Chewing Protoplasm (Wellington) Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
By TharnTheHalkan on 10-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6Q08E

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Disabling until after I get back from holiday and can check on it.

I happened to be passing again tonight at a more muggle free time and noticed that things had been replaced and restored at GZ, unfortunately though the cache does appear to have gone missing.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Tried for this one but seat at GZ under repair. May need checking.

Under repair is a bit of an understatement!

Only the frame is left with cones surrounding it.

I didn't take a close look but with the state of GZ and the previous logs I would suggest the cache is probably a goner.

The seat referred to in the hint has been partly dismantled. I think the cache has gone with it.

Here in the middle of the day. Just after a fire alarm in the adjacent apartment block. 3 fire engines. Not to be today. Visiting from Hamilton

Taken a few tries at this one

Hard in the rain

Reinvigorated by a message from co but found in a place different from where it was indicated.

Quick find after working long hours and walking back to the hotel. TFTC

Easy find tftc

Awesome cache Hgjggbvhgbgogkgu
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Wowsers... this took as a few goes!! That one was truly nuts..!

Found

We have tried for this one a couple of times but there are always too many muggles. Mr Coblet was in Wellington for a couple of days and his hotel was nearby so he took the opportunity to go on an early morning mission and headed to GZ at 6am.
There were still a few muggles here and there but not enough to cause any problems and he soon had the cache in hand after checking a couple of spots.
Very nice hide, the log is full but managed to find a place to sign.
Thanks for the early morning adventure.

Mplc

A dreary morning made this normally busy spot much quieter so I decided to give this one a go. Still, I knew it had to be a quick find or not at all so as not to attract attention, and fortunately despite the excellent disguise instinct led me straight to it. As others have noted the log needs replacing. TFTC!

Easy breezy find on a quiet Saturday.

Not what we expected, very clever container! Clues and pictures really helped, nearly gave up. Cool!!

Got one last idea but too crowded. I will return

Our favourite yet!! Bravo!

On a road trip north, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

The Logbook is full..
Greetings Die_Asseln

Found this one after some searching got it with my husband

Picked up this on the way to Starbucks. Lots of muggles around but found it in the first place I looked. Tftc

Found it with aflois and the fish robber on a black coral quest

Found with aflois and bobby157 on black coral quest

Many muggles but an easy find. Logbook almost full. TFTC

Nice one, TFTC and greetings from France

After a lovely dinner in town I decided to grab this cache while it was nice and quiet. I sat down in just the right place and put my hand on the cache. Tftc.

Puuuh What a Cache!

I think that was the most easiest hardest Thing to do!

Been here probably to the most crowded Hour!

Thanks for that really great Cache

Greetings from Germany

Bit short of time and GPS must have been off a bit. Clues got us sitting in the right place but couldn’t put our hands on it

Nice hide. We loved that cache. We are now off to Fiji. Let's see what we find there. Thank you for all the work

Brillant one! Nice machining skills!

Kurz bevor wir mit der Fähre übersetzen wirde dieser Cache noch geholt??

A few hours to kill before a flight so grabbed a few caches. This one was found fairly quickly... love the art! TFTC!

Oha, zuerst suchten wir wirklich nach Kaugummi, aber das ist ekelig. Dann hätte die Weiße plötzlich das richtige Teil in der Hand.
Wir danken dem Owner fürs Legen und Pflegen dieses tollen Caches.
Liebe Grüße von uns Berlinern.

Fast found. Greeting from Germany

Lovely and quiet stroll on a Sunday Evening

Tyftc

A quick find tftc

Very clever!

On my second try found it!! First one in NZ for a visiting Aussie

Just dropped of my wife at the cruise ship shuttle so I can geocache. Found this one quickly. TFTH!

Missed this one on the afternoon because of muggles but made the grab when I passed by in the evening. Very fun hide. Greetings from Los Angeles!

