BGSc 201: Type Hype (Nelson/Marlborough) Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By beltfamily on 12-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GDEJ

Nelson on Sale: Im utilising a cheap flight for a day of progressing assorted caching goals.Quick find 2024-07-01 GCAPCEW Ban-Yobbo - The Challenge, Mystery2024-08-01 GC7B8P9 Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial, Virtual2024-08-02 GC6R7FN SUFC, Letterbox2024-08-29 GCK25B Geocaching Headquarters, Geocaching HQ2024-08-29 GCMNV1 NoPo Blues, Webcam2024-08-30 GC1169 Mission 9: Tunnel of Light, Project APE2024-09-01 GC3P382 Deep Thoughts - In the Cathedral, Multi

Thanks for this one Marchwood.Signed and returned this evening with BaktrakEvidence below[GC6YB4M](http://coord.info/GC6YB4M)Earthcache9/03/2024[GC8H0J0](http://coord.info/GC8H0J0)Letterbox Hybrid9/03/2024[GC891CT](http://coord.info/GC891CT)Virtual Cache9/03/2024[GCA1CC1](http://coord.info/GCA1CC1)Unknown Cache28/03/2024[GC239F](http://coord.info/GC239F)Traditional Cache29/03/2024[GCAKTHC](http://coord.info/GCAKTHC)Event Cache30/03/2024[GC9PNFB](http://coord.info/GC9PNFB)MegaEvent Cache30/03/2024[GC892RF](http://coord.info/GC892RF)Virtual Cache30/03/2024[GC4TAD2](http://coord.info/GC4TAD2)Multicache21/05/2024

Found with MummyPenny this evening. Qualifying list follows. Thanks Marchwood.GCANK4G Welcome to Norfolk IslandEvent Cache19/05/2024GCAJFP9 Saluting their ServiceVirtual Cache20/05/2024GCAQ9WM Welcome to Norfolk IslandWherigo Cache21/05/2024GC5NZ3F Norfolk Island SNOTEarthcache22/05/2024GC5MWTJ Norfolk Island Se Dun ChallengeUnknown Cache24/05/2024GC7JJ3Q Where are all the letterboxes?Letterbox Hybrid24/05/2024GC19NEJ CockpitTraditional Cache24/05/2024GCAP2WH Kingston CITOCache In Trash Out Event25/05/2024GC5P0CE The Elephant has left the RoomMulticache6/08/2024

Staying with relatives in Blenheim and they have graciously allowed us to use their car. GreenGecko1 and I have collected a number of challenge caches and this series is one we were keen to sign. My list is attached.

Muggle65 and l are visiting my Mum who recently moved from Australia to Blenheim. We have been enjoying driving her Clubman around. Fairly intense road from Blenheim to Nelson with all the logging trucks. We want to get as many of the caches on our list as we can, and still get back for Mum's roast. We parked as close as we could for this one and a quick find was made. Cache is in good condition here. Thank you for a fun challenge

Day #4 Blenheim to Nelson - The Mega New Zealand ExperienceA chance for an overseas Mega was too good to pass up. Especially with half the state seeming to be attending also. I set about some last minute planning. Flights still available Accommodation found Mode of transport securedLooks like its time to cross the ditch. Ive never visited the South Island before so it is bound to be a fun filled trip.After a lovely stop in Blenheim overnight (with a bonus wood fireplace!), it was off to Nelson today via Picton.It was a mad dash to find these so I wasnt late for dinner. Fortunately I didnt have to complete the paperwork before dinner or it would have been very cold. It is definitely a positive that challenges must now have checkers to produce the results. I got there in the end!GC-code Cache name Type FoundGC7B9AMStatue bro? (Canterbury)Virtual Cache16/10/2024GCHTKY UC IC (Canterbury)Webcam Cache17/10/2024GCAYQXHAcross the Ditch - Another Aussie Arrives! Event Cache17/10/2024GC5G8NFView of St Michael & All Angels (Canterbury)Traditional Cache17/10/2024GC7CMVFNeedle in a haystack (Canterbury)Wherigo Cache17/10/2024GC425BBBubbling Sticks (Canterbury)Earthcache18/10/2024GC9BVFZMystery a Day 365 ChallengeUnknown Cache18/10/2024GC4J369 RockyMulti-cache19/10/2024A big thanks goes to Marchwood for taking the time to add BGSc 201: Type Hype (Nelson/Marlborough) to the geocaching map for us all to find and enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Wow! The fun just never stops.Have you logged your will attend for Victoria's first ever Block Party? (Think Mega but even more special!)Join us on 22-23 March 2025 in Sunbury to celebrate 25 years of geocaching by logging your will attend at [**GCAP417**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).

After a good night's sleep, and drying off my glasses I came back and within a minute found the cache - GAFF3.Dry and intact except for missing O-ring.Thanks for maintaining!Just a couple of trackables through: Trackable shirt, and car keys

Unsuccessful hunt yesterday, so will come back with an extra set of eyes this later morning.* Copied from 5 October, 2012 entry, when I first qualified (heard about the series)As I'm not sure when I'll get there so I'll post what currently qualifies.South Bro 102 (Type) is up and running, GC3WMBQGC33X59Y Troubled Waters, Traditional, 26/9/12GCYYA2 Kounting Kangas, Multi, 24/9/12GC27NNB Crypto, Unknown, 21/9/12GC3WXAX MNCM CITO Event Sunday, CITO, 30/9/12GC39RRP Hidden Treasure, Earthcache, 4/5/12GC3TA31 Mid North Coast Camp Out, Event, 29/9/12GCGK5Y Lakes Pearl (Yedigoller), Virtual, 11/6/12Through: Coins 3Bros, Lighthouses, IconicBridges, B2B, Baa, Neigh Neddy and Oink, and trackable shirt.7 Cache Types Trad - GC2B13P - Wallawa Tops, 17/6/12LBox - GC3JCBW - Ryhope Bushrock Letterbox, 29/10/12CITO - GC3WXAX - MNCM CITO Event - Sunday, 30/9/12Evnt - GC3M14J - Geocaching NSW 2012 AGM, 5/8/12Virt - GCGK5Y - Lakes' Pearl (Yedigoller), 11/6/12Myst - GC3B4NM - Timaeus, 22/6/12Mult - GCYYA2 - Kounting Kangas, 24/9/12

My education continues with stage 201 of the BGSc:Letterbox GC81WY5 hurch Micro 1595...Eynsford-Baptist Church 30/May/2024Earth GC5CT78 Pauatahanui Estuary (Porirua/Wellington) 03/July/2024Virtual GC89107 Whitireia park views (Porirua) 03/July/2024Trad GCVVNX Stationary (Wellington) 03/July/2024Mystery GC2WHX0 Invisible Worlds (Wellington) 04/July/2024Event GCAR1W3 A Chapman Taylor Wellywood Wednesday (known as?) 03/July/2024Multi GC26Y55 Plimmerton - Paekakariki Highway (Wellington) 03/July/2024TFT Challenge Marchwood. Added to the Top o' the Mainland list!

On a sth Island roadie from way down south Invercargill. Finally reached Nelson. Pretty sure I qualified for this but my notes are at home. Will check then. If not I will delete found log. Tftp

Qualified for this a long time ago, I have no idea why I did not log this. I checked today and I went to the cache to do the paper work. This time I remembered to note the appropriate data. I also visited the previous cache.Multi https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCW52V 27 Jan 2022Unknown https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4H6D5 10 Jan 2022Traditional https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6M069 18 Jan 2022Earthcache https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC881NX 21 Dec 2021Virtual https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC88ZD9 19 January 2022Event https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9J8JC 24 November 2021Locationless https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8NEAT 21 February 2021

I found this physical cache and signed log on January 25. Below are my qualifying finds between June 1 and November 30 of 2023.QJQB Webcam Found 7 June 20239071 Virtual 10 June 20239WY7M Mystery 11 July 20239T783 Traditional 26 July 202398V4A Letterbox 8 September 20239ZK2A Earthcache 15 September 2023AATPB Wherigo 22 September 2023ABZX4 Multi 11 November 2023Thanks for the challenge.

Visiting from the state of Washington in the United States. We flew into Wellington. After the Te Papa museum and finding the oldest cache in New Zealand, we took the ferry to Picton. We went out to Lochmara Lodge for a day and then drove through Havelock to Nelson.We had a fun event with local geocachers in Nelson, then yesterday decided to take the water taxi from Marahou to Anchorage Bay to hike the trails including out to Pitt Head. We had lunch at Pitt Head Lookout. We had a great fun finding caches along the way. Ended up with 4 finds and only one DNF.Today I was out in Richmond and Nelson looking for some challenges and traditionals as well as my first letterbox in New Zealand. It was a fun morning.Now on to qualifying for the challenge.

