Opening Day Little River Rail Trail (Canterbury) Ataahua, South Island, New Zealand
By lytteltonwitch on 28-May-06. Waypoint GCW93Z

It took me more than a few minutes to work out what was going on here and to find the cache. The coordinates pointed me to a place that I felt did not match the hint or the terrain rating so I investigated several wrong places first. Eventually, I did go further from the track and higher than I thought I would need to. It was a pleasant surprise to see the cache come into view. It is always great to find a cache that has been in place longer than I have been geocaching.

Great find with kids

Had to wait for our return to find this as workers nearby on outward leg. Needed to read previous logs, higher than expected

Found it alright .....by reading 3 previous logs. It is a good 10 metres away from the fence heading back toward the cycle trail. You can do it....probably 10 metres from the track as well. tftc

Followed the arrow and then also a bit of a trail through the grass for a nice quick find. Nice to find such an old cache. TFTC # 20,844

Start small go larger. TFTC. Love this area

Took 3 of us 30 min to find. Is more like 10m from track and about 3m above. Cleared the vegetation off the 3rd rock so all 3 are visible. Just need to brush the vegetation to one side to see the crevasse and container.

What a beautiful spot to stop by. Did the short walk and enjoyed it a lot. We seem to be bar searcher though and came up empty handed. Thanks for showing us this location anyway!

no luck today...

The cache is still there and in good condition. I might look at upping the terrain rating slightly. Note the third boulder is now hidden under some bushy growth. I noticed that there is now phone coverage here which is good as I previously have had to use my offline function

Found it but no pencil so unable to sign as I didn't have a pen. Will come back at some point with pen---

Cache is still there, didn't have any trouble finding it. Followed the GPS and it was as the hint described. My GPS was very accurate with all my caches today which it isn't always but definitely helps a lot. Thanks for the cache lyttletonwitch.

Couldn’t find anything! Lots of good potential hiding spots though. Started spitting so gave up

No luck for us but many potential spots

Nothing here

TFTC kids had fun looking for this one, great location

Found it while doing the Little River cycle track. TFTC!

On the trail with my little one.

beautiful trail with a nice sunny day to grab few
TFTC

Nice little hide. Wonder what the story is with that cool little brick hut.

Thanks!

11:11
FITW ObnoxiousSpaceCat, Kozjah

Found on a nice day out, "teaching" a newly made geocacher. A new geocacher? Newly new? Something.
I wonder what that little brick "hut" was used for.

IN - Latvian santīms

Kia ora! Paldies!
TFTC, lytteltonwitch!
#8794

Left Akaroa today and headed back towards chch. Decided to do the rail trail on the return trip. Managed to find some parking for the caravan and then we set off on our bikes.
This was a bit further off the track than I expected and there are so many rocks. I luckily spotted it and made the find. Cycle shoes are not good on rocks.
TFTC

Found while riding the track. Nice hiding spot. Soon located and had the log signed. TFTC

Tftc. Very tricky find. Easy once u work out what rocks they are. A bit more like ten metres off the track

Found on today's 34 km bike ride from Little River to Kaituna and return. Nice quick find at the end of the first leg of our journey. TFTC lytteltonwitch.

As we are now in level 2 from 8th September geocaching is now permitted again

Disabled as we are in lockdown and geocaching is not a permitted activity during lockdown. Didn't think that I would have to disable caches that are not easy to get to without driving but too many idiots ignoring level 4 rules

Found on a cold, wet July day.. no pencil in the cache, so I signed it with a stick, and have sent photo proof to CO. Tftc

Coming to GZ just after sundown meant the find was not quite straightforward, but all good after a short scramble. TFTC!

Found it took some finding also there’s a cool little cave here

Day #6 of my Geotour.
Geraldine to Akaroa via Ashburton, Burnham, Lincoln and now Birdlings Flat.
Hitting the Rail Trail before heading on to Little River.
I managed to solve 16 of the Smile series which I was pleased with.

Nice to find and older Traditional in amongst all the Mystery caches.
A good hide.
TFTC

Beautiful sunny day for biking the rail trail to Little River. And of course collecting a few smileys as we go.. Cache is all good. TFTC

Great cache. Thanks.

Took the wee ones for a bike ride today and found a few caches while we were at it. Thanks!

