Big Brother (Manawatu) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By Z1mbos on 08-Feb-15. Waypoint GC5MFQW

Unfortunately it's the end of the line for our Big Brother... sadly we are unable to replace this cache again so thought we would free up the location for someone else. Thanks for all your logs.

Big Brother is out of action at the moment - we will wait to see if Powerco puts it back, but if not this might be the end of the line for this popular cache..... will update ASAP.

No luck today

Nicely done. A good cache for my 2200th find. All but deserted around NZ here on a hot Sunday afternoon. Excellent camo! TFTC

Nice quick and easy park and find. The kids loved this one! Tftf

One of the best yet

Best so far!

Pretty quick find early this evening with eltee291! OMG, that was amazing! First time I have seen a cache like that. One of the coolest caches I have ever seen. A big favorite! Signed the log and replaced as found. Visiting from Victoria, BC, Canada! Thanks for the cache!

Quickly found today with hingis20. This is such an awesome cache. First time I have seen this type and the camouflage is perfect. If I can find similar equipment I may have to borrow the concept. A definite fave for me. We are on vacation from Victoria, BC, Canada and today we are traveling to Wellington with an overnight stay in Palmerston North. Geocaching and beautiful scenery - can't get any better. TFTC

First attempt this morning was beyond my grasp. 2nd visit with sister in law in tow was much more fruitful as we had come prepared. Great cache out with kiwisteve2 and olliedogoz. Gets a fav.. Tftc

Ingenious cache, a highlight

This cache was attempted as part of the Palmerston North leg of our "Road to 6,000" Extravaganza for 2016.

A quick find and awesome camo!

#5684

Found after work, early morning, not too many muggles around. TFTC

We have found so many great caches today and this one is right up there with them. Brilliant thanks. TFTC #9568

That "aha" moment is always priceless . I love it when that happens. This is one very cool cache. Thanks !

#816 Found on a leisurely Sunday drive with JimmyNZ and DangerSAM. I had an idea of what to expect at GZ from the name of the cache, but didn't expect anything quite so intricate and crafty. What a great cache container! A quick sprint from the car to retrieve, then had to defer to JimmyNZ to open it and i signed on behalf. A very cool cache! Gets a favourite from me! TFTC!

#18 I am staying ahead of my caches per week of life - currently at 18 caches and i am only 12 weeks old, this is thanks to mum and dads obsession. i watched mum dash out of the car and return with something, not sure what, but there was something stealthy going on. And there was much ooh and aaahin. Then she dashed out again, and yeah, we carried on with our day.! Lucky she was tall enough! TFTC!

Out for a drive with Greenslime to try and by some time before DangerSAM needed to start his bedtime routine. Greenslime was wanting to get at least one cache all weekend to knock of a dot day i think so double bonus. For a quiet spot that street sure was busy. Didn't stop Greenslime instantly spying the hide and securing it. Awesome idea. Hope this one lasts a little longer that the previous iterations. TFTC

Back in business for round 3 here. Cache container replaced and waiting to be found!

This cache has been interfered with again with various remnants scattered all over GZ so we have disabled it for now. Might be possible to try one last replacement but if anything happens to that we may have to consider archiving this cache Watch this space.

cheeky......

Found while away on a caching trip

Made this one my must find while down in Palmy for a meeting. Spotted immeditely but had to wait as lots of traffic at five pm. Fav point from me. Tftc

Big Brother MKII is now in place - first container was damaged. Hope that this one survives a bit longer! Happy Hunting

Out of action briefly due to suspected muggle interference... back soon

A quick find after a cautious approach. TFTC

No way, I said. Yes way DDT said, that's definitely a cache.

To heck with big brother

We have seen one like this before and so had it in our heads what we might be looking for. It was quickly found by the husband who sprinted from the car to be the first to grab it. Thanks for the cache.

Yeah well it had to be now I am off down town to see if I can find some more a FP

So worried about this one lol.

We headed out to find the watergate cache down the road. But didn't manage to find it in the dark! So this one was next on our list. We got to the GZ and I had my suspicions straight away. After searching the area and not spotting anything else likely I decided it had to be! Mr Jamogen then had a closer inspection. We love this cache! Favourite point from us for sure.

Doing a few caches with the boys during school holidays - starting to run out in our area so visiting other districts - boys loved this one and spotted it well before me - tftc

All fixed and back in place. Added a few more sheets to the log as well. Happy hunting!

Some minor repairs needed. Should be back in place this weekend.

Was visiting a friend who lives next door to GZ (literally!) so stopped by to check on one of my favourite caches in Palmy.
There is sufficient logbook left, but the adhesive on the attachments is degrading over time and two of them have come away from the host. They are still there, but the way that they are still holding on means that the host no longer sits flush in the environment.
Just a FYI to the CO

Wow! Yes ... no .... surely ... gotta be ... what if ... um ... yeah ... nah. Ok ... bingo. Very nice. Deserves a favourite.

