S.H.I.E.L.D 49 (manawatu) Kimbolton, North Island, New Zealand
By watcache on 05-Nov-18. Waypoint GC8008G

Heading north with tmann421 for a couple of days.Targeting the S.H.I.E.L.D series.Drove miles on narrow winding country roads completing many of them in the dark making the drive easier. Spent two half days finding and maintaining containers and logs (with permission from cache owner)All good hereSigned log tm/ww NZTFTC watcache

Found with woolwood9 on our second day away mainly finding S.H.I.E.L.D. Geo-Art caches.Early start back on the roads at 7-15am. Soon had another good cache found. SL *tm/ww NZ****Thanks watcache for the fun and reason to visit this area!***

Ugh. I hate these plants. Like a flax hunt, only... the same. None the less, this one was a pretty quick find, so thanks for that.The map is drawn badly here, the major feature is not marked correctly. Fixed that.---I had a rough day at work last Thursday and came up to stay with some good friends in Palmerston North on a whim just to get away from it all. To run away, in effect. And that meant a good opportunity to finish the Shield series. Alas with a few DNFs and the CO not wanting to replace a missing cache the shield is not complete, which means it misses out on the geoart favourite (given the size, probably two or three favourites) so is limited to the occasional cache favourite. But I must admit it is a fantastic tour of the back roads.When I was younger I read a lot of superhero comics, but frankly I am amazed at the number of characters that the CO has found!

We are back in New Zealand to have the holiday we should have had 4 years ago, Covid-19 put an abrupt end to that holiday. We have got a few places earmarked to visit, Lake Taupo, Napier and then Palmerston North.Our last day in Palmerston North. On our way back to Roto Kauri we decided to have a go at finding some of the S.H.I.E.L.D. series. I did the majority of the puzzles back in the UK a few months ago also got some help, with a few puzzles, at an event held on ANZAC day at 116 Cafe in Palmerston North.Greetings from the UK.Arrived at GZ and started our search. The cattle in the field were curious and came across to see us. We had a good look around but nothing was found. It has been a while since this cache was last found and we were not sure as to what the hint "Aggy" meant.

Yesterday we found 100 caches and today we are aiming for another 100 so we are off in search of mostly S.H.I.E.L.D caches with the odd one or two thrown in that we might be passing. Please excuse the mostly cut and paste logs, we are on day 7 of a 9 day mission around the Wairapa and Manawatu in which we found over 600 caches, its getting hard to remember exactly which one was which. Thanks for placing watcache

#14534

Super quick find here and another in the series signed off as we travel round putting the S.H.I.E.L.D back together again. TFTC # 20.218

Our North Island Roadtrip from Whangarei to complete Tahi & Rua of the NZ Geotour - Day Four.

Lis's crew introduced me to Geoart and today was day one of collecting my first Geoart caches. Thanks for the puzzle & TFGC and series.

With the Geotour coming to and end soon Yvettetb and I decided to go on a road trip to collect Tahi and Rua. Of course I had some puzzles at various places to collect and a few special types were added to the list too.

This was our 4th day. We'd stayed in Taihape last night and todays plan was to get closer to Palmerston North collecting my unfound SHIELD puzzles on the way. We eventually made it to Fielding after a sucessful day.

Great to have a geoart here. I was disappointed last time that we ran out of time to collect them. After today's run I'll only have 5 left. As this was one of the easy puzzles it was solved in March 2019. Second to last one for us and a quick find with goid parking. Thanks for the great geoart

After solving all of these puzzles in anticipation of visiting family in Feilding for Christmas, we added an extra day on to our trip to make the finds. We left Feilding at 8:30 am and after attempting all of the caches in the series and a number of other trads, multis, ad lab stages, and a virtual we returned to Feilding with a cache count of 102 at 10:30 pm. Along the way we marvelled at the number of hawks we spotted along with a huge variety of other birds, and many bugs, especially after dark. The views were amazing and we stopped far too often to take photos of the mountains (we could see Ruapehu, Ngaruahoe and Taranaki at various times). We were watched by a number of cows, bulls and sheep along the way. At times the grass we were searching in was taller than we were and much time was spent once we returned home picking the seeds from our socks and boots.
A nice quick find here

