Totally Oarsome (Wellington) Petone, North Island, New Zealand
By Troodles on 22-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2TMYN

Decided not to replace.

Did a check as I was passing but couldn't find it.

nice hide. TFTC

Couldn't find it, was dark when I was looking, less people around though, may have to try again during daylight.

Took a while.what a great hide.
Found by D4Five
TFTC.

Quick find once we paid attention to the clue. Well designed hide! Log was very wet so dried it as best I could in the car using air vents. Might want to check on it. TFTC

This was not quite what I was expecting and it wasn't in the first place I looked. Very clever camo, fitted in with its surroundings quite nicely. TFTC, Biggles.

clever hide - stood on it by mistake before I realised & almost CITO'd it! - but really quick find and return with a hide in the car to do the paperwork and keep the muggles unaware. TFTC

We had not seen a hide quite like this before, but it did not take too long to spot.

This was one of those caches where we went ' it couldn't be there could it?'. Fun hide and the weather was just right for searching-windy enough to keep muggles indoors but not strong enough to blow us away! Tftc

Spent a bit of time looking at various objects that fit the clue, then spotted it staring at me. I had assumed the tiny tube would be bigger than it turned out to be - another clever hide. TFTC

A nifty find after figuring out the right angle to search from. Intriguing container.

nice easy find

Neat hide when you consider things from the right angle - fortunately had a pin in the car so able to extract and return log. Really liked the Hide! TFTC

Found with Kiwi Mico. Log took a while to get too.
SL TFTC.

Found on the way home after tramping in the Orongorongos. Safety pin worked just as well as tweezers!

With the help om my two sons adam(brighty) and andrew

Tricky one! Our second geocache! Signed the log as R3 but then found we had to register to the website as rfh3. Sorry for any confusion.

Fierce northerly threatened to blow us into the harbour. Looked about for "Oyhr evtug natyrf", and eventually spotted something interesting. First cache container of this type - TFTC.

Nice find, lolled at the camo. Might have to start bringing tweezers on these expeditions...

Nice camouflaged hide. TFTC

Thanks to CaligulaNZ , there is now some paper suitable for logging in the meantime.

We found the cache after a bit of a hunt, but there did not appear to be a log book in it...at least, we were looking by torchlight after dark and couldn't see anything in the cache with the torches. We also had needle-nose tweezers with which we should have been able to extract a log book. Will try and revisit soon in the daylight, but unless it was squished right into the base, the cache did seem to be empty.

Not so Totally Oarsome 4 the Orsome4some. (Sorry - couldn't resist!)

Thanks to CaligulaNZ for sorting the logbook and Troodles for placing the cache in the first place. We now claim this one as another one found. Sharp-eyed Miss Orsome4some worked the magic on this one.

Nice & easy find. Spotted within seconds, but had to wait for a change of traffic lights to effect the grab.

TFTC!

I knew exactly where to come to for this cache after finding waypoints for another one along the foreshore a couple of years ago that was missing by the time I had collected all the numbers. Good hide. I had great plans of finding a few caches along here after work tonight but my meeting went longer than expected so this was the last unfortunately. TFTC #3373

Nice hide.

Quick find after dropping geomutt at vets.

TFTC

nice find, well hidden TFC

Hello Troodles.

I found your geocache today so I don't understand why it is disabled. It is where the hint says it is.

TFTC.

Well, that's embarrassing - the cache was there all along.
In my defence, I'll add that the piece of driftwood that hid the other casing has fled the scene, and the cache is now a few metres from its original placement. I will leave it there as it seems quite at home in its new spot.
Thanks to jigsawnl for the info.

Lots of locals enjoying the fading daylight. Nice waterfront development and discreet cache hide TFTC

Wanted to show my son's girlfriend what a cache looked like, but was unable to find it. May have to rethink this one.

Very sneaky Did it in the dark and still found it

2nd go in dark,great find TFTC

Corker of a find by a group of 3!!

night time attempt,failed, lovely night down there tonight though

Not sure how I missed this last time

TFTC

4321. A quick find by Iris after Rodney had discarded it! Thanks Rodney & Iris.

Found it

Nice hide, nice artwork

Found this "oarsome' little cache plus $ 2 on ground not far away

TFTC. Oarsome night out!

Lived up to its name.
TFTC.

Agree Totally Oarsome. First visit couldnt find (partially looking in wrong place). 2nd visit found cache but couldnt get the log out as too tight and had cornflakes box tweezers. Third visit had better tweezers but the log came out easily thanks to a previous cacher. Had to muck around to put it back as muggles parked nearby but back now. Another favourite. TFTC.

