Aunt Sally (Nelson/Marlborough) Havelock, South Island, New Zealand
By BuzzTasman on 24-Mar-07. Waypoint GC11MK2

Archived due to placement problems.

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Zero Gravitas,
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer

Thought we'd visit again and leave some friends behind

Quick check on the cache on the way past and dropped in a Swiss Geocoin

Fantastic hide!! Really enjoyed this one! TNLN

New cache container put back with Big Sal. So she is awaiting visitors again.

Did a quick revisit to this one today and I can confirm that the cache is missing.

Looks like this may have gone missing. I will manufacture another to fit the spot and replace soon.

Spent another 10 minutes here and only succeeded to rip the shirt. Good hiding place because we could not find it

no chance

Bugger, no such luck today. Spent 20 minutes all over that thing with no joy. Well, it will be there next time eh? Thanks.

Last find at the end of a great day, quite late at night so no one around to wonder what we were up to. Picked up the Jeep TB. Thanks.

The neatest of hides. TFTC NINO

Crafty hiding spot, well done. Left Jeep TB by mistake without recording its tracking number.

It's certainly there - what a fantastic hide - would have never thought you could fit a regular one here! TNLN, TFTC

A great cache, almost under everyone's noses!
I was amazed at the size of the cache too..
Thanks!

Hmm - all four of us hunted high and low, even in hot spots...May need to confirm its still there. PP

Neat cache. Had me stumped for a while. I didn't particularly like where I was searching and then I thought like a cacher and there it was.
TFTC

Wow - big party in Havelock tonight, I could still hear them going at the time I pulled in (which was quite early in the morning). GPS seemed a little out, but the hint put me back on track Cheers Gav [1964]

While Mr Explorer was still trying to get better GPS coverage the biggest Little Explorer came wandering over with the cache. For some reason we were expecting a micro so the container she was carrying was a real surprise. Great hide. Thanks.

No sign of the GC. I couldnt find it, Mrs Wonder found where I had already looked.

Nice engine, there was a cop, pulling up cars nearby.

Cheers BuzzT

Tricky - had us looking adout some what but got it in the end. Good One.
- Geocoin DKVKF7 (soon to be placed)
+ Car

Really liked the attachment method. -Coin +Coin

This was our second attempt at this one, previously we searched for ages in the pouring rain but could not find anything. This time however it took my son about 10 seconds! I'm pretty sure it wasn't in that spot the first time we looked.

1888. There were muggles everywhere for a start but once they departed we were able to thoroughly search the area we had picked out as the best possibility. Yes - there it was!
A great hide - well done.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Dropped off geocoin.

nother incredibly hot day on our holiday. An interesting spot, good reason to stop and spend some time in Havlock. TFTC. TNLN.

Eventually found it - had to resort to "thinking like a geocacher". Very tricky! We were well and truly muggled when we wanted to replace cache. Some mugglets had decided it was their spot and they were not about to leave in a hurry. We eventually pulled rank and pretended we were taking photos (have got some very odd photos to prove it)and managed to replace box. They hung around so long we thought that they too might be geocachers waiting for us to go! TFTC.

Nice cache

No hints and hunted fruitlessly. Little kid found it after the adults failed. [;I] Took monster left pendent.

What a great hiding spot! Took Berlin Bear TB and left flashing snoopy badge.

A great hiding spot - reminds me of one in the North Island. TFTC TNLN

Very very cool! Thanks!
Discovered teddy bear TB

Clever hiding spot. We found with local friend in tow but it took the expert stubby holder to spot it! Seemed like a nice place to leave Berlin Travel Bear the Second for the next stage of his journey to Cromwell.

I feel a bit ashamed went to Christchurch and back over 2 days for series of meetings and this is the only geo cache I got time to do.

Found it at 14.00 hrs-nice historic (hot)spot in the sun.
Thanks-Meryl(Holland)

Excellent hide in a most interesting historical spot - great leg stretch on our way back to the airport to fly home to Oz.
Took GC to further its adventures.
Thanks for the hunt BuzzTasman.
And thanks to all the Kiwicachers for a great caching time in your beautiful country.

