Pokemon - #003 Venusaur Hamilton, North Island, New Zealand
By Hide&SeekTeam on 16-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6QCP9

Also found the container without a lid. Not sure if I can count this as a find. Will need replacing.

interfered with to many times

Found what looked like a camo painted cache container as per photo
No log or lid so maybe a previous replaced one??

Wasn't going to stop for this one but then I thought I would give it a go. Look at the area and thought yuck But as it was nice and quiet I would give it a couple of goes. I was near the end of the IRS sweep when something caught my eye. Could it be - yes Cache pretty wet TFTC

Check both sides of the bushes but no luck this time

Three of us crawled up and down for ten minutes to no avail. Recent trimming has left lots of rubbish throughout the garden, likely obscuring the view. Another day

Easy find after short search. Out with the bikes on a holiday-day.

Great visit up here, after dinner walk grabbing some caches I didnt managed to get last time we were here, thanks for the placement, much easier doing these at night when its muggle free

TFTC.
Quick park and grab while visiting Hamilton

After a long search. A lot of rubbish round here

Second try (bc the last time there were too many muggles) .. and found it!

No muggles at midday on a Sunday. Took a while to find tho. Persistence pays off. TFTC

I’ve aborted a couple of attempts at this due to muggles. Today was fairly quiet so managed to make a quick find while walking geodog after some shopping. Tftc

Too many muggles and too much rubbish in bushes. We looked too obvious do had to move on. Will be back

Would have thought at 8am on Sunday morning would be a good time to grab this one - ran there to find gardener doing his thing. Ran back to car,t hen drove back and was able to make the find. Thanks for cache.

So many bushes! Good cache though. Also it's a camo coloured gel sized cache - not a sistema TFTC!

A quick find on our evening stroll. No muggles to disturb us. Tftc. MattyH from Tassie

This was a nice quick find and was good to take advantage of the 10 minute parking nearby. I think this is our last Pokemon to capture in the series. TFTC

Gonna have to go back and sign a whole bunch of them from today coz we didn't have a pen, but this one takes a bit of digging in bushes

After reading recent activity quickly spotted this one! No muggles to distract us. Find #50 for us. Signed as Williams Family. TFTC!!

Well looking for a sister container. Not a sistema container anymore. Tftc

Found at last. The last couple of times in Hamilton too many muggles. Took longer than it should have. Dropped off chihuahua TB.

Found in the rain on stroll to the casino. TFTC

Found on our overnight trip to Hamilton, not far from our motel, thanks for the cache

All quiet in town on Christmas day. Found while out with MoggyVal and Pimousse from France. It was her first find and she was quite excited. Thanks for hiding.

Grabbed this after dinner at the nearby Indian. Tftc

On a visit to Waikato so time to collect this one. Took a while trying to be inconspicuous and searching at the same time.
Success in the end.
Tftc

Quite a mission because my god started being a pain. Tftc

Found it nice quick n easy find.

I was just signing this cache when a lady from Harcourts (overlooks the cache) came over to us and asked what we were up to as they frequently saw people looking for something here. I advised her to google Geocaching.... and we had a good chat - her curiosity is now abated! Not a difficult find for an urban cache (which I don't do too often!), TFTC

Easy find, a lady smiled at us!

Its fun watching muggles walk past and smile. Maybe go a night if you want to avoid them

Difficult during day because of muggle activity and my phone GPS was being unhelpful. Got it in the end without being too obvious. No pencil in cache. TFTC

Not very discreet... I'm glad I went on a Sunday! Caught a Pokémon too

Was in H-town this morning with Bratstar01 for a couple of events nearby. Thought we'd grab some caches on our way through. Nice easy find Signed as BRX.

