Tennis Nearby (West Coast) Paroa, South Island, New Zealand
By wjbwc on 16-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZV6X

This cache is missing.

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No find today but we will be back. Maybe owner could check it is still in the right place?

No luck either.

Gotta add our sad face too!

I agree. Spent twenty minutes looking at ground level at every rock both at the bottom of the incline and the top of the grassy bank. I think this one has been muggled, or hidden really really well.

no success here
die Heavy Bazille

After a while we quit searching.
D'pälzer Grumbeer

sorry, but we couldn't find this one
pedilli

Might need to check on this one.

Just dropping our travelling geocoin in for miles, forgot to do this when we logged the find.

A quick and easy find at the start of our holiday on the West Coast. NINO, TFTC

An easy find on the way to have a look at Shantytown on our travels up the West Coast. TFTC.

Spent 5 minutes searching at GZ, but it was raining and miserable so abandoned without proper search.

Me and wodshop played doubles

Urgh. A nasty place for lizards and gollums.

Wordshop and Mausi play doubles.

A very quick find from the nearby Paroa Hotel. A great place to say or have a drink and a meal. Took travel bug.

People passing in their cars must have wondered what we were up too!
Left Travelling Nut TB
TFTC

This is our first cache on the west coast after picking up our car in Greymouth. The train across the Alps was wonderful.
TNLN Thanks Jacqueline and Peter #2175

good hide found in a snap TFTC

Quick drive-by in the rain. TFTC TNLN

Easy find - though very nearly muggled by local strollers. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1170)

Easy Fine NINO

Unusual spot for a chache but handy as we drove back to Nelson from Hokitika. TNLN

Was waiting for dinner to cook at the nearby hotel. Mr Explorer couldn't resist finding this one that was right across the road. A quick find. TFTC.

Swooped in to find this one on the way past. Driving to Hokitika after the Event. TFTC

Yea ADV, how did you miss that? GPS was kind to me and put me right on top of it for a quick find and another added to the daily record attempt (most finds in a day). Thanks for putting out the cache!

Found in 30 seconds! Third time lucky, though it certainly did help that there had been a recent tidy-up of the area with all the nasty blackberry, gorse and broken glass removed.

Tennis nearby, but the road was closer! Cheers Gav [1871]

Quick stop for this one on my way to the Greymouth Gathering event and found quickly. Hmmm... wonder how I missed it last time?
TNLN TFTC

I had to do a wee bit of looking but got it in the end, thanks

Lots of places to look when your GPS takes you to the far end and you start working your way along. Lots of nasty prickles. Saw the sign to the Tennis courts.

Found it along with some prickles

fount it TFTC TNLN

"About bloomin' time" said PB (well, that wasn't exactly what he said - but it's polite enough to post here!!! )as he spied the elusive blue plastic under a rock -- a rock, mind you, that I'm sure we've looked under at least five times before. Just not at quite the right angle I guess. Finally it is found!

2012. A quick find as we were driving by.

There is a lot of rubbish in this area now, including broken bottles so it is not a pleasant place to be searching any more.

Up the road, however, there are lovely tennis courts!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

[This entry was edited by Sallies on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 2:03:08 AM.]

Lots of options to check out here. Found hidden deep, concealed with dried gorse prickles!!!
Found the Tennis courts further down the road.

We had quite a thorough look in some of the spaces - but not so much in others due to the broken bottles etc - so I guess the cache was in one of those. Might have another look one day.

nice place easy find

good find pritty easy

Quick find on a whirlwind day of 'caching with Pinot Noir. TFTC.

thanx for the quick cache.
teamKollMont from Germany, xx

Today is a cache-fest! This is 6 of 9 for the day as I race the rest of the family to Greymouth... me in the car, they on the Tranz Alpine!!
TFTC

Found by Sc00t and Twisties on our tour of the New Zealand South Island.

Sorry for the late log i lost my list of finds

Easy find on a crisp morning.

Cheers
www.teambooya.com

Found it at 08.50 hrs. Nice hide in the sun.
Thanks-Meryl(Holland)

good eazy find found on way back from chch tnln tftc

foung it tftc

Easy find

got this at end of run. Wasn't a great run because of wind. didn't mind stopping to look for this one. Hard to look normal when Muggles walk past and i'm lying on the ground looking in cracks & crannies. Just smiled and waved.
TFTC TNLN

Really good hiding place! find no 9. having heaps of fun

Took a LONG while to find this one and lots of cars going past. Had to pretend I was a bridge inspector and I think I even fooled a few people. "Gave up" twice before finding it.

easy find just gota look in the cracks,lots of cars passing.
steath required -lizard+dragon

Good hiding spot.-snake +dice

Easy find, dont know why others struggled. TNLN

No way was I going to put my hands in amongst broken glass and prickles searching for this cache. This site needs a CITO cleanup.

No luck with this one, bit hard to do a decent search on such a busy corner.

It took a bit of stealth to get this one, lots of traffic about. Managed it in the end thanks.

Stayed at the motor camp just down the raod and picked this one up early in the morning before leaving Greymouth.

traveller visited before moving on

picked up the travel bug

[This entry was edited by Pohutukawa on Friday, March 09, 2007 at 1:57:03 PM.]

Nice One!!!!!!! Quick and easy find on our way to Kumara. Neat hiding spot. - MacToy + Key Chain Thanks

Had to be quick as lots of people driving by, would love to see the tennis racket if they where the balls ( the big round rocks)

A quick find for Miss Samy!, but we never saw the tennis courts.
Cheers

Nice quick road side cache, not far form here there used to be a great swimming hole with big clay banks to slide down.

Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Tennis we hoped to play
but not today
A very busy spot
it was very hot
with muggles all around
but the cache we found
the frog hopped out
but don't pout
a postcard swapped for it
so we did our bit
all recored in the book
you may want to take a look

FTF This must be the hardest '1' difficulty I've done. I biked 20km to get to the cache. Then still had another 8km to go to get home.

Found the cache easily enough, stuck my hand in a nasty prickle while grabbing it.

TFTC, TNLN.

[This entry was edited by BK&J on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 12:05:20 PM.]

Second to find, though I must admit that the logbook, pencil and stash note look a bit familiar.

Thanks Mum.
TNLNSL.

Out with Moneydork tonight. Very pleasant evening on the Coast.
TNLNSL

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