Last of our shield before going home thanks watcache

Continuing my loop4 of 366-day calendar brought me here today.
This one also closes another degree of my 360° from Home challenge. All good here. TFTC

Before arriving in New Zealand I had solved all the S.H.I.E.L.D. and most of the 20/20 series. I had set a day aside to do them with my geodad so today was the day.

This was the ninth of 63 finds today, I haven't seen the tv series so don't know the character. Puzzle easily solved. The cache took awhile but it really shouldn't have as it was in an obvious spot. TFTC.

Just passing by so pulled in and made a quick find. Tftc

This is the second visit to the Manawatu to pick up the S.H.I.E.L.D. series with Flowerydaze. These back roads are easy driving with no one else on the road. Soon got used to leaving the car in the middle of the road knowing I wouldn't be blocking anyone off. TFTPC watcache

I've been working on the SHIELD series during the most recent lockdown and am working through finding them all with the assistance of Talla64. The scenery we've seen has been beautiful and the roads very quiet. In fact on the gravel back roads we saw no-one. It's been a pleasure to come out for a drive in such lovely countryside and we appreciate all the work that watcache has put into this series. So thank you watcache, for the puzzles and the caches.

Have been working on this series over the winter and after weeks and weeks of rain and the only sunny days (about 4) my driver has been working so we jumped at the chance of some fine caching weather this week and decided to come down and turn this geo art into yellow smilies so we started out at 5.30am this morning from Taranaki and after a ‘quick’ detour to Wellington we ended back up here to get as many of this series done before dark. Thanks for placing this art watcache…we need more…;)
Had to come back and do this one on way back down as the gardener was working at the entrance. Thankfully he’d gone home for his dinner. TFTC

No.3 found and on a roll, but not liking the look of the weather. Solved puzzles over winter and making a start on this series today. TFTSeries.

Signed the log with barefootguru and the Taybees on 24/10/21, but just got around to solving the puzzle now. TFTC watcache!

**taybee nz** is caching again with **taybee** and **barefootguru**
sorry for the late log good day for caching
All in good order, sign log book as **taybee nz** or **tb's** TFTC Log by Gsak
Cache was find at **2021-10-24 12:32:26**

Quick find in the dead centre of Kimbolton, thanks watcache

**taybee** is caching again with **taybee nz** , **barefootguru** and **Denomynator** for the day
this is the 3rd trip north for the shield series
quick find here today looking at lunch in Kimbolton
All in good order, sign log book as **taybee** or **tbs** TFTC
Cache was find at **2021-10-24 12:32:26**

Agent Coulson on a mission today.
Ooh. I had my heart in my mouth here. Not in the first place I looked but not “too” bad.

Thanks for creating the GeoArt and thanks for an enjoyable rural tour, watcache.
TFTC

Praise the Lord a relatively quick find. I envisaged being all afternoon scrumaging around in the foliage. Thank you!

#1632. Yesterday was S.H.I.E.L.D day #1. Today was day 2. I had started solving this Geo-art series in 2019 but never made the time to start collecting. Yesterday, I knocked 22 of them off, with no DNF’s. I got a heads-up from GSEL on some puzzle types I hadn’t come across before, and have now only 5 unsolved to go.

Having driven up from Wellington in the rain on Monday, it was nice to wake up again this morning at our B&B in Halcombe to more sunshine, same as yesterday. With GB Leader along as navigator and occasional cache spotter, it was back on the back roads again, after a lovely coffee at the iconic Rusty Radiator café in Halcombe.

Some great scenery along the way - saw lots of trees, birds & animals, and a reasonable amount of traffic. Most GZ’s had safe parking nearby.

