Vitis Frondosa (Marlborough) Riverlands, South Island, New Zealand
By capperz on 29-Apr-17. Waypoint GC74VP0

I think a lawn mower may have been the last to find this cache!

We found bits and pieces of what looked like a cache container and log sheet over the grass nearby to the GPS coordinates. See photo.

This one has done its dash, destroyed by (lawn) moas

Found it eventually! Good spot

Had us looking

Cute wee spot to stop lovely entrance way perfect for cache

Found it!

Tffc

Good find

**18,521**
Looks like a very expensive gateway, too flash for the likes of us, so quickly made the find and then headed off - heading to Picton for our ferry crossing back to the sunny North Island! TFTC

Nice quick find , thanks

Day 2 cyclocache ride around Blenheim. Found this as I headed back to Redwood. Mmmm, this aint a matchstick container these days! Description needs updating.

A great impressive entrance to this place. Happy to find cache all good here thanks capperz.

This one is really fun

Nice day for it

Easy find. TFTC

Just a family out Caching. Looks like a good drive and grab Caching trail. Nice easy find

Mr&MrsP ₩kids

easy do find.

I parked very close, then found the cx very quickly. TFTC.

Nice place to hide, I might advise to put some rocks on it to hide it better tho

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Vines

Ohhhhhh... First to write in the new log. Almost like an FTW (almost). Cheers!

Cache maintenance carried out on behalf of the CO. New RitR logsheet in plastic zip lock bag placed in cache container. Pieces of old log removed. Finders in the next few weeks need to be aware that there is a chick nesting right next to the cache. Scared the s#!t out of me...

Thanks to local Geocacher Kiwimykl for his work here as requested. Good to go again,

Nice find. Log is damp and ripped into several pieces. Need a new log in a plastic bag perhaps

Found it after a couple of minutes, log book is a bit wet and hard to write on, looking a bit faded too. May need a little bag inside. TfTC

Found in the morning prior to the lockdown announcement, which caused me to forget logging the find until now!!! TFTC

Was planning a foray up to Mt Vernon but the day has gotten away on me (which it tends to do when you've got children!), so I'll content myself with a forage along the lower echelons of them thar hills today and save the Big Kahuna for when I have a full day ahead of me and time to find all the caches on the way as well as complete the AdLab. TFTC capper, although the log is disintegrating.

The easiest of the cache to find on this road, cache dry and ready to be found. T4tc

Great hide
Thanks

Tricky

Third time lucky. Thank you capperz for this cache.

======== NZ Mega 2021 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2021 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, October 2021.

Please bring new logbook for this cache

Bike ride in cold sunny winter day and found some geocache.

Beautiful autumn colours! I parked in a suboptimal position so was pleased to get out of there quickly... only three cars came past! TFTC!!

Found

Heading home to Nelson albeit via the side streets of Blenheim and Renwick.

I had a real sense of déjà vu with the caches along these roads. Either I found or never logged them or the location has been recycled. Either way it’s a smiley where there previously there was not.

I recall fossicking around these vines a few years back without success. Maybe they’ve been trimmed back now as everything fell into place for an immediate find today.

Thanks capperz
#3261

Logged using Cachly.

Looked in wrong corners first....then nette1234 found a corner I had missed!

Nice quick find today.

Quick grab with Crickethawea

Found with judithrichards

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on wet or plastic logs)
*We soon had another good cache located, now onto the next one!*

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

Very quick find for my last Wonder of the World. TFTC!

Stuck in Blenheim because of vehicle issues so lots of time to cache by foot or by bike. Today I decided to walk to Wither Hills Farm Park as I did yesterday but took a different route to collect some more smileys. Nice entrance for a walkway! Thanks

Well hidden

Nice quick grab

Thanks!

Easy find forgot pen

Thanks

Bummer. I have run out of roof paint so its a trip to Blenheim to pick up some more. With our walk in Wither Hills done, I dropped Raphael off in Blenheim with friends for a couple of hours while I go caching. Stopped off here to get this one snagged. With my trusty gloves and handy dandy wipes got this one tagged and tucked back in. Cheers

Found good spot

Ya boi didn’t find it

#17528. This one too a little while (eventually Troodles found it on the ground). TFTC.

It's been a while since StreetWalkerNZ and I had a caching weekend away and finally the planets aligned (and the weather forecast was good) for this weekend, so we made plans for a trip to Blenheim. A successful day 1 with 36 cache finds (plus 5 lab caches) , and 3 DNFs .
Once we started searching, the entrance became Piccadilly Circus with a constant stream of cars, which makes surreptitious searching difficult. Pleased to finally spot the little blighter on a second pass - I had been searching too high on my first pass. Replacing the cache proved difficult as well, hope I didn't look too dodgy to the occupants of the car that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. TFTC.

Quick find on way home TFTC
K&R️

Heading towards Picton this morning with a bit of time in hand so I decided to stop for a few easy caches. Another quick find here. Signed log, TFTC.

Mico614

Caro614

My third today on my geocache run, again forgot to bring a pen with me... might come back sometime to make it official. Thanks!

