Monaco Reserve (Nelson) Monaco, South Island, New Zealand
By BigglesNZ on 27-May-20. Waypoint GC8RQF3

Logging with permission of the owner. This one came up on my GPS while out here doing a Lab cache so went and checked it out . Nice quick find with some of my grandies. Right where my GPS took mus straight to it.
Cheers.

Gone.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Had a good long search with the kids, lifted all the rocks, found one very obvious spot...but nothing.

TFTC

Kind of hard

I

Found it

Out and about exploring the Nelson area. We stopped here while deciding where to go next and as discovered there was a cache 16m away. So it was rude not to try to find it! Easy find. Thanks!

We found it

First time in Monaco… wish it was the country but seeing as we can’t travel at the moment this will have to do. The cache was a quick find, TFTC!

A nice quick find this morning while picking up a few caches in the area. TFTC.

A nice spot for a picnic TFTC

Yay finally 3rd time lucky. The first two visits were Did Not Attempts due to muggles sitting in cars right where I wanted to be. Today there were no muggles Sir Belac found it on the first place he looked. Thanks BigglesNZ

#11503

Great cache!!

Fun and easy find still love Geo catching

There were a lot of possibilities for this one. I used my Geosense to determine which places to look first, but this didn't work too well. I found the cache in the last place I looked. TFTC.

Found it

Antsy

We parked nearby with fish and chips after a day on a PWGT mission.
We were very focused on finding only PWGT caches but as this one was right beside us we made an exception.
Thanks BigglesNZ for our last find of the day.

An interesting part of Nelson. Thank you BigglesNZ for this cache.

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Great park and grab thanks for the cache. looks like there's another one down here too so will come back another day for hunt around when more time

Lovely stroll around Monaco. Very quick find but didn't have a pen

Awesome wee cache. Sounds like we found it easier than some. Tftc

Nice easy find on a very wet day.

Thanks

Easy find despite muggles about on a public holiday. Tftc

Found by the Prowlers last day all together. Nice easy find

Good little find to help the morning boredom

After driving around the point, and checking out the "castle" at the end, we stopped here to use the facilities, and found this cache as well. TFTC.

Nice easy find

Tftc!

Found our first geocache. Thanks nice find.

It was in I great spot

Nice quick find. TFTC BigglesNZ.

Easy find

Easy find nice spot

You rock

Found it while waiting for my plane ride home.
I really had to search quickly as there were muggles about. In fact one older lady asked me what I was doing so I had to explain it to her. Thanks for the hide.

Just a few caches today for the calendar project before getting on with other things, mainly a bit of shopping.
Quick find here, pretty quiet here today. TFTC Biggles.

Easy fast find with kids. Thanks

The cold and wind was keeping everyone away from the reserve today which meant I didn't have to worry about being spotted. A nice quick find in the first place I looked and first to sign the nice blank log - thanks for the replacement BigglesNZ. TFTC # 15,858

Replaced broken cache. All good to go now.

Message sent

Tftc more later

Out walking the dog with HorseGirlNZ; she with my phone and me with GPS - just to see who might find the cache first (now I know it’s still there somewhere!). Meantime Mellow the dog rolled her eyes and waited patiently.

I guess it ended up as a draw as she found the correct hint item first but I ended up looking’ properly’

I know I looked here last time!



Thanks BigglesNZ
#2880

Logged using Cachly.

TFTC

Found on a wet day, the container was a little flatten and had popped it's top, fixed It back into shape.
TFTF

Rock, yes, cache, no

Thanks BigglesNZ
#2808

Logged using Cachly.

Found with UlmusLynx on this beautiful Nelson day.
We searched around for awhile, then suddenly the cache was spotted.
Thank you for the cache

Found with No.13 and not an immediate find. Finding caches fitting the wonders of the world. This was the Roman Colossem which I visited lots of mumble mumble years ago. TFTC

We began this multi a wee while ago but seemed there was something missing we went to where we thought it could be but no luck.. turns out it was missing so returned today and finished the multi and got our smiley. Tftc.

A beautiful day and a good hide tftc

I looked everywhere and had no luck. Chance it might have been muggled

Just found my first one

Kiddos found it. Great easy starter. Tftc

TFTC

Great little cache! Thank you

A familiar spot and luckily enough cache located in the first place I looked. Thanks BigglesNZ!!

With the weather being settled we made time to get out and find some of the many caches that have been recently published.
On arrival at GZ we noted an older lady sitting in her car but she was totally focused on looking straight ahead and we found when we grabbed the cache we were hidden from her view anyway.
Thank you BigglesNZ.