Boite Trouve ! / Box Found it ! Une nouvelle petite cache faite ici. Il faut maintenant que je vrifie mon ligibilit ce challenge.Trouve le 21 janvier 2024Merci beltfamily adopted by Marchwood pour la cache A new little cache made here. Now I need to check my eligibility for this challenge.Found the 21 janvier 2024Thank you beltfamily adopted by Marchwood for the cache French Pass Beach Revisited (Nelson/Marlborough)GC1Z4K6South Island, New Zealandpar BigglesNZType : TradiDate : 12 janv. 24where the seal ends (Nelson/Marlborough)GC1RQZ9South Island, New Zealandpar bumandworkerType : MultiDate : 13 janv. 24Cape Palliser LighthouseGC8916TNorth Island, New Zealandpar bruzieType : VirtualDate : 29 dc. 23Coastal Erosion (Wairarapa)GC6AA2QNorth Island, New Zealandpar J 'N' KType : EarthDate : 29 dc. 23Beep-beep-beep (Upper Hutt)GC7X2Q5North Island, New Zealandpar bruzieType : WherigoDate : 23 dc. 23Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve BonusGC9YK28North Island, New Zealandpar FlowerydazeType : MysteryDate : 16 dc. 23The mail must get through (Upper Hutt)GC7XXPFNorth Island, New Zealandpar InfoferretType : LetterDate : 15 oct. 23 Challenge valid / Challenge validated

Another cache I find I qualify for, with:traditionalGCTEGJJunior Gardener (Waikato)21/12/2021virtualGC7B86ZHundertwasser - Te Kakano (Whangarei)19/10/2021mysteryGC5XR2RPinus radiata (wanganui)07/10/2021letterboxGC94HQ0Tukino 1070m Post Office (Central Plateau)14/09/2021earthGC6Z19TRotting Fires at Opiki. Manawatu26/10/2021eventGC9HNJCRattll's Xmas BBQ 202119/12/2021multiGC4W8VJDam!! Another Kaimanawa Cache (Central Plateau)20/12/2021So hope to be able to look for on an adventure down south sometime.

Today was a buzz over the hill on Bumblebee to complete the Hill Street (Blues ???) and graduate with a BGSc. As with at least one other finder, I was in too much of a rush and missed grabbing the numbers for the final so had to double back to one.Photo attached with log proof for find.

My qualifying caches are:Trad GCA3R8P archies Bush 15/10/23Unknown GC95R5B Confused Ducky Michael 15/10/23Cito GCAEDHV Okakaro Park Tidy 4 24/10/23Event GCAEYEX A to Z Masterchef F 5/11/23Virtual GC892VG A special historical site in Queenstown 6/11/23Earth GC7FPJ7 Zero Schist 6/11/23Multi GC4M24M Waihopi Quack 7/11/23

1MinnieMoo and I found this one safe and sound. You can find my qualifiers listed [here](https://coord.info/GL19V3ZVP).TFTC beltfamily - and Marchwood for the ongoing maintenance

Day 18 of the Fangsoki/1MinnieMoo New Zealand South Island adventures. We are currently staying in Nelson for a couple of nights, and decided today we should head up along the coast a bit. We were making our way back towards Nelson now, collecting a number of caches, many of them challenges, along the way. A check in GSAK reveals I qualify for this one with the below caches: # Code Name Found URL Cache Type 001 GC88YRK By Any Other Name ... (... 14/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC88YRK Virtual 002 GC1VH4E MAD MAX MOVIE - House R... 14/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC1VH4E Traditional 003 GC6C764 Eastern Beach Mineral S... 14/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC6C764 Earth 004 GC5X0BW NOW SHOWING... VI 14/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC5X0BW Mystery 005 GC619ME Jail Break! ~ Geelong 15/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC619ME Wherigo 006 GC2X78E Barwon - Letter Box 14/12/2019 https://coord.info/GC2X78E Letterbox 007 GCQ8CC A Pearse(ing) Story 15/12/2019 https://coord.info/GCQ8CC MultiThanks for the challenge beltfamily, and for keeping it going Marchwood.

Last month's souvenir made me check again for this one as I had found different cache types in the month, but then I noticed a multi had to be the last. So I went off on the weekend for a Multi nearby and then came here.
I would have thought it's a quite place to look but there were at least three cars passing while I went to GZ, found, signed and replaced the log.
All caches were found in August & September this year (so after this GC was published and less then 6m apart), they are still all active:
GC: Type: Date found:
9P7MB CoastSnap Tahunanui Virtual 10/08/2023
8BNP4 Aircraft, What Nows? Mystery 16/08/2023
ACAKM International Geocaching Day 2023 - Tasman Event 19/08/2023
A22FM Maruia Artesian Mineral Spring (West Coast) Earth Cache 21/08/2023
ACXWY Ballard Reserve (Stoke) Letterbox Hybrid 25/08/2023
9V6VD Been There Done Bat 2 Traditional 06/09/2023
ABB0Y ITS 20 Home of Hockey (Stoke) Multi 09/09/2023

We had been alerted to this challenge cache before heading south to Nelson, and checked that we met the qualifications. This cache took longer than it should have to locate, but we were determined to find it before moving on. Once MrsJAG approached gz from a different angle the cache was soon spotted.

Event GC6W929 Mega Memories, West Auckland 15-11-2016
Traditional GC1075N LOOKOUT !!! For bikes (Central Plateau) 21-10-16
Cito GC6QCCV CITO KNZB 18-9-2016
Earth GC66TEH Silica Rapids (Central North Island) 22-10-16
Mega GC63PZN New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 23-10-2016
Letterbox GC6KB3M Tongariro National Park (Central Plateau) 23-10-2016
Multi GC1CTK4 A Night Cache Of "Grave" Concern (Auckland) 18-3-2016
Puzzle GCVZ78 Give Shelter (Waikato) 21-10-2016

Was in Nelson Area, with Jag50 and Net61; so was keen to sign off this Challenge .

Thanks NZ_B for reminding me about this one ; and helping with my list

Discovered that I qualify to now look for this cache.
Traditional, GCTEGJ, Junior Gardener (Waikato), found 21/12/21
Virtual, GC7B86Z, Hundertwasser -Te Kakano (Whangarei), found 19/10/21
Mystery, GC5X52R, Pinus radiata (wanganui), found, 07/10/21
Letterbox, GC94HQ0, Tukino 1070m Post Office (Central Plateau), found 14/09/21
Earth, GC6Z19T, Rotting Fires at Opiki. Manawatu, found 26/10/2021
Event, GC9HNJC, Rattll's Xmas BBQ 2021, found 19/12/2021
Multi, GC4W8VJ, Dam!! Another Kaimanawa Cache (Central Plateau), found 20/12/21

Just putting up my qualifiers for this one in anticipation of finding the actual cache. Will double check the caches are still active when I log this find. Another great Challenge.

GC Code Cache Name Found Type URL
GC1G06V Martha Gold and Silver .. 26/10/2013 Earth http://coord.info/GC1G06V
GC1JT7D On a Mission 26/10/2013 Myste http://coord.info/GC1JT7D
GC1MKJR Animal Rescue, Lakeside.. 26/10/2013 Whrig http://coord.info/GC1MKJR
GC367B It's not mine, it's Mar.. 26/10/2013 Virtl http://coord.info/GC367B
GC3QDD0 Waihi Martha Lookout, .. 26/10/2013 Tradl http://coord.info/GC3QDD0
GC3VBMT There And Back Again 26/10/2013 Multi http://coord.info/GC3VBMT
GC40BM6 3175 (Bay of Plenty) 26/10/2013 Lettr http://coord.info/GC40BM6

(# 7573) Day 1 of the short trip to Nelson and the West Coast. After a few dramas we ended up being on the ferry time we originally booked. So it was great driving on to the ferry. This afternoon we traveled from Picton to Nelson grabbing a few caches on the way. A quick find. Thanks for bringing me here.

Here is the list of qualifying caches.

Date Cache Name Cache Type
27/12/2021 GC20DQK Pencarrow Lakes (Wellington) Earthcache
11/02/2022 GC7B9VR A Rosy View (Manawatu) Virtual
22/02/2022 GC9NMD2 Callender Reserve Track (Wellington) Traditional
25/02/2022 GC6NPYM Gone are the Lines III Longburn Manawatu Unknown
26/02/2022 GC9KEXJ Kimberley Weekend Gourmet Games Night Event
27/02/2022 GC9KEXM Kimberley Cleanup CITO and Farewell CITO
11/03/2022 GC9399X PWGT1 - Waiorongomai Valley Gold (Te Aroha) Multicache

Thanks for hiding this cache beltfamily adpoted by Marchwood I appreciate it. I will need to go and look for it again now that the missing cache has been replaced.

New container in place. Hint updated.

Cache missing. New container on order.

