Bush Side Lower Hutt, North Island, New Zealand
By samhanks17 on 02-May-15. Waypoint GC5TNVR

Not found since July, no response from owner who appears to be inactive.

Would be good to have the area freed up for anyone else to plant a cache in the area, perhaps in a better location!

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Didn't find cache

Seems a check by owner is needed.

Happened to be passing so took a look, I must admit not without much enthusiasm.
Couldn't spot the cache in amongst the trash which I couldn't CITO as I was on foot on the way to catch a bus. Not sure if it is still there in view of previous logs. If it isn't, might be time to archive this one.

Extensive bush search yielded no results!

Did not find it

Came by with two younger cachers today for another go at this one. Cleaned up a lot of rubbish, similar to other cachers, but could not find what we were looking for - again.

Found quite quickly by UlmusLynx while Gilgul and I did a spot of CITO. Thanks to fellow geocachers this must be one of the tidiest spots in the valley TFTC

Have been here before and so have Selesi & Gilgul. Back today to do a bit of CITO and hopefully locate between the three of us. Not too much trash and put my hands on it almost straight away (typical!). Another one pleased to tick off. TFTC

This was the second visit here for me and it helped that no muggles were lurking as they had been last time. Collected some trash as well as the cache - Ulmus Lynx witnessed by Selesi and me. All happy to have sorted this one out.

My second visit. The first time Broadband installation work was in full swing and the place was crawling with workers and I didn't even get out of the car. Today it was nice and quiet and after about 5 minutes of looking I managed to locate it. TFTC

The GPsr was pointing to a clump of renga renga lilies in a very public location, so were confused about the cache name and hint. We decided to give this one a miss.

This one has annoyed me over several visits... and Taybee and I decided to give it another go as it was threatening to rain (again) and the area was quiet which we hoped would keep the muggles at bay. Found by each taking one side of the area to search, but as usual, I got my hands on it second. TFTC - glad to have this off my radar!

**taybee** is caching again with **Infoferret**
it time to get this one off the dnf list Quick find to day between the rain
All in good order, sign log book as ***TAYBEE*** or ***TB*** TFTC Log by Gsak
Cache was find at 08/03/2016 13:27 Found: GPS > 2016-03-08T00:27Z

Weather was nicer than expected so geocaching with Just-Lookin was a very pleasant way to spend the day.
Took some searching to get the cache found!
SL TFTC

A great day to be out geocaching with tmann421.

Co-Ords had us on the road. tmann spotted this one after a bit of a search.

TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

Nice spot. The hint was very literal

Successful on this visit. TFTC

Finally! I've been here about four or five times without success. But tonight was a different story - I found the cache within about 20 seconds! A train pulled up when I was extracting the log so had to sign and replace before any muggles came by, with which I was successful. TFTC

Nice!!

Found

Had another attempt at this as I was more or less passing. No luck again.

Found

We had someone in our group try this earlier and fail so I wanted to find and be real smug about it. Mission accomplished.

Shot

I guess I just got lucky with this one. The poor bushes do get a bit of a hard time. Tftc

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Wonderful country, I loved it.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we drove from Wellington to Masterton. We saw many nice places and caches. Thanks for the cache!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

13th day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards north. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. After having a blast in South Island and in Christchurch Mega event, we had to start heading back home. Fortunately we still had few days left to spend in NZ while driving to Auckland.

3rd DNF today! Searched and searched but did not find.

Thought with a difficulty 1 that this should be a breeze. Looking through past logs I see many others have had multiple goes at this as well, so obviously not quite rat3ed correctly. Spent 10 minutes here, avoiding a few muggles, but a decent look. No luck today.

Quick find, TFTC

Dropped by this one on a thankfully quiet Saturday afternoon. On my last visit the nearby householders were out and about and in line of sight. An urban hide that invites the obvious "what are they doing?" sort of thoughts!
Fortunately a quick find. Cache in order, log signed, then re-hidden safely, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

#1247. Yay, managed to convert this one to a smilie after a previous DNF. A wet night so all quiet at the GZ. Checked the same plants as last time but this time I found the container in less than 2 minutes. Just needs a careful and methodical search. I noticed the reduction in trash since last time so thanks Skaga for the CITO done in the "bushes". Logbook is still dry despite no inner plastic bag for protection. To save these bushes from too much damage the cache is not in the core but more on the periphery. TFTC.

