Alphabet Soup - W (Hawke's Bay) Napier, North Island, New Zealand
By munkis on 03-Oct-15. Waypoint GC64GYG

Hi munkis

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

Archiving

Not found!

Perhaps not relocated after excavation work?

Nope. Doesnt exist anymore.

Cache appears to be in a construction site now

Could not find this one...

Quite abit of works going on here, barricades everywhere, so don't know if the cache is behind the barricades, but the workmen were certainly looking at me, more like they were waiting for me to crash my pushbike

Nice cheetah skin

Great, thank you

Thank you for the find! 5 kids and I scrambling about the place lol Was on the wrong side of the fence to begin with. Great spot. Thank you

#494 First find for the day. Quick find. TFTC

Fun day caching with the family! Thanks for the cache!

A bit of crawling was needed! Fun day with the family. TFTC

Went to the wrong side of the fence to start with. Got it in the end. No Tb to be seen. Tftc

Have been planning these caches for a few weeks in conjunction with HKCB for a mad dash and effectively a 24 hour run (so that we could spend time with our respective families) for the rest of the ensuing weekend. Signed most/all caches as HKCD or some such other that we could fit in
Leaving Hamilton at 7pm Friday and getting home midnight on Saturday so that at least 6hours quality sleep was acheived, sleeping in the car is always a bonus (2 hours) and the remainder of the time caching around part of the country we hadn't previousley done a whole lot, but have left plenty for the next trip across the hill.

This was the eighty ninth of the100+ that we acheived in that time we were over here.
Thanks to all the CO's for the effort and giving some great caches, sorry about the repetitive logs but then 100 is a few to cover off.

Thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

a bit of rubbish around but too big for me to do a quick cito, tftc

We had been talking about cache bash in Napier for a while, and when Cats&Dragons mentioned a trip down here this weekend I couldn't say no. The plan was to head down Friday night (leaving Hamilton about 7pm) and then cache til we can then grab a few hours sleep and then cache through til late afternoon and then head home. The plan worked well, with about 110 caches found over the 24 hour caching period.

It was the first time we had visited Napier to do a caching mission, and we were both impressed with the genius hides (some we hadn't seen before, I'll give a special mention to those ones). A big thanks to all the CO's whose caches we found, for placing and maintaining them. A great trip and looking forward to a revisit.

Found it

Down in the area for a rest with friends and for some caching. The are some interesting caches to be found. TFTC

1st find of the day. Picture hint in comments below. Thank you!

Over in Napier for a hockey mini-tournament today and thought it might be good to grab a few caches if the opportunity presented itself. Unfortunately time and wet weather meant that this was the only one that we managed to grab during our visit. The passing shower of rain kept the area around GZ muggle free and the cache was soon located. Signed the log and returned as found, TFTC munkis.

First Napier find! TYFTC

We are doing a few of the Alphabet Soup series as we make our way towards the road home. No problems with finding this one. Thanks.

A lot of people around jump starting a car who paid no attention to us. May have been spotted though by a childcare worker at the local day care. Thanks for find.

Easy find and also quick

Nice quick and easy find

Took some helpers on a bike ride who helped me get this

Again, no pen today sorry. Love the camo on the container though !!! Cheers for easy find

Mum had been saving this one for a day where she could make the 1.5h round trip, search for the cache and get back to get everyone off to school... today Mum had the day off (but still needed to get others off to school!). She made her way to GZ, stopping only to take photos of the disappearing blue-blood-super moon.
She spotted a likely area to search (having allowed 15min to search) and saw something that perhaps didn't belong - sure enough, she had located the cache; and was back home with plenty of time to spare!

Was trying to work out how to walk round the stream but found a very convenient bridge at GZ. Cache all fine. TFTC

The last find whilst in the Bay staying with friends nearby.....went for a quick walk to grab this one before everyone was up, then remembered I needed to book our next camping trip, so whilst at GZ looking for the cache made a phone call....

TFTC.

TFTC - great camouflage! merry xmad

Our first geocache in nz! Found it.

Out for a bike ride this morning, passed a geo cache site.decided to look for it. Found it easily. TFTC

Found it

Found with Mum as 'Jess & Caro'. She is now Carø and I now have my own geocaching profile so we are sorting my logs for caches we found together. TFTC!

Half-way through my stay in Napier, and having had the morning out with Mum to visit a few places near where I grew up, we headed back to hers for lunch and a rest. After a while I decided to leave them and go for a wander and find a few more geocaches. This was the first, and was a nice quick find after driving as close as possible to it.

Thanks for the cache, munkis!

TFTC. Nice hide.

Nice container. TFTC. Cheers

Nice. Another find tftc and definitely gotta be on the right angle.

Was in the Hawkes Bay for work and decided that it was a must to go around and at least find a cache or two if time allowed. As I was in the area and I had just finished a meeting with a client I decided that I might as well have a go and check out a cache or two in this area as I was early for my next appointment.

This was my first cache for the day, as it wasnt too far from where I was visiting one of my clients.

As I near GZ, I decided that I would park across the road from GZ and as I got out of the car I noticed the bridge across the road, as I walked over to GZ the GPSr pointed to a likely spot and it only took a few seconds and I soon spotted the cache in a very likely spot.

