Magpiy's Nest (Nelson/Marlborough) Mariri, South Island, New Zealand
By Magpiy on 31-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XYMX

swung in for this to realise it was no more !

Sorry to say as we are moving so this place will no longer be our nest, Watch for the new Magpiys Nest soon P and M

This one has been on our try again list for awhile now - but in a month of getting our get up and go going again we decided it was time so did this on the start of a what turned out to be a big caching day (for us especially over the last year) Stretch0 did the honours with this one and couldnt have been happier - echoing others thanks for the well thought out hide signed the log thanks for the cache

Visited this site a long time ago with no information other than where it was. To make it even harder it was late in the day and with heading in to dusk with all the comuters comming home to boot. Talk about trying to make it harder on ourselves! Next visit was middle of the day but alas we had failed to even look at the information so gave up when too many cars came through the area.
Today we thought that we had better put this one under our belt and comlete it, this time with all information and getting there, when it was going to be quieter.
We accomplished this on one count through sleeping in and not getting organised the day was well started by the time we got there. Was having a good look around when following the hints and spotted the method of opening. Cache in hand finally!!
Just love the cache and am sad to hear it is comming out! Hope to be replaced elsewhere in the future i hope!
Thanks for this cache

found it easy to crack neat cache tnln

4255 Great hide, needed Mrs YuGeo’s gentle touch to open the container.

Yes we found it today on our travel towards Nelson. Could not open it and have blisters on my fingers from 20 minutes of twisting pushing and pulling. Someone has been beating the lid with a rock so maybe its stuck. But we did find it after reading your directions.

A very interesting hide, was very surprised how quickly we managed to get it, even with boxhill watching us and then was returned home quickly, Thanks for the extremely clever hide, TFTC TNLNSL (1683)

A nice easy find....but how to open it? Fortunately it didn't take too long to come up with the solution.
Thanks for the clever hide.

This was a highlight of this trip. Had us pondering for quite a few minutes and then Annie figured it out!! Which made it a double highlight for her as usually it's PB who solves these tricky ones! Very well done. TNLN TFTC

easy find today. im sure it was already open. thanks

We have found it and was very surprised. Really nice! TFTC

That one was fun! Took us a couple of minutes, but finally we made it! Thanks a lot!!!!

I still don't know how I opened it, but did it

Great thing - I love this one!

I'll give it 5 stars on GC-Vote!!

"Swine Flu Geocoin" is missing

TftC, EST

Still don't know how we actually did this.

Finding the cache was easy, opening it was another matter, finally a gas torch and crowbar got it open, well not really, but it was brain over brawn in the end, Thanks for the fun.

Seriously cool and fun find.

TFTC

#1690 Would love to know how it works. TFTC DS8300

3199. That is one cool cache! - by far the best of our holiday to this point! We both had to have a go at opening it! An amazing effort - well done!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Dropped in a coin that we have had for too long, be careful not to catch it.

Very very tricky found easily enough, opening took quite a bit of time to sort out. A great cache.one of the best we have come across TFTC

Interesting hide and everyone in the team had to "find" the cache. TFTC

Fantastic hide!- found by my 7 year old grandaughter. TFTC. Geodatum.

It was a hard find but well hidden.TFTC

Very Clever Indeed. Thanks Magpiys.

Holidaying at Mapua, 2nd Cache today after GC1A1F7 nearby.
Soon spotted the cache easy enough, but getting it open was a real mission. All four of us had a try without success. Our friends Yammay finally got it open on his second attempt !
Very clever !
TNLN, now off to find West Of Eden.
TFTC !

This hurts ... it really really hurts ... this really cool cache was going to be our 250th for our first year of caching !!! Yeah Right !!!!! We were on a mission heading to the Abel Tasman for the day and thought we'd grab this on the way through .... Hmmm well yes, found it easy .... hmmm ummm right okay cool we'll just pop it open then yes well ummmmm ....... Then Miss Beanso(8yrs) decided we should come back in July when she turns 9 because 9 year old girls can do it !!! Sorry can't wait that long !!! Help please !!!

Had me beat on Christmas Day, and still took me quite a while to work it out today, really glad I found it, cool idea. SL TFTC

Nearly gave up on this one.Very clever hide.This rates as one of the best caches i have done.A must do

We did have a laugh at this one. We took way longer to find it than open it. Just about ended up on your lawn trying to find GZ. Once found it was putty in Ms M's hands.
Last cache for the day.
Thanks.

wow, one of our all time favorites! almost gave up but then bingo! TFTC! cheers, kiwicachers

Incredible !! really enjoyed this one. Great fabulous cache. A MUST DO EVEN IF YOU ARE IN NELSON!!! By gosh i was amazed with all your effort into this one. Nearly gave up but then it was all revealed... Cheers, TFTC!!! ClownyCacher

The Freezer Mice Strike Again! Wow that Magpiy is certainly a cleaver bird. Great cache guys and no doubt when we visit down your way we'll have to tackle a couple more of your missions. TFTC

Very fortunately for me the cache owner rode up on his trusty caching stead as I was contemplating my assault on the cache. Not sure if I would of worked it out but for the assistance of the owner. Cheers for the bloody awesome cache Magpiy!!! A Must for all cachers!!!