-Note for fellow cachers, this one isn’t accessible by skateboard (unless you are brave )

Muddy and slippery, but located.

ytb x

We had to disturb a whole bunch of poor little leaves from their resting places. The leaves crunched in annoyance as we kicked them aside. I found it, so yay!
TFTC

Found amongst the grape vines by spacenarwhale (the last cache she was happy to look for today).
Thank you for the cache.

Busy lil cache as I’m 2nd one today

Easy find

3rd find of the day. Nice quick cache. Wasn't to busy. When I was trying to fish it out I had the unnerving feeling I had my hand on a doggy dodo, SO glad it wasn't. TFTC

Inviting entrance way. Had to go down the drive past the lavender. Nice place to live. TFTC

Yes, a QEF here as described. Quite a busy entrance way.

Found it

Quick find add a new log paper

Found with eltee291, Hingis20 and crman1. Lovely day for it! TFTC

Found with eltee291, Hingis20, and coastalmartinis. TFTC!

Quick find this afternoon with eltee291 and coastalmartinis. Nice and quiet around here today, made searching comfortable! Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache, capperz!

Quickly found this afternoon with hingis20 and coastalmartinis. Gorgeous day to be out and about looking for caches. TFTC

A quick and easy find. Thanks

Day 2 of our drive to Auckland to catch up with family

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

It took us quite a while to find this cache, as our GPS took us to a wrong possible hint location. Once we moved closer to the road, the cache was a quick easy find. In between times, a lady who lived up the road came to check what we were up to, and was happy with our explanation, after which we had a long and pleasant conversation with her. TFTC

Took longer than we expected, easier than we expected, another smiley face thank you.

Quick grab

Our last few days on holiday, enjoying the sun, the caches.

Thanks to all the cache hiders. Many thanks.

TFTCs

Found so sorry forgot pen be back soon to sign

Tftc

Found

Was driving past after finishing work a little earlier than usual, and it was quiet enough to pop in and make the grab while no-one was around. So quick find and replaced as found. Could not find a rock but is under natural camo. TFTC Capperz. PS: Pathtags are on their way .

T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C.

---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
-- AR9ZB7

Thx

Beautiful laid out area on a sunny morning. TFTC

We are nearing the end of the Hidden Creatures souvenir promotion and I have been a bit slack in my efforts to attain this batch of souvenirs probably because I feel it came too soon after the Planetary Pursuits challenge. Being in the middle of building a new house and the birth of Granddaughter No. 3 hasn't helped either. But today was too nice a day to spend in the office and the weather report for the rest of the week doesn't look that flash, so I made a spur of the moment decision and took the afternoon off in order to increase the number of Mythical Creatures souvenirs.

I'm under no illusion that I will get anywhere near the 100 finds required for all the souvenirs, but I did an online survey to see what type of cacher I am at the beginning of the challenge and discovered I'm a Gryphon, so it would be nice to make it that far. By the end of the day I had collected another 10 points to add to the 5 I already had which takes me as far as'Sphinx' so I only have to get another 5 to achieve my aim.

Today's efforts took me to the Wairau Lagoons, Seddon, Dry Hills Estate (here), the Grovetown Lagoon, the Wairau Bar and Rapaura. But first I did a cache check on a recently DNF'd cache and took the opportunity to place another cache in the Wineries of Marlborough series for publishing at a later date.

This cache and a couple of others in the Dry Hills Estate I had been saving when I was filling up my Dot Days but never needed. So after bypassing the CO's other cache back at the bend in Alabama Road due to construction activity taking place, I dropped in here to grab this cache. It was a QEF as I was present when NZDi found it earlier in the year. I then travelled up the road to get the Rock Garden cache, but there was a gardener in the garden so I bypassed it and the Check the Mapp cache further on.

TFTC capperz

With barely a start on the Hidden Creatures souvenirs (4/100) and only this weekend free to do it, we set off to Blenheim to see how many we could collect. I didnt think we would get to the World Turtle but was happy with whatever we brought home. We drove over last night so we could get a good start this morning. The plan was a drive out to Awatere Valley but we worked our way out of town first. A nice quick easy find here even though it was buried under alot of natural camo. A nice entrance way indeed. Thanks for your effort in placing this cache for everyone elses enjoyment. P.S: This cache also awards us with the Hidden Creatures: Gryphon souvenir.

Couldint find it looked for 5

All good when I was here. took a bit of a rummage to find it, but didn't take too long to grab. TFTC

Found on a nice day over here

I was definitely here at the best time of year, the leaves were so pretty. I have never been past this area before so it was great to have a day just to potter around exploring the neighbourhood. A nice quick find was made here, thank you for placing this cache

Quick easy find.

Was not there

Picking up some supplies from mitre 10 for the next project, and time to grab a cache while nearby. TFTC

Quickly spotted. Tftc

Found while out souvenir hunting with Kiwimykl this morning. He is saving this for his las Dot Day.

TFTC capperz

Mrs Sobad drove past this one on the way to the Rock Garden. Found a good parking spot on the way out and a quick find using the hint as she did feel conspicious. Noone went past in the short time she took to find, sign and return the cache.
Thanks.

Thanks drove up from Dunedin yesterday and away on the ferry this pm

Found with StokesNZ while filling in a couple of hours to spare in town. TFTC.