I am going to run out of "Favourites" soon.
Very creative caches around Milson.
Cheers

I traveled down to Palmerston North for a 3 day geocaching weekend to give my numbers a bit of a boost, as I head towards my next caching milestone. I decided to fly there and back and pick up a cheap rental car for the weekend. The weather was perfect and I had a great weekend down there.

Today I joined forces with yorkshirekiwi83 for a full day of caching before an event in the city tonight. We picked up a few caches around the city first, then drove down towards Opiki collecting caches down some of the side roads as we went, then headed across to do the KAS Power Trail, before going up to do the caches around Ohakea then headed back to Palmerston North. I knew exactly what we would be looking for, just from the name, so spotted the cache when we parked. TFTC - favourite point added!

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Vistra and I headed down to Manawatu as the KAS trail has been bugging me in its incomplete form, as we both needed numbers for personal goals it seemed like a good opportunity. Thanks to the cache owners for all the caches and the variety, over 2 days I found over 200 caches, so thank you for placing and maintaining them.

Most were quick easy finds, although there were some very clever ones and some well thought out. HAHAHA, though my height might be an issue but no it was all ok. TFTC

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Running an audit on unlogged caches and came across this one.
I visited here with teamcacher zboywonder.
TFTC and sorry that this site is now no longer.
The Turtle strikes again!

Oh, almost missed. It, then read the description

Tftc

Good one

Another great camo, worth a FP, TFTC

So cool! Tftc

Great to see a different type of cache. TFTC

We found one of these at home not so long ago so spotted it as soon as we pulled up. Great idea and fun cache. Thanks for the effort making different caches

Mission accomplished!! A very clever cache for my number 100 find, on the eve of 2016. Genius hide. Thanks for the fun. Happy New Year!

Nice work. Top effort here, and an easy favourite. Had to laugh... my daughter wanted nothing to do with it until the cache was positively identified... thought we were going to get into trouble.

Great hide, the cache is all good thanks. Easy quick find after dinner. TFTC

Heading home from PN but wanted to grab a few handy caches as I did and as this was very handy I had to stop and see what Big Brother was doing. Parked up and looked about and saw an object that I thought may be the cache so headed over....As I got closer I was sure I was being watched but that did not stop me as I kept looking and found the cache. Nice hide and camo Z1imbos, gets a FP for your handy caches and the clever camo and effort on this one.

brilliant hide. Was too scared to touch it!!!

What daring hide this cache is ...it's awesome love it thanks for this one A+++

Such a cool cache!! Was weary at first that's for sure!

A quick find with Firewoof as we make our way to the GIFF event.

TFTC

Awesome. deserves a fav. TFTC

i think big brother is blind he would have seen the two males looking in the wrong places, once they had the courage to have a too-too, we had the cache in hand

TFTC

Arrived at gz under cover of darkness, and used extreme stealth, I assure you me and jesserfly mission impossible styled cartwheel flippyness to the cache and took it into the interrogation vehicle,where information log was extracted.
The cache was let go after we got what we wanted from it, put back ready for the next secret spies to need Intel.
Cheers
~G

Love this one! Tftc

Our second attempt at this one. Although found quickly last time we were unable to extract the log but now it has been repaired the log was quickly extracted. tftc

A quick find after dropping hayleyhnz off at gymnastics. I had heard about this cache so I knew what to expect. Very cool hide. I haven't found one like that before.
Thanks.

Love it! My geo-senses were running 100% so it was a quick & easy find, unlike Watergate 5 up the road. Def a favourite. TFTC

Repaired. Please take care not to over tighten it. Happy Hunting!

Repairs required. Back soon

On second visit on trip to P North and armed with a small stool reached the cache but couldn't open it. Had Hayden seek with me and she had found it previously and said opening it wasn't a issue so have logged it as I could see the container but not reach it. Let me know if its not OK and I can delete my log.
Very clever cache and hiding in full view. A favourite

Found the cache easily enough - spotted it from the car - but was not able to access the log.

Very cool hide! Fumbled around aimlessly for a little while before the penny dropped and my brain started functioning. TFTC!

Whoops wrote the wrong date on this one. Very cool hide. took 5mins or so then i realized what it was. Was quite difficult to open though but got it eventually. TFTC

Haha excellent cache. Was a little confused to start with but then became very clear.

This was so cool! When Dad gets around to upgrading me to Premium Membership, i'll add a favourite point! TFTC.

Awesome cache

No ... yes! ... Another superbly crafted Z1mbos cache, thanks! Another favourite added to the already big collection

Well... That gets a favourite without question. TFTC.

We're back in business here. Cache all fixed up and waiting to be found!

Some repairs required here, should be available for finding again by the weekend.

Found with Etherlord and as per his post we had difficulty putting it back together, sorry.
Felt a bit dodgy finding this one but a very clever hide.
Thanks

Stopped by today with StephW81.
I don't think we/I was too rough opening it, but the internal object has come away from the mounting ring and the ring has come away from the outer case
We had difficulty putting it back together in such a way that it looked "real".
If it was me/us, then I'm really sorry.

