Top Park n Grab (Manawatu) Hokowhitu, North Island, New Zealand
By Kiwijockey on 23-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2H6E1

Muggled and not replacing

Disabled until i get a chance to check it out.

Looked for it with nohurriesmurrays and Jaz navigator. Did not find. Nohurriesmurrays had been there before, there is evidence it's been muggled.

Looked and looked and looked - and thought I knew what I'd be looking for - but no luck - eventually the freezing gale got too much for us

Had the place to ourselves, even so we still didn't find it.

No luck today. We had as much of a look as we could before we were interupted by a security guard.

Quick find, love these ones. Thanks

Just could not locate

Did this after dinner and a nice little walk to work it off. Easy find with absolutely no muggles or muggle carriers about Cheers Gav [9410]

A nice quick find - TFTC

First seek. TFTC. Nice Camo.

Log book Replaced and all good again.

Log bk needs replacing

enjoyed the drive by
Cache log book past its use by date needs replacing left a business card instead
TFTF

Found this one without trouble, very clever hiding spot!

The kids loved this, we went at night with no muggles around. (ignore my maintenance log, I see the logbook has been replaced)

Very sneaky, TFTC

Nice one! Unfortunately the log is quite damp, I think I carved more than wrote my name in it. Thanks for the cache.

Awesome location, very clever

Easily spotted once in the right area! Tftc

Found one using exactly the same idea yesterday in Nelson. Very clever hide. TFTC

This was our 1st find. What a clever hide!

A nice easy one

TFTC

I walked up, what a wally!

NZ11. Not busy today. I did park on the wrong side, but that did not stop a quick grab. Thanks.

5034.232 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & UMR Stonehenge A#43

Albida

Great cache but after the torrential rain on the weekend the log book was so wet we couldn't really write in it without it ripping.

Paper was a bit wet from the rain despite being in a plastic bag.

This was the 1st one I did. I was hooked straight away.

Would have been quite hard to find just using the description.. Was gd place though

My word, this area has shot up since I used to frequent it a bit a few years ago. Being ANZAC Day /Easter Monday the place was deserted, so I was able to park up and a quick glance around revealed the discrete hide.
TFTC.

Not quite a park 'n grab for us as the parking area was closed (before 9 o'clock on Sunday morning), so we had to walk up. Couldn't even use the stairs - had to go up the car ramps. Good hide.
TFTC.

#2143. Was good walking up the car ramps for a change. TFTC.

GPS cut out (maybe because of cover). Dissapointing because of it being a rainy day and thought it would be good cause we would not get wet.

Found first thing this morning. Seen a few of these hides now. Managed to park right next to it. TFTC

Easy night time grab. TFTC

Very good cache!

Clever TFTC

Happened to be attending our dear Nana's funeral across the road and needing a park elected to use this area. A quick drive by, of sorts. Spotted the cache from a distance and with no muggles about it made for an easy find. Perfect camo for that spot. TFTC.

Obviously, the Caching Gods and our late Nana were smiling on us here ... Had wondered why Cumbyrocks jumped at the chance to pay for parking, until he pointed out the cache location - just metres from St Andrew's Church, where the funeral for our family matriarch was due to take place.

Fooled us for a short time then after we thought about it, it was a quick find. TFTC

found with nz1 nice easy find tftc

First time I've seen one of these, they are cool. easy find. TFTC

Found with NZ1 & Gumpy boy. Nice hide. No too much muggle activity (just a security guard) TFTCSL TNLN

Nice quick find. Found with Gumpy Boy and Spudpn. TFTC

Love it!! It was right in front of my face and I didn't even see it!!

TFTC

Neatly hidden cache, Mr Swiss said no that can't be it, but it was, very clever

Spotted it from 12m. - easy to recognize if you've encountered these before.
TFTC.

It was showing signs of recent rain, but basically OK.

Blue Duck TB visited, but this is definitely no place for a duck!

A few too many muggles around to grab it when we arrived, but had it well spotted. After some shopping we came back and the area was much quieter, so nabbed it then.

Nice to find a newly planted cache. Took an All Blacks card. Left a geocoin.

