BGSc 101: Contain Hers (Nelson/Marlborough) Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By beltfamily on 12-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GDET

Nelson on Sale: Im utilising a cheap flight for a day of progressing assorted caching goals.This was one of my goals quick find 2024-01-01 GC2M0M5 Ridgeline Relic (Rimutakas), Small2024-01-04 GC9M48M A stroll in the Dunes #1, Large2024-01-05 GC4RBT6 Velkommen til Dannevirke, Micro2024-01-05 GC58JPR Ballantrae (Wairarapa), Other2024-02-10 GC9P7GQ Tongariro National Park Virtual (Central Plateau), Virtual2024-03-26 GCYDKR DamperThree, Not chosen2024-03-27 GC7A Victorias 1st (Melbourne's 1st), Regular

Thanks Marchwood, we've enjoyed this series[GC5FC8W](https://coord.info/GC5FC8W)Large23/10/2024[GC709Y9](https://coord.info/GC709Y9)Micro24/10/2024[GC7GPEQ](https://coord.info/GC7GPEQ)Other28/10/2024[GC51QC7](https://coord.info/GC51QC7)Small29/10/2024[GC112C](https://coord.info/GC112C)Virtual29/10/2024[GC2878Y](https://coord.info/GC2878Y)Regular5/11/2024

Found with MummyPenny this morning on our GC Mega tour. Thanks Marchwood.CodeNameContainerDateGC5FC8WHi visLarge23/10/2024GC709Y9Hollow treats (Canterbury)Micro24/10/2024GC7GPEQRise up against Technology (Otago)Other28/10/2024GC2878YThe Pioneer (Nelson/Marlborough)Regular5/11/2024GC51QC7Monkey island lookout southlandSmall29/10/2024GC112C Monkey Island (Riverton, Southland)Virtual29/10/2024

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 Size FoundGC8AYEJ Hgglund Drive-by Micro16/10/2024GCA094 911 Fire Fighters Memorial (Christchurch)Virtual17/10/2024GC45YB6Bugmister Big Bucket (Canterbury) Large17/10/2024GC6VHG7Dial a Cache (Canterbury) Small17/10/2024GC710QDEarthquake Memorial (Canterbury) Other18/10/2024GCACXWYBallard Reserve (Stoke) Regular19/10/2024A big thanks goes to Marchwood for taking the time to add BGSc 101: Contain Hers (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).

Ready to collect this one: GC7B7VP - Virtual, found 25/6/24Gc89vRR- Large, found 5/7/24 GCAAVIC - Small, found 18/7/24 GCA1H9E, Micro, found 1/10/24 GC8WTXZ, other, found 1/10/24 GC7GRZW, regular, found 1/10/24

A quick grab on the way to collect one or two other puzzle caches I have solved in the past few days. I remembered in my far distant memory banks this series, and decided it was probably worth seeing if I qualified! This is the first one of the 4: Ill have to trawl the found files to see which of the other 3 remaining caches we already qualify to log. GC7B7VP - Virtual, found 25/6/24Gc89vRR- Large, found 5/7/24 GCAAVIC - Small, found 18/7/24 GCA1H9E, Micro, found 1/10/24 GC8WTXZ, other, found 1/10/24 GC7GRZW, regular, found 1/10/24

Out and about with Agazo this morning, easy enough to qualify for this so we came past and I added my name to the log, TFTCMicro - GCA85G5 - AQ7 Aquatic Creatures - Shark (18/08/24)Small - GCARQ5V - Geotetromino (18/08/24)Regular - GCAB2V1 - ITS 09 An Eas(b)y Find (18/08/24)Large - GC6RCNJ - Omaka Hollow (Marlborough) (22/06/24)Other - GC17W4P - Muzzman & Annie's REALLY BIG cache (18/08/24)Virtual - GC6713 - Monument (Nelson) (18/08/24)

While holidaying NZ with the older son (who doesn't qualify for this) I stopped by to claim a belated find from my original log of qualifying for this cache of 5 October, 2012, as follows:* "THANKS very much beltfamily, for the inspiration!South Bro 101 - Size Matters is up and running. GC3WMBP, if you're heading over the Ditch. Well, it is 'Certificate level' Challenge series.I'm not sure when I'll be coming over, but will be happy to update this list when I come over to find the cache. Meanwhile, here is the current list to qualify.GC3X59M Blaire Reserve, Micro, 27/9/12GC3WZB6 Boorganna, Small, 30/9/12GC3X58C Airport TB Hotel, Regular, 27/9/12GC3P2PB 128 MNCWander - Large, Large, 17/8/12GC3WKZM MNCM CITO Event, X, 29/9/12GCJCTA Black Seas Pearl, Virtual, 11/6/12(I think, from memory that they were ALL achieved as Night caching ones, but probably too early for that elective for the DGSc)" *** So while they all qualified at that time, I now submit another list that fulfils Point #6 **GC25RAP SHIPWRECK ONE *Micro, Multi - 12/6/12GC1Y234 Wet Feathers *Small, Trad - 11/6/12GC30RIP Go Go Kogo *Regular, Trad - 3/11/12 *GC3T67X Please Recycle When Ever Possible *Large, Trad - 12/8/12GCJCTA Black Sea's Pearl *Virtual, Virtual - 11/6/12GC22ZD0 Hawkesbury Sandstone * Other - Earthcache - 30/10/12GC3429M Xanthorrhoea *Unknown - Trad - 21/6/12.While I found the cache nice and dry and well with 6m radius of GZ, 1/ I had to go back to campervan to get my multitool to extract the brand new log sheet2/ It gave me hope that I would find the other BGSc local caches somewhat as easily.3/ I was unable to place my typical swag - a Correct Site Marker - as it didn't fit!I did bring through a couple of Trackables: my trackable shirt, and car keysThanks belfamily, and now marchwood for maintaining it!

