Kaiapoi Pa (Canterbury) Pegasus, South Island, New Zealand
By Hello Mrs on 06-Apr-08. Waypoint GC1AYWT

Nice walk-- an interesting place, and cache was a quick find once we got to gz. tftc

All in good condition and easy to spot while blackberry is leafless.Frosty sunny morning and a nice walk from Pegasus.TFTC

Amazing nice area, a bit Thorny to find

Great find amazing place

Yay-

Nice day for a drive TFTC

Nice wee walk to gz. Returned log book to its bag after signing. TFTC

Ez find

Nice in a yellow container

Couldn't find

Putting a frownie on this one - a hard thing for my to do considering my great x3 grandfathers name is on the cornerstone of this memorial (Canon Stack). The blackberries defeated the four of us completely. Maybe some day Ill be back here to redeem my smiley.

Found the shrub, fairly well overgrown in thorny bush. Couldnt find it

Where is it

The history of this spot is both interesting and tragic. I am currently reading a copy of the book Kaiapohia the Story of a Siege, republished in 1990, which makes fascinating reading. The cache was found by Talla64 while I looked on the wrong side of the tree. Thank you for drawing our attention to this site, and thank you for the cache.

A fascinating story of a mostly forgotten past. Thanks for bringing us here, somewhere we would never have found without your cache. The bramble seems to have retreated a little. TFTC Hello Mrs

It was great

The cache was in a beautiful environment and fun place to store it, make sure to have a look around.TFTC

Very tricky find and very prickly. Great find though

Very prickly and tricky to find but we did. Great hide and great area.

Tftc

Well hidden deep in the bushes

Not at though height but the coordinates got us there. On the ground

Getting back on the Caching horse..... Haven't had much of a chance this year so far, but now the weather is warming up again, time to get some in... Tried this one before, but the bushlawler kept me at bay. Nice to see it cut back, and turned a blue face yellow. Cheers!

Found 3/6/23 with Sally

Found with Coconuts3, what a fantastic area to come to for a bit of history. Appreciate a cache being placed here. TFTC!

What great places geocaching can take us to. Came here with Geomum007 and we enjoyed the walk here. Cache all good. Thanks for bringing us here and the cache Hello Mrs.

First one of many to be found

Hard

Very prickly, bring gloves!

We came prepared, with secateurs and gloves, having read the previous logs. The secateurs were absolutely necessary. Cutting away the blackberry the cache was revealed at the base of the tree and carefully extracted. Such an interesting historical site, but neglected. TFTC!

Reading other logs, this should be easy peasy. GPS consistently took me to the most concentrated bit of Bushlawler I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Bit if a look, but eventually decided no cache is worth being ripped to shreds. Maybe GPS has got something against me.... Cheers anyway.

Simple find. Thanks for the excuse to revisit this special place.

It was my second ever geo I was motivated after the one at the good home. A man gave us a hint that it was yellow but not where it was it was a bit hard but in the end we found it by a tree.

easy

Found

Found It

Second visit

Super fun first find for the kids

Not too hard to find. My 5 year old was happy.

An easy find on Easter monday.

Good

Nice find thanks

Found and replaced at ground level. Lots of sharp BlackBerry.

Lots of blackberry! Donated a bit of blood before finding it on the ground.

Replaced on the ground against the base of the tree.

A bit larger than we were expecting! What a beautiful place. TFTC!

Prickly find

Nice spot just look out for the prickle bushes

Very very good

I have recently been lent a copy of the 1990 reprint of "Kaiapohia The Story of a Siege" by The Rev. Jas. West Stack. Family members were involved in organising the reprint and this has inspired us to visit the pa site. Kaiapoi Pa is a site of great historical importance for Canterbury and also New Zealand, I was surprised at the lack of signage or information available here.

I was pleased to have my geocaching kit today with gloves in it, as the cache is now closely guarded by blackberry. The log inside is in excellent condition considering how long it has been here. Replaced as found which was lower than the elevation described in hint. Thanks for placing a cache in such a great spot - well worth a visit!

Did not find container, area is very overgrown with blackberry bushes. Lovely spot tho, very poignant

A great spot to visit but I came away empty handed. I couldn't see any regular sized container at GZ and there was too much blackberry to go feeling for it.

Lovely spot - can’t believe I didn’t know this was here. TFTC!

Beautiful sunny day once found to sit and reflect on history in the area

TFTC, lovely day for it
Now to go tend to my many scratches, all worth it!!