First we couldn't believe that the cache was near this building. When we thought we knew where it was we thought that we would get in trouble. TFTC

Went to look for this with my son Godispojken. Unfortunately there were two cars parked with people in, so we had to go for a walk and look for some other caches while waiting for them to leave. Came back just before dark which turned out to be an excellent time to find this geocache. We looked around for a while before trying the most obvious place. Excellent hide! I enjoyed this one very much. TFTC

Awesome hide! My favourite one yet; despite feeling awfully cheeky sneaking around inbetween passing vehicles and cyclists TFTC very clever

Awesome hide very clever. TFTC BH

We were out for a drive today and decided to get a few caches while we were out,
We felt a little dodgy looking for this one even though I was pretty sure of where the cache was, it took a few minutes before we were game enough to try, very cool hide, TFTC,
Sorry about the very late logging, I have been slack and am trying to catch up

Headed out today on a mission to find 8 caches, this would get me the souvenir for the geocaching birthday as well as my 500th cache. This was a very cool cache. We were on a high after haing finally found Watergate 2 after several unsuccessful visits and months of ignoring it. The title of this cache gave us a fairly good clue and as we parked we spotted the liking hiding place. However the hide was so well done that even though we were 99.99% sure that it was the cache we weren't game at first to actually try it. It felt too dodgy. But after thinking about it we realised that there were no other hidind pots nearby and the title really could only mean what we had originally thought. So gingerly we had a loo and yup it was the cache! Thanks for this awesome hide, definitely gets my favourite point. Inching closer to 500!

I was clever enough to work out where the cache was hiding even though I had never seen a cache hidden like this before. Great work, Z1mbos.

Was out early at the airport so after I thought I Would check this one out for today.... I quickly found 'it'. And then I had to re think. There are not many other places just here. I thought again! And then I thought about the title etc. Ah Ha! I thought!- but it was out side my capabilities. So I had to make back up contingency plans which took a few minutes. But with a little of this and that and local "material" I finally could retrieve it.... sign the log and replace it. Log in good condition. Took nothing, and left nothing. Thank you for the cache.

#6478. We stopped by Milson Substation on Flygers Line. Surprised with how much traffic there was on a Sunday morning. We just kept looking in between muggles. Quick find of both big brother and little brother. Great hides. The cache was in good condition. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

its an eerie feeling being watched especially the muggles.

[green] Out on a maintenance run, all good here. Hang on, this is not one of my caches! Was out checking on Mangaone Stream 1 with Etherlord, trying to work out what to do with it (and a solution is in place now, so it is back up and running) and after that we stopped by here. I'll say lots of stealth required! Managed to retrieve the cache with being seen. Yes, this is an awesome cache (although some repairs are needed inside).
A favourite from me too.

Very quickly spotted what we hoped was the cache. GZ is nicely tucked out of sight so pretty sure no one was watching as we made the grab.
Outer container was full of water but the inner container & log was nice & dry.
A nicely constructed hide - thanks Z1mbos

Had an idea on what to expect and wasn’t disappointed, spied the cache from a far then snuck in under the watchful eye of the Big Bro, TFTC.

Wow cool cache. Love it. Fp from us.
Thank you for all your work.

Another awesome Cache. Was exactly what I was expecting but still amazed at the effort. Think were pretty spoilt with the quality of caches around my local area. The Kids can't wait to find more.

Quick stop on my way into Palmy. Really liked this cache. What a great idea.

The title said it all for us, so we went straight to the hide. Nevertheless, it's an excellent hide, another clever Z1imbos creation. Gets a favourite, and a dot day achieved too. TFTC

Great cache, I actually had my suspicions about what this was while coming towards it. Tftc fp

Wow, Wow and Wow. This is the best cache i have found yet. Great work. Keep doing what your doing

Nice hide

Just arrived in town from Christchurch to visit the inlaws with the newest womble and Popmac was kind enough so drive past this cache for us. Spotted the hide pretty quickly under watching eyes. Thanks for the cache

easy find during my lunch break.
Well executed and it fits nicely into its surroundings.

And another dot-day ticked off too!

I hope there's not going to be another cache in the series called "Big Brother Uncut"! (well, not unless Gretel Killeen is going to be involved )

#743. I needed a cache to fill in a dot day and only had 30 minutes so this had to be it. All was quiet when I pulled up and I quickly spotted something I didn't remember seeing previously when completing the watergate series. I cautiously approached, had trouble accessing the item but eventually got there and was rewarded with finding the cache container. Just after returning it another car pulled up with the driver talking on his phone, 'whew' just in time, returned to car and left. Thanks for another well thought out hide Z1mbos.

Awesome! Loved it... nice location with rural outlook - I could hear if any cars were approaching and pretend to talk on the mobile. An immediate favourite cache