Court Caching (Manawatu) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By sunju on 27-Oct-16. Waypoint GC6W51G

Regrettably this hide has become so overgrown the container is not retrievable. This quiet little carpark area has become incredible busy over the years with and even more so now there is a Vaping shop a few metres away. We have decided to archive this cache to open the area up to someone else with a fresh idea for a hide. Happy caching.

Placement location overgrown with bamboo. Will make decision to relocate or archive soon.

Still can’t find

I have updated the difficulty level now that the vegetation has become thicker and the carpark has got busier. And to help you more I have updated the hint. Message me if you need more help.

Someone should see if this is actually still here because I’m pretty sure it isn’t

Need some clues for this one. Kids disappointed

Rough day

We were so determined to find it but unfortunately couldnt. We will be back!

Found today with the help of TwigNZ while in the area for the Winter Warmer event, TFTC

Had looked up this cache and was intrigued to as what it could be. We love a good challenge so not to be put off by all the dnf's we headed to gz. Once we approached we we're not so keen on the cache as there are so many places it could be. Basically a jungle and the hint didn't make any sense. Had a good search but We add to the line of DNF's. We both had a day off so decided a caching day trip was loooong overdue.

Bad

Dnf

No luck today

Hard

Thanks for placing the cache, unfortunately couldn't locate the cache.

Williamsmatena

I, the cache owner work, within sight of this carpark mon-fri 9.30am to 2.30pm so if you have given this a proper go feel free to message me and i may be able to wander over and give you a bit of a hint. You can actually park very close to it giving you cover and the neighbours cant really see you if you are quiet. It's not that hard lol!

Awesome find

Had dinner near here but noting there were four dnf's decided not to hunt for this cache and went for the next closest one.
I hope it get's replaced as it is within walking distance of my Dad's home.
Will add it to my watch list for next time I'm in town.

No luck here, had a fairly good search at 0630 this morning. By the way a bison in this environment is never a beginner cache - I recommend the cache page be updated to at least a D2.

Couldn’t see anything

Beat me tonight.
Will follow cache to see if someone else has better luck.

Was too concious of the nearby residents to commit fully to this one
Might try another time

This one had been a bit of a thorn in my side. I first attempted it with my son almost a year ago when I was very new to geocaching. At that time we had spent at least half an hour methodically searching GZ without success.

Since then I've had another quick go or two, but always in a rush. Today I had plenty of time on my hands, and being a Sunday I hoped it would be quiet in and around GZ to allow me to have a really good crack at this one. And so it was. I was the only one in the car park, so I was able to quietly go about my search until eventually I found what I was looking for.

I'm very glad to have finally found this one, and so I don't have to think about it again, although I will have to bring the lad here at the next opportunity so he can finally find it too.

Thank you for placing and maintaining this cache.

Tiny one! Muggles around

Nice hide!! No rubbish or scary stuff to be seen!!

Awesome find took a little while but absolutely great

Nice hide

Searched for a good 30 mins... Couldn't find anything....

So upsetting that i couldn't find. Looked for about half an hour all over up and down but couldn't find

Found with hagridcarl

A fun lunchtime hunt

We went back today having read suju's post and quickly found the cache. Don't why we did not find it when we first looked. TFTC sunju.

Checked this out yesterday prior to Push'n East's event at the Rose & Crown. It is exactly where originally placed, clean and dry with no rubbish near it and plenty of coverage still from the house. You just need to be quiet and discreet and you can park right along side so I simply cannot see what the fuss is about so am enabling it instead of archiving it. The Council cleans this public carpark up regularly and any rubbish tends to be over by the concrete wall anyway. Happy caching.

We spent a long time looking but no cache could be found. This one has not been found for a while so maybe it has been muggled.

Since the Vapor shop opened around the corner there has been an influx of undesirables to this car park area and hence the influx of rubbish and graffiti. I will check the cache tomorrow and decide whether to archive it and relocate a cache nearby. It is well hidden and placed such that the shrubbery should be quite sufficient to shield you from the house whilst quietly and discretely searching.

2nd try. Didn’t feel comfortable searching so near to house.

Didnt fancy digging around area where muggles may have urinated... lots of empty alcohol cans

Too much rubbish around to go picking through in the dark. Someone decided to have a party in the car park.

Too many muggles too look at 1pm.

Found while out and about with tmann421

Nice find on a tour around the area from cache to cache.
Good bit of searching before finding, but co-ords good.
SL TFTC

#9460. Quite an unexpected public car park in Roslyn, Palmerston North. GZ was all quiet when we visited. So fortunately did not get caught caching on the court. Found after a short search. 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 …

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.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.