Today is a bit of a follow-up from yesterday. A mix of "try again", neglected older caches and some recent publications. GZ is a place we haven't visited for a while and will always be remembered for the variety of colours on show when the trees are in flower. A quick find out of sight from a muggle parked up taking in the views. Thank you BigglesNZ

Lovely spot, especially at high tide.

Quick nice easy find here. Tftc

Out with Missnboyz for a sunday afternoon stroll. Easy find here - I did replace the plastic bag with a new one as the old was wet and had a small hole in it. TFTC

My GPS only has the caches I have not found (except for puzzles, only has not found puzzles that are solved) so when we got here I was thinking this this cache has moved. I'm sure it was over there... Which of course is not the case, as this is a cache I haven't found. So confusion whatever - found the case easily enough.

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.

.I remember searching for a cache here some time ago. So now we are back but in a slightly different place. Quick snag and tag this time. 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.

Nice to be here in bright sun after heavy over night rain.
TFTC

Needed to find a cache today. Quick find with no muggles about

Found while caching with ABL973. Thanks BigglesNZ

A sunny day and some spare time so why not find a cache? This took me longer than expected but that's because I missed the cache on the first pass but found it was and now it has my name in the logbook. Thanks BigglesNZ.

We have been here before for another cache, didn't realise that the other one had been archived. As I pulled in here there were two cars of young people who were all smoking, not something I see all that many times any more. So I just parked up and waited for them to leave. The hint made for an instant find when I went to look for it, and as there was no one else around I just sat and signed it and returned it as I had found it.
Thanks for the cache and thanks for the smiley.

The cache was spotted from a distance which made a find possible despite there being others in the reserve. Returning took a bit longer as we all gazed at the helicopter that we thought was part of a training operation. The cache could be returned after a short chat to the others while they were heading away from the area. We left it a bit more covered than we found it as we thought that was what the CO intended.
Thanks.

Hint made finding it super easy

Should have been easier but it was well identified by "rock"....tftc

After completing a half-Marathon, while waiting for my team mate to arrive, I decided to look for a cache or two. This was the first, easy to park, took a second to find. I came here some months ago to do a SUP class, that was fun!
Thanks for placing a cache here.

Out for an afternoon bike ride enjoying the sun. Called in with nobody about and made the quick find and sign. Thanks for the cache.

Quick find as it was out in the open. Signed and tucked away again. Thanks for the cache

Ms M felt like a quick caching outing this afternoon.
A quickish park and grab. A cold wind blowing through.
This park has been given some attention since our last visit.
We did a circuit of the peninsula afterwards.
TFTC

Found easily - hint object has been recently disturbed and is clearly half a metre from its original location. cache was lying in the open.

Tucked back into place, close enough to original location that it won't affect the coordinates.

On the way from the airport and fancied this and the nearby Multi. Found this one, and struggled with the date for the WP3 of the Multi. Busy here, but steady and timed my hunt and cache was soon in hand. Have been here before for another find. Nice day for caching

Last day of May and after a nights rest at home I was back over the hill for a second consecutive day to get an unfound (by me) Earthcache from Brook Valley as well as some other cache treats. Only a modest few caches today but a nice walk around the airport and a FTF too!

A funny long weekend this one was. mrs capperz has headed to the North Island to await the birth of grandchild number 12, yes 12 (with another due in October), and so I was at a 'loose end', yeah right. Also on the agenda is an impending move of us and the household to Auckland, maybe as soon as 4 weeks time, and I have 3 days off work, fuel is not too badly priced at the minute (starting to sound like a Blues Brothers line) so it was a chance to roll down the drive for 3 separate forays into Nelson/Tasman territory to pick off some random caches. Not a 'numbers' trip, more a settling the stats trip. I was keen to make a few more beltfamily cache finds to get to the magical triple figures, plus some unfinished rail business from Marlborough's t S. A weekend of great tramping/walking/caching weather, 3 consecutive days of 20kms walked, nice, and some great scenery.

Found one cache - lost one pen! Will come back tomorrow to sign.....so much for being 3rd to do so as I expect there'll be a few more ahead of us on such a beautiful afternoon.

Yes, I'm in that "some will remember" group. I remember being tricked by the last hide until there was a hint - - - what was I thinking ! The main problem today was muggles - - - one in particular who seemed overly curious about why we were hanging around doing nothing much. Sure enough she eventually got distracted by the view and we made a quick grab.
It was beautiful here this afternoon, the tide was in and the water calmer than a millpond.
TFTC .

Published

A new one just published!
Go get it
A car parks just as I retrieve.
Time is 11:48

Got it. TFTC

Beautiful day, so calm. TFTC