St Andrews (South Canterbury) Saint Andrews, South Island, New Zealand
By waitaki999 on 28-Dec-07. Waypoint GC185Q0

Make room for new cache.

Needs some love?

Needs Checked

We had no luck here today, add our name to the list.

No luck here. It would be great if the cache owner could confirm it is still there,

Thanks anyway waitaki999. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

3 Kiwis & 3 Aussies looked suspicious to the locals - we were just wanting to know what type of tree this was that had all the prickles and no cache.

An interesting wrestle with the prickly shrub, then we widened our search, but no joy.

Lost my phone here - had to backtrack 80km form Oamaru to find it.

We should have read the logs as we spent quite some time here looking. The only good thing to come out of it was that we met some Aussie cachers here looking too. We had seen them heading for a cache in Timaru that we had just signed so it was nice to actually meet them. They must have leapfrogged us as we stopped elsewhere. The locals seem to be interested in people who stop here.

We knew there were quite a few DNF's but we thought we'd give it a crack. Had a little poke around before a Maui campervan pulled up near GZ, and that was the end of that!!

Yet another not found to join the growing list. Very prickly tree and all the pricks and scratches for nothing.

Same as previous log. While this is a good location for a cache, I'm sure a more appropriate hiding spot could be found. Cheers.

Just adding our name to the growing list of DNF.

i looked, i rooted around and i got pricked and scratched badly. still no find. might want to check its still there.

Had a good look around as it hurt. Even had a tool to maybe knock it about but it didnt help any.

This was way too prickly for shorts and tshirt will try again

Spent a bit of time crawling round in the prickly bush. No luck. Will come again another day.

Will try this one again some time, with gardening gloves. Those prickles are nasty! The lawn clippings are rather deep in places too. Not a fun cache today.

Staying with sister in Waimate. We have placed some NW merchandice in some of the boxes please feel free to take them with you there are "Pin bages, Cards and Key rings"

Not an easy find with lots of muggles driving past. and a lot of prickles.

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TFTC TNLN SL

Layer of grass clippings on top of prickles doesn't deter prickles but sure hindered us.

Found it but was prickled to death in the process. GZ needs a trim to allow unimpeded access. Cheers.

Had a good hunt but no luck.

Very prickly today. So much so it did not want to give up its secrets. Till next time....

easy drive by
TFTC

Found easily, no one around which was good. Thanks for the cache.

quick find on our way to ch ch

Out in the open Covered a bit better

anyone for a game

Another nice easy one.

Found on our way to Perth for a holiday.

Quick find on way from Palmerston - CHCH. #221

5540 Quick and easy, don’t know how we missed it last time, TFTC

It does deserve a cache. TFTC

Nice drive up cache
TFTH Happy Cachin!!!

SIT AT TABLE AND AAAAAHHHH BUGS COME FROM CACHE!!!!!! Took a trip from Canada to New Zealand to visit my brother and nephew over Christmas. Did some caching and was taken to some pretty amazing places. Thanks for the cache!

Found this one during our geocaching trip around Timaru region.
Put some small stone and piece of puzzle in the cache.
Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

Great spot

Great wee spot for a cache, drive past here alll the time. TFTC

Found while heading south.
TNLN
TFTC

#4444 13:48 Don't think I have ever found a cache hidden under one of these before!

Thanks.

A nice quick find picked up tb

TFTC

Quick easy find. Took Nothing
Left a Badge

Found while on a trip from Australia to Queenstown for a work conference with my mate Marshy (Blacklegend17) who came along for the ride. One of 220 finds for the 8 days we were on the South Island. Found while heading up to Timaru. Just past midnight and its officially our last day in NZ. Thanks for the hide.

Second last day of our NZ caching adventure with Quasar3671 aka The Ruddman aka Marty..... Our travels took us from from Christchurch via Queenstown for 5 days then to Dunedin and finally up the East Coast for a caching onslaught.... This cache was one find of 64 for this caching run and more than 70 for the 24th.

Quick find and not far from Timaru now. Number 59 for the day.

quick find, cheers

Found: 19/05/2010 13:37 . Find #30 for this trip around the SI. I didn't see any golf balls nor hear any cries of FORE but I did manage to find the cache

TNLN

Cheers waitaki999

Wazza and the Wenches have invaded NZ on a (caching) holiday. Surprisingly the Wench is happy for BBTD and Wazza to chase caches wherever we go.
Today it was Dunedin to Christchurch. 4.5hr drive that took just over 11 hours. Would have been a lot quicker if we didn't stop every couple of km to find a cache

It's been a good caching day so far with very little trouble finding any of the caches. This was more of the same result...a quick find then a few more miles.

