Junior Gardener (Waikato) Hamilton East, North Island, New Zealand
By Butterfly_lady & RadioNut50 on 12-Feb-06. Waypoint GCTEGJ

When visiting these magnificent gardens, we couldn't help ourselves and had to log at least one cache.TFTC, dky za ke!

Bei unserer Tour durch Neuseeland heute hier in Hamilton schnell gefunden! TftC!!!

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Chewbacca72 and I are traveling during 4 months through Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. A few caches that are on our way should not be missing. This cache is one of them. Many thanks to Butterfly_lady & RadioNut50 for hiding.Best regards,searchersab

Zusammen mit searchersab geht es fr 4 Monate auf Reise, dabei kommen wir nach Singapur, dann an die Westkste Australiens, wir fahren die great ocean road von Sydney nach Adelaide, danach bereisen wir noch Nord und Sdneuseeland. Dieser Cache lag auf unserer Route, vielen Dank an den Owner Butterfly_lady & RadioNut50 frs Auslegen und Herfhren

This is great, it made me sit on the seat which then helped me see everything thats in the seat span kitchen utensils its wonderful. Thank you for placing this year.

On a rest day at TA found.TFTC xEleven

Auf der Runde durch den Hamilton Garden schnell gefunden

Nice and easy

Done

TFTC

Nice one

Great spot

probably one of my favourite of the gardens! thanks!

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TFTC! Fun find heading through the gardens is always enjoyable. Have left a trackable

Very nice

Nice spot

Amazing place for a cache! Thank you. Here with kkinu.

Found with rachel@Maui. enjoying the gardens. TFTC

Found with Doofus19x2. Fun walk through the garden. TFTC

Came down from Auckland to visit the gardens on a cool and cloudy day. Quick find with TravelDragon99. TFTC

Great spot easy to find- TFTC

What a nice spot . Thanks !

Super cachette !!

TFTC

Beautiful spot TFTC

Thanks for the fun find!

Thanks for the cache! Found on a sunny day on the first day of spring!

Cool stash spot.

Yayyyyy! Beautiful place. TFTC

Family trip to the gardens resulted in a quick search for this geocache. Everyone had great fun searching and exploring the gardens, even my three year old son. Swap made. Thanks very much for the cache.

Well I was OCW irondale today and we came here for the favourite points and we really were not disappointed. Its a great spot and we were glad to have to navigate through the gardens to get there. It was not the 170ish metres walk I was expecting but it was well worth the time. Looking back on today we actually spent international geocaching day really well, by seeking out caches with loads of favourite points in interesting places. TFTC

Very wet day, but that didn't stop jftf and myself caching. Amazing gardens. Favourite from me. Tftc

Tftc drizzly day for walk around gardens Here to watch the World's darts

I found this one! On holiday from the UK! TFTC

Had to be sneaky sneaky with all the muggles out on such a beautiful sunny day. These gardens are all beautiful. Thankyou for the find.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there currently staying on the outskirts of Hamilton decided to go for a wander around the Hamilton Gardens to clean up the Adventure Labs & a few caches this was an easy find, albeit we had to wait for a few muggles to move along, cache container was easily retrieved, log book signed & replaced pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:LS #5,712 for Us!

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This cache is inside the area that Non Hamilton residents will be charged entry from 18th September

Thanks!

This is a cache ive been meaning to check out for a while now and what better time to do it than when i need to drop off a geo bug.The cache was found hidden some distance away from the described spot hidden under the corner of a compost bin. Perhaps someone thought it might stay drier there. I hope ive done the right thing returning it to the place described in the hint. I dragged a friend along with me today and we enjoyed a walk round exploring the gardens together as its been a while since either of us were last here. After our walk we went into hamilton east and enjoyed a turkish meal before heading home.Thankyou for the awesome cache.

Traveling back to Waikanae Beach from a weekend in Auckland, we have stopped off at Hamilton Gardens for Mrs Macfam to take in the amazing gardens. Meanwhile, I am on a cache hunt. TFTC. Nice hide. No muggles, so an easy find.

Fun for the younger players

Thanks! Great cache. That was fun!

Tftc such a unique cache took a bit to navigate to the cache (me being a tourist in Hamilton) but found it in the end

On our short trip to Hamilton we visited the gardens and found this cache TFTC #420

Nice

tftc!

