Edgar's Playground (Canterbury) Bryndwr, South Island, New Zealand
By Troodles on 29-May-09. Waypoint GC1RZXV

Didn't get time to check while in Christchurch, so am archiving.
Park now available for another placement

Really hunted for this one. Tunnelled through hint area. No cache.

Looks like this may be gone. Will check out next week when in area.

Spent about 5 mins looking for it this morning before I realised I was being watched thru the curtain of a nearby house. Wasnt in the most obvious place, hopefully I will get a chance to come back. I was just passing thru.

Easy find.

Got it
Still lots of muggles when I arrived, soccer practise, walking the dog, playing on the playground equipment and... Climbing Trees?!?!?!?!? Is that another geocacher on the hunt???

Anyway, I walked around the park a couple of times while they hung around, which up'd my pedometer count, then snuck in, found the goods, and left.

Tell you what, NZ is MUCH better at disguise than Australia!

too many muggles around for me to look. I'll be back )

Quick find as thankfully the muggles were not using the merry-go-round.

Took a few spins on the merry-go-round. The see saw looked inviting but Chocochunk was all business.

First visit tonight, the playground had a visiting family so I didn't bother trying. I went off to M&M Mayhem, then came back but it got too dark before I found it. Know where to look though! I was pretty close tonight

Muggles all over the show when we were at GZ - playground and pool. Wee dudes enjoyed the playground. Once we took ownership of the merry-go-round. we were able to make a quick, undetected, grab and sign. No worries. Thanks.

Grrrr can't find it too many tussocks

easy find few muggles about to busy on playground to notice anything

Forth visit. No muggles this morning, a quick find.
TFTC.
Kevin.

#620: Alone on the Playground


I went out to make a grab at lunchtime today. I had a DNF (again!) at a nearby LittleG M cache, and needed a find to continue my cache-a-day streak (day 98!). Almost at 100. Luckily, no one was around at about 1pm, except the groundskeeper, who was a way away mowing, so I had the place to myself. Wet grass led to wet feet, but cache was soon in hand! I signed and returned without incident.


TFTC!

Ahhh was my third attempt on this one. Finally no kids at playground, and the nice old lady next door wasn't hanging out her washing. Tftc.

Heavy dew ... long grass ... wet feet (she stayed in the car!!!) ... successful cache. TFTC.

This was our first ever geocache experience! Got there ok, found the cache ok, had heaps of fun. TFTC

Finally! My third attempt at this cache, having twice made discrete retreats from playground users. Decided on an early morning approach and that was all good. Identified the right spot too look and the cache was soon found. Noticed a few muggles signings too by the looks of it. TFTC, Biggles.

Spent a while in the tussock but found eventually

Went over as meeting was a 'claytons' meeting. Found no trouble this time. Wonder where it was last time I visited with RuruNZ?

Was the first one we ever found - very exciting!

Last time we tried this there were too many kids - rain certainly helps searching for caches in such a location. TFTC

School had just got out but no kids in the park. Tftc

Cache was in open with contents lying around. Replaced and rehidden ar GZ. TFTC

Nice and easy find.
TFTC

Managed to look quite dodgy walking out of the bush with a father and young son right there on the spinny thing. O well lol TFTC

A little drizzly but sheltered and found without too much trouble. Added a key to the collection TFTC

Easy find with only a couple of toddlers and parents present. They paid no attention as I sat at the table to ponder where it might be, walked around a little checking out the area, and then made the grab while they were busy entertaining the wee tykes. SL, TNLN, TFTC!

TFTC. After school time and surprisingly no little ones in the park. GPS lead me straight to it.

Quite hard at first but so obvious when you knew where it was.

Jogged over here in the dusk for a quick find. Too many muggles on previous attempts. Seemed a little exposed...

Found it with Ruru - second time we'd been back; not quite sure how we missed it the first time

At last! Being the closest to home this was the forst one I looked for - with wrong datum . Been back several times with no luck, knowing it was there as logs had been made. So tonight with The Cheetah's after Guides we tried again - and BINGO. Sure I had looked there several times before. Was fairly exposed so tucked back under ghffbpx. In coin, out TB. #27

found it. Dropped off travel bug.

Found it. Dropped off travel bug.

No problem finding this one.

Found when I stood on it by accident - TFTC!

Uh oh, 2nd time I've suffered from 'middle-aged-bloke-in-a-playground' cringe in this particular playground.

Visited tonight on the way home from the movies. Looked like the log had been signed by a few little cachers!
Hope they keep it up. TFTC

I found it in the garden uncovered and open, everything spilt out with no swaps. Signed the log and hid it where I expected it to should be. TFTC.

TFTC

No one around, so a nice easy find.

Quick find on a drizzly evening. TFTC!

A quick find.TFTC

This entry was edited by corunnaroad on Friday, 07 January 2011 at 15:44:58.

Part of mine and the eldest mermaids morning cache hunt. TFTC

Did with CrystalFairy

Quick and easy find while in Christ Church on South Island trip.

The first park today where our kids actually played on the equipment. TFTC

Took a bit of hunting and I see what you mean about the bees, and loads of muggles about in the pool - nice spot. TFTH

Ist find on a hit of 4 caches on Dec 7th. Being MAJORLY allergic to bees it was a quick dive in and out . 2pm a good time to come mid week as no-one around. TFTC

Bees out in force today, so didn't try too hard.

