About Motueka - Hotel Motueka (Tasman) Motueka, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 20-May-22. Waypoint GC9V0ZB

Nice quick find here today. log has 2 spaces left only had 1 muggles pass us by. Tftpc really enjoying our time in the area

On a roadie of the sth Island from invercargill. A good wee series caching around Motueka. This took a while to find and it shouldn't have! Tftp

Another clever hide, enjoying our day in Motueka, thanks

Thankyou for the cache sidewaze

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This was the best jig saw puzzle of them all, took me over an hour to complete, but enjoyed doing the solve. Thankfully the find was a lot easier, great spot for a hide, have a FP for the fun series, cheers

Day four riding the Great Taste Trail from Kaiteriteri to Mapua. We stopped in Motueka for morning tea and a few caches. It was nice to get off our bikes and stretch our legs as we made our way to gz. A quick find here in a lovely spot. TFTP

A nice quick find. There was a cat nearby keeping an eye on the comings and goings. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are out and about around Motueka today. A lovely day for a drive and a bit of a wander.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

We were monitored along the way by a pretty grey cat! That hotel is beautiful architecture. Thank you Sidewaze

Thanks for hiding this cache Sidewaze I appreciate it. I biked further down a little cycle path. I solved this puzzle at home and finally have managed to get to gz to find it.

Walking off my coffee, and a bit of rain about

Jan 1st and 2nd are slow days in NZ obviously. Lots of shops were closed. We were looking for a place to eat and passed the hotel several times. Nobody sitting in there had a bite. Best sold food was beer packaged in pitchers. We decided to check the Thai on the other side of the street and on the 2nd day the McD. Last one was a bad choice. I never was in a McD dirtier that this one. At least the personnel cleaned the one table we intended to sit on on request. Puzzle was solved and when Muggle tried to shop at the shops still open I visited the cache location. I always like some creativity when it comes to the camo.Thx for hiding.

Enjoyed solving the puzzle. Quick find. Very good disguise.

Kimbathelion solved this puzzle. In the area this weekend to find it. Didnt take long. Well disguised. Tftc

Puzzles solved at home and now on holiday with busy paws. Lovely here and great hide. Thanks for the puzzle and the cache Sidewaze.

Clever wee hide and thanks for placing. Found with coconuts3 on a beautiful day in Motueka.

Found on a windy day. Practicing using the caravan on my own in case I work down south for a couple of months

I came down to Mot with my sister to spend a day with one of my dads, whose feeling poorly. We are staying at a local BNB, As I get up at 5am and my dad doesn't till about 8am, my sis and I headed out for a few geocaches.Sis initially picked up the hide, Using the the ol' this-has-no-function-here rule to identify potential cache hides. She didn't see the cache though. Or maybe she did and didn't recognise it. Turns out she had not see this style container before!

Nice little walk TFTC

Another beautiful find.
Nga mihi

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.

(# 7877) 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. We particularly enjoyed the street name here.

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.

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 another muggle free zone while we were here although the potential to be surprised was obvious. Another nice hide.
Thank you Sidewaze.

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
Another GZ where you can so easily be muggled. We were alert to that as per usual and casually admired the fauna as the muggle cycled past. Thank you Sidewaze

Out and about in Motueka today grabbing a few caches. 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

Found with nzchaser123 tftc

found and solved with kjj162. loving these puzzles and motueka. this was a sneaky one tftc

Solved a while ago but saving for a day when I needed some finds. Today is that day, on my way home from a day kayaking in Abel Tasman. Took a couple of minutes to spot the nicely concealed hide. Thanks Sidewaze

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Headed out for a couple of caches today to keep the numbers up. The targets were a couple of solved puzzles. This was the first and I parked out on the slightly wider street and walked down the narrower one to hunt for the cache. Apart from the heat, all was going good as I eventually found the cache and retrieved the log to sign. Was just rolling it up again when a bunch of schoolgirls walked past discussing parents and learning to drive - the gist being that they knew better than the parents. Anyway, once they were out of sight, I replaced the log and put cache back as found. tftc

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#21749. The route to the cache wasn't marked on any of our devices, but we figured it would be obvious once we got reasonably close and it was. Tricky wee hide---nicely done. TFTC.

All quiet at GZ (thank goodness), and after a bit of rustling in the undergrowth, SW made the find. Signed the log as SWaT to save on space. TFTC.

Heading over the hill today. Stopped on the west to pick up this bonus. Interesting, the road and paths don’t show on my map. I wondered where you were taking us. A good hide. TFTC

We are staying in Nelson for Labour Weekend but today is set aside to head up to Kaiteriteri, as we havent been there since 2015 we had a full day planned. Just a few in Mot before we continued on. We managed to park very closeby for a quick find here. The camo almost seems unnecessary as the cache is out of sight anyway. I always enjoy a Jigidi. Thanks for placing this cache and adding to our smilies.

Found it

Not much drinking here now. After finding another of of CO caches before this I had a sense what to be the look out for

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).

I solved the puzzle a while ago and today was the day I needed to find it. Found the clever cache after a short search. TFTC, Biggles.

qf a spot we had looked at previously only 1 metre away from our intended spot!! We snoozed and now grab a smiley . TFTC

Another solved puzzle that we decided to grab on a sunny winters afternoon - even grabbed a couple of fungi pics nearby - log signed as SONO to save room - thanks for the cache

Found with no.13 on a slightly wet day. Inevitable dog walker came past as signing log. Tftc

Found with Ulmuslynx on this wet wet morning
Love the puzzle Thank you for the cache Great hide

We did end up having lunch in Motueka but not at the hotel as the Special board outside was blank. No blankness in solving the jigsaw but it was not a quick solve. This was made up for by an instant find of the cache.
Thanks.

Working in Motueka this afternoon. I had visions of spending the morning with the CO doing a bit of caching but the freezing cold weather and a few other work things got in the way of that. So after I was finished the work bit I came round here for the first cache of the evening. It was quite a stop/start affair as all the dog and baby walkers came and went. I also looked in several wrong places before spotting the classic hide. Loving this series Sidewaze - have a favourite. TFTC # 18,520

I saw the hotel first, then went over to the trail entrance. I did a quick glance and missed it on the first sweep, but got it on the second. TFTC.

Published

A joint FTF with Tregearp at 1:30 p.m. We've enjoyed this jigsaw series, with this one being the most challenging yet. Got there in the end mid morning and was surprised to get the FTF. Thanks Sidewaze for another puzzle and cache.

Well the Sunday morning jigsaw ritual has became quite the tradition of late and it has been noted the puzzles are getting a little more difficult. SJT_NZ did the uber lifting on this one, I got a 1/3 in but as chore time was slipping away I left him to it.2 hours 40 he clocked in at after spending 2 hours after midnight on another jigsaw challenge- CRAZY. We had to head into town this afternoon and thought we'd swing by assuming someone would have got the FTF. The GZ was an area I'd discovered a few weeks ago and thought there would be some options, well done Sidewaze for getting the hide in, nicely put together cache and fav from me on the puzzle.