St James Park (Gully) (Waikato) Rototuna, North Island, New Zealand
By Cats&Dragons on 29-Jul-11. Waypoint GC314Z3

That That That's All Folks

Was worried about the recent DNF but after about 10 minutes of searching finally looked in the right place. TFTC

I tried several ways to get into the gully, but none really worked. How about some parking coords and a trail head way point?

Couldn’t find the cache, but we went for a walk in the gully and found some firewood. TFTC

I’m on a bit of a caching mission…. My 6000th cache is coming up soon and I want it to land on GC12559 Basket of Dreams in Queenstown on the 26th. So I’m doing my best to make that happen! So today I’m grabbing all the park n’ grabs I can while down in Hamilton.

Today, unfortunately it's pouring with rain. I arrive here at GZ with my umbrella. Ditch it so I can go under and after a few trials and errors I found the cache! Believe me.... every park n' grab that isn't a bloody DNF helps, cheers C+D for the cache.

a quick find once i was thinking on the right track, tftc

Forgot to bring a writing stick, nice hiding spot. Took us a while to find.

Nice stroll out now that the cloud has lifted, reached the area quite quickly then it was all a matter of getting the correct depth. TFTC

Headiing home after the NZ Geocaching Adventure MEGA in Turangi (yeah, I know, has taken awhile to catch up on the logging, but sometimes I have to actually do some work, while at work).
Great place to stop to stretch the legs. TFTC

Tftc

Decided as the fog lifted this afternoon, it was time to go out and find some geocaches for the first time in a few weeks. so out for the walk we went. This was a nice walk from Oderings down the gully to go collect this cache and back again.

Great walk in. After a couple of curveballs finally found it. TFTC

Looked in the sticky places but to no avail

Parked near here and wandered down to locate this cache, Ryan came up trumps fairly quickly so wandered along to the other cache near here that we had to locate. Thanks for the nice hide

Sneaky little cache, my 4 year old daughter was not impressed with all the webs though! TFTC!

Day 36 of a hopeful 50-day caching streak.

We cruised into Hamilton with the intention of finding the most recent placements for our current license challenge. Unfortunately, time didn't allow us to do much, so we had to be satisfied with a couple of cache hunts... There were so many possibilities with this one. We had to systematically check each one, just to be satisfied that we'd looked there. We eventually found a bizillion spiderwebs and were initially reluctant to put our hands into certain places. After dismissing a couple of sections, we put our hands onto the cache for a reasonably quick find. TFTC.

Trick place but Tftc

There be spiders

DNF - any more clues? Have been down twice and couldn't find it!! Help!!

Gazzminclan, found after 2 visits and still needed a little help from a friend! good search

Tried searching under the bridge...saw lots of spider web but no cache...noted that it the last find is in dec 2014...wonder if spiders have hidden it away?

Had to wait for a family out for a Christmas walk first and then we could have a good hunt around. Pleased to find it after 10 weeks since the last log too. Tftc

Found it, but ...eeewwwwaahhhh

435 A quick find and sign and just in time as muggle came along.

just checking on things

Lovely! Did not do our heads in looking for it. Just the right amount of difficulty & hints

Nice sunny winters day, saw the cobwebs wondered if it was one of them. Soon found cache from co-ords.
T4TC

Still plenty of spiders. A fun area for adventurous kids.

Tftc

Took me a while, there were quite a few plasma bandits around, I guess that's why there were so many cobwebs, the spiders were chowing down on them

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

All I found was a weta! Will try again sometime soon.

Took a while )

Obvious spot, but not the easiest find. Follow me and collect the marbles

Found it, with my brave eagle-eyed mother's help to deal with the spiders.

Never new this gully was here TFTC

Took a minute or two to find. Tftc. Beautiful day for a lunchtime stroll!

Had to use a function on my Ph to find it that I haven't had to use before, but found it after 5 mins of searching. TFTC kids enjoyed it

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A great find by the junior caches in our group. Great stickabilty and perseverance those who missed recently had best return for another crack at this clever cache

wow lots of spiders her but we could not find the cache. We will be back

Could not find

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Found something sticky but wasn't quite right

Drats. The only non-find today. Looked all around. Lots of 'healthy debate' about what sticky meant. Will give it another shot sometime. Signal there was up and down with the accuracy around 6m most of the time. Doesn't help much.

Close by after doing 1 of the puzzles but no luck.

Could not find it. Will try again another time.

