Five's Alive! (Hope@Nelson/Marlborough) Hope, South Island, New Zealand
By beltfamily on 06-Nov-08. Waypoint GC1HRHV

Hope the space this creates motivates some new cachers to try their hand at placing geocaches. (Hope! )

Had been trying to complete these one at a time so hadn't really looked at this one properly. Had a better look this morning now that the pressure's on and success. Took the TB TFTC #1045

We intend to take this one down in Feb 2010 to make room for local cachers to place their own.

I got the idea of how to solve this puzzle quite some time ago but could never quite get my eyes to focus on the result. Today, relief was in sight. This area is just around the corner from Lil' Stu's cousins where he often goes to play, so a quick search and find on the way to picking him up this evening and all was sorted. TFTC, Biggles.

This was another in the series of puzzle caches I solved before coming out to New Zealand. Despite it being a difficulty 4, I solved the puzzle with the first technique I tried (this is not boastfulness, because there have been plenty of supposedly simple puzzles which have stumped me for much longer than they should have). At the cache site, it took a little time to find the cache, which was/is well concealed, but I made it in the end. TFTC!

Second visit, after trying to be clever and find it without solving the clue the first time around. With the co-ordinates in hand this time, it proved quite simple. A neat place for a cache, and quite nostalgic for me as I spent a lot of time here in my youth! Thank you for the puzzle.

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Fun puzzle, was muggled by the local school principal who happened to be driving pass and spotted us, he enquired whether we had found it yet. Our answer: of course – Five’s Alive!
TNLNSL, TFTC

A nice quick puzzle and find this morning. Glad to have one of these piccy puzzles gone from the list. - TB. Thanks.

Found it, but made hard work of the search though! And talk about muggles!!!

2483. We had some help to point us in the right direction and found the cache after a little searching.

The school was quite busy today with families using the pool and children riding around on scooters and trikes.

We left the Sleepy TB - hopefully he can get some rest beofre school starts again.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Thought I should get arount to finishing this one off as I have just not been out that way at the right time, not a kid in site

An easy puzzle, and easy enough find. Bit of broken glass at the final spot. TFTC.

quick find on way to the river for a cool swim. grabbed geocoin

A fairly quick find tonight. Didn't take too long to figure out the puzzle. Solved it a couple of months back, and only now had the change to pick it up on my way home from an afternoons caching. Cheers Gav [3379]

Managed to work this one out fairly easily. Tonight was a great muggle free time. Left Geocoin.
TFTC

Third time lucky. No muggles - and the clue did help narrow the search. After having no trouble with this puzzle (unlike puzzles 2-4 which we still have to solve) we had all the problems at GZ. Tonight there was a cycle race van just where we wanted to park BUT it left just after we passed by. Found by SoBad in a couple of minutes tonight before Mrs Sobad could even start to search. TNLN TFTC (and the clue)

Another frustrating time at GZ. Attempted on way back from Aniseed Valley - thought 4pm Sunday was a good time but still lots of muggles.;

Added hint for cache itself.

Good puzzle and quickly solved. Cache find itself proved a magnitude harder though and I proved easily distracted by the innocent (?) gazes in various directions by the owner who was observing my form, or rather, severe lack of it in this case. Pretty confident I would of eventually got it but gratefully accepted a bit of a final nudge, oh, of course, I was just about to look there

Great entertainment for both of us, many thanks.

Nice One!!!!!!!!!! Now this find was some kind of spirtual effort. Never did figure out the non-technology method, so relied on the proven formula of "HELP". Sure enough, Google Earth and a voice from above guided us in the right direction. Becoming almost but not quite computer literate. Having fun and that is the bottom line. Thanks for your efforts in creating the series. Well done!!! Thanks

Confirmed coordinates a couple of days ago but muggled out.

Not as quick a find at GZ as we would have liked, but we got there in the end.
Thanks for this series we have enjoyed doing them. They got more devious as they went on.
I reckon that you must have too much time on your hands to come up with these conceptual series of caches.

I had come up with most of these ideas over some time. I just used them all as a series. Present company excepted, Nelson cachers don't seem to "prefer" puzzle caches much. When I try to do the out-of-town ones, they're a magnitude harder, and those cache owners think nothing of letting caches go unfound for 6 months! I suspect I'd have to move house if I did that around here! Anyway, variety is the spice of life, and thanks for your time with this puzzle series.

Mr KE thought he was on to this one quickly but had to wait until work the next day to check it out. He turned out to be wrong - again! Scratched out heads some more and came up with the answer last night.

Decided to go visit gz without confirming the co-ords as we had to go out that way anyway. Found a possible hiding spot within 3m of gz but no cache, decided to wait and confirm the co-ords. A quick find on our 2nd visit. TFTC.

Congrats to the KE team for being first on the scene. Didn't realise to block election day as a cache finding day, although we also voted at Hope School later in the day. A clue has been added, although I admit it's probably not going to help unless you're brain likes to be stretched with lateral thinking.

I'm only about 800km and 9 hours driving time from the FTF so will just have to settle for skiting that I've got the co-ords. I've been following these from afar - well done, another nice puzzle in the series!

We're a bit closer than Stegan - only 201.49km away, appraently. Don't think we'll be getting the FTF either, somehow.

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