Nelson processing plant monument-Nelson Park-(Gis) Te Hapara, North Island, New Zealand
By Alex & Anita on 06-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Y8XX

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Cache has been missing for months please archive.

I took a stroll past the skool,
and over the foot bridge to reach this GZ by the creek
Memorial plaque found and read,
I paced out the distance ...
... Geez !! The cache owner must be damn tall !! [:o]
I was still standing on the mown grass at least 15 metres from GZ

I wandered into the long, sticky, grabby grass.
And poked, clawed, swore at the vines to reveal ...
... no caches [:o]
After 10 minutes,
I'd had 'nuff

Third DNF in a row !!

Strike three !!
I'm out !! [:o]

Not a good way to start a Gisborne caching day

Third cach attempted in gisborne, second dnf. Gisborne 2, nofs 1.

Wonder if it still here ? Lots of creepers and thorns..
Lots of people on watchlist .....2 of us here for a long while.....

!!!! Yay took a while though

Found it

Clues are a bit off. paces comment best one to go off of found once we reread

Had a good look but DNF. Was at night so maybe try again another day

Decided on a bit of a road trip to Gisborne area as we are targeting higher D rated caches for one of our challenges and this area seemed to qualify. Picked up the Squirrel at 6am with a list of about 26 caches. We didn't expect to have so many DNF's and with so many caches needing repairs, hopefully the owners might do some checking and repairing. Anyway after what turned into a very long day with rain, slippery tracks and wading through nearly waist deep water we arrived safely home the next morning at 3.15am.

4.30pm - Great bit of local history here. Quick find with hint given. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... Our target today was to find caches with difficulty ratings of 2.5 and greater. Gap spied a whole lot in the Gisborne region... Road trip. It rained on and off throughout the day, making conditions slippery underfoot and slow-going at times. Weather coupled with quite a few DNFs made this a bit of a disappointing mission. Nevertheless, we soldiered on, as we do...

An interesting piece of local history... This one proved to be a little off for us, and it was only after using the hint that we got back on track. We spied a few people wandering randomly through the area, and I thought we were being watched from the nearby house. It turned out to be some sort of big cupboard pressed up against the window... TFTC.

We looked ages, lots of creepers and thorns though can the hint be updated?

No luck again. To clever for 3 and a half of us haha. Got a few scratches, if cache is where we looked then it is getting overgrown.

Came back with cousin & nephew, still no joy - many biddibids to get rid of though ;o)

Visit to check cache. Found exactly where I expected to see it and all in good order. onfr bs cbfg

Well, well, it was still there! Maybe next time we're in Gizzy....

Saw the copse of trees, saw creepers, didn't see the cache there has been some pruning and flood damage - hope it's ok. I'll try again another day

No luck here today.

Wasnt qhere i was led to. But found anyway

Found it eventually but its not 40cm off the ground. Cheers

TFTC

Hard find, Second time around found it. Not under a tree.

No luck

Nice quick find TFTC

gggrrrrr ... I'll be back!

Hardish find, but was really fun

Found on second go

Quick find tftc

found it during a bike ride on a sunny :p and the biking 4 cache geocoin

Cache still safe and sound in it's hiding spot.

Good one

finally found it, with a little clue from a fellow geocacher. GPS was all over the place here. yeah!

Quick find and have placed geocoins found from Napier
tftc


This entry was edited by upstons on Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 09:02:03 UTC.

All creepers, no cache! Didn't find anything today [xx(], we will be back...

This entry was edited by MsRaroa on Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 04:07:41 UTC.

This entry was edited by MsRaroa on Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 04:08:10 UTC.

found tree found creepers found no cache. was our first try. gem got covered in cobwebs looking hi and low

took the approach with care and had that cache found within minutes. t4tc

Fun at nelson park geocaching

Geocoin and tb find

Thank you to whoever placed the geocoin and travel bug in this cahe. Good old Keees came to the rescue yet again. TFTC.

We had to be close, but this one eluded us. Never mind another time if we pass thru again.

found it while going through there with school. TFTC

I was in the area yesterday so called by and checked that the cache was still in it's rightful position. I'm happy to report that the cache is still safely tucked away in it's hiding spot.

couldnt find it. looked for about an hour and by the look of the recent comments we were very close to it.