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That was an awesome find. Loved the spot and especially loved the capsule. Probably my favourite find so far.

Awesome find and loved the capsule! Definitely one of my top finds so far! Well done guys and thanks.

Did not find this time, but may come back next week to try again

Found today with Crystal Fairy, The Wandering Dragons, MycroMan and Violet Butterfly. Thanks!

Cache # 791

Found today with Crystal Fairy, Astro Hunter, MycroMan and The Wandering Dragons. Thanks!

Cache # 1,329

Cache # 3,898 - Found today with Crystal Fairy, Astro Hunter, MycroMan and Violet Butterfly. Had a really good idea where to find the cache based on the hint and the description, but still took a little while to locate the well-hidden gem. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Yes this one is still there. The hint could be misleading, but only refers to the side where the cache is when driving in, not where its on that side. Wandering Dragons spotted this one. Did with Wandering Dragons, Violet Butterfly, Astro Hunter and Mycro Man (and his brother). T4TC

Did with Crystal Fairy.

Hunted about for a while here but no luck. The compass was all over the place too

Hi there, two of us searched for about 15-20 minutes and still couldn't find it.

Looked for a few minutes, all I spotted was a bottle.
Had to abandon as I got caught/court caching. Won't be able to have another try for a while as it was approaching time for me to return to Wellington.

Good find thanks

In Palmy on business so went for a morning walk to pick this one up being close to the hotel

Have not managed to catch up with the tenants but it appear the side window of the house now has the blind permanently pulled down (lots of people and cars are in and out of the court anyway). You will be out of view of the window if you are in the correct place. A bit of quiet stealth and you should have it in no time. If anyone else has any trouble we will move it.

Due to the previous cacher's log we are temporarily disabling this until we reconsider its placement. The previous tenants were aware of its hide and were happy with it. The hide is NOT near the side window of the house and has plenty of shrubbery cover so it should be relatively easy to find without being muggled. We will speak to the new tenants and if they are still uncomfortable or concerned we will move it. We do not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable and apologise if it has done so.

We got caught caching !!! Saturday afternoon and no one in carpark and parked right at 0 on the GPS and hunt on. And as a previous log has said, a bit creepy right next to a house. And sure enough a shout of "can I ask what you are doing". One distressed lady of the house. Had to explain geocaching, and calm couple from house, who have only been there a couple of months. We didn't feel like continuing the hunt for this one. Sorry, our opinion is that if the house occupants don't know about it, the house and its windows are to close.

#1216. I needed a cache today for my dot-day. After looking at two caches and finding they hadn't been found for months and probably had gone missing I then tried another one. This time I was stumped by yellow tape and a digger felling trees so couldn't get to GZ. Court Caching was my next (and final) attempt for a cache today on my way home. By good luck I parked next to GZ and started the search. I tried to be systematic and not miss searching any area but somehow didn't locate the cache. Then I got 'court caching'. oh oh.... whew.... it was the CO. After a big nudge in the right direction I located the cache. Thanks sunju. Lovely to meet you.

No luck today to many ppl around si maybe next time we are down we'll get it

#79 Found with my mum Gr33nslime and perhaps my dad JimmyNZ. Trying the mass logging thing with GSAK hence the really general log entry!

# 889 This was my second visit to this cache, and for a while I thought it was going to require a third visit! Had brought JimmyNZ along to help with the search this time. The coords seemed very accurate but I just couldn't make the find! Then i decided to be far more systematic with the searching technique, and as soon as I said that JimmyNZ came up trumps! It is a deceptively well hidden urban hide, that took far longer than it needed to! And you can use your car for cover while searching. Thanks for a cool urban hide sunju.

Out for a drive with Gr33nslime and DangerSAM. Gr33nslime had attempted this before but had no luck so she brought me along for a second set of eyes. Sadly I spent several minutes looking it all the wrong places as I miss recalled the hint from another cache and proved very useless for a portion of time. Wasn't until we looked at the cache listing again did I refocus and start again. Wont lie, think we were in situ for slightly longer than 5 minutes to find this one, but very glad we did in the end. Micros are so annoying. Very simple but clever hide from the CO. Cache was in good nick and nick and dry. Having a car to conceal your location is a must here and while others have said the house neighbouring the cache know about it, still feels a little dodgy to be poking around the bushes next to someone's house. Never mind, they wont have to spot me again. Thanks for the cache.

Looked in the wrong area to start with but finally came up trumps. Tftc an of course another smiley

Met up with 4Tees as we are geocaching today. Took us a long time to find this one but tftc!

