It Takes Two (Richmond) Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By nickippy on 04-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4ZMBX

As there's been no cache to find for some time, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Gone missing. Will sort another soon.

Seems pretty obvious where it'd be but couldn't see it in any near by locations. CO check?

Although the kids and Dr.Davis loved the chance to play as it wasn't raining, we were unable to find the cache. Possible muggle involvement? Would appreciate the owner checking so we can finish off the area. Thanks!

We were shifting out today, so I went out early to locate the final two Richmond caches I had yet to find. With the Olympic Pool safely found, it was on to this one. How hard could it be; I'd located the cache a few weeks back (and it was a decent size). Well .... I didn't find it! I even brought Troodles for a look later on our way out of town, and she couldn't find it. Be worth an owner check; I'm pretty sure it has gone.

Had a look around. Gps wasn't fully cooperating

no muggles so we could play on the equipment to our big kid hearts delight LOL . tftc

Oops I got stuck up very high with my bigger friend at the bottom laughing at me TFTH

Got stuck up the top with heavier friend laughing at bottom. TFTH

Having just followed a week away for work and the MEGA I'm back down in the south for work and more Rep training. So of course what does the serious geocacher do when faced with being in a town that they haven't done a lot of caching, well cache of course, and this evening was to be no exception.

This was my twelvth as had based myself at "The Saxton" on the edge of Saxton Park, so this was going to be a nice walk back to the hotel after getting my new rep to drop me out here "so that I could go for a walk". Nice simple trad here and a pleasent walk around the park/streets and cycleways collecting caches.

Nice quick find here without any issues .
thanks for the placement , thanks for the cache

#1514 Had me foxed for a few minutes until I read things properly. All in good order. TFTC

Nice, thanks for including a pencil because I forgot mine.

A nice place to play!

Sunny day for a play!

Found on a road trip to Richmond and Nelson from the deep dark South of Dunedin.
Having a great time hunting down caches in a load of different places.

Out on my bike today exploring the local tracks.

Thanks for your efforts in hiding your caches.

Today we planned a big loop from Nelson and back. We drove straight to Tapawera and started there followed the river up to Motueka and then back to Nelson. It was completely dark now so no problem with the muggles. The cache was immediately found as we have found a few like this now and thanks to the name we went straight to it. It seems the local kids have found it and like it write how awesome everyone is. I came away with the song 'Everyone is Awesome' stuck in my head. Thanks for the cache [green]Cache of the Day: 62/65[/green] [blue]Cache of the weekend: 67/142[/blue]

Nice One!!!!!!!!!!Just a couple of hundred big M's from the home front. No worries with the find. Forgot the pen, so left a piece of bark in the cache container. Magic winter's day for a walk around the neighbourhood. Much fun. Thanks

TFTC. In the area briefly and I just needed to grab a couple of caches.
It took a couple of location checks to find the correct "underneath".
Thanks nickippy for placing the cache.

We had to thnk the saying it takes two. Sorta easy and lts of fun!tftf!

Nice to see a signature from a little muggle-child who accidently found it.

This cache is only about 350m from home (as the crow flies, but not as the geocacher walks) but I had been keeping it in reserve for a day like today.
After steady rain all morning, after lunch, it had lessened to a very light drizzle so popped on my rain jacket and headed out for a walk. I passed several other people on my short walk, all taking advantage of the break in the weather, so was pleased to see the playground was quite empty when I arrived so set to work to grab the cache. Nicely tucked away container.
While I was signing the logbook, 2 teenaged girls appeared. Bugger. I popped the container in my jacket pocket, resigned to taking it away with me to return later, but noticed they were on the swings and facing away from me, so bent down to "tie my shoe laces" and rehide the cache at the same time.
Thanks for day #363 of my streak and TFTC.

Couldn't find it for a while but once we thought about the name we got it straight away TFTC

out for a bike ride and cleaning up some of the local caches thanks nickippy for the cache

No muggles, and luckily I had come across this type of hide before because I'm pretty sure I would of DNF'd this one otherwise.

TFTC

Nice find on the way home from school. TFTC

Nice quick find.

SL TFTC

On a geocaching holiday with tmann421 seeking out caches at the top of the South Island. Thanks to all the CO's for making this such a memorable trip.

Another good hide here.

TFTC

Thanks!

Came early. Good idea. TFTC

Ahh what awesome caches I have seen on my travels this week , from fake logs, to mint tins stuck to posts, to nanos under benches to awesome tree climbing cache hides, his week has been an awesome time to check out the new caches and of course old!! It was great to see all the different places too, like nelson, and greytown, and Blenheim of course!! Then there was the small tiny areas, where we stopped to see earthquake museums, with of course the ''rural' caches as I like to call them. then of course there was the significance of stop offs; like the bulla swing bridge, where I went, saw and conquered there and back twice, while dad stooof o the comfort of the flat grass, smiling, waving and taking pictures Funny, but the best part about that bridge was when the people who worked there, started to come across when I was I was about half way going back ,so they had to get past, so they tilted the bridge sideways, onto its side, so then I could get past, it was pretty scary, but awesome too!! Then the bridge bounced and went side to side and swung it was really awesome! Then as they walked to the other side they were jumping and swinging from side to side, it was great fun!!:)
But anyway the caches I encoun tered on my trip were rreally good, each one was different in some way, including popmacs mint trail series in the north island, which was a really neat idea!!
Anyway, I would like to say thanks tov all the great cache owners who took their time to place all these caches Thank you and well yeah TFTCs all round