Nothing there

Traditional Cache 18,704
Unknown Cache 6,058
Multi-cache 1,838
Lab Cache 1,587
Earthcache 534
Event Cache 233
Virtual Cache 230
Letterbox Hybrid 177
Wherigo Cache 131
Community Celebration Event 11
Cache In Trash Out Event 6
Webcam Cache 6
Locationless (Reverse) Cache 3
Giga-Event Cache 2
GPS Adventures Exhibit 2
Mega-Event Cache 2

Sorry

This week is the only ‘free’ week I have till January so I decided to visit Nelson so I could have the letters ‘BGSc’ after my name, and start my ‘MGSc’. I have known about this series of caches for a few years and never thought I could complete them. Well, that was until a geocaching friend, who completed the Bachelor’s and Masters this year, thought I would qualify and kept gently reminding me to check my logs. I did and I qualified. All of the caches in this list have been specifically chosen for a variety of reasons. I had a good time finding how many different types I had found within a six month period this year.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Marchwood.

A mid-winter weekend trip down to the top of the South Island (from Wellington). I flew down to Blenheim of Friday afternoon and drove to Nelson on Saturday. As a result of not setting my Geocaching notifications correctly I ended up driving back to Blenheim on Sunday morning chasing a first to find (I failed), and then driving straight back to Nelson for a successful first to find. Amongst other reasons, I was here collecting a few caches I had on my radar, and this was one of them.

One of my main goals for this trip was to add to my list of qualifications, and finally gain my BGSc. Qualifying caches are:

2022-02-12 https://coord.info/GCHTKY Webcam
2022-03-30 https://coord.info/GC9QHKP Unknown
2022-04-25 https://coord.info/GC5C2B0 Letterbox Hybrid
2022-04-07 https://coord.info/GC9P5AC Virtual
2022-05-22 https://coord.info/GC26RD7 Traditional
2022-06-06 https://coord.info/GC87P4D Wherigo
2022-07-10 https://coord.info/GCT449 Multi-cache

Thanks to the CO for setting up this fun challenge.

Lis's crews qualifying caches:

Traditional GC5K6CM Worlds Coolest McDonalds Central Plateau 22/10/16
Unknown GC6T5YD Spirit Of A Mariner 23/10/16
Earth Cache GC4X6BD Taupo Rocks 22/10/16
Letterbox GC6HW50 Turangi Travel Bug Camp Central Plateau 23/10/16
Mega GC63PZN New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 23/10/16
Event GC6V1R8 How To Puzzle Cache Author Meet Greet Signing 22/10/16
Multi GC6ZMKF Edge Of The World Easy Northland 3/2/17

Thanks for the challenge

One of my sons in Whangarei is going on an OE. He sold his car to his brother Tim in Dunedin and fortunately for me Tim wanted me to drive the car down. Of course I jumped at the idea of a geocaching roadie. I've had lots of puzzles solved for such a long time so geoarts were the main target of the trip.

In Palmy area I wanted the shield series and the 20/20 geoart. Then Wairarapa was stickman (which we ran out of time for), the new M geoart and some archived skindo challenges. Wellington was finishing off the kiwi geoart. Nelson I had a few challenges I wanted before heading to Christchurch. It was family time there and perhaps the smile series but time ran out again. Off to Dunedin for the airplane geoart. Then it was time to fly home to say goodbye to my son heading to Denmark.

It was great to have my friend Supernanny come along on the trip for company. We had a wonderful trip and fantastic weather apart from one afternoon. Now it's time to start writing the massive backlog of logs. It might take a while.

These BGSc challenges were my main reason to come to Nelson. I was disappointed not to get the bonus challenge as I forgot to collect the numbers on two of them. It was also a bit far away given we had to drive to Akaroa in Christchurch today. Another quick find. Thanks for the fun challenge

Upon discovering this series I was keen to be involved. I have done the work to determine my qualifications which are in the write note below. Today was the day of my intrepid adventure to sign the logs. On this trip I didn't want to rent a car - I was keen to go old school. Well I walked from the airport to nearest bus stop and missed bus by about 10mins. Next one was a hour away and would have missed the Richmond western loop I needed to get here, which was also on the 1 to 1.5 hr cycle. So the intrepid geocacher called a taxi! She then duly chased down her four important caches which were all present and in good order - whew. Walking back to the nearest bus route on Weasley road and flagging the bus also failed. I wasn't looking for such a small mini van and it was past before you know it - you guessed it another 1.5 hrs. So walked into Richmond (via a AL at the cemetry) and bus to Nelson. Tomorrow is bus to Picton for the compass crossover challenge and then the Tory Straight cache to Wellies. I feel this journey suitably meets the requirements of a geocaching bachelor's qual Thank you for keeping this going - very much appreciated. We love the challenges. TFT Qual

Here is my qualifications for this one, will be down in a few days to fully graduate -

GC88ZG8 - The Bucket Fountain (Wellington), Found - 7/10/2020 - Virtual
GC5T25D - Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington), Found - 11/10/2020 - Earthcache
GC2BKV1 - Tonk's Re"WELL" (Wellington), Found - 17/10/21 - Mystery
GC6E50H - Leprechaun's Snow Control (Central Plateau), Found - 23/10/2020 - Traditional
GC88ZZW - Pukerua Bay Lookout (Kapiti Coast), Found - 23/10/2020 - Virtual
CCE2020 - Wherigo and Mystery Evening, Attended -19/11/2020 - CommunityCelebrationEvent
GC46N2X - Mrs Chippy (Wellington), Found - 23/11/2020 - Multicache

Checked on cache. All good.
Added codes.

BGSc 201: Type Hype (Nelson/Marlborough) was transferred from beltfamily to user Marchwood

Passed one at least.

Date GC Code Name Type
12/08/2021 GC9DGD2 A Cache found at Christmas (Otago) Letterbox Hybrid
23/09/2021 GCHTKY UC IC (Canterbury) Webcam Cache
10/10/2021 GC1R0CG A fiery Creation Earthcache
10/10/2021 GCAF Mount Cargill (Dunedin, Otago) Traditional Cache
10/10/2021 GC8NEAT Let’s improve the outdoors - Locationless Cache Locationless (Reverse) Cache
11/10/2021 GC804ZY Attribute Challenge Positive (South Canterbury) Unknown Cache
13/10/2021 GC6YM18 X1 - NZ/AU/NZ Multi-cache

Out getting some fresh air today and a few caches. TFTC.

GC97DQE Wellington comes to Nelson - meet and greet. Event 17/Apr/21
GC99DQQ Puketutu Island CITO - Season 1 (Auckland) CITO 08/May/2021
GC8K0CH Welcome to Agazo - Community Celebration Event 18/Jul/21
GC8X0GM Village Walk Adventure Lab Bonus Mystery 10/Aug/21
GC5TWDW Weigh In (Nelson/Marlborough) Trad 11/Aug/21
GC881NX Marble-ous Kaka beak Earth 11/Aug/2021
GC45RMN Where are you? (Nelson/Marlborough) Multi 13/Aug/21

Here are my seven:

GC97DQE Wellington comes to Nelson - meet and greet. Event 17/Apr/21
GC99DQQ Puketutu Island CITO - Season 1 (Auckland) CITO 08/May/2021
GC8K0CH Welcome to Agazo - Community Celebration Event 18/Jul/21
GC8X0GM Village Walk Adventure Lab Bonus Mystery 10/Aug/21
GC5TWDW Weigh In (Nelson/Marlborough) Trad 11/Aug/21
GC881NX Marble-ous Kaka beak Earth 11/Aug/2021
GC45RMN Where are you? (Nelson/Marlborough) Multi 13/Aug/21

Needed a cache today to up my finds for the day. Had checked qualifies and prefound this a month or two ago and actually spotted the cache which was a little exposed. Cant remember whether tried to rehide or not. Back today and no cache! Made a reasonable search then off back home to get a replacement. Still same hiding place (under rocks by post & a pill bottle. Hope it lasts a bit longer. TFTC

My qualifying caches are
Cache In Trash Out Event : [GC69Z36Mana Island Big Day Out 2016 (CITO) 2/4/2016
Unknown Cache : [GC5M6CB] Species restoration (Mana Island) 2/4/2016
Earthcache : [GC62BAH] Mana Island – Surfing the Surface (Wellington) 2/4/2016
Letterbox Hybrid : [GC62K95] I'll Keep You Posted (Mana Island) 2/4/2016
Traditional Cache : [GC62N25] Kakariki Flyover 2/4/2016
Event Cache : [GC6CMPH] There and Back Again 2/4/2016
Multi-cache : [GC23JFY] Cup of tea (wellington) 1/5/16

On a west coast adventure and on our way to Nelson for a few days . My first time to travel up the west coast of the south island In 20 years so this time we get to cache our way in to uncharted territory, so let's see what fun adventures awaite us bring it on.
Day five of our road trip , to day we are exploring the Nelson area ,let's see what fun adventures awaite us.
Yup I have found the needed cache types 7 in total and I found 6 different ones on my Te Araroa adventure. It was an amazing experience.
It was so amazing standing on top of mt Rantoul looking at Nelson thinking one day I will get there and yay I did but so much more to see and do .
Finding the road less traveled cache was an eye opener as I could show my partner the hill and mountain range I walk only a few months ago, the comment was shheezz your nuts and I said I loved it and want to go back .

