P&C's home for unwanted, unloved clothing. (BOP) Te Puna, North Island, New Zealand
By ccrichie on 29-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3FNCB

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi ccrichie

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Oh well. It should be disabled at least.

Looks like it’s not there anymore.

Several DNF'S

Several Dnf's
May need checking

Had a good look last night in the dark under torch light. Spent maybe 10 minutes looking to no avail. Will have to try again

No clue where it was

Not today. Not many muggles about which helped, but not enough. At least we got a nice lunch nearby.

Struggled to find this one. Too many people looking at me as if I was up to no good.

Nice park and Grab
Hint was spot on

Tftc nice wee hide found with abcdf4

In the area on a day out and about caching. Picked this one up on the way past, TFTC

Thank yous

Random lil cache find. tftc

So tiny! TFTC

We can’t find it.

Not a beautiful spot. Lots of ppl. And sadness could not spot the cache. Have up after a 10min search.

Visiting Tauranga for the weekend and collecting some caches. This one was missing when we last came so happy to convert a sad face into a smiley. TFTC

Searched for this last weekend and couldn't locate this one searched again today couldn't find. Then tried again in a spot we had looked multiple times and there it was. TFTC

Came here last weekend and just could not find this one.... came back today with fresh eyes and found it fairly easily. TFTC

Tftc,stubbed my toe ,wetshoes from the pirate cache

Had the clue I needed today Park car in right place makes for an easy grab. Tftc

We called in here on our way to our accomodation after enjoying an afternoon exploring the area with family. While my wife went into the BP to pay for petrol I strolled over here and made a quick find. TFTC.

Couldn’t find it like the other person said I think it has been taken

Having found GC80YJW compromised (read, muggled) I still needed a cache today to keep my streak alive. Time to have another go at this one, and yes it is a straight forward find. Had to empty small stone from my footwear as sandals don’t have laces lol . TFTC

cache back in place

Will drop in and have a look at this ASAP.

Had a good look and no smiley. Needs checking. Thanks

Not found for 6 months with multiple DNFs. Please check. Thanks.

This is the 3rd log that didn’t find the cache since Feb 2018. It is frustrating to log DNF. Can the CO check and report on the caches health

Dnf, muggled?

Couldn’t find it

We came over to Tauranga to do some shopping and stopped off to drop some excess clothing on the way, this cache has been on the list for some time so while the truck was in front of the bins I found the cache quite easily TFTC

Took a little bit of searching but got there in the end. Thanks!

Took a few goes but michaelteacher found it in the end in a spot I didn't check. Cache is still in good condition. Tftc

Failed miserably yesterday with too many muggles to search properly. None around this afternoon so soon had cache in hand.

Apologies ccrichie....I was thinking more that it hadn't been found in around 6 months but I did make a mistake! Thanks so much for checking that it was still there I have learnt my lesson found today after a more thorough look than last time. Apologies again!! Thanks for the cache

After getting the "needs maintenance" message last night, I popped in this evening and had my hands on the cache in 2 seconds. Not sure that 2 dnfs is enough to be logging a 'needs maintenance' note.

Cache is there - where it should be.

Also DNF

Had a decent search all over/under/around and had no luck so will wait for CO to check it out or another find before attempting again. Cheers

First cache of the day while fuelling up the tank of our rental car. Thanks

So good to see this replaced !
Had to wait till several muggles had driven off ....Even had to buy an icecream so I didn't look too suspicious !
Certainly smaller than I expected .....finally found it !
Thanks ...

We came here one other time and had no luck, but were distracted by so many muggles around, so we finally said another time and today was it unsure why we never got it last time and it was a park n grab signed the log and placed it back exactly where we found it safe and sound for the next Geocacher that comes by. So glad no muggles today as people do look at you strange sometimes when your not exactly doing anything they expect you to be doing. TFTC was a lovely country this is beautiful New Zealand.

Nice and easy one.

Over this way with mum today and this was our only successful find out of three attempted. One day I'll get better at it! I was interrupted by a person going into the phone box to use his cell phone - go figure!

Parked right alongside and Punga made a very quick find, his search was spot on, before rushing off to get a coffee at the BP. Thanks for another smilie. TFTC.

Quick and easy find!

Got some petrol, tied my shoelaces, got the cache. 150 up. TFTC.

Easy and quick, had to stop anyway so it's always nice to combine with a quick cache.
Thanks

Third find today. Had to let the fingers do the walking again.

Teeny weeny!

Pretended my gumboots had laces to do up!

High muggle area. Stealth required! And something tiny like a pin to help get the log out. Much fun! Tftc

Was finally able to head out for a full days caching, as caching time has been somewhat limited over the last few months. With the weather not being overly flash, the general idea for the day was to locate some of the caches on the shorter walks on the Eastern side of the Kaimais plus a few others along the way. The usual early morning start was also delayed due to a rugby game I had to watch, so didn't get out the door til around 7.30am.

Through out the day the weather gods were actually very kind, bar the strong wind, with only a few heavy showers during the morning. The caching gods were also mostly on my side with only a couple of DNF's at the near the end of the day. All up a great day out and some cool sights along the way, and managed to get home just after dark and before a big storm came through. A big thanks to all the CO's for the placements.

This was find #5 for the day.