You have to take time to find it

Smashing the treasure tonight!!! Love the chest

Found it in simple location. Pad only for log

An impromptu all night affair with no muggles, no traffic and all the parking we could want! Set off with ApacheD & Davidsonclan around 7pm finding a couple sneaky Tauranga caches before starting the 'Hamilton Assault' It was a productive 10 hours in spite of the weather & DNFs. Signed our logs as PAD to save time and log space.
The cache didn't take too long to spot but maintaining stealth during the day I could imagine would be tricky. Cheers Cats&Dragons, TFTC.

Night mission with Philip.Perry and ApacheD this was a nice quick find early in the morning I imagine this would be difficult when there are muggles around and no parking nearby.
Signed log PAD
Tftc

i can finally never have to look for this one again, tftc

why nuf wakes people early to find a cache is crazy but its another find, tftc

Replaced

time the co checked on this one

4th try at this one and still a dnf, the only difference this time is some of the garden has been cleaned up, the rest is still just rubbish

Cache seems missing, could the owner check?

No find today for us

Couldn't seem to find it

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I hunted up and down the hedge line on both sides...several times and no cache to be found....

We visit Hamilton and the surrounding area. Especially the garden we liked very much. It was a very nice walk and we were able to collect many impressions. Here we could also find and log some caches.
Thanks to all the owners and greetings from the Moorhelmis from Germany

Nice one

No muggles around so a quick find. Another dot day down. Tftc

Our GPS was spot on; but even so it did take a while to find the cache - not the easiest of places to search, especially on a hot day [xx(].

Good find. 6.2.17

Jumpy gps and too hot to search under every single bush. Will come back when it is cooler.

I was determined to find this one tonight! Cool enough to put my four-legged team leader onto and he sniffed it out from the opposite side of the hedge. GPS still all over the place so was very pleased he found it! Our 10th find of the day.

Nice easy find... muggle walked past and asked if we needed help lol

Quick find even in the decreasing light! Did get a funny look from a muggle but worth it for the fun of it

We found it! Great hide!

Yeah boy

Found it. Nice hide

Tftc

Off on a mission with 11hpg11 to clean up some caches in and around Hamilton we hadn't found.

From 002, this one was a shortdrive (lazies!!) and again 11hpg11 found this one. Parked right outside now that Fonterra weren't along the street today.

Out today with Kyb3r to clean up some local caches that we have been procrastinating over for far too long. A nice easy mission today, no early starts, no crazy goals... just some nice quick drivebys plus a few small walks.

We took full advantage of the quietness of town this morning and instead of walking drove to these caches and parked nearby. That and the fact that there were no muggles around meant we had a quick find here. THanks for the cache

Easy find. No one about on a Saturday.

very public. But; easy find out on a quiet Saturday stroll.

Decided to knock out a few night time caches, or what i consider night time ones, this was my second. Street was dead when i turned up so got out and started looking, first on one side then the other. While searching, muggles turned up and sat parked for about 4 minutes while i sat crouched behind the bush trying to hide. Maybe they were lost...? Anywho, after they left i went back to the other side and continued to search. Cache was soon in hand. ? a little tricky, this one, as the bush is fairly large. TFTC.

News Years Day, perfect for a series of driveby and walkbys in the Waikato. With no-one around parking was pretty easy. Thanks.

The first day of the year was the perfect time to find this one as the city is deserted. We are on a maintenance run and thought we would find a few strays on the way around the town. A quick find this time, our second attempt.

Very quiet time of the day, dragged a friend out she spotted this one. Jamming Moana as well tftc

I really am rubbish at NZ caching ( unless examining the logs later shows it is missing). Nice mural and quiet today as i guess most of Hamilton is shut.

Took advantage of the quiet time of year to locate this one. Tftc

Head down bum up to find this one. Found after a short search. Log signed b&p. Find number 4166.
Thanks for the cache Hide&SeekTeam.

