Pardon the Expression (Canterbury) Halswell, South Island, New Zealand
By The Royal 3 on 01-Jan-08. Waypoint GC189Z4

This was in the GPS as we motored past so we stopped for a look. Didn't have any information with us so after a quick look around we packed up and carried on... Another nice little park found thanks to Geocaching..

Archiving this cache as it has gone missing several times now.

Cache has been disabled while we check it out.

Had a good look around but no joy. Checked the clue and zoned in on the logical spot, then widened my search area in case I was wrong. Even considered leaping the stream in my high heels!

After several DNFs this cache may need to be checked

No luck this time....looked very promising though. GZ jumping all over the place but with help of clue we searched likely looking places but alas nothing...

Found obvious hidie hole but no cache at home with the veggies!!

Couldn't find it. The clue (the lateral interpretation) and the co-ordinates aligned perfectly and we found what looked like the perfect cache hide, but alas no cache. We were pretty certain we were in the right spot too. Plenty of very friendly ducks though!

[Nice little reserve. But we thought we had found the right spot but could not find the cache. We did gather walnuts and chestnuts but no cache. We wonder if its there or if we got the co-ords wrong. The clue didn't help] no green vegetables found growing at the base of a tree. Lots of hidy holes but no cache.

trop off TB

TFTC

[This entry was edited by waiiti20 on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 12:47:54 AM.]

GZ bouncing around like a demented kangaroo. This tree - no that tree - no not that tree, THIS TREE!!! Oh dear.

Great hiding spot. Took a Rabbit (AA Milne variety) left a spikey animal.

This cache bugged me since Classielass and I could not find it the first time. I managed to get back today at lunchtime to have another look the GPS Unit leading me right to it this time and knowing the clue would have been so much help the first time but at least now I found it. Will have to bring Classielass back here for her to find now. TFTC TNLN.

The helpful hint made for a quick find, thanks.

Lovely park! Cool hiding place.

Great clue. Spotted by Gina first.
+ rabbit
- eyeball
TFTC

Sevrens co-ords may have been off. he does say that he will go back and do his maths properly. we went round and round and round a few times.we climbed a few trees (no major injuries) but this produced no results

Pleased to find this on a pleasant afternoon.

Found with bitsprayer and ernienz
TFTC Froogal

Had to use the Bitsprayer to help on this one, a good brain teaser.
Thanks
ernienz

Work it out the night before, just the 240km drive to do to sign the log. nice wee park

Thanks Bitsprayer

The last time I came here the cache had been removed for maintainace moments before we arrived. Today I came back after the funeral of a dear friend who lives nearby. I introduced M&N to caching but they did not get to find many. TNLN

Blen and the kids found it on a luverly sunny day, with a nice cooling breeze. - Bell, - Monster, + Bracelet, + Eyeball. TFTC!

Nice fun puzzle and a great spot for the hide, enjoyed this one thank you.
No trades, TFTC

Was relieved to see it was missing last time, so tried agian today - but no luck .

Peddled in here a few weeks ago but realised that I hadn't updated the co-ords to the solved ones - doh. Back today with the family - so much easier to find with the right co-ords. TFTC and the puzzle enjoyed it.

We nearly ended up on the main road until I realized our maths was wrong. Re did the calculations and presto found it
TFTC

Our only DNF this morning. To make matters worse the southerly hit and it became cold and wet as we searched in all the likely places using the hint.

Cache had indeed beentaken. It has been replaced with a smaller 400ml clear container in the same spot.

Listing disbaled until we have a chance to check whether the cache has gone walk-about.

Completed final details this morning so as Mr KN played soccer nearby I went a searching in the wet lightly falling drizzle. Hint was clever, yet I still could not find.

#175. Easy puzzle, and quick find. Nice little spot. Cool autumn day kept the muggles at bay.

Found quickly. The muggle reading a book nearby took no notice of us fortunately.

Another night time find. Great Hide. Enjoyed the puzzle.