Catching up with logs for caches I found with Sidewaze before I got my own account. TFTC

Yep. Finding the cache was pretty easy - - - getting in - - - well, I guess you wouldn't even try if you weren't aware that others had done it before. Another excellent cache Magpiy. Thanks.

Very clever! And we got it on our first visit - a bit of thought, and the puzzle was solved! TFTC

Very tricky, just about to give up and suddenly all was revealed.
Well done, very clever.
TFTC

Found OK could do with hint. I,am passed 9yrs so this may have been the problem

Ha! Thought I was gonna have to SOS the belts, but then it all became clear.

TFtC

This one cool cache, were do I place my order, Oamaru need's one of them.

Thanks Bitsprayer

I couldn't believe how easy it was to find the container, ha ha not so easy to get into it. Read and reread the notes and after a long time searching all was revealed - absolutely brilliant.
Thanks
ernienz

i hate to admit defeat. a wee bit stumped on this one.

Found this one with Moneydork and Satchmo Cat

A fantastic hide - well done.

Agreed - finding it easy, but felt very exposed while sorting out the extraction.
Disappointment that the Sailboat suncatcher geocoin I wanted to leave was just too large to fit.

Lol nice on thx

After a morning gardening we deserved an afternoon caching!! On our first visit we logged a DNF - now a FWHFO (found with hint from owner). If we had both followed our plan C properly and looked at the original hint properly we like to think we would have found it. A great cache, well outside our skill set. First find for the afternoon. TFTC

Cache of the day! Very clever. Dont know what all these highly qualified guys have been struggling with.. And we love the fishing fly on the house roof.

[This entry was edited by BuzzTasman on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:27:51 PM.]

The co-ordinates took us straight to this wonderful cache. We didn't have a nine year old to open it, but the old timer manged it very well.
It wasn't long before the log book was in our hands. (Never under estimate the old timer)
thank you for the cache and the effort it went into the making this cache.

We were on the right track last week so Mr KE will take some satisfaction from that and from knowing others have struggled even if they didn't admit it in their logs. The reason we couldn't 'open it' last time was we were missing the 9 year old girl, so today we brought two along just to be sure, one having qualified just yesterday. The cache was soon opened and everyone watching it closely got a fright. Thanks for a cool cache. KN will have to work hard to top this one but I'm sure he will try. TFTC.

Whew, with a kind hint from the cache owner after my anguished cries for help, success today! A really neat cache that even a computer consultant can enjoy One hopes that frustrated cachers don't cause too much damage round GZ. Thanks again for the effort put into this one, Biggles.

I'm with Rangi can I claim first to find with one hand or arm in a cast Great to see my kind of cache very well done most enjoyable.......TFTC

Like Usakiwi we came, had no luck then went on for food and success further down the track. However, although we had an idea that might have worked it in fact didnt. So we log the first DNF.

Heck - Mr KE can't even be the first to DNF!!! He even brought Mrs KE along as reinforcements but we struck out big time. How is an Accountant supposed to "get" a cache designed by an Engineer??? Chalk and cheese; and no coffee either - we will be back. Thanks P & M it really is nasty - well done.

Now Mr KE knows how it feels for a engineer when he strikes a cache or puzzle put out by a accountant or a computer consultant

[Whew, now I can stick my hand up to and say HELP! I've had a couple of goes at this and have had to admit defeat both times.] That is assuming that the metal object is indeed the cache. [Oh well, hopefully a clue will emerge to assist the less engineering inclined...]

Nice One!!!!!!!!! A very clever bit of container ingenuity on this one. Arrived, found the cache and it remained a puzzle until hunger took over. So, off to town for food, two successful cache finds and then back for another go. With total engineering ignorance and massive good luck, the container was very quickly opened. Well done! Much fun and flustration. Thanks.

This would definitely be in the top five of best caches we've seen - well done! It's good to have a bit of a challenge and this was certainly one of them. Thanks.

I'm starting to warm to these before-breakfast cache trips! Having received permission from the cache owner to arrive at official sunrise time, I ended up arriving about 15 minutes later than that, only to find rangi with his hand on the cookie jar. Luckily not in it - yet. He hadn't been there very long, and together we set to unravelling the challenge before us. To not spoil it for those that follow, I'll drop the cache owner a note directly with our experiences, but with an engineer and a diabolical mind on the job this treasure was in hand after a little poking, prodding and discussing likely ways to get in. Laugh for the day? "If you found this by accident".... Yeah, right! Great cache, thanks for putting it out on a lovely morning. Only sad thing is that we have to return to the real world now! Great to meet up with rangi - don't normally run into him on cache hunts - perhaps he needs to be on the Night Rider phone tree . TFTC #CS#

5 mins more and Mr Belt may have found a "smiling git"at the cache site instead of a desperate git.Found cache easily enough and was in the process of figuring it out when Mr B turned up.Put our heads together and after a few minutes came up trumps.A neighbor came out of the drive just as we got our hands on the booty and must have wondered what the two "smiling gits"(Do you like this Mr KE?) were up to.For those that follow and without giving too much away you do not need to lift or dig or lever anything to get at the cache.Great cache up there with Kiwi-Nomads caches.Great to meet up with Mr B and could have chatted all morning but unfortunately work beckoned.For those wondering what all the "gits" are about check out Mr Bs vid on youtube/Geocaching New Zealand/Binary Battery,Very funny.TFTC

Published