Myfirstcache (Bay of Plenty) Bellevue, North Island, New Zealand
By kale29m on 10-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26JBV

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Regards,
Growly Bear
Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer.

Needs to be archived if it's not going to be replaced.

Set off today with a plan and this cache was in it. But! Write note to self. Look at previous logs and save time. Maybe the CO should take a look and do a bit of maintenance, or archive this one.

See last log. As well as all the others.

Definitely gone.

looked for ages didnt find

Lovely area for a walk / bike ride but unable to locate this cache today despite a good few minutes looking.

Several DNF's on this one now - please would cache owner check, and replace or archive the cache. Thanks!
(this has been logged incorrectly as 27/8 instead of 28/8 but can't change it sorry).

Pretty sure that this cache has gone - the kids and I have found this one numerous times - it's a usual stop on our bike trips around the reserve - there has been no sign on the last couple of times around, unless someone has hidden it further in or moved it.....

Hi kale29m I notice this has had three DNFs now I will be back in the area at end of month would be good if you could check . Thanks

Can't find it. I have been several times (i live across the road so I go every few days).

Looked for about 1/2 hour very busy with muggles today then the rain came so thought I will leave and come back with the kids another day.

Gave up after a seemingly endless stream of muggles.

Found this one just as it was getting dark. A torch helped. Lovely wet-land and a nice walk. Thanks for placing this cache.

An early start today. Got up at 3 o'clock to bring Mum to the Papamoa Market. Helped set up her stall then went for a short cache hunt.

Have to admit, I've searched for this cache twice before. It's been a traditional blight on my geomap for ages. Brought some extra eyes today, but didn't need them. The cache was sitting in the first place I looked. I'm sure I searched here before. Oh well... Found. TFTC.

nice sunday walk

Nice place!

We put the bikes on the back of the car and travelled out to Bethlehem to do five of the reserve caches. This was our fourth one and another great find in a great area. The kids swapped a couple of the treasures. TFTC. #78

We parked at the end of Westwood St and took the slightly boggy route to join the path. What a beautifully-developed wetlands. Nice fast find with few muggles about. Thanks for taking us there, a favourite for us.

Found our first trackable. Have taken trackable. ??

Quick visit to drop off a travel bug.

After hosting "A Numbers Event" I decieded to leave town and collect a few caches of my own. We had a 70's party tonight so came over early (without costume) and cached and ate and cached.

Thanks for a great little placement just to to await the clusster of muggles to depart. Not so logical but had to widen search

TFTC

Tftc

Was looking in completely wrong area for starters, my gps couldn't quite make its mind up, finally onto it had to be quick between muggles walking, was very busy today, took orange car, left red duck and army man, TFTC

Ahhh so easy when you know where it is!
Daleck off to Auckland tomorrow.

Feel like a yoyo, left tb took another, TFTC TFTV

Opps now left tb

Picked up Canadian Postal Bear and will try to keep him heading north. Thanks for the cache.

Nice one

Dropped off mean green machine trackable. Nice place to walk thanks

Time to bring the bear back

TFTC TNLN

Nice hide for a bigger cache. No TB present. TFTC

Awesome adventure, racing an incoming storm

Back again after about a year when we were unsuccessful in finding cache. Had better luck this time and left the Canadian Bear trackable. Well covered. TFTC

This entry was edited by tparty on Friday, 18 May 2012 at 06:25:42 UTC.

Found today with sgradon

Found with Sarnia89

Had me looking more than necessary, aye . Good hide and yep indeed pine needle idea is good. Last of a string of 16 caches visited with my geofriend.
TFTC, TNLN SL
Cheers nzkeko

Easy find for Grace - she was straight to it, not bad for a 4 yr old! Another nice walk around the reserve, or cycle for the girls. Tried to camo it with some pine needles. Took the travel bug.

TFTC

Easy find for Grace - she was straight to it, not bad for a 4 yr old! Another nice walk around the reserve, or cycle for the girls. Tried to camo it with some pine needles. Took the travel bug.

TFTC

Found. Great treats in container!

Took a little bit of searching to find the cache but it's a good one!
OUT: Black sheep TB

Nice walk about the the area, had to wait for some muggles to leave the area before making the find. TFTC

Nice walk through the walkways, and a good hide - workers at the next boardwalk so had to hurry

Parked in the dead end St then walked around the houses to the track. Bit boggy that way but not too bad.

Nice big cache, great.

IN: Black Sheep TB and Red Jeep TB on disc.

The other trackables Thai Turtle Good Luck Charm and White Tiki on a 'Tiki Tour'are no longer there and should now be marked as "Missing"

T4TC

Interesting spot and a great little walk. TFTC

Great day for duck feeding and a walk. Found with no problem. A great hiding spot.
TFTC

A very quick find - paint peeling from container - had a goose keeping an eye on things - TFTC

FTF at new location. Cache colour & inventory does not match that listed. Am assuming it applied to the cache that was muggled. I think this one will be fairly safe,hiding spot seems good.TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 37° 40.989 E 176° 07.280

Coordinates changed to:
S 37° 41.018 E 176° 07.293

Distance from original: 187 feet or 57 meters.

Replaced cache for the final time & moved it to a safer place hopefully.

