X for breakfast (Nelson/Marlborough) Hope, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 22-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MQ4D

This one's gone and as I am unlikely to find a similar "container" I won't be replacing it.

Paddle chick and I went out to get a few caches with paddle chicks help I thought I might be able to find it. I searched for ages with no luck could you please check it out . Thanks sidewaze

Was easy when I saw it on the ground. Had fallen off... Oh well

Very clever spot. Fell apart when we found it but managed to get it repaired by the friendly petrol station staff and put back in same spot

This cache is fantastic. I had seen this cache on the map & thought if I ever stop here, i'll find it. I managed to get it after dad filling up the car over the road. I was looking in every nook & cranny until I stood back & realised I was just looking stupid to all the passers by. Find #462

Out on my evening walk...decided to head for a row of caches not yet found. Of course I checked the wrong spots first but quickly found what I wanted. Tftc

Tregearp and I are working on a challenge that, as part of the requirements, requires that we completed five finds in one night – from at least one hour after sunset and not later than one hour before sunrise.

We did a little research and identified this part of the Rail Trail as a good candidate – 5 caches we hadn’t logged, off the main drag (well, for four out of five) and somewhere where torches wouldn’t be out of the way for muggles who might me observing yet unseen by us in the dark.
It was a successful mission. A couple of points from the experience as required for the challenge:

- Obviously harder to find stuff in the dark. For three of the five caches it wasn’t really an issue as they were almost immediate finds. For one, #3, it was a clever hide and had us tricked for sometime with a nearby location that is often used – got there in the end. The other one was road activity and not drawing unwanted attention.

- Also my Garmin GPS changed to night mode – something I’ll look into but really annoying as it used dimmed colours and illumination which is exactly not what we needed. I’m sure there’s a setting to be investigated!

We dragged OldTom1959 and Pine Cone Wanderer along with us who were somewhat bemused but in the end simply pleased to get back home and warm again.

This one was not so much difficult for the find, but stealth and plausible pedestrian activity in a low pedestrian area. Cache itself was a quick find having experienced similar previously, but nicely done all the same.

Thanks Sidewaze for the cache, and providing a cache that could form one part of our qualification toward a challenge.

Found with my son and daughter-in-law.

SJT_NZ and I are working towards our Masters, as part of the requirements, we needed to complete five finds in one night – from at least one hour after sunset and not later than one hour before sunrise.

We did a little research and identified this part of the Rail Trail as a good candidate – 5 caches we hadn’t logged, off the main drag (well, for four out of five) and somewhere where torches wouldn’t be out of the way for muggles who might me observing yet unseen by us in the dark.
While we have been on the rail trail often during the day, it was surprising how much I rely on daylight for successful geocaching. We had good torches and managed to even blind ourselves a couple of times when we ended up looking in similar areas. This was the first time I'd used my gps at night and now quite sure I had the settings correct but thankfully SJT_NZ was more familiar with his ones. A fun but challenging experience and another requirement ticked off.
TFTC.

Great camo. TFTC

I have set myself a challenge for this year to have at least the same number of caches on each day of my calender as the number of years I have been caching.

Today the target is nine but I just might go over that number.

I was actually giving my cachemobile some lunch across the road so I nipped across and cracked this one.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice cache, had us searching for a bit. Tftc

Found on second go, very clever hide

Stopped for petrol hopped across the road and cache soon in hand.

Favourite from me. Well done. Got here on Easter Friday hoping for not much traffic. Had to wait for gaps in the traffic before I could make the grab. Quickly signed and off we went again.

Tftc just re-logging on new app 3/1/16

Great hide, very busy and exposed. TFTC

Found this VERY clever cache today with the help of geosister and an interested muggle who may be a future geocacher! TFTC

Awesome cache TFTC

Went for a wee bike ride after settling in to the camp ground. Nice to get some exercise. A nice subtle hide, deseving of a fav point. Cheers.

Time for a drive to Nelson. It has been a while since we have been this way and there are a few new caches!!

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Day 2 of a successful caching weekend for Jojo and I in Nelson. Weather not the greatest but the rain held off, and today we went a little more urban than cross country so we were able to keep dry. Very impressed with the engineering and ingenuity of the caches we have encountered, and we'll be giving up a fair few of our hard earned favourite points in recognition. 46 caches collected- some very specifically for challenges, and only a few DNFs. But the main thing is we had fun . Sorry about the cut and paste and thanks to all COs.
Clever hide, we were seriously about to give up until the a-ha moment hit. Well constructed cache, thanks Sidewaze.

Clever.