TFTC

TFTC

Quick find lots of prickles

Found with sparkyhurst - We were in Moeraki fishing - took a couple of attempts to find this one as we were having technical difficulties with the GPS but we sorted it out eventually with some help of a local muggle - watch out for sharp needles at ground level - TFTH - left a LED torch & took Geocoin GGMFJR - will place in South Canterbury somewhere soon .

wow very drunk by this stage dont reccommend doing intoxicated

Visited in the CacheMobile

Nicely hidden cache - apart from the very prickly camoflage!!!

Thanks for the cache!!

TFTC! Found with INZY.

After a long drive South, it was time for a break and morning tea at St Andrews. After gobbling our food at the Gobble café, we headed out for the cache. Nice stop for a cache. Thanks waitaki999 for the cache.

Quickly located the cache. SL TFTC

When we got back to the car and I put on my glasses we found that the GC we had picked up wasn't to leave S. Canterbury so had to stop here to follow instructions. Whew!

1730hrs How come the old leaves are such fine prickles, they're mean. Used a stick. The Italian Job was here....! Our blog www.motorhominginxs.blogspot.com

I can't find the cache but I was here. Thanks.
Beutenberger

Got prickled by the old leaves as getting this.

2nd visit for this as 1st visit foiled by muggles. Found cache a little exposed so re-hid further in . TFTC

Easy find a nice wee stop on way south to Invercargill

A nice quick find, thanks! Every time I drive past this town I always think of St Andrews golf course in Scotland...

A quick find on our way south.

TFTC

TFTC! Greetings from Germany!

Michaela and Sascha

Easy find just got pricked trying to get it out.
TFTC

#1028 (1/5 CHC -> DUD to attend son's graduation). A bit tricky to get at, but Troodles found a way.

There was just the one obvious place the cache could be, and there it was.
TFTC,

A quick stop TFTC

Found during my trip around South Island, NZ. Many thanks

The old home town. Quick easy find. TFTC

DNF
Found the prickly plant, but not the cache... on a strict time limit, so until next time.

Prickly find. TFTC.

This one was made very difficult by the Mower man next door. We thought we had located the hiding place (based on other logs) but we were unable to do a thorough search because the mower muggle and his wife kept watching us.

Ouch. Retrieved it anyway. TFTC

Took advantage of BaldEd's new logbook.
Many thanks

Quick find. Left an emergency logbook (no room in the old one) and a new baggie. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC. Nice little town.

Found with Johnnygoescaching crew on our Timaru Adventure Day. TFTC!

Well overdue for a logging session - will have to get better at logging! TFTC
Found with Johnnygoescaching on trip to Timaru

Found with Johnny goes Caching on a trip to Timaru. TFTC.

TFTC, one of 41 caches on the johnnygoescaching trip to Timaru. Sorry for another cut and paste job (logging 48 caches today).

A quick find.Tftc, one of 38 on our trip up from dunedin

TFTC, found on school trip to Timaru. Thanks for the cache!

Just what we needed. An great excuse to stretch the legs, on the long journey down SH1. took mushroom coin. TFTC

quick find on nice day 1st for day

Have tried to find this one previously but last night by torch managed to sign the log. I have reminders of this cache this morning down my arms and through my sweatshirt, it shows me you have to look everywhere!
Thanks
ernienz

Now we have cached in St Andrews Scotland and New Zealand. TFTC T: TB LN SL.

knew where it was straight away but loads of muggles, tftc

A quick & easy find. TB is still there.

TNLN TFTC

nice easy find- had fun with the kids

Quick find in a deserted park. We drove past this on our way south so stopped on our return north the next day. TNLN TFTC

found it on roadie to chch. TFTC

Found after a bit of a hunt.

Auf Grund eines Team Account Splitt logge ich diesen nun mit dem eigenen Account nach.
Die Geschichte zum Log kann bei Cache.Mike nachgelesen werden.

Vielen Dank fürs Verständnis und Grüsse

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Because of a Team account split I'm logging this one with my personal account.
Please read the log of Cache.Mike to get the story about this find.

Thanks for your understanding and greetings

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Found it on a small little afternoon tour around Timaru.

T4Tc

Good spot for a break. TFTC