotta love these peaceful urban parks. Good to be able to get away from the city noise, and the only things you hear are a stream, the wind blowing through the trees, and birds. Got to where my GPS was pointing me, and though...WTF...there's nothing here!...but then immediately spotted a likely hide locations. And so it was. Thanks for the cache.

Log all good.

Easy find but not so easy. . Came from above

Great!

On a bike adventure around the city today. This is cache #4 for my day. TFTC Enjoyed the unique design.

tftc!

Very tricky. Great hide. Had me.

A day out cacheing to see how many I could get. Tftc
He who must not be named did not perceive me under the invisibility cloak

Loved the location and loved the cache. Magical.

Good to find this sneaky little one. I'd like to do something like that - very clever. TFTC

I think I have found a cache near here very early in my caching days, wier is the coronation by the Sallies, I think.
Cheers and well done for a very clever hide!
S.t.

This is my favourite hide to date. The log is getting a little funky from moisture damage. Tftc!

Found with Peregrina. Nice hide! But a little small for the geocoin I'd hoped to drop off...so I'll just have to find another cache to place it in.

I think one of my first (if not my actual first?) find was in this reserve, near here. Thanks for the cache, and the effort put into it - it's hides like these that stick in one's memory, and become part of the tales one tells about caching.

Picked it up to look behind and then realised the cache was in my hand. TFTC

Love this cache. Fantastic hiding spot. Can't believe it took me to long. TFTC

So cool! Loved the container, felt good to find it as it was a really hard one

Good quick find after some adventuring up hill, crafty wee cache great idea!

Log is damp

Great hide, and such a nice wee reserve. I didn't know it was here. TFTC

Looked long & hard as not familiar with Mandrake but presume he is connected to Harry Potter! TFTC

I can NOT believe I didn't find it last time! Straight to it today. Glad to get it off the close to home list. Tftc

This entry was edited by Rincewind3 on Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 01:48:37 UTC.

Nice quick find, thanks for the effort put into this cache. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Brilliantly hidden!