Very keen to earn my BGSc & MGSc (eventually) to go with my BA (Hons) and post graduate diploma. Talk about 'the the school of life' . Will keep an eye out for this one next time I'm ranging around the top o' the South. TFTC Marchwood.Size # Name DateNot Chosen GC429X1 Porika Options (Nelson/Marlborough) 28/April/2021Virtual GC88Z7G Lake Rotoroa (Nelson Lakes National Park) 30/April/2021Micro GC76GJE Wineries of Marlborough No. 3 - Villa Maria 05/May/2021Small GC82ZV3 A fair haul? (Marlborough) 05/May/2021Other GC331YV Wither Hills (Marlborough) 08/May/2021Large GC9AMN6 Sheps' TB Motel 09/May/2021Regular GCVWNF Bric Spray Taylor Pass (Nelson/Marlborough) 26/May/2021

I think I will be heading this way later in the year so here are my qualifying caches.Large GCAJEVC Key fishing (balclutha) 6/3/24Other GC4G7C7 Wombeyan Marble 29/2/24Micro GC1Zm61 Another 'Aussie' 19/2/24Small GC2WEGJ Emerals lakes iv 23/2/24Virtual GC86B3 Ku-ta views 27/2/24Regular GC6MM57 Christmas Memories- Islands 26/2/24

On a sth Island roadie from way down south Invercargill. Finally reached Nelson Couldn't open cache as damaged, added a pill bottle with it and contacted CO. I have a note at home that I qualify will add when back tftp**4000finds yay!**

Visiting from the state of Washington in the US. I found this physical cache earlier in my visit. Now I have pieced together my qualifications.Micro - GCABZWYSmall - GC1A1EPLarge - GC98V4AOther - GCA0T6GVirtual - GC9P5FTRegular - GC9NXCKThanks 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 Wairarapa's Warbirds (Wairarapa)GC44G96North Island, New Zealandpar wascoxSize : noneDate : 18 nov. 23Toi's 5 - A Tree Pining for a CacheGC9R1Z9North Island, New Zealandpar GeckohSize : otherDate : 01 sept. 23Subdivisible History (Kapiti Coast)GC2E818North Island, New Zealandpar bkj97Size : microDate : 11 dc. 23Making tracks- Broad Gully Track (Wellington)GC2KPJBNorth Island, New Zealandpar robnzhSize : smallDate : 25 oct. 23AQ1 Aquatic Creatures - Crayfish (Tasman)GCA5G71South Island, New Zealandpar SidewazeSize : regularDate : 16 janv. 24Plastic Screwtop Container (Nelson)GC3E9NYSouth Island, New Zealandpar bumandworkerSize : largeDate : 12 janv. 24 Challenge valid / Challenge validated Edit : ajout des dates de log pour respecter les rgles / adding log dates to comply with the rulesEdit 2 : correction pour la "Regular" / correction for "Regular"

Wow, have found that I have qualified to now look for this cache, withmicroGC7ETTME.V. Get Home (Hawkes Bay)19/08/2022smallGC5YQT4Paihia lookout (Paihia)15/08/2022regularGC9ZBVNRock On-PT I (Manawatu)24/11/2022largeGC5GFB9Let's go painting! (Manawatu)02/07/2022otherGC8NDBBMuntz Mintz (Manawatu)17/07/2022VirtualGC7B7THHundertwasser - Te Kakano (Whangarei)20/08/2022Roll on an adventure to the South Island.

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.

This was the next one for 1MinnieMoo and I today. We found the cache safe and sound. My qualifiers are listed [here](https://coord.info/GL19RHM0E). 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 Container 001 GC33KGR Walking BlueDior 07/06/2015 https://coord.info/GC33KGR Micro 002 GC48JHA Tree of Horns 14/06/2015 https://coord.info/GC48JHA Small 003 GC1KC3V Bush Shower 07/07/2015 https://coord.info/GC1KC3V Large 004 GC4TKXK Acrophobia or Arachnoph... 08/07/2015 https://coord.info/GC4TKXK Other 005 GC2FG2T Carseldine Mud Springs 11/08/2015 https://coord.info/GC2FG2T Not chosen 006 GC6476Y I solemnly swear that I... 17/10/2015 https://coord.info/GC6476Y RegularThanks for the challenge beltfamily, and for keeping it going Marchwood.

We had been alerted to this challenge cache before heading south to Nelson, and checked that we met the qualifications. A nice quick find here once at gz.

