The secret playground (Nelson/Marlborough) Nelson East, South Island, New Zealand
By huntdog123 on 14-Jun-08. Waypoint GC1D70M

Tftc! Found it with Mars9977.

Tftc! This was my first one in NZ. I found it with Josteinium

Was a great find, thank you

Good cache

Thanks for my first find!

Nice wee hide! TFTC

Like others have mentioned, the coordinates are slightly off. The cache is closer to the swings than it appears on the map. I added a fresh scrap of paper for the log, and an Among Us figurine for swaps. TFTC, my first find in New Zealand!

Very fun hiding place, this was a great and engaging hunt!

Found it took a while almost had a mental brake down finding it needs a new log sheet if your heading here bring a spear bit of paper#glassladybug

Took a while to find this cache, I agree with the previous finder, focus on the second part of the hint regarding the swing. The co ordinates have obviously drifted since 2008 so I was 11m away from GZ at the cache site. Tftc

Took longer then it should have to find this one but after reading a recent log we soon figured out where we needed to be. Seems this cache could do with a hint and coordinate update along with a new log. Found with Elliot13. TFTC

I had an appointment at Collingwood Centre and left work a bit earlier to look for this GC while here. As others, started on wrong side of the river, back to the street to cross and just then I heard kids screaming "Can you get the ball from the river", again and again. So I took off my shoes, went in the river to get the ball, crossed to the other side once more (this time just through the water) to give the ball back to the young boy at the wall of the school ground. Back through the water but not much time left to look for the GC. Went to my appointment and came back afterwards. I got mislead by finding the "first" hint objects immediately and started searching around there. So many possible great hiding holes, but no cache found there. Went over to the second part of the hint and searched there, found the little container then.

Not the first place I looked, but soon found one I expanded my search, nice place for a hide, TFTC

Played on swings, found cache

Tftc I was on the wrong side of river at the start

It's so secret no o e was there, but school was in sp that may explain it.

Couldn't find stump but eventually found the cache. Cool. Tftc

TFTC

tftc

So cool thanks

First find. Exciting

Looked near the stumps, found nothing between the swings rocks and river

Cool

Couldnt find it this time. Clues and logs not seeming to line up. May need attention

Very creative keep up the good work

Great spot TFTC

Found it, our first one!??cheers

Found it!!

Our first geocache find!! Found it after quite a search, hint was a bit confusing but comments from previous logs were helpful! Yay! This is fun!

Found it

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Tftc!

TFTC

Nice spot in glass jar with silver lid. TFTC

First attempt of a NZ find... we need to up our caching game!

I went to the wrong side of the river first but after reading the hint, it's pretty easy. Tftc

Quick find, nice little playground indeed, tftc!

I'm not a very good looker. DNF. More of a walker, than a looker. Onwards.

Pleasant little spot

Round it

There seem to be two containers here and a wet log. Cache may have been abandoned by owner.

Very easy when get the hint,

Followed the hints and could not find it

Found after a quick play on the playground
Cache is very wet

Not in a green container in a small glass jar, pretty hard to find

Now we receivedcthe South Island and the city Nelson. Our first cache here was this one.
Unfortunately the logbook is wet, we put a dry piece of paper in the can.
>Thank you for this cache and greetings from Berlin Germany
>Danke für diesen Cache und beste Grüße aus Berlin

This was another one of those that I was searching for some time ago while my anti-caching wife steamed in the car. I gave up then, but not today and found the cx. TFTC.

Found it...not green container though?

Not a green container but found it

needs maintenance wet... cool park kids checked it out

Tftc hint is very specific hard to miss good one

Nothing to sign in this so added a some paper in a bag tftc

Nice and quite little park, never knew about this place thanks for showing new places. Tftc

Fun little cache, never knew about the park

22-5-22

Find it

No stump to be seen, but it's there.

pretty marshy and overgrown, couldn't locate bag talked about in previous posts

Wasn’t able to locate

Very overgrown around river, couldn't find it anywhere.

Couldn't find it :/

Was passing by so dropped of a micro container for this one. The bag was migrating amongst the leaves already.

Second time back here after an extensive search and no luck. Wondered if it had vanished but decided to give it another go. Found a couple of cache-sized plastic bags immediately which didn't give me high hope's, but phone was putting me in a slightly different spot this time, closer to the swings. Spotted the edge of a plastic bag reasonably quickly and on retrieval saw it had log and a few other bits. No container anywhere. Log was quite damp. TFTC

Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Tftc (wasn't painted green)

Fun find

Second cache! Fun to do during lockdown.

The container is missing. Founds souvenirs and pen with plastic bag but no container!

No box just marble so put temporary plastic bag until can be replaced.

Box gone just marble so left a bag there. If u have a box come replace it.

I think it's gone

Lovely spot. Only pen, log and marble as mentioned by others. I don't think it will last long.

Container is missing. Only log, pen and a marble at GZ.

Found, just a pen, paper and a small ball. No stump!

All wet didn’t risk opening the paper

Great spot!

Found it paper & pen is all that remains...

Tftc.

Container part of nature now.

Possible find no container - pen and scrunched log found in the ground

We think we have found it all that remains is a screwed log and a purple pen on the ground behind the tree stump

Quick find. TFTC

We know we're close but will have to come back again...

Scrambled around for ages but no luck

Was looking in wrong tree for long time

Might need checking on-spot has seen better days? From clues we are in he right place but no joy

Nice little find. Tricky cos there’s no stump! Cool hiding spot. TFTC

Definite secret spot here ... flat phones and darkness made this a bit harder. But managed to finish our cache outing with no DNF's today. Tftc

A caching saturday adventure out with Missnboys and introducing lululovesponge to geocaching. Almost a DNF but just at the last second I saw something that showed we were nearby. and ta-da cache found. Logbook was soggy - so we have replaced with waterproof paper and a bag. TFTC

Couldnt find it

Nice to see a ford. Cool playground

Was my sisters first find. She was so excited. Put in a little doggy bag to keep the notes from getting wet.

Really wet and dirty

Thanks! Well hidden!

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It says Netherlands on it
Yay

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #621.

Me and my sister came here to look for our first geocache and it took as a very long time to find it but it felt very good when we did find it.

(We put in a necklace)

First time finding a cache and me and my sister took ages to find it but it felt good when we actually found it

Found while caching with ABL973. Thanks huntdog123