Racing Ryan (Canterbury) Darfield, South Island, New Zealand
By LuckySteaks on 01-Nov-21. Waypoint GC9HZKX

Have never been in this part of town and had some time available. Nice area. TFTC

Yep easy find GPS had us at a different bench - TFTC

thanks

Tftclovely estate

Checked on Ryan today. All good.

When you find the right place to look its very easy! A lovely day to sit and admire the view. Cold when youre not in the sun though!

Having solved a few Mystery caches in the area, a last minute decision was made along with Reschedule to fly to Christchurch for Queens birthday weekend.A last minute rush at home before flying to solve some more mysterys, but that still wasnt enough, so after finally arriving at 11pm, out with the laptops to solve a few more.Saturday morning we set out with a goal, to set a new personal best. Having seen what numbers others did in the area, that shouldnt be too hard. We had some targets in mind, Eclipse, Skelly, Smurfs along with any traditionals and other random mystery caches we come across.We aquired the best vehicle for the job, a rental car! Overall we thorouhly enjoyed it, but we did not quite complete it all, so we will be back. TFTC and thanks for giving us an excuse to head for Christchurch!

Having solved a bunch of mysteries over the past couple of months, including the night before finding them. A spontaneous trip down was made by Kiwi Does Stuff and team Reschedule to collect some Canterbury caches. We have headed out to set ourselves a personal best for a days caching. The perfect caching wagon (a rental car) has been acquired allowing us to go anywhere with ease.All of the caches have made for an enjoyable weekend to remember and resulted in a solid and best days caching.Apologies for the generic log, all caches signed are a mixture of Res, Resch & Reschedule - a big thanks to the CO for creating, placing and maintaining all of their caches. TFTC!

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Took a bit longer than I thought it would but just a bit sneaky. TFTC

But if a little longer walk from town than expected but the weather's.lively and nice to stretch the legs. TFTC

Ok, one more coffee before we hit the road for real this time! A little further to walk than first anticipated but a nice day for it. TFTC

Found on this beautiful day GPs led us straight to the cacheGreat hide Thank you for the cache and bringing us here

*Catching up on some missed logs* We picked up our new van yesterday, and as GeoHubby (GNARwhal) needed to pick up some tools that he had purchased we decided it was a great time to do some caching, and park up for a coffee made in the back of the van (which will be converted to a convertible campervan. Cache took a few minutes of searching to find. Reading through previous logs helped to identify hunting options. Thanks for the cache.

On a mission with That Darn Bear and youngest GeoKiddo collecting random old tools. Just had to grab a few along the way !

Fairly quick find, which was good because it's freezing out there! Tftc

Soon had cache in hand and were back in the car quick smart as its freezing out here.

A quick easy find once on the right side of the beach. TFTC

A long walk from the swimming pool to get here. While my friend was swimming and then I couldn't find it.

Found with Gummi_Venus. Took a few minutes to locate the partially hidden hint item. Reading logs helped. Thanks for bringing us here. This is a nice neighborhood.

Found with ObnoxiousSpaceCat, we were initially searching near the wrong things. Nice to see lots of bees in the Hebe bushes. TFTC!

Found it with a friend.swapped the wee gift

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#22859. Decided to take advantage of an alleyway to save a roundabout drive. Took a bit of searching to locate. Our first visit to this new subdivision. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a lovely sunny winters day as we travel back to Christchurch after finishing gracie7+Mum's Skelly series.
It was a bit of a detour to make this into a drive by, so instead we parked on Horndon St near the start of a walkway between this street and Landsborough Drive. A pleasant walk in the sun and soon we were at GZ. Lots of potential hiding places so we appreciated the hint (though the hint object was well hidden itself!). TFTC.

I flew in from Northland, for an ice swimming weekend at Lake Lyndon, and since passing through, thought it would be rude not to stop and say hello to a friend formerly from Northland. And also to grab this cache next to the park with their namesake! I was racing the quickly fading daylight to grab this one last cache before heading home. Thanks for the cache!

Thanks Ryan

It was raining

Oscar found it

**#18,021**
We had spotted a few other North Islanders make a personal 24hr find record so we took note of the general caches found and made a plan to try our luck, our previous best was 172, our aim was "more than Yeti", check out GC6PRMW once we have logged them all to see how we did...
Racing around we were, in the middle of the night,good hint made for a relatively quick find.

Today I got up early and hit the road to see how many caches I could find between Christchurch and Springfield. The weather was quite good, not too hot and not too cold. I really enjoyed my time exploring the back roads of Canterbury. Found in the second place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

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Darfield is my destination today. The forecast rain isn't far away. After checking into my motel I went out for a drive. No worries here. TFTC

We raced over the road found it,signed it,and raced back to the Cachmobile.TFTH

Haha, if you scroll down you will a previous post of me saying I did not find it well never mind I kept trying a got it TFTC

Found it very sneaky

Found after reading previous logs. TFTC

Definitely worth reading old logs here. The hint item is almost invisible! Plenty of bigger examples about - ignore them. One in particular is showing signs of wear and tear.