Looked hard but DNF hope to go back again and find. Careful of road everyone

Bacon and eggs and lashings of coffee saw us well prepared for today's adventures - we enjoyed this one, thanks.

Went on a big adventure with Wafflekitties and geo pups, had a blast thanks for the memories! TFTC.

Found while on a winter holiday with LCBuilder and our two geodogs. We spent 3 weeks travelling down the east coast and then up the west coast, setting our tent up at a different campsite each night. We didn't have any real plan, just went where the caches took us we saw a lot of awesome sights and will definitely have to come back one day as 3 weeks isn't really that long!
Finally made it to Sunny Nelson, definitely one of my favourite places.

Found on our second try. Interesting hide. TFTC

Very sneaky i love it. Very hard to search in between cars on this always busy road but for signed and replaced without looking too dodgy i hope
TFTC

Found. Not seen this before and also do not like caches close to dangerous places. Sorry.

Quick find today with Dr.Davis. TFTC!

Cool nice one TFTC

Me stroll this morning was powered by X and Bacon
With a bit of toast and a fried tomato on the side
HP sauce to top it off of course.
Yummo !!

Here at GZ I was in a place to find more X
And a cache !!

TFTC, bukkkarrrrkkk !!! [:o]

Found on a road trip to Richmond and Nelson from the deep dark South of Dunedin.
Having a great time hunting down caches in a load of different places.

Out on my bike today exploring the local tracks.

Thanks for your efforts in hiding your caches.

Must of walked past it 20 times
But then reading the hint the penny
Finally dropped...
We signed the log and we were
On our way. Fav from Elliot13

TFTC. In the area briefly and I just needed to grab a couple of caches.
Thanks Sidewaze for placing the cache.

Quick find. Very clever hide. Thanks for the cache.

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

Found on our Westward journey to Westport

TFTC

Very clever location tftc

Great idea for a hide. Gets a Fav. Rather public for me, but others seem to relish being public.

Could not find this one. It is a very busy road.

Great cache, Third cache in Nelson and our third favourite!

Thanks, Sidewaze, Made a special trip over and found the correct one today, all legal now.

Sorry I missed you Wellwishers. I dropped by today to remove the second and hopefully last of the decoy caches. I really must remember that just because no-one can find a cache does NOT mean that it has gone . Wellwishers: what dedication, returning to sign the current log. - - Hope you enjoyed it .

Nice hide quick find TFTC

Cache not where clue indicated, put back where we found it, no paper in cache, we replaced with new.

Wellwishers: I suspect that if the cache was not where the hint indicated, then what you found was not the cache. There's something else about what you say that doesn't add up either.

TFTC!! Found on a 'Bike ride with a purpose!!!' Lovely day for it!

[green] Capperz, GH6710 and I are in Nelson for an event and to do a little caching on the side. While waiting for the event start time we worked this little power trail. Brilliant summer's day - got a little concerned that I had left the sunscreen and bandanna in the car, but it was okay, I didn't get burnt.
Finished the power trail, now have to walk back to the car, along the road - not quite as enjoyable as walking along the walkway. But there are caches! So it's still good

Corrected date

This entry was edited by the Seagnoid on Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 23:15:01 UTC.

With a caching catch up event on in Nelson this afternoon I was invited along to join Capperz and The Seagnoid on a day's caching in the Nelson area. For once my other weekend plans didn't clash and I was able to tag along and get a few caches on the books. It's always nice to try out a new area and see the variety of different hides along the way. Great hide here, this picks up a favourite from me.
T F T C

This entry was edited by GH6710 on Sunday, 25 January 2015 at 21:34:40 UTC.

Today is a caching event in Nelson day. So today must also be a caching mission to Nelson day too!
Setting off early from our current homes at Woodbourne the Seagnoid and G H 6 7 1 0 were met at the breakfast hall for a quick feed prior to setting off 'over the hill'.
Meeting at 0630 and returning around 8 in the evening it was a big day all round for all concerned (is there any other way to have a Geocaching day, than big?)
This was one of the caches we did whilst carrying out a nice big loop walk in the beautiful hot sunshine on the Summers day. It was a quick and easy find and the well hidden cache was appreciated.
Nice hide and a great container. The best of this type I've seen
T F T C Sidewaze

07/10/2014 10:30:00 PM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Almost every single log we signed as 'Team Polak' to avoid needing to write out both usernames taking up space on logsheet - as well as precious caching time!! Haha.

This was it - one of the caches on our big day

Consec caching day # 702

TFTC!!

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For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

Today was to be our biggest day. S planned the route to cover the most possible easy to get P&G’s but we ended up not limiting ourselves to only those. D2.5? Why not? Let the brain have a bit of fun! D3? I am sure we can get there quickly!

