Springlands Green (Nelson/Marlborough) Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand
By Blenheim Bear adopted by Kiwimykl on 16-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WWCB

Lovely day for caching, but no luck today.

Doing a dump run and this was on the way. I have DNF'd this a few times over the years but finaly got it today under the very watchful eye of many many ducks. Cheers

Cool

Cool

I was visiting a friend for the long weekend, and what a great opportunity to come and collect some of the caches on my list! Thank you to all the COs for the great entertainment!! No luck at a previous visit, but after widening my search and getting low, success!! TFTC!!

Awesome

Staying nearby for the night before the ferry. Couldnt find this one.

Found it, thanks

Have tried for this one in the past without success, partially because gps not settling. Had place to myself and time to wander today. Much to my amazement, managed to locate. Tftc

QEF after a muggle has just gone through. TFTC and greetings from the UK

Tftc

I was ready to search in one location when I spotted another that really fit the hint. TFTC.

Tftc

Nice find, first for 2024!

Good find Evaross

Found on this cool day Quick search around and it wasn't long before the cache was spotted. Thank you for the cache

Tfth

TFTH SL there are so many 3 from the lefts

During our roundtrip in beautiful New-Zealand we found multiple caches on both islands. This was one of the caches. To all caches owners: TFTC !!

Found it

Staying in Blenheim for the night. A lovely evening for a walk and try to hunt down some caches. This took a little while. The ducks definitely didn't help. So I sat and pondered for awhile. It didn't take long for the light bulb light up. Nice hide in a nice little park, so Iv'e given it a favorite. Cheers from Hastings

Sneaky!

Thank you! Fun find

My First cache outsider of Sweden.

Quick find for us thanks! Log has had some water damage and is a bit damp. Can write on it tho

Was on call for work but needed 20 caches today for a personal challenge. Fortunately the weather was great and I had reserved some nearby caches. Happy to sign this one off as previous visits were abandoned because of prying muggles. Still felt like I was being watch but with an extra hint this turned into a quick find. Thanks kiwimykl for another smiley.

Very well camouflaged

Took some bread, couldnt find it

Found it thanks. We needed that clue though!

Got it! Very nice spot too. It was nice to find a fresh cache for my first cache found in NZ. Keen to find some more while I’m here.

Cache check carried out. Cache missing. Cache replaced. Until I update the hint here is an addition... 'Third from the left'

Despite thorough searching we did not find this one either.

Tricky

Looked all around. Read previous messages, still no joy. We'll be back!

Not sure if the rain took it away or if I just can’t find it!!

maybe the rain washed it away

Didn’t find this one a while back

We approached this place and looked at all the duck poo. Well this is going to be interesting. Looked in and around the obvious. Then we got serious. After quite a systematic search the cache was found just where the coordinatessaid it would be. But very oddly, the last entry here is 2019 with the rest older. Is there another cache here somewhere? Thanks for the fun kiwimykl.

Yummy duck doos every where gloves???....something sus here as the last entry on log 14 /03 /19 ummm I wonder???..maybe there are 2 caches here ..I could find one.
Thanks

Had a look for this one once before but couldn't find it. No problems with it at all today. GPS coordinates were pretty much spot on. Quite liked the sign nearby. Thanks for placing the cache

A nice quick find thanks, with a little help from the CO.Cheers for that.

Time to return to the South Island for Ms_KR and me. Another Christmas/NewYear in the North Island complete. We cruised around Blenheim and Renwick today, the heat of the afternoon was a bit fierce.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

This time after fails then fone help. Hadn't noticed the mirror windows across the water before. Felt obliged to take a picture of these 2 laughing at us. Tftc

This took communication with the cache owner after a couple of tries at finding. Found during time with with family over Christmas. Blenheim in summer is pretty fantastic. TFTC

Took someone out on their first cache search. Prepared to write a dnf but we found it just as we were leaving.

Found it yesterday with Freya13592468. My first find!

No luck today.

Another that is too sneaky for me today.

Next time.......

A cache check undertaken under the cover of darkness. As suspected all is good here. The resident of the unit across the creek has been known to assist the odd cacher who experiences difficulties here.

Felt a little vulnerable so when I couldn't spot it quickly, I gave up. Thanks anyway.

Found by the clever mum!

Found it so cool by the walk way close to the raft thingy

Found 19 Apeil but doesn't appear to have logged properly. TFTC

Took us a little while but we found it.

Sneaky hide again but with a bit of extra info from the CO we found it. TFTC.

The holidays are here and another tour begins: ‘The Very Top of the South Tour’. With GraciesGPSFun at the moment before NosyNel and Jude_E join us in Nelson on Monday.

Yes well once again the Co helped here but still had to get hands dirty. Tftc

Another good scout around. Note toself: next phone needs a better GPS!

All good to go again.

I stopped by on the way to work early this morning with a replacement cache. All good to go again.

