Springtime in Speldhurst (Wellington) Stokes Valley, North Island, New Zealand
By SeasonalB0rg on 05-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1XYYQ

Archived to allow others to use this locality for a new GC.

Disabled while I consider a new cache location...

Looks like it has been muggled.

Muggled

Found it but the log sheet is soggy and mashed at the top so I couldn't get it out to sign. Took a pic as proof, will email

Looking to replace the logsheet this coming weekend...

TFTC. Log too damp to extract without risk of shredding it. No 49 of the 75 caches in a month needed for the MGSC challenge.

This entry was edited by Infoferret on Friday, 24 January 2014 at 08:49:23 UTC.

Found but needs maintenance... log wet.

Found this with my UncleSamNZ a few days ago

log wet even mouldy.sorry did not have any replace sheets

the park was quite and it was a quick

Nice to turn this from a to a . TFTC

After a few attempts, finally found by 10yr old grandson. Log sheet very wet though and difficult/impossible to write on.

This entry was edited by triedonce on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 04:04:15 UTC.

Took my nieces and nephew out and to introduce them to the joy if geocaching. They are now hooked. Miss 10 found it before me

12351… A cool playground, all quiet except for a couple of dog walking muggles… yay its going to be Springtime in Springhurst tomorrow, TFTC.

tftc

Found by McTee # 4. Found as per hint and replaced after signing. Watch out for the new area it may confuse you !

This entry was edited by mctees on Monday, 03 June 2013 at 22:45:04 UTC.

TFTC

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Neat wee park, with an unexpected number of muggles for late on a Saturday afternoon,
Didn't take long to locate.
TFTC

TFTC

My friends decided I needed to log some of the geocaches in Stokes Valley. It only happened to be a spontaneous thing in the late evening. Equipped with only the light produced by a cellphone we went on our little adventure. Hopefully we didn't scare the locals. TFTC

Had to wait for muggles to leave, then straightforward find. TFTC.

Quick find while exploring the area. Love the mini road nearby
Happy Easter

Quick find at GZ.

Nobody else in the park on a hot, sunny Friday.

TFTC!

Found it

Wow... That is tiny... Lucky i had an ap for dictionary to help with the hint... Nice park... Heaps of people.

A delightful park. Rather busy when we were there on such a lovely day. So warm the tar was melting on the road as we cycled along. TFTC

Found it after a bit of hunting. Nice wee park TFTC

found it after a bit of hunting, noticed the trees around the area a very easliy climbable.


TFTC!!

Finally got this one after many attempts thwarted by muggles. A great birthday gift for me.

Cache #788 - did with Downunder Wanderer. Took us longer than it should have, but fortunately we picked a time when there were very few people around. TFTC!

That took a lot longer then i thought it would. Got it in the end. Tftc

All quiet near GZ so a quick find. TFTC

Allot of people round. Managed with no problem

I guess this could be considered my local cache, but every time I've been here before it's been too busy. Today on my way to get groceries there was a sharp wind and a spot of rain, the place was deserted, and I seized my chance. I note the place has been cleaned up a bit since I was last here, and starting to look like spring - suiting the name. Found the cache very easily, but removing the log was another matter. I've always been fine with a combination of small fingers and long nails, including with an identical container, but despite significant effort, no luck. Not wanting to be defeated, I added tweezers to my shopping list and returned. TFTC

Very busy park with local muggle kids. Luckily my bootlaces came undo at the right moment!

Found with Kiwi Mico SL TFTC

Great find while the wee one played on the park

I was staying just up the road so between showers decided a walk was called for. Made the find but then the fun began, having no tools with me I had to exercise patience until several muggles passed by. No one at the playground to hear my mutterings but eventually perserverance paid off.
Thanks
erninz

Nice quick sit in the park after work not too far away today. TFTC #3386

first together

Quick find before I ran out daylight!

TFTC

Found on a dismal wet cold day with "squalid". TFTC

Visiting friends and family in Melbourne. Today I visited padigirl, and told her all about caching and she loves it! Found this one together, thanks for the cache.

A few muggles around and the playground was in use but I managed to get in and out with a quick find before anyone noticed. TFTC

A quick find as the cache was quite exposed, have tucked it out of sight a bit better. A nice wee park. luckily the nearby playground was not in use.
TFTC.

#3332. Please to find we had the park here to ourselves. TFTC.

There were quite a few muggles in the park but we were able to retrieve the cache with attracting their attention.

4th and final for the evening with Roaming kiwi. Was a nice easy find once the GPS settled. TFTC

Out and about on an evening of caching in the area with Morriskiwi,this was the 4th and final cache of the evening ,Morris came up with the goods on this one TFTC

Dropped by after work before it got too late. Had to sit in the car for a few minutes as a group of teenage muggles were chatting in the playground. Cache found quickly thereafter but then had to retreat to the car for tools to extract the log. TFTC

Able to snare with picnicing folk close by but they left when I needed to replace.

Easy cache to get things moving in the morning , Too wet to enjoy area.

A quick early morning find in a nice spot.
Thanks.