First find

49th Cache, 1st one on my Birthday TFTC good hide

Cold wind didn't stop us! Dogs more problematic than muggles. K9 lost his orange cone so if you find it I guess it's yours

Found fairly quickly on my third visit. The previous two were quickly aborted because of a proliferation of muggles and not even surreptitiously investigated. However it was all quiet today despite it being a pleasant, warm day; and it was after school had finished. Perhaps the cracker earthquake just before lunch kept them at home. Thank you. Hatas

Found at night no muggles. TFTC

Quick find after tea. TFTC

Went late evening so nobody around, quick find. TFTC

Perfect for a night cache. TFTC

Nice distraction on way to swimming club...

TFTC

3 Boys & a Princess

Found before any mini muggles turned up today. Easy find thanks.

After watching my son miss a penalty on the ajoining pitch - it was a welcome relief with the youngest to get a find - many thanks Little G Magic

GPS led straight to it, thank you

Ahh yes! That park!

OK memories a bit foggy till I looked at the photo.. things still a bit damp today but a quick score.

Thanks for the cache.

Another cache in a playground, and they are all starting to blend into one another. It was still raining at this time but team McWindeLunex7 was not to be deterred during our grand trip to the eastern isles. Somewhere around this time I spotted a bakery/coffee shop that was open, and we all piled in for coffee, hoc chocolate, cakes, pies etc. TFTC!

Is it just me or are the details of Christchurch playgrounds starting to blur in all the team's minds? I had to look up ZsaZsa7's photographic record of our finds to assure myself I was there. Yep, raincoat, wooly hat down over eyebrows, log being signed, blue merry-go-round I didn't have time to test. Thanks for breaking our run of DNF's Troodles.

Under trees, under bushes, in trees, in bushes........no matter where the caches are, we are looking for them.

Thanks for another quickish find.

3110. [font=Comic Sans Ms][green]Thank goodness for this find as we had had 2 DNFs in a row. Discussions with some local cachers at the Dux de Lux event led to the pain of hides in tussocks/flax etc. Luckily we had no major troubles due to these impediments, ad this one was no exception.

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Rated: for Overall Experience

Quick easy find. No muggles around on a lovely autumn afternoon. TFTC TNLNSL

Nice quick find whilst waiting for team members work to close.

Took GC
TFTC

Easy to do at night.

didnt find first time but i was under time pressure. no muggles . TFTC

(53) Another park that I did'nt know about.. Came in mid morning and pretty cold out so no muggles in site.. However cache was in plain view.. So I have hidden it a bit better.. TFTC. SL.

No muggles on a wet Friday night.
Cheers,
S.t.

The advice in the cache description is spot on! I took one look at the muggle situation and turned on my heels.

[This entry was edited by Rincewind3 on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 10:25:27 PM.]

I found this on my 2 month tour of NZ (Australia)

Quick find. TFC

Easy find and may have even saved it from a band of Brownies who were rummaging through the undergrowth picking up rubbish!
TFTC beautiful little park!

Found with Chucky3, forgot to list

Found it easily by Geoff creating a diversion (playing on the roundabout...)

Nice stop off on a cold wet morning. Soon found the cache, the place was deserted. SL TFTC

Probably not dressed appropriately for a thorough search so it was probably a good thing I got muggled out before I could find it.

Nice park

Found on a very wet day, but was worth it
TFTC

Bunch of muggles playing in the playground, however they were too busy argueing to take any notice of us, TFTC, TNLN.

There was a little old lady sitting in the house three meters from the cache looking out of the window so I didn't feel comfortable digging around in the grasses for too long - it looks suspicious. I was half expecting her to call the police.

Popped in while waiting for Pizza but crawling with muggles - I will be back. - nice park

Last one for the evening and couldn't find it Cool park though, I love all the old playground toys, especially the horse!

Busy playground, had to come back early morning to avoid being seen

Possibly our third, maybe fourth attempt? No one around today though so it was an easy find. TFTC

Found with YuGeo4, yes the park was deserted as it was getting a bit late for muggles, TFTC TNLNSL (1191)

3495
Found with Yeetrees in the late evening, an easy find, playground was deserted.

TNLNSL, TFTC

Night Caching +40 TFTC

Second attempt back with the kids. Crawled all over the place, and through the tussock. Still no luck in finding it.

Third time lucky today, as there has been so many young muggles playing here previously.And yippee the place was empty.Except for a group of Alsatian Dog owners doing obedence training.But as we had our Geo Doggie with us,one broke away and followed us a short distance.It finnaly gave up on our wee girl as the owner was yelling at it.[ More training neaded me thinks ] We grabbed the cache signed it and got out of there.TN LN
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No muggles around, except a man with a mask using some sort of machine on the pool surface, so a quick easy find. TFTC

Had to come back after tea as there were to many pesky muggles earlier in the day. Nice quick find.

TFTC

Great find lovely park...

Just turning dark as we arrived so nobody around,lots of activity in near by houses made the search difficult but after a good look managed to find.TFTC