Once I had that sorted it was a very quick find and I was off to look for a nemesis cache (DNF'd in 2017). Yes, I found that too. Phew!

TFTC LuckySteaks
Find number 4893

(Logs signed Rincewind3 or R3 if saving space. Occasionally signed BRN if caching as a team with *B*o&bronnie, *R*incewind3 and *N*otManlyJack)

Nice spot for a rest. Tftc

A relatively quick find with ZEALOG cache all good tftc

Woohoo! Thank you!

Well this was a challenge, fotunately it was quiet because we had to search really hard until Bitsprayer let out a shout.
Thanks
erninz

Took a few minutes to track down logs helped, look for very small grass. Thanks Bitsprayer

Dnf

Dw I found it
Merry Christmas

Change in flight plans meant we had a spare to geocache. What a shame! Quick find today

Well, this is a nice side of town with huge sections and lovely big houses. We found the cache after a few minutes of looking. One of the hint objects is pretty small and unrecognizable but we eventually decided to look there for a successful find. Our 9300th find.

Due to the the COVID-19 pandemic it has been four years since we last made the long trip from California to New Zealand to visit our kiwi kin. In addition to enjoying our time together we are enjoying finding some geocaches, too.

When I first visited the cache I searched and searched with no luck. Today I returned, bringing with me a local expert who led me right to it. The local expert is my four-year old granddaughter.


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Always nice to find a cache when I may have not been there still. Found an item that matched clue and soon had cache. Thanks.

Scratched around for a while but came up empty handed..

Still here. Safely under its wee tussock.

Had our lunch here. TFTC.

That was crazy was here for one hour. Love your work dude keep it up!

Nice

Mabey go and check if it is still there I have looked and looked and I'm starting to think it has blown away or something. I am going to bring an expert with me tomorrow to see if can find it if not please go and check if it is still there as it could have been picked up or blow away,thanks

I looked and looked but I will try again tomorrow

A bit quiet this avo up here so no worries about muggles, took a while to find but there it was. Cheers

well I missed this one last time. No problems today.

As I headed towards Christchurch I noticed that this cache "pop up" on my gps. So, after what seemed like a great Tiki Tour of the back roads of Darfield I ended up GZ. After having to wait out a muggle exercising her muttle to clear the area, the cache was quickly found. TFTC LuckySteaks.

Cache was a quick and easy find which surprised us after reading previous logs.

You just need to get the correct hint item and the find is easy peasy!! Found with Lyttletonwitch who came up with the magic words! TFTC, - nice new developing area.

Dnf, although there was an empty plastic container in bushes where cache supposedly was so could’ve been that.

Checked on Ryan. He’s having a rest in his usual hiding spot. Ready to go. Happy caching.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Sure its not there.

Spent ages looking - nothing found

This one took a little longer as I started on the very other side... TFTC!!

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I have a day off today so I decided to go out and find some geocaches. Jude_E and I drove up one side of the Waimak and down the other, stopping a few times on the way.
Thanks for hiding this cache LuckySteaks I appreciate it.

Despite working in Darfield for 28 years, I never drove along this road so it was an interesting side trip to look for a cache. Good to have a couple of new caches in the area. Hope you do some more! Thanks. #7685

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A nice wee diversion for a quick grab. The only muggle in sight was a dog barking over the road. TFTC

Ryan must have had the day off? Nowhere to be seen and the streets all-clear, in fact, a very quiet neighbourhood during our visit. Funny how the houses at the end of the street do not have a letterbox beside the house? Cache quickly found; TFTC

Great find no fairies here though. Have a walk in mchughs forest to find some.

Thanks for the specific hint.

Found by my Son on a family walkaround. TFTC

Quick find caching around Darfield

Easy

I must've struck Ryan during his rest period - very pleased I didn't have to hang around and wait till he returned from his circuit. TFTC # 17,835

Nice quiet find.TFTC

Daughter wanted some farm work wear so we took a ride out to Darfield. Thought we may as well grab this cache while we are here. It was a quick find in the rain. TFTC.

First of the day on the way to Hokitika. Didn't race to get Racing Ryan but didn't hang around in the drizzle either. Tftc

A nice quick find on a drizzly old day, thanks.

Ms_KR and I are off on a wee jaunt to the West Coast, to climb another mountain!

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

I nearly missed the find as the GPS kept looking at the wrong hint item!!! However My other half thankfully spotted the hide. Saw a part of Darfield I never knew existed. So thank you LS we enjoyed the chase.

Out this way for lunch and had a chance to look for this one. It was a quick find in the rain thankfully and Diddy get to wet. TFTH

The older we get the harder it is to find caches that we can find easily. We managed this one quite well. TFTC

**FTF** 930am
Spotted the new publication too late last night. A nice enough morning so popped out before the day got busy. Lovely spot. Thanks.

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