Solved: 14/8/19. Time found today: 3.03 p.m.
Number of this series found today: 7/14. Total this trip: 29/36. Still to find: 60
Road condition here: Sealed.
Details: First place I looked. Thanks for the new log, nufrat.

Tftc watcache.

a quick find which was good, then i went to sign the log, not going to happen, i have replaced the logsheet with a nice new waterproof one, tftc

#19625. One that we should probably have left to the next day (when heading north), but we had a lot on the to do-list for that day so stopped by and made a quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on our way south to Kimbolton in the Manawatu.
Getting closer to our destination, but just a few more caches to find. GZ looked a bit daunting but SW was on the ball and found it in the first place checked. TFTC.

#9114. I decided today to visit the Manawatu to pick up some geocaches. Managed to get 40 done before heading back home to Wellington. My main target was a bunch of Shield series puzzle finals but I decided to grab a couple of the new geotour caches along the way. After an overcast start its turned into a hot sunny summers day. Onto the Shield series now. I enjoyed solving these back in 2019 but its taken me a while to come up this way to pick up the finals. This is my second go at signing the logbooks and I will need another round to wrap them all up. Good series of puzzles. Some much tougher than others. This was another straightforward puzzle. When I arrived at GZ I looked at the surroundings and thought oh no. These are not easy places to find a cache in. But after 30 seconds I had put my hand on the container. Yay. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks watcache for hiding these puzzle caches here.

I spent today getting S.H.I.E.L.D. caches and any others that were along the way.

Damp log is falling apart at the lightest touch. TFTC.

A nice quick find thanks. I'm back for my second (or third) attempt at this series. Still have 1 or 2 to solve! Must look harder in the first place I look!

Ms_KR and I are on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland for a family Christmas. Today we cruised around the Manawatu.

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

Found with CrystalFairy on a grey but mild afternoon. No touble with the cache. TFTP

Out on a weekend caching trip with Buttels with the aim of picking up the SHIELD and 20/20 series and mostly solved puzzles along the way. Sorry for the generic log, but most of these caches blurred into each other. There appeared to be three types of caches (power pole, brace and bison) mainly with a few other interspersed types. Found all of the SHIELD barring about 4 DNF's. We plotted a route prior to getting out here to reduce the amount of backtracking on these back roads. Managed to get through the whole SHIELD and 10 of the 20/20 plus a dozen others in the day before it got dark. If there are specifics about a cache, I will write them after this:

Found at 7 September 2020 12:01 pm.

I'm on a two-day geocaching roadtrip, logging my finds as I go (where possible). Will expand when I get home. TFTC

It’s not often I have the whole day to cache so the challenge today was to collect as many Shield caches as possible. Set out early around 6am and would love to say we got all of them but sadly not. Found 87, DNF 3 and Sheild 9 we still can’t solve (any helpful hints would be appreciated). Most of the finds were straight forward and if they weren’t I have added a comment. An exhausting day with so much gravel driving but satisfying to see the Sheild near completion. Thanks for all the effort in setting this up. We had a good time.
Always a bit wary of Aggy hints but this was a quick find. Thanks

**12,231**
Got to be the quickest find in the Aggy we have done!
Only 2 more SHIELD ones to go!!
TNLN TFTC

Solved the puzzles in preparation for our trip south, no problem locating this one TFTC. Happy holidays and safe travels to all cachers

Quick find here as per hint after the GPS reading settled down. Pretty much a park n grab.

After stopping off in the village for the Virtual we headed out to make a dent in the SHIELD series. Only a modest few, but a start nontheless. T F T C watcache.

In Whanganui for a week over Christmas, visiting and staying with our daughter and her partner and letting the news that she's expecting her first child, which will make 12 grandchildren for us! We squeezed in a cheeky trip to New Plymouth during the week and I advanced my TMGT cache finds to over 30, as well as grabbing a few more 'new' Virtual caches as well as my 180th Earth cache. Grabbed a cache on xmas day morning too meaning my 5-days will be complete on Leap-day next year - yay! Thanks to all COs whose caches I found and individual logs wherever possible.