My list
GC91A0Y trad 24.4.21
GC8VYP0 puzzle 24.04.21
GC7D5PA Letter box 25.4.21
GC206WE whereyougo 25.04.21
GC23BXF Earth 27.01.21
GC7B8VZ Virtual 27.04.21
GC9380 Mulit 03.05.21


Getting out and about int the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

No, there was no cache, no rock, no pipe - nothing. So we decided to replace this cache. It is a small pillbox now under rocks.


Actually managed to find them all on a single day.... and it was a special day as well
Code Found Name Type
GC8EDR8 29.02.2020 Mausoleum Bückeburg Traditional
GC3T6WK 29.02.2020 Felix' 1. Letterbox Letterbox
GC88Z52 29.02.2020 Christchurch Botanic Gardens Virtual
GCR34P 29.02.2020 Marktplatz Bückeburg (Webcam-Cache seit 2005) Webcam
GC6X92G 29.02.2020 Was für ein Spectacel Mystery
GC5D3KQ 29.02.2020 Der Jordan-Sprudel - Eine Artesische Solequelle? Earthcache
GC40P85 29.02.2020 Jordansprudel -eine der größten Thermalsolequellen Multi

Found at 25 January 2021 8:13 am on day two of a short holiday to the Nelson-Tasman region. As it's an area I haven't cached in before (and a long time since I've visited), I of course wanted to pick up some caches (but not as many as I would have liked, but family came first on this one). Thanks to all the cache owners for putting these out.

It was a bit tricky to find this cache - as previously noted there's only one hint object present and it was a matter of elimination to find the right one. In any case I eventually got my hands on it, signed the log and recorded the code. All good here, and TFTC

In the 12 months before my last multi-find, I found nine different cache types:

GC7CZ1G, The Tokomaru Marine Terrace, 22/12/2019, Earth
GC8B61R, Heritage Trail Paraparaumu ( Kapiti ), 22/12/2019, Wherigo
GC8KB6D, Leap Year CITO - Hop to it!, 29/02/2020, CITO
GC8M0B3, The Secret Postman's Ball (Horowhenua), 29/02/2020, Letterbox
GC8RKJ1, The Post Lockdown Event!, 08/06/2020, Event
GC88ZNV, Haast from the Past (Manawatu) Virtu..., 07/09/2020, Virtual
GC8GZD3, Fore! (Shore) (Wellington), 12/09/2020, Traditional
GC8HKHY, Celebrate and collaborate!, 27/09/2020, Community Celebration Event
GC2D4E6, Memorial Gates (Kapiti Coast), 01/10/2020, Multi

We are holidaying in Nelson at present, mainly to spend time with some of Mr G’s family but hoping to fit in some geocaching when the opportunity arises.
We spent the afternoon with a family member today who kindly offered to take us to some caches. When we checked we found this one was actually in her neighbourhood and we qualified through a day seeking many different cache types during the MEGA in Wellington, 20.10. 2018. Seven of these were:
GC7WE39 Traditional
GC7B862 Virtual
GC2PG7H Unknown
GC2G28F Multi
GC7WA5G CITO
GC7YH1H LB4UH
GC1NBEX EarthCache

The find took a bit of searching for and where it was located only one of the three hint points actually pertained. We did wonder if the cache had moved a bit, but returned it where we found it - perhaps the CO might like to check. TFTC and the challenge.

After a short caching holiday over the hill to get my first Letterbox cache, I was almost all set to complete BGSc201! A quick trip into town for a multi got me over the finish line. TFTC!

Caches:
GC42VQ9 (Traditional)
GC6TRXD (Mystery)
GC36BK7 (EarthCache)
GC88ZBN (Virtual)
GC58JAB (Letterbox)
GC8NEAT (Locationless)
GC8068M (Multi)

Day 6 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

Today was going to be a very long drive, going from Westport all the way up to Farewell Spit which is somewhere I have longed to visit for a very long time. I've been close, but never quite made it all the way up there before. The great weather of the last few days continued to follow me around the island too, which always helps set a good mood for a road trip.

Having already found 401 and 301, I was hoping for a quick and easy find for 201 and so it turned out to be. The cache log itself was fairly damp and the whole thing has a feel of neglect but I was still happy to claim this find. My qualification is as follows;

All caches found whilst attending the WENZ Mega event in Wellington on 20/10/18, when I found 11 cache types on 1 day.

GC78NMQ MEGA
GC1NBEX Earthcache
GC7XXPF Letterbox Hybrid
GC6CWD3 Traditional
GC2G28F Multicache
GCEE0 Virtual
GC7WA5G CITO

Thanks for setting up this Challenge Cache.

In the area today and noting we had earmarked several challenge caches that we have qualified for we drove round to grab the caches and sign the logs
Here an easy find
We have been on a tour of NZ since 10 Jan and have found trads, multis, unknowns, letterbox, wherigo, earthcache, virtually and an event during that time. This cache was found easily and log signed
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

Meanwhile this is my third geocaching-trip to Middle-Earth . And I love it! [:X]
Still there are routes and places in this beautiful country that are on the 'discover-me' list and want to be visited and explored. .
Although Nelson was already part of the tour back in 2017, due to the bad weather [xx(] there was not much of caching [B)] then.
So today (#24) with splendid, sunny weather was dedicated to make up for that and to tour around the beautiful area of Nelson and Richmond - by foot and by car .
There were some cool challenge-caches to be collected ....
And on top, the goal was to manage finding 7 different cache-types in one single day - YESSSS!!! [^] [^]
So I was busy to pick up a lot of cute local treasures [^] - just like this one:
Plastic pipe was missing , but I secured it with some small rocks and covred with grass .
Thanks to the owner [:X] for placing and maintaining this cache and best regards from Germany!

Logproof:

On February 04, 2017, I was happy to log eight different Cache-Types in one day:
GC-Code Type Name
GC48AX0 Unknown Cache 100 Day Challenge (Wellington)
GC5C2B0 Letterbox Hybrid A K L (Wellington)
GC5F9F7 Wherigo Cache Ngaio Walk about (Wellington)
GC6Z8P8 Event Cache Khandallah Caching Catch-up
GC1ATPZ Earthcache Te Puna Wai Ora (The Spring of Life) (Wellington)
GCEE0 Virtual Cache Mount Victoria (Wellington, Wellington)
GC27DRH Multicache Garden of Remembrance (Wainuiomata)
GC46 Traditional Cache Geocache by Kevin Anderson (Wellington)

The task of the day was to find the boxes of these challenges. We fulfill all and a picture of our profile proofs this one. We found more types of caches.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

Hier ist es mit der Erfüllung der Challenge ziemlich knapp geworden:

Tradi: GC2NFPZ, 10.12.18
Mystery: GC7TQX0, 18.11.18
Multi: GC71C8C, 11.11.18
Earth: GV4BRBC, 10.12.18
Letter: GC5FCXM, 14.12.18
Virtual: GC7B6XC, 10.12.18
Maze: GC7C99M, 06.07.18

T4TC from Germany

I saw this challenge ages ago and just went through my finds to work out which caches would be good for which challenge in this series. I wanted to log my qualifying caches while I was organised. A fun challenge thanks

Lis's crews qualifying caches:

Traditional GC5K6CM Worlds Coolest McDonalds Central Plateau 22/10/16
Unknown GC6T5YD Spirit Of A Mariner 23/10/16
Earth Cache GC4X6BD Taupo Rocks 22/10/16
Letterbox GC6HW50 Turangi Travel Bug Camp Central Plateau 23/10/16
Mega GC63PZN New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 23/10/16
Event GC6V1R8 How To Puzzle Cache Author Meet Greet Signing 22/10/16
Multi GC6ZMKF Edge Of The World Easy Northland 3/2/17

I used Project-GC to see if I qualified for this challenge and I did.

