Guardian (Canterbury) Tai Tapu, South Island, New Zealand
By TheWanglers on 07-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5AGX5

Took a minute then spotted,signed and returned.tftc

Great wee cache. - Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Took a minute to wait for the cars to pass so I could get this one but was a quick find!Logbook signed at 16:39 Saturday, 17th August Cache number 372, TFTC!

Took a moment. Have a found a few like this one now.

A quick stop while the traffic was quiet. Thought we knew what we were looking for so quickly had it in hand! Tftc

A busy road but quickly found the cache ! TFTC

Found with Gummi_Venus. Love these clever little hides. Im fortunate to be caching with GV who actually enjoys rolling up logbooks like these (can ya believe it?!).

Went out Leeston way to perform maintenance on one of our caches. Now a wee detour to get some caches for us. This was a great hide which we overlooked the first time. Came back and then spotted something different and wow it was the cache. What a fun cache hide, Thanks for this cache TheWanglers.

Love it, Tftc

Couldn't find. Too busy with traffic

Day #4 of my 11 day holiday and heading to Akaroa for the week.
This took longer than it should have (focussing on the wrong bits again) but then I looked at the right spot at the right time and bingo...that has to be it! Sure enough soon had log in hand ready to sign TFTC

Cool clever hide. Mr Muggle said he would never have found it. He was a little impressed.
Quick find. TFTC

Hand made! TFTC

Amazing hide - so rewarding! TFTC!

I hate these things.... Butt only because I fall for them EVERY time. Cheers!

On our way home from Birdling's Flat ... 1 final cache along the roadside to make the trip even better! I really like these kinds of hides...there's just something about them being hidden in plain sight that I appreciate and this one gave me the opportunity to educate a muggle about some of the different hides too
TFTC!

Very cool. TFTC

I very nearly made that look harder than it needed to be! Having wandered back & forth a bit I decided that one of the first things I'd looked at needed further investigation. Of course it was the cache.

TFTC TheWanglers
Find number 4615

Something just looks like the others.....But alas its not......Found with Mumbo11

Found it, very sneaky TFTC

20 October 2021 10:41. Number 10168 for me. Peonies in bloom nearby , TFTC.

9980. Today was the beginning of another South Island road trip. This time the plan was to pick up geotour caches on Banks Peninsula before heading over to the West Coast. We also have a lot of Adventure Labs to target in far flung towns during the trip. I flew down with geocaching buddy Infoferret to work on a lot of mutually interesting caches and share the costs of a rental car. We stopped here as this cache had a lot of favourites. IF was attracted to the flowers in the nearby field. I now remember this cache (that is a the problem when you start logging finds 250+ caches later after the road trip is finished). It took a bit of searching but the sharped eyed member of our team spied it and soon had the cache in hand. All good here. Thanks TheWanglers for hiding the cache here.

My Mum's weekend away started with cake for lunch in Tai Tapu. Then with hours to make the short journey to Akaroa it was time for some caches. I was able to hand pick which caches I felt like stopping for as I had nothing planned and unfortunately nothing loaded on the GPSr. This one seemed like a straight forward one and with space to park mentioned I decided to give it a go. I'm not sure I would want all caches to be this sneaky but I do enjoy the odd one like this. So glad it wasn't the first of this style hide I had found because it blended in well with what was around it. Good hint and cache, no wonder it has so many fav points.

Third cache of weekend away, found log to come after I get home.

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Not sure why but walked backwards and forwards passed this cache several times before spotting the cleverly concealed hide. TFTC

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

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Took a bit longer than should have. Nice hide. TFTC

Very cool hide here. Took a few minutes to register. The busy road made it difficult to concentrate. Thanks for the placement

Nice camo..I dont why but these catch me out to often cache all good ..replaced as found thanks Thewranglers

An easy find! Original hide, thanks team TheWanglers. (Apologies if this is a double Found It - I had logged this offline on my phone but it didn't stick somehow.)

A quick find. TFTC

Another innovative hide. Definitely stick to the white

Team BOP on another crazy mission to the South Island. Lockdown gave us a lot of free time that we directed into Canterbury’s many Geo-Arts and with the Auckland 2020 Mega postponement, Christchurch was an easy decision. Team BOPs current incarnation is DavidsonClan, NZFlossy, McJandals and myself and we’ve signed all the logs as Team BOP to save time and log space.

So it's Labour Weekend 2020, it’s a numbers mission and today we're here having a wander around Akaroa. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords, a straight forward placement and a good hint. A good find to end the day with - didn't fool us at all - Cheers TheWranglers & TFTC

With the Mega Covid cancelled this year a part of Team BoP decided to come south and try get all our solved puzzles, and some others along the way. So here we are!

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

As Auckland Mega has been postponed we decided to do a trip south to Christchurch. Four of us from Team BOP joined up to share a car and accomodation. I always love these weekends as the company is great and makes our days and nights out caching lots of fun. We have done lots of puzzles in preparation and did some long windy roads to get them. Found lots of great caches and thanks to all the COs for the effort that goes into these Please excuse the copied logs and I will try to make some individual notes on as many as I can This sort of trip is where I find the cachly app very valuable. TFTC

Cheeky one

Found it, log completely sodden

Sneaky wee hide, took a while to click and just decided to check on my way leaving lol. Tftc

Really cool hide! Didn’t sign as super wet log. Still a favourite though. Photo for evidence.

