Where's Wally (Canterbury) Saint Albans, South Island, New Zealand
By Wallyfish on 14-Jun-08. Waypoint GC1D70J

No response from owner. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the current guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

No positive logs in some time and no response from cache owner.

Should have read the previous logs before attempting this cache. Found an ideal hiding place for cache, but unfortunately, No cache.

Looks like this one has run its course

In the limited time I had, I couldn't find it.

Didn't find this cache!!!! will return soon for another look.

Found torn damp logbook, no container. Needs some attention quickly

Found the care worn notebook, SL and replaced. Must put a kit together to repair some of the tired caches that I come across. TFTC

Found what appears to be a small log book in a poor state, barely legible entries, but no sign of the pill box. Replaced in the higher, not too obvious position. Nice little park. TFTC

1-4-1 Family. Here to have our year end Childrens get together. Lovely park. No container only paper and had no pencil so wasn't able to record name. Hope can restore as great cache. Thanks

I didn't find the container, but I did find a small notebook with some familiar names in it. It obviously hasn't rained much in Christchurch lately as I was able to record proof of my visit on the dry paper. Regretfully, I didn't have any containers with me, let alone one small enough to rest in what I think is the intended hiding place.

It looks like the owner is no longer an active cacher. Hopefully, a future searcher will read the logs first (unlike me) and bring a small container with them; a pill container or film canister should work fine. It would be good to keep this cache going as it seems like a very nice park for the geocaching community to visit.

Found the log sodden on the ground so wasn't able to sign. Placed back in tree but it will need to be replaced. TFTC

We found this in a sorry state - just the log note minus the pill case. The log note paper was very soggy

Soggy and exposed- may have to adopt this wee gem

Found after a bit of trouble with tree shielding gps signal, container missing, soggy notebook found only- needs replacing as too wet to write in

No on in the park in the rain, quick find

Nice easy find in a great park. Cache rather wet inside, needs some form of waterproofing.

very nice park and a nice quick find in a same spot as another I found earlier today. Log book is beyond using so left a new piece of paper with room for others as well. TFTC

Found on a quick romp to the park with the little mermaids. Log very wet so didn't sign. TFTC

Nice cache. Signed the log TFTC

Cool find, nice place, log book is soaked so couldnt log it Found with turpies, Took travel bug
TFTC
Acedj

Nice little park didn't even know it was here...
Little bit of silt from the earth quake round the pool area...
Boys had a good time on the play area...

TFTC

3 Boys & a Princess

Bit damp inside, log book has one page left in it...

Quick walk from the motel going backwards & forwards around the side streets to get there.
Lovely park. Lots of earthquake damage all around.

Thanks for the cache.

Knew this cache was here but had been waiting for junior cachers to join me find it. A week off school due to the quake was the perfect opportunity!
Nice hide. TFTC

Hello, logging my personal tracker to calculate distance

27/08/10 9:16 AM Find #172 in a nice old park that I haven't visited in a long time. Good day for a walk too, thanks for bringing me here.

Our biggest task was finding our way into the park. Nice hide but log wet. TFTC

great little park - many thanks unfortunately soaked

THe log book is soaked and could do with drying / replacing and putting in plastic bag - many thanks

Nice spot - thanks for bringing us here. Quick find, but, as with last comments, the log book is damp and starting to breakdown!
TFTC.

Put it back in the upper area. Found it in the lower one.

Log book QUITE wet.

Good for wally , nice catch but very damp

Last cache of the day. Very nice park area, that we didn't know about. TFTC

Lovely inner city park. Cache site a small lake and cache a tad damp but OK.

Found while on a walk around the neighbourhood on a chilly winter morning.
TFTC

A lovley park and lots of dogs. TFTC

A quick find, just had to avoid the dog walkers.TFTC.

On the way to meet friends for coffee; did I have time for another cache? Fun to find this & somehow miss the dog-walking muggles. TFTC.

Nice park
Tftc

Thankfully had the tool with us, me a little challanged to nab this one without attracting attention!

Thanks for the cache (memorial).

Obviously we bring McPhan for a good reason, and he is thereby known as our caching tool. Need I say more? Thanks for a cool hide!

Every caching team should have a useful gadget for exploring in holes out of reach - but we just use McPhan. I think all my Aussie caching mates were more comfortable putting their hands into dark holes in NZ where they definitely wouldn't do that in Australia. Nasty things live in holes over there! Found the Wally cache and did the signing bizzo, thanks Wallyfish.

Not sure about Wally, but we found the cache and that was the main thing.

Thanks for another cache where McPhan came in useful.......sort of.

3135. [font=Comic Sans Ms][green]Mrs Winglen had a shocked look on her face as all she heard of the conversation after the find was "Have a good feel." Priceless and had to explain quickly why I had said that. And another where the clue doesn't, upon reading make a lot of sense to someone my height.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

A rainy day in the park today, so no muggle issues. Quickly zeroed in on GZ with good coords. TFTC, Biggles.

Found ages ago but forgot to log.

(69) 1st cache for afternoon, Easy find.. SL, TFTC.

