About Motueka - Chanel Arts Centre Motueka, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 28-Apr-22. Waypoint GC9T09X

Trouve Im on a mission to do all the jigsaws Motueka has to offer ! Tftc. Log extra full

Log is full signed where we could no muggles nice quick find hint was helpfull ftpc

On a roadie of the sth Island from invercargill. A good wee series caching around Motueka. Log full just able to squeeze name in. Tftp

Clever hide, thanks for the challenge

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I probably should have solved all these puzzles previously knowing I'd be heading over this way, but like a jigsaw, one piece at a time, solved this one last night and back out today chasing caches while in the area, quick find thanks to previous finder nicely replacing, TFTC

Day four riding the Great Taste Trail from Kaiteriteri to Mapua. We stopped in Motueka for morning tea and a few caches. This was our first find today. We initially came up empty handed until we spotted something on the ground that looked suspiciously like a cache container. A further look around and we found a small container containing a log. We put the 2 parts together and placed them where we thought they should be. TFTP

It seems I am in Sidewaze country . I went on a pre-dinner bike ride by myself to finish off one of your labs and find some puzzles that I had solved a very long time ago. This was the first puzzle find.

The Hotel was a good practice for this one. I walked over, was a little bit concerned about entering the fenced in area. But no dogs were unleashed and I could proceed safely to the location. The hint helped to keep the flower beds in order. You never know when you invite these over-engaged cachers to your place.Thx for hiding.

Puzzles solved at home ready for a holiday with busy paws. We are now here and having fun finding the caches. A clever cache container here. Thanks for the puzzle and the cache Sidewaze.

Like your hides!! Found with coconuts3 on a lovely day out in the area. TFTC and the puzzle.

Nga mihi for the find on this Beautiful Matariki day

I would have like to have visited the centre, but it was past closing time. Finally we are here in Motueka and finding this series -a good way to learn and see the town.

After finding the challenge cache on Rabbit Island and a few others, it was time to head inland off the usual route to find a whole lot more. I am enjoying seeing different scenery. Another quick find and then we left to find the next one. Apologies for the late logging.
In Nelson with TwigNZ, YetiNZ, Mr-Mcgoo for a few days of caching and meeting up with other cachers from Nelson. All logs signed as NMTY.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Sidewaze.

(# 7878) A caching trip to Nelson with NZ_B, TwigNZ and YetiNZ. Day 2 of a 4 day trip interspersed with exploring and humour. A quick find.

The log was signed as NuMpTY (or NMTY) for NZ_B, Mr-mcgoo, TwigNZ, & YetiNZ. Thanks for bringing me here.

Day 2 of my Nelson trip, along with NZ_B, YetiNZ and Mr-Mcgoo. This is something we planned a while back and have very much been looking forward to
During our time here, all found caches were signed as NMTY (regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us hadn't found it previously), or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.

We had decided that we really liked the idea of heading back to Motueka today, so were happy to be taking the scenic route to make the most of the available caches to get there. Having now finally arrived in Mot, we had lots of caches to try to find. This "About Motueka" series cache was one we targeted whilst here.

A quick and easy find for us today. Nothing untoward to report with the cache or log, so everything was replaced exactly as found and we were back on our way again.

Thanks for setting this one up.

Some time ago a group of us from Wellington decided that what we should do is come down to the Nelson region for a long weekend of Geocaching. So we did. With minimal specific agendas, and lots of unfound caches in the area, the goal for this four day break is exploring, having fun, and finding geocaches. Here is one we found.

The About Motueka series were some of the many puzzles I solved in preparation for this trip, and we enjoyed ourselves exploring this small town as we chased down all the caches.

The log was signed as NuMpTY (or NMTY) for NZ_B, Mr-Mcgoo, TwigNZ, & YetiNZ

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Thanks to Sidewaze for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

I had loved this series of jig saw puzzles, I was at the stage that I would look forward to them each week and chill out while I solved the puzzles.
This is a building I have admired many times but had never been nearer than driving past on the road.
When I saw where the coordinates I knew I wanted gk to be with me when I went to search for it. I thought a public holiday could be an ideal day to look for it and as it turned out it all lined up for a nice quick find today.
Thank you for the puzzle, for the cache and for the smiley

Located with Ricardinho A quick find for RNZ, although he did have to be a bit stealth here.

Today, we were in Marahau having lunch after I biked from Motueka to Kaiteri & then on to Marahau while RNZ was caching in the Kaiteri Mountain Bike Park On the way home to BDub we stopped for a few cheeky caches in Motueka.

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Liked the puzzle and the hide. No ants for us today though. All good with this one, TFTC Sidewaze.

Today, RG72 and I decided to head to Kaiteriteri for two similar but different reasons.
RG is in training for a marathon but cannot fully run, so I dropped her and her bike off at Motueka and she cycled in, and then onward to Marahau.
As for me, I had the work mountain e-bike for the weekend, so it was the Kaiteriteri MTB park.
Now, I’m not a fan of e-bikes in general just yet, going as far as to sarcastically call this one PBH (short for Powered By Huntly), but I had it and gave it a crack.
It made getting up to the top lookout a relative breeze.
It made walking its weight town the uncommonly steep tracks that I foolishly chose from there a bit of a burden.
There were curses, and minor spills, and 3 DNFs until I realised I had taken way too much time, the tracks I needed to go up for more caches were downhill one-way ones, and I pulled the pin and joined RG in Marahau for a late lunch.
Good fun, some disappointment, and more still to get on another day.
Grabbed a few random caches on our way back home. Thanks all COs.

