Which way? (Canterbury) Little River, South Island, New Zealand
By Richbritty on 15-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1W973

Hi richbritty

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Had a look but couldnt find it

No luck on this one and with the number of dnf’s lately, it might not be there anymore.

Down from Northland for a one week trip to Christchurch to pick up some solved puzzles, challenges, unusual cache types, Jasmer grid fillers, as well as a few others in passing.

Today we were off on a trip to Akaroa and after stopping off to do an AL on the way, passed by for fish and chips. Headed back over the scenic route and then stopped for a few more on the way back.

Despite a good look around for 10 minutes right on dusk, no luck for us here, even after a PAF. Thx anyway

DNF two years ago and a DNF now.
Spent half an hour or more here. Inspected each and every part of that bridge and of the surrounding growth. No luck. I even had some hints on what this possibly is. Still a sad face.

We had no luck here today, spent 30mins checking and re checking but was not to be found.

please note this cache is still there
took me less than a minute to find it
just followed the hint
great cache hide
sorry a little behind in my logs but found early october with squirrel nutcase

Hi richbritty

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Down in Christchurch with the Squirrel, ABCDF4 and eyespyben. During Covid lockdown, we solved a load of puzzles and decided that this would be a good time to visit. We've enjoyed a few days of good weather and seeing the Canterbury countryside. The caches have been in varying states - some good, some not so much. Our time here has been a blast, and we'd like to thank all COs who have made this adventure possible. Thank you and TFTC.

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap). Logging all finds as Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa - Our hometowns)... During Covid-19 lockdown, we solved a truck load of puzzles around Christchurch - Canterbury region. No use thrashing the old grey matter for no cause - We decided we should make good on this handiwork...

There are lots of interesting trails and geoart surrounding Christchurch. What you aren’t told is how far flung some of these caches actually are. Some beforehand advice would have been great, so here are some of my notes... You’re welcome!

1. Mobile coverage is patchy, especially in those quiet, rural areas where it was most needed. Saving caches to offline might show that you are prepared and organised...
2. There are many dusty metal roads on the trails. The car will get messy, and your hair will feel like cardboard at the end of the day...
3. Suitable clothing and footwear are essential. You will climb in and out of hedges, gorse, and other rough stuff. You might get scratched, cut to shreds, and bleed a lot. It’s not advised to wear your brand new jacket on the day...
4. Take lots of food and drink. You’ll probably be head down, tail up and not realise you haven’t eaten until late afternoon. There are very few shops or gas stations out there...
5. Make sure that you secure keys and wallet and know where these are placed for easy retrieval. A full box of pens might be useful too, especially if you’re inclined to free some into the wild...
6. Know the difference between left and right, and north, south, east, and west. Turning right and heading north will not get you to South Christchurch quickly.
7. Look with girl’s eyes rather than boys eyes... Some caches haven’t been found in a while and you might have to get down on your knees to pray.
8. Always be prepared for misleading hints. This is what turns simple caches into D5/T5 hides... “Head height” could mean the cache is positioned at your toes.
9. Have a sense of humour and like the people you go caching with. It’s going to be a very long day, and you might want to hurt someone during the journey...
10. Make sure you can operate your phone/device and it doesn’t crash when you most need it...
11. Learn to cut and paste logs because you’re going to repeat this function so often when logging all of your finds.
12. Above all else, have fun and be kind...

After the police moved us on from McLeans Island, we decided to head south-east. There are lots of interesting caches to visit in the area, including a puzzle trail, Canterbury CANZ and the Little River Ad Lab... We stopped for this hide along the way. The string of DNFs on this one had us concerned. But Gap had his hands on the hide as soon as we arrived. Yes, not your usual cache vessel, but no reason to dismiss it once you see it... Thanks richbritty and TFTC.

After puzzle solving in the Canterbury region along with EyeSpyBen we were invited to join Fap (from Fap & Gap) and Squirrel Nutcase to a week long caching adventure in the Canterbury area. With flights and accommodation booked were off, all met up in ChCh. and many hard dusty Kms travelled and many caches found, I think the Squirrel has said it all in his brief. Many thanks for the placements and Cos for bringin us to the very pleasant areas we travelled in to your region

After puzzle solving in the Canterbury region along with ABCDF4 we were invited to join Fap (from Fap & Gap) and Squirrel Nutcase to a week long caching adventure in the Canterbury area. With flights and accommodation booked were off, all met up in ChCh. and many hard dusty Kms travelled and many caches found, I think the Squirrel has said it all in his brief. Many thanks for the placements and Cos for bringin us to the very pleasant areas we travelled in to your region

No sign of special camo snd it's more than a year since last found. Reckon it's gone.

Out with TharntheHalken. Couldn't find this one today.

Had a good look around with out any luck ️

Big long search...
No luck.
Is it still there we wondered....