Found TFTC, log full

On our vacation trip through New Zealand we passed by here too.
Many thanks for the cache and best regards from Munich / Germany

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Nice hide. TFTC

Tftc. Found with tb142, kezza1211 and naturegirl.

Zusammen mit Firze habe ich mich auf den weiten Weg von Deutschland nach Neuseeland gemacht. Während unseres wunderschönen Urlaubs konnten wir nicht nur die Einzigartigkeit dieses wunderschönen Landes genießen, sondern auch diesen schönen Cache finden und loggen.
Vielen dank an den Owner fürs Legen und Pflegen
Grüße aus OWL / Deutschland

Together with Firze I made the long journey from Germany to New Zealand. During our wonderful holiday, we not only enjoyed the uniqueness of this beautiful country, but also found and logged this beautiful cache.
Many thanks to the owner for laying and maintaining
Greetings from OWL / Germany

Zusammen mit Steffi985 habe ich mich auf den weiten Weg von Deutschland nach Neuseeland gemacht. Während unseres wunderschönen Urlaubs konnten wir nicht nur die Einzigartigkeit dieses wunderschönen Landes genießen, sondern auch diesen schönen Cache finden und loggen.
Vielen dank an den Owner fürs Legen und Pflegen
Grüße aus OWL / Deutschland

Together with Steffi985 I made the long journey from Germany to New Zealand. During our wonderful holiday, we not only enjoyed the uniqueness of this beautiful country, but also found and logged this beautiful cache.
Many thanks to the owner for laying and maintaining
Greetings from OWL / Germany

Thanks for that Cache- Merci pour la Cache - Dzieki za Cache - Grazie per questo Cache - Takk for at Cache - Obrigado por isso Cache - Gracias por el Cache - Díky za keš - Aciu už ta talpykla - Paldies par šo Cache - Aitäh selle eest Cache - ??????? ?? ?? ??? - Kiitos, että Cache - Tack för att Cache - Tak for denne Cache - Hvala cache - ???a??st? ??a t? µ??µ? cache - ???????? - Önbellek için tesekkürler - Köszönjük, hogy a cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Graças para o cache - Dankon pro la kasmemoron

Found with George Hubby TB142 and George Friend RogerZ1956. TFTC

We were in the port of Wellington New Zealand for the day on Holland America's Amsterdam. Our main goal was to go North of the city and to get to the almost 5-mile bike path along the water and to walk it and to try to find all of the 28 "Recycle" caches on the trail. Mission Accomplished!

What a great set of caches!!! Thank you Yeetrees!

The caches were all clean, easy-to-find, well-protected from the weather by multiple insert containers for each, and the logs were in fantastic condition! We replaced one missing container (for Recycle Seventeen) and were also able to find the Archived Recycle Sixteen. We have given Recycle One and Recycle Twenty Eight FAV points, being representative of the entire series.

The CO was very clear that one should start at the mid-point of the series and do either the Northern or the Southern section first and then return to the mid-point and do the other section. So that is what we did. We were not sure how to get to the starting point, so we took a taxi from the main Train Station. It dropped us off at the #83 bus stop, between Recylcle Nineteen and Recycle Twenty. We did the southern section first from #19 through #28.

After completing the Southern section, we returned to our starting point and decided to do the odds ones on the way North and the even ones on the return to the South, so we could geocache in both directions.

When we finished the series, we jumped on the #83 bus, returned to the City and did 5 more caches there, before returning to our ship.

Great Day! Great City! Thank you
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This cache: Another one where we REALLY had to be stealthy - Quick Find

In town from the ms. Amsterdam on our around the world cruise. Nice sit and grab, cool container! TFTC!

Had a fair look but around 9 on a week day morning is far too busy for me - I should've thought about this really!

Dancing Queen 25252 and myself are on a 4-weeks-geocaching-tour in New Zealand with additional 4 stopovers. Many thanks for the cache and best regards from two German geocachers.