The crazy Labour Weekend plan is now in full swing. McJandals, NZFlossy & Davidson Clan are joining me for 29 TMGT Caches, the Shield & Stickman series and what ever we can find in between. Almost all the caches were found quickly and good condition with exceptions to those not equipped with water proof paper... We’ve signed individually or as TeamBOP depending on time, log space or mood. I’d like to acknowledge watcache, mar1ssa & the TMGT volunteers who have given this trip focus, and all the other COs who have made this trip such an adventure - TFTC

I’m using a Cachly logging template for these logs but I’ll endeavour to add to these once I’m home again. Apologies but until then it’s pretty much cut’n’paste from here. Thanks again.

On a caching weekend with McJandals, Phillip Perry, and Davidson clan. After staying the night at a Airbnb we got on the road early to pick up the Shield caches. Enjoyed the puzzles and then collecting them as a team - Team BOP. Lots of fun and laughs on some back roads and even picking up a few extras. Thank to the COs for bringing us here and creating some great puzzles and caches T . TFTC

With no mega this year, a plan was hatched with Team BOP to come to the lower Nth Island to get some numbers knocked off, so here we are and loving it!! I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers

Come down for a weekend of caching with Philip.Perry, McJandals and Nzflossy for our Mega weekend of caching we are now onto the shield series of puzzle caches. Tftc. Added a few trads as we past them .

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, now WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

As we approached we had no clue to what the hint would mean. As we walked towards the location it all started to make sense and we found quickly. Thanks for the cache.

Full log written at #1.

After finishing some jobs around the farm, we decided we'd make the most of a wee bit of a break in the weather and make some inroads into solving the mystery at the museum case, with the first step being to find some more clues.
We'd knocked off the majority of this SHIELD series a while back, so we figured it was time to finish off some more.
The hint for this one made me cringe a little, but it turned out to be an easy find - phew!
Thanks for the cache watcache

For my personal challenge of working towards getting my calendar on GC.COM to be at least the same shade of green or darker I need to sign off at least 12 caches today. I won't grumble if I find one or two more I decided to do caches north of Kimbolton today.

Here are some more S.H.I.E.L.D. caches signed off.

Cheers for the cache.

Found on a trip out with Geodatum. Signed as GiSi good find

We teamed up with SiderosNZ to make a serious start on finding our first batch of the S.H.I.E.L.D series of caches today. We signed the logs as GeSi to speed up our journey.
Mrs G had solved all the puzzles a while ago now, but had held off the finding until numbers were needed.
The puzzles had mostly been fairly straight-forward solves once she had got into the patterns presented, but there were a few that caused much consternation to her little grey brain cells! It was quite a relief to finally have them all solved and ready to go.
Thank you watcache for the huge effort in setting all this up.
We left home while it was still dark this morning so we would have time to head off to the wonderful Kimbolton Sculpture Festival after we had completed the caches we had set down for today.

Ah, good old Aggy - hmmm, but the cache was quite quickly found. TFTC

I took advantage of two contrasting forecasts, Wellington:Wet / Manawatu:Fine, to head up this way and get stuck into finding the caches in this series. A most enjoyable day out in the countryside on a mixture of paved and gravel roads. A great bit of Geo-Art. Thanks for the effort in setting it up and maintaining it. Cheers and TFTC

TFTC, I'm sure I remember finding an archived cache somewhere near here on a trip with GSEL a couple of years ago... but Happy to see the area reused.

On a geocaching adventure with Infoferret, Nosynel and Ethness. Signed logs as J.E.N.I. Since we are attempting so many, please excuse the repetitive logs. Thank you for all the puzzles and caches. Good fun!
#4000 yippee!