I am sure we looked there! Oh well...TFTC

After our success with Vic's Nuts we thought we'd give this one a third try while over this side of town. Another quick find today, I can't believe it eluded us for so long. We're on a roll now, or, as we say, " rocking in the plus fours" (a quote from the show Auckland Daze), but still not confident enough to try yet again for Hukanui Oaks!

Walked in here from Sexton Rd through a lovely gully restoration area, thanks to the photo posted I knew this time what I was looking for, never seen so many cobwebs in one place.

DNF this one. [?] [?] [?]

Checked this today and the cache is still waiting to be found

Happy hunting

Must admit this was our second attempt. What are we not seeing?

We were on a roll today everything just seemed to be in places where we expected to see them.
TFTC

Found our first one!

Been here twice hunting now...maybe we are blind:-) Will return

Quick find. TFTC

#410 - First attempt was on 01/01/13, but we couldn't see a thing as we it was getting dark. Came back the next day and LOVED the little paths, which we didn't know even existed. A favourite point from us. TFTC

Nice and easy find, TFTC

Nice hide in an interesting spot, cache is in an excellent condition. TFTC

Took a bit of looking but together Faceache and I found it.

Hooray! found it! My first one too Sticky properties have been restored; took me 3 visits to find it as i was looking for it in a non-sticky place. SL TFTC.

Had a nice day geocaching my way from Hamiton to Auckland. Found this cache easily - liked the location. SL TFTC

Great hide thanks.

very quiet today and very sunny. Tftc

Well hidden, TFTC [8]

Think I took the long wet muddy route - but all good fun - area would be lovely in the summer TFTC

24/6/12 @ 10.54am - Quick find once we knew. SLTFTC

This one had us searching (and finding interesting items!) for quite a while, then about to give up when had one more look in the obvious spot - ahuh! TFTC!

4:16pm
easy find. 4 more spaces on log before it needs replacing.
nice to see the restoration work that's been done too.
tftc

nice easy find while pedaling around tftc

TFTC!

Out with z-masterNZ. Nice little hide, TFTC

really interesting area liked the cach

Good to see new plantings in the area. Tftc

A little detour on the way from kids' sport. Good to see the gully being re-planted. Nice hide! TFTC

I really like all these walkways through the new subdivisions. Easy find. Liked this hide a lot. Thanks very much Cats&Dragons

Just checking up on things to make sure all is ok.

More parks ive never been to. Im so deprived. Tftc

Found while updating this part of Hamilton area to Open street map Lovely area, and weather today.
Didn't have a pen on me so uploaded photos

tftc!

Used to travel daily from the Tron to Huntly in the 1970s when all was this was farmland. With it rapidly disappearing under roads and housing it's a small wonder we are losing our reputation as the worlds' foremost dairying nation. Rant over. Thanks for the cache and the assist that went with it.

Whoops forgot to log this when we found it... a week or two ago? Nice spot, what a shame that the path doesn't go very far, after seeing the satellite image we were hoping to be able to go for a walk along the gully. TFTC!

Bit of a search but finally found it.

found it

Have been to check on this this morning and still in place, as it should be, noticed in improved access to the cache since the time of placement.

4 of us (2 adults and 2 mini-cachers) spent a good 10 minutes looking, and trying to think of anything other than the obvious that might match the hint, but no luck! Obviously didn't have the proper eyes on today, as this was our second DNF of the day. Will have to come back another time...

Great first cach for me and my family took two separate visits to find it but very fun and the excitement when finding it was just great...Thanks cats&dragons.Good hide.

second time lucky came back to today to have a look and found it straight away very well hidden

Its places like this that makes an Aucklander like me jelous... Maybe Ill move down here

TFTC. Great afternoon for a walk.

Spotted a young couple leaving GZ as I arrived, a bit unusual as baby was left in a buggy nearby whilst they visited the area, suspected they might be geocachers but no logs to match.

TFTC

Hmmm.... decided this is not the place to be during an earthquake, would quickly turn into a flood if not all contained!

Found by Dolphin diver while out caching with my Grandkids. TFTC

First cache hunt for a long time and too slow in the company of Dolphin diver to find it before her. signed the log TFTC

Didn't know this pathway was here and it is used by lots of locals, saw a baby pukeko below, very cute. TFTC

Our third hunt and second find - we are on a roll and see these as a bit of a challenge for a Sunday! Found this one - once again it was great to see what sort of vessel it was so we have an idea of what to look for for others. Signed the register - Liv.

Had to give up trying to find this one for today, as there were a couple of lingering muggles around

This took me ages to find! Was looking in the wrong place for a while. Great little hide!

went back twice today, couldn't find it

Quick find in the rain today.