Stop and have a play! (V 2.0) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By Elliot_Tuck on 26-Sep-15. Waypoint GC644M9

As there's been no cache to find for some time, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

It doesnt look like its going to be replaced as COs last visit was in May

Is this one going to be replaced? Looking at doing a road trip to clear up the rest of palmy and this one is on our list. thanks

Cache missing

Temporarily Disable Listing.

No find for me either.
That's four DNFs in a month. Time for the CO to visit.

Found the remains of geocache local kids gotten ahold of it so currently out of action

To many wood chips to scratch around

No luck here today.

No good for us today - muggles playing here that looked like they were going to stay a while - Just-Lookin had a brief scratch around but nothing found.

This was actually back in play at about 10am today. Sorry for its little time away! In the evening when Mr Jamogen was back I took him over and made him hunt for it. It's so well hidden. I'm not sure we would have ever have gotten it without the help of the kids yesterday! Nice hide and a fave point for being so well hidden!

Apparently this ones gone for a sleepover. That's annoying

Found it

I was introducing people to geocaching and kids excitedly found it, which obviously got the interest of other children at the park who were very keen to see what had been found. As a result we couldn't put it back.

At the end of the day I tried to put it back but still the same kids were there! So it has come home with me for the night and will be put back tomorrow night where I still need Mr Jamogen to find it as this one has eluded us for a while! So I'll make him hunt it out before we log it as found

Sorry if anyone wanted to try and find it in the mean time!

We stopped, we played, we cached. Excellent cache! Tftc!

Quick find whilst the three year old climbed about. Tftc

One of those ones where it's really handy to have a toddler but subtlety slightly reduced by him running about yelling 'we're finding a geocache!'. Fortunately a quiet day! Used to come here as a child and it hasn't changed much! TFTC

EtherMiss needed to drop something off at a school friend's house today who is a neighbour to this park. She wanted to Stop and have a Play afterwards, which I did not object to!
There were no other kids on the equipment, which allowed me to have a good search.
Last week's visit was under drizzly skies but today had barely a cloud to be seen. Not surprisingly, my phone took me to a slightly different spot. After a short hunt, I located the container.
But... Today is not a Dot-Day.
I will be back to sign the logbook

It's my first Dot-Day of the year, so I was keen to find a cache today.

I stopped by tonight after tea but others had the same idea...
There was a lot of people attending the sports event (summer soccer?) on the fields ajoining to GZ and so there were a couple of kids that were Having a Play.
I had a very quick search, but didn't feel comfortable continuing the hunt so retreated back to the car..

I'll be back.

Oh, and Happy Mario Day!

A quick find, since I had found v1.0 before. This new hide blends in very well and is a bit trickier than v1.0. Well done.
Thanks.

Found this in the evening after a bit of rain. Well hidden cache. TFTC

No luck here over Christmas, a quick find today. Thanks for the cache.

Guides new activity

After a short walk around the park I was back at my starting point and soon after had the cache in hand.Having found v1 previously I found this one to be quite straight forward. Cool camo. Thanks for replacing a cache here.

Good hide

Cache has been fixed. The cache was NOT Mugged but rather moved a significant distance.

I have been alerted to the cache being muggled. - Will replace when I return home from Holiday.

Nice quick find tftc no muggles today

Was looking for a quick cache, upset that we were unable to find it will have to come back!!

So annoyed we couldn't find this one. Spent ages looking too but it beat us We'll have to come back another day.

I missed out on V1 although I did look. Today we're back & if it wasn't for Miss 3yo needing help I wouldn't have found it. Eureka!! Had a good chuckle when I saw it as I wasn't searching very smartly for the last 15mins. Glad to finally get a smiley for this. Gets a FP

Got you this time you beauty!! This is another of those troubling dnf's which I can happily take off my list. Clever camo! Had to use geo nose and it was right there! Thanks!

Macawtt, I have just checked the cache. The cache is still there.

Feel really exposed searching around children's play areas

Tftc. Defintely tricky but got there in the end! Took a while...longer than should have! Glad to tick this one of! Gets a fav from us!

Pukas, sorry for the delayed log. The cache Is still in the correct place.

Happy caching

Looks like there has been new bark put in.?

We called in at GZ with our two grandchildren and they tested out the playground and I picked up this cache..a quick find and a clever camo job..TFTC!

Stopped by on a very windy week day afternoon. At least that meant no junior muggles to trouble us today.
Soon found the nicely camo'd cache in the same place as it's predecessor. Hopefully this one will stick around longer.
Thanks EMTN

Found with tommygun9. I found the first version of this so I let him do the honors this time.
Thanks for the cache

JrGun9 wanted to go for a play this morning so we headed out to grab this cache. We had found the original so we had an idea of where and for what to look. After a brief search we had a play and I found the cache, there's more camo than last time but it wasn't too hard.
T F T C ElliotMTuckNz.

I found the first one. As a FTF. But this time I needed to wait until a suitable day. For my streak.... so today was lovely and fine. And it was a quick find having found the earlier one here. It is well camoed. And fits in real well. All fine here, Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

V2.0 seemed slightly harder than V1 but still it didn't take too long to find. TFTC

I had been unable to find the previous cache here. Phew all quiet here at 5.30pm, and school holidays too. The cold wind must have been keeping the muggles away. Hmm where would I hide this one? My instincts were spot on for a quick grab. Just as well, how could I explain my furtive activities - a grandmother grovelling on her own in a playground, without any grandchildren in sight. Thanks to the CO for this new version.

Found by searchJnr but it was a tragic visit for me. I put my phone down to sign the cache, but forgot to pick it up again as a muggle came along... He kept walking past and we were able to discreetly return the cache, then we went for a walk down to the river and up to Albert St without realising I'd lost my phone... Despite returning within an hour it was gone and has not been returned despite a person answering my phone a couple of times when I try to call, and was using lots of data and trying to hack into my bank so Police have been informed and phone blacklisted. Despite having GPS location turned on I was unable to track it as the Finder must have been savvy enough to turn that off straight away.

Despite all that, thanks for the cache!

Mrs G was desperate to claim a dot day, but she only had the choice of two playground caches - not a favourite location as a lone adult, but also it's school holidays and children are using the playgrounds, of course. She tried the first on her list twice, but each time children were playing there (how dare they! ). When she arrived here to try her 2nd option - there was a family at play. Mrs G was about to drive on when the family gathered up and continued on their way. Mrs G leapt from the car (slowly!) and fortunately the cache was located quite quickly. As the previous finder indicates the co-ords seem a bit out but, as we too had done the previous cache, she knew what she was looking for. Mrs G just got in in time (in the window of opportunity as they keep saying) because as she was driving away another family arrived to play! TFTC

Needed a cache for a dot-day and, as this newly published cache was the closest to home, decided that this one was the best option. Arrived in the early evening so had to search by torch-light, however had found the previous cache by this CO in the same area so had a fair idea of what to look for. Soon had the well camo'd cache in hand but the GPSr was about 5-6 metres out at this location - not that there are a large number of places to search. TFTC.

Published

Nicely camo'd! My 1st FTF. Thanks for the cache! Left a rubber stamp and a spacemen pencil.