Yay Judes 4000th find.
2 Wellington geocachers plus 2 Cantabs are invading the Manawatu. Puzzles got solved, flights and accommodation got booked We are Ethness, Infoferret, Jude_E and I are signing our finds as JENI this weekend. This trip was inspired by The Shield geoArt.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

On our own mega weekend with Infoferret, Jude_E, and NosyNel - 2 North Islanders and 2 Mainlanders - what can we get up to? Find everything in the Shield. Thanks very much for all the cases that you have put out for this art and all the work you did in creating it, especially the puzzles. signed as JENI. Apologies for the cut and paste logs.

#10,686. Enjoyed solving this puzzle based in the Kimbolton area. Fortunately, final GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the puzzle and placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.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.

Found 2.57pm
DAY 1
Mission today was to complete the shield series of caches. We had the balance of solves with us and a driving route plan made to collect these with the least amount of driving.
We traveled last night after work down as far as Hunterville. Crashed here for the night, we also had a few lonely caches in the area we wanted as well, which had being missed on previous trips.
Early start today with not much sleep as trains kept passing through Hunterville, that seemed liked hourly.
We had a goal today which I think Squirrel Nutcase and myself achieved.
Some caches took longer than others to find, walk to plus a few multi's which we thought we had solved, but ere slightly out. Just as well I found a copy of the right book that we could find answers to these ones.
Thanks to cache owners for placement and up keep of these. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... The historic Station Hotel in Hunterville will go down as one of those memorable overnight stays... Three trains passed during the night with such an intense noise, it was like they were in the same room. We were lucky to get some sleep...

Our main aim for this visit to the Manawatu-Wanganui Region was to complete the Shield Geo-Art series. We solved all of the puzzles some months ago, and have already collected a third of the hides on a previous run. Today was about collecting the balance... We had no trouble locating all of the caches, and most were in good condition. We managed to find parking, though some required a careful approach. Whenever we encountered locals, they were friendly and enquiring. A simple explanation regarding orienteering was suffice... Many thanks to the CO for providing us with a full-day's worth of entertainment. (Apologies for repeated logs)... TFTP and TFTC.

What a totally unexpected day and it was just great! Even the weather was right… no wind no rain and yet the light recent rain had dampened the roads so we didn’t get covered in dust. Ideal!
We visited about 63 caches leaving about 26 to go before time ran out on us, so these will have to wait for another visit some time in the future. I found them a little disconcerting- in that I expected them to be in a sequential run but this was not the case but with guidance we traversed all the correct roads etc for the caches that we did and also visited one Trad. Signed another new cache yet to be released and located a multi on the route home. So a very fruitful day of laughs and great company- thank you to the two of you.

A FP for all the time and effort you put into this series
Found during a big weekend geocaching from Whanganui to all of the S.H.I.E.L.D. series out the back of Kimbolton and other areas areas too numerous to mention
It was a great weekend and some caches were signed 2 Bulbars but others were signed 2 BB/ hay short for Hayden seek.
The wet weather held off as we expected it to rain but no it stayed fine for the series which was a bit of a plus. Regarding the SHIELD series we spent many hours working out the different formats and a big thank you to the Co who guided us when we got stuck
It took about 10 hours to do the shield series and we travelled many back country roads and at times I wondered if I was lost but we always came out to more major roads. It was this back country travelling that made it so enjoyable. As far as I know no animals were hurt during this trip into the out back

Belatedly and slowly logging this series. I completed the entire series on a clean sweep on a hot summers day. I remember having a lovely day out collecting this series and stopping for lunch along the way.TFTC watcache. Have added a few favourite points throughout the series. Much appreciated.