DNF

Which way to look for the cache?? No idea!
We tried as hard as we could not to leave the bridge but no luck.

Love this camouflage cache. Didn't know we had it until we took a closer look. TFTC

Very clever didnt know I found it until I picked it up

Hello from Perth WA

We found this whilst on out South Island adventure.
We we're just about to give up when it revealed itself

TFTC

Easy and amusing. TFTC!

Lovely camouflage cache

Spent a while looking but couldn't t find it.

Which way? Straight to the pub to celebrate the find, except it's too early for me! We did partake last night! What an excellent hide and camo. Favorite from me.

Thats one evil hide...I am glad the co ords were accurate or I may have been here à while lol..or I may have had to drown my sorrows across the road...thanks Rickbritty well done and an easy fav

We didn't find this cache last time we were here on 26/8/2010 or the time before that but this time Beeba located the clever cache and so we both turn a blue to a yellow smiley face. Wahoo! A very clever container so a favourite for the cache and for the adventure trying to locate it.

Very pleased to find something out of place. Very clever hide

Dnf for me.

Weekend trip to Akaroa. Thanks for the hide.

found where it was hidden but not there now

Find 8 of 15 for the day, and a DNF cleaned up! I have no idea how I missed it the last two times; I must have looked right at it. This time I sent a message to a previous finder before I started looking. I then looked and found it within 5 minutes. It turns out Mr Cuddly Brick was getting some shut eye prior to a night shift - I feel for ya buddy!
TFTC
Find # 3138

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Out for a bike ride and good to get this cache. Had expected it to take time - and it did.... Big smile when found. Many thanks.

Second attempt at this cach, Gave it a good half hour no joy!

After our failure to find this the other day, we got a hint from a previous finder and managed a fairly quick find today. TFTC

Found after a short search today, GPS very accurate! Excellent camouflage and a favourite from us. Sadly too early for a bevy across the road TFTC

Despite a lengthy search, this obviously sneaky hide defeated us today.

I haven't done any geocaching in ages but this was a nice an easy find to get back into looking for more caches:)

Kids and i could not find.

It took us longer than it probably should have but happy to make the find. Found with AorakiSheep

We thought this was going to be DNF but the 'one more look' proved worthwhile. Found with debsnz

Tftc found again with mtb group from little river school.

Des isch Easy xi drum bin i do xi. Bin auf Tour mit meiner Liebesmuggelin zum 60ger in NZ um nebenbei diese tollen Dosen zu erhaschen. Geocaching isch so Gsund do wirsch nümma rund! TFTC ! Danke fürs legen und pflegen dieser genialen Dosen..

Heading home to Christchurch and feeling buzzed after creating our first hide in Barry's Bay we decided to look for caches on our way. Unfortunately no luck with this one - perhaps our phone lights made it difficult.
Watch this space - we will be back

My mission is my first 3 day tramp on Stewart Island. The Seagnoid has Xmas off so we are off on an epic adventure with Zara around the South Island. Toby and Zara are playing tag from Springs Junction to Akaroa. Akaroa was not on the Seagnoids radar, so navigation is by smart phone.
We park Zara up and jump into Toby, with the Seagnoid navigator & scribe and I delegated to log blogger and driver.
OK theres still daylight after dinner so lets cache little river. This took some hunting before finally snagging it. Local pub in great spirits. TFTC Cheers

TaybeeDragon and I are off for a three day walk on Stewart Island. But we have a camper, so once you add in getting there and back, it's a three week trip! Day 2: Springs Junction to Akaroa.
Going for a tour of Little River after dinner. This one took us rather a long time. The revellers in the pub didn't mind, they didn't even notice. Seemed like a bit of a party over there!

We've tried here before, but sadly dnf'd, however today was not that day and the cache was found! Such an excellent hide and a clever cache. Get's a favourite from us. And Mr Sharpe now wishes he'd been FTF as a free beer sounds so good right now. TFTC

It was a combination of holidays, family visit and caching. Initially heading for Akaroa we had a change of plan. So with no particular cache in mind other than finding the CANZ cache we set out. After meeting our objective we slowly cached our way back to the big smoke. The cache name is indeed an interesting proposition. Even considering the best approach to the car park and leaving it. Until we spotted the "leave here" sign of course. At GZ I had the cache in one hand while still searching with the other, duh!! Nice one on me there Thank you richbritty

We are having a few days in Chch visiting family and of course finding some caches as well.Today we had set out to go to Akaroa but a change of plans en route meant we only went as far as Little River with a side trip on the Port Levy road. This cache was one of 14 we found this afternoon.The logs were signed HZ+HM, H+H, or in some case with our full names.
Thank you richbritty.

Down to Akaroa for a family wedding, bit of a mission to get down to the main island, but making the most of it. Great place if you have the money. All in good condition and log dry. Making our way back to the city lights, this one is a wrap. Mission accomplished TFTC! Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Good Hide TFTC

Very clever hide. Loved this. Found with Wurzel1947. A Fav. TFTC

Searched for a while but no way.

