Green Green Grass of Home (Manawatu) Feilding, North Island, New Zealand
By SetuCurst on 07-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4WMA1

This one has gone - will need to get a new one to replace

I was meant to log this on some months ago. So I am finally doing so now.

Need to check this is still here

Second visit and could not find. The area is very overgrown and it needs checking to see if the cache is still there.

Windy and cold and could not find it. Struggled to get the co-ordinates to settle in one spot. Another day.

Sorry, this place seem abandoned by time itself...

Just not enough time today. cheers from casa del hince TFTC

Nice hide.

Found it finally, have looked a few times got a new gps and was trying it out when a friendly walker pointed me in the right direction! Still learning how to use the gps...

Caching expedition in the Manuwatu region. Spent quite a while searching for this one and had all but given up when cache was found. Was given a hint on this one that certainly helped to find. TFTC

Another good find while trying to keep the numbers ticking over a bit.

Enjoying the drive around the area
Pleased to find it this visit - still took me a long time searching

Good different container
SL TFTC

After completing the rest of the series through Kitchener Park in April we hit a stumbling block at the final hide. An e-mail to the CO and a reply after we had left town meant it wasn't until today that we got back to search for this cache again. A successful hunt this time and a favourite for the cache container. Feilding is home town to Mrs HeMaLuDy, so it really is the green green grass of home. TFTC

A trip to Palmy to catch up with a couple of friends, and a chance to do some caching along the way. Using the revised coordinates in recent logs this was a quick find...clever container.TFTC

Another DNF for us today, too much green green grass for us.

Found it this time. Not where the GPS said but got it after reading other logs. Love the camo. Tftc

As I had to come down this way for work, and left early due to impending weather I wasn't going to let the opportunity for a few early morning caches go to waist.
It was still well dark while grabbing these caches but the walk was enjoyable and its always good to find caches

Thanks for the placement

Found it, needed Dad's help. The clue is in the name. That's three today! Wahoo

Will look again, kids lost interest

hmmm... will keep an eye on this and try again

Didn't really have any idea what we were looking for on this one. Some of the logs said the coords were a bit out too, so I wasn't really sure where to look either.
Thanks.

Although we didn’t have time to walk the track today, we thought we would pick up this cache in passing, but unfortunately it was not to be.

Should of gone to spec savers before I looked for this one, please my apoliges to that lady who walked past with the pushchair I did not see you as I was too fixed on finding the cache, apparently she kept looking back as she walked on as my wife watched from the van she was sure she would phone the nut house think the village idiot had escaped. many thanks Worth a FP

Finally got this on our third visit! Yay. Clever hide and this is what I had in mind but the gps was out and we had been searching in the wrong area. tftc

Cute. Nice quick find. TFTC

Very clever hide TFTC

Looked everywhere, no go for me.

Second time here and was about to call it quits again when I noticed something.... Yip. Well hiden and a little surprised that it wasn't noticed the first time. TFTC

Third time lucky for us and quite straightforward this time. More accurate co-ords would have been helpful, but it is an effective hide and for that it gets a favourite. TFTC

A quick find this time round. My coords seemed to be a bit off but I was armed with an additional hint from a previous finder. Fits in surprising well considering all the not green green grass around. TFTC

We loved this cache, very clever thanks!

third visit,senior anv1l phone gps,was way out,my samsung was only 2 meters out,should of used this in previous visit,as the cache was easy to see when you are looking in the right spot,tftc

Third time here, good hide. Thanks for the cache SetuCurst.

[green] Dammit. I came past here to find the cache in prep for a dot day later on, having just found TV while you wait. Me and Jun spent some time searching (2nd attempt) when I suddenly realised what the hide must be. Another big search, no luck. Then I saw a reference in the logs about a log with updated coords. Not on my GPS, so I sat down, got the phone out, connected to the internet and pulled up the full cache page. Found M&S's entry and got the updated coordinates - repeated here for your inconvenience:

S40° 13.965
E175° 33.387

But then an elderly couple turned up, saying "The nicest part of a cycle is the rest at the end" but I said "No, we are on a treasure hunt". Well it turns out they were very interested and stayed to watch us find it (My guess about the hide was correct - nicely done, by the way). Looks like we may have a couple of new converts. Anyway, I forgot myself and signed the log.