(# 4948). Today was the day to the S.H.I.E.L.D. series. Started off in Kimbolton doing 3 non series caches then the series via various back roads and finished off just inland from Hunterville. A quick find. Everything in order. Managed to get 94 caches (including all 89 in the series) with zero DNF's. Lots of smiley faces. A marvelous day driving in the NZ countryside with Just-Lookin. TFTC

Agent of Shields is one of our favorite soaps. When we were on tour in Australia the geoart was published and we started to solve them immediately. It took a while to solve them all. We also had some help from the owner for a few riddles. Thanks for that. Today is our second day of collecting the remaining caches. We found about half of the caches yesterday.

Today was “SHIELD” day. Yeetrees, -gonefishing- and I were heading up to attempt the SHIELD series of caches on the back roads of Manawatu. It was an early start (5.35am) out of Wellington. After over 7 hours of caching we achieved the series plus a few more. My personal tally for the day – 117 finds. Thankyou to all the CO’s of the caches found.
Apologies for the generic logging.

Out for a day's caching around the backblocks of the Manawatu, mainly picking up the SHIELD series and a few other nearby caches. A total of 7 hours 15min to find the SHIELD series and a few others in between.

All in all, a great day out with SAROC and Yeetrees.
TFTC watcache

Only had time to pick up some in this series and will need to return at some stage. No problems in locating this cache. Thanks

Yesterday we found the first dozen or so S.H.I.E.L.D. puzzle finals as we drove to Feilding in our campervan. Today we are back in the area, this time in our car, to tackle the rest of the series.
We had an enjoyable time travelling the back roads and finding all but two of the S.H.I.E.L.D. caches we looked for (a total of 73 caches). Parking was easy with the car, and most of the finds were straight forward, but a few had us searching for a while. Many thanks for setting up this puzzle series and creating another must-do piece of geoart.
(Appologies for the generic logs and late logging)

Third outing of the S.H.I.E.L.D expedition.

After solving all the puzzles late last year, I have made my way back to the area this morning after leaving Taupo at 5:30am.

Spent much of my time again on gravel roads again, this time with the misty drizzle keeping things cool. Almost finished the series, with only two DNFs remaining to be dealt with.

Cache found safe and dry, coords spot on and often helped by clear geotrails from recent finders.

Many thanks for the effort that has gone into this fun series and great piece of geoart.

After having come down State Highway 24 a week ago on the way home from the Waikato and found 21 of the SHIELD series of caches, I had a free day today and the weather was good, so decided to come for a day trip and have a cut at some more of them. I now had solutions for all the puzzles; this was an easy one. A quick find here - signed log, TFTC

A nice easy puzzle and a quick easy find with markhnz, despite the worrying hint. TFTC

Easy puzzle and finding the cache was a lot easier than I expected.
Found with W.E.K.A.
Thanks.

Was at home doing some chores and walked inside to my office and saw that there was some new emails on my computer and thought to myself that this is quite a few emails and I was wondering what was happening, either someone has found heaps of my caches or there was a few new caches just being published. Well guess what it was the later , and guess what they were puzzle and there were 89 of them and there were all in the Manawatu, well not quite, north of Fielding [xx(].

I thought to myself that I would have a look at them and see what I can do, so I started looking at the first cache at 16:00hrs, decided that I would have a break for dinner about 19:00 hrs, then it was back to solving some more and I decided that at 01:45hrs that it was time to go to sleep......

Woke up at 03:00hrs and was soon back on the computer and started solving some more caches and decided that once 05:00hrs came around it was time to get ready for work. At that stage I had managed to solve 56 of the puzzles, was wondering to myself as if I should throw a sicky and solve the rest and go for a raid, but thought better off this thought.

By 06:00hrs on Tuesday I had managed to solved 70 of the puzzles, now only 19 to go, was thinking to myself that it was so tempting to go and have a look at getting these caches, but the distance to the first cache was going to take just over 2 hours and I had already had some plans for Wednesday pm so this was not going to happen.

After spending the night in New Plymouth I woke up early and managed to get a few more of theses caches solved and with the help of a few friends with the remaining ones that were outstanding and were starting to get a bit more difficult we finally managed to solve them in the end.

