Barrier in the City (Hawke's Bay) Hastings, North Island, New Zealand
By
munkis on 26-Feb-16. Waypoint GC6C3F6
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Out and about enjoying the early morning sunshine, and was able to easily find this cache, sign log out of sight, then replace as found. All good with the cache. Thanks for having a cache here for me to find.
First attempt I was definitely looking around the wrong barrier. Decided to go to the nearby food establishment to refuel with lunch, and to rethink possibilities. Finally thought of good location after eating. Walked back casually to my car. Bingo! Correct theory. Had to sneak it back after signing log. Found by D on his solo adventures up north. TFTC
A nice quick find, in the obvious place. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are off on another North Island tour, visiting family, art galleries and caches. Today we drove and cached around Napier/Hastings, under fine skies for the most part.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.
We woke up early in the morning knowing later in there would be lots of muggles. Read the clue and knew what we would be looking for, mrlgrose found the cache instantly and we had the container in our hands. Cool and quick find, thanks Munkis for the cache.
Instant find, pretty much only one places it could be. Went nice and early so no muggles around, although did have to replace it a bit sneakily. Cheers
There was a bit of a long queue at this eatery tonight... So I looked around ...tried one place....then after reading a comment on a previous log , I found it in a very good place!Cheers...
Who would have thought there would be so many cars and people there at 8am on Christmas Eve. Had to bide my time before going in for the grab.
Been meaning to get this one for a few years but eveytime I come here it's very busy. Picked a good time to drive by and there were hardly any people around! Quick grab, sign, put back. Thanks.
This one is good one had to wait to put it back as others were walking around and didnt want to be seen
Trouve ! / Found it ! Difficile d'tre 100% discret mais mon lacet tait ouvert juste ce moment l... 4138me cache trouve.Merci munkis pour la cache Difficult to be 100% discreet but my shoelace was open just at that moment... 4138th cache found.Thank you munkis for the cache
After doing our groceries real close by I noted this nearby option. Nice easy find in the obvious place and unseen by drive-through people and on-foot muggles.
A weekend away in Hawkes Bay with mrs c following my recent work in Australia including a 5 and a half week stay in a shared tent in a field. Good to be back on solid ground, with walls of substance and off a camp-bed! We stayed in Havelock North at the work 'bach' and visited Hastings and Napier. Completed a couple of Ad Labs, and found a modest amount of caches too, thanks to all COs.
A weekend away in Hawkes Bay with mrs c following my recent work in Australia including a 5 and a half week stay in a shared tent in a field. Good to be back on solid ground, with walls of substance and off a camp-bed! We stayed in Havelock North at the work 'bach' and visited Hastings and Napier. Completed a couple of Ad Labs, and found a modest amount of caches too, thanks to all COs.
This cache was easy once we had thought about it.
All safe and dry.
Thanks for the placement.
All safe and dry.
Thanks for the placement.
We stopped to get some groceries near by, so I figured I'd grab this cache as it wasn't to far away.
It was pretty daunting when I arrived at gz and realized how busy it was here. This took some patience to wait for the right time for the grab. Fortunately there was a stack of pellets by gz, so I sat down and managed to see where the hide was while pretending to be waiting for someone.
As soon as an opportunity presented itself i made a quick grab.
Thanks for setting up this challenging cache
It was pretty daunting when I arrived at gz and realized how busy it was here. This took some patience to wait for the right time for the grab. Fortunately there was a stack of pellets by gz, so I sat down and managed to see where the hide was while pretending to be waiting for someone.
As soon as an opportunity presented itself i made a quick grab.
Thanks for setting up this challenging cache
A bit out in the open! But the perfect chance to grab a snack Cache in pretty good condition still.
Nice quick stop with a couple of minutes to kill this morning. No people at 7.30am!
This was a bit of a bonus find. I just happened to think to turn on my GPSr as I waited in the car while my travelling companion did a quick bit of shopping. I was surprised to see I was only 22 metres away from this cache. I worked out where it was most likely hidden and it was just a case of waiting for the drive through queue to reduce in length.
#12,218. A park, walk and grab on Lascelles Street in St Leonards, Hastings. Fortunately, GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing signed log.
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Nice quick find while ordering Maccas in the drive-thru.lol. wasnt 2 hard 2 retrieve when y0u g0t kidz needing to get out & stretch the legs. TFTC
I was spending a couple of day visiting friends and geo caching around hastings and set out early to locate some
A barrier it is to prevent exits it would seem but the cache was quickly found and i dont think any muggles was even aware i was there. Thank you for this cache I took nothing and left nothing
A barrier it is to prevent exits it would seem but the cache was quickly found and i dont think any muggles was even aware i was there. Thank you for this cache I took nothing and left nothing
Spent the day caching in Hawke’s Bay on my way to Whanganui for some work. A clever hide. Only issue was timing the search in between the McDonald’s drive through queue. Thanks
Had lunch here today and disnt realise there was a cache here until watcache looked at where to go next and it was on 33metres away. Had to get it while we were here. No muggles for us. Found with watcache.tftc
Had just had lunch then looked at our phones and wow a cache near by do quickly found it xache all good. Out caching with xsaveya today tftc
This was the first stop on a mini-vacation with my Muggle wife. I got a few minutes reprieve to grab caches while she rested. This was no too far from our hotel, so I made a quick grab. TFTC.
