Tuahine guides (manawatu) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By Swfam on 10-Nov-15. Waypoint GC66KFZ

As there's been no cache to find for months, 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.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 14 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

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Does not look like the owner is going to replace despite checking and acknowledging that is missing. Its been a while.

Owner needs to check this one plz

We found green plate but no cache

Found the green plate but can't find the log.

Is this cache going to be replaced? Looking at doing a road trip to Palmy to clean up the few caches we have left. Cheers

This was a DNF in spite of two searching and on checking logs saw that others had had no luck. Needs to be disabled by owner until replaced.

No luck here today.

Doesn't appear to be replaced - didn't look for long after seeing the note about it being missing.

Found the plate after realising he coords were out. Unfortunately no find, will try again at a later date

Checked the cache on Tuesday and its gone, looks like someone took it. will aim to replace next week

Easy find thanks.

We headed over to palmy around 12.30 knowing we had a wedding at 1, with plenty of time to spare this one looked like a nice quick find, after using the hint we soon had the cache in hand, coords were a few meters out for us, but the hint was clear, thanks for the cache.

Found it on 13/2 I live right next door to this cache yet it was my partner that found it! I saw The Scott 5 looking for it the day they found it too but pretended like I didn't see anything ;D

Was our fastest find yet

Quick and easy find. TFTC.

Quick grab after reading last log entry. Log book a little damp.

Signed in my previous username

After our failed attempt a few weeks back, we had another go today when we had more time! We thoroughly searched the area the GPS took us too again with no luck. Then we decided to widen our search area and finally found the hinted green plate and the final cache! GPS was out by about 15m though! We are glad to have finally got this one ticked off now! Thanks for hiding!

TFTC easy find after work

Beautifully planted gardens...soon found plate and the cache,logged it and re-concealed...no muggles in sight at this time...TFTC!

Looked carefully in the wrong place at first and then looked a little further and there it was. Beautiful garden. TFTC

We were passing this one today so gave it a go, but we were in a rush as we had food in the oven at home we didn't want to burn! So we didn't have long to look and we werent exactly sure what the green plate referred to. But we didn't manage to locate it. We will have to have another go another time!

Needed a cache today for the 'Goodbye 2015' souvenir and so decided to give this one another go. Made a detour on the cycle in to work as a bike makes perfect cover for searching for a cache (nobody takes notice of cyclists ) and being before 8 A.M. during the holidays meant few muggles about anyway. Had confirmed with a fellow cacher the general location of the hide so a quick find near GZ in a place that had been searched on the first attempt, but obviously not well enough... TFTC.

Had to get this one, as it has been beaconing me ever since it's arrival amongst my wee sea of smilies surrounding my home. The wording on the sign had me overthinking the meaning of the hint, but once spotted all became clear. Thanks for this nice wee hide on the way to visit a good friend, and only a stone's throw away from my previous abode.

This cache took me a few minutes to find. Once my GPSr suggested I check somewhere different I soon saw the hint item and it was plain sailing from there.

Christmas day ! After the late night service it was a quick detour up to this place and sign the log which i had previously located, so it was a very quick stop in the early hours with very little traffic or muggles around the area. An easy straight forward cache. Thank you for this cache ( i needed this) and another smiley face.

Quick xmas find. TFTC

Thankfully, with the clue, it was a straight forward find before GZ got busy with typical Sunday activities. Miss 3.5yo loved going through the swag & settled with a marble. Left wrist band & one of those Z collectible thingys. TFTC

Easy find once the subject of the clue was located. Nice quiet location today.

Stopped in here with Hyjynx and was led to a sign, expanded search area a bit using the updated clue soon had cache in hand and log signed.
There was a gathering inside so had to implement some stealth and felt a bit exposed, but not to bad.
Cheers
~G

Found with tommygun9. Quickly found and signed

Popped out to this cache on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to get my Palmy and surrounding areas list down to 4 caches. This one is not far from my house. It was a nice quick find by AtomsNZ.
T F T C Swfam.