Finally having all these puzzles solve but the last one that was S.H.I.E.L.D 9, I decided that this was enough caches to give it go and see if I could find a cache or two on my way South back to Wellington I decided to team up with mar1sa.

After finding GC7XY6C - S.H.I.E.L.D 18 (Manawatu), this was the next cache that was on our route as we were making our way around picking up a few of the S.H.I.E.L.D caches. As we made our way near GZ, mar1sa was able to find a safe parking spot that was not too far from the final GZ and once I got out of the car it was just a matter of making my way to GZ.

Arriving at the final GZ, I thought to myself havent I being here before, it seems like déjà vu, it took me a few seconds for the GPSr to settle down and once this happened it was just a matter of finding the cache as there were so many hiding spots that the cache could be, and a hint like this you might as well be finding a needle in a haystack , but as luck would have it I soon spotted something.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and then replaced the cache back where I found it. Thanks watcache for placing this cache here and for bringing us to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (13981). This was another very interesting puzzle cache and took a bit of reflecting on my part but I managed to get there in the end.

Now it is time to go back to the car where mar1sa was waiting patiently to go to the next cache on our list. Giving this cache a favorite point as it is the first cache in this series since I am loving the Geo-art as well. 3 of the 89 S.H.I.E.L.D puzzles cache series found, 86 to find and 1 still yet to solve.

Disclaimer: The above log may be based on true or actual events.

Both Yeetrees and myself had a chance to grab some caches after work tonight.
between the drizzle and rain (all braved by yeetrees) we managed a few finds.
thanks for the placement and a great bit of Geoart for us to do.

Crikey, where to start! Well I guess it started on Sunday with a Facebook post stating that 89 new caches had been published. So a quick scramble to check them out…hmmm, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D themed huh! Not a program I know much about but since when has that ever stopped a determined geocacher?

So a quick look at some of them and clearly there were some patterns as to the type of puzzles that needed to be solved. I quickly solved a small handful that evening, but on Monday the guy I share my office with was on annual leave so I was able to …cough… get on with lots of work

The temptation of FTF is always a big draw card, especially with so many of them on offer, even if the travel distance would normally be prohibitive. So by Tuesday afternoon I had 75 solved out of the 89 and thought “why not!”
I left work straight after 5pm and about 80 minutes later I found the first of them. As it turns out, this would end up as mainly an evening of “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” for me as I was either second or, occasionally, third to find, but I was at least successful in finding 5 out of 8 of the available FTF’s that I had time to attempt on my journey before tiredness and the weather (very heavy rain at times, and fog later on!) made me call time on my adventures at about half past midnight to start the log drive home again.

I found this one easily enough thanks to the hint and good co-ords, and then found that I would have to settle for being the third finder {TTF} and chalk it all up to experience and the thrill of the chase!

Thank you Watcache for setting all these up. I can only imagine the efforts you've gone to with creating so many over such a wide area and range of roads etc. I can't give a FP to every one I found, but have given one to the 5 that I was FTF on.

Found, more later.

It is a bit of a slow period at work at the moment as we wind up towards the end of the year, so there is plenty of time of some geocaching puzzle solving. I was stoked to receive 89 emails on Sunday, notifying me of 89 new caches, as I was in a quandary as to how I was going to find 113 caches in December to firstly qualify for the 250 caches in December cache, which would lead to the 250 caches in every month cache in the Wairarapa.

I have solved 80% of these puzzles, and with the slow period at work, this means that I can also leave a little bit earlier making up for some overtime worked throughout the year. The solves for most of these were fairly straightforward and in some caches the annoying reCAPTA/Prove you are not a robot thing, took longer than the actual solve - some of the images were quite small and grainy, but in the end I managed to satisfy the computer that I was indeed human, so that I could check the coordinates.

The find here was quick and easy. TFTC. No First to Find for me here, someone got it before me, although he hasn't logged it online yet.

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