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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This will earn me my 'face-palm' souvenir; one of my unofficial 7 Souvenirs of August.

Once again, I looked everywhere - up things and under things - and then with one last, desperate search...

This might have started off as X for Breakfast, but it took me so long, I was lucky to get them for tea!

Thanks Sidewaze, now off to Over and Under

#257

Found while out doing a few caches in the area Thanx4tc

This time around the hide is different - - but hopefully no more difficult. Happy hunting .

Sounds ominous. Will check it out.

Stopped for a look on the way to Hope. Somewhat hampered by the occassional visiting muggle, but no luck. No finds in 5 months. Is it gone or just hidden?

Day 14 of our NZ-Road Trip brought us up to Richmond.
We found some beautiful Caches and some nice spots.
Thanks to all the Owners for hiding and showing us some great Places.

MfG
Coint82
18.02.2014 / 15:20

We stopped here with rohada on the way through for a quick search. Only the letter x was missing from our alphabet. Now we have them all. Quick and easy to find.
TFTC

On the way back in from Wakefield and now have to get the X for a Pav!! Got the X and then stopped at the end of the drive on the way out!! Thought that this was going to be a sticky one....but No..so have a look here...rockoflarge...Yes!! Now I know that's X..Y..and Z done in the last week or so...are there 26 of these? I think we've done a few of the others so will have to check it out.
TFTC.

TFTC . Quick find No 24 of 75 in a month needed for the MGSC.

This entry was edited by Infoferret on Monday, 20 January 2014 at 06:04:21 UTC.

This is the last one I needed for my alphabet challenge. Thanks!

VERY busy road today. Found a gap TFTC

Nice one. TFTC

Early in the morning but still heaps of traffic so became intensely interested in the gps until a lull.Thanks for yet another cache. http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile_cool.gif

Not in the first place we looked but soon had cache in hand T4TC:)

Before we left home in Greece and came to NZ we looked at doing some research into puzzle caches. We realised X was missing from our alphabet and this cache would fill the gap. We dashed to GZ today and found a very busy place but I think we managed to retrieve and replace before we were spotted. Thanks for the cache and our X.

Wahoo 2nd find I'm getting the hang of this

Makka pakka 2 went out to day to see what he could find and look what he found TFTC.

Quick find while collecting a few caches in the area. TFTC, #5290

Great find not where we thought it would be.

Definitely lotz of X there!!
TFTC

Busy road even at night. Had the cache in hand within minutes

#837

Xcellent. TFTC

[teal]Last day of our 5 day Easter caching roadtrip. Today we were heading home to Greymouth from Nelson.[/teal]
We liked the cache location and are applauding you for finding all these alphabet locations. This is our 14th of the series. Thanks for the cache

quick and easy find tftc

Today I Went for the 100 caches in 1 day. With a very early morning and just breaking even at lunch time with 50, it looked like it was going to be 12am to 12pm. But after a move out of the city they started to speed up, and i managed to grab the last at 20:30 with 106!! Thanks everyone for the caches that they have placed, from the ones that have been planed for months to the park and grabs

Easy find. Love the name. Tftc

Great cache on busy main road TFTC

A quick early morning park and grab.
TFTC Sidewaze

Good spot on main rd. Strategic caravan blocked southbound traffics view. Tftc

Early morning visit before the commuter-muggles started filling the road. TFTC

Passing on route to a puzzle final so stopped to find this one. TFTC

Quick found.
#109

Must admit this wasn't where I thought it was going to be. Nice hide!!!

Nice easy find on a beautiful sunny afternoon in Nelson. A cache that is leading by xample. TFTC

Master B found easily after Ms B couldn't find earlier in week.

No bacon butties but found the cache.

#675, 10:20, easy found. TFTC!

Out for some exercise combined with a few night caches so this one was on the menu. A quick find on a very busy highway but managed to do the deed between passing cars. TFTC.

The geo-gods smiled upon Holymu and me by making the rain stop and turning the evening rather pleasant for a small night cache run. The cache was soon in hand and log signed. It wasn't easy to go unnoticed along a busy road but think we managed OK. TFTC

#3519. Troodles spotted this one straight away (took longer to cross the busy road). TFTC.

Bit hard to be discrete on the side of a busy road! Tried our best.
TFTC.

Thanks for the cache. Container was completely and looked good.

Like the name and hide of this one. Reminds us of another in the series. Thanks.

# 5380

We have chickens at home, and the X are good.

Easy one thanks

Good find this afternoon while out on a bike.
TFTF

Great spot for a night time cache on the way back to Nelson from Greymouth. TFTC!