Bugger! A Nano (Tirau) Waikato Tirau, North Island, New Zealand
By squirrel nutcase on 13-Sep-15. Waypoint GC63ERD

There was a big hint in the description, which narrowed our search area, but it still took a bit of searching for.

Found it thanks CO

Not today

No problem at all

Nice quick easy find today. Thought it would be a lot harder but I guess my hands just found the right place.

Great spot for a cache, found on my way back from a work trip to Rotorua and a pickup of one to finish off Tirau. Thanks to CO for a little hint after some unsuccessful searching.

Could have taken a long long time to locate this one. Thankfully reading past logs have me a hint. Nice hide

Tftc. About to give up until Jennyfromthefarm put her hand on it.

Oh wow. If I knew what this nano was stuck to we never would have even attempted this cache. Arrived at GZ and didnt see the piece of machinery until I was right at the listed coordinates. Searched for a few minutes then needed to poop so I gave my pen to irondale and ran down to the information centre where I found some pretty decent toilets and to make it even better had warm water for hand washing. After pooping I was much more relaxed and rejoined irondale who was still searching. In about two minutes I put my hand on the cache.Gotchya!Happy to have searched for and found this cache today. TFTC

Heading out to find some more of the Bison series with rattll on a gray day. This one has eluded me on several occasions previously, so when a coffee attack struck in Tirau, it was a perfect opportunity for another look. Success this time, thanks to rattll. All good, a brand new(ish) log to sign. FP for a cache that's been a nemesis for a couple of years now. Tftc!

The realtors were kind enough to allow me to keep my bags dry for 10 minutes whilst I searched but I had no luck with this one. I'll search again next time I'm here.

Not sure it's still there.Based on the last photo from the owner, it's not there anymore....

Good spot

I saw the maintenance request and came over to Tirau to check it out. As Id recently fixed this cache, I suspected that it was still in place It was. I reckon the last finder found a piece of old logbook that may have come adrift. No maintenance needed today - Happy hunting people!

Must be two caches on the tractor. We found a green nano last signed by SmithCox on 8/11.Yep, it was a bugger to find!!In New Zealand for a couple of weeks catching up with sandyoftheseas family. Finding a few caches along the way.squirrel nutcase, I found Bugger! A Nano (Tirau) Waikato today. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found a log sheet by itself on the lower part of the tractor. As mentioned sheet full and very prone to getting wet. Not magnetic container seen nearby.

Needs looking at

We were passing through Tirau today on our way to Taupo and thought we would stop to have bit of a walk around and clean up a few caches. Looking at the D rating and the cache type were were a little concerned when at GZ but it did come pretty quickly in the end.

We are back in New Zealand to have the holiday we should have had 4 years ago, Covid-19 put an abrupt end to that holiday.We are out today visiting old haunts from years ago, Tirau and Rotorua.Greetings from the UK.Found it at last. Photo of logbook attached.Log signed and cache replaced as found.Thanks to squirrel nutcase for placing.Find 2 of 5Total finds 3661

This cache has crept a bit over recent months. I came to replace the logbook a few months ago but couldn't find the cache. Thankfully, someone returned it to its correct position, so the log has been replaced and is good to go. Happy hunting!

Looked and poked around for a little bit. We were on a time limit as we needed to get to Auckland and there were lots of muggles around looking at us. Might come back later and have a better look when we have more time and not getting muggled out. Even though we DNF, this town and its art is still beautiful.

Found with Reschedule after breakfast on our way to Auckland for a caching weekend. Took us a short moment, but then put my hand in a likely spot and there is was. TFTC

Finally getting around to parking up and collecting this hide, on our way up to Auckland for Easter we figured we would stop in here for breakfast and hatch a plan to collect the little bugger, no shortage of muggles and strange looks with 3 of us climbing all over, KiwiDoes discreetly pulls out the cache. Sadly the logbook is full, TFTC!

TFTC from Denmark

Day 2 of our tour around the North island with Blue Jay. Today, we drove from Matamata to Rotatua, taking in a fantastic tour of The Hobbit movie set. We also found some great caches along the way.We searched here for a while without success and went for coffee. After reading a previous log we searched again on our way out and found straight away...TFTC. Toffee Man.

