Crossed Styx (Canterbury) Marshland, South Island, New Zealand
By Woolfienz on 05-Feb-08. Waypoint GC1951E

Went back after reading log visits. Still no joy.

I am not living in Nth Canterbury now, so will archive this and free this place up for a new cacher to use

No joy before battery died, but did discover a lovely wee park. Looked in the obvious spot, but nought. I note it's not been found since the floods earlier in the year? Still, a lovely spot so shall return one day with phone charged!

No joy

No luck. Maybe washed away in floods earlier in the year?

Went back with Team Idris - could not find

Started to get dark so we only had a quick look and river had been up recently so didn't have suitable footwear for wet underfoot conditions. Going to return for a better look.

Found this one during our month long campervan/"Road trip" vacation in New Zealand. It was a wonderful experience driving around this beaurtiful country.

This one was found on a day driving from Akaroa to Christchurch

Thanks to Woolfienz.

Our find # 12010

Nice park. Tftc.

Picked this up late at night. Startled some wildlife which become quite vocal about their dislike of someone shining a torch around their sanctuary. Tftc

975 - A beautiful day for a wander today and a nice quick find as I was exploring other areas nearby. That new subdivision across the road is starting to take shape! It's hard to keep up with all the new areas. TFTC. Took a GC

Nice one! I was on my way to a more distant cache and found myself passing this one. Stopped for a quick walk down to GZ and a quick find once there. TFTC, Biggles.

Easy find. First of 9 today.
Dropped 3 geocoins.
TFTC

I found it easy cause not covered well. But I covered it up well [?]

Quick find for the first one of the evening. Thanks.

On the way to the dentist, had 15 minutes to spare and saw this one close by. Quick easy find. TFTC.

Found it, yippeee success not like the previous one I looked for just back down the road a little, TFTC

Well we were going to paint my mothers kitchen and take a break to go to the dentist. So we went to the hardware store for overalls and realised we forgot the drop cloths. It would have taken too long to go back for them so we headed for the dentist where we had to be in an hour and picked this cache up on the way. Have driven past here often on the way to spencer park but had never noticed the pocket of reserve. A nice easy find in a wet spot. TFTC.

Super easy find today. A bit of flooding in the area but cache was safe and sound. Thanks for the cache.

This entry was edited by 2wombles on Saturday, 25 May 2013 at 04:16:46 UTC.

So full speed weekend!!
I had just finished singing group practice at church, and was needing a very very very speedy cache before I took over duty at volunteering.

Tried for another first, but unable to find suitable parking quick enough meant another had to do. I had already plotted out various alternatives, so had some back ups, and this was one of them.

Parked on near GZ, racing out of the car. I only had about 5 more minutes to spare before I would be needing to be off, and then unable to find a cache for the rest of the day!!!

As I was walking towards where the GPS pointed me, I noticed that there was water everywhere!! Oh no!! There better not be the cache in that deep water! Can't be! And I didn't have my gumboots on!!!

So I took a wee look around for other likely spots, and stuff what the phone GPS was saying! That looked a likely spot! And I soon was signing the log!! Oh yeah! Go me!

And back into the car! Whole ordeal only took me like 3 minutes. And I was pretty much spot on the dot on time to volunteering!!

Consecutive day #202

TFTC!!

Quick find, but hint may need updating. TFTC

Nice and simple. Cache all good.

Heading back into the city and this showed up on the side of the road. Just time for a last one for the morning and success in the first place checked.
Thanks.

Found it, interesting place only just off the main road. Not very much water around at the moment.

Water still high and GPS went manic but back to obvious spot after some deliberation. Tftc [:-)]

Found beside the flooded river that appeared higher than us

Part of an enjoyable afternoon caching in the area.Picked up a travel bug J0MF31 but have not logged as the previous placer has not yet logged it.

nice area found with daffy dill

found on a visit to sisters

Quick find on hot morning on way to visit someone. Tftc

Quick park & grab on the way to work this morning...albeit had to avoid the cars driving along the road heading, mostly, into town. TN:LN:SL. TFTC...Woolfienz. # 254 for us.

Quick find on a laid back evening walk. TFTC.

Pickup up one of Woolfienz's caches up the road and stopped by and grabbed this one too. I just came from one up the road and I have really been impressed on how this has all been developed. I have driven pass this so many times going to Spencer Park and never had reason to stop. Thanks for placing this cache in a great spot.
#579

Didn't even know there was a park there. TFTC

Lovely area - thanks for the cache

Cool wee spot TFTC

Close to waters edge this one, very good place to put one.

Lovely day out found it on the way home from Spencer park.

Reperio at 2040.

After a great week was had touring around the South Island with Roostaman...including attending the mega event in Dunedin...we spent today finding some caches in and around this beautiful city of Christchurch. This was the second last cache find for the night before heading back to our accommodation and home the next day.

Gratias Woolfienz.

Find # 4883 and a total of 65 today with Marcus Vitruvius, on our NZ Mega trip.
Another day of Mega caching around the Christchurch suburbs and city.
Another nice cache and hide and then on the way again.
TNLNSL TFTC Woolfienz,
Roostaman.

Quick find.

Great spot and a great hide! TFTC

Another nice little reserve to visit - plenty of waterfowl today too.

