Travelling Tinker - Mystery #1 (Canterbury) Starvation Hill, South Island, New Zealand
By TheWanglers and Team_Gaters on 01-Nov-14. Waypoint GC5FVE7

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi TheWanglers

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Found somewhere where it probably should have been, but not here. Think it may have been yoinked.

Cache missing.

Not found, nothing at sign

Unable to locate sorry.

Did not find. Cache may be gone

Bugger! It was obvious where this should be but its not and then I checked the previous logs and confirm its no longer there.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Easy find

??

Thanks!

TFTC good and easy find

Looked in the usual place for this cache and could see where it had been, then read the last couple of logs and found where it was hidden. Unfortunately another Tinker cache that has succumbed to time and needs a check up. tftc

Finding a few caches with drawp, although they had already found this previously. Logbook was dry to to ongoing dry weather but cache is almost non-existent as per previous log. TFTC

Found the bottom half of the tin and the logbook on the ground. It is in a bad way so I took a photo as proof of the find.
Cache is now at the base under a pine cone. TFTC.

Container no lid,rusty and buckled. Log wet. Just managed date and initials. TFTC.

Quick find today as it was at GL
Thanks
erninz

Found on ground no lid bit damp put back up. Bitsprayer

It was promising to be a nice crispy winter's day, so i decided to go out a bit to explore. Luckily cache hidden like the others in the series and not in trees, so found safe and sound! TFTC!!

Trees all cut down couldnt find it

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 4 Wakari to Ashley Gorge 54 caches found including 1 of the targets. Last stop before my home for tonight. Thank you for the placement.

A quick find as we drove towards Oxford. Thanks for placing the cache. #3431

Quik find thank you

Apology for the very late online log. I found this sitting in my drafts. I remember this day, we were out visiting friends in Oxford. We grabbed this one on the way home to Rangiora. TFTC!

We were in Christchurch for a few days to help one of my sisters celebrate a significant birthday. With the celebrations over we were heading for home with the plan of finding a few caches along the way.

Neither of us have been along this road before, so it was great to be able to have a bit of time to explore the area courtesy of the cache owners who have placed caches that enable us to stop and have a look around.

Gk found this one and soon had signed the log and returned it as he had found it. I would have loved to have found this series before the tins rusted, as they hold loads of memories for us.

Thank you for placing the cache and of course thank you for the smilie.

Wow, I haven't been up here since about 2010 so a few caches to get, including the first TT. Cheers

Heading home after an awesome 3 days hiking the mt Thomas tracks staying at bobs biv and pinchgut hut would be rude not to grab a few p&g's after all that walking.

Didn't even turn the truck off for this one. ..easy tftc

Quick easy find on our way past after lunch in Oxford. Thanks for placing and maintaining the cache.

Quick easy find TFTC

Nice

Great find while visiting the area t4tc

Thanks for the series

Checked. Still there

Dnf

I found some of this series about 3 years ago, when they were quite new.
Ambling around N Canty today, Easter Saturday, which started out warm & sunny - but now is cooler & cloudy.
This one was a bit of a mystery to me, too.

A quick cache and dash whilst passing. Thank-you TheWanglers for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Out caching with Will of the Wisp on our “Round the World in 80 Days” trip to celebrate retirement. Signing logs with our names or initials depending on space. Greetings from England, TFTC.

#15184. We've found enough of these to know the usual hiding place, but the cache wasn't there. After a bit of rooting around I spotted the cache on the ground. Whew! There was a magnet in place, which made me think that a strip had been added to attach it to. The strip was soon spotted, and the cache was left in its intended hiding place. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker on a jaunt to Oxford, Ashley Gorge and Glentui, mopping up a few caches in the area.
We couldn't find the cache where we expected it to be so we were looking at a 3rd DNF for the morning but luckily SW spotted it on the ground, which was pretty good going as it was well camouflaged (rust brown against brown dirt). There was a lot of water in the tin, but the log book was in surprisingly good shape, so we signed it and replaced the cache in the obvious place. I hope it will stay put. TFTC.

A fun find lots of character

Nice cache. Thanks.

Tftc

Found Rusty

Found it

Nice n easy find

Visiting from Brisbane with Slow Puncture for the Oamaru Geofest, and we're seeing all the wonderful sights the South Island has to offer as we travel along. Day 5: An early start as we ventured out of Christchurch in a big loop hunting challenges, solved GeoArt, and older caches. We were stunned by the beautiful views of the Alps across the farmland of Canterbury Plains.


Thanks for the hunt **TheWanglers and Team_Gaters**, this find makes #4397. Discover our TB

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Tuesday. Slow Puncture has teamed up with Orange Crew to make a Moreton Bay assault on the Oamaru Geofest. Day Five saw us take a large loop out from Christchurch, West towards the snow-capped mountains, before returning and doing some urban caching within Christchurch itself.

