Gateway to Farming (Canterbury) Allenton, South Island, New Zealand
By rchdlyn and k1ngb0bby on 19-Aug-07. Waypoint GC158JJ

Not there anymore after reading logs it makes it obvious that this one needs replacing.
Thanks Acedj

Hmm, maybe the plant maintenance found something that wasnt normal here..... will archive to save further disappointment.

No sign of cache and reluctant to step off the grass as we had read clue. Seems to be a bit of plant damage too.

found it empty and broken by the letter box. Have no idea where it belongs so the maker of this will need to fix.we have it at home so the muggles dont get it.

counts as finding it though

After 4 atempts found it, but unfortunatly not where it was and it had been trashed, only broken container

A nice quicky, the boss had it before I got out of the car. TNLN TFTC

The description says all! It was that easy.

nice quick find

Quick find TFTC

Yay, finally found it after scoring the first DNF on the night it was published two and a half years ago. Down here running some errands and now back to Lincoln to see my brand new little girl Took the coin thanks

Nice quick uncomplicated find which was a welcome relief after my escapades at the last cache. + coin TFTC #1020

Easy find, great Hint TFTC

To toss or not to toss - that was the question.

Nice easy find - TFTC, TinkyWinky

Found by YuGeo4, when there to have a quick look the night before but no success, so tried again today and after a quick search YuGeo4 found it. TFTC TNLNSL (1427)

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A quick find with Yeetrees, certainly is the gateway to farming, even the tussocks had a fresh haircut to show off it’s cache. Wind picking up, viewed a dramatic nor’west arch forming overhead.... Mmmmm maybe a photo opportunity for an earthcache?

OUT: Give up Geocaching???
LNSL, TFTC

A little bit of a wander around by all three of us finally had the cache found in a place we all thought "how could we have missed it the first pass". Left the Give Up Caching GC.

Let the other two wander around for a while then went and found the cache myself.TFTC

[This entry was edited by wotefa on Sunday, November 08, 2009 at 7:45:35 PM.]

Quick drive to find. TFTC

There it was staring at us. Nice clear cache and is now a little more hidden. I think the wind was the culprit. TNLN Thank you.

This was shaping up as a DNF until child 1 decided to have a look a bit away from my zero mark. Cool location, TFTC.

A straightforward find, although the farmer driving in did look at us rather strangely. TFTC

An easy find, our last in this area before we head north. TFTC

Its been a while but I came back no problem this time, nice to have it crossed of my list TFTC

A fairly easy find, at least we think we know the significance of the cache name, & its importance for the region. (#430, 10/12)

As is a bit of a signature behaviour of Mr B, I made this harder. I walked up to the actual gate without checking the GPS, wondered if you should have put a cache there, you naughty people, and then realised I was in the wrong place. MUCh easier after that! TFTC. (This was find 100 of the trip - not that you care, of course!)

WHOOPEE !!! My FIRST International find. TNLS

Found, but ... why a cache here? Sorry, no idea what the site is or why anyone would put a cache here. If it's got any meaning, it's not clear enough.

Well we found it, easy drive by cache, left a bead bracelet.
I feel there must be some relevance to the name that is clear to locals perhaps

thanks for the cache

TNLN TFTC

TFTC very nice day to be caching

Thought it would be more difficult to get to this cache, but then I did what I was told in the hint, and there it was... . TFTC

Easy drive by.

Another easy find. TFTC

Only one I found in Ashburton today
I've been here before but unfortunately at a time when the local high school kids were walking home. Today I just had to wait for one car load of muggles to pass and soon had the cache in hand. The cache is dry, but has been wet - the log book feels slightly damp.
TFTC.

surprisingly busy road and hard to find, but did eventually locate it.

Got lucky with this one, well hidden, cache had a puddle in it so i dried it out a bit, logbook still nice and dry, thanks.

Finally tossed the right tussock and found it. Left a wee felt butterfly.

Starting to loose my mojo, I'm blaming the snow, it makes anything hidden at ground level extremely difficult to find.