Micro GCA79Z0 Lockerbie Park Native Bush Found 11/06/23
Small GC6G4C8 Lest We Forget (Waikato) Found 11/06/23
Large GCA7QB9 Secret Experimental Laboratory 85 (Whangarei) Found 25/06/23
Regular GCA8M8J Morrinsville Cache Eclipsed Found 11/06/23
Other GCA7C3K N.ANOs whole New World (Whangarei) Found 25/06/23
Virtual GC9P6JE Matamata Memorial (Virtual Reward 3.0) Found 11/06/23

Down on Nelson area for geocaching with Jag50 and Net61.

Was pleased to find these two easy to qualify for challenge caches to sign off.

Easy to find the final....

Thanks NZ_B for reminding me about these...and helping me with the list .

Have found I qualify for this cache with:
Micro, GC7ETTM, EV Get home Hawkes Bay, found 19/08/22
Small, GC5YQT4, Paihia Lookout, found 15/08/22
Regular, GC9ZBVN, Rock On-PT I (Manawatu), found 24/11/2022
Large, GC5GFB9, Let's go painting (Manawatu), found 02/07/2022
Other, GC8NDBB, Muntz Mintz (Manawatu), found 17/07/2022
Virtual, GC7B7TH, Hundertwasser - Te Kakano (Whangarei), found 20/08/2022

I never looked closely at these "puzzles" but with more and more smiles showing up on the map close to where I live, I checked it out and thought that having just been on a long awaited overseas trip, I might be able to get this.
All found this year, so under the 6 months limit and surely after this cache was published
Also checked they are all active as of today and left a regular for the last.
SIZE GC CODE CACHE NAME DATE FOUND
Micro GC8VHVP Welcome Ostbelgien 27/04/2023
Small CC7CM6N Jardines de Neptuno 07/04/2023
Not chosen GC1N9RC Boos: Kratertour am Eifelturm 05/05/2023
Other GC2PAKZ Edificio Ecran 26/03/2023
Virtual GC7B7YN Virtual Reward – Porta Nigra Trier 18/05/2023
Regular GC6Z8KR Beaches, Forests, and a trail (Nelson Marlborough) 22/05/2023

Another Challenge I struggled to get a list for - but I got there in the end. Will check the qualifying caches are still active when I make the find. Look forward to making the actual find

GC Code Cache Name Found Container URL

GC2RXTC Stone of Destiny 02/05/2011 Micro http://coord.info/GC2RXTC
GC1FEKF Any Port In A Storm 15/05/2011 Large http://coord.info/GC1FEKF
GC2W7Q5 Woodcutters Treasure 29/05/2011 Small http://coord.info/GC2W7Q5
GC2WEG8 Emerald Lakes III 29/05/2011 Other http://coord.info/GC2WEG8
GC86B3 Ku-ta views 08/06/2011 Virtual http://coord.info/GC86B3
GC16PKZ Pinnacle 15/08/2011 Unknown http://coord.info/GC16PKZ
GC2GN02 Return the balls 16/08/2011 Regular http://coord.info/GC2GN02

(# 7572) 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 my qualifying list.

Date Cache Name Size
4/07/2020 GC8AZGJ Green Bucket, Horowhenua (Waiterere Forest) Large
11/09/2020 GC2CM5Y Hapuka Surf. (Canterbury) Small
12/09/2020 GC4M4HN EXTERMINATE Micro
13/09/2020 GC7J0NG The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Canterbury) Other
14/09/2020 GC890QF Seaside View (Timaru) Virtual
16/09/2020 GC2P4ZZ A Question of Reality (Otago) Not Chosen
17/09/2020 GC8D3Z0 TMGT - Titi (Southland) Regular

Cache replaced. Size reduced to Micro.
Hint updated.

Cache missing. New container on order.

Nothing there

Funde nach Größe
Typ Betrag Prozent
Micro 13246 51.85%

Small 8312 32.54%

Regular 2245 8.79%

Other 1131 4.43%

Not chosen 264 1.03%

Virtual 179 0.70%

Large 170 0.67%

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 -today-. All of the caches in this list have been specifically chosen for a variety of reasons: FTF, I like where GZ is, puzzle, recently reinstated, good container.

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:

2022-01-24 https://coord.info/GC2KK2J Micro
2022-02-08 https://coord.info/GC5JBQJ Small
2022-03-25 https://coord.info/GC3M0WN Large
2022-04-09 https://coord.info/GC9KEWZ Other
2022-05-22 https://coord.info/GC547 Not Chosen
2022-06-19 https://coord.info/GC9W7Y9 Regular

Thanks to the CO for setting up this fun 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 which is taking a while.

This was one of the main targets in this area. Unfortunately I forgot to collect all the numbers for the BGSC challenge cache. A quick find of this challenge that I had completed way back in 2018. It's taken me a while to get here to collect my smile. Thanks for the fun challenge

Easy

This was an easy find, and an easy qualification.

Thank you for the cache

hoping to get the next graduation.

#572

I had never checked to see if I qualify for this. lo and behold I do.

