Flow Control (Wellington) Glenside, North Island, New Zealand
By ADV on 01-Oct-07. Waypoint GC16BJE

Thanks to all who have visited this one, it's had a pretty good run.

Quick find on an afternoon's caching expedition. Nice rural spot, I wonder how long it will remain this way with encroaching suburbia? Signed log, TFTC.

If I'd have been local I would have come back to clean the info panel at the bottom of the hill with a bucket of hot soapy water - it annoys me the pointless things that vandals do.

It was too hot for the little steep climb up the hill from where we stopped to count as only terrain 1.5 today!!!!!! Just as well it's so short. PB made a quick find and we retreated to the shade to sign. TNLN

Note: no Bike geocoin in the cache

Took a little while to find it with the children, it was a great delight for them when we found the cache. Placed in Mr Men book mark, and grabbed the Travel Bug for moving to a new cache.

The kids looked with their eyes closed and hadn't found it after twenty or so minutes, so Dad had to step in.
Released Snoopy the Explorer TB to travel the globe.

- Canadian GC (4151)
+ Snoopy the Explorer TB
+ thermometer

TFTC

Easy find with Grmblzmpf and CrystalFairy. Had to rush to replace due to inquisitive muggle and muggle-hound. TFTC : )

Got to the parking area and took the "right" route, which had a much higher terrain rating than mentioned, but found the "circular" route which would have made it a bit less.. Lovely spot, but wonder why so much money was spent on flood dams of this size !!! Is there something we should be expecting...

Cool spot, didn't even know that it was there... TFTC!

A quick walk on the way home from picking the car up from the garage, managed to find GZ easily and was a nice quiet day to do it, Took TFTC Geocoin but there was no sign off Biking Against MS 2007 Geocoin not sure where that has gone, Dropped of CITO Geocoin, TFTC SL (506)

Wouldn’t you know it, approached from the wrong height. Nice day, nice stroll, lots of piece and quiet. On the way back to the car the silence was punctuated with cries for help. Administered first aid to a damsel in distress.
–Cache in Trash out GC, +Cats eye, + Canada GC. TFTC.

Another cache with 3 generations of family present - a nice stroll from home for this one, closest to my sister's house. Added a Butterfly-lady "TFTC" geocoin. We found their exercise ball (1m in diameter) close to the cache site, only went missing the day before!!!

Nice stroll in the sun, The Penguins were faster than I was to get to GZ. Good fun crossing the creek. TFTC

Nice find close to home

[This entry was edited by The Penguins on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 at 9:47:18 PM.]

Quick find. Cool dam. TFTC!

-Mini water pistol
-"Girls rock" badge
+"Comrade" badge
+Furry Koala

Quick find at the end of the day, nice and peaceful up here despite being quite close to the ever expanding suburbs. TNLN TFTC

All dried out now, re-enabled cache and all ready for Glyn's visit.
The Biking Against MS 2007 Geocoin is not in the cache, it was taken by Latte123 on 8 July.

Bit long to have this one out eh Neil? you coming to the TT event this week?--Glyn.

Cache check and found to be a bit wet, will dry it out and replace in a few days.

went with molsh a bit tricky but found anyway picked up a geocoin PCE6HN.

[This entry was edited by Latte123 on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 at 7:08:34 PM.]

Good found, always interesting to go somewhere new.
Traded yoyo for $2 coin, Picked up cool Geocoin SPPMH5. Will place it on its hunting mission soon.

Found it with kids and dog. Harry (dog) loves these ones which are in dog exercise areas. Went to went to drop 2 coins off to find we had left them at home - returned a few hours later to drop them in - this time on Bike (as requested by one coin) and have to admit doing it on bike makes it a lot quicker. Unfortunately kids aren't quite big enough for this yet.

TFTC - great to find another park we didn't know about.

Pleasant stroll on a nice day, goo run for Harry. Some muggles had found the cache prior to us getting there, but fortunately all they did was write in the log and leave a cigarette, plus their cigarette packet lying around (we practised CITO here). So we removed the cigarette from the cache and added Invincible Mike TB. TFTC

This was a great little cache.
Quite a steep climb up a short hill - but achievable with 2 children and a dog.
Easily found cache, good clue
Walked down the alternative route.
A very pleasant find.
Removed TB and replaced with coin

Picked up TB-Helena, the South Island beckons...

Beautiful little spot. Used to live not far from here but had no idea this was here. Had the place to myself on a sunny afternoon.
-Action man
+Helena TB
TFTC

Nice scenery but it was a drizzly day. The GPS was pointing up the hill so we hopped across the stream and went zig-zagging up the hill and only realised that there was an easier track up after finding the cache. . TNLN TFTC.

Hi found it 23 march sorry forgot to log until today
TFTC

Seemed we took the hard way up, over the rocks. Took the easy way down via the path, jumped the stream.

Drizzly today, but clearing, and we didnt see any rain for the rest of our trip.

