"secret" azalea garden (Manawatu) Feilding, North Island, New Zealand
By SetuCurst on 15-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4X1AG

Garden was getting to messed up with people trying to find this cache. The cache also went missing. Have placed another cache close by in the area.

I went to see if this cache was still there and I was unable to find it. I am also aware that there is evidence of people trying to find this cache (rocks moved and flattened plants). I am temporarily disabling this cache as I am planning on moving it over the weekend to a more suitable hiding place (maybe a little bit harder) but still within the secret garden.

Over for the day to clean up some of the new Feilding caches. This was the 2nd of 4 very frustrating caches where a small container was secreted away coupled with the co-ords being just far enough out, and a rather broad hint, made for a rather large search area which meant we came up empty handed. Abandoned the search after over half an hour. Had hoped to get rather more caches in Feilding done today, but the time spent on these small containers/large area caches ate into our time. Enjoyed our roast pork sammies under the trees in the cool after getting hot and scratched scrambling through the trees and rocks. Will have to try again next time in town. TFTC

Unfortunately no luck for us, but agree with the previous DNFer - there are signs of damage here by over-zealous searchers. Maybe the cache could be moved away from the garden area?

I couldn't see any signs of the cache but unfortunately I could see signs of where geocachers have been with plants being damaged at GZ

[green] Came out with Bright_Jun, another long cycle for him, wanting to get a little fitter. We arrived here and found 4Tees already in the hunt, so we joined in. last time I was here I got nowhere, with 3 others helping out. This time I found it! Yay! Five meters from GZ, which is within normal tolerance, although the CO is usually more accurate. On the way home we stopped off at a farm and got their permission to place a cache at their door. More caches coming soon to a farm near you!

Found with the help of two other caches also on the hunt. 29/1/2014

Finally managed to get this one! Got it quite easily this time, last time i was looking for something different. TFTC

found on the 22-1-14 with insanitynz and loopysue and our rugrats. Was such a lovely day to be out and about. TFTC.

Nice walk through this area while doing my 10,000 steps. Tftc

Went and checked on this one tonight - it is definitely still there

took a little bit to find but found it in the end with Loopysue and SpriteNZ TFTC

Talk about looking for a cache in a stone garden. Spent about 45 minutes looking but no luck even with two of us looking. We wondered if it was still there with so many DNF.
A pretty spot to walk through. Must be great in spring.

An afternoon caching with my son, spritenz and insanitynz and their kids, a great find, enjoyed finding this one. I found this one fairly quickly was an awesome find and a good hide thank you loved this one

GPS had different ideas on how to approach this cache. But short of hiking through someone's garden it was back to the park and a pleasant stroll! And then a Did not find with a big DNF!

Must have turned over every stone in the garden - none with a secret tho!

I see "loopysue" was successful, so cache must still be there! Only wish I knew where?

Today was a Feilding Geocache Day! An early start in the company of MJMNZ we set off to “knock off” some of the many new caches appearing in and around Feilding; mostly with success! BUT not this one!

There are certainly a lot of rocks but just no GC to go with them.

A hex on your house for ambiguous clues! Had a fruitful search with 2 Bulbars and PnE for 15 minutes. Agree with Popmac and Seignoid.

didn't find theres some mighty big rocks to turn over

Saw these Timoana caches pop up and decided not to do anything about them - I'll save them for dot days. Then Popmac rings me, having problems, caches won't download into his GPS. We sort that out, then have a little discussion about the new caches that popped up today. Long story short, here we are, filling in a dot day, and if we are lucky, claiming a real prize.
But no prize here. We spent ages here getting nowhere. Still, my dot day is covered, and some first-to-finds, so I am a happy Seagnoid.

{FTF} Finally I get on line and confirm we are indeed ftf this time! A really nice part of the park we never knew existed. Took us a while as the cache could have been much bigger for the area, but is not. TFTC

Last one for the night, getting pretty late and kinda ova it i think...didnt search for long but might come back tomorrow for another try.

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