This was the 63rd of 71 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***TheWanglers***, for showing us this place.

Found while at a retreat at nearby Glentui. Tftc

Good spot

Nice and easy to find on a good drive to the gorge.

Nice and easy on the sign

20 Geocaches in One Day. My biggest day caching ever. I wanted a good leg-stretch so I climbed Mt Thomas up the summit track and came down the Wooded Gully track, finding pretty much every cache along the way. Cool breeze. Nice views from the top through patchy cloud. Lovely bush on the way down. Found a few more on the drive home to make up 20. Cheers to every cache owner for placing and maintaining these.

After tea I went for a short walk from the nearby camping ground. Found in the usual type of place for this series.

Jess.daphne, OrangePeel104 and I spent a fantastic sunny summer day caching our way to Ashley Gorge. We grabbed this one along the way and signed the log as JeJeOp. Neat series. Tftc.

Found with Injeanious and Orangepeel104, we spent the day picking up caches on our way to Ashley gorge for a swim. We signed the log as JeJeOp to save space.
TFTC!

Got it with Jess.Daphene and Ingeanous! Team signing JeJeOP. TFCT:-)

Great spot, thanks!

Sweet day for a spot of caching with Boatmanandy and Nikki

It's day one of the new year. It's picnic time with grandchildren. It's 30 degrees in the shade. It's a great swimming hole. The kids are swimming, ahem, under supervision - so a half kilometre walk gains this. Thankyou.

Found it

20/12/2016 2:23:00 PM
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A beautiful day, and a baby that needed to be sleeping, so I decided to head off for a drive to try get her off to sleep, and find some caches too. Multi tasking!! - Leaving the house is easier to get her to sleep - either by walking with her or driving, so perfect excuse to give hubby for all my caching now! Haha!

Managed to get 17 in the end - not too bad! Most were pretty easy too! Plus baby had 2 sleeps! A 45 min one, and then slept the whole way home from the last cache, and is still sleeping as I'm doing the logging! Whooo!

ANother quickie.

TFTC!!

TFTC and seeing your tin

Found on a nice day in the area

Great cache.

Good hiding spot!

Easy find

Cool hide

Tftc

A nice quick find after a picnic lunch at the beautiful Ashley Gorge reserve. No idea what the tin might have been used for originally but Mr Gruffalo loves this kind of challenge and is determined to find out! TFTC!

Love these tin caches. TFTC

A quick find in a lovely morning, cute tin! Will have to look for the others now!

A quick easy find down memory lane with a favourite from us, but we can't help with solving the mystery. TFTC

A quick find this morning while in the area. Wasn't able to sign log as I had forgotten my pen but I dropped of a tb so it can continue its journey. TFTC

Bring a pencil. Small little cache. Just do it. You'll love this one. Tftc

??????

Found it !

The kids spotted this but too little to reach. Crood Dad made a dash for it between traffic and was signed and returned in no time. No idea on the tin type but certainly well sealed. Tftc

Another find TFTC

Nice easy find that we could see from the other side of the road. Quick sign and on our way again.

Nice and easy find.tftc

quick find with chelzea and sevren

Just where it should be. Great P&G.

Another Tinker off our list. TFTC.

Back for a few more tinkers

On a bit of a clean up mission, picking up some horses we missed a couple of days ago. The Chief has his eye on a challenge cache and this cache was on the way. TFTC

Another great find with Just-Lookin.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of our MEGA trip.

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

Heading towards the Christchurch Mega with tmann421.

Really enjoying the area. Had lots of fun collecting this series and the interesting containers.

TFTC and such a great series TheWanglers

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TFTC

On a trip south visiting friends and family on the long weekend, and out finding a few local caches as time permits. A rather cold day up this way today.

TFTC

ah, I see. Thanks

Maybe a tin given to guests to put a piece of wedding cake in to take away. TFTC

Taking young friends on holiday walk. .1st cache for them

Love this area. When I were a young fella, crashed my bike into the bridge during a race. First rie in an ambulance. TFTC.

Out on an Easter Cache hunt where it was all about the numbers.
Day 1. Left Nelson at 6am. Know how to hold em completed by lunch. Collected a few between Kumara and Arthurs Pass and then it was time to put the GPS away and head to the camping ground to put up the tent.

Home for the next two nights sorted and so it was time to collect a few nearby caches.

My first of the Tinker series. I'm going to like these ones I reckon.
TFTC

#3 of the tinker series found during today's road trip out to Oxford. Thanks for the cache.

Found it.

Good find. Forgot yo log last time TFTC

First day out caching for a year or so. Collecting all along the road from Loburn. TFTC.