Interesting feature, We love dams.

Cheers! Thanks for the placement and the fun!

very awesome want to with my team ace good luck on its mission ill miss you buddy

The first find with our revived Garmin. Garmin blew a transistor and need to be repaired so this was the first find on its return (repair took 4 months). Have been wanting to get to this one for a while and was nice to find a geo-coin to. Didn't have any thing to swap as have been out of action for so long.
- geo-coin

A nice easy find with Scoop81
+ Cristavao de Mendonca Geocoin
- Terrapin Turtle TB

Country area is nicely tucked behind growing suburb.
- Mini T/B
+ TB-Helena
SL. TFTC.

#19 - great spot! Wellington continues to amaze me with it's abundance of unknown beautiful spots but what a shame someone has taken the effort to dump their rubbish here - hopefully it'll get clean up soon. Kids were happy to find our 1st geocoin!

- Maryland Geocoin, plastic beetle, racing car
+ purple stickman, The Mini TB

SL. TFTC. nzstickman & kids.

Pleasant walk. Not strenuous, despite how it looks. Good little cache, but too small for the "Grave Digger" TB I was trying to move on.
+ Geocoin
- Sewing kit
+ racing car

nice walk up hill, easy find, took new cacher with us

nice spot shoes and my socks got wet but o well

I am one of the many volunteers who spends time planting native trees along here so I was delighted to find a cache had been placed here. Thankyou

#1009
Quick find, after we trotted up the hill. Read about the flow control scheme on our way back to the car. An interesting engineering concept, thanks.
TNLNSL, TFTC

This was an interesting development tucked away. See the urban sprawl is creeping over the hills though. Nice spot. TFTC

0paco0, Red and the cache-dogs found it.

Muggle central!

I had to use all my pantomime skills to make all the muggles with their dogs think I had to relieve myself behind this bush that almost shielded me and the cache from view.

Just as I reached to get the cache, a strange dog bounded past me to check what I was doing before the faithful cach-dogs lured him away for a play.

I mean, how many dogs and owners can you get onto this smallish park?!?

Neat placing, though.

IN: fish TB
dinosaur
OUT: lanyard

TFTC

Ran around here in an orienteering event a few months ago, but from above. Walked up from the bottom this time. A pleasant spot on a sunny Friday afternoon. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Lovely Sunday afternoon to a cache. Easy find. No muggles around.
- screwdriver
+ sewing kit
TFTC
pinetree and sunrise (with bubble)

found on the way home from work. TFTC
- Farewell Pepper TB

(107) Well I lived within 2km of this place for over 2 years and never knew it existed; what an interesting spot. Excellent weather today so a spot of caching was deffinately on the menu.

- pillbox
+ blue felt man
+ bug
+ apple carabiner

TFTC,

~ Chrispy Twitch and Boots

[This entry was edited by Chrispy Twitch on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 10:30:43 PM.]

Saw a couple of suspicious loiters in this very quiet spot, we now know who they were. An interesting spot, dropped of TB + screwdriver, - apple carabiner. TFTC.

A lovely little gem of a place, though RNut got licked by a four legged muggle while trying to find the cache.
Uplifted PaintBrush geocoin and a TB for further adventures.
Left a butterfly (of course)

A busy little cache this weekend. I wonder what the dam looks like after a good rain storm.
- TB + geocoin
TFTC

Took me a while to figure out how the whole structure did its job, the sign is helpful in this regard. Didnt know it ws here... +-0 TFTC

Looks like im the third vistor of the day to this cache ,
now these are the type of caches i enjoy ,the ones you learn something new on as Outwardbound was saying ,
Thanks for bringing me here;)and teaching me something new;)
coords were spot on and it was a nice quick find on a sunny yet very blowy afternoon
+ 5 Continents in 5 years TB
+ Nintenbug
- kiss geocoin
TFTC

Arrived after outward bound.
Assed Loved this cache Geocoin.
Took 2x TBs.

1734. Well it always pays to check to see if any new caches have arrived since your last download and we were glad that we did look as this cache was quite close to Mum's and we are due to leave the NI by ferry this afternoon.

We got to the cache oK even though the wind is still blowing quite a gale but we would suggest that the terrain is probably higher than 1.5.

We had the privilege to meet a geocaching couple who were out on their first unassisted cache hunt. We wish them the very best for their future caching expeditions.

We left 2 TBs and took a geocoin.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney & Gabrielle



[This entry was edited by Sallies on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 at 8:25:06 PM.]

FTF!

A nice peaceful spot with magpies serenading. Pity about all the houses planned for around here.

- Pirate Jake TB
+ Lanyard
+ Pill box

TFTC

Quick find once the gps settled down but didn't quite manage to avoid the rain. +puzzled bug. TFTC

I was going to go out and get this one late last night but decided it was too late.... as a result I surrended the FTF. Took TB, Left GC.

Dropping off Pirate Jake TB

Published

From the road end a nice stroll across park I never knew existed.