I was thinking about cheating and logging this for today (the day after - another dot day, but that is just not me. And I just can't be bothered cycling out there again. So dammit, missed another dot day. Luckily they are not that crucial.

If the coordinates were accurate this would be worth a favourite from me. Alas, not quite. And alas part II - did not fit the TB that was in my pocket.

A good cache to start our walk today. Nicely hidden.
There's getting to be more brown grass than green grass at our home at the moment. Can't complain though - it's been a good season up until now
TFTC

Stood out once I thought about it.

Too good for me today.

I couldn't find this geocache, maybe I'll have better luck next time!

Awesome hide. Luckily Tans1980 spotted something that proved to be it quite quickly. Found with Stardust718 and Tans1980

Ahh, it makes sense now. Out caching from Kitchener to Kowhai parks with Atoms7 and Tans1980 and a baby each. Found it quickly after using the revised co-ordinates from Adventure Collectors. Very cool camo.

Found while out with Stardust718 and Atoms7. Nice camouflage.

Couldn't find anything

Spent a long time hunting for this one, there were lots of muggles walking and driving past as it was 5 and the racing had just finished. Will have to come back and look again another time

Have fixed camo and put back in place. Please be careful when opening

Have picked this cache up and taken home to repair camo - will place back tomorrow night after work

Amazing cache. In need of some repair though. 1/2/2014

Last dot day of January dotted thanks to this little blighter.
Following my FTDNF earlier this year went back at 7 o clock this morning armed with a nudge from a friend and Adventure Collectors other co-ordinates. Both were enough for me to make the find and dot the dot. As mentioned the camo has come off but I used it as best I could when replacing where found.
Worth a fave for novelty and deviousness
TFTC

Nearly gave up and co-ords were probably the 5 m out for us. I was just examining man made stuff a little further over and BINGO! I was happy to stop searching. It is not in the blackberry people! Well, not Jan 14 anyways. Camo has come unstuck - not sure whether it matters too much. TFTC

Allanfamily1997

Third time lucky out around town again,this one had us baffled but never gave up many thanks

Checked on this cache tonight - I still get the co-ords as listed however I am using an IPhone. If you are having trouble try Adventure collectors co-ords as they may work for you.

In my first attempt I couldn't find this cache so I left it. After completing other caches on the Walkway I walked back to my car and plodded to give this another go. As I walked back to this cache I read about the cache and something gave me a good indication of what I should be looking for. Armed with this new information I searched and I soon had the cache in hand - yeeehaa!

I did find the co ords to be slightly out by about 5m (every metre counts with a cache hide like this) so I did a quick reading and would put the co ords at:

S40 13.965 E175 33.387

I'm super glad the blackberry didn't tag me at all .

For the 3rd time today I noticed Tremichlan has logged a find but I couldn't see his name on the logsheet?

TFTC +FP

Look thro black berry...tried not to fall down unstable bank... but couldn't get the idea of this cache from its name.... I would love some feed beck from this cache.

After an hour walk with setucurst to do some checking on my own caches I picked up the other 3 with the CO that are down this walk. tricky hide giving it a fav point, tftc

Evil cache
A few blackberry thorns and scratches as part of the spoils of battle.
Co-ordinates slightly out by me.
Those who DNF might want to try them but be warned this one is tricky.
TFTC

Gps zerod out at the sign board but with 4 of us we widened the search by up to 10 m but still no find

Searched for a while with 2Bullbars and no luck for us

Didnt see any evidence of it

Bit of a wild goose chase in the pouring rain before work this morning, good old kiwi summer. Need to come back with a better pair of eyes, or even a line trimmer!
There was evidence of others searching before me, I suspect some 11pm last night pixies may have tried too.

This entry was edited by capperz on Wednesday, 08 January 2014 at 21:07:53 UTC.

Bit of a wild goose chase ourselves last night in the pouring rain after getting the other two ftf up the track. Bit of daylight and better searching at 11am made it a lot easier and still got ftf. Evil little cache! Thanks

Second to Find Helbaby7 just beat me to it, after our search last night at 11pm in the pouring rain this one eluded me, I did my research and today armed with that knew what we were looking for and soon had it in hand, an awesome cache TFTC

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