Alphabet Soup - L (Waikato) Horotiu, North Island, New Zealand
By McCutchan Cache Clan on 19-Aug-14. Waypoint GC53Y9E

Cache found. The whole family was able to participate in this find. Had loads of fun as a family on this hunt.

It was dark by the time we got here, but there wasn't too much muggle traffic around to pay any attention to us weirdos wandering around with our phone torches on.The co ords were spot on, which made for a super quick find. Thanks for putting this here

A late afternoon cache after work, with rattll. Parked up just on dark, took a short walk to GZ. Put my head in the vegetation, found the cache, bang on the coordinates. All good in the container. Signed, and returned as found. Tftc!

Wow that was pretty easy but I was a bit scared I was on someone elses property and also there was was no pen

Decided to drive up to here so that I could go down onto the river trail to get the caches I didn't get to last year. Left the geohound in the car whilst I walked over. A nice easy find. Then when I got to the car I realised I had forgotten to drop off a TB. And I couldn't access the river trail because there is a construction site in the way.

Good hiding place

Great hide.tftc

A nice hide here as I left hamilton this morning.
Appreciate the effort here to make a creative hide..

Found

This is by far our fave cache yet. There’s been some serious thought go into it & it’s so much fun

Best find off the day, found by Joel on a family caching day. TFTC

Out for an short evening drive picking off some random caches as I went.

As I approached the GZ to park, I was pleased to see that the Lush Long Lawn had been cut so I was unlikely to Languish for Long whist Looking for the cache.

At the GZ, I Lifted one Loose item but that was just a Lazy attempt. Looking Lower I Landed upon a Likely Location which I soon found contained the Log.

Thanks McCatchan Cache Clan
#4346

**#17,153**
L is for Last day before home time, and also for Left side of the road parking!
Quick find at GZ, nicely camo'd hide too.
TNLN TFTC!

Found it

Found with LEONOOB. Coincidentally I had just explained the game "Scattergories" to him over lunch, and then reading the description here is obviously a sign to play!
Wasn't impressed with the parking distance at first (pretty wet today) but ended up enjoying the hide! Left a trackable , tftc!

We are spending the day caching around Ngaruawahia and Horotiu. We parked at the nearby rest area and made our way across towards GZ. Both of us missed seeing the nice camo on our first look in this spot, but we quickly saw it when the GPS brought us back for a second look. Thanks.

Easy and fun, love the creativity in the hiding spot.

Love the amazing spot also smart to put it in this spot

Quick easy find.TFTC

On a work trip in Hamilton
Got some spare time.

Decided to pick few caches while in town
TFTC

First find

Very cool!

Thank u

Tftc

Doing the Te Awa River Walk today....so had to stop here too.!
Sorry but last finder must be super strong cos I couldn't unscrew the green lid....
Wrote SN on the hint item ....

Miss Eight and I found this during our lunch stop on our drive south today. Thanks!

Awesome spot, heaps of trades

Yay, thanks

Nice and easy to find TFTC

Quick find, well camoed!

This was so much fun , tricky but fun..

Out doing our first Adventure Lab so picked this up on the way. TFTC

We thought this one might require a bit of stealth but when we reached GZ realised it was very private.
The very nicely camouflaged cache was soon spotted and the log signed.
The tricky part was waiting for the road to be clear before emerging but a gap soon appeared.
Awesome cache, we will have to look for the rest of the series.

Found, nice spot

Great idea. Thankyou!

Easy find on way home from work.

Good fun one.

Nice, easy quick find

A nice quick find thanks. Nicely hidden, Fav point added to the count.

Ms_KR and I are on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland for our family Christmas. Today we cruised around some of the Waikato on the way home. Please excuse the generic logs, there have been a few finds and they get muddled up sometimes.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

I had been on a weekend roadtrip up to the big smoke to attend a mate's 50th party this evening, but now was the big drive back home. But it's also a great opportunity to try to grab some caches on my way.