BGSc 201; Type Hype
Found Types: Webcam Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Cache In Trash Out Event, Wherigo Cache, Virtual Cache, Unknown Cache, Traditional Cache, Multi-cache, Earthcache, Mega-Event Cache, Event Cache
GCHTKY 2007-04-18 Webcam Cache - UC IC
GC12WBZ 2007-09-08 Letterbox Hybrid - Time to Travel
GC4Y1HW 2014-04-26 Cache In Trash Out Event- 2014 CITO Weekend Clean Up
GC4EJ4T 2014-02-21 Wherigo Cache - The Game of Life
GCA4E0 2007-04-02 Virtual Cache - Church of the Holy Innocents Mt Peel
GC107ZE 2007-04-25 Unknown Cache - Rawhiti Ramble
GCMP9K 2007-03-18 Traditional Cache - Monro's Chestnut
GCQ9Y9 2007-03-17 Multi-cache - Piney Parallelogram
GC124MY 2007-11-17 Earthcache - The Moeraki Boulders
GC587BC 2015-10-25 Mega-Event Cache - NZ MEGA Christchurch 2015
GC1G6YC 2008-09-28 Event Cache - Meet The Locals In Christchurch

A quick find after a wander in the Richmond Hills with SJT_NZ, only one DNF and one failed attempt but all in all a fun outing and great views of the bay. Cache very wet so dried out but sadly log munted so have replaced with new log and double bagged, TFTC

Found with TregearP whilst out in the hills this afternoon. The last of this series for us this afternoon. Log was unable to be signed as sodden but a supplementary sheet added with double bags so hopefully all good for future finders.

Thanks for the cache, challenge and series beltfamily.

I'ive started my beautiful trip of the South Island in Christchurch, I've visited many beautiful locations. I've travelled via Lake Tapeko, from Dunedin to the most southern part of Bluff. I've then continued with a cruise in Milford Sound and then back to Queenstown.
From there on I've visited Wanaka and the Haast pass to the Franz Josef glacier. I went all the way up to the Abel Tasman NP. Richmond und Nelson as the sonnierst cities were on my list as well.
I've soon reached the east coast in Picton and Blenheim.
After a couple of days, I've then travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.
I've spent a couple of days in Christchurch and it's surroundings.
I've visited many geological sites and have found many caches along the way.
I've travelled 3500km and have experienced so much.
Thank you to all the owners
Team sissifalke

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I spent the day in rainy Nelson, focusing on virtual caches and challenge-caches.

I really enjoyed these series, already looking at it back in Norway, I decided to go for them.

This cache was an easy find, and I noted the number in the lid.

Here is my qualifying list:
Traditional: GC50KE0 Taitomo Island (Auckland) 02/12/17
Mystery: GC58PC2 Join Gorby In Utopia! (Auckland) 05/12/17
Earthcache: GC37XVZ Lake Wainamu - Behind the Dunes (Auckland) 05/12/17
Virtual: GC8DD1 Get Cracking. (Northland) 08/12/17
CITO: GC7EW5W Clean Up For Santa (Whangarei) 10/12/17
Event: GC7EW6P Post CITO Lunch and Christmas Catchup (Whangarei) 10/12/17
Multi: GC2CJMV Something Fishy (Northland) 11/12/17

Thank you for a great challenge!

T-Tech and I are travelling around South Island for 6 weeks

We stayed last night at Motueka, and headed to Nelson today.

This series of caches was high on my hit-list as I qualified for them all [^] All four came to hand fairly readily, and we noted the clues for the final. TFTC, beltfamily.

Over from Brisbane for a number of weeks "motorhoming" around the South Island with IolantheK [^]
Now to do some exploring of the North or top of NZ, and grabbing caches between views [^]

Now around Nelson.
Takes some work to parse all the possible caches and come up with a list
Not the easiest of caches to actually find either [^]

Here is my list:
gccode visitdate type cache_name
GC3AFDW 28/12/2013 earthcache Improbable Fossil Stones v2
GC1BCA3 28/12/2013 Wherigo Flight of Fancy
GC2X78E 28/12/2013 Letterbox Hybrid Barwon - Letter Box
GCQM52 28/12/2013 Multi Low flying pilots
GC1670J 28/12/2013 Mystery Holyhead's Code
GC4TNKD 28/12/2013 Event The Inglis (English) girls are in Melbourne
GC21Y1Y 28/12/2013 Traditional Bring Ya Rod # 6 - Melbourne Aquarium
GCJ8HR 28/12/2013 Virtual Yes, but is it art? II


TFTCC beltfamily

My qualifying caches (all found on the same date, 5th April 2015):

GC5ER1M - Biking in Broadwater - Multi
GC399AW - Passchendaele Postal - Letterbox
GC4X31B - QLD Mega 2015 Stanthorpe - Mega Event
GC5MCRR - Stan's Flash Mob - Event
GC5MCTG - Stan's CITO - CITO
GC5JZ6W - Gnome's Country Home - Traditional
GC58XZY - The Amiens Railway Line - Wherigo
GC560AD - Stanthorpe Rocks! - Earth
GC5H748 - Stan's Apple 36: Green Lantern - Mystery
LB2BJAHFE - Sentimental Rocks-QLD Mega 2015 Stanthorpe - Lab Cache

I will be travelling through NZ over the next few weeks and plan to visit this cache

New Zealand ... a dream for every traveling [8)]
A little more than 20 years ago I've been here, but since then much has changed and that's also good! Now I'm back here ... 1 week North Island and 2 weeks South Island ... cool [^] Of course, I want to visit a few caches. Especially dissolved puzzle caches, which I find particularly attractive Best thanks to all the owners !! Greetings from the Swiss "Kiwi"

Nach 2 Nächten in Nelson, wurden heute alle 7 Sachen gepackt und das Chachemobile vollgetankt. Es sollte ja auch bis nach Graymouth gehen.
Heute wurde mir mal wieder so richtig bewusst, wie gross dieses Land ist....[8)] Next Gas Station in 120km...ja das haut mich ja noch nicht wirklich aus den Socken, aber dazwischen hat es wirklich höchstens eine Handvoll Bewohnte Häuschen... Hier sollte man ein Kaffee eröffnen, mit geeigneten Personal und allem drum und dran
Tja, davon ist man hier leider weit entfernt. ABER...die Naturschönheiten, sind einfach der Hammer [^]
Die Sealbay und der Pancake Rock ist echt der Hit und auch das Wetter spielte heute mit. Natürlich rauchte der Fotoapparat, man will ja zuhause nochmals alles anschauen
Müde sind wir nach einem erlebnisreichen Tag in Graymouth angekommen. Je südlicher, desto einfacher wird es....bin ja mal gespannt auf die nächsten Tage... freue mich

Bevor wir so richtig in die Landschaft abtauchten besuchten wir diese Challenge Serie...einfach gelegen und sehr ergiebig
Leider sind die meisten Dosen ziemlich "grusig" ...schade.

[GC Projekt Proof](https://project-gc.com//Challenges/GC2GDF6/16366)

Besten Dank für den Cache.

My Qualifying caches:

GC6JFAZ Cito 02/07/2016 Y not CITO Forfar St Reserve?
GC6J652 Letterbox 02/07/2016 Jordan Street Reserve? (Dunedin, Otago)
GC6EQK4 Traditional 06/07/2016 Brockville Rd - Glenross St path (Otago)
GC6M4P3 Unknown 23/07/2016 2 + 2 = A Nice Walk (Dunedin, Otago)
GC6PWD0 Event 27/08/2016 Golly Gosh - It's about time!
GC1QD79 Earthcache 07/10/2016 Ignimbrite EC (East Auckland)
GC25553 Multi 19/10/2016 WYSIAYG (Otago)

A nice little walk to get this cache searched for ages with PC help found it. My qualifying caches are as follows

Traditional - Mid Streak (Nelson/Marlborough) GC4JXQX 16/8/14
Earthcache - Triassic Park (Earthcache) GC36BK7 16/8/14
Unknown - The Quest 27 (Nelson/Marlborough) GC30M6Z 19/8/14
Event - Good Bye Winter Hello Spring GC5ATVA 31/8/14
Wherigo - Biggles Plays a Game (Nelson/Marlborough) GC42ER9 31/8/14
Letterbox - Rural Delivery - Riwaka Letterbox (Nelson/Marlb) GC2J78M 14/9/14
Multi - HANDFUL (Nelson/Marlborough) GC13ERR 17/10/14


Tftc Belt family

I and Red Roaming are coming to NZ in less than 4 weeks - Yipee. I qualify for this cache please see my photo for qualifying caches below. the photo shows 10 types in one day (and we did the lab caches as well making 11!) We hope to do lots of caching whilst here and pick up this one when passing.

2716 Down for a tramping holiday. Staying nearby so early morning walk for this one. Had checked before leaving home that criteria met.
Multi A Cacher Narrows it down GC3WTGD 03/12/16
Webcam Harbour view and you too GCKJWF 11/8/16
Letterbox Lakeview letterbox GC61DX9 12/9/16
Wherigo A bridge too far GC1AM3H 21/11/16
Earth Bridal Veil Falls GC2B95K 9/8/16
Event Bacon and Eggs at Dawn GC6W26 19/11/16
Mystery Lets Dance GC6NPVF 29/8/16
Traditional The Old Shed GC6WVRN 22/11/16

Together with arbor95 I am on a holiday tour in New Zealand.