Tossed the tussock and there it was. + silica gel. T4TC.

#1205 Straightforward find but half expected a gateway! TNLN DS8300

Reasonably quick find, but I wasn't quite expecting to find it where it was. Cheers Gav [1827]

Nice quick find thank you.
TNLNSL

Reminds me of one of my own caches.
Easy find in the end.

Quick find.
TFTC

First place i looked - lucky

TFTC

This took a while, but it should have been quicker TNLN TFTC

A bit of a hunt for this, well hidden. Poor little juvenile blackbirds got a bit of a runaround! Thanks

What's going on - GPS was all over the show here! After a bit of a search with rattusbaggus we finally located the cache. Yay. Nice spot - need more of this around the place!! TFTC.

Opps - forgot to drop/dip Car and keewee in!

End of the day, helped dad find this. Took a bit of searching thanks to the GPS. Pretty spot. TFTC.

Another nice easy cache ,,thanks

Found it, took tb back to Timaru for our geocoin bank.

Yes I did get back out today to retrieve the code luckily the travel bug was still there.
No lambs to rescue this time.

Found very quickly took car out to put travel bug in and then forgot the code so will hopefully come back tomorrow afternoon to get it as it is still logged in at the event.

One we'd looked at before, and came up empty. Found it within seconds this time. TNLN, TFTC

Took a couple of minutes to get this cache, understand the reason for the cache given the nearby buildings.TNLN.

Took a while to find my first cache in NZ. TNLN

Quick find this time.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Easy find after the Geofest! TNLN. TFTC.

Easy find before the Geofest in Ashburton, first for the day. TNLN.

found at a late night did not no where it was.
tftc tnln sl

another cache i did on my first night out should of read the clue earlier as felt a tad dum afterwawds lol thanks for that

*Pulls up*.....oh, is that the cellphone? Ooops, dropped a tennis ball in the bushes.....
Took me way too long to find! Thanks to Lyn for the helping hand!
TNLNSL

Cheers,
Blarghster.

twas a pretty straight forward find as gps was spot on. took the tb. ty.

Had a quick look in fading light, but ir will have to wait till next weekend.

Bitsprayer

Easy find, on a day "doing" AshVegas caches. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(920)

"OPEN SEASON" Rushed up to this one since it is now able to be visited by the locals (To find out more check out the "The Great Ashvegas Jeep Race"). Doing it in the dark certainly makes this one harder, luckily where I parked the headlights were pointing straight at it, althought the GPS put it at the other end! Found after only a few minutes (Thankfully). Thanks for the Cache Guys

+ Travel Bug (Gator)

No difficulty at all finding the cache.
- I want to be blue jeep racer.

1582. We thought we might as well take up the challenge so were out of bed early this morning and on our way. We decided to look first for the ones that hadn't been found last evening so this was the first cache we went after this morning - a FTF at 7.15am. It was a simple roadside stop and grab in the daylight so we took one jeep with us, discovered the other one and left it there for the next cacher as we were sure we would be able to find some more before the day was out!

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Oh the shame, a FTDNF! Spent a while with the headlamp on this one but no luck - must get a proddy stick for spots like this one. Lots of little burrows / tunnels made by the birds under that lot. I'll be back! Thanks.

Published

Brmm Brmm Getting those engines warmed up! Dropping in Pop's Green Jeep Racer ready for race day. Details Below

This is one of the launch caches for “The Great AshVegas Geocoin Race†With four local teams, eight jeeps of four different colours will be released together on the 24 August 2007, in at least four brand new caches. FTF reserved for non-participants, unless the cache remains unfound for two weeks.
In simple terms: This is a FTF waiting for YOU! – Go for it!
These are two of the eight jeeps waiting for distribution in this cache.
Please retrieve our coins to launch them on the greatest mission ever – good healthy local competition. As dipping is not allowed, enjoy the feel of a real green racer in your securely zipped pocket (speaking from experience) until your next drop.

Brmm Brmm in goes k1ngb0bby's racer ready for raceday.