Top Notch (Nelson / Marlborough) Annesbrook, South Island, New Zealand
By isis58 on 26-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2YY7H

Drove past today and sure enough the top notch holding the cache has gone.

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A car has scraped along here taking out the geocache! I have the log which was found in the nearby shrubs if it is needed back.

Disabling this till I check it out. Thanks Shorty1766

Found this one by default! A car has crashed here recently and munted 3 of the obvious cache hiding places. Found log and pin on the ground after a hopeful search! Logged as found because I did actually find it! May be the last one to though! I have the log if it is needed back. I hope the car that scraped along here was not distracted by a geocacher!!

This entry was edited by Shorty1766 on Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 06:08:08 UTC.

Glad to get a smiley on this one, no one around tonight ,,to cold probably, Thanx 4tc -clever hide

Now who got this or did not get this today. You were spotted by someone on a bike

Slip and sliding and finally there. There are a lot of muggle workers about on the walk way today! Thanks

Was here a few weeks ago but was put off by the exposure. Was cycling by today and decided to have a go. At the GZ i nearly walked away again but when my gps said go west i looked in the only place i could think and came up with a find. Inspired! but gutsy. Thanks for pushing my boundaries, again!

Sorry motorway was too busy for us to stop and put intials in, and soggy but wow very sneaky clever cache. thanks

An easy find, but a crazy location, even early on a Sunday morning TFTC.

Had to take a longer route to this as is was too slippery to take the direct route. TFTC!!!

Had never come across one of these before. Very nifty. Thanks.

Sweet hiding spot! found while on a wee bike ride. t4tc

Must admit this isn't my first attempt but no trouble this time. Easy when you know how!! Traffic not too bad at 6.45 on a Saturday night either... TFTC!!

Finally ... 3rd time lucky. The previous two attempts were as I cycled out to visit my parents and in both cases I was asked by muggles if everything was ok seeing my bike and helmet were lying on the ground . Was nearby this evening and thought I'd give it another go. Not so much traffic on the road either this time of evening made it a lot easier although it still took a few minutes before the light came on . TFTC

On my way to see my doctor I thought I'd call I and give it a go,NO LUCK. Lol looked everywhere,got dirty fell down and still no luck,time ran out so didn't have enough time,so will return back there on my way home, Though from reading back in the recent logs I have a fair idea where it is lol Fingers crossed!!

My closest traditional from home which I hadn't found. Filling in calendar days

A quick enough find with the hint, but had to be careful all the same so close to traffic. TFTC

Quick find.
Cheers Gav

Found while holidaying in area. TFTC

Quick find. Tftc.

Supervised this one from the walking track. It was found just where I said to look. Found with La Vista during a day caching in the area. TFTC

Took us more effort to park the car to get to GZ than locating the cache under HelloMrs' supervisory expertise.

Bit of work has gone into that one, thanks. Spent a while down at the speed limit signs before we realised we where on to a dead end.

Good idea to keep little cachers at the playground for this one.

Out on a bit of a maintenance/placement run today so thought I'd check on this one. Cache still in place. I thought people might enjoy something different with this placement but its been a bit unpopular so once I'm a bit less busy I will use the cache for another placement.

We found the place but on a slippery wet day it was not easily found. We did not like the cache location.

Me and a friend couldn't find, didn't want to spent too long in this location.

Easy find but hated the location. TFTC

At last!!!!! Great cache thanks for the help TFTc

Decided to check this one out again and yes the cache was not in place. Then I spied the log on the ground, quickly followed by the lid and then after a bit of searching found the container. So all back in place.

I Found this With A Broken foot on a caching Trip With Family - me, Gracie7 + mum and dad, we did 101 Caches over the Easter weekend. Gracie7 has given me a list of every cache I have done with her that i have not logged, TFTC A special thanks to Gracie7 + Mum for the Log List, I Had Tink from the start but she was not a traceable back then

Found over Easter break with furpurse, Mum & Dad. #7/30 finds for the day, beating my previous record of 26 in one day. Good cache. Over looked it at first then thought... wait a minute. TFTC

Again I return empty handed from this one, pulled tops off things fossicked over under around, fell down a bank, am right on it but cant find it -4th attempt.....

Decided to walk to the airport, instead of taking the shuttle so that I could collect some caches along the way. Third one along the walk from the hostel.

I did glance over it the first time, but an easy as find actually, once the cycling muggle families had passed. I did feel a bit exposed searching though!

I then read the previous logs about a magnet. What magnet? I dont think I saw one. The cache appeared to just be shoved there?? Not sure it's in it's correct spot then?

TFTC!!

Great weather and good cache! SL TFTC

Hands up, looked at it last time but thought it belonged there. Another dnf dealt to.
Thank you for placing this cache.