Now I have to go and log it

Regular: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCZT85 24 Feb 2018

Small: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC19T1X 10 Feb 2018

Micro: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1M7KV 10 Feb 2018

Other: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2WKG0 16 Feb 2018

Large: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5DTFP 28 Oct 2017

Virtual https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA094_911-fire-fighters-memorial-christchurch 13 Feb 2018

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

Preparing for my trip to pick these up in a few days, here is my qualifications for this one -

GC2BR16 - exegi monumentum aere perennius (Wellington), Found - 14/11/2020 - Small
GC8HAX4 - The Green Fields of France (Hawkes Bay), Found - 28/10/2020 - Micro
GC88ZJM - Behave at the Beehive, Found - 21/11/2020 - Virtual
GC5TAY4 - Wellington War(ter) of the World, Found - 22/11/2020 - Other
GC93PVX - PWGT2 - Taming the current, Shannon, Found - 20/03/2021 - Large
GC90FT9 - PWGT2 - Papaitonga Scenic Reserve, Ōhau Found - 20/03/2021 - Regular

Hoorey it's back.

Thanks co for replacing.

I was beginning to get worried about this series. Now with the adoptive owner, it has a new lease on life. Thanks to the new CO for going the extra mile to keep these caches going.

Now that this cache has been replaced, it makes finding it much easier. Here is my qualifying list:

GC8920X Janie Seddon (Motueka) Virtual 24/Jul/21
GC6YEXW In Reserve (Nelson) Small 13/Aug/21
GC6QQ9W Precious Medals (Nelson) Micro 13/Aug/21
GC5VAXZ Classy? (Nelson / Tasman) Other 15/Aug/21
GC2J3YY Jump'n GPS (Nelson/Marlborough) Not Chosen 15/Aug/21
GC16Z09 Five Swingers (Nelson/Marlborough) Regular 15/Aug/21

TFTC.

Cache replaced.

BGSc 101: Contain Hers (Nelson/Marlborough) was transferred from beltfamily to user Marchwood

Obviously gone. Pity I wanted my degree today.

Date GC Code Name Size
15/08/2021 GC3XDTQ Mega Menagerie Final Large
8/10/2021 GC87J9N Lake Tuakitoto (Otago) Micro
8/10/2021 GC8YQWC OTD 5 May (Clutha) Small
9/10/2021 GC9H064 Revisit Doctors Point Arch ( Otago) Other
10/10/2021 GC1RCE3 A Very Musical Rock Not chosen
11/10/2021 GC8HQ8B OTD 4th January (Otago) Regular

Gone?

Looked in the spot that fit the hint, and many others, but no cache.

I am doing the homework for this cache now, but will find it when I can.

GC8920X Janie Seddon (Motueka) Virtual 24/Jul/21
GC6YEXW In Reserve (Nelson) Small 13/Aug/21
GC6QQ9W Precious Medals (Nelson) Micro 13/Aug/21
GC5VAXZ Classy? (Nelson / Tasman) Other 15/Aug/21
GC2J3YY Jump'n GPS (Nelson/Marlborough) 15/Aug/21
GC16Z09 Five Swingers (Nelson/Marlborough) 15/Aug/21

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.
I could not pass this one up as I know I have the needed requirements to log .
I found all the different sizes on my 3000km though hike of nz on the Te Araroa trail.
But have more recent finds yo make up this one.
Cool challenge thanks

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

GC6GWW7 Boiled egg micro
GC16230 Dune lake small
GC1EG8 baldy cloud piercer large
GC97JYR Stealthy Steve PPIES
Other
GC892H7 Changing tides virtual
GC60AQF Valve with a View regular

Dropped tb

That was not just an easy find but also the cache that was in the best condition of all of the five caches in this area.
TFTC

Code Found Name Size
GC7NYZD 13.09.2020 02-51 Moselsteig Micro
GC71845 14.09.2020 03-34 Moselsteig Small
GC718HY 15.09.2020 Stempelstelle Moselsteig Konz Large
GC4KERD 24.08.2020 Verkarstung am Schuhmachersessel Not chosen
GC7B7YN 14.09.2020 Virtual Reward - Porta Nigra Trier Virtual
GC4CGTD 14.09.2020 GeoPfad - Kiese auf dem Berg Other
GC14XZR 16.09.2020 Der Fünf-Seen-Blick Regular

Found at 25 January 2021 8:37 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.

The cache was an easy find and in pristine condition, however because it's a replacement it doesn't have the code in it. And because another cache in the series also doesn't have the code in it, it's impossible to determine what letters should be in the cache, let alone what the numbers are. Apart from that, all good and TFTC

Within the 12 months up to a regular find, I found seven container types:

GC78YFE, Zip Under the Canopy (Manawatu), 22/12/2019, Large
GC5041Q, _(III)(Manawatu), 01/08/2020, Not chosen
GC88ZZW, Pukerua Bay Lookout (Kapiti Coast), 06/09/2020, Virtual
GC8EX7G, Streak Week Challenge (Kapiti), 02/10/2020, Micro
GC8YW8M, Paekakariki Walking Tour/Unbored Bonu..., 02/10/2020, Small
GC8ZTY3, Paraparaumu Beach (Kapiti), 02/10/2020, Other
GC5CHVM, Timber! (Wellington), 10/10/2020, Regular

