Papakaio. (North Otago) Papakaio, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on Friday 1 January 2010. Waypoint GC22HWA

22nd

Getting near the end of the day and didn't find it in the allocated 5 minutes.........
 

15th

1430hrs Right where the gps said it was. The Italian Job was here......! Our blog www.motorhominginxs.blogspot.com
 

1st

A quick find. Thanks.
 

1st

A quick find in a familiar location.
Nice hide all the same. TFTC
 

1st

Easy find, thanks.
 

17th

quite cacher friendly for us today. 13/33 today & we're definitely not speed cachers, when we haven't been to this area there's so much to chose from here!
 

27th

10am. Slight drizzle.

Read the cache logs and chuckled to myself. I knew from one sentence on where to look, and bingo, there it was.

First of 41 today.....but Im not a speed cacher.....

TFTC
 

14th

The tennis courts were in use this afternoon but after a wee wander the cache was found, cunning hide.
Thanks
ernienz
 

13th

Perhaps a complicating factor here is the difficulty rating of 1.5. In our case, four very experienced cachers spent about 10 minutes searching and we would have expected to turn up a 1.5 rated cache. Therefore we assumed something was wrong and maybe the cache was missing, hence our DNF log. Given the number of DNFs and the number of comments from those more sucessful that suggest it is a tricky hide, perhaps the difficulty rating needs to be raised to lower the expectation that this is a "quick find". Just a thought. Also, caches in little rural towns like this tend to be done primarily by people who are passing through en route to somewhere else. Often they are on a tight time schedule and have to limit the time they spend at each cache along their route. The "speed cacher" label may not necessarily be fair in such circumstances.  

13th

Cache checked today and it is located exactly as it was first placed. A minor amount of rubbish found at or near GZ was removed.
Some caches do take a little time to find and I would suggest that "speed cachers" who can not put their hands on a cache instantly should just log the fact that they are "speed cachers" rather than log DNF's. If you dont look you cant expect to find.  

3rd

Ooooh, this was not a nice GZ! We were led by our GPSrs to a rather messy and unsavoury area, and chose not to search at all. Back in the car, and happy to leave this as a DNF!
 

3rd

Really messy and untidy location full of rubbish. Moved on instead of searching. (Speed Caching with nick_h_nz)
 

24th

Took a bit but I got the blighter in the end
 

14th

Too many muggles today, some sort of BBQ getting set up by the hall and I was getting the eye just for parking in the car park.  

13th

Several of us spent a few minutes looking for this but no luck. GPS was jumping around a lot and hint wasn't much help. Only one of 23 we looked for today that we didn't find which was disappointing. The problem with being on a caching day-trip is that you have to set yourself a strict time limit at each cache. Almost drove the wrong way up the one-way road on the way out! Is this just new? I was here for a cache about a year ago and I don't remember it being one-way.
 

9th

A bad start to our day - we searched but it was a DNF for us.
 

8th

Searched all around the obvious place with no luck - had to phone a friend - and the cache was obviously in the place that I had searched already. Good hide - if fact a sort of double hide. People who hide caches in flax bushes should be made to eat them (the bush that is
 

5th

Several people's names appear in the log, although nobody has logged it yet. Well hidden - took a wee while. TFTC
 

3rd

Just heading past the Waitaki Dam and a txt comes in, so pull over and check, well a new cache down home, so get to Kurow and on to the laptop and down load it Hmm 50km to go, but we got there for a FTF, but took a bit of hunting.


Many Thanks Bitsprayer
 

3rd

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