Great story on the info board and nifty hiding place. After finding the cache and while reading the info, a person arrived (equipped with camera!) and after taking some pictures there followed a sequence of mumblings, peculiar sounding words and lots of noise. A flustered head appeared and disappeared followed by a second series of the above. Silence..... reappearance of an even more flustered head, which decided to take off altogether. There are no TB's or GC's in the cache. Left Bunya's Aussie GC behind.
Took a photograph of 'Aunt Sally and her sisters', but am definitely NOT responsible for the additional hint in the cache in relation to this photo.
tuttifrutti et al.

Got a bit steamed up over this one Nice hide Thanks

A quick grab and off we go. Thanks for the cache.

Well, this was definitely Jnrs fave cache of the day - but then he REALLY likes these things!!
Easy find for Mr B .. and muggles not a problem with a Jnr as the driver.
No TBs/Coins in the cache
Left Dr Quack TB

13:48 No 18 for the day. What a cool (or should that be hot) hide... Gave me a good excuse to look under Aunt Sally's skirts too... Not at all what I was expecting - definitely not you average 'skirt lifter' cache - thanks for the fun! TNLNSL.

We looked and looked but couldn't find it on, around or under it. Teaming with rain which didn't help.

Absolutely pelting down! Got soaked through retrieving and signing. Neat bit of history though, thanks.

Located @1415.
Easy find, but had to avoid muggle kids who wanted to drive!
Took Team Chelmo GC

on the way back from nelson town
coin is in the towns biggest icon(and heaviest)

didnt see any other geocoins here or tb's either

+ team chelmo geocoin
+ army man
- 0

sweet

Wow - neat spot.
TFTC.

NICE HIDING SPOT, OFTEN THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD CACHE PLACE AS I WALK PAST IT DAILY. TOOK TRAVEL BUG

No swap. Good spot.

Hmmm.... another childhood memory revisited. Thanks, but this one is 180 degrees rotated from childhood days!
What a bold hide for a cache. Perfect spot, really.
Left TB Zooming around 1 a nd a blue butterfly. First cache of the day, very quiet, no cafes open yet.

we enjoyed the story of "Aunt Sally" talk about been around.
We found the cache easily as it had become dislodged from it's hiding place. We replaced it were we think it came from.
TFTC

Found on my way through to Nelson. Still a bit dark at this time of morning but found OK with the torch, nice one!
No swaps, TFTC.

2nd time I've driven past and my GPS telling me "Stop! There's a cache here." No idea at all where it might be as all my GPS says is AS? And puts me about 8m from an interesting object. Found straight away. Where else should it be? No swaps and cheers.

A good find on a drive to Motueka Took spikey ball Left butterfly and toy car? thanks for the cache

was a nice place was a bit cold and wet so not many ppl around thanx

Cache check as we went by. All in good shape.
Dropped of Oregon TB and a stress ball

Nice hiding spot. Took me a few minutes to sus it out.
Quiet day.
TNLN

Nice hiding spot. had to wait for a group of kids to move on first as they where have great time playing with 'aunt sally'

Nice One!!!!!!! Great spot to stop and have a look around. Locals have done such a good job of maintaining the unique historic character of the area. If you are a first time visitor, don't rush it. - Wood pear + Dog Thanks

Easy find on way home

Great hiding spot! I got it while the morning flea market was going on, no-one noticed a thing!! TNLN

Seventh cache for the day. A brilliant hide and a great spot. TFTC

found while on the way to Picton for a hoilday

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Quick find. Nice placement of cache. Very cool hiding spot, it will be interesting to see if it avoids muggle attention. TNLN TFTC

The clue was great and the camo job on the cache was awesome. Rocked into town before the rush. Ten minutes later and we would have been fighting off all the kids playing with Aunt Sally. Travel bug is heading north with me. Interesting bit of history too.

Second stop on the way to the Classic Air Show , always thought that would make a nice place for a cache good one.

+ The Lying TB ( For a wee treat in this new temp home)

Driving back from Nelson and the temptation got too much for me. Been out of action with a cracked GPS screen so did this one without. Easy find even if the first look turned up nothing recheck and bingo another FTF to add to my collection.
Picked up TB as well

Dropped off MGF TB

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