Let's bowls (Nelson - Tasman) Nelson, South Island, New Zealand
By The Rolling Frog on 06-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3Y6T9

As there's been no cache to find for a long time, I'm archiving it to keep it from showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Please note that if geocaches are archived by a reviewer or Geocaching HQ for lack of maintenance, they are not eligible for unarchival.

Needs archived. Owner seems to live in Australia, not active last couple of years, not responded to a needs maintenance and lots of DNFs and a recheck from a previous finder that it is missing.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

no longer there

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

I'd seen a few DNFs for this cache recently and had been meaning to check up on it.

I can confirm that what once was there is no longer.

Shame - a good cache, but a gonna now.

Been a while since found.. must be gone

Could not find.

Looked for ages. Another local hunter walked past who had found before. Showed us where it “normally is” and said it’s gone. No other place it could be given its size and container.

No luck for me today & not sure if it's just me or perhaps missing as no finds for over 4 months??

Did this one finally a few weeks ago, despite walking past it dozens of times just thinking about it. Nice device.

Out and about with my young nephew introducing him to geocaching. The cache was found and discounted by the young impetuous one but luckily the wise old uncle had a secondary look and soon had the log in hand.

Gets a FP from us.

Thanks

Finally did it

Easy. Simple and cool cache. TFTC

Found this clever hide while mum RowenaD was looking in the wrong place.

Darth Jamie found really quickly clever boy. Could not get log out though

First find!

Laughed my butt off when I found it! What an awesome container. Had me digging in other areas for a while before tracking back and realising what it could actually be. Haha

After looking at all the obvious places, we soon realised we had overlooked it!

TFTC....bit of fun for Saturday
Nicely done

Tftc! Izzy and Jayden ))

Had a great dAy bowling at the United club. Stoked to find a cache near by. Loved it TFTC

Headed towards lets bowls and Cal texed before re diverting to GZ. A couple of local casual bowls people had us on our toes as we searched and located tis one.

A nice quick find on a early morning with no muggles around. Great camo, Thanks!

Fairly easy to find, fairly fiddly to get into and write log! TFTC

Our very first find. Very creative. Had to use the photo for help

Very creative container! Loved that it was real thank you!

Found it on the second go, good hiding spot!

Thanks, great cache

We like bowling too so we just had to stop here. Found the cache eventually and sat on the benches to sign the log, hope the surveillance cameras weren't watching! TFTC

Very cool. TFTC

This was a nice quick find with Miss 2 while Mr 4 had a ride in the car wash with his grandparents. Almost missed it before the "duh" moment.

Tftc!

Awesome cache!!

Great find with traviolli1, TFTC

Should go bowling here one time!

Easy find with Kwaka40
TFTC

Easy find with Wilson#41
TFTC

Clever! A quick grab on my walk to the airport TFTC

Awesome Tftc

Nice sneaky cache! Rock on! TFTC

Nice one! Love the construction of this cache

A tricky one. TFTC

WarriorIrv Jr's first find! Tftc!!!

Made this harder than it needed to be tftc

[green] Suddenly I find this weekend is free, So capperz and I set off to the Pi Day event in Nelson. And to grab a few puzzles. Gotta get them souvenirs! And, since we are out there anyway, grab a few dozen caches along the way.
After spending the night on the edge of Grampions reserve, and wandering in there before dawn for a couple of caches, it is time to get back in town, after all, there is an event on at 3.14.15 9:26:53! So I found us a little cluster to tackle, and here we are. Very fast find here, for a nicely made cache.

weekend trip to Nelson to attend the event then cache our way back to Blenheim via Brightwater, Wakefield and 88 Valley Road was hatched earlier in the week and with Pi Day kindly offering up not one, but two shiny souvenirs, it was agreed that we would head over the hill, again!
Saturday morning to the Event, sleep in the car Saturday night (for me, the Seagnoid would take his bivvy tent and sleeping bag) then a long and slow trip back to bag as many caches as possible. Somehow though, this was lost in communication and the Seagnoid kindly volunteered himself to be Joe le taxi on Saturday night so the whole thing was brought forward 24 hours. My G P S has packed a sad and won't work anymore so I was on borrowed equipment and hastily loaded a G S A K list of potential finds, and some solved puzzles, and off we set at about 5:30 from sunny Blenheim. Grabbed caches before it got too dark to keep going, and managed 6 by torch light which helps towards one of my missing M G S C attributes, yay, just the Events to go now to qualify. At last it's Pi day. Wake up after an uncomfortable and too warm, then warm enough, then too cold night.
A nice camo job here, blended in fairly well. Ladies were arriving for an early game so we grabbed, signed, replaced and moved on for a first Mystery cache of Pi day to grab the souvenir, yay.
T F T C T R F

V cool

Quick find. Clever cache. A favourite from us.

Kids liked this one!!

Nice quick find here - enjoying caching in the area.

Day Two: On holiday with tmann421 exploring the top of the South Island. Lots of geocaches found and adventures had in the collection of many a cache. Thanks to all the CO's for making this a thoroughly enjoyable trip.

Quick find.