#4 for the morning. A bit more of a scramble than expected but a qef. Tftc

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1909 February 13, 2021 12:09

We are not sure if we had phone reception here as we didn't need it. Caching with the newish GPS and it was proving good, with a quick find here. SoBad tossed the cache to Mrs so she could sign the log - and she tossed it back.
Thanks.

Reception here now so managed to locate this time.

Quick find off the track

Forgot my pen! Miss 4 for tiredso bikef back with Dad while I carried on and they took my pen. TFTC

A lovely day to go out for a bike ride and picnic before the yuck weather starts. We enjoyed our ride and had fun finding this cache. Thanks for brining us here and the cache lytteltonwitch.

Found it a week ago on the way back from Akaroa. TFTC

Had a look around and couldn’t find. There was no reception so may have just have been us.

Checking this beautiful area out via satellite and this one caught out 'eye'. Hope to make it here someday. ThanX for maintaining it.

#17017 14:12

During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!

Today we have found the cache "Opening Day Little River Rail Trail (Canterbury)".

lytteltonwitch, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

nice easy find on a caching adventure with BCD CACHE all safe and secure in perfect condition tftc

Was feeling tired so needed to have a walk

Doing the cycle trail with our GirlGuide group and this was near our lunch stop! TFTC

Weekend trip to Akaroa. Thanks for the hide.

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!! This one took me an undue amount of time to locate, but I collected a good bunch of parsley in the process!

Wow it was a windy ride. TFTC

Tftc. No cell reception at GZ

Second last one for the day. It's been a successful little bike ride. Thanks for placing a cache here.

I came out for a ride on the bike with my 4 year old boy. We had to stop and find a few caches along the way of course. Lovely day but a bit of a Nor'West breeze. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain their caches. Find # 1628

Out for a bike ride and good to get this cache. Many thanks.

Found but wasn’t planning it so left our cache box in the car bugger good spot tho

We found it - after a morning spent riding the Rail Trail with Mr 6. We stopped at the picnic table for a drink... and one thing led to another - and before we knew it we were caching! Haha! Sadly we didn’t have a pencil, and the pencil/sharpener mentioned are long gone. Thank you for the cache!

A lovely day to be on the cycle trail and this is a great spot for a rest. Found with debsnz

A nice place to stop on the trail with seats, etc and a quick find for us here. Found with AorakiSheep

Had half a day available to do some caching along the rail trail so it was worth a bike ride as there are quite a few caches along here. Found this cache after a short search, it was quite a bit further from the track than the hint suggests.. Signed log, TFTC.

TB !!.... just virtual...let him traaaavel around the world!

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JSando and I were lucky enough to find super cheap tickets to Christchurch in the boxing day sale, so here we are for a long weekend of sightseeing, eating, drinking and or course caching. After leaving the CBD area we headed south, staying at Governors Bay, but having many hours between landing and being able to check in, we headed further south for a small loop of caches before checking in for a rest.
Due to our lack of sleep and the godawful weather, we were looking for reasonably quick finds. This wasn't what we were looking for, but was a great little adventure.
We wandered in from the car park. GZ was clearly going to be through wet, thigh high grass, with rocks all through it, and up a Mountain. It was my turn to make the find, so I stood on the pathway for a long time to make sure my GPS was well settled, preventing the need for any false starts. I began picking my way through the long, thick, wet grass, tripping over rocks and losing my footing frequently. I finally made it to the bottom of the mountain and steeled myself for the mammoth climb ahead of me. I began by leaving a trail of breadcrumbs on the steadiest of the rocks used in my climb, in an attempt at making my descent easier and safer. I made it almost to the top and as I looked down, I see JSando and a team of clowns holding a net, running left and right, left and right while yelling out that they'd catch me, and a little critter scrambling over the rocks below me, eating up my breadcrumb trail. I turned back to the mountain and spotted the cache and began to manoeuvre myself into position to grab it. I was standing precariously with my legs spread wide, with my right foot standing on a very small flat section, about 5cm sq, of one rock and my left foot balanced on a sharp pointed piece of another rock, straddling a yawning abyss with no perceivable bottom. I reached forward and grabbed the cache, and signed the log. Upon returning the cache to it's rightful place, I turned around to begin my descent. The breadcrumb eating critter was long gone, as were my trail markers. With a poof of smoke, the clowns and net disappeared, leaving JSando standing far far down the mountain alone. Their disappearance startled me and my foot slipped. Oh bugger! I was falling. After falling for what seemed like hours, but was probably only seconds, I landed halfway down the mountain, thankfully missing the abyss, with my sizeable butt wedged into a chasm between two boulders. I stretched out parts of my body to work out what I may have broken, with JSando asking if I was okay, while snorting with laughter. Thankfully, the only thing broken was my pride today. I will have some beautiful bruises to remind me of this cache in days to come.
Thanks for the cache, the location and the adventure.