Retrieved the cache and signed the logbook and noticed that there was no trackable in the cache, replaced the cache back as found and then made my way back to the car to go and find the next cache that was on my list. Thanks for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot, glad to get another Alphabet Soup off my list of unfound caches. TFTC TNLNSL (12826)

A bit behind with the logging - on a 3 day caching adventure with rustynz and gorby

Parked up on Westminster, me and rusty popped out of the vehicle, we're sort of in a robotic mode at the moment, we want to cache, but it's so hot so we are going thru the motions but our brains are fried! I found this after my second look, had to be in the right angle to spot it!

With a group of Westies searching for caches around Napier, fortunately this one had no tricks, and we soon had it found. Thanks for the hide

Log later

Found ages ago but didn't have a pen with us-signed off today-tftc

Thanks for the placement. Nice little container all ok here

First cache of this trip to Napier. Quick find with Dad. GLB1721 TFTC (3942)

Found with taylah0211 cute container

Found it. Cute container

I found it easy find and did a trade

Quick find, after signing log, had to wait for muggle to pass by before placing cache back in hiding place. Dropped T.B. Cheers.

Great find. Thanx.

#9280. Park and grab in Poraiti on a sunny Saturday afternoon. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Found it . Low and behold!

Easy find

Found it. Love the little cute container

Thanks to whoever put the yellow log sheet in place.
This is my first cache in Napier, and I hope it wont be the last.
TFTC

Another stop on the way to Taradale and another quick find here. Log is nearly full, will stop again during this week to add another paper.

CZECH
jednoduchá skrýš, klasická krabička

Another one of the series down. Unfortunate that most of the ones left dont appear to be being maintained. TFTC

I have set myself a goal this year of having on my calender for each day a minimum number of caches for each day equal to the number of years I have been caching. So today I need another 4 more caches. This is the fourth and final one of them.

Cheers for the cache.

Good camou

Good at hiding

A fairly quick find, after searching a slightly different hidey hole at the coordinates. TFTC

Liked the camo Thanks for placing the cache

Day 10 of our Mega Roadtrip. No problems with this one either even though it had really good camo clay job on it. Thanks for the smilie

We walked over from the cemetery, then saw the DNF, but steed soon found it (where I had looked) so it was worth the walk.

Last find of the day of which there were quite a few finds from the series, looking forward to a return visit to get the rest.

TFTC!

The Three Amigos were visiting Napier/Hastings for a weekend of caching from the BOP we really enjoyed our weekend and this was one of a few Alphabet soup caches we found as we were passing. We signed the log T3A this was a quick find in the obvious place so we were happy to add this to our list of finds.
TFTC

We had planned a trip from Tauranga to Napier area for weeks now, and this weekend was the time to get as many caches as we could find.

We called ourselves "The Three Amigos" (and logged as 'T3A'), comprising of myself, Philip.Perry and Davidsonclan. Leaving at 5am Saturday morning, we knew we had a long weekend ahead of us.

We were here for the numbers and as we were going past this, we picked this up too. The bridge was closed off, but that didnt stop us crossing it.

TFTC

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We've had this Tauranga to Hawkes Bay trip planned for a couple of months now and this was our 10th find. A neat little cache and securely hidden. TNXPro, DavidsonClan and myself have signed the logs T3A, an acronym from our messenger chat 'The 3 Amigos'. Cheers again Munkis TNLNSL.

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Quick find even in the dark, tftc

Find #5 on a geocaching evening with hubby. We parked on the roadside and quickly found GZ and the cache. Tftc

Almost a park and grab, we did stop on the main road as that private property sign seemed to have a point to make Nicely hidden cache, Tftc

Had been forced to stay the night for work but after arriving at site was told that the upstream equipment had failed overnight meaning that I had a lot of spare time today. I even got to leave site early stating that I would try to get an earlier flight home, unfortunately the only other flight was full giving me an extra couple of hours of caching YAY!

Easy find as I was also wearing my hi viz vest as a disguise and just after I jumped back in the car a council truck came along the grass verge so I REALLY did blend in on this find.

TFTC

busy week nabbed this after work attempting to find 1 cache a day aroha and happy caching

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

Yay found with the hansenhijinx in the minis

Manic mini mission with Buttercup.

Another quick find parking the car close by. TFTC

a bit out of place

I just love easy finds! Although in saying that this cache was just lying out in the open so we tucked it back in a little. TFTC Kirstie

Cruising around the area picking caches, thanks

Tftc

Nice and easy find. Like the camo tape. Tftc

Easy find. Nice sunny day in the bay

Found it...ltd

Good hide ltd.

Found it l.t.d

Tftc!

Quick find after a scratch around. TFTC.

this was the next spot on my list to place a cache! haha.. oh well, I was too slow. TFTC

Lots of people walking dogs here. A lovely day to find caches. Thank you dropped TB.

Quick find

TFTC

Love u can drive right up to this one. Quickly spotted tftc

Nature was looking in the right area but stripes beat me to it

Easy find, smelly place