Basil the Bloodhound (Wellington) Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
By DjaliDjinn on 21-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5J0AV

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Hi DjaliDjinn

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Regards
The Coddiwompler

Also found the magnet but no cache, as was logged 10 months ago. Recommend archive.

Tried our best on a Sunday lunch time. Not too muggley, but still couldn't locate.

DNF - 24/3/19 looked all around and can't find it. Have checked twice in the past week, still no luck.

Would like to find this one. Since I come here often but I've looked twice this week and not found it.

I Found the magnet but there is nothing else

Found it but in wet weather thise seats are no fun to sit on...
This I came back after hours when no muggles or vampires were giving or drawing blood

The container was almost out of reach and needed a tool to aid extraction which I found on the ground nearby - probably left by a previous finder...

The logbook is nice and dry and had a few blank pages near the front - and lots of gaps where there's only one name per page -you could fit 3 or 4/page!

Thanks for the cache

Nice find, tricky! Log book full!

Log book full.

Found this one a couple of weeks ago but forgot to log it on here

2nd attempt, couple muggles, think I did it stealthily though!

Tested out every spot before finding my favourite chair.

Almost couldn’t reach it!

A nice quick find, all safe and dry here. TFTC

Found it

Nice little spot. Chair a bit wobbly though. Xd

Nice quick find log book is full unfortunately

1st night in wellington quick find TFTC

Quick and easy as I thought it would be, TFTC!

Nice easy find (thanks to the hint)
Log book was full though

The rain started just as I arrived. Went over everything twice without finding the cache - then I noticed something else and there it was. Cunning hide. Last for the day. TFTC # 12,665

It was hard

Took a little while and needed hint!

In Wellington for the weekend, decided to make the most of the weather and to gain some good step counts that I would walk from the airport into town and grab some caches on route. I was expecting the building to be closed on the weekend but it wasnt and I had to wait for some muggles to leave before making the easy find. TFTC

Not there

13:28
This one needs owners attention. The benches are fenced off and looks like there will be something going on, they seem very old and wobbly so probably getting replaced? And some earthworks?
I snuck behind the fence and still got the cache but who knows how long it will remain there, so if CO wants to get it, this is the last moment to do that, I guess.

Haven't donated blood while in NZ yet, but I have done that multiple times before back in Latvia. Great feeling!

TFTC!
#5907

Log book dry and fine

A little tricky to get but hint is very helpful

Nice and easy cache to find. Easily extracted and log signed. May need a new log book soon, pretty full, but we found an empty page in the middle of the book. TFTC

Took us a while to find this but got it and the first ones to get it this year being a public holiday made this good for us to hunt around with no muggles! tftc

Got it 2nd time around - better chance to search in the evening

That was so exciting

Woooo

Sniffing out a few caches before dinner.

TFTC

Found with lenawoodhouse. Tftc

Danibro and I went and found the eclipse tin but unfortunately can get it. I'm logging it as found but we haven't written in the log book.

I agree with the previous that it is too far in for retrieval without a tool. I'll claim the find though on this quite cold Wellington evening.

I am logging this as found. But container is too deep inside and I couldn't reach it ... Attention needed here in my opinion. Tftc

Used to be a regular visitor here but more than 6 months in the U.K. in the 1980s meant the visits had to stop. Interesting information about blood, especially the third bullet point. TFTC

TFTC 375

Not the easiest cache but we found it.

Quick find. Logbook wince and dry, nearing full.

Thanks for another smilie.

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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Wow

Found it our first one in Wellington

Nice cache to grab after a blood donation! Log is full however

Find the Cache pretty fast. Thank you for the hint.

Thank you for the Cache.

Tftc - out for an evening stroll around lovely part of Wellington- really enjoyed

From the benches I can see why the name of the cache. TFTC

Found this cache on the way walk to supermarket. Quick stop and grab after make sure no body watch. Nice sunny & lil' windy Wellington to enjoy being outside. The log book is full, but manage the sign on the last page. TFTC

Nice hide. TFTC ON A Good Friday Easter hunt!!

Greetings from Germany TFTC
#20

Interesting facts about blood I never knew. TFTC

Sweet find

17/03/17 - Managed to find this one on the way to work today, recent hours have made it almost impossible to keep the streak going, traffic was surprisingly good on our way in so had a little time to squeeze this one in, tftc

No one around so could search easily. All good here. TFTC

Second time lucky. Time to spare waiting for hospital appointment. Overlooked the physical make up of hint objects. Now I know! Great hide my friend.
TFTC! Now for the hospital!