We are two Germans, old friends since a long time. Together we visited a lot of other countries in the past, even before we started geocaching. [^]

For our trip we usually looking for some extraordinary caches.

Therefore we had mostly a lot of fun.

[tripleclaus](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=tripleclaus) has used [Project-GC](http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC2GDF6/16366 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if he/she qualified for this challenge and he/she did.

OK:BGSc 101; Contain HersI made it with 7 different sizes and needed only 6 Filters:()OK:BGSc 201; Type HypeI made it with 16 different types and needed only 7 Filters:()OK:BGSc 301; Difficult By DesignI made it with 9 different difficulty and needed only 9 Filters:()OK:BGSc 401: ATC (All Terrain Caching)I made it with 9 different terrain and needed only 9 Filters:()}


OK:BGSc 101; Contain HersFound Sizes:Small, Not chosen, Regular, Other, Virtual, Micro, Large

gccode visitdate size cache_name
GC19ZQJ 2008-10-25 Small Wald bei Neugreuth
GCQHZH 2008-10-12 Not chosen Eduard Mörike I
GC10ER1 2008-11-01 Regular Juglans Regia
GC185PQ 2008-11-05 Other Metzingen: Eduard Kahl Bad
GCD3DF 2008-12-14 Virtual Die Büßerin
GC1DY37 2008-10-19 Micro MoCache Kleinbettlingen - Kailashblick
GCVAG9 2008-12-03 Large Metzingen-Sudoku

OK:BGSc 201; Type HypeFound Types: GPS Adventures Exhibit, Webcam Cache, Cache In Trash Out Event, Earthcache, Giga-Event Cache, Groundspeak Block Party, Project APE Cache, Letterbox Hybrid, Wherigo Cache, Virtual Cache, Unknown Cache, Traditional Cache, Multi-cache, Groundspeak HQ, Mega-Event Cache, Event Cache

gccode visitdate type cache_name
GC57V0R 2015-05-16 GPS Adventures Exhibit GPS MAZE EUROPE - Germany
GCN1T2 2009-01-01 Webcam Cache Webcam Schwaebisch Gmuend
GC3CPQT 2012-03-10 Cache In Trash Out Event Reutlinger Stadtputzete 2012
GC19X40 2008-11-17 Earthcache Swabian Jura - Vulkanschlot Jusi
GC4K089 2014-08-16 Giga-Event Cache Project MUNICH2014 - Mia san Giga!
GC5G4X5 2015-08-15 Groundspeak Block Party 2015 Geocaching Block Party
GCC67 2014-03-13 Project APE Cache Mission 4: Southern Bowl
GC1H65B 2008-12-02 Letterbox Hybrid Post für HAP
GC1M1PM 2009-03-21 Wherigo Cache Der Rathausdieb
GCD3DF 2008-12-14 Virtual Cache Die Büßerin
GC1GH79 2008-11-09 Unknown Cache Weiß der Kuckuck... - Nachtcache
GC1DY37 2008-10-19 Traditional Cache MoCache Kleinbettlingen - Kailashblick
GCQHZH 2008-10-12 Multi-cache Eduard Mörike I
GCK25B 2015-08-15 Groundspeak HQ Geocaching Headquarters
GC20002 2010-06-19 Mega-Event Cache Das Ulmer FORT - 10 Jahre Geocaching
GC11GCX 2009-01-23 Event Cache 9. Reutlinger GC Stammtisch...

Thank You very much for this geocache, for the challenge and for the maintaining.

Greetings from tripleclaus to beltfamily.

perhaps we come here in January:
[arbor95](https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=arbor95) has used [Project-GC](http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC2GDF6/16366 "Project-GC Challenge Checker") to see if he/she qualified for this challenge and he/she did.

Got the final types needed for this cache today to allow us to claim this one. Qualifying caches are as follows:
10/9/16 French Pass Tidal Flows GC1ZCAV earth cache
11/12/16 Pigeon Post (Nelson/Marlborough) GC427X1 letterbox
18/12/16 Toadfest (Nelson) GC6W9FP event
28/12/16 STEP-ONE (Nelson / Marlborough) GC16KQZ mystery cache
1/1/17 Camp Emblem (Nelson/Marlborough) GC4K29V traditional
1/1/17 Five Go Mad on Rabbit Island GC2P8W9 wherigo
1/1/17 White Gold (Nelson) GC47FQA multi cache

Looks like I've qualified for this so I'll save it for a future visit to Nelson

Qualifying Caches:
Event July Caching Catch Up GC5XNEY 15/17/15
Letter Box Hybrid Hillocks Letter Box GC5YD7Y 11/07/15
Unknown Coastal Survey GC3EB9V 29/07/15
Virtual 911 Fire Fighter Memorial GCA 094 30/07/15
Earthcache The Southern Alps GC23BXF 31/07/15
CITO The Big Picton Cleanup GC62MXF 22/19/15
Multi Night time terrain chasing GC64C7D 02/10/15

#8631. Having qualified for BGSc 201, we went to Hill Street in Richmond to find and sign the log book. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find once at the correct spot. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Here are our qualifying caches:
# Type GC code Cache name Found Active?
1 Webcam [GCJRN5](https://coord.info/GCJRN5) Monschau Cam 2011-05-18 yes => *first date*
2 Traditional [GC17RCN](https://coord.info/GC17RCN) Burgblick Monschau 2011-05-18 yes => *first date*
3 Event [GC2W8AW](https://coord.info/GC2W8AW) "Winter Solstice Event" (Wellington) 2011-06-25 past event
4 Unknown [GC2WHX0](https://coord.info/GC2WHX0) Invisible Worlds (Wellington) 2011-07-02 yes
5 Earthcache [GC20DQK](https://coord.info/GC20DQK) Pencarrow Lakes (Wellington) 2011-08-27 yes
6 CITO Event [GC33F40](https://coord.info/GC33F40) Glenside CITO - A Capital Event (Wellington) 2011-09-24 past event
7 Multi-cache [GC2RBQF](https://coord.info/GC2RBQF) Hemi Matenga Reserve #1 - Start (Kapiti) 2011-10-08 yes => *last*

Number of months between first and last logs: 4.73

Thanks for the challenge and for bringing us to the site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

#2802. After attending a funeral in Blenheim yesterday, I decided to spend the night in Nelson and give myself a chance to make start on the very large numbers of caches in this region. I have made a pretty big dent on local caches in Wellington so it is rather fun to be in an area where every street has a pile of caches waiting to be discovered. By 4pm when I dropped off the rental car at the airport, I had managed to harvest 37 caches between Nelson and Motueka (plus one more cache in Wellington to fulfil the requirements for the "North and South Island in One Day Challenge" GC5RJFK). My primary focus was picking up challenge caches in the Nelson area. So here I was on a fine Saturday morning hunting the BGSc prerequisite caches. I parked nearby and followed a geotrail up to what I thought must be the cache hiding spot. Well I searched and searched but nothing was found. Finally decided to widen the search and found the cache in another logical place. Good to get the last code. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the challenge and the cache.

Once again putting in the requirements for this cache since I will be in Nelson this weekend. The GSEL team have a Wellington challenge cache (GC5PAD6) based on the same concept but where the 7+ cache types must be found on the same day. A similar 7 + per day cache (GC2V7AM) is found in South Auckland. We did all seven caches on 14 Dec 2014.
Earthcache was Wellington Waterfront GC29KGV
Puzzle was The Streak GC4H90Z
Letterbox hybrid was The Jolly Postman GC1K9AC
Traditional was Wellington 360 GC1GFCM
Virtual was Mt Victoria (GEE0)
Multi was The Last Post (GC1WTA1)
Event was Boxhill Christmas Bunfight GC5F0JM
I see in the fine print that the multi has to be done last so adding this one
Daylighting Eels Multi-Cache (Auckland) GC4YA3Q found on 10/1/2015

Log signed today. Thanks for the challenge:

GC6AJWH 2016-09-09 Wherigo Cache Reign of Grelok (beta)(Marlborough)
GC46Z8R 2016-04-08 Unknown Cache Italian Campaign (Marlborough)
GC239C3 2016-09-10 Traditional Cache Waterfall Woes (Nelson/Marlborough)
GCZT85 2016-09-24 Multi-cache I Spyed (Nelson/Marlborough)
GC205FB 2016-08-25 Earthcache The Needle
GC6MRYY 2016-07-10 Letterbox Hybrid Uniphonous Letterbox cache (Malborough)
GC6P9CV 2016-09-10 Cache In Trash Out Event Spring is coming (Marlborough)

Another of these challenges that we now qualify for, tftc
1.Earthcache - Brunners Black Gold GC2F1EZ 11.3.16
2.Mystery - What If? GC4R8GB 5.3.16
3. CITO - Nelson CITO GC6F6BT 23.4.16
4. Event - Unexpected Event GC6JGWY 17.6.16
5. Letterbox - Rural Delivery - Riwaka GC2J78M
6. Where I Go - Biggles FliesAgain GC2QH55 10.7.16
7.Multi - Olde School Cache GC6Q1RJ 13.8.16

Yahoo

Once in a lifetime we wanted to travel to the other side of the world. This year we took a chance and made a 4 weeks trip to New Zealand! Although caching was not the main purpose, we had our GPS prepared and when we were close to a cache, we of course looked for it and logged it. So we found several dozens of "kiwi-caches" and want to thank all the owners!!

