A Serious Car Cache (Otago) Belleknowes, South Island, New Zealand
By BWNZ on 06-Oct-07. Waypoint GC16ED1

found this one on the 8th was very wet but still there

Didn't realise this one was archived until I came to log Found it but as per other logs completly saturated

was very wet

As there's been no cache to find for some time, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Quick lunch time find.

Emptied surplus water from container. Log book is in plastic bag but is completely waterlogged and unusable. Needs maintenance but unlikely as cache owner hasn't logged on since 2007.

Container half full of water, emptied out. Logbook is waterlogged, unusable and needs replaced.

found it - although container was completely waterlogged and log book was soaked. couldn't write our name in the log which was frustrating

TFTC had to wait for a break in the traffic crossing the bridge, also contents were a bit damp

Nice quick roadside find. However, cache is soaked, log is wet, and needs replacing. Thanks.

Quick cache and run today.

Easy on a Sunday...

Easy find, but cache is soaking wet, needs some TLC.

TFTC

Kids liked throwing biscuits into the water,found easy enough things wet in container.TFTC

TFTC TNLNSL

We parked up and then someone came (looked like the owner of the yard) and swapped cars so had to wait for a few minutes. After that was a quick find, Cheers

Easy enough find, but was soaking wet inside.

quick find TFTC

TFTC SL TNLN easy find no muggles

The last one of the day was a quick find. Used to live nearby with Old Boots 40 years ago. A lot more businesses here now. TFTC

Found after filling up the car with petrol which seems appropriate. The log book is a bit damp and could do with a night at home to dry out.

Found whilst out car window shopping. Cheers.

We got there with a car...and left from there with a car.

TftC

*kopfkratz*
Thanks for the cache. The logbook is wet!

Quick find SL TFTC

Test

Coin Drop

Easy find. Wet though. Collected geocoin

very busy with muggles

Here with Keywee nice site.

Found with Craypig and friends. Nice hide. TFTC.

It is very wet inside the cache. It's been raining for the last 12 hours though.

had a little water inside

Needs a new container, seal on this one is gone...no rubber under lid to keep water out

TFTC!

Nice quick find but had to hide from muggles on the way out.

TFTC

No test of stealth today as there was no one about. Must be the poor weather and the holidays or something. Plenty of cars parked about though and a quite a few more passing by, but out of view from the cache, so that was great! Thanks BWNZ for the cache.

Quick and easy find on a quiet saturday morning. Cache was quite damp. TFTC.

had water in container but log not too bad. added clear gem TFTC

quick find cheers

Easy find. CheersFTC

Easy find, nothing to write with so left a bit of pencil

A Our 600th milestone achieved with this find. TFTC

No - I don;t want to buy a car, I want to find a cache.

We had a giggle finding this cache. We were approached by a very determined car salesman who was quite insistent on finding out 'what are you looking for'. We didn't give the game away and waited for him to disappear before making a quick grab. Container was still very wet but log book wasn't too bad in the bag. TNLN, TFTC, great spot and good challenge. [^]

Wandered slowly up to GZ, saw the obvious spot, and made a quick grab - without falling into the creek. The cachebox had lots of water in it, managed to pour it out, but the seal needs attention.
Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1612)

Good day. Cache wet. Dried out cache and replaced.

Not many people in the yard today, made for an easy find. Cheers Gav [3752]

Found this one whilst caching with Moneydork and Rediguana.

Certainly a serious car location. TFTC

Found OK. A bit damp inside and no pencil any more.

Resorted to using the clue, due to the number of nearby muggles. Easy find then. TNLN, TFTC.

I had a serious car crash one day while geocaching..... but that's another story.

Last one for the day as it was starting to rain. Decided to get some KFC and head back to the motel to watch some movies I had downloaded.

TFTC

Very very wet, we placed a new log book in as the original is completely mouldy and unusable. Easy find though.
TFTC

This cache has been seriously waterlogged and the log book is unuseable

Easy find. Couldn't sign log as it was very wet. TFTC

great cache and a good spot to put your cahe and i must come back to have a go on those go-carts also we couldnt write in the log book because it was quit wet.
tftc.

took a while to find good place to hide.a bit wet.found with johnnygoescaching.tftc
Entrprise

[blue]Yes cache is wet! Had to look for dry page. TFTC

Very wet but nice and easy. Had to find a dryish page. Found with the johnnys crew.

Very wet. Took a bit of hunting but found it in the end.

Easy find. Very Wet inside.