Good run for the kids beau said give him the heebie-jeebies

Enjoying a fine day and exploring the area. my family lived nearby many years ago so it is great to revisit. Very interesting, sad history but worth remembering. Thanks for the cache

Weather finally cleared, very interesting area. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC

Found it. Sad positioning for a cache though, spare a thought for the women and children when you visit this place.

Very cool

Found it

Found

Short walk but found in the bush

Thank you for placing this cache in such a special place! Learned a lot today! TFTC!

Kia Ora!

We enjoyed visiting this monument and finding the cache. TFTC!

Got prickled a few times because of the overgrown bushes, but got it anyways!

Quick find, cracker day for a short walk. Cache easy to find although a few BlackBerry bushes to navigate past. Thanks for the cache. Dropped a couple of travellers from UK....keep them moving please.

Nice walk in historic site

Well overgrown...spent an age but no luck

Pleased I shed my work clothes before attempting this one! Jeez that blackberry is aggressive. Quickly found and took some time to extricate.Awesome spot, you could definately tell there had been something here and why it would be a good Pa site. Thanks for bringing me here and of course placing and maintaining the cache.

Thank you. My 1st find, I have just started

Mum had her Lion's Cabinet meeting in Amberley yesterday so on the way home today we combined some cache maintenance with caching for the last of our Mystery of the Museum finds. The long grass was still wet so we were glad that we already had our gummies on. After walking over to GZ the cache wasnt difficult to spot but getting it without unvolunteeringly donating blood was, as it had obviously just been thrown back. A nice size container and the book from 2008 is still in great condition. Thanks for the effort involved in placing and creating this cache for all of us to enjoy.

our first find, ye!

Easy find. Thanks for the hide.

In the blackberry!

Found it, and got a little friend

Came at this from the wrong way at first and nearly ended up in the stream. Got there eventually after reading a few more posts... if you see the large white pole on the side of the road, go through the gate and your on the right track

Found it was very hard thank-you to the creator.

I was in NZ once again visiting family. I am a Chch native but have been living in Perth WA for the past seven years. This was not so much of a caching trip but I managed to collect as many as time would allow. I had a real focus on solved puzzles, but managed to target other caches as we were driving past. It is awesome touring your hometown with a caching view as it takes you to many places you would not have visited before. Thanks to all the CO’s, I had an absolute blast today. Cheers and TFTC.

G’day there TheWanglers, I was in this area today and found your cache Kaiapoi Pa (Canterbury) GC1AYWT. I added my name to the log book at 8:52 am on 13 September 2018. A huge thanks to you for placing this cache here for us (and others) to find!

This cache find brings our total find count to 10010. Woohoo!!

A nice easy find on a nice day. It is nice to visit historical sites of significance. Thanks

Nice

Quick find but very overgrown with blackberry. TFTC

Thanks for the cache

I never knew this was here, an interesting piece of history. TFTC Hello Mrs

#7564

awesome cache TFTC.

So cool! I never realised it was here, and how important it was to Ngai Tahu! Thanks for bringing me to this piece of history!! TFTC!!

Sir Belac and I went for a lovely walk to get this cache got a few scratch before I managed to retrieve it .Thanks for this cache Hello Mrs

A facinating piece of history and a very interesting place to walk around this Waitangi day. Thanks very much for bringing me here, and TFTC!

New duscivery

I had no idea this place was here and a lovely big cache as well

Easy find with Wurzel'47, great sized container, we placed it as hint suggests - - found at GL, luckily not affected by wet or damp. TFTC Wish the people invested with maintenance here, would actually do their job. Such a shame a historic site is looking so sad.

Out with Busy Paws found at GL put more as hint says TFTC

Very quiet out this way today. Easy find. Nice to find a sizeable cache so I could drop trackable.

Found with quinella yesterday .
Pleased we finally visited here. Tftc

Interesting little known site. Thanks

Tftc

Would have been good to visit here when it was in its glory

A bit overgrown these days

My ancestors were the first European neighbour's of the Kaiapohia Pa. Nice to return though the pa site is no longer as I remember it from 30 years ago. Tftc

13/09/2016 3:32:00 PM
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Needed to grab my cache(s) for the day, but I'd been quite busy catching up with stuff at home given I'd been out all day the day before caching!! So I decided not to spend too long caching today, and just find a few.

After finding a couple other caches, came out here for this one. It's been on my list for ages, but I never really came past here in daylight hours!! And wasn't sure what I'd come across in the 100m from the road!

Came today then, and it was a nice easy find. Unfortunately the area looks quite unmaintained and unvisited! Cachers are probably the only ones who ever come here!!

Consec caching day # 1409

TFTC!!