Today we had a challenge day in the region of Nelson. First of all we wanted to get our BGSc, seems to be the equivalent of the german "Jodeldiplom". So we absolved the 4 courses before. This is our result for 201:

23.08.2014 GC2PA8P Smeden i Hou Unknown Cache
23.08.2014 GCQFWA Limfjordsbroen Webcam Cache
23.08.2014 GC59K0G The missing logo Wherigo Cache
23.08.2014 GC4HXXQ Øjebæ Traditional Cache
23.08.2014 GC4GGA4 HH Letterbox Letterbox Hybrid
23.08.2014 GC1YTZ5 Hvissingestenen - Sjællands største sten Earthcache
23.08.2014 GCFA36 Checkpoint Herlev Virtual Cache
25.08.2014 GC42XPV Københavns Sporveje, Linie 1 - #56 Multi-cache

TFTC #3600, Ebnater

Yes, this challenge is one for me.
Will send proof when I am back in Germany.
Thank you for the Challenge.

The second course was a little bit harder. We first started doing Wherigo Caches since we arrived here for our vacation so we had to do also a final Multi Cache. Both proved to be not too difficult since here are plenty of good opportunities for doing multis. Here are our caches:
Traditional - GCMTAG - Lord of the Rings - 24.12.15
Virtual - GC6713 - Monument - 10.1.16
Letterbox - GC59MVE - Silly Sausage Stonegrill - 28.12.15
Mystery - GC59MW8 - Plane Challenging 75 TBs - 27.12.15
Earthcache - GC5WBN4 - Long long way from home - 28.12.15
Wherigo - GC43DZM - Elementary Steele - 11.1.16
Multi - GC5ADHG - Motueka History - 14.01.16

Was not expecting to find this given the last couple of dnf's . Sitting on bike at coords inspecting when spotted the cache about 50cm from where the hint suggested. Grass died off in heat which may have helped. Signed and replaced. Moved it a bit closer to where i think it should be and covered with hint object.
My finds are:
Traditional Gc56GNZ Three lagoons 13/7/14
Virtual GCG17F A simple life 11/6/14
Letterbox GC1J9AC The jolly postman 1/8/14
Event GC594ZD Cache it early 2/8/14
Mystery GC48GDV kiwi geotrail ono 13/7/14
Earth GC2176E Glacial erratic 18/7/14
Multi GC1D1Q4 The garden party 4/8/14

Think this is gone

I am hoping to find this when up in Nelson this weekend
Event GC5YY2T Unwind at Brickworks 08/06/2015
CITO GC5ZB12 Ultimately Kilos 08/01/2015
Letterbox GC608MQ Uluru ?... Yeah Na 05/09/2015
Mystery GC629QD Horses 101 #53 14/09/2015
Earth GC23BVR Gold 06/04/2015
Wherigo GC2P8W9 Five Go Mad on Rabbit Island 05/07/2015
Multi GC601D9 Elementary Dear Watson 15/03/2015

Major disappointment for us. We had planned on making a clean sweep of the 4 challenge caches and then making cache 5, all during our visit to the lovely Nelson/Tasman area.
Thwarted though!
We are sure this one has gone burger. We could identify the cache hiding spot, and this aligned with coordinates and the clue. Alas, no cache.
Recommend that CO do a check on this one.
DNF


For the record, our qualifying set is:
Multi GC2N3H2 Angel's Steps 9/11/13
Unknown GC49RQG Kiwi GeoTrail Rima Tekau Waru (Porirua) 9/11/13
Traditional GC1HEAG Naviglio Grande 29/10/13
Earthcache GC298ZE Torre pendente di Pisa 28/10/13
Virtual GC8C7D Lean on me 28/10/13
Letterbox GC2BXHZ Postman Pat and his black and white cache 3/01/11
Wherigo GC1A4ZP Esplanade Exploration 23/03/08

Now that I have finally logged all my geocaches in New Zealand, I can finally start checking the logged challenges on our world trip. For this challenge it took a little longer to check the required criteria, as there is an automatic checker. But it looks like the short walk together with Silli1310 to the challenge caches on 27.12.2014 was worth it, as I am now fulfilling this challenge. Thanks for the cache and the little challenge.

18.10.2014 - GC452JY - Earth - Diabase Alteration - Alteração do Diabasio
18.10.2014 - GC3WHD2 - Tradi - Self-guided Trail (Trilha Autoguiada)
18.10.2014 - GCC67 - APE - Mission 4: Southern Bowl
18.10.2014 - GC472NK - Letterbox - Onça Pintada--Jaguar
19.10.2014 - GC44YBN - Wherigo - Bem vindo a Intervales / Welcome to Intervales
19.10.2014 - GC4EBGK - Mystery - The APE-Quest
24.10.2014 - GC1XBMB - Multi - Ilha do Mel #1

Have been looking at these for a while. Once I knew we were visiting this way it was time to see which ones we were eligible for so this was one.
16/8/14 Celebration day Event
16/8/14 Cape Wanbrow CITO
15/12/14 Caroline Bay Earthcache
17/12/14 Kinky Trad
17/12/14 December Spelling Challenge ?
4/1/15 Urban Park Letterbox
4/1/15 Jellie Dip Muilti
TFTC

i can fulfil this challenge [^] a short stop and a quick find - T4TC ..punkt on tour with chomo

The BGSc - Challenges 101 to 401 were not too difficult for us. All 4 boxes could found quickly.

Thanks and greetings from chomo along the way with ..punkt

This entry was edited by chomolungma on Thursday, 02 April 2015 at 14:37:38 UTC.

Me and Janssson are on our holiday of a lifetime in this wonderful country . Glad to be able to log some challenge caches as well. These caches were the main target after being o bathed in a lovely beach on Rabbit Island.
Heres my list:
GCDEF2 Hole in One? 121713 Virutal
GC4QBYF Pizza Event #9 011814 Event
GC1Y4FG |E4-KLEVSHULT 013114 traditionall
GC4ZTT5 Night Vision 2 031214 Multi
GC3R5ET Post your log! 111613 Letterbox
GC4MG20 Måttband - Final 111213 Unknown
GC1VKAP Shingle beach in Kilsbergen 041914 Earth cach

Aaah no problems with the second stage opf our BSc challenge - here are our qualifiers

Last summer the idea was born to visit [Green]'New Zealand'[/Green], together with [url=http://coord.info/PR3NXJG][red]'MimiNemo'[/red][/url]
After some important decisions regarding the beginning of our trip, the flights, the general route and the car were made, the most important question was still unanswered: which caches can we visit during our tour [?]
To get an answer for this topic I was fetching almost every cache from both islands [8)][:X]
[url=http://coord.info/PR3NXJG][red]'MimiNemo'[/red][/url] and I love [Teal]'Geo-Arts'[/Teal]...so we added all these cache series to our wish list
After this decision was made this list was more than 300 puzzle caches long...unsolved puzzle caches
Two weeks before Christmas it was getting time to start solving all these mystery caches
Even with the different language I could find almost every solution
In the case I was not so successful I was contacting some of the CO's...and was always getting help from them...many thanks for this support [:X]

During the following weeks our cache list was growing and growing...meanwhile more than 1000 caches long...too long for a simple bookmark list from GC
Time to get our route and caches in sync...time to save the PQ's to our Garmins...time to start this holiday:

Chapter 14: [green]Westport[/green] to [red]Picton[/red]
Our last day at the southern island [8)]
On our long drive to [red]Picton[/red] we stopped of course for some caches [:X]

This challenge cache of a great challenge series was one of them
My nine qualifying caches are the same as for [url=http://coord.info/PR3NXJG][red]'MimiNemo'[/red][/url]

I would like to thank all the cache owners for showing us these great places and maintaining all these caches,
Dev46

Together with [url=http://coord.info/PR3BC8B][red]'Dev46'[/navy][/url][/red] I was on a 'sightseeing-tour' through lovely [Green]'New Zealand'[/Green]
During our great time we could see a lot of beautiful places and we also could find 'some' caches in the area...this was one them [:X]

Here my nine qualifying caches:

[CODE]# Code Name Found Cache Type
1 [URL=http://Coord.info/GCJ209]GCJ209[/URL] Lost Castle of Caestert 13.04.2013 Multi
2 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC48GXY]GC48GXY[/URL] Meet and greet in Brugge 14.04.2013 Event
3 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC3D1RW]GC3D1RW[/URL] BB2 : The 7 icons chal... 14.04.2013 Mystery
4 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC3RRN3]GC3RRN3[/URL] Gen. Willems view 14.04.2013 Traditional
5 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC28VC6]GC28VC6[/URL] Zeewering - Duinen als... 14.04.2013 Earth
6 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC2KYKG]GC2KYKG[/URL] EBB: Fred 14.04.2013 Wherigo
7 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC3Q1BP]GC3Q1BP[/URL] Brugse Beer III 14.04.2013 Mega Event
8 [URL=http://Coord.info/GCM35N]GCM35N[/URL] Beach Paradise 14.04.2013 Webcam
9 [URL=http://Coord.info/GCGKC3]GCGKC3[/URL] In Flanders Fields : V... 14.04.2013 Virtual[/CODE]

Many thanks to all CO's for all these nice caches
Dev46

First trip away for the year and it had to be down to Wellington & Nelson to see customers and do a spot of Rep training. Arrived first thing this morning and it was straight over to Blenheim and back to this side of the hill for client meetings with the rep (and lots of coffee).

