May I start? (Otago) Maia, South Island, New Zealand
By Snilos on 14-Apr-10. Waypoint GC26RMR

Ok I was not expecting a gadget cache at the GZ. Tracking down some archived caches after cleaning out an area in Ravansbourne rd and not too worried about the full view of searching for this cache. Climbed the fence to have a better look and PVC prison was in hand when I thought 'what if?' when trying to figure out the hint and had noted a 200ml in my PQ. By the weight of the cache, it was full of water but the original logbook and contents were still floating in the holed glad baggy. Removed the cache and holder from the GZ but left the clip attached to the fence timber. To any peeps passing the GZ it looked like I was carrying a pipe bomb wheep! Back at the residence tools soon had the goods undone to discover the seals had perished and rough handling by the previous cacheri had holed the log bag. The More FM pen was still there but rusty and the putty logbook got flicked. Thanks for the cache Snilos, a good idea for a cache but not much community luv kept the GZ a going concern.
GZ now cacheless having cito'd the putty remains.

No time to deal with this now. I'll archive it for the time while and leave it as-is for another week or two if anyone wants to take it over feel free.

Need to do some maintenance, be back up and running soon.

Very wet and stinky cache, needs maintenence

Tftc, to wet to sign as in photo.

Please see previous entries.

Interesting cache, but it is extremely wet. We couldn't figure out how it got so wet in its location, which appears to be waterproof. However, log almost impossible to write in now. Like the last two finders, suggest owner maintenance.

The log book is somehow soaked through and leaves a rather unpleasant smell on your hands, recommend owner maintenance.

Nice spot. The log book is somehow soaked through and leaves a rather unpleasant smell on your hands, recommend owner maintenance.

I didnt get the connection with the hint... Clever cache though! TFTC
Log is wet and stinky!

Tftc

Took ages to find. Great spot. Totally overthought it.

Was a hard one to find, nice hiding.

TFTC

TFTC. A little wet inside but quite a professional looking cache with a couple of small items left. I contributed my More FM pen as the current didn't work

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Tftc. Found with Rosscopecotrain.

Found w/ asardovir. TFTC. Tricksy wee hobbits

Cool hide, looked for a while but found it, TFTC.

Tftc

No luck

I still haven't figured out the clue, but it didn't take Yukifu long to figure out where the cache was hidden. Clever disguise. Kia ora and thanks for the cache

Was right there first but didn't realize that was it! Good hide. Thanks.

found it on the way to Long Beach. great cache, thanks. Log book and cache content is pretty wet.

Excellent container! Left joke gum, took dinosaur.

[8] Good Fun Thanks heaps

Walked quite a chuck of the cycleway to day caching.

Nice easy find.

TFTC

The dakotacats decided to bike from one end of the bike route to the other and back. We stopped off here and dropped off a TB, also picked up the one we left in here last November.

Quick find after reading previous logs. TFTC

No. 2

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BY THE MAIN ROAD MAIA

TFTC!!

Hint threw us off a bit

T, O and S all found it at the same time at the second time of looking. It turns out that we had walked past it a couple of times when we were looking for it the first time!!! [^]

cool cache! thanks

Very clever

Very clever

Excellent container - gets a fav point. TFTC.

I was beginning to think this cache was child proof! Was too embarrassed to log the number of times I've looked for it (it's down the road from my home!) Great cache! TFTC SB

On a half days caching to drop off some of the (too) many TB's we picked up at the Mega Event. The clue didn't give anything away, it was the container that did it for us! Also the geotrail is hard to miss. We left two trackables behind! TFTC Snilos.

Easy find. No pencil and for once didn't bring one with us. Left TB as proof of our visit.

Stopped off to make the find on my way to Cedar Creek Reservoir. TFTC

On the mega hunt with wethreefourdices, Castlewood_Crew and CacheManChris. TFTC

In Dunedin from Whangarei with flowernz for the MEGA having a great time finding some of the south caches. Really enjoying the locations the caches are taking us to. Doing a trip out to Aromoana today with Riser5 as well. Caching along the way of course. Nice cache hide....didn't spot it at first but Riser5 found. TFTC

Homeward bound with Karma Reprint from the MEGA. Another good one, took a bit but success. TNLN Thanks.

Found with sonia26642 and Hinemoana during the mega.
TFTC

A quick find in a howling southerly squawl. Thanks.

The return journey home to Christchurch with Kiwi Moose after the NZMEGA in Dunedin. Thanks for hide.

Today tikitour and I have teamed up with Riser5 - another Whangarei cacher - and with 'youth' on his side he makes so many of our finds look easy...
Yep another sussed out by Riser5 - cool camo too

Was very confused about the clue when I found the cache. Small search and a nice hide. Got to be able to access from both sides.

suspicious object spotted quickly - TFTC!!!

Spotted a suspicious as object from across the road, so when crossing, made a bee line straight for it!

And what do you know, but I was right! As soon as I touched it, I knew, and we were signing our names all over it! (well not literally, but yeah... )
Well hidden, and if I hadn't found a few of these similar camo's before, this would have been a pretty tough one!

TFTC!!