A quick find once we had the right location. Glad this one is still here. It was disabled last time I was in NZ. Thanks TheBOrg

Approached this with a bit of trepidation being on my own and with a playground in the area (especially after a bit of a scary and nearly awkward situation at the last playground cache I did) but I was able to get away with it by taking great interest in the botanical features of the garden and stopping off briefly to pick up and return the cache which fortunately was an easy find.
Lovely day to enjoy this garden, and the pleasant stroll compensated for the fact that something nasty happened to me not far from here a number of years ago- I will not go near this area at night again!
Several trackables visited. (Shame I had dropped off a butterfly Cachekinz earlier, it would have loved this garden!) TFTC.

I found this cache on the second attempt (I had to abandon the first due to a childs birthday party being held in very close proximity).
Having read the previous logs I took some insulation tape and tidied up the wrapping to ensure that the item used to secure the microcache container didn't come adrift.
TFTC - Gyxx.

Good hide and easy to deal with discreetly even in the midst of plenty of muggles enjoying the park on a sunny winter day. Log was harder to extract than to find! Tweezers were essential. I have tried to roll the log smaller for easier extraction by the next cacher. Insulating tape holding the parts together is not holding up well and needs to be covered (or replaced) with more weatherproof insulating tape.

Teamo Xtremo Gets It's First Find . . .
Also first on fresh new list.

New cache container, same location...

Went to update the fastening solution for the cache, only to find it completely missing so a return trip is now required with a whole new cache - Stay tuned...

Disabled until I can ascertain nature of maintenance required - Hope to be back real soon!

Easy find, even with muggles. Container may need maintenance as it's only just holding on there.

'Tis the season to be jolly, and 'tis the season to be caching
And a jolly good cache this one was....
Although it's not springtime!
Cache find was reasonably straightforward, relatively muggle free, signed logged and returned as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Easy to find, had to come back three times before muggles vacated location though! TFTC

Nice little place that park, even with a free BBQ - I'll be back

Silly Muggles kept getting in the way, however as they say, third times a charm

TFTC

Easy find on a quiet evening, TFTC

Took us two visits to find this one but the mini cachers didn't mind as the park was great fun. I am sure I looked there last time we visited but an easy find today. TFTC

Mmmmmm.... not too many DNFs on this one, so maybe I'm losing my touch later in the day! Dodged and managed the muggles to give this a very thorough going over. Either this is too small for me to see and feel, or it is MIA. I'll keep a watch on it and see what unfolds.

Enjoyed the opportunity the visit an area previously unknown.

The Turtle doesn't strike again!

Took a couple of goes to find this one, small small cache

Nice easy find after engaging stealth mode. TFTC

Found it quickly tonight while waiting for fish & chip order to be filled, but didn't have pen on me, so will need to go back to log my visit.

found last night on a quiet nites caching with pengus , TFTC

TFTC

Nice hide, thanks! - didn't log a visit today due to my fingers refusing to work in the Stokes' weather... BRRRRRRR!

Lots of muggles around who all seemed to be looking at me. Got there in the end, relatively easy find
TFTC

Took an ex-Snake Gully resident for the ride and was soon sitting pretty.

Took a while to find and had to wait for the muggles to pass by..Thanks for the cache...

A quick find. Loved the "helping hand" near the cache, very well done.
TFTC

the smallest one yet from the borg.
easy find,just had to wait for seat to not in use.

That is amazing! The smallest geocache we gave ever seen. Almost gave up thinking there was nothing there then one last look (feel) and we found it. TFTC

Nice to sit down for a minute, plenty of muggles around good to be with Cheeky Girl - but found quickly.
TFTC

Found with ease first i've ever found YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!
TFTC

1.05pm. A quick find on a trip around upper hutt. Had to go back to the car to work on the log.
Thankyou. David and Michael

Arrived in the park to find muggles occupying GZ, so I took a nearby seat to contemplate my next move. Fortunately the muggles moved on I was able to make a quick swoop. It took longer to extract the logsheet than anything else!
TFTC.

easy find to day no one around TFTC # 440

1592 Second visit to this spot as it was full of ciggy smoking teenagers. All quiet on return visit and a quick find. TFTC

Another cache found on a Wellington Raid over xmas from Auckland.

TFTC

Nice park

An exceptionally easy find of a well placed cache. Loved the carved hands holding up the tree branch nearby.

New logsheet installed

Able to get this one on the second visit, too many muggles around last time TFTC

The eagle eyed hubby-cacher spotted this quickly, but only because we had seen these cahces on the internet. It is our first nano cache, and was very cool. There were muggles at the playground, but were too busy to notice us, and we were very stealth. The log is totally full, and we suspect the place we filled in was a spot where another log had faded off at some point when wet. TFTC!

Disabled until I can get a new logsheet installed...

TFTC, beautiful area, thanx

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 138. Thanks.

Thought this would be an easy enough find for new cacher, Geo-Shelley, but despite muggles, she and I came up without the booty after a reasonably comprehensive search. A little girl holding a kitten asked us what we were doing so of course we all proceeded to searched for a "dropped earring" until that too, was not found.

Nice day to be out doing a spot of caching. Nice quick easy find despite the ever present muggles. TFTC

There was no one around so we were able to search thoroughly.I do not think I have come across one so small before.

#265. Popped in to the park on our way home, the kids had a play while I 'relaxed', SL, TFTC.