Well thats a monster. We gave up after about 20 mins when it started to rain. Went and had lunch in the Bugger place (re-named now?) enjoyed the signs. Decided on one last look after picking up a wheelie big hint from a log and Toffee Man had it in hand in 10 seconds. Log book full. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Day 11 Rotorua to Hobbiton, New Zealand. A Fantastic day visiting the Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit movie set and a few caches on the journey.I pulled over and then noticed the difficulty rating. Ill have a go and gave myself to call it quits if not found. I started the search just getting dusty fingers. But I was in luck to be able to locate the hide.Log signed and replaced as found.Thanks for the traditional cache squirrel nutcase #7,886

Awesome hide left a fav

Love this quirky town. As farmers kids we were pleasedthis International was a bit cleaner than most. Quick find and squeezed initials onto log. Tftc

We travelled near and far, Were on a short holiday with Wilbert67, grabbing caches along the way, seeing sites that we havent been to before.Thanks to all the COs for their placements.Greeting from Australia Log book full. Took picture.

Second day in New Zealand and it's a wet one. Only having 5 days means we have to go caching hail rain or shine. Quick find here.TFTC Wilbert67

Had to go by a couple of times to avoid muggles. I saw it b4 I felt it but next person will find by feeling over a wheely big area.As stated previously the log is full and delicate. My signature is simply a T by 33.

Around and around I went, then high and low, eventually covered in grease from sticking my fingers in every nook and crevice. After about 15 minutes a muggle surprised me asking if I was trying to start the tractor up. We had a good laugh and I spent 2 more minutes looking before I finally found it. The log is full so I took a pic for proof. Tricky little bugger!!!

We startetd the day with the Taranaki Fall Trail in Tongariro National Park incl the reaminng LOTR caches in this area. In the afternoon we arrived in Otorohanga where we still the next night.Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache.Happy hunting!TFTCschnuckel1[#24244]

TFTF tricky little thing lots of potential places. Log fill managed to scribble on a warn out patch

Today we travelled from Rotorua to Hamilton. We picked up a few caches on the way.We stopped off in the town here for lunch, did the AL and some other cachesDespite a good search we didn't find this one Tim and Viv - ddm

Log is completely full. Sorry I didn't have a spare on me.

Having taken yesterday off as leave, and with Monday being Wellington Anniversary, I am making the most of a 4-day weekend by spending it with friends in the Waikato in order to try to target a few specific caches up here and otherwise boost my numbers for January.Today involved a great deal of driving to a lot of beautiful places which make me want to come back and spend a lot more time at. One of the joys of geocaching for me is that I get to see places that I wouldn't have thought to visit otherwise, but often you just get a 'taste' of a place because you're rushing off to get another cache somewhere.This particular cache has been a minor nemesis one for me. I've been here a couple of times, but not really been able to have a really good hunt due to muggles. Today I was in the company of 3 former finders, so I figured I'd have a really good chance of locating it.As one expect with a hide of this nature, it tends to suffer a little from cache creep. So we all started to look in different spots according to where those people had found it however long ago. But it didn't taken long for one of them to find it again whilst I had just started my search. Unfortunately the log is completely full, so I was unable to sign it but did take a photo as evidence of my find. Thanks for setting up this challenging cache.

Muggle hanging out right at GZ. Chose not to search.

Cane back. Seattles Best laid her hand on it. Score! Thanks for the fun challenge enroute home. Parking not so bad at 5:20 PM.Log sheet is full. Dont have anything suitable with me or Id help you out.

Heading home after family Christmas lunch and stopped to see if we could spot it. Jillopy said "a nano in a haystack, I'm not in the mood for... Oh, there it is!" No problem today, tftc!

