Manchester Unity Clock (Hawkes Bay) Napier, North Island, New Zealand
By RainbowJordy, SunnyBunny64 on 30-Aug-15. Waypoint GC62GGK

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.

Hi RainbowJordy

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. 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.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Needs maintenance

Definitely missing

Like others have reported, the tree has been tidied up and lost its lower limbs most likely hiding a cache.

We’re from the UK on a motorhome tour of both island. Got to GZ but disappointed not to be able to find the cache. Several branches do seem to have been lopped off.

the branches of the tree were cut ....

A nice quick find today. Parked like a local. Cheers.

Christmas holiday road trip to Auckland. Day five, from Napier to Gisborne.

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

Not many people around the area so able to get the job done.

biking around the bike paths on a warm sunny afternoon. quick find once I had my head in the right place. tftc

Easy to find once we were looking in the right place.

Park and grab while doing mystery at the museum. Thanks for placing.

#914. Day 2 of a mini Hawke’s Bay holiday. After holding a non-event Event, I needed to console myself with some caches. This one had a Museum Mystery clue I wanted, so good to find it hanging just where I expected. Didn’t take much notice of the clock! Sorry!

Tftc RainbowJordy & SunnyBunny64.

After circling a few times, finally spotted. Tftc signed HH to save space.

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

First cache found in Napier:)
On a trip with my eldest girl today so thought we might grab. Freezing cold but fun all the same!!!
Tftc

These are not our fave type of hide, usually they are staring us in the face and yet we don’t see it for ages. Thankfully today this one was a quick find as we just happened to look from the right direction as entered. TFTC

Found with Gazza, TFTC

Not so easy, but find we did, TFTC

Found this one quickly without climbing any branches

Thanks

TFTC. Found thanks to CAH60's persistance.

Found by our geocacher in training!

http://www.stellography.com

Thanks first one in Napier. 5 of us looking. All in good nick

Mrs Gely57 was on fire for this one and spotted the devil looking like we were sheltering out of the rain. Thanks CO for placing the cache but a shame all clock face tell a different time!

Not easy to spot a black bison in this sort of situation, and we couldn't!

Early Sunday morning walk. Found a couple of caches before muggles were out.

Found the cache, eyes almost cross eyed from searching. The clock looked very strange without hands!

Have been in New Zealand 2 weeks and finally got out to do some geocaching. Out with a friend. In country with a RV caravan of 9 RVs. Just came up to the North Island 2 nights ago. This one took longer than we thought it would. Actually we were about to give it a DNF when I spotted it. Not sure why we did not see it much sooner as we both walked around the tree several times before spotting it. TFTC

nice wee quick find.

Great day out with Ultravixxen great wee hide thank you

Don’t usually relish this type of hide but luckily it jumped into view quickly. TFTC

I said to her “it might be a strap on”. It wasn’t and she was shocked too.

Saw this on the map and just had to come and have a look. Took a while to locate the cache but it was quite busy here this afternoon. Signed and replaced. Off for a cold drink now.

We were in the port of Napier in New Zealand for the day. We decided to get out of the busy areas and took a cab to the Dolbel Reserve and did the caches there. What great views from the top!!!

While we were there, we watched a new sport to us. It was "cardboard sledding". Families brought big pieces of cardboard and used them to sled down the grassy hills. Interesting!

We then did the walk back to Town and picked up a number of caches along the way, including several in the beautiful Anderson Park. We wound up with 15 caches on the day, with no DNFs.

Thank you to each of the COs for their efforts and for their caches.

Great day!!!
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This cache: Quick Find

I find it very challenging hunting for bison tubes hanging in trees. But eventually there was success. TFTC.

Mum saw this one was close when she was out shopping, so decided to grab it... She could drive up nice and close, and tried not to look too dodgy! A great spot - thanks for the info on the clock.

After a few frustrating searches earlier today, we finally got our hands on this cache (which was the start of our best day, fyi). Thanks!

Arrived in Napier off a cruiseship. We hired bikes for the day and cycled the trails. We had a chat to a woman walking her dog here. TFTC

Easy find, thank goodness, as we had come from a few frustrating ones. tftc

Had to hang around for a bit till muggles moved on. Cache all fine at present. TFTC

No muggles around, so found quite quickly. TFTC

Nice and easy. TFTC

Seems to get hotter ever day tftc

Hot day in Napier but a lovely breeze.TFTC

Enjoying these clock caches-no probs here

When we saw troutfly seemed to have trouble with this we were ready to bail quickly but spotted it right away. Didn’t have pen so couldn’t sign nice new log. Took photo instead. NINO TFTC

I was driving through the Hawkes Bay and stopped to grab some of what I thought would be easy drivebys. Turns out some were easier than others! A good day of finds. Thanks.

Good find no log book

Visiting muggles close by, so what better time to hunt for this cache. Only took a few minutes to find and sign log. Cheers

Took me a few minutes to find it but got ur in the end also ran into one of the main geocachers around here Nickhbnz so that was cool always nice to put a face to a name

Still strong even after the wicked wind the other night! Thank you for the cache!

Having mixed success in Napier. Always glad to get another Smiley.
TFTC

We have been on holiday in party of 25 campervans with the Caravan Club from England and have tried to find at least one geocache in each place we have stopped - had a fair amount of luck and the map of New Zealand should show our journey. Thanks to you all for leaving them for us to find.

