Tom goes Bison hunting (Matamata) Matamata, North Island, New Zealand
By KirsTim on 26-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5J8YM

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 has gone and so has the nail, neighbours were watching, so will rethink this

Could not find this and searched pretty thoroughly.

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Couldn't find it

Had to stop the search because we got scared of the guy watching us from the kitchen window..hi from SWISS guy..anyway can I Log it ?

Wonderful little drive. Thanks

Tftc, found with shaoxingman while on holiday.

TFTC!
Nice Break on our way - no muggles..

Took a bit of a hunt but eventually we spotted it. I could see how the neighbors could become a problem (what with their chairs directly facing the area from their conservatory). Thankfully it was near dinner time so hopefully they were busy at the table discussing the matters of the day over some sausages and mash.

Found with some drama a Male came over and chastised me for wrecking the garden. He was very vocal. Warning warning. Looking at the front of the adjacent sign. The property on the left hànd corner. I of course want damaging the garden. He was also quite aggressive in his manner.

Last one on the drive, all safe and dry. TFTC

Not as high as I expected! TFTC!

On the road to Hobbiton today. We are visiting from Toronto ON Canada to spend 25 days with our daughter who lives in Wellington NZ. We have planned a driving tour of both the north island and the south island. Quick stop at GZ. Found at 2:59 PM. Thank you KirsTim for placing and maintaining this cache.

Wasn't feeling optimistic but can confirm the find of the cache all warm, high and dry. 2browndogs

hier haben wir die suche abgebrochen. es ist nicht in unserem sinne den busch zu zerstören. d&tr

Mhhhh dommage pour cette fois. Elle devait être trop petit pour nous, ahah !

We were driving from Taupo to Paeroa today and wanted to have a break and a bit of a walk. Saw these caches in Matamata and thought they fit the bill. We parked the motor home at Founders Park and walked a loop though Centennial Drive to collect 6 caches along the way. The walk took us just over an hour and was thoroughly enjoyable. What great foresight the early developers had to create this lovely green space.
Matamata is the most attractive town we have visited during our holiday in NZ. Congratulations to the council and the residents.
TFTC

Found thanks

First on the new log!!

Replaced the soggy log, all good otherwise

Easy catch thankg to the hint. All wet but still managed to put my name on it.

Log was damp, but nice area! TFTC

Love the tree

Nice quick find thx

TFTC

Nicly tucked away, pretty quiet today...TFTC

Found this on a trip to Matamata the day was good and the log has been replaced no one around today maybe it was to cold TFTC

A reminder to ourselves that geocaches that would be very easy and straightforward in normal weather become quite a bit more challenging when it is bucketing with rain. Parked up near gz and gleaned what we could from the listing and hint and then went for it. No use dodging rain drops but fortunately cache was more or less where expected and were able to retrieve the log, get signed and replaced and put the cache back and only look moderately drowned rat-like. All good here, and thanks for the cache.

Super small! After our signature, log is full.

Extremely small but found it with the help of my brother in law

Was an easy find thank you

Wahooo - tricky made more by swinging GPS Coord. Log strip very fragile & needs maintenance. TFC

Quick easy find.

Quick find

First cache in this area, thanks for bringing us here

Quick find. TFTC.

Easy find, log a bit worn & getting full

Quick caching trip with the family before our hobbit tour. TFTC.

Quickly found during my walk through the Heritage Trail.

TFTC!

I am off to Matamata for my sister's wedding, so took the late night ferry and got as far as QEII Park near Paraparaumu on Wednesday night. This morning I was up and heading into the park at about 5 am for an early cache, one of my missing hidden months. The plan was to arrive at the cache at about dawn but in the end I found five caches along this road and got back to the car, all before dawn had arrived.
And I am also pursuing the planets, but I have 1000 points already, so not only am I past Pluto, I am also past Eris (larger than Pluto, almost twice as far out). Hoping to get 2000 points by the end of the promotion. What is that? The Oort cloud?

I get to Matamata at long last. Sign in to the backpackers, and a little time up my sleeve, so a bit of caching is in order.
Nice easy find, and I love how applicable the cache name is, as here, at this cache, I went bison hunting. So a favourite just for the awesome title!

Cheers,
Tom (the Seagnoid)

No success...conscious of nosey muggle nearby!

Another gorgeous location. VERY nosey muggle in the house next door so we had to be super patient but eventually we were able to retrieve and sign the log without being noticed. TFTC

Easy Park and grab. Tftc:-)

Look at the sign

Easy find

Took longer than it should have done to find.
Signed the log and replaced as found
TYFTC

Nice one.
Thanks.

Thanks for the nice cache Logged together with zamppa00 using nickname ZZ FIN
Greetings from Finland

Our journey around NZ continues. This was found quickly.

Logged together with Zuzzu using nickname ZZ FIN.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland!

Zamppa00 kiittää kätköstä. TFTC

Nicely hidden, almost missed it, but it is hard to fool me these days (hayleyfcy and I seem to have a knack for finding lots of hard-to-find ones, especially ones with dnfs before us - though this one didn't have that, so it wasn't really going to be too difficult!) Thanks!