We completed requirements to meet this challenge today with a letterbox cache and a regular size container in a special place - the Riwaka Resurgence.
We have been holidaying in the Nelson area mainly to visit muggle family so have limited our caching to more rare types like EarthCaches and Virtuals and in special locations, often with additional features like forest walks.
We were in Richmond today and this cache was close to the family home we were visiting, so it was able to be found quite quickly.
We have qualified with six different containers which are listed in the order of last find to the first find, a period of almost two and a half months:
Rural Delivery - Riwaka Letterbox, GC2J78M, Regular - 23/01/21
Riwaka Resurgence EarthCache, GC1JPHR, Not chosen - 23/01;21
Rooted to the Spot, GC5K1E4, Micro - 22/01/21
Waimea Estuary EarthCache, GC5Z3WC, Other - 22/01/21
High Five, GC8YY5X , Small - 16/12/20
Prospero Precinct, GC891WB, Virtual - 06/11/20

Thanks for the challenge. It’s always of interest to reflect on our caching experiences from different perspectives. TFTC

After looking at this multiple times and thinking “I’ll never be able to do that”, I finally got enough caches together to log this! Onto BGSc201 we go!

Caches:
GC5RWHK (micro)
GC35ZCR (small)
GC14PZT (regular)
GC5DTFP (large)
GC8JY01 (other)
GC88Z9J (virtual)

Found on a day when wanted to up the finds for the day. Been saving this one but sad to see container lid was smashed and log very tattered (previous finder commented also). So have replaced with another container and log.

Qualifying containers
GC5DM2C 27-10-15 large
GCA094 26-10-15 Virtual
GC2DBT3 14-11-15 Other
GC62Z1Q 21-11-15 micro
GC5E14M 10-10-15 small
GC67369 28-11-15 regular

Great challenge and series. TFTC

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, 301 and 201, I was hoping for a quick and easy find for 101 and so it turned out to be. The cache container itself is severely damaged, resulting in fairly knackered contents. I was still happy to claim this find. My qualification is as follows;

All caches found on February 29th of this year.

GC596RC Micro
GC2EGBX Small
GC2FCTM Regular
GC7TM4F Large
GC1N9RG Not Chosen
GC89178 Virtual

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. With these finds we have managed to get all 7 of the sizes.
This 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:
Unfortunately the lid of the cache container is broken !
The bonus information is still there , hopefully it does not get lost. Anyway - would be good to replace the container.
Thanks to the owner [:X] for placing and maintaining this cache and best regards from Germany!

Logproof:
I was able to fulfill this Challenge during my NZ-Holiday in 2017:
GC-Code Type Name Size My Found
GCP5HY Traditional Cache Hole E Wellington (Otago) Small 26.01.2017
GC245V8 Traditional Cache Stop the Flood (Southland) Other 27.01.2017
GC1MN52 Earthcache Milford Sound Not chosen 28.01.2017
GC2608 Virtual Cache Clean Green Wonderland (Bay of Plenty) Virtual 09.02.2017
GC4Q6MV Traditional Cache Bridge over Troubled Waters 2 (BOP) Micro 09.02.2017
GC594T5 Letterbox Hybrid A Cluster of Stamps (Waikato) Large 12.02.2017
GC4A1CE Unknown Cache Kiwi Art Project # K-11 (Waikato) Regular 13.02.2017

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.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

Heute auf den Weg nach Motueka gesucht und gefunden.

Micro: GC5KFCT, 24.12.18
Small: GC30VD3, 25.12.18
Regular: GC2JC6Y, 24.12.18
Other: GC5J25D, 23.12.18
Large: GC4E31, 14.12.18
Not chosen: GCJVDJ, 22.12.18
Virtual: GC7B8VZ, 25.12.18

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. I've been looking at sizes a lot for another challenge series I'm working on at the moment and surprisingly nanos seem very hard to come by. A fun challenge thanks

Lis's crew Qualifying caches:

Micro GC5D2RJ Boat Ramp or Museum 18/06/18
Small GC3221N Geocaching 130 Learning Languages Auckland 17/06/18
Regular GC6R3DW Pepeketua Hochstetters Frog Northland 27/6/18
Large GC4Q3HZ Oteha Walkway Logs 18/06/18
Other GC17WYX Panmure Basin Kaiahiku Auckland 24/6/18
Not chosen GC3JC7E Mt-Wellington Earthcache 17/06/18

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

BGSc 101; Contain Hers
Found Sizes:Small, Not chosen, Regular, Other, Virtual, Micro, Large
GCQ9Y9 2007-03-17 Small - Piney Parallelogram
GC9D10 2007-04-05 Not chosen - Corsers
GCAFB4 2007-03-20 Regular - Bobs Place
GCY0R5 2007-04-06 Other - Tall Poppies
GCA4E0 2007-04-02 Virtual - Church of the Holy Innocents Mt Peel
GCMP9K 2007-03-18 Micro - Monro's Chestnut
GCWBTM 2007-04-02 Large - Elmo's Big "Red" Cache

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. All in good order, TFTC

A quick find with TregearP whilst out in the hills this afternoon. All in good order, signed log and replaced as found. 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:
Micro: GC700TC Glorious Piha! 01/12/17
Not chosen: GC1QMRD Waitakere Supervolcano 1: Layers (Auckland) 05/12/17
Other: GC3TTCY A Tombolo in the Making (Auckland) 06/12/17
Virtual: GC7B7TH Hundertwasser - Te Kakano (Whangarei) 07/12/17
Large: GC59MMM ESSENTIALS OF GEO CACHING 08/12/17
Small: GC5ECB4 Flying North (Far North) 08/12/17
Regular: GC4WNFT Te Weraha Vista (Far North) 08/12/17

