GCGC3: Learning to Serve Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By Hoosier Kiwi on 27-Dec-16. Waypoint GC6YGVE

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.

Hi HoosierNomad

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Might need a review. We couldn't find it either.

Couldn't find it had a good look around but nothing.

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Pretty sure we found this one. Fit all the descriptions on the activity and at the right coordinates but no log found.

We believe we found the spot but there was a lot of rust so we were unable to open to log.

No luck here

On a 3 week geocaching trip with woolwood9 around the top of the South Island.
*Very nice find for us here.*
SL **tm/ww NZ**, but may appear as a black smudge on the many wet logs or plastic log strips.
*Thanks for the reason to visit this location and for the cache!*

Raining nearly all day again today.

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Had a good look and I think I can see where it should be but nothing inside.

Thanks for the cache!

Last one for the day ........ maybe

Sneaky and well hidden! The hint was a great help

Was a very cool cache thanks

Found it 25/7/2020 took a wee bit to find

Found the cache and installed a new log. Hoosier: please log a owner maintenance to remove the needs maintenance attribute.

At last my railway series is finished! Yay! So I am back in Nelson for the third weekend in a row to actually place the final Nelson rail cache, completing the story of the line. As (nearly) always, I have Taybeedragon in tow. Now that the Nelson railway cache is in place we are just randomly driving around mopping up stray caches.

.Very quiet here today. Replaced wet log here with temp RITR log to keep this one rolling along. Cheers

Its a flying visit to Nelson today instead of flying out to USA. So another early start picking up The Seagnoid at 6am and heading over the hill to amble about Nelson on a fine cool day. Another great caching day and exploration over the hill.

We found this geocache.

Found this one a couple weeks ago and dismissed it because we thought the cache was meant to be in the hole. This weekend we found a similar one and knew we had to come back to this as we had the cache in hand the first time ! We got it open but no log. Sneaky little things.

Found while caching with ABL973. Thanks Hoosier Kiwi

Cache needs a bit of maintenance and a new logbook

A quick find for me tonight in the dark. I had some trouble opening the cache but I had right tool for the job. I found the log had turned to mush but unfortunately I didn’t have a spare with me so I’ll post a NM log as well. Thanks Hoosier Kiwi for the sneaky hide.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Felt like a bit of a creep hanging out by a school so didn’t stick around long enough to find the log.

We found the cache but the log book wasn't in there

Thanks. Nice wasp nest next to it

Cache number 6 for the day. Thanks for the cache.

Awesome cache. Fun to find. TFTC

Wowsa!

I thought school holiday would be a good time to look for this one, as it is close to a school. Not quite right though, as there were a lot of people practising sports nearby. So I pretended to do some stretching while looking for this one. Checked the other 2 poles first without luck, finally at the right spot, got it while still stretching. Tweezers could be helpful, if previous finder puts it too deep. Tried not to push in too hard, so next find should be possible without.
Nice hide!

Looked for this ages ago but thwarted by works nearby. Back a while later and found cache but couldn't get to log. Needed a cache today to up finds for day and checked was ok again. Quick and easy. Tftc

Nice hide.

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Awesome geo cache, fun to find, creative! TFTC

A great hide found while out for a bike ride. Thanks Hoosier Kiwi

Clever title

No pen to sign but great cache

A quick find. Reminds me I have some of these in my possession that I must release into the wild one day. Nice work on the punny title. TFTC Hoosier Kiwi.

I had planned to go boating today with some colleagues, but apparently the recent bad weather has made it not clear enough for snagging crayfish, so with the day free I decided instead on a trip over the hill to snag some caches.
Good fun today, a nice mixture including some wherigos and a virtual and they were all in pretty good shape. Thanks to all COs.

Kids found this one..nice and easy for them

Very clever hide! Tools are the trick! We came back second time with tools and confirmed that YES we had found the correct nut and..........!

Found a while ago, just forgot to log

Found it but couldn't get it open without tools

What we think is the location of the cache is now fenced off. Can C.O please check this one out?

What we think is the location of the cache is now fenced off. Can C.O please check this one out?

Cunning spot.

Fun find. TFTC

Had to drop some stuff off in Richmond today, so made a plan to grab a cache while out. Plan A failed due to the abundance of dogs around, so although the cache was spotted, it could not be retrieved. Plan B was this cache, but my first visit was aborted due to a police vehicle parked up beside the cache. I carried on to my intended destination and when I had finished there came back to this cache and made the retrieval with no one in sight. tftc

Quick little find TFTC

Good hide! Kids had fun on the new velodrome and bike skills park there

After getting some loves from a young pup on his walk I quickly found the cache and signed the Log. Tftc

Team cinco

Hard to get this without getting muggles. TFTC. Nice evening walk

Over from Melbourne visiting Jay’s family and grabbing the occasional cache on our travels. TFTC.

Found it
Gave me the opportunity to rubber neck into the new velodrome

Nice hide

TFTC

#8 today

TFTC...Nice one!

Down in Nelson for a 10 day holiday and one of our annual big treks in the wilderness somewhere in NZ. Could have been along search but we were on to this one quite quickly.