New placements kept on accumulating and against better judgement we decided to finally make a Mot run. Not that we hate going to Mot, to the contrary. However, it being muggle central after hours is the preferred option. Most finds in Mot are "night caches" and helped greatly in achieving our DGSc. We have no complaints
An open space and difficult to be muggled at. What's not to like. I was more puzzled by where the datura blooms came from that were on the ground than where to find the cache. Ants were the sentinel. Not so much in size but definitely in numbers. Thank you Sidewaze

We decided on a day trip to Motueka to find numerous caches which have been published since our last trip over there. After having to abort attempts to find several it reminded us why we usually make a Motueka caching trip in the evenings.
This was one of the few caches today that needed no stealth or a re-visit thanks to muggles.
Hazedarus made the find here. A nice hide.
Thank you Sidewaze.

A great site. Thanks for taking me here.

Returning today from Kaiteriteri and made the stop off to fill a mystery gap. Quickly spotted what I needed. Thanks for the cache.

Back in Mot again this morning. A couple of non caching members of the family (that's everyone but me) had some shopping needs they couldn't get over the the hill. This gave me some time to find a few more solved puzzles. TFTC

Out for a drive with nzchaser and thought we would give a couple of puzzles a go. Tftc

found with kjj162. loving these puzzles and motueka. we got busted by the neighbour signing this one. tftc

Since I started caching, I've never made the time nor opportunity to look for the hides at Riwaka Resurgence. So, on my last full weekend in the area, I planned a trip there, Marahau, Kaiteriteri, and Mot for a cache grab.

Now I'd hoped to clear up in Mot this afternoon, but various delays this afternoon meant I hit town later than I'd hoped.

Just time for one find before it got too dark. Clever wee hide.

Thanks Sidewaze
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Oops - this was meant to be a draft …. Anyway, clever camo & I enjoyed the jigsaw.
FP for the camo.

Lovely building, and a quick find of another nicely hidden cache. Now time to start our walk back towards the car (past many more caches and ad labs of course). TFTC.

#21750. All was quiet at GZ today, and the nicely hidden cache was soon found. Interesting info in the cache listing. TFTC.

Found on a cache collecting day on our bikes. Lovely building. TFTC

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Was initially puzzled at gz but then spotted the out of place item.

When I looked at this on the map, I wondered where we had to go to get to the cache but when we arrived we found an easy path. A short look and cache was soon in hand. tftc

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A quick find for Stretch0 while we were out and about today - log signed as SONO - Thanks for the puzzle and cache

Solved ages ago finally went out to collect. Enjoyed the working out .TFTC

Out walking the dog so couldn't go past this one. Had done the jigsaw a while back so was all go. Sent dogs nose to work ---no luck. After passing it a couple of times I finally honed in on cache. Clever hide. It's the old narrative. If something doesn't look right maybe it isn,t. Thanks Sidewaze

Found on way home after a few days in the Cobb valley. Quick find and enjoying the puzzles

At GZ, I looked in one direction, then sidled along. Once I returned to where I started, I looked in a different direction, and there it was. TFTC.

A quick find with Tregearp after attending the CO's CITO event in Little Kaiteriteri. As we were leaving the GZ another couple of the crew turned up to log too . Thanks Sidewaze for another JigSaw cache.

I remember this Church when I was growing up had to pass it everyday I went to school or into town nice easy find.Thanks Sidewaze

SJT_NZ and I had been enjoying a few Sunday jigsaws so solved this on the day of publishing but as we are not FTF chasers left the find for others to log. Today after catching up with the CO at the CITO we dropped by the GZ on our way home. One local teen was sitting towards the end of the area but was absorbed on phone so made the quick retrieve, log and return. A fav from me as I do like these clever conceals. Thanks Sidewaze for a fun puzzle and nice hide.

I was out of town when all these caches were published and knowing I was heading to Mot today, quickly solved them last night. Only getting one of them today, will save the rest for another calendar day. Nice quick find here. Thanks Sidewaze

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I am loving this series thanks Sidewaze. I really enjoy completing the great wee puzzles and seeing how you have taken photos to capture the different lines and perspectives etc - very cool! Although I have solved all the puzzles to date this is the first one I have found and a very good hide it was too. Worth a favourite even. TFTC # 18,438

Time for a few caches when heading home from the CITO. This was the first and we wondered why there had not been one here before. A person eating lunch nearby showed no interest.
Thanks for the jigsaw and nice hide.

A nice quick find thanks. Another one that was close to where we were staying!

Ms_KR and I are off on a wee road trip to Nelson. Today we had another great day, cruising from Kaiteriteri, Motueka, Rabbit Island and on back to Nelson.

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

Nice one! Another early morning drive to Motueka and back to find a puzzle cache. After aDNF at the Memorial Hall it was lucky that I could find this as a backup. No problems here. Clever cache found after a short search. After freeing Signal from the Forest Labyrinth, my attention turned to a couple of challenges that I don't yet qualify for. This find fills in a puzzle dot day and goes towards a challenge that I won't finish until next March (at the earliest). Thanks for the fun and TFTC, Biggles.

Found with Ulmuslynx on this beautiful morning arrived at GZ and the GPs led us straight to the cache Thank you for the cache and the puzzle which i love doing.

Found with no.13 when in area. Great puzzle. Tftc

Out for a drive collecting mainly Multis. I’ve been solving some horrible UK Jigidi puzzles lately so these Mot ones have been an enjoyable distraction in between.
A short walk and a quick find. Surprised to discover that I was 2tf. TFTC

Kiwi fruit still too wet to pick this morning so I went scrolling around the map dreaming of what I'd rather be doing today rather than watch fruit dry.
Wow a new closest to home and a jigsaw to soak up a bit of the morning. It wasn't until heading to work I realized it hadn't been found yet.
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Thanks for the history of the building I see every day. And I really like the final clever hide too. Thanks very much!

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