Totara Ghosts on Sinclair (Canterbury) Little River, South Island, New Zealand
By MadCat9 (adopted by Team_Gaters) on 04-Jan-14. Waypoint GC4WGWC

Out on a walk to check out Mt Sinclair. Found this on the way back down. We saw so many kereru (wood pigeon) just up the track through Mt Sinclair reserve - maybe 20 or more? That was really cool. Finding this cache was the icing on the cake

Found on an amazing uphill while hiking Te Ara Ptaka. TFTC

Walking with bellamara to Rod Donald via Te Ara Ptaka. Thanks for bringing us here, poignant moment at the ngahere /totara cemetry.

First find in two years

Tftc!

First successful find on this 2 day trip through to Gebbies Pass. Nice and straight forward and such a good view. Bummer to see so many tree trunks but it makes for interesting terrain.
TFTC, all safe and dry here

So many mighty trees were felled for farming. Look at the posts of the fence, those are totara.

Lots of muggles (or sort of) around. This was a quick find and the first break on my way from Hill Top to Rod Donald Hut.
TFTC

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1750 February 16, 2020 11:10

A beautiful day for a walk and some caching. We parked up at Hilltop and walked to Mount Sinclair and back. This cache was a quick find along the way. TFTC.

What an awesome place, even better an d more fun in the snow. No probs finding the wee sucker. Fav point for location

Got the bus to the Hilltop from Halswell then walked back to Charteris Bay with a night at the luxurious Rod Donald Hut. Perfect winter trip. Cold easterly meant mostly in the cloud all day but still very enjoyable and good navigation practice. Many thanks for the cache.

What a glorious day for a run along the tops. Christchurch and the plains were under cloud all day but the peninsula tops were above it. I got a drop-off at Hilltop and ran/jogged/walked through to a pick-up at Diamond Harbour in 6.5 hours including stops (for caches). Cool breeze at times. High cloud prevented the sun being too bright. In other words a perfect day. I had a strict time limit of 10 minutes searching and any caches I could not locate were left for another day.

This one was a quick find at the GZ. Find # 2107

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Oops. I think I muddled two caches. This was the one that I was glad to have overshot and came back to, as it was a giveaway hide from the other side. It's certainly a bit of a spooky place in some ways. TFTC.

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Walking from Diamond Harbour to the Hilltop via along the Te Ara Pataka. A nice and straightforward find, tftc!

I had four hours to play with today and I headed for the hills. The plan was to park up at the Hilltop end and walk up the 'Summit Road' to get to Mt. Fitz. I didn't know how lond that'd take. So I had a packed lunch and headed up. I hadn't done this part of the track before. It was a bit chilly and in Christchurch it was clear skies and still here it was overcast and blowing a Southerly. Crazy only 30km as the crow flies how the weather can be so different. Had a great walk got back to the truck in 3hrs and 45mins. Total vertical ascent was 1000m and covered about 12km. Good day out. Scored a few caches but didn't make it to Mt. Fitz... next time.
What a great walk up to here. The forest would have been marvelous. Nice spot. Now up to Sinclair top.

Thanks for the cache MadCat9.
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Dad and sons out for a bike ride / push on a beautiful sunny day.

So sad to see all of this destruction. Picked up whilst cycling the skyline ridge. TFTC

On the way to Mt. Sinclair we found that box. It seems that the ghost took the box away. We found it on the ground, brought it back in a save position and put a stone on it. I hope it stays there. Thanks for the box

After we were looking for a long time , has the tinflaida Box 7 meters from zero point found in the grass .
After logging we have the box hides again at zero .

On our hike today , we passed this place .

Thanks for hiding
Greetings from Switzerland

Last find on our long weekend trip from Kaituna Valley through to Hilltop. TFTC

A nice day for a walk on Banks Peninsula. Not too hot nor windy. A good 5 hour round trip to the furtherest cache. A interesting field of dead trees, It was good to see totara regenerating in the reserves. A quick find in the first I checked.

Thanks for the hide.

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Mrs G and I took a 'Mental Health' day from work. Dropped the boys to school then headed out here for a walk/run in the hills. Overcast and a cold and blustery wind...very cold and blustery. At least it didn't rain! Running gear on but glad we had layered up. Really windy on the exposed part of the spur. Quick find and sign once we searched the correct Ghost! Nice and secure in it's location. Were these all knocked over in a storm or were they logged by early settlers or cleared for grazing? Would have been an impressive forest! Cheers....onwards!

Found cache on the ground, replaced in secure position. Didn't have a pen so couldn't fill in the log book, good find on a sunny windy day, thanks.

Cheers for the hide

Sounds like my cache has fallen out of its hiding place. If you happen to be the next person to find it please place it back inside the log where it won't fall out easily!!!!

Until I turned in towards Little River I had been looking forward to an enjoyable stroll in the sun to this and the 2 other caches on the Mt Fitgerald Walkway. However, it was not to be, for the ridgeline and Mts Sinclair and Fitzgerald were clothed by an orographic cap cloud being blown over the ridge by a strong northeasterly wind. So I layered up with extra clothes at Pettigrews Rd carpark and began the easy trek up towards this cache. So easy in fact that I had the cache in my hands 45 minutes after leaving the car. Many photos were taken of the ghosts.

Long walk quick find.

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