Thank you for a fun 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
Nice easy find this time [^]

Here is my list:
gccode visitdate Container cache_name
GC1XC01 11/01/2014 Small Breakfast at Cylinders
GC3WYNP 11/01/2014 Micro You're so Vain
GCGWVM 11/01/2014 Virtual Tripod Lookout 
GC4X6MT 25/04/2014 Large Big Bertha
GC4KF9W 25/04/2014 Unknown Gold Coast Seaway – Who Gives a Spit
GC33A14 25/04/2014 Regular Miniature Mountain

TFTCC beltfamily

My qualifying caches:

GC2K4Y8 - Hopscotch - 15/02/2017 - Regular
GC69CFE - Oxley Debris - 15/02/2017 - Large
GC6X5X6 - Hastings Point Rocky Shore - 31/12/2016 - Other
GC4J9DE - Are there any Little Giants Here? - 31/12/2016 - Not chosen
GC6NT7F - Fruit Platter - 31/12/2016 - Small
GC6NT74 - Valley Views - 31/12/2016 - Micro

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:

GC153V9 Regular 16/9/17 The Photograph
GC788AM Micro 15/9/17 Misplaced Basalt Extrusion from Our Fiery Past
GC78W14 Large 15/9/17 Spit Beach Walk Challenge
GC7B076 Other 09/09/2017 Spring is in the Air
GC1TF5E Small 07/09/2017 Cubic Solution (Otago)
GC2M9P3 Virtual 29/06/2017 GC2M9P3 Jacks Blowhole (Catlins)

A quick park and grab, my qualifying caches are as follows.

Small - Entry/Exit 6 (Richmond, Tasman) GC4YJE4 16/8/14
Micro - Devastation (Richmond,Tasman) GC4YJDW 16/8/14
Other - Olivia's Cache (Nelson/Marlborough) GC4XFBC 16/8/14
Not Chosen - In the Swamp (Nelson Marlborough) GC4GQGB 31/8/14
Virtual - Monument (Nelson) GC6713 6/9/14
Large - Barnicoat bucket GC5DTFP 1/10/14
Regular - Weta Hotel (Onekaka@Nelson/Marlborough) GC1KRT5 19/10/14

Tftc Beltfamily

I and Red Roaming are coming to NZ in less than 4 weeks - Yipee. I qualify for this cache please see my photos for qualifying caches below. We hope to do lots of caching whilst here and pick up this one when passing.

2717 Down for a tramping holiday. Staying nearby so early morning walk for this one. Had checked before leaving home that criteria met.
Small GC542 13/2/16
Large GC2WNCD 6/6/16
Micro GC10PRG 6/6/16
Other GCKX5P 14/4/16
Not chosen GC2J9KC 6/6/16
Virtual GCB5A9 13/2/16
Regular GC10B8R 27/7/16

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

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.

Yes, I qualify too, here's my qualifying caches:

Micro GC5C0H3 Picton Sudoku #1 05 Mar 2016
Small GC5W3Q3 The Bridge 13 Mar 2016
Regular GC67H7N Kaipupu - Kareao 05 Mar 2016
Large GC67H77 Kaipupu - Start 05 Mar 2016
Other GC5RCGB Force it 27 Feb 2016
Not Chosen GC465RT Ebenezer Garden 27 Feb 2016

TFTC beltfamily

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

Qualifying caches:
Virtual GCA4D4 Diamond Quest Found 18 Jun 2015
Micro GCQHT1 The Queen's Iki Found18 Jun 2015
Small GC3TT6 Buoooyahhh! Found 19 Jun 2015
Not Chosen GC331Z8 Riverlands Found 26 Jun 2015
Other GC5DFF7 Alfred's at Rai Found 01 Jul 2015
Large GC5DM2C AllShook Up Found 31 Jul 2015
Regular GCHE6W Clarence Famous Flood Found 29 Jul 2105

#8630. Having qualified for BGSc 101, we went to Hart Road in Richmond to find and sign the log book. GZ was reasonably quiet when we visited, despite having to wait for the occasional traffic to go past. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Here are our qualifying caches:
# Size GC code Cache name Found Active?
1 Small [GC2H3HD](https://coord.info/GC2H3HD) Step by Step (Wellington) 2010-11-07 yes => *first*
2 Micro [GC2GBER](https://coord.info/GC2GBER) Go, Cable Car? Go! (Wellington) 2010-11-13 yes
3 Not Chosen [GC2D7HJ](https://coord.info/GC2D7HJ) Not Croquet Monsieur (Kapiti Coast) 2010-11-14 yes
4 Other [GC2HFMZ](https://coord.info/GC2HFMZ) Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Bay of Plenty) 2010-12-20 yes
5 Virtual [GCBCA6](https://coord.info/GCBCA6) Multi-talented 2011-04-30 yes
6 Regular [GC222HG](https://coord.info/GC222HG) GHMGC A Cache A Day - FEBRUARY - Mini Challenge 2011-05-04 yes => *last*
Number of months between first and last logs: 5.88

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.