Has been muggled so not going to replace. Will Archive

Nice hide, no shoppers today on the top park. Quick find. TFTC

I loved this cache! Fantastic camo.

Seventh find if the day
#494

Novel idea...might steal the idea for a cache in Hamilton

Found with Skweak while down staying at Vinegar Hill Camping Ground for the New Year
TFTC

Found with Geo-Goober while down staying at Vinegar Hill Camping Ground for the New Year
TFTC

#1857. Had lunch in the nearby food court, then wandered to GZ for the find. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Wow, how this area has changed since I lived in PN back in the 80's. I used to work in Foodtown (Now countdown) and at the power board (now the police station), so I knew this area well - but not any more! Love the cache container. TFTC!

Very excellent... TFTC

Replaced a full log sheet with a new one.

Finally able to access this one, though a lot of muggles around today TFTC

Thanks for the clever hide, we enjoyed it a lot.
Quite a view of the Chancery.
What a hot and humid day, promises much for the summer to come.

Claimed for the EA GeoMobbers Forum Quest #7 - T
We realised in advance where the cache was going go to be, so knew where to head. When we got there, little Miss nzcoozer, who had previously visited the cache with her father, ran straight to it retrieved it and handed it to us, so it was an easy find. TFTC

This entry was edited by W.E.K.A. on Monday, 13 December 2010 at 17:08:42.

Nicely done. had to wait for shoppers to pass, but pretended that the kids were looking over the edge of the car park. Easily seen from a distance, but invisible to muggles

Having found one like this previously, knew what to look for. TFTC SL

1530hrs. A quick find. Have seen these hiides in Australia. We think an hour to shop is not enough but were in and out without paying. TFTCSL

Very nice cache camo - TFTC

There is free parking up there if you do this cache at night, and alot less muggles

Came up at 8pm and the area was still open. Quick grab and log, then on our way. Thanks for the clever hide!

Found

Certainly was a quick park n grab! Gotta love the fact I could combine two of my favourite activities - caching & shopping!!!! TFTC

Cache fits into location well, I always like finding these - remember the first one of these I found and the search I made before I realised what it was! SL TFTC

All pretty much as I expected. Grabbed and signed before heading on my way. SL TFTC

Brilliant!!! Loved this one. So obvious and yet........Great cache.

12.40pm. Yip spotted it from a good 10m away.
Not a lot of muggles today so a quick grab.
TNLNSL.
TFTC.
Cheers M+S [:O)] (1705)

Clever hide saw the other day but to many muggles. Took grandson so as not to be notice as boys do look in strange places without being noticed. TFTC

Seen a few like this before. TFTC

Went to the wrong 'one' originally, wife spotted this one from the car. Nice work, I like it.

Easy find. TFTC

Saw this ache when it was published and since I visit Palmerston North very regularly, thought to myself how long it was going to take before a cache showed up here. Was definitely a great spot to place a cache and far enough out of the way that it wasn't an issue. Found the cache in the first spot the I looked, very clever urban camo - COOL. Thanks for bringing me to this spot. TFTC TNLNSL (2285)

To 'geo-eyes' is was a sinch!- It was visible from the car! Met one like this in Auck.

nice find i kinda went 2 touch the cache and it slipped down thats how i knew it was it

Quickly spotted and nearly muggled by the security guard wandering about.
TFTC

Nice quick find when the GPS decided to work. TFTC

Nicely done - a cache location with a difference, thanks Kiwijockey.

Nice quick find. TFTC

Great spot tftc

Great spot tftc

Wow Mr 10 was on fire today & spotted this as soon as we jumped out of the car. He is rapidly becoming a better cacher than me!
Great hide & not somewhere i would have looked first....
S/L
TFTC

Joint Second to Find with SiderosNZ. A clever hide. TFTC

Yay, wasnt expecting a FTF. pays to be in the right place at the right time!

I was planning to do this cache tomorrow morning before work, since the door of my office opens out onto the plaza carpark.
But my wife insisted that we do it today, since we were driving right past the plaza anyway.
We arrived just after geodatum and SiderosNZ had rehidden the cache.
I didn't spot the well hidden cache, but my wife found it.
Nice cache.
Thanks.

Second to find on log! Nice hiding spot

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