A day trip to Nelson with my caching daughter nightowl19 and to boost her, and my, South Island cache finds. The day was 'planned' around the earthcaches at the top, and bottom, of Riwaka hill and entailed few inevitable stop offs, park and grabs, small walks etc, you get the picture. In the end we grabbed just over 20 caches and I moved closer, but not yet at, my target of 3000 finds (that will be done tomorrow)
Had a great day including a swim in the sea at high tide at Tahunanui, seeing the Riwaka resurgence and a fish and chip supper on Nelson waterfront, getting 'home' at 9.30 (for the second night in a row).
Temperatures today ended up reaching the magical 30 degree mark, too hot for some caches in the end so the plan was reduced a little bit.
A small 'diversion' on the way through Richmond to try and find ten normal (not Premium member) Traditional caches, as was the intention for most of todays finds as nightowl19 isn't a Premium member.....yet
It did take two, and we found it easily enough
T F T C

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Considering myself rather lucky to have hit this at a time with no muggles. Cheers

In Richmond for a wee family holiday. Out for an evenings walk with Mrs G.....quick find and sign with no one else around. Cheers.

Found!! Thanks for the cache!

Found while out with mum2jer.

Another wonderful day for caching. Using the hint, and with no muggles around, soon found the cache. Tftc

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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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 # 705

TFTC!!

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Found on a nice day. Found early before muggles turned up. Took tb

Never knew this playground was here, oh the places you discover while geocaching! Once my brain clicked, the find was quick. Dropped TB, great hide, TFTC!

Out for a walk with the juniors, the dog and nana2five. We used to live in one of the streets nearby so this was a regular playground for the juniors. It was easy to figure out the likely location. The juniors were quick to find it. TFTC.

Really good. Follow the clues.

hard

TFTC! Found whilst on a nice stroll with cafe.chick, nathanlarking111 and taylor! Like cafe chick says below follow the clues!!!

TFTC!

Really good one ! It great to get kids involved and have a play on the playground afterwards

Once I took the cache title into account the cache was soon found. Thanks. No one was around lunchtime today which allowed me to search uninterrupted.

Great one to trade items from, good find. I always went to that park with my sister and stopped by to look for it. TFTC

A quick walk after work plus a couple of caches not a bad way to finish a working week. Thanks for cache .

This was our second visit here to find this cache but the first time we got to look for it. On our first visit another car pulled up just as we did and the occupants then took up 'residence' just a few feet from GZ so we had decided our next visit would be later in the day with less likelihood of muggles. This proved a successful strategy and the log was soon signed. TFTC.

Yes, it did take two. The first cache on the list had peeps gardening across the road from GZ. This cache was second on the list. We were muggled here some days before yet today the place was deserted. TFTC

Morning walk with the dog. Found this one plus 2 more. Excellent location. Thanks. BigT44

Coordinates were about 5 meters off from where the cache actually, but the name gave us a hint...

Found with brocktk and holden51, coordinates were a bit off though.

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

This took me two visits as well. First came a month or so ago and a female sitting on the swing facing the cache with a phone made the search a bit impossible. A straight forward find today with no one round - in the playground at least. TFTC #5638

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With a couple of hours to fill in before a meeting nearby, I took the opportunity to find a few caches. This one was a quick find, with no muggles around due to the rain. Left TB. TFTC.

I'd saved this one for a rainy day and it was. Got distracted at first, then by a process of elimination there is was all safe and sound.

TFTC

When our two girls were little we spent many many happy hours here. We used to live almost directly opposite and popped over here event summer evening. Lots of good memories. A quick find tonight just before dark.
Thanks nickippy for the cache.

#8146

It did indeed take two - - visits that is. The first time as we approached GZ from one direction a child ran across from the other and proceeded to make use of the facilities. We quickly realised being discrete was not an option and retreated. Today's visit worked out much better - - there was no-one in sight and the find was quickly made. Good one. TFTC.

The two of us were in agreement that early evening would be a good time to look for this cache. We have found a cache in a similar spot before so it was not long until the cache was in hand although we don't think we have been to this park before. Thanks for the pencil because we then realised neither of the two of us had a pen. Saved us a double back to the car.
Thanks for the cache.

No problem. Found right where I thought it would be as I approached GZ. Clever hide. Thanks nickippy!!

It does take two, My brother and I went and got it and the best catcher in the family ( me) found it

Searched around and found the cache within minutes
good one
thank you for the cache

A find at last! Some days the caching sense just completely departs and despite knowing the cache is there and easily found you just don't get it . That was me as I wandered up and down the same line time after time and getting progressively more frustrated, after all it's only a D1 Grrrrrr. Finally I used the PAF card and opened my eyes which really helped. Nice hide. TFTC

I was in the area and so I thought I'd have a look for this cache. Spotted the likely hiding place on approach and found the cache in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Thought I had better look for this one as close to home and also new where the play ground was as used to take my 2 oldest granddaughters here to play when they lived near by. had to read the cache name to give clue as to where to search. Nice hide. TFTC

nice one
found on the way to yhe airport.
thanks

Published

Yea, how about that - my first FTF!!

Only just, cos PC was hot in pursuit and I only just held her off.

A good hide Thanks for that nickippy

Popped out for a not so quick night cache. Surprised to see two names in the log already. WhoNose must have left his bike at home tonight. Well done.
Thanks for bringing me out for the hunt. A nice hide. No dogs behind any fences too. Got to be good at 9pm!
TFTC

Was in the car within a minute of seeing the email, stopped to pick up Mum in Stoke so wasnt surprised to see someone in the park when we arrived. Who Nose pulled it out as we walked across to meet him. Well done on your first FTF. Clever wee hide. TFTC

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