Loved it here . . . a little too much mud. . . but beautiful. Purple got muddy clothes, muddy bags, muddy hands . .but we found the muddy cache. Some of the best hot chips Purple had ever eaten . .shared with sparrows. TF the sneaky C.

Thanks - another find for us 3 today

Second time, so we didn't sign the log...but we left a trackable (Homer) - saw some fellow cachers

1st one! Yey! Found it

Fun finding it

Easy find for once ??

Cute! Great cache

Great little cache

My 6 year old said "that was quite cool"

#15,247. We enjoyed exploring the Hamilton Gardens off Hungerford Crescent in Hamilton East, Hamilton. Fortunately, the GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. But unfortunately, International Geocaching Day 2016 Tag was not in the cache. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.*Thanks for the geocache 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.*---### LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!! ###On **May 3rd, 2025**, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in **Rotorua, New Zealand** with a special **Block Party** event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the ["25 Years of Geocaching NZ! (GCAKR25)" event page]( https://coord.info/GCAKR25) and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz) for more details, join the [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your ["Will Attend" log]( https://www.geocaching.com/live/geocache/GCAKR25/log) onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.**Happy caching and we will see you in 2025!**---

Amazing!

I am up here for 3 weeks from Queenstown for a course. My friend introduced me to geocaching and this is my first find ?? thanks for the cache!

Thank you! A great find for little people

Amazing long lasting find

Nice easy cache and a cute hiding place. Had a wander around the gardens before it closed at 5pm. Will come back for some exploring and grab some more caches while Im up this was on a 3/52 training course NB - trackable that is listed not found in cache that I could see (as per Bears note as well), but seeing as its a cache for our mini-geos, I popped a cute swag in there and cool Chameleon geopet TB9Q498 I picked up from Waverley last week (GC7DCJA by torchlight) - keep travelling my little friend! Mihi ki a koe mo te keteroki #141

Yay cool one thankyou!!! Might wanna replace the plastic bag as its no longer sealing

Quick and easy findTftc

I found it on the ground behind and had to climb over the giant sitting spot to retrieve have hidden it back in its proper location

Amazing day in the gardens good find thank you

I Love it

A cool garden. Unfortunately I didn't have my grandkids with me so had to find the cache myself. Thanks for placing it

TFTC! I perfectly timed it and there were no muggles!! It had barely any sway and it was so sad, so I filled it up with some cool things!! Found a few pieces of coal in there took a piece haha

Thanks for a cool wee cache, our family enjoyed teaching other homeschoolers about geocaching.

Trouve ! / Found it ! Une belle cache dans un bel endroit. Merci 5381me cache trouve.Merci Butterfly_lady & RadioNut50 pour la cache A beautiful cache in a beautiful location. Thank you 5381th cache found.Thank you Butterfly_lady & RadioNut50 for the cache

Yay thanks

Fantastic hide but just a question - was the chair made for the cache or the other way around???

Wasn't able to find it

Je n'arrive pas a mettre le petit bonhomme trouv, mais elle s'y trouve bien

Mplc

Beautiful

Nice garden in Hamilton

Thank you we found this today

Found and logd. Thans for hiding. Greetings from the Netherlands.

always a nice place to visit. been here already a few years ago but did not know about this cache TFTC

Thank you!

Found it heaps of mugglles Nice seat heaps of memories embedded

Found it on an impromptu visit to the gardens while wasting time before flying back home to Christchurch. TFTC

TFTC fab little hide was tricky being stealth with all of the muggles

#3018Found by the Tontako Team.Thanks for the cache

#2406 (Tontako Team) Kia Ora from Spain! We found this cache during our New Zealand / Aotearoa holidays.Magnificent gardens.TFTC

Great adventure thank you

Epic spot

Tftc nice day

Yay

We only had an hour to spend in these delightful gardens during our brief stay in Hamilton before we had to dart off to the airport. I was pleased to see some geocaching within. We found this one quickly and then hurried to explore another wonderful spot. Have a fp. Tftc

Thanks for the cache. Great hiding spot!

Yay

Found it!

We were already passing this garden when I recognised there must be a geocache. So we went back and were lucky finding the box without muggles nearby Many thanks for this cache in this beautiful place.