A sneaky little guy, enjoyed looking for this one, alot of muggles around. TFTC

Found it during our NZ trip with some muggle friends.
TFTC and many greetings from Slovakia.

I was a bit worried with the previous DNF`s but heading back to our hotel for our last night on the South island we called in to check. After a short finger search we had it. TFTC

I will b back though

couldnt find it.ps other seat is missing

Good easy find, very well disguised

Had a few goes at this one as lots of muggles around, luckily not far from my hotel so could get to it later in the evening
This is a awsome cache, shame the logbook is full tftc

Finally! Took too many tries to get this. Log full, but I added a strip of paper as temporary log.

On a cruise to New Zealand ports, Today we stopped at Wellington. Such a unique city. We ten caught a shuttle bus into the City and had a lazy cache day. Found a couple and did some touristy stuff. We had been here 25 years ago and looking around it has certainly changed from what I can remember! Sadly the muggles where thick on the ground today, and one seat had had all the slats removed so hoping that wasnt home to the cache! The other had several Muggles on it and we didn't have time fto wait for them to move along. Great sculpture though, saw it move a bit but wasn't windy enough to make it move alot.

Found with geowife kezza1211 naturegirl and rogerz1956 whilst visiting on golden princess tftc

Bei pfiffiger Wellingtonbrise zum Dessert geloggt. TFTC

Just in front of our hotel....but a lot of muggles...cool idea ! TFTC

Quick find at our Hotel. TFTC!

just in front of our hotel- yay - a lot of Muggels out there...but a very cool idea. the cache needs a new Logbook. TFTC

Found it. Nice hide. Log book full.

tftc. This isn't a camoed eclipsed mint tin anymore. Try another type magnet cache.

The log is totally full. Had to squeeze in between others.

TFTC

Your nuts if you think this is a mint tin

log book full.

Just luck to sit in right place first time log book is full

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During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!

Today we have found the cache "Chewing Protoplasm (Wellington)".

TharnTheHalkan, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

Well this marks a good location for a cache. The artwork is something I have walked passed for years but I don't think I ever took much notice until today but that's what caching kinda does. A sneaky hide! Thanks TharnTheHalkan.

The log is full but I found a gap to scribble my name.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

During our stay in NZ, We ought to find à cache in the capitale.
Thanks from France for this one.
Notice: the logbook is full.

On the way back from the cable car station we found his quickly.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

A really nice hiding at a busy place.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

As advised by a previous log, I sat on the right place and there it was! Great container TFTC

Finally. On fifth visit we got this one.

Another find with 4yr old grandson JoggInjnr. What fun we had hiding our nefarious activities from the muggles. All safe and sound. Thanks for a super cool cache.

Quite tricky in the middle of the day as there are lots of watching eyes from muggles, but if you sit in the right place it's very easy to pick up cool cache! Needs a new log book though as this one is full! TFTC

Found on an after dinner wander around Welly

TFTC

Came into Wellington for the day on the train to pick up our hire car and picked up a few caches we missed on previous visits. As we wandered round we came across this cache and decided which seat we needed. Unfortunately there were some people sitting there. We waited and waited but eventually decided to leave it. We went to Te Papa for lunch and now walking to the car depot passed by again. This time the seat was empty and Mr CD immediately had the cache in his hand and we signed it and returned as we had found it. TFTC

I don’t think it’s here anymore I looked for a long time yesterday and today and I still can’t find it I suggest maintenance

It needs maintenance

Lucky hand placement...i found it the first try!!

Tftc

Tftc

Awesome little cache

Day off Norwegian Jewel. Lovely city. Thanks for bringing us to this spot. Greetings from British Columbia. TFTC. SL.

Nice easy find while staying at nearby hotel. TFTC

See Log from Wönny. TFTC

After driving down to Wellington we spend an afternoon and evening in this very nice city. We did some geocaching, enjoyed a beer in the sun and a very lovely dinner. Next stop South Island.
TFTC

Dnf