Cache Mastery 409 – Hiding [Russian Dolls] (Otago) Maia, South Island, New Zealand
By wallaceDuo on 11-Nov-07. Waypoint GC17997

Was looking for something else and found the 5 litre container with all other containers inside. Signed logbook. Salamat!

As there's been no cache to find for months, 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.

first cache is missing will replace

will check it out

Could this be checked please... Then archived if required.

Second attempt to log this cache.

Again, I couldn't find the initial 5L cache. GPSr ssemed a bit out but after a reasonable hunt I would have expected to have found it.

Could the owner [or a previous finder] check that it is still there.

Thanks

took a few minutes searching around in the soaking grass to find this but eventually did and came out with soaking legs and feet.

good idea for a cache. Found with Johnnygoescaching.

One of four caches visited today by the johnnygoescaching group today. TFTC.

NICE STUFF TFTC

TFTC! Found with INZY and Uli.

hehehe, that was fun! TFTC!

Awesome had to do in the dark TFTC

Very, very good cache - but very hard to find the last of the three caches! (First two were nice and easy...) Some of those bushes were very sharp, and I've got quite a lot of scars...

Found in almost total darkness by the end of our search. I think I am right in saying that this was one of the most fun and enjoyable of all the caches JBcivic and I found while in New Zealand - and that's despite the fact that our skin was torn and shredded to pieces by various sharp plants we didn't quite see in the dark. (I expect I will be removing splinters for some weeks to come.) The first two caches were found very easily, but we did struggle quite a bit with the final cache. However there was no way we were going to give up - even as it started to rain. As per the cache instructions, since we found all three caches in different locations, we gathered them altogether and all are now hidden at the first waypoint. This should make the experience a lot easier for the next cacher, but very probably nowhere near as fun! (I think we had the best part of the deal there...) TFTC - Awesome!

Fun multi. Thanks.

Interesting idea for a cache.
Good location for it.
Thanks.

Had been putting this off as it looked too complicated. However, is much easier to do that read about. Really enjoyed this different cache. TFTC.

Quick and easy great views of Dunedin. TFTC

Walked around in a big circle as my GPSr was a tad confused! Easy find once I got within cooee.

TNLN. TFTC.

different cheers

Great Idea.
Lots of muggle bikers around.
Beaut Day.
TFTC.

had to be quick here as muggles about and it was such a lovely day there were a few coming and going the three were all together I left it there as I havent got a GPS as yet so didnt make any new way points for this

The beauty of this cache, is that one is never sure what is in store. Thanks to ZCA for nicely hidden dolls, so my mission was only to find and restore to the mother container.A pleasant wander in the still sunny conditions. A bit wet underfoot, and still some frost in shady places. TFTC

Awesome cache cheers

Different and rather fun.
TFTC

Found with StreetWalkerNZ.
All 3 containers were together, so have hidden the 2L one containing the 200ml.
TFTC

#518 (3/14 on a day in Dunedin). Found with Troodles (who emailed the required details). TFTC; interesting idea.

(2186)
We have mastered 409 Cache Hiding…. Found the dolls in separate locations, and re-assembled them as per instructions, and rehid them all together in the original posted location as stipulated in the cache listing. Many thanks for an original cache concept.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Nice and easy, was fun finding places to re-hide them. TFTC (no possums this time, just a HUGE spider)

Attempted at night, got "half-way" then encountered a fairly annoyed possum. Rather than risk the "flying-furry-furry-from-above" i'll return in next few days (in daylight)

Rained cats and dogs.Typical of a caching trip with Bitsprayer. But we soon found it. Both parts rehidden.
Thanks for a interesting cache

Cold and wet here today, but the cache was soon in hand, we found WP3 in WP2, so rehid then elsewere.

Fun cache todo, I thought it might have been harder.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Loved this cache concept - found all three together so moved 2L out again with 200mL as per instructions.

Nice early morning walk up from Logan Park.

TFTC

[Find #353]

Novel idea for a cache. Signed the medium container log and hid the small container. There are plenty of elephant tracks in the grass now. T4TC

I gave my older brother, BaldEd, a chance to play with the “dolls†first before I joined in and moved them about.
Cheers for the cache.

great cache! enjoyed the concept. thanks.

Nice evening for a walk up to the monument. Saw the overturned French trimaran being tested out on the harbour basin and towed back to the quay. The 2 litre container was eay to find, but hard to reach - we sent Rufus through a gap in the spiky cotoneaster to retrieve it. Left the next person an easy find, and scurried back home before dark. Thanks for an entertaining cache!

Heh, I got the easy one. Lovely sunny day for a bike ride up here. Found all three nested together so have hidden the 2ltr with the final inside. Accuracy 5m when placed. Cool, TFTC!
Cheers,
G.
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+souvenir teaspoon

Found the three containers in different places so, as per instructions, placed the 200ml inside the 2 litre and the 2 litre inside the 5 litre. Gorgeous evening at the cache "hiding grounds".

What a great idea!!

At the 2L container the GPSr was still saying 6m away but it was still an easy find. Accuracy for placement of the 200ml container was 5m.

Am getting pre-exam jitters now...

- Geocoin

Well the pressure is now on; hopefully my coordinates are as spot on as the others have been. Hid the 2L container with the 200ml cache container inside it.
Great idea, pleased the reviewers were able to bend the rules.
Thanks wallaceDuo for a fun cache.

Neat idea. Good to be following Gibler and Eli - no problem at all with co-ordinates. Put it all back together for the next finder/hider. Thanks.

Glad you could bend the rules a bit, this is a fun concept for a cache. And good to be after Gibler, his coords were spot on. Hope mine are too.
+ Porsche Geocoin. TFTC.

Well FTF at 10 am. Reading between the lines, I think you are meant to only hide one waypoint. So I hid the 2L with the 200 mL inside it. If this isn't right, it doesn't matter I forgot to write down the code anyway

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