#2799. 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 but had to wait for a muggle and his dog to walk past. Grabbed the cache and signed the log. Only after doing the second cache in this series did I remember I needed the code so popped back here later to finish off the task. Thanks for the challenge and the cache.

I am heading over to Nelson this weekend so hopefully will get a chance to locate this cache. Meantime here are the qualifying caches. Had to redo some after reading the fine print. Quite a few requirements.

Log signed today:

GC5JXTC 2016-07-31 Regular Jailor (Nelson/Marlborough)
GC4ATA8 2016-02-27 Other Opawa River Bridge (Marlborough)
GC4X91Q 2016-03-24 Not chosen Baby Minion (Canterbury)
GC63CBE 2016-02-20 Small West Bank Wander
GC2P4QT 2016-02-20 Micro Poplar Place (Nelson/Marlborough)
GC5DM2C 2016-07-25 Large All Shook Up (Canterbury)

Qualified for this cache so headed out to find it and grab our first set of co-ordinates for the final of the challenge. Cache was sitting in plain view due to some weed spraying having been done in the area so covered as best I could after signing.

Qualifying caches :
Pelorus Fishing (Nelson/Marlborough) GC453G2 Size: Other 13.Jun.2016
MARSDERBOLT (Nelson/Marlborough) GC33K4R Size: Not chosen 23.Jun.2016
Havelock Link 2 (Marlborough) GC63A6F Size: Large 17.Jul.2016
Boundary Gate Corner (Nelson/Marlborough) GC2CCNT Size: Micro 17.Jul.2016
Coastal Loop Track Cullen Pt (Nelson/marlborough) GC5G8KH Size: Small 17.Jul.2016
Waiharakeke Root (Nelson/Marlborough) GC5AVJZ Size: Regular 18.Jul.2016

Will now go to work on qualifying for the rest of the series.

Just started geo cache today found this 100m from our house loving it!

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 101:

GC26CNA 2011-08-12 Small Kirchen um Aalen - Mariä unbefleckte Empfängnis
GC2JH8F 2011-08-12 Micro Ortsmitte Ebnat
GC16BM3 2011-08-21 Not chosen Weir is it?
GC120QB 2011-08-24 Large Roolku's Request
GCHWAP 2011-08-25 Other Wolfing it in the West End
GC14T7B 2011-08-25 Regular Disused Railway

TFTC #3599, Ebnater

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

The first course was easy for us, because we fulfilled all the requirements already in Texas before we came on our vacation. Nevertheless we mixed some caches in wich we did down here.
These are our caches:
Small - GC63GVR - Old City Hall - 23.10.15
N/A - GC465RT - Ebenezer Garden - 09.01.16
Micro - GC4HC0Y - They call it the Streak! 5th - 08.01.16
Other - GC60ZQ2 - Shortcut- 09.01.16
Large - GC20VJC - Texas-Sized Cache - 17.11.15
Virtual - GCD078 - Coast Walk - 28.11.15
Regular- GC2P8W9 - Five Go Mad on Rabbit Island - 11.1.16

Last of the four to find and quick find and sign. Qualifying caches are:
small GC3JQYJ A short walk in the park 30/1/14
not chosen GC1XDNZ Glenside 5/2/14
micro GCZX9ZB The cheque is in the mail 5/2/14
other GC4K2X Tribute to rob 2/3/14
large GC4377X The Christmas profit 3/4/14
virtual GCEE0 Mount Victoria 14/5/14
regular GCGHCY TV heaven 18/4/14

finally got this one finished and found
Micro GC5QP2Z End of the road (North Canterbury) 3-7-15
Small GC5NQTE Allisons Cottage (North Canterbury) 3-7-15
OtherGC5QEX7 Micro on Rabbit Island 30-8-25
Large GC5M63V Millipedes Hotel - It's been bugging me 4-7-15
Virtual GCA094 Firefighters Memorial (Christchurch) 12-9-15
Not chosen GC2MAYE Road Narrows (Appleby@Nelson/Marlborough) 9-9-15
Regular GC2878Y The Pioneer 4-10-15

A nice morning for a bikeride and a skateboard with Jaxxy1201. Hopefully we'll be back by lunch. A nice peaceful find. You can see my qualifications in the previous log. The hills were challenging to ride and bike on. Nice challenge.

We are heading to Nelson on Saturday. I hope to get the geocache when we are there. Here are my qualifying geocaches:

GCA094 Virtual 06/02/2014 911 Fire Fighters Memorial (Canterbury) Virtual
GC47269 Mystery 06/02/2014 Stand up and be Counted (Canterbury) Question mark
GC4B29A Traditional 13/09/2013 Lolly Scramble - Licorice Allsorts (Cant) Unchosen
GC4VT2W Traditional 26/12/2013 Circle of friends (Canterbury) Micro
GC4RPEZ Mystery 31/01/2014 Smile 1 (Canterbury) Small
GC22Z0K Traditional 10/01/2014 The Ghost of Ginger Tom (Canterbury) Regular
GC1YVCN Traditional 10/02/2014 Give Way (Canterbury) Large

Also delighted to be able to meet this challenge and log a find on this cache. Thank you.

