Aromatic Walkway ( South Canterbury ) Waimate, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 23-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MRW9

Continuing along here this afternoon, had to jump a fence or two along the way but soon found my way to the final here, nice quick find, TFTC

Give this one a miss until beginning of October (2024) or until sheep have been moved on.Nosy sheep in paddock, didn't realise that there were sheep with lambs on the other side of the electric fence. Given them a wide berth.With reshamfiriri.

Found with kakariki. Very friendly and curious sheep. Best to avoid this one till lambing over. TFTC

Heading to Waimate for lunch - with feet firmly on the ground instead of in the air!Not so far to walk to this one and starting to rain so won't be long and the overgrown grass will be very wet. Quick find here TFTC Bitsprayer

Such an awesome find!

Apt container. Live it.

Love the container - found with Juju54 and HRH54 - TFTC

Cute container…very appropriate.TFTC

Aromatic indeed! Loved the container! Found with campmotherandken & HRH54 a favourite from us. TFTC

We were having a bit of trouble with the Compass,and did a bit of bush bashing and then realised when it behaved it's self,we had stepped over it.Duh...TFTH

We had this cache on our radar the last time we were in Waimate, but didn't find the way in. Today, we had a WP on our GPSrs that we thought we'd check out and it lead us to a gate. There was a large flock of sheep and lambs in the paddock, which StreetWalkerNZ was a little cautious about, but we couldn't find any notices prohibiting entry, so in we went.
The sheep were not happy about us and made a bit of a racket, but left a way clear for us to get to GZ. Love the replacement container - nice one Busy paws.
Good to turn this into a smile. TFTC.

#21721. The field was full of ewes and lambs. I was a bit wary of going in, but Troodles forged ahead and we made it across the field without incident (other than a decent amount of baaaaa'ing). Troodles quickly found the nicely themed replacement container. TFTC.

10/10 Great container!! Moved it out of the deep deep overgrown underbrush & put it in a more practical spot.

We looked everywhere!

Found it , great container

No stress

Container replaced by busy paws. Bitsprayer

This was a quick find once we found the entrance. Cache was badly damaged and logbook very wet. Busypaws replaced the container with a themed container.

Once we found the way in to this un named reserve area, the cache was a quick find, however, as Lytteltonwitch has explained, the cache was totally munted. I had a variety of staid, usual and unusual cache containers in the cachemobile , this one is just SO appropriate it is in place with photo to the CO. Hope it brings a smile to the dial. I'll give it the 1st fav. TFTC

Easy Quick find but container is broken and log book is Soaked

Not able to get to cache as it is a multiple hazard areA

I actually like the walkways round these types of ponds - they almost resemble a lake with the various birdlife floating on them. At first I tried to access this from the building but found the correct access further along. Sorry hadn't read the previous log so didn't come prepared to replace the wet log. TFTC # 13,943

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Quick find but cache lid badly broken and log too sodden to sign. Photo attached.

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I have been here before but could never find an obvious way but today i was determined to find the little bugger and that I did fyi there was a Paddy wagon parked at the house across the road i suspect I was being watched tftc Mr BITSPRAYER

Multiple angry sounding little dogs across the road alerted everyone we had arrived, stealth mode was lacking today lol. Log is soaking and unsignable (pic attached). Still a nice walk on a lovely crisp sunny winter's day. TFTC

Um... thanks for... um... bringing... me here... thanks... dodged the sheep poo across the paddock... and log was just poos... too sloppy to sign.

Wow! It's March already & I was the first to find this cache this year. Left some lovely swaps. Didn't even know this paddock was here. It even has a picnic table!

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Came here on a morning bike ride to find some of the caches on this side of Waimate. Definitely rather aromatic today! Vast numbers of ducs appeared to have made the place their home during the shooting season, a cloud of them took off as I arrived. The cache was a quick find - signed log, TFTC

And the birds went berserk! Tftc

Found it fast

"Unsere Kleine" ist für ein Jahr in diesem schönen Land. Daher steht unser Name jetzt auch in einer Dose aus Neuseeland. Danke sagen Katrin und Michael aus Germany

Despite the location of cache no smell or Oder from the ponds. Tftc

a nice easy one, Jr spotted it quickly. Didn't know these plantings were even here, thanks for the history lesson

It's not obvious that this is public land, great spot

Today a new cacher accompanied me today to learn the ways of locating caches. We had a ball having a walk around Knottingley Park. There was no formed walkway to the GZ but there were 2 gateways to go through.

Cheers for the cache.

TFTC Found while taking a group girls from Waitaki Girls High School on a great day geocaching as part of their activities week.

Great geocache

Good walk funny play on words

Great find.