Quick find once you know where to go.

Not as quick as most of the others here but I found it. Nice stroll along the water, this was my cache of the day.
Thanks

Nice quick found with the Schools Out team

CZECH
zajímavé hodiny, vypadají jak komunistické... keš jsem našel díky hintu, gps nespolupracovala

Nice straightforward find. Thanks for placing this cache and the clock series.

A surprisingly quick easy find, We note the clock doesn't show the same time on all its faces. TFTC

I was trundling back to camp after a long day out on the towne
One last cache stood in the way of me stroll home.
The clock was easy to find,
and told the correct time [^]

Not too far away,
I reached the spot that me GPSr,
with its far more accurate inbuilt clock,
pointed to !!

And as if to acknowledge the suffering I had been though today on me caching quest,
this cache just appeared in the first spot I looked [:o]
Why doesn't that happen more often

TFTC

Found this one in its stated location. Was a cold chilly night and no muggles about. TFTC

Good to find a cache while out on a bike ride. Tftc

04/09/16 16:40 After a DNF nearby due to no cache being there for over 3 months, progressed up the road to this. Used geo-sense over the GPS to find the obvious location. Thanks, GC.

Tftc

Don't think Iv ever noticed this clock before. Tftc

Yay an easy find. Beautiful rainbow out while looking for this. Tftc

#2316. I have come up to Napier over Queens Birthday weekend to attend a conference and after a full day of talks I decided I need to do a few night caches to keep the numbers ticking over. But lots of the caches I went to had a series of DNF's recently, required wading into a stream or were temporarily unavailable. Finally found one I could do. Well it should have been a lot easier to find but with so many cars driving past I had to be circumspect with shining my torch around in the tree. After a good 5 mins or so, finally spotted the prize. Signed the dry log and returned the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

Heading back to Auckland and picking up caches along the way.

A quick find - and a return to our run of finds!!

#5324

Nice hide tftc in Napier over night heading home today thought we would get some caches along the way.

On a roll while on a weekend to Napier. Tftc!

quick easy find aroha and happy caching

Quick find. Clock seems to be a bit off.... TFTC. Mahalo and Aloha from Hawaii.

Another good hide found while in the area today with Just-Lookin.
Soon had it found and log signed.
TFTC

A fun geocaching weekend in the Hawkes Bay with tmann421.

A nice quick find here. TFTC

We're down in Napier staying at Kennedy Park to complete some of the bike trails, so thought we'd pop out tonight to collect a few smileys. Nice spot here, TFTC

In Napier for the National Dahlia Show, straightforward early morning find. Thanks for the cache.

Just on a short visit to Napier and fitting in what caching we can, of course! Interesting to learn about this clock. But it's not the most attractive of clocks. The find was fairly straightforward. TFTC

Got a bit of a fright when I turned around to see a guy with a dog behind me, to which he replied that is was a good thing that these trees where here to get away from the sun, I agreed thinking it must be normal to just put half your body in a tree to get away from the sun :p Tftc

Wrong tree to start with but quick find once we swapped. Nice hide. TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC

After walking backwards and forwards to finding this cache we found it was good camoflage....ltd

Found it l.t.d

Cruising around the area picking caches, thanks

Tftc

Quick find early on a drizzly Napier morning.

After riding around Napier finding the Earthcache WP's we were on our way back to the beach....until this came up on the GPS screen. Luckily it didn't take long as it was beginning to rain and if it keeps going there's a lot of raindrops between us and the camper. TFTC RainbowJordy.

After we thought we needed to archive this cache because there were no other suitable locations to put one we got a found it log!! We checked and it is still there. Sure it has been moved but anyway we can now enable this cache again yay!

Thanks for un- archiving this one Jordis. I have no idea how I missed it last time, but I almost missed it again, it was a case of being too close to see it I think! TFTC... Must be time for you to hide a new one

Unarchiving as requested.
GB

found in good condition this morning

TFTC

Thought there was no way that this cache could get muggled but the branches it was hanging on obviously got chopped away by the council! Not really any other places good to put a cache here so have archived it

This cache is either missing, or the difficulty rating is way under-rated. A one star difficulty cache is defined as being in full sight, or obvious. A black bison tube in a well leafed bush, doesn't sound like a one star difficulty. Anyway, I spent more time than is necessary for finding a difficulty one star and moved on. If it were a higher rating it might deserve more time spent searching, but not for a one star. As it's only rated a one star difficulty, and I'm not the only DNF, let's presume it is missing.

Dang! a DNF!
Oh well. maybe I need to go back and look in the daylight!

Probably still in there some place, but not for us today.

YAY WE DID IT. Finally #50. thanks for making our 50th memorable on such a beautiful sunny Napier day ! Loads of fun stealthily trying to find and log the cache on a busy intersection full of muggles. Was in the most obvious spot, but still required slow scanning to find the little sucker ! Then add to that the fun of playing "hotter-colder" with a mini cacher.

Thanks! Only real place it could be so we kept looking and came up with the cache.

Quick find thanks to the accurate coords.

Nice quick find

There's always one last cache - then a race against time.... this was it for me today.
Thanks, Rainbowlordy - then off to re-fill rental car, drive to airport - and wait for slightly delayed flight.

Had to search for this one. Well hidden and camouflaged. A busy location so we had to try to be stealthy.