Logs for vanvleets 
05-Sep-11
11-Nov-07
Took us two tries, bu we found it. First time was a little too dark and a little too busy. TFTH.
No luck. The place sure looks neat though. It was closed the day we were there, but felt a little weary just wandering around. Anyway, thanks for stashing a cache here. Cool place.
10-Nov-07
Very beautiful spot. Took some time to get to it. Thanks. We planted a cache on the island at these coordinates:
S 13 49.928
W 171 45.654
Unfortunately, it cannot be listed. There is a travelbug in there we'd like to get back off the island. The cache is under a white rock on the sea side of the ocean wall across the street from Aggie Grey's in Apia. If you can rescue our travel bug, we would appreciate it.
S 13 49.928
W 171 45.654
Unfortunately, it cannot be listed. There is a travelbug in there we'd like to get back off the island. The cache is under a white rock on the sea side of the ocean wall across the street from Aggie Grey's in Apia. If you can rescue our travel bug, we would appreciate it.
Found it; however; the path we took, doesn't sound like it was right. It wasn't an enjoyable walk. We walked along the dump on the path for the whole way (just behind the fence) and through mosquitos so thick we had to cover our mouths to avoid swallowing loads of them. If this was the right path on the wrong day...be warned.
06-Nov-07
Found it nestled in low. TFTF. Seems like a nice little town.
Looked, looked, and looked, but couldn't find it. We were operating without clues, but even in reading them, they wouldn't have helped. If we ever make it back to NZ, perhaps we'll have better luck.
Couldn't give up so we came back through town and we found it this time!
Ok, so we couldn't give up and drove back through town on our way around the island - and now that we know the trick - we were able to find it. TFTH.
05-Nov-07
Nice drive from Queenstown. Had a coffee in the cafe there. Nice way to start a morning. TFTF.
03-Nov-07
TFTH. This was a nice hike out to a place we wouldn't have seen if we weren't geocaching while on vacation from the States. Fun!
Found this one close to our friend's house. Noticed we were the point of interest for an individual across the street up in the window when we finished. TFTH, Dropped off a travel bug from Rotorua.
Caching from the States without aid of all the clues, just coordinates and title hints. Our GPS bounced us in quite a wide radius. Searched by birds and bowlers? Maybe next time. Really liked the park though. Wouldn't have seen it without your cache to have us stop. Thanks!
Had some trouble with this one...however, now that we can read this (traveling so using only coordinates) we think we just didn't search in the place it would've been? Could've been messy for the travelers sleeping in our car.
We were excited to get this cache as we have been going purely on coordinates without computer access to clues. These ones that are on treks into the woods have been harder to find, but we did it. Thanks for the jaunt. Wouldn't have seen this piece of NZ without geocaching.
Traveling from the United States. Unfortunately, since we were without computer for this set of coordinates, we fell for your decoy. We were going to tell you it had been muggled until we looked at the spoilers below and realized we had been fooled. That is how it goes when seeking based purely on coordinates and no descriptions. So, we were in the right place, but no cache for us. Bummer.
Nice to have some of these in the smaller towns. We are vacationing and the caches afford us a time to stop and stretch our legs...and see places off the beaten path while in NZ. TFTH.
Looked and looked. Based on the spoilers we see now, we were in the right spot - but heck if we could spot the obvious. We spent some time on a couple of things that we thought could've been it, but no luck. Spent about 20 mins looking for it. Someday if we get back to NZ, we'll look again.
31-Oct-07
This one took us a bit to find. We tried the evening before, but there were too many children around. Then, we came back that same evening and by then it was getting too dark. However, we came back today and my husband found it! This was great as I had found the other one earlier in the day and he wanted to find one in New Zealand. Not a lot of caches hidden in this area. TFTH. Nice side trip for us. We're on holiday from the States.
This one took us two attempts. The first attempt, yesterday, didn't go well as we started too late! By the time we got to the cache (went the wrong way once) it was getting dark and we were worried we wouldn't get down to our car before the park closed. Came back this morning, took the short way, and found it. Since we are from the States, we had to also ask about a certain tree type. We left a travel bug and took another travel bug too.
Hello- Being from the States, we never even made it to the trailhead ... only because we were trying to use our GPS and a free map to find our way. Instead we ended up driving through some very pretty scenery and farms instead. So, thanks for the nice drive. Maybe, if we ever get back here, we'll do a better job of orienting ourselves to the starting point.