Found with Hinemoana on a trip to Christchurch.
TFTC

After a few dnf's, we decided to give up on the park and take the side walkway. The track was quite muddy, but interestingly progressively less aromatic as we got to gz! I think the park end was the worst. Still - not sure who would bring a picnic to enjoy here... TFTC!!

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Found tftc

After failing at raging we jumped the fence for a quick find here. Lots of ducks around hiding from the hunters. Tftc

Nice quick find tftc 5/5

Yeah, it was pretty pungent here today.
Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki.
TFTC

A couple of dogs across the road yapped at us then as we got closer to GZ, a flock of birds flew squarking overhead - all in all a very noisy (and slightly smelly) cache. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104

Of course the co-ords had to lead us to the furthest point away from the gate - nice to make a quick find. Found with debsnz and Woody104

found with axllal today, nice day out caching in the wimo area, cheers for this one.

TFTC
easy find

Nice to have a easy find after a couple of NF's. Thank you.

Nice and easy

A straightforward find with the only hazard being the copious quantities of sheep poo that seemed to want to attach to our shoes. This was the last cache we found on our morning in Knottingley Park and I'm going to be claiming it towards my Ramblers Reward.

A quick find with jrb5050 TFTC

Very aromatic today - but more due to the sheep... Quick find, TFTC

good walk up the river bed TFTC

found it and managed to scare a whole lot of ducks TFTC

Last find on the dog walk before heading home. Great way to spend a couple of hours. Thanks

Quick find on a nice day for walk

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The ducks know where to go to be safe. TFTC

TFTC! Found with purdiepurdie on a caching expedition.

TFTC. It was not the aroma that I was expecting at this cache - I was smelling a lot of sheep ****, but that was ok.
Found while flobberworm! and purdiepurdie are down south on a caching break.

Found on my way home from the MEGA event

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

Not too much of a stench today! TFTC!

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

Plenty of sheep about today and thankfully the nearby facility didn't give too much of an odour today.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache.

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

I thought I was back at work nearing this cache. We use these settling ponds back home.
Thanks

Our 6251st overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. No bad smells today.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

NZ12. This was a fun walk through the pine forest and then onto the planted area. There was a sheep on the wrong side of the fence, getting a bit desperate, but there was no gate. The cache was not too hard and it was a nice place to explore. Thanks.

8739.160 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Braille A#117

Albida

Last cache for the day i think that makes #105.Tftc

Not the best of area in the park but enjoyed the walk around for a few caches. TFTC

Easy find but felt a tad exposed. Not sure if I was the reason for the barking dog but there was a fair amount of noise coming from the house across the way. TFTC

Aromatic for all the wrong reasons. LOL Easy find.

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Nice easy find in spite of the locals...

Ahh, the end of the walk. Awesome moon tonight, didn't need the torches to find this one. TNLN Thanks

A quick find on a big caching day from Christchurch with Kiwi Moose. A nice nighttime stroll with a full moon to guide us. Thanks for the hide.

Quick find after walking through the wet grass on a cold morning SL TFTC

birthday bash

Full of sheep today. Quick find at site. SL TFTC

Easy find even with Mr Cacher having put in wrong coords. TFTC

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Easy find. Guessed it a few metres away, and could see the cache from 5ms. TFTC TNLN SL

4189. Last find in the wander across the park.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

We held our noses and ran like hell, found in the dark after another long caching dayTFTC

#6023

Certain smells have a way of triggering memories.......

I don't think I want to remember.....

TNLN TFTC

Staying with sister in Waimate and decided to have a walk before lunch. We have placed some NW merchandice in some of the boxes please feel free to take them with you there are "Pin bages, Cards and Key rings"

Wrong shoes on for this walk across the field

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TFTC TNLN SL

Long grass arghhhh, damn hay-fever, at least I couldn't smell the roses. I startled two paradise ducks and their chick on the way back to the car and it was cool to see how the parents created a diversion to distract me away from where they had left their baby, so cool. Thanks.

Found at 16:22 on 12/11/2011.

Found during a tour of South Canterbury and North Otago whilst on an Orienteering weekend.

TFTC Bitsprayer!

No worries with the smell as the wind was light.

not quite the Thyme flavoured tracks further south.

thnx b&w

Another one for the nuvi, since the etrex only uses 6 numbers there are a few round here that have the same first 6 numbers, so the nuvi's king today. TFTC

Either the wind was blowing the right way or my nose was blocked - it wasn't very aromatic at all. I did pause to wonder about how aromatic all the ducks resting on the pond were! I don't think I'd be game to eat wild duck.

Nothing to smell today

not too smelly today