Visited it today. And because I hadn't up dated the co-odds. I went to the drain! But as luck would have it the first likely place I looked was the correct one. But I will re visit and sign on a dot day.

Thanks for the cache! Yes with the clue it's a nice easy find. Dropped off a new trackable.

Was driving by and this is my nearest unfound cache so it just had to be turned into a smiley face. Using my phone, the new co-ordinates took me to the sign. After exploring this area for a while I checked the hint. The mentioned object was soon located and the cache was quickly found after that. Thanks for the placement Swfam.

Similar experience to stardust718 for Mrs G. re new co-ords. She found Etherlord's hint the most useful thing to zero in on the correct spot. Quickly dealt with after that. TFTC

Nice quick find tftc

Found with the family

A quick afternoon find with hayleyhnz.
We used etherlord's hint.
Thanks.

Found with markhnz.
TFTC

Cords out? Full on church group tonight. Maybe another time/trip

[{FtF} @ 1214pm.
Stopped by again today on my lunchbreak (ie, during daylight hours)
This was a quick find in a fairly obvious location *once* in the right general area!

Attached are my Coords of GZ (averaged over a couple of minutes).

GZ is very exposed to passersby and I would recommend a hint be added to help speed up the search so that finders are not lingering too long...
A possible hint might be] left of green 'plate'

[Thanks for the cache, SWfam, and congrats again on your first placement!

(PS, I would class this container as a Small)]

Returned today for a quick find too {2TF} after reading Etherlords log... It will be good to have slightly better co-ords for this one and a good hint will make it safer from muggle concerns.

Thanks for the cache Swam, great hide by the guides!

Coordinates changed from:
S 40° 20.160 E 175° 38.084

Coordinates changed to:
S 40° 20.163 E 175° 38.072

Distance from original: 58.5 feet or 17.8 meters.
co-ordinates updated

Aware that the given coordinates were in the middle of a car park, and therefore unlikely that the cache was hidden in that exact spot, decided to extend the search area to the fence-line. However despite checking several likely hiding spots, and a few unlikely ones, could not locate the cache. The site is quite exposed and spending too long there is likely to draw unwanted attention...

Perhaps a hint is needed and/or the coordinates updated to be closer to the cache?

My boy and I searched at 7:15 last night and came away empty-handed just like Etherlord I'll log the first DNF ...
Co-ords def seem to point to middle if the carpark... I'll be heading back very soon

Now is not the best time for me to search as the Church has a Playgroup on Mon & Wednesday mornings from 9:30 til 12noon

If you bring a baby or preschooler with you it would be a good cover while you search !!

Published

Congrats on your first cache hide, Swfam!

I'm not willing to log this as a DNF just yet, as the darkness of 9pm is not the smartest time to be searching for a geocache...
Despite this lumens impediment, I hunted for about 35min without luck. My GPS kept taking me to the drain in the middle of the carpark, which my torch didn't reveal any containers here that were "Small" (as per the 'size') or "Medium" (as per the description).
Expanding the search to include the building, steps, gardens, signs, and fences gave the same outcome.
I had just started a second sweep of the gardens when a car came screaming into the carpark. I didn't recognise the driver as a fellow geocacher, so went to say hello. He asked me what I was doing, to which I explained why I was there. He mentioned that they have frequent security issues with breakins, but seemed to accept my explaination of activities.

[best Arnie voice]
I'll be back!
[/best Arnie voice]
(...in the daylight )

Almost exactly the same experience as the Etherlord Clan for us, except that no one arrived to ask what we were doing - we obviously don't look as suspicious as Etherlord ! We must have only just missed him too. We're glad that his not finding it suggests we can't be completely hopeless either!
The co-ords seem well out unless the drain in the centre of the car park is the spot, but we examined that pretty carefully too. Not giving up yet, but will await developments before we try again.