Too clever for us today. Did not find

A wet, rainy and foggy day on the Banks Peninsula to Akaroa. Next day back to Christchurch. Thanks

Wee stop on the way to Akaroa today. Took a bit of work (didn't understand which side of the bridge we should be on) but finally found it hurray! TFTC.

This cache formed part of our road trip from Akaroa to Christchurch.

Our 2nd DNF on this one! A cunning hide obviously!

Not today... Camo a bit too good for us this time!

Nice camo. Handy shady seat from which to sign log. Handy as it ie 28 C.

After unsuccessfully seeking this cache a couple of times some years back I put it aside and forgot about it. Automatic filtering by my caching software of those caches with successive DNFs ensured that the cache stayed 'out of sight'. Last night, whilst looking at a map of currently available caches I noticed that this cache was again 'available' to me. So whilst passing through Little River with Tufty we decided to try our luck. This time the cache was found within seconds. We left as happy chappies with a smilie each. Thanks for replacing the cache. Cheers.

BaldEd and I travelled out Little River way to pick up the odd cache that we both had missing. Thanks for replacing.

Cheers for the cache.

It's all good to go again...happy hunting

replaced cache today with the same type of container

I will check and replace this replace if needed in the next few days when out that way, cheers richbritty

Any point looking for this?

Will check when passing over the next few weeks and replace if no where to be found cheers richbritty

Had a look around for this one and couldn't find it.

Ditto for me too. Could not find but did find a good hiding stop in a near by dead tree. Had 2 pairs of eyes looking.

Holy SMokes this was difficult - I guess I was not thinking well enough on this one - very difficult for me to find. Will be back by myself next time without people nagging at me to go home Happy New Year THTF

met the local farmer on the bridge who says that the bridge needs rebuilding and hopes we were the council coming to view it!! no sign of the cache.

Looks like I'm not the only guy that's logged a DNF.

Spent a good 15mins here on our way home before finally resorting to asking for a clue from Mark in the pub. Richbritty, Mark is not keen to offer any help so you should probably remove that suggestion from your description. We'll have to give this one a go another time.

Well we had a DNF four years ago and now another one. Just don't seem to be able to lay our hands on this one even with three of us looking. With Beeba.

DNF with 1066. Three pairs of eyes didn't help today.

Quick find cheers

Eluded me. Reading back through old logs gave some clues.

A smart hide! TFTC

Moved along by farmers moving stock. Will come back another day. .

Found it during our last days in New Zealand. What a Great Time!!! Thanks and Greetings. mattpower

Fifth find of the day, headed for #1000! Thanks to master cacher richbritty! TFTC

Clever cache. An easy find once the rail trail mountain bikers had gone past us. TFTC.

11:50
Quickly found during journey, we went by car but it looks like pleasant walk. Thanks.

The first Day of our NZ-Holiday.
We visited a lot of interesting Caches. This was one of them.
Thanks for showing us all these great places, we probably wouldn't have visited without Geocaching.

MfG
Coint82
05.02.2014 / 13:10

TFTC

last one before the the rail trail. Cheers

Clever.

Camouflage is starting to wear away slightly.

Nice cache, found by NosyNel before we head to the rail trail to start on a series. Cheers for the Cache.

Day 3 of Road trip easy find by jr taybee TFTC

jr taybee taking Sr taybee on the road trip in the south island Cache in good order sign log booksee Taybee log. TFTC

Had all of us searching high and low but eventually we found this well-camouflaged cache, thanks!

Great hide. On our travel through New Zealand we visited this nice place. Thank you.

The Bridge was very hot.

Nice camouflage, TFTC!

Made hard work of this one. Looked and looked. Considered giving up, but eventually found it about 5m from where our GPSr indicated GZ to be. These gadgets do have a certain margin of error which can make life a little difficult at times!
4th of 13 on a Banks Peninsula loop today. #401. TFTC.

Stopped off on the way to Barry' Bay on a cheese missioon, couldn't find it. Stopped off again on the way home and found it pretty much straight away. TFTC.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

After flying into Christchurch today and visiting Banks Peninsula, we then headed out to Arthurs Pass and found this cache along the way. We quickly spotted this nicely camoed cache. TFTC!

After flying into Christchurch today and visiting Banks Peninsula, we then headed out to Arthurs Pass and found this cache along the way. We quickly spotted this nicely camoed cache. TFTC!

Heading home from Wainui a nice find with my Dad who hit 300 finds with this Cache it was a great time and we did a funky found it dance.

Took a while, was about to flag it!

Yesssssss!!!! Number 300, found 300 caches. found this one with my son on the way home from dropping my daughter off at Wainui at a friends for New Years. I'd like to thank my wife and kids for putting up with me going on about geocaching, looking forward to more finds