Wild side

Finally managed to find this one today, while in the area for an Event cache. This is about the 4th or 5th time i have been here. Well hidden. TFTC

Forgot to mention - considering the cache is definitely there - CO might want to remove the maintenance request.

Found with BigcheeseNZ and Sian after an Event cache. After bit of rummaging around located. TFTC

As I had a bit of time to spare and this was the only one of the caches on my unfound list I could conveniently get to I thought I might as well give this another go (having been thwarted by muggles from even attempting a search last time) in view of the recent log.
However after checking a couple of hint items and avoiding being spotted by people coming and going in vehicles I realised workmen laying a cable were heading my way and as I retreated they dropped one end close to GZ. End of story for today's effort. Looking at past logs and in view of the problems in searching here I suspect D1 may be a bit low.

#1843 Found this afternoon after a game of 10 pin bowling- a lovely evening to collect some more Hutt caches. Was initially put off by all the DNF logs and also that it was nearing rush hour at the station- however we were so close that curiosity got the better of me. I did some CITO while Aga followed his GPS and came up with the goods within a minute. Glad to have found this one. TFTC.

This was my second visit here. Had a very good hunt all around, through and under the hint items but only found some CITO. It is not the easiest place to hunt with all the houses overlooking GZ and the train station nearby. Very busy.

Had a good fossick around several of the "bushes". Found plenty of rubbish but no cache. Pretty dirty hunting in there. Will have another go some stage with gloves and a rubbish bag. All quiet at night.

Huh

After about 10 minutes of "bush bashing" we gave up. Sorry if this log offends anyonek, but the point of a hint is exactly that. When you get to an area filled with bushes and the hint is bush, it's not very helpful. Something like under the right most bush or inside the largest bush at least points one in the correct direction. May try again. All we found were beer bottles and used food containers.

Couldn't find it. Plenty of rubbish

Muggles across the road appeared to be watching so off we went.

#6581. Returned to this junction (William Street @ North Street) this morning after the rush hour. GZ was all quiet at this time. Persevered with the immediate area close to where the GPS was pointing this time. Eventually found after some searching. The cache itself was in excellent condition, although the place could still benefit from some CITO. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

Came here this afternoon, found the cache after a bit of a search and a bit of a hint from a previous finder. Even then it wasn't quite where it had been found previously. The coordinates aren't too bad, the GPSr had me within 4 metres of the cache. You just have to look very carefully amongst the rengarenga lily plants. Signed log, TFTC

Sorry Sam, the Fraters have had a couple of goes at this one, loads of rubbish found but no cache! Might ring u for a clue!

No luck Sam, lots of rubbish but no cache?

It turns out this cach is here and I am putting it back up!

Couldn't find this cach today so I am temporally putting it offline.

No joy for me today. Found a few things that could have been turned upside down, but they were all stuck in place. Will come back another time with reinforcements.

A good spot for CITO ... didn't find the cache though after looking wider.

Hi Sam & Joel nice geocache easy and quick.

I sat waiting for a muggle to leave but then noted she was signing something. So thanks to her it was an easy find. Tftc

Tried to do this this morning but owing to muggle presence by a neighbour and someone else sorting out a problem with a car no chance of even starting to search.

2TF #50 good find was looking for a while and finally spotted it when another geocacher got out of his car. Nice find for number 50 TFTC

Published

got here tonight and was rifling around and I hear a voice saying are you caching haha got caught but lucky for me it was one if the awesomefoursome so we managed a joint FTF on this one. tftc

Yahoo a joint FTF with jojo&dobby. Parked up and thought might be the first there but then spotted some suspicious activity. Managed to ably assist jojo&dobby in the find. Great to catch up with another keen cacher. TFTC.