Small GC2F1K3 St Andrew's Church (Wairarapa) 23/01/11
Regular GC1ND0D Double Happy (Wellington) 22/01/11
Micro GC1E09D Ngaio Commuter Train Tickler (Wellington) 24/01/11
Not Chosen GC1N9RG Ancient Beaches (Wellington) 24/10/10
Other GC1C0A5 The Wellington Fault (Wellington) 8/01/11
Large GC243Y1 By Wind, Water or Windy Road (Wairarapa) 14/11/10
Virtual GCHFRY Regnan's (Wairarapa) 13/11/10

Cache find was straightforward. Log signed. Code harvested.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

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 no automatic checker. But it looks like the short walk together with Silli1310 to the challenges on 27.12.2014 was worth it, as I am now fulfilling this challenge. Thanks for the cache and the little challenge.


06.12.2014 - GC2XD19 - Micro - Take in the views...!!!
07.12.2014 - GC1AF - Large - Bluff Hill (Bluff, Southland)
08.12.2014 - GC3TA82 - Not Choosen - Scared Stiff
09.12.2014 - GC1FCC - Virtuell - Clifden Bridge (Clifden, Southland)
10.12.2014 - GC17RV3 - Small - Cavers Delight (Fiordland)
11.12.2014 - GC59MW8 - Other - Plane Challenging - 75 TBs Discovered/Logged
12.12.2014 - GCHW72 - Regular - Lake Gunn Fishermans Rest (Milford Rd, Fiordland)

This gives us 50% towards our BGSc.
23/4/13 Monument, Nelson Virtual
7/2/13 Us Zero Fours Mega menagerie Large
31/3/13 Its a Helluva Town Micro
19/3/13 Awamoa fan Small
3/5/13 Old Bones X
1/6/13 Bland Park Other
13/6/13 Pineapple Rock Reg
Thanks for the challenge. Two to go!

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 14:38:15 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.
GCDEF2 Hole in One? 12/17/2013 Virutell
GC4EBK7 Hinken/The bucket 11/02/13 not chosen
GC2PNQB The Tube 11/16/2013 ?
GC37KCX Kullberget 11/16/2013 micro
GC2TC41 slutförvaring 11/16/13 smal
GC1EF7 Bluce mocka 11/16/13 regual
GC4K30J Post 10/27/2013 large

No problems with either the qualification or finding the cache so off to a good start with this series TFTC and here are oiur 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 seven 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 seven qualifying caches for this challenge:

[CODE]# Code Name Found Container
1 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC4460J]GC4460J[/URL] Challenge Cache - All ... 10.03.2013 Regular
2 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC40A7V]GC40A7V[/URL] Tschu, tschu, tschu,..... 15.03.2013 Small
3 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC42T1H]GC42T1H[/URL] X6 - Meister der Elekt... 16.03.2013 Micro
4 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC45PQM]GC45PQM[/URL] Be my Valentine - Hard... 14.07.2013 Not chosen
5 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC4A5A8]GC4A5A8[/URL] Ohne Fleiß kein Preis ... 04.08.2013 Other
6 [URL=http://Coord.info/GCD3C0]GCD3C0[/URL] Bornheim in USA? 25.08.2013 Virtual
7 [URL=http://Coord.info/GC3QMZ5]GC3QMZ5[/URL] 1922 01.09.2013 Large[/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 on 20 AUG 2014.
the final cache we found on that day was GC287H4 Yellow Rock "Regular"

thanks for the memories and the cache

Found while down in Nelson for a few days.

My qualifying finds, all on 20th April 2014 in South Australia:

GC4JBHJ Blending In Again!!! - Micro
GC2H363 Vision of Light - Small
GC3EY0H Super (Trooper) - Large
GC4NJ2J Sturt Reserve Granites - Not Chosen
GC5728 Council's Mystery - Virtual
GC1X72H A long way from home - Other
GC51M63 Rose's Mail Box - Regular - the final find of the caches listed here.

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:
Size GC Code GC Name Hider Date Found
Micro GC3PQ7N Fume Blanc (Wellington) boxhill 20121230
Small GC3WJC6 My First Capital Puzzle Cache (Wellington) StreetWalkerNZ 20121229
Regular GCEDD Makara Beach (Wellington) rolly 20121231
Large GC4377X The Christmas Profit (Wellington) Pseudo duo 20121225
Other GC331YY Mapped (Marlborough) bumandworker 20121006
Not Chosen GC3M8HN Creepy's Hide (Wellington) drawp 20121209
TFTC

Long before our trip to NZ, Manaia588 prepared all the details for this challenge. After the last cache check yesterday we are proud to log this one on our mission of 1'000 finds / TFTChallenge!

small: GC28AMN Rabenschwarz (NightCache) found on 8 Oct. 2014
regular: GC3BZP0 Challenge #3 - "Eine Difficulty Reihe" / found on 30 Nov. 2014
micro: GC44FPP Das Gesetz der Strasse / found on 30. Nov 14
not chosen: GC500B0 Kräuterserie am Näfbach 1 - BASILIKUM / found on 18 Oct. 2014
other: GC5BV60 Thurgauer Halloween Event #2 / found on 01. Nov 14
large: GC5GH1C Die Sensation : Steinböcke in Frauenfeld / found on 23. Nov 14

Time between first and last log (which was a 'regular'): 2 months
All caches logged after this cache was published and all caches are still active (despite heaps of snow in Switzerland!).