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Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:
* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!
Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it! You can also join the Facebook group NZ Mega 2020 to keep up with all the news.
I had planned to look for this cache under the cover of darkness but since I was driving by this afternoon it couldn't hurt to check it out.......right? Upon arriving at GZ there was very little traffic about and only a muggle bringing in the washing across the road so I decided to jump out and give this one a go. It was a quick find in the first place I looked.
TFTC
TFTC
Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC
Expected a difficult one here but for some reason I was drawn to the cache and grabbed it before I had time to think. I’m glad and put it more down to luck. Tftc!
11.10am
This weekend was a caching road trip to the Hawkes Bay with Mr Gap, something we have not done together in a long while.
Weather forecast was good so we set off late Friday afternoon arriving in the Hawkes Bay about 7.30pm so settled in to our accomodation and planned our weekend of caching.
We needed a couple of caches today for a personal challenge we are doing which we were able to collect.
Saturday started off very slowly with some caches taking longer to find than others but once we started doing the trails in the area caches came fairly quickly.
Had some interesting chats with people on the way, wondering what we were up to.
A few of the caches on the trail were quite damp but still writeable.
Sunday was homeward bound so made caches we picked up were mostly drive bys.
Great weekend with 52 caches collected for the weekend. SLTFTCaches
This weekend was a caching road trip to the Hawkes Bay with Mr Gap, something we have not done together in a long while.
Weather forecast was good so we set off late Friday afternoon arriving in the Hawkes Bay about 7.30pm so settled in to our accomodation and planned our weekend of caching.
We needed a couple of caches today for a personal challenge we are doing which we were able to collect.
Saturday started off very slowly with some caches taking longer to find than others but once we started doing the trails in the area caches came fairly quickly.
Had some interesting chats with people on the way, wondering what we were up to.
A few of the caches on the trail were quite damp but still writeable.
Sunday was homeward bound so made caches we picked up were mostly drive bys.
Great weekend with 52 caches collected for the weekend. SLTFTCaches
In Taradale for an Dahlia Show. Found some caches before heading back to Palmerston North. Thanks munkis for the cache.
Hayleyfcy told the story much better than I could (well, the same good) so no point in repeating. Thanks!
Ah didn't realise this was a McDonald's drive through. We went from the street side so muggles weren't a problem. Checked a possible spot at GZ and came up empty. Michaelteacher asked if I found it, my answer was "no, but I didn't check the other bit" so he did, and voila. Tftc 
The biggest challenge here was that there was a high volume of muggles about. Had to persevere and have a bit of patience to uncover this cleverly hidden cache. In the end my 10 yr old daughter found it. TFTC.
Finally found it and we can now get ourselves out of harms way.
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wow super high muggle alert here, I had a good look and didnt have much luck so we ate dinner and came back, hubby made a quick find while telling me I need a new hobby, I had looked everywhere but there, but log signed and was our last cache of the night. thanks for the placement
Down to Napier to catch up with a sick friend so a quick visit but looking forward to coming back for a bit longer and more caching. We were staying at a nearby motel and I walked down early on Sunday morning so it was fairly quiet at the local McDonalds but it was still surprising the number of people coming in for a quick breakfast. I was just about to give up on this one when I spotted something! - so easy once you see it 
TFTC
TFTC Another good find while having a few days away.
Thanks for the reason to visit this area.
SL Co-ords a bit away.
Thanks for the reason to visit this area.
SL Co-ords a bit away.
Stopped by since we were passing - coords had me a ways off but the title helped. A bit of a queue here so sat on the barrier while appearing to be on the phone and cache was soon in hand. Signed log and left as found. Thanks for the placement at this very busy spot and the opportunity to practice stealth.
On a early morning walk, took a short cut heading back home, a barrier straight ahead. Cache soon in hand and log signed. Cheers.
Found with treasure hunting Tim, after having no luck searching on my own. Approached from a different angle and things were a lot more obvious! Tftc
So many barriers to choose from took a few visits to sort this one. TFTC
Finally got in to Hastings today to grab this cache that has been sitting staring at me for a long time! As I approached GZ, I actually headed straight to the wrong Barrier, where I had some strange looks from rockers nearby! Once if figured out the correct spot, the cache was quickly found.
GPS led us slightly astray but thinking and reading helped us to find this quickly. TFTC.
A quick find, not too many muggles driving by. GZ was out by about 13 meters.
Great find, little bit tricky on the co-ords but when you get your head round what an actual barrier is you'll have it in hand 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.
Had an extended lunch break and grabbed this cache.
Agree with previous cacher that the coordinates were some 16 meters out.
TFTC
Had an extended lunch break and grabbed this cache.
Agree with previous cacher that the coordinates were some 16 meters out.
TFTC