[Maroon]The cache is [red]Very Wet [maroon]inside. The log book is saturated.

It was fun locating this one without letting people around us know what we were up too. There was quite a bit of water in the container, and one of the toys was rusting, Dried it all out as best as we could.

Kids found, inside cache wet , log book also soaked.

Nice place, TFTC

Very wet inside, needs a good drying out.
Cheers
(Sorry, put wrong date on!)

Was glad of the 'grab rail' as I went in at 10.45 pm. Wouldn't have been found for days if I'd slipped down here? Had scouted it out earlier in the day, but office ladies were not busy enough! Emptied 1 cm of water out of bottom - log biook very wet. TNLN, TFTC.

Nice spot for a cache. Thanks.

quick find but the cache was a bit wet. TFTC TNLN.

cache contents were wet, tftc

What a cool place to pop a cache Autumn leaves were doing their bit for camo
TFTH

Wet inside, very. Quick find, no muggles. Good place for cache TFTC

Nice quick find, nobody looking, though it was obviously busier later in the day. Our 100th Cache YAY!
Thanks to all those who helped us this far.
#100

Nice easy find - was sitting on stump enjoying sunshine when muggle drove past oblivious to me sitting there - was quite funny.

TFTC

[Find #364]

Fairly quiet day in the area but feigned looking at cars on my approach before making the grab. Wouldn't want to try this one during the week.
TNLNSL TFTC

Quiet Sunday, not a big day for sales I suspect!
+ Canadian geocoin
TFTC

Nice quick find, no one about.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Did this at night so no muggles around. Almost visited the creek by accident. TNLN, TFTC

Whew! Several rather rough tattooed types driving over the Kaikorai Stream bridge made it a bit nerve-racking. Took advantage of the wilding plum tree nearby and ate a few as an excuse to be hanging around until the coast was clear.

We did this at night so no muggles about.
TFTC

Quick Find thanks

Just passing by today and as the car yard was quite empty of people; we decided to give it a go.
Took quite a while to find it as GPSr was pointing quite a few meters away from where we found the cache.
Writing up the log I now see why, we still had the old coordinates in the GPSr. In some way it made it more fun as we had to do a lot of muggle dodging.

Thanks.

exellent hiding spot and there was lots of tree stumps in the area too!

traded copper braclet for micro chip {braclet quite vallubull}

[This entry was edited by ZCA on Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 1:58:10 PM.]

Easy find. Thanks.

Could do this one by car 'cos I was taking a load of garden rubbish to the tip for composting.

Easy find. Location deserted on a Saturday afternoon during the holiday period.

TNLN. TFTC.

Did it in the wet, Not a good idea but it was a quick find in the evening so no one around.

Easy find & no muggles.TN/LN TFTC

1830. At 5pm on a Sunday afternoon there was no-one around this area so it was a quick, muggle-free find.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Found cache on a beautifully sunny day with quite a few muggles walking about. Took Butterfly Lady's My Porsche! travel bug.

TFTC.

Nice easy find and no muggles about
Dropped off "My Porsche" as it seems a suitable place for a serious car to visit.

quick find by my youngest,who went straight to it,TFYC

On holiday with Dud's Buds in Dunedin for the weekend. Easy find. Off for a coffee afterwards to warm up from the cold wind blowing. TNLN Thanks

We found this with "Adventure" during an afternoon of caching in Dunedin. A nice easy find and yes, stealth is required but not compared to some others we attempted today.
TNLN
TFTC

Great cache! Had to be ultra-stealthy and wait until muggles had gone before replacing. - mini playing cards, + mini car.

Luckily all was quiet at 8pm on a Thursday evening! The subtle slip marks to the cache made the find nice and simple - great hide. TFTC!
Cheers,
G.
-clip,
+pack of cards (only just!)

Great hiding spot but not too difficult on a wet cold Sunday morning when no sensible folk are out and about (except cachers I guess). - carabiner keyring + shoe polisher kit. TFTC.

New co-ords look good, well from DCC's webmap at least (it uses the North Taieri Circuit 2000 datum and there is a conversion tool at http://www.linz.govt.nz)

** Coordinates Changed From **
S 45° 52.298 E 170° 28.410
Distance From Old: 42.1 feet
Eli and Gibler have commented on the co-ords being slighty out. I havent checked the co-ords Eli published in his log but they are most probably right, correcting the small distance the co-ords were out by. I have to be honest, my GPSr isnt the best the world has ever seen. Hopefully these ones are a bit closer. BWNZ