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Tricky title find, was about to give up...bingo. log is almost full

Tftc

We were travelling down from Auckland to Rotorua and this town was recommended to us to stop and have a break. After we spent about 10 minutes looking for the sneaky little nano we headed into the Buggar cafe for lunch. Great place to hide a cache. Greetings from the UK.TFTC

Day one of an extra long weekend and time for a little road trip / holiday with some of the team SEAC crew. We took a little wander through town to stretch our legs and with 5 of us searching here it thankfully didnt take too long to find the cachephew! We then realized that only one had actually brought a pen along for the wander and after unrolling the log found it was full oops. Thanks for the cache - we had a laugh here!

Heading down to Palmerston North for the long weekend with group, HeMaLuDy, UncleSamNZ, Keylev and my self, in search of good cache numbers where none of us had cached much before...Much easier searching for these with a group...and finally made the find....TFTC.

1st of the day and our weekend trip.Small group of caching buddies drove down from Auckland for the long weekend, and headed for Palmerston North area. Sorry for the generic posts, but we had so many caches to find.Had a great time, with so many laughs. Thanks to all the Cache owners who placed the caches.All logs signed "SEAC" or "Team Seac"

On a trip down country to help my ageing mother with some cleaning up, I had to stop in Tirau for some sustenance. With Tirau being its usual busy self, I parked where I could and headed off to the cafe that was closest to this cache, and the one it was named after. The name of the cafe has changed, but the decor still harkens back to its former life.

After refuelling myself and double-checking where the cache was, I headed to GZ. It didn't take me long to spot the cache, but there were a couple of muggles parked in front of GZ talking about something. I don't think they saw me as I made a quick stealthy retrieval of the cache as I walked past it. I carried on a bit and around the corner where I filled in the log. Now to try and put it back equally as stealthily. I think I managed it because neither of the muggles seemed to take any interest in what I was doing.

TFTC

Where to start… so many places to hide for this sneaky little hide. But got there eventually without drawing too much attention to myself hopefully. Tftc

Bugger we are locked out of the hall! Stopping here to visit family at an event in the Tirau Hall. Front door is locked so this cache was the absolute perfect time filler. Dad and I feeling our way around it while we wait for a reply to a text - which never came! After finding this sneaky Iitlle bugger we circled the hall and got somebody at the back kitchen to let us in. Thanks for the great cache, nicely done. Log is full so used IF20 and dad was JM for JoyMorgan.

So many nooks & crannies, such a relief to find it

A slightly tricky nano in an attractorve location.

So many places to hide...but found it in the end

Needed a break from driving, and this cash gave all the reasons to stop so I was pleased to find it

Here for another attempt. A favorite point given for success this time. Thanks squirrel nutcase

Phew, we made a relatively quick find today, with not too many people around. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I were in Auckland for a few days visiting family, and now we are on the trek home. A bit of a late start, so not as many caches today, but it's not all about the numbers. The sky was moody today, lots of cloud cover, with the occaisional rain shower.

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

Glad I found this cache!The day before yesterday, late in the evening, we were looking for her and shining our headlamps, and she successfully hid from us.

Didn’t take too long to find after we waited for cars to leave

Day 14 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area and surrounding area of Hamilton. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to squirrel nutcase for hiding and maintaining of this cache*** ️

Tftc. Quick find.

The cafe has has a rebrand and is no longer the Bugger Cafe. But the tractor and more importantly the cache are still in place. A good little find, thanks for the cache

Cyclone Gabrielle forces us to change our plans once we had arrived in Auckland. Instead of a relaxing holiday in the Coromandel, we swapped it for an adventure filled holiday in Rotorua!! We stopped here on our way south and was pleased to see two caches nearby. This ended up being a pretty quick find. TFTC

Took about a minute to find. Was feeling all around the location and the. Spotted it using my power of perception. Nice spot and cage is in good condition

Yay that was a good one, smallest one I’ve found so far, thank you.

Bugger alright. Found it after a bit of looking

Loved this!! Tftc!