Yay, my first out of town find Required the surreptitious use of a fork to remove (not suspicious looking at all! ) TFTF

Great for a quiet Sunday dot day. Love the hound reference. Tftc

Glad to have found this one, especially because I work so close! A great little hide. Thank you very much

It was great to find that there was a cache very close to where we were parked. Great that it was in theme too. Waited for a delivery person to deliver a very large amount of you-know-what to you-know-where then went in for the grab. TVMFTC .

This was an easy and nice Cache and we really liked the short story about Basil, the Bloddhound!!!
TFTC!

Thought I had looked but missed it on the first pass. Good hide! TFTC

Didn't find it

I have been here before but no luck. This time I found the cache with no problem but had a bit of trouble getting the log out. I did eventually manage to get it out and sign. A very nice little hide. TNLNSL. TFTC!!!
**#1021 @28/01/17 08:58**

Find #2733. Had time to kill around the hospital so gathered a couple of caches. After eliminating all the obvious spots on the chairs, went for the only two remaining spots - it was in the last one of course. SL TFTC

We could easily help Basil the Bloodhound sniff this one out after a visit in Wellington Hospital with no one around while we grabbed it. Thanks for the funny story of Basil and the interesting informations about blood and TFTC!

TFTC nice quick find. I have been donating plasma here for the last year and only today thought about look for any caches.

A bit of patience required while we waited for a muggle to wander by. After he'd gone, a quick search revealed the cache. Ttc. Nice hide.

Cool TFTC

Second attempt at this one. Thwarted by a muggle taxi driver last time and this time had to wait for a lurking muggle to leave. Tftc.

A Friday the 13th find TFTC!

Good hide. Found it the second time round, great facts

Nice, easy find. TFTC!

Sat next to it for ages before i realised where it was. Tftc

A nice break from long hours spent supporting someone at the hospital Thanks for the small diversion and TFTC

Came at night and was surprised to still see big and little muggles still around.. Had to more stealthy than I first thought! TFTC

Team ortho + buff

A quick stop off to find this cache. Glad for the hint as our GPS sent us in another direction but Basil's directions were good. TFTC

Quick stop and grab. Day two of our road trip with jordiporsche from hawkes bay to welly and return. Log signed as b&p.Tftc DjaliDjinn. Find # 3275

Nice simple cache. Very enjoyable. TFTC.

This was my first time and it was pretty cool

Tftc

TFTC

Every one was keen to head home on a cold blustery afternoon by the time I got here. Sniffed out the bench and then had it sniff around a bit before putting a finger on this. Great theme. Tftc

Today being a wet Sunday there were very few muggles around. The cache was easily spotted and extracted from its hide. Good info provided by CO. TFTC

#132. Feelin' a bit grotty today, with a hacking cough and head cold, so where better to go than Wellington Hospital? But this is the Blood Centre, and funnily enough, last week I heard an interview on NewstalkZB asking for new donors. I will get rid of my "bot" before perhaps offering my services. Thanks for the hints, and the cache, which I would have found quicker had I followed the instructions! But got it, to maintain my current streak. Tftc!

Nice hide. A quick find with MrsOchiai on a sunny Wellington day. We took a seat in the sun for a rest. Tftc!

Sat down and told DrOchiai where I assumed the Cache was - I was right. Nice and easy find on a sunny winter day. TFTC

Not found

Found it. Blue eclipse mint container

Took a bit to find. Well hidden

Very well hidden! Appreciated the effort of the previous logger

Second cache for the morning. After walking from the other end of the block down to here in the sun it was quite pleasant to rest up and enjoy the warmth. Caching by phone (discovered the GPS didn't have the Wellington caches loaded - ugh!! [B)] after being up country over the weekend) had to rely on the hint to make the find. Located the cache easily enough but then spent the next 5+ minutes trying to pry it from its hiding spot without being to obvious to any muggle who might have been watching from the surrounding buildings. Eventually successful, the log was signed and then returned to its spot - but left hopefully easier for the next cacher to retrieve.
Used to visit the building nearby by or the van when it was out and about to make a "donation" [^]. Unfortunately didn't quite get to make the 50th donation before circumstances changed for me.
TFTC

Tftc.

Tftc

Quick Find TFTC

28/06/2016 9:41:00 PM
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I was up in Wellington for a couple days for work, and so naturally caches had to be found!! Not only to continue the streak, but also just for fun!

But problem was, I'd already found most the ones close to the Welly office, and close to the place I normally stay at! So the distances needing covering are getting far bigger!!

So after going out for dinner, this was cache number three.

Dark, and felt a bit creepy here alone!! But luckily cache was a quick find, so didn't need to hang around too long!

Consec caching day # 1330

TFTC!!