Urban Illusion #11 (Lower Hutt) Lower Hutt, North Island, New Zealand
By J 'N' K on 13-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2M9MP

Looks like our cache has been imprisoned so we are archiving.

Thought this was going to be way harder but found almost instantly on this quiet Saturday morning TFTC

Nice hide, very in keeping!

Muggles muggles muggles. Walkers, cyclists, gawkers sightseers. Will return some time when its not so busy.

Nice hide tftc

Maintenance completed, cache back in place plus a new logbook

Found it after a long look. Very clever.

needs some tlc

With HCD. Only had a crayon with me. Very hard to write. Log book full now. Excellent fun. Well hidden. The kids all want to do the entire urban illusions series.

Will attempt to replace log in the coming week.

#260 Haha, I almost died slipping down the ramp :S and when I found it, I remarked it wouldn't have been even necessary... but anyway, tftc

Great cache. Tftc

I have a confession to make. I took the theme of this series too literally and made the incorrect assumption on my first visit that the cache was hiding in the open by being the keysafe on the electronic sign control box (hint: it is NOT the keysafe on the electronic sign control box). I thought the tricky part of this cache was working out what the combination was, which I found very tricky - looking at the usual clues for passcodes without success. I revisited several times, each with a different set of codes gleaned from various sources. I was very perplexed, especially when cachers with a lot less experience than myself (we were all there at one point) seemed to find it without trouble.

After seeing further logs I finally came to the conclusion that I was barking up the wrong tree and so started afresh with new eyes. This time I was successful in a much more rapid time. TFTC

Took a bit of hunting.
Thanks.

Our second day and also our last day of staying in Lower Hutt. We started with rain, but by times it was dry weather. We made a walk in the area of our Camellia Court Motel and visit some caches. This one also. Found it and logged it!

TFTC!

HeerHennik,
The Netherlands.

Well hidden but easy enough to locate as a result of the accurate co-ordinates.
Actually ... in the end it probably took me longer to find an empty space on the log slips than to retrieve and replace the cache itself. In spite of major muggle activity close by, I was able to sit quietly and take all the time in the world to deal with this wee baby, completely unseen. Great site selection J'N'K. TFTC.
Was not previously aware of this interesting-looking series so must investigate for another time.

One of those "have you looked there?" - should have gone to spec savers moments

Very clever

Took us a while but upon reading the description again we found.

Took a bit of looking Tftc

Another great allusion. ..paint could do with a touch up
Thank you for the cache

Neat hide - love the concept of hiding in plain sight, can't wait for the rest in the series.
TFTC

Quick find on a lovely, sunny Sunday in the Hutt. Tftc. With Cassie2010

Yipeeee found it very clever thanks JoJo for the help

Nicely hidden - had to look carefully to spot this one!

cool little cache only one more spot to sign then log is full. will have to hunt out the other ones in this series now. my friend could not find so thought I would come take a squizz aroind had it in 5 min just needed to look at rhe previous logs to figure it out.

Can't find will try again another day

Thanks for the cache!

Pretty well disguised

Very small

Found it ! Was about to give up. Didn't sign the book though forgot a pen haha

Found it ! Was about to give up. Didn't sign the book though forgot a pen haha

Took so long to find, was well worth it. Such a clever spot!!

TFTC

Had us stumped on first visit, 2nd time got it straight away TFTC

This entry was edited by Awesome4sumnz on Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 04:47:29 UTC.

Tftc good hiding

Found the container easily enough, but couldn't summon up the method to open it. Will have to try again at some later time

Have looked for this before with no sucess, today however it was only a matter of minutes before Papa bear had it in his hands, we have enjoyed doing the urban illusion ones. Tftc

It turns out I was trying to over-think this one. Once I started thinking like a cacher, it was pretty simple really. TFTC

#480 not too hard. Three minutes. In good knick. TFTC

Too clever for me. Would love to return sometime and try again.

Almost hurt myself but was totally worth it.

Had cycled past this previously and assumed it was somewhere that it ultimately was not. Scanning the local area spotted the cache container very quickly, not what I had expected at all for this UI. Turned the logbook over and found an almost empty page. TFTC

Made this harder for myself than I ought to have, by fixating on something else. Almost gave up until I read something in the previous logs that made me rethink my approach. Quick find after that. TFTC

Took a couple of minutes to find, helps that we have done several others like this. Logbook nearly full.

Took a wee while but got it in the end. Tftc

A little tricky but got it. Log is nearing full

A nice quick find today.