2nd time and still no luck

Quick find this morning with eltee291! Nobody around while we searched, which was a bonus! Signed the log and replaced as found. Visiting from BC, Canada! Thanks for the cache!

Quick find this morning with hingis20. It was pretty quiet here this morning so that made things easier. We found, logged, and replaced as fast as we could. On vacation here from BC, Canada. TFTC

No luck today. Felt a bit dodgy searching so close to the neighbouring house.

I first visited this site when it was first released but i was moments too late for a first to find so i left it for today when i knew i would be very close by after the mid night service and having previously located it it was a very simplw find and , sign and replace in the still ness of the very early morning. Thank you for this cache and another smiley face.

Quick find and the coordinates were spot on. Thanks for the cache!

I've been saving this cache for a dot-day as it's on the way home from work.
Today is a dot-day but it's also the start of my week of being On Call and the pager already went off before I'd even left my building
This meant that I was running late for dinner with the family and so I canned my thoughts of ticking off another dot-day.
But all that changed when I saw Mr All7ofUs pulling into GZ as I approached. Apparently it's a dot-day for him too
We joined forces in our hunt and he soon made the find.

Congrats on your first cache!

Received a hint from a fellow cacher that the hiding spot was closer to the road than we were originally searching and so being a dot-day decided to give it another go. Mr All7ofusNZ called in to GZ on his cycle home and had just got sorted when Etherlord turned up on his bike to join the search. Soon located the cache and had the log signed, TFTC.

Found with markhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with markhnz, hannahhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with hannahhnz and hollyhnz after picking up W.E.K.A. from the airport.
We started searching in the wrong spot, but once we starting looking where the GPS was actually pointing it didn't take too long to find.
I have parked here a few times before when Sugar Plum used to be next door.
Nice hide.
Thanks.

Found with markhnz, hannahhnz, hollyhnz after being collected at the Airport for Grandma duties.
TFTC

I saw this one come out and decided I would get it on a weekend day when its not such a busy area to cache in. Today was the day to collect this cache, a nice overcast day the Sun trying to come out.
It was quiet here today and I see Mrs Sunju wasn't at work. It was a nice quick find, cache was a little damp, but signed the log and carried on into town to get Mr Watcache a new phone as his has decided to retire but caching must continue. Thank you for placing another cache in the lovely manawatu. TFTC

Drove to this one with geodatum who have already found it. This was very helpful to get the right entrance, and a tip where to park to cover my search. They stayed in the car while I looked and it was quickly spotted. A neat urban hide, thanks sunju.

Despite this cache being across the road from my workplace, when I received the new cache email, I looked out the window and there was already two sets of cachers searching for it.

Left it for this morning to keep my streak going. Quick and easy find at the GZ. TFTC

in the pouring rain I thought we were going to be muggle free, not so turns out we were being watched from across the fence, after quick chat on what we were doing they were happy and even offered for us to look from there side, explained we would not need to as they are only ever on public or on places that have the owners ok, found no long after the convo, thanks for the placement now off to dry some very wet clothes.

Thanks for another cache in Palmerston North sunju ! Just what I needed for a dot day

I was able to park right next to GZ with my phone telling me I was within 2m... so the short hunt was soon successful

Lucky to be {3TF} after all this time. With such accurate coords I'm looking forward to more caches from you sunju! TFTC

Being right in my neighbourhood this one just HAD to be found!Following GPS reading I parked right there and then followed my nose...had cache in hand in a few seconds,wrote the log and re-concealed.A good cache...thanks for placing this here,good work!And 2nd to find too!

Had the place to ourselves, being after working hours, but the GPSr wouldn't settle on a particular spot and couldn't make the hint match anything in particular where we were searching. Being so close the the window of the residence next door made us a little uncomfortable too so we decided to move on.

Arrived at GZ just after Geodatum. My GPS was jumping around a bit. When I got to the right place, soon had it in my hands for joint [FTF] with Geodatum. After the log was signed, I looked at the GPS and the co-ordinate were spot on. Thanks sunju for the cache.

Published

Joint {FTF} with Popmac.
The rewards of self-discipline... Mrs G had not allowed herself to pick up her I-pad until she had finished marking one more assignment. Then when she did start using the I-pad she was quickly rewarded by the notification of a new cache, not far away either. Mr G was dragged out of his workshop and we were soon at GZ. As we began our search, Popmac turned up (what a surprise!) and so we searched together. Popmac laid hands on the cache first and we shared the FTF.
Just as we were about to leave the CO arrived out in the carpark, so it was good to have a caching catch up with her. Shortly after that another cacher arrived. So plenty "court caching" here today. TFTC sunju and congratulations on your first hide.