Had a goof look, found a spot where it could have been

Had a good look, found a spot where it could have been but no sign maybe I have to look again

Second try lucky!! I'm sure I looked around hidden spot but obviously not well enough

Nice quick find...although the rotten corn VERY close to the GZ was not what I wanted to find first!

Looks like it is all OK.

Since this cache appears to be there now, I better do the business, get on and log it in case it vanishes again or gets permanently disabled, although why should it since it's there for the finding. TFTC.

great find after nice stroll in the park. TFTC

This probably needs to be reactivated as the cache is there, and in good condition. TFTC

I swaped a swapable TFTC

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 21 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.
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Is it there? If so great, if not why is it on the map?

i think this has been muggled has not been found for a long tme

couldnt find it, wasnt due to lack of trying either.

We didn't find it but we're pretty sure where it was. It must have been washed away or muggled. It's an interesting spot where we hadn't been before so if it isn't replaced, we might hide one in the area ourselves.

I think that it has either been washed away in the recent flood, or kids have found it and removed it.

Visiting from Palmerston North. Though it would be a good cache to do on my last day here. Looked in area where it should have been as per the hint but alas nothing. Suggest that the CO look at placing in a better area that will help reflect the history of the area better and make it worth the journey as poking around in thick undergrowth at the back of houses is not a good look. Cheers.

35 steps from momument, didn't match GPS coordinates, no sign of cache in area matching hints, looks like kids have made a den there, plenty of scratches and insect bites for our efforts though!! suggest check your cache and/or consider relocating.

Cool place to come but i personally dislike caches where the cacher needs to search through lawn clippings and obvious disguisting things. Why not place it in a nice place to look. In a tree etc. Carla6

I took Dad down to give him a taste of geocaching and we could not find it. There was a lot of hose pipe in amongst the copse and appears to of had a fair bit of foot traffic through the area. Perhaps it has been taken? Though to be fair I cache without a GPS.

Yay found it!! awesome cache getting bitten by bugs though!

Am currently away and unable to do maintenance. Will do as soon as am home in 1 month.

Enjoyed finding this cache - bit late logging!

Found on ground with a damp log book.

This one had us beat. Nice spot though.

Very wet and muddy, but another area of Gisborne we had never been to before, TFTC

A geocoin visit

Nice easy find this one. Maybe a little extra help from other Geocachers stomping the undergrowth down was a small clue?

An interesting bit of history here... found cache pretty quickly. TFTC

Easy find second time of trying.TFTC. TNLN.

When i arrived at GZ I thought this would take ages but it really didn't. TFTC #2154

this is second time looking. was on the opposite side of the free TFTC

Mothers Day afternoon caching with my son. The local kids are really enjoying the feijoas, so lots of tracks and trampling. Cache ok though. TFTC, left Cache buddy.

Lovely spot. Never knew this place existed. TFTC!

Interesting local history.
Many thanks

Loving finding things around my home town I did not know was here.

Quick early morning find TFTC

On a cache raid in the Gisborne area. This cachewas partly uncovered. Interesting bit of history.

Cheers for the cache.

Finaly catching up on logs. TFTC

Late Log, Thanks for the cache.

bought the "home away from home' 7WED51 to Gisborne for 5 nights.. fantastic weather and thoroughly enjoyed our stay. TFTC

5039 An interesting historical site… our first visit here, even though one of us was brought up in Gisborne, TFTC

A great afternoon walk, even though a little muddy in places

Found in the dark after a bit of searching. SL TFTC

Found it - the hints were spot on. TFTC

Found quite quickly. Trail a bit muddy if arriving from upstream.

Thankfully it wasn't where the GPSr was pointing, that looked like a very prickly search. Found in a much more logical possition.

TFTC

Didn't park as close to GZ as we could have, though enjoyed the short pleasant walk to the monument. An easier find than we feared it might be. Thanks.

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Not much left here of the history other than the monument. Unfortunately our visit coincided with the high schools finishing early? So the searcher was frozen at times while the follower provided a diversion. A quick grab while the sun was out between visits to the museum and the movies..’Avatar’ .. a great film!

A quick find on my way into town, TFTC.

An interesting place, thanks for bringing us here, a quick find. NINO TFTC

Nice cache, did it with FXGCH
TNLN SL TFTC, Cheers nzkeko

Thank you!

Interesting reading on the plaque, amazing they processed meat back in the 1800's. Found cache in bush. All dry and ok. TFTC.

Doing yet another cache in the rain we knocked this one off... TFTC.