The Steps (Manawatu) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 21-Feb-13. Waypoint GC46BZW

The spider seems to have been scared off permanently, and taken the cache with it. Too many muggles know about him, it seems. Sorry guys.

HMMMM ive lost count of how many times ive been back here. Went back today with TreMichLan who has previously found it and still no luck...wondering if its missing ?

went with friends, was in plan sight

Quick find by miss H, yes the spider is still there Great little hide - TFTC

For such a plainly named cache, this is certainly a very good one. It took me a few minutes searching before I worked out what was going on here.

Old user

I didn't like the sand flies here I got lots of bites!!!! YUK! but i liked the hide!

Found it. Spider still there!!

Found it! Spider still there!

done, yet again with assistance from InsanityNZ

nice easy find TFTC

Ingenious hide! TFTC

Took me a little while to find it but got it in the end tftc!

At long last - back up and running. Whew!

Hey! and the spider is STILL there! Or maybe it's one of the offspring.

That's a creepy cache! Awesome too and got a bit of a fright! TFTC

rejigging hte cache to make it a little easier to open. Should be back in a couple of days.

A quick easy find of a fun cache, although our granddaughters couldn’t be encouraged to retrieve it. TFTC

Photo as couldnt open

A quick find after dinner

Tftc

[green] Back in place at last. The old hide has been destroyed, cannot hide the cache there. The new cache is less than 100mm from the old location. Enjoy!

Cache has been stolen. Will be replaced in a few days. Patience...

Many thanks for parking instructions and the map near Mangaone 2 road entrance helped us get there. spent well over a half hour but no luck where have we gone wrong

Ha! Very clever. I liked scaring my geoson after finding it. TFTC.

Heh heh this one reminded me of caching in Australia. Thanks for the helpful parking suggestion and this fun cache Seagnoid.

Good hide. My son wouldnt put his hand there incase a spider was there.funny

The cache almost made me jump as it was not what or where I expected it to be. TFTC

Log replaced

With the cache well back in it's hidey hole this cache took a little longer to find than expected! I was very glad no muggles interrupted my search though. I was sorry I didn't bring a rubbish bag as this place sorely needs a bit of CITO.

TFTC

Only 3 spaces left on the log.

Found the nicely hidden cache after a short search. TFTC

I saw the spider on Sunday, but not the cache, so back this afternoon and found it TFTC

Down this way for work so a spot of caching at night after a days work. Its great that night makes it easy to collect a number of caches, Nice and Easy find just what the doctor ordered. But you got me a good one on this cache

TFTC

Grand fun in the dark and rain with a torch ---- Honours go to Ethan who retrieved it and was suitably impressed with the cache
Thank you from all of us

TFTC, found last month am only logging now, found with Kcoley

Cool hide, geo kids loved it. Found in the dark and rain by torch which seemed appropriate for the cache. Thanks

Nice cache... Junior catchers loved it..having fun ...TFTC

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Found tonight, after a short, & yes we admit it - a reluctant search, just praying no muggle came around the corner as we must have looked pretty dodgy hanging around there with our torches! Took some nimble fingers to open the lid too. TFTC Seagnoid.

After getting the word from the CO that the cache was indeed still in place. I went back in for round two. After a quick search I soon had the cache in hand. TFTC.

First find today. Cool hide, even when I found it I wasn't sure I'd found it.

Nice gave Wolfvixen0 a nice fright lol

I'm a little surprised that SpudPN could not find this cache - should be easy for anyone with a bit of experience. Which means its been muggled. [:(!] Drat [:(!]. So I shoot over there with a replacement container (I usually let the first muggle go through - often it is not repeated). Hey! the cache is still there! And, surprise, surprise, so is the spider! I'd thought that after us cachers have been gallumpfing all over his territory it would have left. I guess that means thanks to all you guys for caching softly.

Sorry, Spud. You will have to have another go sometime.

The Seagnoid.

Endmosteye44 and i have a wee competition to see who can find caches first when we are in an area, he was glad i found it first and is still laughing at my leaping abilities... thanks... for the cache

A good 10min search yielded no cache.... or spiders. Will try again some other time.

For someone who is scared of big spiders, this cache almost made me wet my pants in fright! TFTC

Tftc, saw the spider, scary stuff

Made my daughter go ewwww quick find, thanks for the cache.

This one took me way longer than it should have. Snuck op on by a muggle, so had to explain myself - she was giving me some funny looks, but help me look for a while. Found it after she carried on, and got a bloody good surprise out of it. TFTC

Didn't find it cause there was no way I was going to tangled with a spider, will be back with someone braver!

Good spot for the cache and guard. SL TFTC

Found it, though almost got scared off by the spider! Cool hiding place and nice there's a spider to guard it TFTC

Nice one! Enjoyed this find! TFTC

Easy find, but I was not putting my hand in there first - yes I am wossie about spiders!
Kids enjoyed it TFTC

this just made my fear of spiders just a little stronger

Found It!Good cache,enjoyed this one.TFTC!

Quick find with junior cacher 1 while in the area. Friendly arachnid popped out to greet us when retrieving cache. TFTC.

Easy find...as the container was sitting out on the footpath. Seems all intact, so placed it back to where it looked like it belonged...even saw the spider, bigger than i thought it would be [shudder].

Encountered the spider, but it wasn't threatening, so quietly left it. Was a bit concerned about the cache - not sure if it had been put back into the right place because there was really nowhere to wedge/secure it - hope it doesn't fall out again. Certainly liked the cache - gets a favourite from us. TFTC

A quick find and also encountered the spider, very resilient arachnid
TFTC

A quick early morning find, though just about got muggled twice TFTC Seagnoid

Found on the way to a boardgame evening hosted by the Seagnoid.
The spider didn't bite me, but the dry prickly foliage and the mossies definitely did

Clever theme for the cache and an amusing discovery as the cache container rather suddenly appeared from its hiding hole - good fun, TFTC.

Third to find.. I'm a little scared of spiders ..uggh.. so the talk of spiders made me a little wary!

thanks.

2TF at 5:32pm. A fantastic container and fairly easy find. Didn't realist there were any steps here until we arrived. Thanks.

I wasn't going to go for the FTF on this one. But my 17 month old daughter was trying to climb into the car. So since she obviously wanted to go, the two of us headed off for a drive.
A quick find.
Nice container. We saw the big spider too, but it didn't seem to worry my daughter.
Thanks.

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