It only took me a moment or two to find this cache. When opened, the log was in good condition so I quickly took care of the usual field etiquette before replacing the whole thing exactly as found and getting back to the car to crack on with the day.

This is a nicely done hide which is very suitable for its location, so I'm happy to give a FP for it.

Thanks for placing this cache.

And this was the last cache to be found during a bike ride along the river. Lot of traffic on the road but you need to ignore that!

Thanks for hiding.

Just passing this way after picking up two previous dnf’s and couldn’t resist nipping over the road for this one. I have put out a very similar cache to this one but it took a while to figure out how to extract the log from this one! Have to confess that my muggle hubbie actually sorted it - I might have still been there for quite some time! TFTC

Bang on coords helped here! A bit sluggy but cache all dry and good. TFTC!

Another cool little find ! A lot of Pukeko’s hanging around the area too

TFTC

Brilliant camo

TFTC Locked as Rejseholdet

Found with friends tftc. Logged as rejseholdet

Found together with rejseholdet from DK

Nice idea! Quick find. Lots of cars but noone cared.

Very cool cache

A final cache before heading back into Hamilton.
A very easy find.
TFTC

Nice hiding spot.

TFTC

Over in Hamilton picking up a few more caches. Haven’t been out here much. Love the series TFTC

Easy parking and no rest from fast muggles - cute cache container!

Love the hide, TFTC

#553. I am working my way through caches that are around the area I work. Popped out at lunch today for a couple more. Clever hide, easy to spot the L and make the find of another lovely letter.

I need to check out my progress on the whole alphabet.

TFTH

A quick easy find of a nicely hidden cache, in the rain, after crossing the busy road. TFTC

Laden with a light lunch I’m lamenting a lack of url linked loot.
Oh look?! Latterly I laboriously loitered across the lawn - a labour of love.
Latitude and longitude and a leverage of luck, located a largish length of lumber and the log’s lair.
Left a little laconic lettering on the logbook, and live and let lie as located. TFTC

After feeling well refreshed with a cold apple cider, this was too close to our cycle trail to resist. Glad we came here. Fantastic use of camo and a nice big dry cache. Thanks MCC

Pazza2 invited me to join them and start off the New Year with a cycle ride on this very cool cycle way. Thankfully the nearby coffee club was open and we stopped for refreshments and somehow ended up with a cider rather than a coffee. Then we made a quick ride across the road for this cache.

Its after dark now, so heading back towards Hamilton on my bike. Stopped here to make a fairly quick find, TFTC

Out and about today trying to get a few caches in a last attempt at some planetary pursuit points. Unfortunately had a large number of dnfs instead, so I was very pleased with this nice quick find here. Parked about 100m up the road and walked down, a fair bit of traffic at 5pm even though it's Saturday. Very nicely constructed cache. Finally the sun is out! Thanks for the cache

That was a fun little hide! Taking a break from the morning's caching to get a coffee. Check out if there are any caches nearby. This one's first then on to Waikato Progress. TFTC.

Decided that Friday evening was a good time to park at the BP and walk to the six caches nearby. This was supposed to be find one of six. Ducked into the hedge too far away from the cache so picked a time between cars to duck out and back in again and the cache was right in front of me. Excellent idea for a hide. The first one of this type that I’ve found. TFTC!

Out and about in the Waikato with a few friends (Team SEAC) on a caching raid. After finishing "The eyes have it" series (the purpose for crossing the border! ), we decided to find a few other Waikato hides. This was one of them.

This was a pretty cool cache.... always enjoy these kinds of hides!
Log signed as "SEAC 11" to save space (as there were 11 of us present today!)

TFTC, and sorry for the delay in logging!

A group of Team SEAC cachers were in the area collecting the Eyes Have It series and decided to head to Hamilton to continue our caching expedition after lunch and further continued after dinner. A nice quick find here. Signed at SEAC11 to save space

Neat container, no sign of the pukeko family that usually hang out here today [8]

Quickly found, thanks to the hint. Great idea for a cache.