Very clever design had similar ideas myself , but well done and thanks for the cache.

Quick find as we rode off some of our Christmas excesses! TFTC.

For some reason, there was a man fly fishing in the middle of the field. Luckily the cache was hidden behind a shed so he didn't see me. TFTC

Found with the two boys and a geocaching boxer pup.

Qef micro size, tweezers handy

Hi there as the official CO is over seas at the current point of time so I am the New Zealand CO for now. I have replaced the old cache log with a new one. I recommend that you bring tweezers to get the log out with. All done happy hunting and inquires about this cache please email
[email protected]

A quick find on a Saturday afternoon bike ride. A lot going on around here at the time, but in some ways made it easier to grab and replace.

Log sheet is full - will msg the CO separately.

Thanks for the cache.

A quick find as I have one of these myself, first geocaching purchase. Have aimed to put it out 3 times now but always found an excuse to use something else. No emotional attachment to my first cache purchase syndrome here. Log a little damp but writable. TFTC

Cool. Log was rather full so had to write small!

TFTC
LOG BOOK FULL

Tftc. Clever. Fun little look

Wet log. Cool cache.

Now that's clever. TFTC

This is a clever wee cache, the coordinates were spot on. Thanks Hoosier Kiwi for the cache

Well done to Garin college. Now I'll have to put one outside my school now. This is an excellent cache. I found this while the other sinning was playing football nearby. Find #295

It was a fun find

This was a clever little hide , looked around for a while then tracked it down. TFTC.

Grabbed on the way home from work tonight, pleased I had read the logs and brought the right gear to get the log book out TFTC

Took a while to find our way to GZ, but once we were there it was a quick find. TFTC.

Nicely done.

Paddle chick and I went to get the cache last night found the log was tight to remove so left it ,I went back today with some tools and found the was full sign it anyway . Tftc Hoosier Kiwi

Found on a (nearly) rainy day. Just as I was filling in the log it started to rain. A very nice hide. Today was a day when the earth moved, at least i thought so because the compass did weird things for me and served me up wrong directions! TFTC

Ez find. TFTC.

Found logsheet impossible to access, so took a photo as proof instead.

We combined this find with some messages in Richmond before going for a walk around the airport perimeter, the geocache find and walk being at the request of 7yr old grandson. A nice hide.
Thank you Hoosier Kiwi.

Visiting grandson wanted to find a cache so it was combined with a walk around the airport after. A nice hide in plain sight. Thank you Hoosier Kiwi

Having read the hint i thought i knew what I was looking for, but it was still the third place i looked that the clever hide jumped out at me.
Thanks very much!

Found it be for school. Nice devious find.
Signed the log and was done. TFTC Hoosier Kiwi

Came back with tweezers

Out cyclocaching around Richmond and Stoke this morning. This was find #7. Thanks for the cache.

Awesome but we couldn't sign log because didn't read about tweeters... oh well another trip back I suppose!

The Saxton field area around here has changed so much. It looks great. A neat hide. TFTC

Unfortunately unable to open to sign but very clever hide. Bueatiful evening for a walk

Another different C O here in my tour of Nelson and area, my 10th different C O. Parked nearby and walked over and son has the cache in hand. An interesting use of this cache here. T F T C Hoosier Kiwi

mrs capperz has headed across the Cook Strait to visit our North Island family and I don't have enough leave to be able to go along too, stink. So, for this 3 day long weekend it's just me and (former) nightowl19 keeping up the Marlborough end of the deal. I decided a three prong attack would be the deal for this weekend; 'Nelson' (and surrounds) on Saturday, French Pass/Bulwer on Sunday and Northbank on Monday. And so it was. I managed a respectful 31 caches on the Saturday and headed over the hill at a decent time (much to miss 15's disgust) but we had a couple of nice walks in the Nelson sunshine and found some cool caches, including a mighty 6 Multi caches.

Nice hide

Quick find while out caching with the grandchildren. Seem to be following son "Team-Gaters" around Clever cache hide. Thanks for the cache

Good quick find this evening.
Had the necessary tools to retrieve the log and sign while doing this spotted a very young hedgehog.
Put in the wrong date.
TFTF

By this time the rain had set in so I tried to drive as close as I could to GZ. Didn't get it quite right but of course every little bit of exercise helps. Sometimes my serve is unplayable - - - like once or twice in my lifetime, sometimes it's not . Cache was soon spotted but unfortunately I had nothing with me to help open it so in a kind of quid pro quo move I took a photo to prove I'd visited. NB NOT at the cache's hiding place.
Thanks for bringing me here and thanks for the smilie .

Back in town for a couple days for a family celebration. Passing by midmorning and made the quick find and sign. Nice wee hide. Impressive grounds here. Back when I was a lad this was all orchards...actually; Champian Rd didn't have many houses on it at all let alone a school! LOL.

Needed to find a few caches today so did a early morning hit on a few

Dropped youngest off at a school holiday program at the college and made a small walk around to cache. No problems finding it . Biggest problem was opening it up . Was very tight but eventually gave wave and log signed. Thanks for the cache.

Found cache but no log to sign