Thank you so much for bring us to this wonderful location.
Found with carkisser on our weekend away from VIC/AUS. Lets cache on

01/03/2017 11:12:00 AM
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Have been meaning for a while to head out this way and find some of the smile series, but that meant finding a day we weren't busy - no playgroup or anything - and a day it wasn't raining, and preferably not 100 degrees either!

Today looked good - no plans - cooked food in fridge - time to head out! Although it got much hotter than I'd expected by the weather report! - It was meant to be cloudy!

So I strapped the baby to my back and did a few walks in & out of the car. - Save me too much walking & be more efficient! Also to not burn the baby

Agree with previous logs that none of the numbers helped! I only found it after I went much higher than I thought was neccessary.

TFTC!!

SisterCorny travelling Asia and Oceania for four month, now in New Zealand.
Our last day in NZ, flying out of CHC tonight, we drove very slowly from Little River back to the airport, stopping for views, coffee and caches. We had a great time down here and hopefully we will come back in a couple of years...
Very nice area here, but we spent too long: None of the numbers in the hint helped us really, so it was more or less a trying around... But sucessfull in the end. TFTC

Found while on the Little River Cycle trail. TFTC

Was around the area to go to the A&P show with Busy Paws so we decided on out way home after a lovely day out we may as well grab this one too. Walk went far quicker than I expected it to.
TFTC!

A really enjoyable walk from the car park, with Geojessie. TFTC, all safe and dry.

Sunday road trip around the area and a few on the trail.
Heading home and this is the last one after a successful day quick find tftc

Checked on the cache and it is fine. Was going to change hint but realised that I have already put new hint into the description.

As this cache has been found I am enabling it again but will check it when I get home from my travels.

Choc fan and I decided to bike a bit of the rail trail today. After a bit later start than we had hoped for we set off with Mr5 biking and Mr2 in the trailer. We stopped here for a rather late morning tea and a bit of an explore. Mr2 liked the little dynamite hut and didn't want to leave. Co-ordinates were pretty good for us but I sent Mr5 scrambling up the bank. He soon found it so it is there and in good order. Thanks for the hide.

I ran out of time to sort this during the weekend. I will fix it in May when I get back from my trip.

Add another to the DNFs on this cache.

No find for us today

Spent an hour looking. Far too long in 30 C heat. Disappointing. Rocks matched description and GPS range OK.

Biking along the trail. Took a few minutes to find. TFTC

#3974

Today I had decided to do another bike ride signing off a few puzzles that I had solved a while back (nearly two years) and the odd trad that was on the way.

Cheers for the cache.

Cache was found on Day 3 of the NZ MEGA 2015 caching trip, as Gunnie69 and myself headed out towards to Akaroa area with Green Geckos, Kyzabra and Jinta29, to tackle the Smiles Series, before heading back towards Lincoln for a few choice smilies, and then finish off the day at the Mega site, with some lab caches and a few stray caches.

Bit of Mega caching today. Out with a good bunch of Aussies. Great cache. Thank you lytteltonwitch for placing and maintaining this cache.

The Mega weekend was all about puzzles for Ghostgums and I, but when your on the trails, it's hard to walk past the traditionals when you are going within a few metres...

So, while out and about with Jinta29, Kyzabra and The Green Geckos, we paused to scout around for this one and quickly had the cache in hand. With our details added to the log, it was tucked back in place and we carried on to the next. [^]

Cheers DOCRangiora.

Kyzabra and I headed over for the Christchurch Mega from Perth, WA. We teamed up with our caching buddies from Queensland, Gunnie69 and GhostGums for a bulk of the finds. We were joined by The Green Geckos for this leg of our adventure.