Nice quick park and find. Love the container. Very inovative.TFTC.

Another find while husband sleeps after long flight from Cook Islands early this morning

Where's my gumboots when I need them! At home is the answer to that question, could have done with them this morning walking across the wet grass instead of in jandals. Deeerh. No worries parking here.

log later

Easy find thank you.

Great hide, thanks.

Early morning cache trip for me today (5am) - with the hope that there wouldn't be too many cars around as I went to pick these up. I was wrong. But as I'm also not usually awake at 2am to come back and try then, I perservered ahead.

Parked at the petrol station, and walked across the cold dew wet grass to the cache site. Life became a lot easier when I turned on my light. After a bit of stumbling about I had the cache in hand and signed, and was able to head back into town.

Day 4 here in New Zealand, after leaving Auckland i was heading South and made a short stop here to take a break. While doing so i just looked for caches around and saw this one here, so i went for it. Finding it wasn't thT hard and now the visitor from Germany has another cache found and signed here in New Zealand.
Thank you very much for placing and maintaining this small treasure

***No muggles were harmed while searching, finding and logging this cache...***

This was a great hiding spot. TFTC

A fun find!

TFTC.Great place

Cool cache found heading home to the Naki. Tftc

Cool cache. Thanks

Awesome cache, quickly spotted by my geomuggle friend. TFTC

On a mission today to find 120 + as a team of 4. All logs signed Naki 4
Team is Blenheim Bear Thatsneat Tmninjaturtle and 2 Bulbars.
It was a fun filled day finding many sorts of different caches and visiting many interesting places.
Many thanks to all who placed these caches to help make it such an enjoyable day

Found this with the team "Naki 4" (Blenheim Bear, 2Bulbars, TMNinjaTurtle and myself) on our mission from Huntly to Hamilton on our hunt to 120. Was a long day but pleased to have it completed! Thank you for the cache.

A quick find but did enjoy,FP from me

Found this cache during the Naki 4 team (Blenheim Bear, 2Bulbars, Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtle and That’s Neat) run on the 120 caches in one day on the 3rd Oct. Many thanks Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. TFTC! Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

another cache that i made a park and grab, would have parked closer but the ground was too wet, nice camo but not sure about the real spider that was protecting it, tftc

Yet another Alphabet Soup cache today! We weren't even really looking for them, just came across them wherever we went! Had a bit of trouble finding a parking place that didn't have us pointing in the wrong direction. Loads of roundabouts today! Nice camo here. Thanks for another smile on the map McCutchan Cache Clan! Find 996.

GrimRaider and I pulled off the highway so we could pick up a few caches on the way into Hamilton. Quite a rainy day so it was good we could grab a park and dash cache. Cache found in good condition - nice little hide. A LEO pulled in at our next cache stop though and had seen us at this one and wanted to know what we were doing. They knew about geocaching though, so all good. TFTC

Nearing the end of a day of caching. Fun cache.

What an awesome container! Definitely giving this a fave! Out for a night cache & this was the first of 8 that we got under the cover of darkness! + a smiley faced whistle, - nothing. SL. TFTC!

Last Lucky..... nah this is too hard.... Last find on this caching walk with thescoobydoos. Getting a bit hot and geo-pup is starting to pant so good timing to get back to the car. TFTC

Legged it to a likely looking location? Located like lightening! Logged our lines, then left.

Great hide! Retrieved after stopping for tea and a wee at the BP. Tftc.

A short walk from the parking spot and, ahaaa, this must be it.!!!! Tftc

Decided to take my oldest on an over night caching trip to Raglan. A great couple of days and a whole bunch of new smileys. Decided to drive right up to GZ... because I could and the car provided the cover we'd need to find this cache. Pretty sure we found this without too much hassle. TFTC

Quick find but didn't like the road