Mandeville Sports Centre - Mandeville (Canterbury) Waimakariri District, South Island, New Zealand
By OllyandPete on 26-Dec-22. Waypoint GCA38JE

Haven't been over this way for a while, looking like the place getting prepped for cricket tomorrow. Cheers

Great three days in the area, many thanks for the cache . - Bitsprayer

Found on a nice drive in the area. Enjoying the caches

Found with my wife

Thanks for hiding this cache OllyandPete I appreciate it. ?? JD Scout and I went to a ?? ?? ?? with our family at Untouched World in Roydvale. We decided to take a major detour on the way home ?? and find your cache.

Maddie & blake did

On a mission to have a it a cache clean up of the Rangiora general area. Well, at least the chances I can solve/find Quick find here.

Good find. Good spot lots of potential places for it to be

Found it! Took a minute as there were a few fallen trees but got there in the end found with ThatDarnBear

Out today with MomsOB finding some caches for my Bakers Dozen challenge. Quick easy find. TFTC

Out doing caches in the area. TFTC

TFTC. Which fallen tree, though?

As everyone says which fallen tree great hide tftc to the next Sally

Good find multiple spots that met the hint cleaver

A nice quick find today and I was muggled by Team Gaters. We had a quick catchup, and then went our separate ways. Last for our expedition! Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are out and about around Christchurch today. A nice day for a drive around the north of the Waimak.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Had a bit if a gap in the day so thought that I would head out and find a cache or two.Plenty of cricket on in the fields next door, managed to park closeish and wander to gz......where i made a quick find and sign as it was in the hands of KarmaReprint! Nice to have a catch up!Thanks.

Quick find on a cold day.

Nice quick find on a Grey, damp day. Tftc

Friday arvo find! Awesome

TFTC, hot morning caching with Blood Red Owl

Quick find, TFTC

Nice. TFTC.

A quick find while out geocaching with Busypaws on a very warm day

Quick find In the shade on a really hot day. Cache safe and dry, found with LW. TFTC

#23232. We wondered whether we would find somewhere to (legally) park close to GZ, and were pleased when the no parking lines ended just after turning the corner. There were a few hint objects at GZ but the cache was quickly spotted. TFTC.

This cache was a short detour en route to Oxford and beyond, so we decided to stop and look for it. Being a Saturday morning, we thought that it might be rather busy but all good, just a a couple of joggers and one other car spotted.GZ looked a bit daunting but StreetWalkerNZ found it in the first place searched, even before my GPSr had time to settle!What a great sports complex this is. Thanks for your first hide, OllyandPete, looking forward to more . TFTC.

16:06 Grumpy man alert! As I was logging in the logbook, a man cam round the corner of the nearby fence, and as he was passing me by, he grumpily asked "what are you doing here?". I didn't have any good excuse planned, and I was literally holding the logbook and pen in my hand and I simply said "finding a geocache!"The man grumbled "ok", rolled his eyes and carried on.Congrats on your 100 finds a year ago! I am finding 8 caches today to be ready for my 10000th one tomorrow at my event! And this is the 3rd to last left to find today.Kia ora! Paldies! Thanks for the cache, OllyandPete!#9996

TFTC

Found on this cool morning great hide Thank you for the cache

Was fun.

Found it! Easy! Dog friendly spot too.

Great little hide as I prepare for another cricket season! Tftc!

Unable to sign log as I had no pen. Nice wee find. TFTC

Found nicely tucked away did take a few seconds to get it out of its hidey hole

A quick visit this morning for a relatively quick find after the GPS settled. TFTC!!

Was a quick find. Tftc!

A nice quick find here. TFTC.

Coordinates spot on. Thanks.

Last cache for the day. A well hidden cache. Many thanks! #9046

Quick find.

Was very well hidden. TFTC.

Well that took a while. Was very well hidden indeed. Tftc

No luck today.

I spent quite a bit of time checking all of the hint items, with no luck. It is obviously still there as it has been found since I looked!

Next time.......

A quick easy find among the trees. TFTC

The hint is accurate but I wonder if it's still in the original hiding place; TFTC

Found it, a group of 6 enjoyed the walk and found it pretty fast, great spot. 10/10

A lovely first hide found in a lovely spot on a hot day out. TFTH

Came in here after going to the Ohoka Market,and had a Picnic Lunch.No one about and it was quickly found.TFTH

Arrived mid afternoon and had the place to ourselves except for a tractor mowing!! Stepped back from the trees to get a clear reading on the Montana, and what was that glinting in the sun???--- So a very quick find and one we really enjoyed. A sports ground deluxe, that's for sure!!! Thank you.

Out and about for a drive with Mrs Biggles. We stopped along the way to find a couple of caches. Kids on the grounds playing cricket. Far enough away from the cache not to be a problem. Coordinates spot on so the cache was found pretty much in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

A very busy place, lots of sports being played. Well away from where we needed to be. Took some time to find the right spot. Well hidden. TFTC

Fish and chips night. Oh wait a new cache. Beaten by balded. Tftc

Published

As I was getting prepared to ride with my local Monday morning cycling group I received notification of this new cache. The ride initially took us all in the complete opposite direction to Mandeville but then looped back to follow up the north bank of the Waimakariri and lead us all toward South Eyre Road before planning to turn northwards to the cafe at Silverstream. At that stage, seeing I was only about 4km in a direct line from the cache, I decided to leave the group and head for the cache, foregoing my morning coffee.

Some 12 or 13 minutes later I was at GZ. After a brief foray at another downed tree my gps finally settled and I homed in on the cache at 11:00am. After unrolling the log I was surprised to find that I had just obtained my 2nd FTF for the year. Yea.[^] Thanks for placing your 1st cache OllyandPete. I look forward to finding more of your caches. Cheers.