Thanks

- Jandal

+ Golf Ball

Quite a neat little puzzle for Liz to solve this time. A quick find. TNLN

Good clue. Cheers - M@

The puzzle was easy enough - solved it some time ago, but the satellites were being very misleading that day. Back again today, and all was well. Cache soon located - but I got a few prickles in my fingers from the chestnut husks. Reminder to myself: take gardening gloves caching next time. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1092)

Had to resort to the clues for this one as the gps had us further along from here

Nice hide. Our gps was a wee bit out but found it with the clue

Coords had us up the creek a bit but eventually got there. TFTH, TNLN. cheers.

Solved the puzzle but could not find the cache! I know we were in the right place but ....!

It appears we've been following COTR around today, but we managed to find this one. Must say it was well hidden - a clever hide. Left jandal key ring Took child cancer bead. Was really pleased to come across this bead as we have combined three of them, attached a Tag and set it free to spread awareness. As for the Jandal, it is just a swap, however we have released two as TB's. Watch out for them! TFTC SL

Good little place to hide this one, out for a night bike ride not far from home. No Trades

Had done the puzzle for this while back home on the Coast, and got confirmation that our co-ordinates were correct, so just a matter of picking up the cache - once we figured out what the hint meant!!! Looked in a couple of other likely places before we clicked what the hint was talking about.
Doh! TFTC
+ polar bear (I think!)

caching with friends. read the clue and found it straight away. TFTC TNLN Commander Wolfstar

Stopped by after doing the maize maze - to carry on the theme of the day. Great puzzle. Lovely spot. TFTC. Took the Cocoa and Mittens TB as it belongs to a friend of mine.

Out caching with Claw of the Forest and friends. Lovely to stop and sit out of the wind while I introduced a friend to the world of geocaching. Thanks for the fun of the puzzle - I was lucky to have some helpers with some of them. TFTC, TNLN.

Took a while to click late in the day! TNLN TFTC

Another nice easy find in a lovely park I have dropped off coin #CC86W2 to continue its journey ,thanks

A nicely done puzzle and cache. All worked out well and the container was quickly located. Fourth unknown cache for the day. TNLN, TFTC.

Last one today - 5 from 5, not bad considering I had work, too. A lovely wee park, would be a nice spot for a picnic and for the kids to play.
TFTC

A surprisingly quick find - given the tree cover, and not using the clue. I had to recheck one of my digits, and then go off to get some new batteries, which was good, as the muggles had left by then. +coin. Thanks.

A lovely little puzzle. Had to watch out for Muggles and the GPS hated those trees. TNLN Thank you.

nice clues, a good quick find.
+shoelaces & -polarbear

Grabbed it after two new ones up in Halswell Quarry. Glad to have this done, as I'd tried hunting the one that used to be here without any luck. Nice clue! TNLN Thanks.

Deja vu. Nice spot though. TNLN T4TC.

Easy once penny dropped over clue!! Took keyring balloon and travel bug, left wishing stone and crazy bone.

Nice easy puzzle and find. I remember finding another cache not very far from here. Cheers Gav [1727]

An unusual little puzzle. I wasn't quite sure about a couple of the answers.
The GPS didn't work well at the cache, but it still wasn't that hard to find.
- Rockinghorse TB
+ Cow TB
TFTC!

A nice quick find in a spot that;s quite familiar to me (I used to have a cache near here). TFTC.

Our 2nd cache. Found 2 for 2 - the boys are now certain we are champions. Enjoyed the clue start.
+ sticker
- car
Thanks.

A place where I often bike to with my friends. Thanks
+ hotwheels car
-peg

Found with D on W. Have been here before!!
- Geocoin
TFTC

1858. It always amazes us how new caches spring up in much the same place as old ones that have disappeared. It seems to show that it must be a good spot. We left the Miniature Rocking Horse TB that rocked its way across town with us.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Placing Modern Day Outlaws Geocoin in cache.

Took me a while as this banker managed to stuff up her maths but found it eventually. It is a well hidden cache and I left a TB but took nothing as I'm not into geocoins. As well as being first to find it is my first find of the new year. Too hot to do any more today.

That is a rather familiar spot, we have been rummaging around under those trees before. Had to have a couple of goes at the puzzle but Freshmap is a great checker.
Swapped coins and lifted a TB
Cheers,
S.t.

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