Cache check carried out after a couple of DNFs. Looks like this one has gone, so temporarily disabled until I get the opportunit to sort out.

Hmmm.

Lovely park..Searched a lot of good possible places but didn't find cache...
Hope it hasn't gone....Lovely wee park..Would be lovely to live by it .

Very quick find on the spot - nice area - TFTC!

Cool find thanks to the Old Duck. With crickethawea

Great cache place. The old duck is super cool. With judithrichards

Really cool hiding spot:)

Very helpful ducks. Don’t stray too far from the gps. First cache ever

Trouvée après quelques recherches ! Pas facile, le GPS nous baladait un peu ! Pour finir on a vraiment décidé de pondre un oeuf au lieu de nous asseoir et là on a vu une série de cachettes identiques pour notre œuf! On a choisi une de ces cachettes identiques et on y a trouvé la géocache! Un œuf y serait bien protégé du vent et de la pluie à cette place !

Google translate :
Found after some research! Not easy, the GPS wandered around a bit! Finally we really decided to lay an egg instead of sitting down and there we saw a series of identical hiding places for our egg! We chose one of these identical hiding places and found the geocache! An egg would be well protected from wind and rain there!

Lots of flow down the creek today but the target was still high and dry
First person this year

Cache check carried out after a recent DNF. Still there but well hidden

We kept driving past so at one point it was time to stop - but no luck finding it!

Had to take a seat and think about this one but got it in the end. Thanks great hide in a nice park.

Yay! Finally found it! Trusted Mummy's instincts and it was quick to find, park is a busy little place. TFTC

Totally fun!!!! So cool and fun to find. We are PUMPED! Cool how it's camo. Dad sat out on this one as he didn't want to get his hands dirty.

Fifteenth find
Ducks didn't get it

Me and Dad looked around for at least 25 minutes for this one, not sure if it’s still there or if it has been snatched up by one of the ducks haha. Maybe next time

Nice play on words made it an easy find. Wheeled the geocycle up to the area, grabbed a bite to eat while wondering what gazing eyes were behind the mirrored windows across the stream. Knew where it would be but checked around anyway and process of elimination got it.

Found a cache here but log didn't match up with the activity log online so will message the Owner. Dropped a few swaps.

Tricky one to find

Trick wee one to find

Rain chased us away

Raining so did not find. We abandoned because of the rain.

We found it after a tip from the friendly people in the rest home

Nice spot. Very populated with ducks. Very smelly. Thanks

Staying in a motel over the road, had to come over and have another look. Thanks for the cache.

Fun... kept us looking for a bit

Found it tftc

Cache replaced after sourcing a new container and being muggle free at GZ. Dropped TB for next finder.

TB drop into cache prepared for re-enabling this cache later on this week.

Well I clearly didn't get the hint

The hint is good, but the cache has been muggled. Will replace in due course. I have a few spares for this one thanks to previous donations.

#5212. The family have come south on the Cook Strait ferry for a South Island holiday. Today we are saying overnight in Blenheim so a chance to see a few local sights and for me to grab a few local caches where possible. After dinner the family was watching TV so time for me to whip out and add a few extra caches to the days total. This one was across the road from where we were staying. Had a look for it during the day but the house with big windows next door was distracting and then a muggle sat down on the seat. Headed back to the motel. Came over again at dusk to test a theory I had. Yes that looks promising. After several attempts I spied the cache. Always nice to sign a logbook that has not been visited in quite some time. Signed and replaced as found. Thanks for hiding it here Kiwimyki. Favourite for tricky cache and last of the day (night).

We're in the South Island on holiday for the second week of the school holidays. Its our last night and we've chosen to spend it in Blenheim.

This cache is 79 metres from where I parked the car. It took me a while but I got there in the end. Not sure I really understand the hint.

The cache is in good condition. All nice and dry inside.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

After lots of searching and lifting in the dark found him and took traceable.

Difficult find. Found with Vinnige Voete and Bosloerie.

Found it after quite a search, thanks. Lovely park!

Lovely little cache in New Zealand.

Tftc. With Vinnige Voete and BoertjieRSA. Quant little park.

Pretty tricky find this afternoon. Took me close to 5 minutes before finally finding it. Great little hiding spot! Nice park too! Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache!

Nearly walked away from this one before I suddenly got the hint. TFTC

After receiving a couple of DNF's on this log, fearing the worse, I prepared a replacement and made my way to GZ. Despite a slight amount of 'cache creep', I still managed to find the cache in the same location as intimated in the hint.

As the area was unusually muggle-free, and recalling a log from almost a year ago stating there were two caches found in the same place, I performed a more detailed search and came up with not one, but two extra caches, all in good condition and one without any entry in the log book. So thank you everyone for the donations, it looks like I will be able to place a few more caches in the coming days.

As for the two cachers who recently DNF'd this one (including one with 5600 finds to their name), shame on you... there were three caches within a metre of each other and you couldn't find one of them.