TFTC

#8945. Another day where I needed a few finds towards a four-every-day challenge. Normally weekends are no problem, but I had spent most the day crook in bed. I was feeling a bit better in the evening so we headed out for a few caches. This was another cache Troodles had found while streaking. Quick find after we had stopped for petrol for the cachemobile. TFTC.

Wet day, perfect time muggle free. Really ingenious cache! Lots of fun !

Found on a quick detour en route to work after my first attempt of cache of the day was thwarted by persistent muggles.
It was drizzling slightly so I hoped this meant that the bowling muggle factor would be low and I was correct. Still had to keep an eye out on the service station across the road - this is one busy place! Nicely hidden, thanks for the effort with the cache and for day #210 of my streak.

☺

Found it. Thanks

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Cool cach!

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!

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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11/10/2014 8:37:00 AM
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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.

Consec caching day # 706

TFTC!!

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TFTC Nice one!!

We had a DNF on this when we were newbies. This time, with a bit more experience, it was a pretty quick find. Great cache container! Thanks Rolling Frog.

Find #362 for the BAMmJams - the mini-BammJams and I (Mrs BammJam) took a half-daytrip over to Nelson for an appointment, so took the opportunity to find a couple of caches in the area (we got 3 done before the rain hit).

Cache was found exactly where expected, but not in the manner we expected - worth a favourite point from us, least of all because we've been planning a similar (but not quite the same) hide ourselves, over in Blenheim! Might have to change our minds now, to try and keep as many unique clever hides as we can in the GC-world! TFTC - the hardest part was extracting the log, but we had the right tool to be able to do that, log signed and returned before the lone caretaker at the bowling club was even aware of us.

Found on a nice day with no muggles about

A bit of [successful] caching on the way to work gets the day off to a good start. Looked for this one a few weeks back without and success. With a few more finds under our belt now, and a lucky glance in the right direction made me think: Is it? Perhaps. Have a look. Yes! Now that's a clever hide.

One for my favourite list. Thanks

Nice hide, cache a bit damp sadly. No muggles this evening at 5pm so I could takie my time. Cheers

Classic!

Staying in the old homeland for the Easter break with mrs tws, had a great time and weather not to bad, real nice on Easter Monday

Nice hide, many thanks

TFTC. I am on a roll attempting to cache for 100 days in a row. Over 80 now and still counting, time will tell.....
Up to this area for work and a bit of relaxation on the side.
Today I was lucky enough to spend the day with my friend's son. He was willing to do a few afternoon caches with me.
Once I managed to navigate to GZ, which was a nice spot to view the nearby lawn bowlers, my companion spotted the cache in a flash.
Thanks The Rolling Frog for placing this cache.
#3315

Being early made it easy. TFTC. http://www.geocaching.com/images/icons/icon_smile_cool.gif

#351 I've only seen one other of this type of cache - in the hills above Wellington - well done! Got a lot of bounce around the GZ today for some reason. TFTC

A quick find while caching in Nelson with Book2. TFTC

Very cleaver little gem. TFTC

Been here way too many time but nice to finally knock this one off my list today good one

Very clever

TFTCache

Quick find today no one about tftc

Well well well that was a goodie

bowling muggles

Quick find second attempt. Dunno how i missed it first time round. Tftc

No problems with this one today ,,,, Clever Hide Thanx4tc

Log replaced by Miss SoBad; Cheers;

Spotted the maintenance log. Today the area was clear so placed a new log in the cache and removed the soaked one.

Wonder how many cachers have been caught on camera? Clever hide, log is wet only just managed to stamp (sorry have arm in cast can't sign), and don't have anything on me to replace log with. Thanks

Logs drenched, needs replacing. Maybe put in a plastic bag

Just wanted to get a cache on the way home from Nelson so I could log one on the 21st day of August geocaching day. I should have read the previous logs and brought you a nice dry piece of paper because I always try and help out other cachers caches when possible. There is another cache nearby so when I do that one I'll replace the log for you. TFTC.

Number 9 of 31 log still unwriteable but clever hide TFTC

Finally got this one off the list. unfortunately log to wet to sign. tftc

Logbook soaked, suggest a replacement.

A sneaky hide for sure! Unfortunately the log book is dripping wet and I couldn't sign it, but happy to describe the hide to the CO for verification if need be.

TFTC

Think we need more experience to find this one. Wondering where this sneaky hide could be.

After the rain stopped Mummy and Daddy wanted to go for a walk so I hopped in the front pack and slept through a geocaching mission with 5 found and 2 dnf. This was a find, which was great fun. This cache was just for me as mummy and daddy had found it before. Tftc

Took us longer than it should have as we have met this type of cunning little set up before! Good one. 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

I had a quick look for this one a few weeks ago, but it was just too populated. This evening was a different story and with my eagle eyed lady on the case we quickly had it in hand Another outstanding Rolling Frog Cache.

Found 2nd attempt, too many muggles 1st time. No one around this time but still took a little to find. Sometimes you need to look twice at something. Very clever

Ha very sneaky Mr Rolling Frog....your cleverness bowled me over...