New Cache placed full of goodies in a new spot. Hopefully it does not grow legs again

I also looked for this cache again after finding it earlier in year - I wanted to drop off a TB but could not find cache - had a good look around but no luck

Looks like it has grown legs again. Will decide soon whether or not I will replace it again.

despite extensive search, nothing found

Found this awile ago but forgot to log it?!
Very cool spot, love it.
CJ, Kat and Family

Lovely spot - good hide

A straightforward find in an interesting location. However when we arrived, our GPS took us straight to where a man and his sons were sitting, almost immediately joined by another older man who decided to have a rest from his walk. Explanations were necessary, and the boys liked the chest full of treasure, and their father was obviously interested, so maybe some new geocachers? TFTC

- motogrrl Memorial Geocoin

Our perfect cache... Easily found, though we did have to dodge the steady stream of walkers & cyclists... a seat to sit on with a lovely view & ducks to watch while we documented the cache ... and we even found some free feijoas to collect on the way back... Life doesn't get much better than this.
In: Coin Motogrrl, nothing out TFTC

You have done very well on your first cache. A great location. Thanks
for bringing me here.



Cheers for the cache.

Well done on your first cache. Keep it up. Thanks.

We were on a mission today to find 30 caches as part of the Master of Geocaching Science Degree (GC2J6AY) challenges and this was find # 18/30.
Why is it we always seem to choose either the longer or incorrect way to GZ [?]. This time it was the longer way but the weather was nice and the walk enjoyable. Coords spot on and even after the recent rain the cache was dry T4TC.

Very nice park and cache location. Quick find. Enjoyed the spot. Thanks

4.20pm - Nice sopt for a first cache. Took Green Jeep TB & Jaffer's SA Geocoin. TFTC

Loved the walk down to GZ. Quick find and all quiet today. TFTC

Had to dodge a few muggles and bide our time. Quick find once the opportunity opened. Great location and great cache. TB drop. TFTC

Thank you for replacing this one. What a cool cache.
Thank you for giving us a great reason to get the kids out on their bikes to find this one on a loverly summers day.

SL TNLN TFTC

Dropped off Little Green Mountain (CO)" Green Jeep Travel Bug

New Replacement Cache has been put in place. Please re-hide in the same place & were you find it. Hopefully this one won't get Muggled. Thanks

Couldn't find this one. We spent over half an hour looking all around GZ for it as it was one of those days where there was no one else around.
Looks like workers have been clearing along the side of the walkways about half a meter back from the walkway so not sure if the cache has been desturbed.
A very cool place for a cache and a nice walk around looking forward to looking for this one again if it is still there.

Used the bike to get to GZ. Excellent wide pathways making it easy for walkers and cyclists to share. Sadly I couldn't find the cache. Had a reasonable hunt but was finally interrupted when a family group turned up to feed the ducks.
Next time ....

Really didn't see anyone else until we were within ten metres of your cache and then they
came out from everywhere, jogging and towing dogs.
After it quitened down your cache was located and signed.
TNLN
Thanks

A loverly place for a walk, and to sit down and enjoy the views, but we had more important things to do - a cache to find!
It was obvious the ducks weren't going to help (we had brought no bread for bribes!) so we were on our own.
Good first cache.
Thanks, Robmc.

Great find

Was feeding the ducks with two muggles so secretly found it without them noticing anything.

A great spot for a walk on a sunny winter afternoon TFTC

We approached this one the wrong way - from the nearest parking - what a mistake.
Good walking shoes turned black from squishing in the mud.
Got to the track and then it was easy. Left the turtle TB, recently picked up in Darwin, and took some trackables for more adventures.
A great place for your first cache!

Quickest find of the day. Nice spot. TFTC!!!

TB swap.

Dropped of some Travel Bugs

A tb swap!

Nice quick and easy find. TFTC
+ Old Mac TB

Got to within 30m of GZ, then waited an eternity for a canine event | conference to finish... it never did, so sadly had to retreat and return on another day.... nice wetlands, enjoyed our walk nevertheless.

Found it while running with a muggle, now have them hooked.

Very cold on feet in open sandals while walking in to site , ground covered in frost. lots of ducks to help find. TFTC

Very nice walk with family and Mosh the GeoLab who met quite a few four legged friends on the way. A busy area even late in the afternoon on a bitterly cold day. A very nice large and dry cache. Met a council employee muggle walking his dog at gz who had heard of geo caching and was interested in the cache. He said the area floods and hopes it doesn't get swept away. Left Tauranga Primary School's TB. TFTC!

Originally logged from iPod and couldn't add the Travel Bug. Added now.

Please help this Bug find it's way around the world!

This entry was edited by SplattyNZ on Sunday, 13 June 2010 at 03:03:40.

Took the boggy route to the right path. Busy walkway. Nice spot. TFTC.

Nice and big in a great location.

Well done.

TFTC

found it!

What a superb cache in a nice spot. An easy find, TFTC.

Hi, Found it!
My first find!.
Looking forward to seeing some more!

Nice area, and nice hide.

cool cache, thanks. In TB, Out TB.

Nicely done cache. Found between muggles. SL TFTC

Wow......what a GY-NORMAS CACHE and a great hiding spot....spot on co-ords too.
Big enough to put the dog and the kids into......
Thanks for bringing us to this new walkway area

Third find on a "girls" geocaching afternoon.Initially started the search on the wrong side,but got it sorted! Nicely hidden for such a big container. Lovely afternoon for a walk...thanks for bringing us to this new walkway.

Dropped off a travel bug.

TFTC.



[This entry was edited by nzyetje on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 3:28:52 AM.]

Was cursing because there was no clue but once found realized why. Well done, look forward to more.

TFTC

Nice walkway

nice easy cache. great walk in the afternoon. droped tb of ready for its next trip

2126 Nice stroll, meet up a couple of muggles, walking dogs and feeding ducks. Nice big cache container, dropped off Belgium Geocoin to continue it's journey! TFTC