Determined to improve my NZ stats and with a few spare minutes after the Botanical Gardens and before Lake Roatoro for lunch, I tried again and this tome it was easily found. Tftc

Had dinner in town and needed a cache today so after a short hunt we found this one.
TFTC

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Decided for a walk around town after work and before dinner to enjoy the warm weather. Easy find at GZ. TFTC

Up here for Phoenix football game. Gabbing some caches before heading back to palmy

As there had been a couple of DNFs on this, I thought I better check it out. Yes, it's still there to be found. It had crept a fair distance from the original location & coordinates, so I have returned it to where it should be.

Mrs attempted this one but had no luck in locating cache and then muggles started to return to cars so left the area, hope to return someday and find

Decided to look a bit further afield after all. There it was in nearly plain daylight. ( tongue in cheek) tftc

I'm going to have to post a dnf here it's a prick of a cache literally. Cuts and blood. Need gloves here one of the local "agents" came to see what I was up to. "They are in the know now." I'll be back

Ordered out tea just around the corner and decided to go for a walk to find this one. Couldn't spot it even with no one about.

Me Poke-vision let me down today
I couldn't see anything other than cans, bottles and chip packets in the hedgerow

scoped out the area earlier in the week, due to the weekday high muggle population we left it to a Sunday when there was no one else about.

Nice find here, thanks very much. No interest in finding any pokemon!

7.15pm - This cache was a few metres away from co ords given. Even had a security guard from across the road trying to help us find it. Used PAF for a little guidance but we think it has been moved a bit. Replaced where we found it. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... Heading north (Auckland) for the purpose of attending an event tomorrow afternoon... It's been a while since we were last there, and it looks like we have a lot of work to do.

This one gave us lots of grief... I decided to go off on the 'mural' reference, and attracted the attention of the security guard... fantastic! In the meantime, Gap focused on the area closer to the listed coordinates... After fending off the guard's inquiries, I crossed over to join Gap.

This ground zone was strewn with rubbish, and it was hard to know if we had a cache or garbage. After a PAF and changing sides, we finally spotted this little blighter... TFTC.

Just got back in town on a rainy day, was a quick find a few muggles hanging around. Tftc

On my way to work this morning, I thought I must pick this cache up! Parked the car and then did the search around the area. Luckily at 6:30am there aren't too many people around

Neat hide! Muggle free on this Sunday afternoon

Too busy here yesterday but much quieter today. Didn't want to look too obvious even so, with a few people wandering about, but thankfully didn't take long to spot. Thanks for the hide.

2257 Called on my way home at 11pm. A relatively quick find in the dark. No one around at that time of the night.
I was in Rotorua earlier in the week and had just picked up a cache and was heading off to the next when I did not notice a couple of cyclist until nearly too late. I was checking my GPS at the time and they accused me of playing Pokemon Go. As if I would.

Nice hide we pick this one up this afternoon no muggles around just EyespyBen.thanks

Tftc for the nice wee hide and drop of tbas well

Tried this one on Monday about 5pm, not a good idea and after spending more time trying to avoid muggles than actually looking I thought I'd leave it for another day..... i.e. tomorrow!! Had been thinking about it all day and after taking care of a few things headed back to GZ just before dark. Much more quieter than yesterday though still a few muggles about. Took a few minutes to locate and was just about to give up when it was spotted.

Thanks for the hide.

Had to go to the CBD this morning and got it while no one was about tftc

After a big day of working yesterday "Yardwork" that is, it was a chance to make a last minute dash up to Auckland in the company of McCutchen Cache Clan to try and get a few caches that would meet my need for the DGSc Challenge that I was stupid enough to start.
So Huntly at 5.30am, Auckland by 7am, not a bad start to the day doing a few caches that possibly would have been left until I got given a "ROUNDTOIT".

Saw this one get published last night and knowing I had an early start, thought that I would leave it as sleep at that moment was far more important (even knowing that another was to be likely to grab it). So this was located before I headed to Huntly so surprisingly had the place all to myself. A nice quick find and then on into the darkness.
thanks for the cache, thanks for the placement

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