(Sorry for the copy and paste logs - I am logging this retrospectively as my 4G wasn't working when we found these this afternoon.) Really enjoyed these ones in Matamata as they had easy parking, and were straightforward yet still good fun. We've done all the caches in Matamata now. We did these all in less than half an hour, what do geocachers in Matamata get up to? Will have to come back next time if new ones pops up. Thanks for the cache!

Quick find! Thank you

Spent some time admiring the trees and looking in the obvious area to no avail.

Passing through matamata after the Morrinsville fun run, ran into georunnermatt and a borrowed geohound, so took a geowander. Caching is easier with a dog! Log half full now

Over in Matamata for the day to visit mum. Caught up with livee_nz who had been in Morrisville for a running race, and took mums new dog for a caching walk. Found this one quite easily, but had to be careful to not get spotted by muggles. Having a dog seems to help a lot with stealth TFTC

Nice quivk find

Found while heading home after doing the Tough Guy n Gal Challenge in Rotorua yesterday. Nice green walkway.

Great hiding spot!

Nice area for a walk.

Great hide. Had me hunting a while till I decided to think outside the box. TFTC

TFTC! Good stop on our honeymoon.

Took Daddyo and I a bit to find it...crazy coz it's winter and everything is naked....you would think it would have been easier for us to find haha. Another Mighty Matamata cache ticked off.

Great place for walk and cache find. Kid found it and was super excited. TFTC

Easy park and grab. In a mission today to get a tb to the LOTR film set to achieve its goal. Tftc

On holiday from the USA. Thanks for the cache. Cute little neighborhood I was able to see on this hunt.

Found it... took us a while though! Trust the cords!

Red Roaming as we continue our wonderful tour of NZ. another good day weather-wise. logs signed DD & RR or with our full caching names.
RR soon had this one in hand. TFTC

Cache easily found with excellent coords in this delightful quiet area. Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer celebrating her taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

I am sure I have been here before !
Anyway found it again today and am logging it before I forget !
Thanks !
Nice to have a quick cache here in Matamata on way home to Auckland !

Little Hoybot waren hier. Tftc

An easy find in a good, though obvious, place. TFTC.

An elusive one. We will be back next time we are at Nan and Grandads

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany. Tftc .

This was a nice quick find.we decided not to go to hobbitton but do thid trail instead

Another nice find on the way past.
Enjoying the drive around, short search before spotting it.
SL TFTC

I am late logging this as I have been away from wifi for a few days.

An easy find near one of my favourite flowering plants. TFTC.

Yesterday we went to Hobbiton in Matamata. We enjoyed it very much. In spite of the weather, we had now and then some rain. On our way to Rotorua we found these 6 caches. TFTC

This is the first of six caches. All caches were quickly found. Yesterday we went to Hobbiton despite the rain we loved it. TFTC

Quick find in a nice shady spot. Quiet today apart from some dog walkers. Tftc.

School holiday fun in Hobbiton

Tftc...exactly where logic told us it should be...just took us blondes a bit of a look see.
Thanks

The trickiest and most elusive on our cache trail today! We will try again another day

The bison was quite elusive tonight, evading the beam of the torch as it passed by again and again. However finally it was trapped in the light and we managed to capture the wee bison and sign the log. A tricky wee hide, in exactly the place we expected it to be - it just took us a while to spot.

Not our luck today and weather not helping

A late log. Miss 6 found this with Injeanious. Tftc

A quick find in this nice spot. All in order. TFTC

Must be ok

We're in the Matamata area for Family Camp at Totara Springs.

Went for a drive in the evening to have a look for this one.

Cache is in good condition. All nice and dry inside.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

It could have fallen on the ground, will disable until we can check

We really just gave this one a cursory look because of the weather and needing to head back to Pukekohe. It may be there but we didn't spend too much time. We knew what we should be looking for but just couldn't come up with it. Maybe someday we will get to return to this beautiful island and will try it again

Could not find it.

Mmmm, not sure if I'm not experienced enough of whether the setting sun had something to do with it... Will be back...

A quick find, I do love this road/path. TFTC

I joined Tom in his pursuit on me lap of the towne this morning

I did think the skool age muggles might be a problem at this hour,
or the joggers and dog guided muggles,
but no !!

A few wandered or were dragged past,
but the caches had been easy retrieves once spotted
Good boy SPOT !!

Talking about spotting bison,
I soon did
Oh this one could have been hidden in a much nastier location
Thanks for being nice to us finders [^]

In Cambridge for the day with our cycle group to look at the Velodrome and do the Te Awa River ride. Very impressive. Enjoyed the opportunity to grab a few smileys afterwards on our way back to Tauranga as well. Great day out. Matamata put on some great weather for us.
Nice easy find. Cache all good. So nice to see owners maintaining their cache & to write in a new log.TFTC

Quickly spotted. No room in the log. TFTC

New log replaced

On the ground, all good now
Thanks!

Needed to do some cache maintenance near Hobbiton today, so thought I'd detour into Matamata for a wander around and hopefully to find some caches too. Parked up at the start of the heritage trail, and had a nice meander over to here; turn around spot for me & a nice little cache, thanks. TFTC