Had driven past here a few times recently but the cache has either been missing or there were to many muggles about. A bit quieter this morning, but still a few muggles around. Managed to park the car fairly close, and a bit of caching luck meant for a pretty quick find. Signed the log in the car before replacing and heading on my way.

(:

Found towards the end of a long car trip from Wellington to Athenree. Lots of people coming and going, but was still a fairly straight find and retrieve. Another dot day done. TFTC.

Lots of muggles today but quickly retrieved anyway. TFTC

Someone came before me today!!! Found it

Out with My.Precious and 9 yr old muggle grandie. Thought we'd introduce grandie to this grownup treasure hunt game. Signed as TT2M.P+1
Not so busy today, but I acted as a screen from the shop while M.P and the +1 felt around and retrieved the log. Thanks for replacing cache.

Out with tigatat2 and my grandy for cashes today and as an intro for the grandy into this little pastime of "treasure hunting".
Not too much traffic in the carpark and grandy was armed with protective gloves to aid the hunt. Found this one too soon so it turned into a quick park and grab.
Grandy retrieved the log for signing with little fingers. Signed (and First in the log) with joint name of TT2M.P+1 (the +1 for the grandy)
Tftc neat little number.

DOn't over tighten the top - the thread is a little dodgy. LHS of LH bin

After a few DNFs I checked in today - the container has gone....maybe when the bins were emptied??? Will get a new one on there ASAP.

Did not find it...

So when we parked up here, looking for the cache became less important when it was decided to have a feed! I had bought a egg quiche and that almost got bowled, banana's came out, chippies, rebel was told by rusty, **NO**, *you're not having that banana*.... etc, it was a lot of fun with lots of friendly banter! Cache was never found either, not because of our eating but because it just wasn't there.

Out caching with rebel98, supernanny and gorby around Tauranga! We called in here to hopeful of a quick find - no!!!

Believe its gone, we gave the area a good search, but it stayed MIA. So what to do? eat lunch, I am starving, breakfast seemed so long ago!

A DNF log from me

I am pretty certain this was not here . Had a really good search .

Looked high and low...I'm sure it is there but we couldn't find it.....darn!

.

Sunday is a bit quieter to be finding this one.
Cheers

Found

Found

Despite the weather forecast and the rain radar predicting rain, rain and more rain, we set off on a day trip to Katikati, with the occasional detour to find some caches, of course. It was dry when we left Tauranga, but we hadn't gone far before the drizzle started. That necessitated a slight change of plans (any walks of more than 5 minutes were now off the agenda) but we still managed to find 21 caches.
Probably not the best timing - about 3:30pm with lots of school traffic around. But busyness is a good cover as everyone is too involved in their tasks to take note of a couple of people hanging around the clothing bins. TFTC.

#11877. The only nearby muggles were a couple of schoolkids waiting to be picked up. They weren't taking any notice of us, and Troodles made a quick find. TFTC.

Our second time to look for this one.TFTC

Great hide. I am from USA, &HAVE FOUND A FEW geocaches with my KWII daughter. I have never seen such a small chance. Nice weather compared to OHIO

Yes cache all good. TFTC

Oh dam

Nice easy find tftc

Got em

Wow what a busy road it is here .... Hmm hard to tie shoelaces when wearing jandles lol. Quick find tftc

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Have been saving this for the right time and today was the right time. I needed to get my numbers close to #1000 so kiwimike and I called in here to grab it.
Mike had already found it and as we were short on time after a long day, he was ready to give me a hint. But i didnt need it. I had it within a few seconds.
Thanks ccrichie for another well hidden one.

Thanks

Co hide

Had been to Tauranga for the day for work and now returning home. Stopped here to get a cold drink and of course a cache.

This is a busy little spot and there's only so many times I can retie my shoe laces.

Eventually got the knot right signed the log and blow me down if I didn't have to retie my laces AGAIN!!!!

Cache returned and I hit the road again.

TFTC

Very good hide, Well done Ccrichie☺

Having just been up at Grace and Poppys half way house cache this one was perfect to get for my one after midnight, No muggle problems and able to have a god search of course would be in one of the last places I tried lol. But awesome to keep this streak going so cheers for the cache

Nice quick find after a short stint waiting for muggles to move on. Was tempted to look inside the large container but managed to resist. Thanks CO

Thought this would be really hard in dark but needed one more to finish the day trip to waihi. Found it in the second place we looked. Off home happy with two kids asleep in back seat.

Thanks for the cache. Logbook now full

Tftc quick cache while visiting friends at te puna

Nice hide dropped 3 trackables lol tftc

This entry was edited by RAYZR01 on Monday, 14 September 2015 at 05:51:54 UTC.

Definitely need a decoy to get this in such a busy spot.

Nice drive by cache...timing is crucial in this busy area

I think we looked a little suspicious... =P

Wow, this was flippin hard! We didn't end up finding it... ah well.

Back for a 2nd hunt and success! It looks like a repair is in order though as a magnet has come off. TFTC

But sure if this one is still there can some key know if they have found it lately !!

We had a long hard look for this but found nothing but rubbish lying around. After 10 minutes of searching the only possible place it could be going by the name and the clue we decided to give up when a police car pulled in to the nearby petrol station and gave us a strange look.