This spot is really oarsome.Nice quick find its a pitty about the weather today but we can't have it all.Lucky our baggage was in the car and Mrs L had some tweezers with us.A quick sign in the car and back to its home in a jiffy.Tftc

What a lovely area, the view...!
TFTC

chriron

Found out in the open put back according to the clue! TFTC

Petone caches = muggles!! Another quick spot of the cache but patience required before a subtle grab by bubble.
TFTC
Pinetree and sunrise (with bubble)

Last one for the evening with Roaming Kiwi, was good to get this one knocked off the "to do list" very nice hide. TFTC

Out and about with Morriskiwi on this one tonight,nice camo TFTC

Found with Virtual Allie, have a feeling a muggle may have moved this by mistake? Not quite where expected. Cool hide. TFTC

Very neat hide found with NZLats on a remarkably calm night. TFTC

Missed it first time and after a reread of the clue it was an easy find!

TFTC

What a great hide. I thought it must be new. It looks so vulnerable to muggling but it has lasted. Oarsome hide indeed. TFTC

Parked the campervan for the night and went for a bike ride through Petone.
Hmm....this one fooled me the first time. On my way couldn't find this one...was under the impression that two mugglers were sitting on it. So went on. Than on my way back went for another look. It seems that I was looking at the wrong spot...When I looked, couldn't believe that this was the cache. (I had almost thrown it into the rubbish hahahaha)

Parked the campervan for the night and went for a bike ride through Petone.
Hmm....this one fooled me the first time. On my way couldn't find this one...was under the impression that two mugglers were sitting on it. So went on. Than on my way back went for another look. It seems that I was looking at the wrong spot...When I looked, couldn't believe that this was the cache. (I had almost thrown it into the rubbish hahahaha)

The cache had changed since we first found it. Disovered the new cache quite by accident.

Found this previously, but couldn't log it. Now had the proper equipment to do so. Awesome! TFTC!

So totally awesome cache. SL TFTC

This entry was edited by Renard & Co on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 04:44:34 UTC.

In place with new logbook.

Brought home for a new log book fitting, should be back in a day or two.

Found on a beautiful "oarsome" evening of perfect sunset and NO wind. Log book is nearly finished. TFTC.

My second cache I have found

Found it

Nice and easy! TFTC.

emjoyed this one. windy today. a kayaker out impressed me. one or two out for a walk

Awesome oars. Kayakers and walkers out

Parked up next to this with an ice cream after walking in Belmont Regional Park, SL TFTC

Out and about on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Cool breeze finding its way up the harbour but easy to imagine the soon to be warmer summer.
Straightforward find on this one. All in order. Signed the log and replaced safely, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Easy find on a great Welly day. TFTC.

Quick find.No muggles around so logged it without trouble.

Was saving this one for a special day and today was that day - a dot day. TFTC, nice hide. Come past this spot several times a week.

Quick find - enjoyed the camo. Had to wait for some muggles to move away before we could replace. TFTC

A well themed cache for our visit to Wellington, a meeting of the rowing federation! Removing the logsheet was probably the most difficult task for this cache. TFTC

TFTC; I hadn't seen one like this before. Despite having a good pair of tweezers and a steady hand, I had a great deal of trouble extracting the logsheets. I don't think there is really enough room for two sheets so I halved the size of the one that I partially mangled anyway.

Found by The Empire @ 12:20pm
Day Seven of 'The Empire Invades NZ' Tour, 2011.
Top camo! Well done! Thanks for the cache, Troodles.
- M
Melbourne, Australia.

Having only recently discovered that we both knew the CO from .... years ago, we left this one for our 2400 find. Nicely hidden - the only problem we had was returning the log. A familiar name had signed just before us - more Nelsonians visiting the area. Thanks

Oarsome place. Thanks for bringing us here.

Quick find, and quick log logging. TFTC

Quick find with little blue hen. Nice cache but no log in the tube so made a temporary roll up and signed us in.New log required. TFTCSL

Kept watch while bkj97 replaced a temporary log. Nice views and a great day for caching. T4TCSL

Quick find. Hint is spot on. TFTC.

Fantastic hide, cheers!

Nice spot and a bit windy.
TFTC. SLB. TNLN.

Cool cache tftc

Busy location but a stealthy recovery took care of this one.

This entry was edited by Blair&Sam on Monday, 12 September 2011 at 21:20:43 UTC.

I had just about given up on this one when I spotted something, yes it was the cache TFTC Troodles

Excellent wee hide - love the oars too - TFTC

Did with CrystalFairy

Last cache of the day. Was wondering if it was still there, and only took a few seconds to find, but great idea.. Thanks for the cache..

Neat hide. Came for a look after seeing site all go again. TFTC

Stuck my hand down and found 2 items within reach, neither was it. So snuck a peek and had it in hand. TFTC

Ready to go again. Cache is now a tiny tube which can be opened without removing it from its outer casing. Please bring tweezers to remove logbook.

yippy found so fast nice holiday feeling here

Cache is missing again. Time for a rethink...

Easy find, TFTC

Easy find, TFTC

This was one of two we did today, great clue

hi my kids and friends enjoyed this as our first find. many thanks. we are on our way to find more, watch out welly!