Here for the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists annual scientific meeting. Finding caches ahs been an excellent distraction between lectures.

A stunningly beautiful autumn day enhanced by a guitar player and singer playing nearby. I've been here before a long time ago. A lovely park. Thanks for bringing me here again. Hatas

Quick find, nice hiding spot! TFTC TNLN/SL

Had to dodge a few dog walking muggles, but no real problems.

TFTC

Park was a wonderful surprise. We were geo biking, visiting from Auckland on hire bikes for Easter. Our 1st turn off St Alban's was a dead end and the 2nd had me thinking "wrong again" when the lovely rose garden appeared leading to the long reserve with beautiful old trees. Easy to find the cache with the hints but the park is well used so had to wait for the right time. Wish all caches were as nice. NINO TFTC

Easy find, although there were plenty of 4 legged muggles and a few two legged varieties about too. Trying to act inconspicuously. TFTC

Quickly located cache. Nice location. SL TFTC

No one about on Sunday morning, found without too much trouble. TFTC

This was mugglesville - council workers, dog walkers and croquet players playing over an extended area. Finally we got a clear path and made a quick find. TFTC

TFTC

nice hide (56) TFTC

#1775 Had to wait for a couple of muggles to pass through but then it was plain sailing. TNLN TFTC DS8300

Easily while both 2 and 4 legged muggles walked by. TFTC

Quick easy find, TFTC

quick find TFTC

A lovely hidden park. Thanks, this was a great walk on a fine, clear evening.

I've always liked this park. We've had a couple of kid's birthday parties there. Thanks!

Quick find on a quiet Monday morning. TFTC

Nice cache in a beautiful park, TFTC.
Greetings from Slovakia.

First cache found on a quiet Sunday morning in a park that I used to bring the kids to when they were younger - and we didn't know this cache was there!

Found this one....No.3 (Still on one-a-day every day since we got our unit). What a lovely 69 year old park - didn't realise it was as large, or so pretty - TFTC

Nice easy cache and a really nice wee park. Part of the park was created for blind people with a scented garden

Nice little park. Gave a couple of muggles a fright when they walked past and we were just standing there doing nothing at all, they were obviously wondering what we were up to.
TFTC

3456
A quick find, and a fitting tribute to Wally.
TNLNSL, TFTC

tftc muggle alert

Over from UK so logged visit when I returned. This was one of four caches picked up around Christchurch, this made for a very pleasant walk around a very attractive city. TFTC and the walk.

On tour from UK. 4th find in Christchurch. TFTC

I have always wanted to know the answer to this question and now I know thanks.TNLNSL

Well talk about muggle central - dogs, kids, older people, overseas muggles, balls - on spotting the possable GZ I hide to get the prize. TFTC

Quiet spot when I was there...

Nice wee park. Found without any problems. Thanks Wallyfish for the cache.

A quick find on my way home from work, a nice park to spend some time in. I suspect the container isn't waterproof actually.

Took the dogs for a walk with Grandma and found the cache. Grandma was very excited - this was her first find, she thinks this game is neat. TNLN

Piece of cake - just don't follow the GPS up the private driveway!

easy find log book all good thanks

Have dried out the container and replaced the log book with a temporary one, as the owner is overseas. Nice little park. Need to take a pencil as there isn't one in this micro. TFTC.

Same as the others.Book is wet.Needs to be replaced.But a good find.

Found the cache but log too wet to write in. Nice place to visit though.

Since April 10 people have been logging that this cache is wet and the log is soaked and needs replacing. It is completely unusable, which is clearly indicated in many logs. I suggest the cache owner either fix the problem, or archive the cache.

Found but like others, unable to sign log.

Found in this lovely park.

As mentioned by others, log too wet to use.

Had some free time this afternoon from our study abroad program. Walked forever (or so it seemed) to get to the neighborhood and then finally found the park. Very nice area. Enjoyed the stream running through. Found cache and attempted to sign log -- not very clear. Log is very wet and needs replacing. Thanks for bringing me to this area and getting me out of just the downtown.

Log still wet so didn't remove. Plumbers tape on screwband needs renewing to waterproof container.

Found it ok. The log was so wet I didn't bother to try unraveling it. Really enjoyed the park though!

Log is saturated and too wet to write on.

kept searching the trees helps being 6ft 6in

Log book wet requires maintenance.

Like Troodles, I was fearful of pulling the log out of the cache container. The log looks like it is a snug fit in the container and I think that after a month of being wet, the log will fall to pieces if someone tries to pull it out. However, a plastic bag should prevent the next log from getting wet. Cheers.

Brought back a lot of good memories returning to this lovely park as have spent a lot of time here when our boys were young.
Didn't even attempt to remove log from container as it was saturated. The lid doesn't seem to screw on properly.
TFTC.

Container not waterproof and log sheet wet.

And that's it. Back to reality - time to collect the kid from the square after the "invisible children" event. 'Twas nice to have a morning caching in Chch. Thanks.

Neat park..
Id say the hiding place has filled with rain water and container has been submerged. Too wet to write in the book so signed and left my own page.
TFTC.