TFTC!

Very clever i enjoyed looking for this

Helped to come to this with fresh eyes lol, took me ages last time! Yay!

Had some hours to kill in Lower Hutt while Barnaby was being serviced so set off to find a few nearby caches. This was the first and a nice simple one to start with. Clever hide, but quickly spotted: the hardest bit was finding an empty spot on the log to sign and then refurling it to fit in the cache! Good to have met you at last night's Geocaching event in Carterton and TFTC.

TFTC

WaffleKitties had this in her hand before I could understand what had happened Nice hide, TFTC

Nice little cache found with mttomatoking

Been here before but was unsuccessful on finding it, came back today and found within a few minutes. TFTC.

I found it quite quickly

Awesome find not too many muggles around during lunch break TFTC

Nice to find this one. Lots of muggles about.

Enjoyed this one. Tftc.

First of the series for me. Two pair of eyes make all the difference UlmusLynx also spotted some cash in the grass so winning all round TFTC

Have tried for this 2 or 3 times before. heaps of people out on hot sunny Saturday. Scooped up 50 cents nearby before spotting the cache. Good hide. TFTC

Good hide, took around ten minutes though. First find with my grandfather.

Unlucky with this one. Gave it a good Kiwi try, but it will have to wait for another attempt.

Quick find in a quiet spot in the dark, no problems here tonight

TFTC

Nice hide! Just about missed it.

great find. Took a few minutes to find but was a very clever cache[^][^]
i've seen this kind before and enjoy doing them!

Must get around to clearing all these illusions from the to do list. Hopefully they will all click like this one did. Co-ords spot on, so a quick find. TFTCSL

Bkj97 was out of the car and onto it before I could get a sniff. T4TCSL

TFTC. Quick find (for once! ) between the dog walking muggles.

Mr TT tracked this one down quite quickly on our MTB tour of the Hutt River trail today. TFTC

Cache #1036 - after defeating us twice before, we attempted this one again today. Still took a while, but finally found the cache, - and figured out what something nearby was for that we thought might have been the cache. No sign of the vagrant who has been hanging around here the previous couple of visits, so made looking a touch easier. Did with DownUnder Wanderer. A well-hidden cache, and glad to have this one knocked off. Always in hindsight do things appear simple once you find them. Thanks for the challenge!

After 3 attempts to get to this one finally got it. With the Wandering Dragons. TFTC

Nice and easy. TFTC

Had a reasonable look but quite a lot of foot traffic about so gave up

Stumped me, spent about 15 minutes before giving up.

See taybee log TFTC

easry found by jr taybee as the GPS out by 8 meters TFTC

Not what I was expecting as an urban illusion, more a traditional cache. Looked around for a solid 15 minutes, almost gave up hope. Quite a sneaky little hide. Really pleased to have found this one. Left my trademark American coins.

Found it after awhile! Was a good spot

Very quick find. Frankly, I'm surprised at just how fast it was...

Log book is dry, no hammer required or 600mm spanner! TFTC

Awesome cache. Could use a touch up

Could you please give me a hint? Im new to this and now feel really stupid :-p

Found on a cycling trip from Wellington. Once I was operating at the right level, this was a fairly straight forward find. TFTC.

Rather jealous of all the folks who claimed this as a quick find, as it eldued two of us. We gave up for today after 15 minutes of searching.

We had visited this once before with no luck, but today MrsP just walked right up and grabbed it.

A great hide found quickly. Find #100. TFTC

The other half of CachingInNZ has made a couple of attempts at this one, but it was my first go. I knew roughly where to look, but realised I had to step back & try for myself... I must have stared at the cache for a whole minute before I clicked! Another clever hide in the Urban Illusions series

(FYI - we're onto the last page of the logbook, and there's only room for a few more signatures)

This entry was edited by CachingInNZ on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 at 07:41:51 UTC.

Quick 30 sec find. TFTC

Quick find on a fine Sunday, thanks to the sharp eyes of miss Jx.

4.25pm. Remember being here in the past but still had to look hard for it, and then I remembered!!
Thank you. David.

Nice quick easy cache, our 200th Find! TFTC

TFTF!

Nice. Love the Illusion series! TFTF.

I recall this one from its time as part of Chameleon Capers so stood back while my son found it reasonably quickly. TFTC.

Found quite difficult. Happly found after about 30minutes

Really quick find on a lovely sunny walk at lunchtime. TFTC!