The Gruffalo's Child Pyes Pa, North Island, New Zealand
By Sabas on 26-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8B8BE

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Nothing but the top of a garden hose found in the garden

Seems to be missing

Checked the place nothing

Not there

Quick search but no luck.

Did Not Find. Spent at least 20 mins looking for it. Feeling disappointed for our first time Geocache.

Found easily. Possibly muggled, as there’s no sign of the listed trackable and a rogue listing on the log. Message sent to owner.

Great find.

We were out on a mission this afternoon, looking for caches for 7 trackables. This was our second find of the day - Dropped off Trackable : "15 Years-Jessie". Thanks for the placement - much appreciated.

An early morning visit to the park. Thanks for the placement

Found our first cache how exciting!!

Our first Geocache find!!! Thank you so much

Found it, with help from some fellow geocachers nearby. Thanks and got your pen which we will try to rehire in another cache nearby!

Had just located this one, signed the log, put it back in its hiding place when some fellow geo cachers turned up. Nice to see some others about doing the same

Pretty sure we'd stopped to get this one previously, but there were groups of people here.
This time all was quiet, we just had to search by torch light! Took a wee bit even after the hint but eventually found the right one. Looks like it'd be a cool park!

Definitely made use of the hint on this one and finally get the smiley face. Fortunately the park was all quiet today.

Great location

Nice find after a little bit of looking. A bunch of kids playing but didn't seem to notice us . A few snails living on the outside of the cache

GPS & grassy skirts had me quite confused for quite a while. Thankfully persistence paid off. Tftc

Have replaced the cache today.
All good to go! Sorry for the delay

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Another hint

Will pop over to check in the next couple of days Sounds like its gone walk abouts

Looked up and down in grass plants and couldn’t find

No luck for us on this one today although the kids had a blast at the playground

Looks like the bark has been replaced recently. Had a good look around in several spots however we came up empty handed. Perhaps the cache is either covered up by the new bark or perhaps got picked up at the time Can you please check it is still here?

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Couldn’t find the cache today. There was a lovely fellow mum at the park that knew what we were doing and jumped in to try and help us find it but had no luck either. Hopefully we just couldn’t find it and it hasn’t been muggled

Second find for the day. Nice and quick, hint had us straight to the right spot. Thanks.

Sent the kids to look for this one so it was too suspicious by the playground. They still have a bit to learn about stealth and were so excited to find it by themselves yelled out a very loud ‘found it’

Nice wee hide
Over this way to Attend a Event
With KayGeeDee and EyespyBen on a very Hot day

Tftc nice wee hide found with abcdf4 and kaygeedee and of to a event

Find number 6697. Decide to come over the Kaimais with ABCDF4 and eyespyben to attend an event. Spent the time before grabbing a few caches along the way. This being the 1st, A small wander in a small park and the cache was quickly located. Signed and returned. Thank you for the placement.

A while since caching in this area.

Thanks Sabas.
Love the Gruffalo Books .
Found once I was looking up the last skirt!

Our 3rd cache for the day (only 1 out of 2 found so far), a pretty warm sunny day and after a bit of a search, we were about to leave it but gave it another go and came across it. Swapped a swappable and luckily no muggles around. TFTC

My family have claimed that I’ve not been spending enough time with them lately. I thought I’d gather up the most vocal and take them out for the day... Let’s do all the things they want to do. We ended up visiting secondhand shops in Tauranga... While everyone was preoccupied, I sneaked away...

Our final cache for the day - Another park we’ve visited before while caching. This one could have been quite tricky as there were lots of possibilities. We found the hide on the first sweep. Thanks Sabas and TFTC.

A nice hunt to turn up this one

TFTC

There are a lot of grass skirts around here. And muggles to avoid. Fun, easy find. Cache in good condition, dry despite the rain. TNLN, TFTC!

A beautiful day for caching. A lovely park . One family there had a chat . Tftc

Took a couple of skirts until I got the right one.Thanks Sabas,all good & well done.

With a small amount of time to spare today I ventured down the road while my wife visited a friend in the area. This one took me far longer then it should have - my PAF revealed I was doing everything right just not in the right spot. Now my coords aren't reliable in the clearest conditions, never the less my phone had the cache 8m North of the given coords. So if you're getting stuck, maybe this log will help. All in all though, this cache was found... eventually.... in good condition thanks to a good hint. Cheers Sabas, TFTC

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Our 5th and final for the day. Great to get out and about from being cooped up inside. Nice wee cache that made us work a little for our smoko. TFTC

**11,580**
The rain had started to ease as we pulled up to this cache. Fortunately the unpleasant weather had kept all muggles away. The cache was quickly located, nicely tucked away, log signed and then we were on our way again. TFTC

The rain has stopped so we decided to find a few of the new caches. Our first and an easy find also nice to catch up with one of the locals again.

Out and about caching between showers. On arrival there were a few muggles in the play area but we found an inconspicuous entry point nearby. We were just heading to GZ when a car pulled up behind so we watched and waited to see where they were going...... yup looked like they were here for the same reason!!!! Always fun to meet some other cachers on the trail TFTC.

Found11.55am
Co Ords good and with nobody around soon had cache in hand. SLTFTC

Very sneaky and well hidden at ground level

Excellent skirt clue

Nice quick find here today, no one in the park otherwise I wouldnt bother as you would look rather suspicious here. Cheers anyway.

Was a bored one july afternoon so got the not so small child and took her caching. Was a fun little series to do. Thanks for the cache series. Keep up the good work!!

Enjoyed this series and like the placements. Coords and containers all good Even tough a couple near playgrounds caches shouldn’t feel too conspicuous. Now all we need is some newbies to get FAtFs. TFTC

Nice fine sunny day and the lure of an {FTT} I headed for GZ.
Bother the park was busy as..a new approach was required
..so like a sneaky thief I soon had the cache in hand and signed thank to the accurate co ords..thanks Sabas for the tidy placementa (FTF joint ) as well

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{FTF} joint. The playground was very popular this afternoon so we had to approach from another direction. All good and no one was any the wiser. Thanks for bringing us here Sabas

After a quick find this morning, I was hoping for a clean log but, unfortunately, one of the usual suspects beat me to it by 50 minutes. Oh well. TFTC.