TFTC nice hide log not in best condition but still holding up

Realising that we were looking for a classic Wanglers' camo here, the cache was quickly found. The log is frayed and fragile, so we added a piece of sticky backing paper to provide some extra support. TFTC!

Had a quick stop on my way back from Akaroa. Definitely needed the description to find it. Great idea appreciate having a bit of a difference to the normal container.
Thanks for inventing and hiding.

Second crack at this one. Found quickly great hide thks

One of a few caches we located today on a day trip from Christchurch to Akaroa return. Heading back to Christchurch at this point and picking up two or three on the way. Found this one reasonably quickly. Nifty hide! #2920. TFTC.

First stop on family convoy to Akaroa. What a great day! TFTC

Wow, a very clever hide. For once we read the description before we started searching and it turned out that was a good idea. TFTC .

A very sneaky little cache at the GZ. The additional hint was helpful in locating the hide. TFTC

Great hide, quickly found. TFTFC

Great find

Awesome hide! TFTC

Very cheeky hide.

Very cleaver hide - yep definitely read the description - TFTC

As soon as I read the description I knew where to look. A nice easy find.

Driving through to Little River for a weekend vacation. Pulled in here and seeker out cache. Sneaky but clever find, thank you!

tricky hide and one that could have taken a while if Mr BCD was not with me tftc

Today we made a trip over the Peninsula, beginning in Littleton, then Governors Bay, Diamond Harbour, Port Levy, Pigeon Bay, Okains Bay, Robinson Bay, Arakoa, and then back to Christchurch in order to see that many sightseeing points along the road. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches, too. The weather was beautiful, sunny, very warm, a little bit cloudy, and only sometimes there was some wind.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had to drive their cars on the not too easy roads on the Peninsula.

Thanks to TheWanglers for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Guardian (Canterbury). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 4. Oktober 2018 @ 19:26 Uhr @ [#11807](https://coord.info/GC5AGX5)

Quick stop on our way to South. Nice hide. TFTC.

17:22
FITW GreenMenace
Found with the waning daylight, luckily, the things in question are white and bright!
Where's the Guardian, who's the Guardian, and what is it guarding, remains unsolved

Awesome cache! TFTC!
#6132

No rain, no work, perfect reason to go on a caching adventure! A lot of fun except one cut on the finger ad one poke into the eye. 200km in the car, which involved a slight backtrack for an unexpected errand, and 20k steps. Overall a very nice day! Thanks to all the CO's for placing and maintaining the caches!! Cool

Log has been replaced by tandem. Cheers

Very nice cache that took some time until the light went on. Replaced the full log. Many thanks.

Nice quick find. Logic told me that something wasn't quite as it should be there! Thanks for the hide.

The log is very fragile, and full. Needs replacing, TeamWanglers. Sorry didn't have anything suitable on me when I found it.

Ha, took a bit of working out... but found it!

Crafty hide, gets a fave from us. Log is disintegrating and full so couldn’t sign so took photo of log as proof. Wow this road is busy when you are just standing there! TFTC

Out on a Sunday drive to put me into space

Gotcha .have one of these at home waiting to be placed didn't take to long to find tftc

In CHCH for a few days whilst jgirl1880 completes a course for work. Cache found easily but log book full and wet, needs replacing

No room in the log book. Also very wet and falling apart. Nice easy find.

Cunning!!

Combination of title and hint made this straightforward. TFTC

Very good

Liked this one (fav)

Clever hide! Found with beginner cachers Sarah, Flynn, and William! TFTC! Thunderboltnz1

Ahhhhhhh ha, sneaky sneaky. Took a while and got distracted but finally managed to get the log signed. Nice one, cheers. I wonder that makes the paddock a quarantine zone though?

TFTC. Out finding caches on a rainy day. Quick find if you know Mr W's way of constructing caches. Log is full. (This and the nearby wet cave cache.)

Had a look but couldn't see anything of interest.

No luck for me.

No luck today

Nice hide but lidless and soggy. Thanks

Had us thinking for a bit, then something wasn't quite right and there it was. Worth a fav. TFTC!!!

drive in sunday today. found the cache in good condition. thanks for the box, rolofant

Fun hide. TFTC

I like these ones nice job on the container

Quick easy find at the start of a great days caching. Tftc

Enjoying holidaying down South with tmann421. More wet weather today.

A nice quick find for us. TFTC

On holiday with just-Lookin.
We found this cache fairly quickly tonight - nicely hidden here.
*Rain still falling!*
SL TFTC

Not a quick find for me at all. I find these ones where your in full view of the public whizzing by hard to do and I'm keen to move on after a quick look. Reading through the logs it looks as if it is worth coming back another time that I'm in Chch.

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Quick find.

En guarde!

TFTC [:)[

Very nicely done. A fav for us. NINO TFTC

Easy find thanks

Good hide just had to think outside the square

Found on way to Akaroa for the night

On a road trip to Akaroa for a bit of well deserved R & R.

A quick park and grab find.

#5215

Found this cache on our 4 week round trip through New Zealand. on the way from Akaroa to Hanmer Springs.
Greetings from Germany
TFTC
Cache # 17

On a quick evening cache finding expedition. Knew the cache would be one of a couple of possible hides, in a couple of possible locations. Cache was found straight away. Thanks for the cache.

In Christchurch for a few days. An evening drive out this way with 2womble. Soon had the cache in my hands. Thanks for the cache.

Nice quick find on a Saturday drive. Weather was rather windy today with rain expected. Tftc

This entry was edited by AlfT & Co on Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 09:34:12 UTC.