Thought about this one, the penny dropped, and it was an easy find on a night caching run with Hazedarus. Clever hide. TFTC.

On a night run caching with Holymu. Only a mutt in the dog box of a passing cattle truck took offence. Very clever hide. TFTC

Piece of cake this time. Went straight to it. Though it took me a moment to realise it was, in fact, in my hand. Good one! TFTC

A real head scratcher. Identified clue item but felt exposed looking in the trickier spots. Nothing in the obvious ones, anyway. Will come back at night.

A quick find once I resorted to the hint. everything was in good order. TFTC

All good to go again. Not sure about the magnet - seems ok to me when it is glued into where its supposed to be. We'll see I guess.

A long shot, I know. It didn't work out.

Nope, not there

We had been visiting the nearby WOW museum so I went for a brief walk to find this one without realising that it had been disabled. After a brief search, I found the cache lying on the ground and the cap missing from its hiding place. The magnet was in place. Signed log, replaced cache in correct spot and replaced cap. I don't know how long it's going to stay, this really needs a stronger magnet (try one of the rare-earth ones from a hard disk drive, they're awesomely strong) although the absent cap suggests that somebody has interfered with it.

Magnet issues again. Not sure when I can get this up and running again - sometime in the New Year

Finally a day to grab this one every time I have come here there has been a problem with muggles about. Today being the day it was I had the freedom to grab the cache. Felt quite vulnerable but not too bad though TFTC

Heading to the airport I found the car making a diversion when I asked why Stretch0 said seems its Xmas Day it should be good for grabbing Top Notch - and he was right not much traffic and only a few muggles in the park that were ignoring us !! signed log thanks for the cache

Easy find with Kwaka40.
We got this one a few days ago but forgot to bring a pen so returned today to sign the log.
TFTC

Easy find with Wilson#41

Sent Mr Mum2jer to retreive this one - I'm sure he got some odd looks from the passing motorists. TFTC.

Quick grab, by the busy road.-Bitsprayer

Quick find very busy close by. TFTC

Quick find on my short afternoon cyclocache ride around Tahunanui. Found that flax bushes are useful for climbing slippery slopes , but I got stabbed by a flax stick and that caused a loss of red hydraulic fluid .

dnf

Crikey it gets slippy up here! Late night find but no need for headtorch with the highway lighting. Quick find, tftc

Found a Top Notch. Even worked out what the hint meant. Oh well. It seems you can't win them all.

All good to go again

Logging with cache owners permission - Thanks.

Found the magnet but not the cache.

A nice sunny dry day so I decided the closest cache to work was going to get a visit today, even in my work shoes. No issues getting there but cache was missing from it's hiding place, spotted it eventually on the ground so it needs more glue sorry. Signed log and returned cache to a slightly different spot. Emailed cache owner. TFTC.

Thanks Kiwi_Explorer. It would appear that my choice of glue even though I read each and every possibility wasn't the right one. Will have another go.

The hint made it easy even fir a 4 year old

Straight to it, still don't understasnd the hint....no matter. The passers by I don't think have time to see what one is up to ! thanks for the fun.

Got to GZ but unable to find lots of muggles around so had to be surreptitious. Was a broken sistena container next to gz -could it have been muggled???

We had zoomed past this a few times and had sorted out a suitable approach. Today was the day and although it was slippery we made it to GZ and back safely. The longest time was taken to extract the log without the best of equipment. Thanks.

A DNA rather than a DNF. Not the cache for doing in work shoes. Filling July 29th is proving a tad tricky. I'll be back for this one when more appropriately attired.

Definitely a novel one!

Miss Beanso did the numbers while Mr Beanso retrieved the cache. Top effort !! TFTC

Hopefully the glues set and all good to go

Disabling this while it still intact. Will be up and running again next week.

Easy Find, magnet may need re-gluing. Original cache, haven't come across one like this before.

First for the month and another box ticked
A few "slide" marks appearing on the bank - tee hee. Avoided that route and added my own slide mark to a less travelled path. Nice hide. Nearly had to return to the cache mobile for an extraction tool but a handy little stick did the trick.
TFTC

very clever hide
great cache
TFTC

Nice One!!!!!!!!!!!Now this was a bit of a heart pumper. Early morning rush hour brought back memories of the Daytona 500---- ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM. Clever hide--Well done--Much fun! Thanks

FTF Got the new cache notification at 6.03pm. Downloaded coordinates and jumped in the car. A wee bit of a search around a couple of features near GZ and the cache was found. Had a bit of trouble extracting the log but got it out and made my mark - Just a 'B' in the first blank spot on this one. Nicely hidden it is too. TFTC, Biggles.

Nocturnal find- a wee deviation for me while out taking daughter for driving lessons- not sure which was the more "character building" exercise! Phew, thanks!

6.35 seems some "B" bet me!!
TFTC

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