Called by for a quick find on day two of the MEGA. Out this way on the MEGA challenge and to find the new Burkes Bridges caches.
TFTC

Well we parked up close by, and took the path along to GZ, we quickly spotted the cache trail, and then spotted cache. Quickly signed and carried on, as we had a lot of caches to cover today before half of the team headed back to Auckland.

TFTC.

Found with Mporokosa during the Mega weekend. TFTC

Found on Mega trip to Dunedin. Nice hide TFTC

Mega Caching trip with Ingidayna, Wethreefourdices and CachemanChris. TFTC

Nice container . Well done Tftc .

Found as I ambled around the area after attending the MEGA CITO; came upon a fellow cacher at GZ.
Great hide, TFTC.

Found as part of the NZ Mega 2012 weekend

Clever hide, clue had us a bit confused and scrabbling round in the floor cover for a little while - but we found the cache quite quickly

TFTC

Found on a MEGA caching run, dad helped me locate this one, a nice cache container! Thanks for the cache!

34 of 70 smileys over the NZ MEGA weekend. Out caching with ingidayna, Castlewood-crew and Cacheman Chris. A quick find and good hide location. TFTC

Clever little cache this one, found after the FTF race on the weekend of the NZ Mega. TFTC.

Found with Chocochunk on the Mega weekend.

Nicely done (on a nice path), and add me to the list about the clue.......???

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

A nice part of the world down here and a cache to boot! TFTC!

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

A hide that we'd seen many times before.
Thanks

Neat little cache ad cleverly hidden.

A good cache find while in the area after attending the MEGA event.

SL TFTC

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

After a short search we had this one in hand.

Thanks Snilos for the cache.

Our 6349th overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. I'm still not sure about the hint on this one but I made the find.

Thanks Snilos for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

Ghostgums, gunnie69, Ozibags, thefourbees, Kaisho53 and MrMeccano were on a 6 day escapade to Dunedin to attend the mega and this was thebeginning of our second day. After a bit of a wet & windy day 1, day 2 looked more promising. We had set our sights on a drive out to Port Chalmers and back.

With a bit of teamwork from gunnie and ozibags they had the cache in hand in no time at all. I could get used to this.

tftc snilos

Day 2 of Cache Hunting at NZ Mega 21012 with Gunnie69, Ghostgums, Mr Meccano, Ozibags and TheFourBees

Plan of today - Ravensbourne to Port Chalmers, to Doctors Point and back

Arriving at GZ our senior member soon (Ozibags) had soon had the cache in hand..

Log was signed an we moved along

TNLNSL

Thanks Snilos

Caching with Ghostgums, Mr Meccano. Gunnie69, kaisho53 and fourbees while attending the NZ Mega. Gunnie69 spotted this cache and I retrieved it. TFTC Snilos.

Heh - 'May I start' is rather apt today, as we're aiming for NZ MEGA 2012 setup to start at 12. Nice hide. Cheers Gav

A quick find - in a great spot.

Ozibags spotted this one, quite a nice little hide by the side of the road!

Day 2 on our caching trip to Dunedin for the NZ MEGA 2012 event with Gunnie69, Kaisho53, Ozibags, fourbees and MrMeccano. Today we headed out through Ravensbourne to Port Chalmers, to Doctors Point and back caching around the northern suburbs of North Dunedin and Opoho.

TFTC Snilos

A quick find with the Earthbounds. TFTH...SL...TNLN

Found it quickly then went away scratching our heads.
What DOES the clue mean.
Thanks for the cache

Another great find on the Emvy_Us / Waiiti20 mega tour of the Southern South Island. Hint had us scratching our heads. TFTC

We parked over the road and took a stroll in from the East. Quite a busy road for early in the morning but we got across and moved in toward GZ. On approach, I spotted something remarkably like a couple of caches I have seen around Brisbane and pointed it out to Ozibags who moved in for the successful retrieval... [^]

There was a geotrail straight to the location so there should be no trouble finding it...

Found with fellow Queensland hunters Kaisho53, OziBags, TheFourBees, Ghostgums and Mr Meccano during our six day visit to Dunedin.

Cheers Snilos.

Quick find with Emvy_us on our southern tiki tour. TFTC

A very nice cache. Thanks for putting in the effort.

Had a bit of a problem looking for this one as there were plenty of inviting hiding places.
After a while I stood back and had a good look. Then I tumbled to it !! of course. Gave the 'dog' a pat and was on my way. Nice one Snilos.

Quick find on a caching cycle trip to Port Chalmers

Cool cash. Log is a bit mouldy. Could use a new pen too. Nice location n cool container

Log book a bit damp and mouldy, have replaced plastic bag and hope this keeps it drier. Found with debsnz

Second time around and found reasonably quickly. Great hide! Found with Aoraki Sheep

Nice. Had to look disinterested as plenty of muggles around on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Nicely labled

great cache. The log book was a bit wet.

Excellent cache idea. TFTC

TFTC clever hide

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TFTC

TFTC. Nice work on all the cache on the trail. Last one before the snow settles.

Replaced log and repaired container.

Taken for maintenance and repair. Will re enable shortly

Night grab so apart from traffic quiet. Nice effort with the hide, a bit different than the usual.
Cache a dit damp so replaced zip lock bag, as the old one was knackered, and left a small blue 'biner (Not for climbing kids! ).
TFTC