A lot of planning was involved with literally hundreds of puzzles solved and we targeted some highly favorited caches as well as those that filled gaps in grids and calenders!

We had a fantastic time caching in the cooler climate and with no fear of snakes or other nasties! Christchurch is my old home town but I did not know about caching when I lived there so it was fun exploring the City with a different objective.

We were glad to grab the smiley on this one and we replaced the container as found. Thanks lytteltonwitch for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

This is my find #4190 and find #17 today.

A caching expedition that has been months in the planning. Jinta29 and I headed over from Perth, and met up with Gunnie69, GreenGeckos and GhostGums from QLD over here.
Our combined brain powers in the months leading up meant we were able to concentrate on the mysteries, and other unique Icons plus a number key D/T combos and jasmar dates.
We have had a ball over here. Personally my first trip to NZ. The cache owners have been great and Ive enjoyed meeting people aling the way.
i apologise in advance for the generic log.

lytteltonwitch - Kyzabra found your cache Opening Day Little River Rail Trail (Canterbury) on 24/10/2015, 9:33 AM. This is my find #4088 and find #16 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

We were all still wandering down the rail trail grabbing caches here and there and having a nice old time.
On the way to this one. we were taken with the carvings in the rock nearby, and after a brief search, the cache was found and we all signed our lives away, then toddled off to the next one.

Thanks lytteltonwitch for the cache.

Cheers

Found while in Christchurch with a bunch of Aussie mates back home.
Ahomburg found this one really quickly so we did our duties and headed off to the next.
Thanks for the fun lytteltonwitch

Found while in Christchurch with a bunch of Aussie mates back home.
Ahomburg found this one really quickly so we did our duties and headed off to the next.
Thanks for the fun lytteltonwitch

troobloo

Date: 20 October 2015
Time: ??
Find #6507

Out and about today with a small aussie contingent of cachers in a pre christchurch mega caching run. Today I was with Skullracing, Coruze, Geo Princess, troo bloo and vk3gs&cc. The aim was to hit the smile series and for the first time in a while I was able to use my GPSR instead of my smartphone which I was happy about. It was a beautiful sunny day, perfect for a bit of a walk.

This was one of the best spots along the trail today. We were lucky enough to find it in the first place I checked.

Thanks to lytteltonwitch for the cache. TNLN

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14th / 15th November 2015 - GC5HCJ8 - Casey Fields - Melbourne Victoria

Nice find on a windy day tftc

Cache has been replaced and it is a worry when the cache owner has trouble finding their own cache.

Interesting spot with a bit of history. Cache contents wet though container looks ok as long as plastic bag is kept clear of the seal.
Thanks

Found with quinella . Log book saturated and past point of repair. Tftc

Mallorcatommy and I were on our journey through the southern island of New Zealand. With the help of geocaches we came to so many beautiful places, saw breath-taking landscapes and had, all in all a very wonderful journey! Thank you to all owners for placing all those nice geocaches!

We are on the road again!

Today we found some very nice geocaches and enjoyed it to walk along every single trail.

Thanks to to all the owner for hiding the caches!

Another find today!! Enjoying the start to my geocache book.

We were looking forward to this trip to New Zealand.
After hours of flight from Belgium we finally arrived, picked up our Road Trip Special and started going.
First we organised a little event to meet the locals. It was a blast and we've met some nice people!
After that we did a whole tour around the South Island in 3 weeks, sleeping in the car or our tent.
It was great!

We slept in the car park the night before and went for the caches today. Got this one fairly quick.
TFTC!

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A quick detour on our bike ride. The cache log is wet but unfortunately as we were on our bikes I didn't have a replacement book. I would be interested to know more about the little kilns (?) back down the road. TFTC

Log book is very wet Too wet to sign. Cheers for the hide

I am returning home in October and will be doing a check on all my caches as soon as it is possible.

A successful find after finding some caches along the Rail Trail. The notebook is very wet & soggy so couldn't log our find in the notebook. As it was around lunch time we found a beautiful sheltered spot in the quarry. We took the container & contents with us in an attempt to dry it out in the warm sun (see photo as proof we found it). Sadly the notebook is too soggy to dry out in a short time. If we had carried another small notebook we would have replaced it. Once we finished our lunch we placed the container & contents in it's "cache home".

Cache is very wet and pongy. Needs maintenance.