Nice find on the way from CCE in Turangi to CCE in Huntly tomorrow with Aiden29 and Gorby.
Reading previous logs was helpful!
TFTC
#9975

Got lucky and found very quickly as lots of eyes watching! Tftc

En vacances pour une dizaine de jours en NZ, nous géocachons au hasard de nos déplacements et de la proximité de caches.
Trouvé par l'œil de lynx de mon fils
que c'est bon de renouer avec ce jeu (peu de caches en Polynésie)
MPLC

FOUND

Cool hide! Thanks for the cache.
Found by Jessie and Alex

Not this time

TFTC and greetings from Czechia Europe

Thankfully it didn’t take us too long with all the possibilities! Not too many muggles around which made it easier to have a good look. TFTC

Could not find, was raining and patience was wearing thin lol. We come back and look when the weather is nicer

Found! 22/9/22

So excited to get this! Last time I tried there was a huge group of around 8 people swarming over the tractor looking for something lol. I decided to wait and try another day as I wanted to find it myself, not to see where they found it. So last night right on dusk I had another go. I had takeaways to pick up from Tuckers (yummo!!) so had a few minutes to spare. Tbh I did not expect to find it. After looking at previous logs I determined I would have to squat down to look, as kids seemed to slit this cache quite easily. The first side I tried was pointless, but went in from another way and squatted and looked. I saw it straight away as the lowering light made it stand out. Thought I'd be here forever looking lol. So happy to have found this!! TFTC!

It's been a full-on weekend, which started on Friday with me taking my son up to Auckland so that he could fly out on Saturday on his OE. As I type this, he's still on that journey, whilst at the same time I've spent most of today driving back down so that I can go back to work tomorrow.

But of course I couldn't pass up the opportunity to target a few caches to break up my journey. This was one that I had wanted to find, having briefly looked for it once before.
Today I had a better look but I have to admit that it still defeated me.
No doubt I'll be back again at some stage...

We were pretty excited when Dad made quick work of this one. Thanks for the challenge and awesome placement .

A tricky little hide found on the second attempt (we had a coffee in between).
Seven pairs of eyes made up of fellow cacher skibow1 and some muggle friends. Definitely a case of looking first before leaping!

Youthful eyes of dear daughter spotted this after having a morning coffee nearby. Pleased to have finally got the happy face. Thanks very much for cache.

Blink and you'll miss it. Looking from the Right angle helped us finally spot the cache

Nice day out with funkymunkyzone. TFTC!

Yep, No joy for us today. We will be back to have a more thorough look.
Thanks

Quick find. TFTC

Luckily I approached from the right angle and spotted quickly thanks for this very cool cache!

Not the bugger Cafe anymore but that's what I said when I walked away from this one

Out caching with MoggyVal and we were very happy to cross this one off the list. Almost gave up again but then the find and were we happy. Thanks for the challenge.

Finally found it after a while just about to give up then spotted it for a quick second and with the help from sister I grab the cache.
TFTC

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Will just have to come back and try again! Bugger

No luck for me

**14,304**
Thought this little "bugger" was going to get the best of us again! Having set out early for a visit to our daughters to see our newest grandson, we thought we would detour past this one and give it another go since it had been replaced (thank you). Having spent some time going over and over the same section and coming up empty-handed we resorted to some help and even then it took a bit more time, but once we were searching the correct area the cache was quickly located - phew!! Knocked the Bugger off at last!! TFTC

Checked and replaced after a couple of DNF logs.

I'll have to agree with the cache title, BUGGER a DNF.........

Looked for ages and no luck too well hidden for us

#9701. I have driven through Tirau quite a few times in the past few years and this was the last of the caches I needed to find. The D4.5 rating and size of the cache put me off searching as I am seriously cache blind and it takes me ages to find ones like this. Being time poor on my travels I just don't bother normally. But today I had two willing helpers. Two muggles promised an ice-cream if they could find it. And bugger me after about 5 minutes looking one of them came up trumps. She said "is it possible this could be the cache?" It is very possible indeed. Yay. Found of course in an area I had already spent 3 minutes searching. So pleased to have youthful eyes with me instead of ones that feel opaque searching for caches this size. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks? squirrel nutcase for hiding it here.

We avenged a few North Island DNFs on this trip, but not on this occasion (despite a coffee transfusion at a local cafe, and a lengthy search).