Great start to our own personal 3 year anniversary. Nice easy cache TFTC

Quick find. Tftc

Found it ground abit soggy but thanks for bringing us here will be back in Summer

Nice cach

nice find thanks such fun

This find took far longer than it needed to and I left wearing most of a tree. However I did get the smiley and I'm sure that made up for my muddy feet.

very wet under foot today, but the cache was dry. Great hide, TFTC

An easy find once we got to thespot- obviously been very wet underfoot recently- but the log was dry and safe.TFTC

A late log. Found this one a while ago. Thanks for the cache!!

Nice easy find once we went along the road. There is no access from the reserve at the moment, unless you wade, as the boardwalk is under knee deep water.
TFTC

The river has definitely encroached around here. Took TB. TFTC. #69

An easy find but the flood waters are close! I'm sure they won't reach the cache but if they get much higher it'll be cut off from the mainland! Exchanged TBs. TFTC

Great hiding place Left Travel bug there after it went and played poker at Christchurch regionals

Easy find in a nice area.

#825: Pickup Styx


GeoYoungling #3 and I pulled up to this one on our way home from a reserve just North of here. Lovely spot here! Found the cache after a short search. All in good shape!


SL/TFTC!

A quick find on the way to the coast this morning for some walking. Nice spot. Cache was a bit exposed, I could see it from several metres away as I walked towards it so I have concealed it a bit better. Signed log, TFTC!

A quick find on a wet evening.
We had a planned Guide BBQ and beach cleanup this evening - yes, we went ahead Guides don't melt in the rain. What a lot of rubbish collected on a short stretch of the beach in just 15min. The worst find was deemed to be 2 full nappies. Ugh!
So I was already rather wet (looked like a drowned rat according to someone) and a bit sandy I decided to stop off here and hopefully most of the sand on my coat would wash off during the walk to and from the cache.
Success with the cache, partial success with the sand.
Home now, and typical - the rain has stopped!

Lovely area for a cache. Quick find, took coin. TFTC

We were on our way home from Adrenalin Forest out at Spencer Park and picked up a few GCs. Nice drive by. TFTC.

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

This entry was edited by chocochunk on Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 09:03:36 UTC.

This entry was edited by chocochunk on Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 09:27:42 UTC.

Well named cache in a nice location. TFTC

Quick find whilst passing by on our way to Spencer Park for a picnic gathering. Took me longer to refind the lid in the long grass than it did to find the cache itself! ha ha. That'll teach me for putting it down!....Thanks.

First find of the day. TFTC.

Quick find on way past. Took TB. TFTC

Still 100% strike rate, 3 from 3. No muggles out today as its far too cold for sensible people to be out . Nice easy find for the kids. Thanks again.

A nice easy find Tonight with a torch left tb. TFTC

A nice sunny day, a little damp under foot, cache in full view. Left a little more covered up. Thanks.

found after dark -
easy

Bit of a drive from Riccarton - but we got there TFTC

really easy suprized not muggled

Good day for a cache hunt. We had concerns about finding it as the boardwalk was underwater, but our fears were unfounded. Thanks for a fun cache!

TFTC

TFTC. A busy road but a pleasant planting of natives.

A quick find on the way back from Rangoria.
TNLN
TFTC
Kevin

What a great morning for a wander. Interesting to note that you can drop off your harakeke offcuts here.

A quick find on the "way home" from Spencer Park. Found by youngest, took Finger light, left Skateboard. TFTC.

that was a nice easy one,makes up for some of the others.

Found this treasure on a nice Sunday afternoon. TFTC

Nice easy find on a very warm day. Unfortunatly there was a rather a strong smell!!

TFTC

Nice quick find. TNLN TFTC

Another opportunity to walk in a nice park.TFTC

A quick and easy find. My 8 year old was fascinated with the pumice so we took that and left a small eraser we found earlier. TFTC

A quick and easy find when driving by. Put some piece of puzzle and little pumice rock in the cache. Took toy bird out. Thanks and greetings from Latvia!

We arrived in New Zealand yesterday for a month's touring South Island in a campervan. Having stayed at the nearby campsite last night, this was the first cache find of our visit and a delightful spot it was too. Really enjoying the heat this morning, having left our home in the UK under a foot of snow! We read the information board on the short walk through the reserve and stopped to watch the ducks. A tidy hide and good coordinates. Out: angel. In: bullfinch pin badge and City of Trees Homing Bug TB. SL. TFTC.

Nice secure spot

TFTC

Back to clean up some of the caches that I missed last time. TFTC

TFTC
Took TB

Hi from Australia. Our 1st cache found in New Zealand. Thanks for having us!

Great cache! Found with jeepersberziepers. First International cache. TFTC

Nice a simple to complete the day - thanks Little G

great hide, found with, dolceunito and teeny turner

it felt gooooooooooooood to stretch my legs!!!! lovely long walk,good on a sunny day.fortunetly (don't know how to spell that word!!!!) it was sunny so it was a great walk.
I'M LOVING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Found once muggles went past

Found quickly while on way to funeral in Kaiapoi. Great hide thanks.

Last time here my iPhone told me to go over the pond. This time it lead me to the correct location.

TFTC