Collected this one after having been out to "Bulwer Drive By"
As I am working on my DT Grid this came up as one that I needed and so while in the area it was high on the importance to find stakes. So as soon as I could escape from work for the day it was to collect a multi and then head further afield to collect others, (This being one of them). When I told my rep where I was headed he said I was mad and that I wouldn't be back to well after midnight. I infact managed to be not only back but collected other challenge caches and back to the hotel in Nelson by 11.20pm.

PLease find Qualifying caches List
All Caches are currently active and where found between 20 AUG 2014.

thanks for the memories and the cache

Found while down in Nelson for a few days.

My qualifying finds, all on 3rd February 2013:

GC1789W Mam, Upsize my Three Streams cache please?!(Akld) - Hybrid Letterbox
GCGHN9 Somewhere in Auckland - Unknown
GC4B Auckland Stash (Auckland) - Traditional
GC12FDC Fossil Giants (Auckland) - Earthcache
GCB5A9 Auckland's Panoramic Paradise - Virtual
GC1KN3H The Absent Minded Professor! (Auckland) - Wherigo
GC44HX2 An Event for No Particular Reason (Auckland) - Event
GCPM1B From Clay to Bricks (Auckland) - Multi-cache

Thanks!

Planned a family holiday to Mapua, so decided on a few goals to complete while we were here.
BGSc qualification was the main goal.
Qualified for this as follows:
Type GC Code GC Name Hider Date Found
Letterbox Hybrid GC1K9AC The Jolly Postman (Wellington) Yeetrees 20121208
Event Cache GC40929 boxhill's Christmas Bun-fight 2012 (Wellington) boxhill 20121208
Traditional Cache GC41T5A EM1004 on the Waterloo line - BB#5 (Wellington) CaligulaNZ 20121209
Unknown Cache GC1TC3D A view from a different angle...(Wellington) waiiti20 20121229
Earthcache GC1ATPZ Te Puna Wai Ora (The Spring of Life) (Wellington) TheWonderStuff 20130218
Cache In Trash Out Event GC48GWT Central Park CITO (Brooklyn, Wellington) heathtree 20130415
Multi-cache GC48PKD Sepulchres Quest (Wellington) bkj97 20130424
TFTC

This challenge had kept me pretty busy as it took me quite a while to list all the details needed to get permission to go and visit this cache and to log it afterwards. However, today was the moment to collect the trophy while spending the weekend in Nelson with MUEZ. / TFTChallenge!

traditional: GC3EGG5 50,000 caches in Sweden! / found on 16 June 2014
multi: GC4AAJY Flugzeugabsturz / found on 30 Aug. 2014
unknown: GCVJ6K Novitates / found on 10 Aug. 2014
Event: GC59J31 Frauenfelder Stammtisch #21 / attended 25. Aug 14
Wherigo: GC3ANAG Gamla Stan / found on 16 June 2014
Letterbox: GC4AVH7 MEGA Switzerland 2014 - Letterbox / found on 4 May 2014
Mega-Event: GC4DJ98 MEGA Switzerland meeting friends 2014 / attended 10 May 2014

Time between first and last log (which was a 'multi'): 4 months
All caches logged after this cache was published and all caches are still active (despite heaps of snow in Switzerland!).

Manaia588 has prepared the details for this challenge long before our trip to NZ. After the last cache check yesterday we are proud to log this one. / TFTChallenge!

traditional: GC3EGG5 50,000 caches in Sweden! / found on 16 June 2014
multi: GC4AAJY Flugzeugabsturz / found on 30 Aug. 2014
unknown: GCVJ6K Novitates / found on 10 Aug. 2014
Event: GC59J31 Frauenfelder Stammtisch #21 / attended 25. Aug 14
Wherigo: GC3ANAG Gamla Stan / found on 16 June 2014
Letterbox: GC4AVH7 MEGA Switzerland 2014 - Letterbox / found on 4 May 2014
Mega-Event: GC4DJ98 MEGA Switzerland meeting friends 2014 / attended 10 May 2014

Time between first and last log (which was a 'multi'): 4 months
All caches logged after this cache was published and all caches are still active (despite heaps of snow in Switzerland!).

Having a little review of our first 8 Geocaching months and was pleased to see that we have passed our BGSc102 paper between 22/06/2014 and 24/08/2014:

Traditional - 30/06/2014 - Toddy - GC4J0BF
Multi - 30/06/2014 - Stumped? - GCZF16P
Unknown - 14/7/2014 - Starboard Bow - GC17TPV
Earth Cache - 22/06/2014 - Geothermal Hanmer - GC23JB6
Event - 10/08/2014 - Out of the Ashes - GC58MF5
Wherigo - 05/07/2014 - Biggles Flies Again - GC2QH55
Letterbox - 13/07/2014 - Stamp or Log Your Find - GC18ZEF

TFTC #416

After we had been on the Abel Tasman Track for the last days, today we went to the North Island of New Zealand. But before we left the South Island, we quickly climbed a small view mountain above Nelson. Of course we were not only attracted by the view but also by the challenges on site. After our holiday and all the logged caches, I hope to turn this note into a find. So for now it served only as a memory for me. Thanks a lot for the cache

After completing the Abel Tasman Coast Track, we headed towards Nelson. Smellfooth had picked out these challenges because he wanted to log them...so we went there and searched, signed up and lo and behold, we even complete them.... Thanks for thinking it up and laying it out!

18.10.2014 - GC452JY - Earth - Diabase Alteration - Alteração do Diabasio
18.10.2014 - GC3WHD2 - Tradi - Self-guided Trail (Trilha Autoguiada)
18.10.2014 - GCC67 - APE - Mission 4: Southern Bowl
18.10.2014 - GC472NK - Letterbox - Onça Pintada--Jaguar
19.10.2014 - GC44YBN - Wherigo - Bem vindo a Intervales / Welcome to Intervales
19.10.2014 - GC4EBGK - Mystery - The APE-Quest
24.10.2014 - GC1XBMB - Multi - Ilha do Mel #1

Looked like an interesting series of challenge caches to do while visiting Nelson. As for 101, checked for the qualifying caches on the ferry ride over from Wellington:

1 [url=http://coord.info/GC1JGRQ] GC1JGRQ[/url] Stately Homes MULTI 19/11/14 (most recent)
2 [url=http://coord.info/GC2V7DW] GC2V7DW[/url] Rumpy Pumpy Rock TRADITIONAL 14/11/14
3 [url=http://coord.info/GC1GB87] GC1GB87[/url] Founding Fathers MYSTERY 4/11/14
4 [url=http://coord.info/GC44HVY] GC44HVY[/url] A Restored Shore EARTH CACHE 26/10/14
5 [url=http://coord.info/GC5C2B0] GC5C2B0[/url] A K L LETTERBOX HYBRID 6/10/14
6 [url=http://coord.info/GCEE0] GCEE0[/url] Mount Victoria VIRTUAL 31/08/14
7 [url=http://coord.info/GC574JB] GC574JB[/url] International Geocaching Day EVENT 16/08/14
Time between first and last logs: 4 months
All caches logged after this cache was published and all caches (except event) still active

GCDEF2 Hole in One? 121713 Virutal

GC4QBYF Pizza Event #9 011814 Event

GC3Z5G42M 18 010114 traditionall

GC4ZTT5 Night Vision 2 031214 Multi

GC3R5ET Post your log! 111613 Letterbox

GC4MG20 Måttband - Final 111213 Unknown

GC1VKAP Shingle beach in Kilsbergen 041914 Earth cach