Polly (Canterbury) Linwood, South Island, New Zealand
By Troodles on 21-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XH6P

Checked today for my friend, and couldn't find it in its usual spot. It was an easy find before, but it seems to be missing now.

Looks like it's gone.

This was a pretty easy find, but I see it has been archived. Certainly there on Sunday afternoon. I'm happy if the owner wanted to contact me about where i found it

Came by here to show my flatmates a cache, as I've found this one before - no luck today though. Hope it's still there somewhere, it's been a few years since my last visit.

Went to the cache as my flatmates found it easily. Searched high and low for it but nothing... Text my flat mate for a clue but everything he told me didn't help so i am thinking it may be missing now.

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
Our first day in NZ
DK

Found it together with Moselund United on our trip on New Zealand:)
DK

This one defeated us today, even with my able assisant, AutumnDragonfly. We will return another day.

TFTC!

A quick stop on the drive across town to meet a friend. Nice and quiet here on Waitangi day and easily found. TFTC

Finally found it - well sorta.... Decided a time before all the students came back would be the time to try for this one and as I was in the neighborhood - well within 5 km decided to give it a go. Under over around - must be here somewhere as been found twice this week. Try under again, behind in front..... hummmph. Not giving up. PAF or two. Confirmed looking in the right general area. Then one of the friends I phoned turned up. Had been with a group and hadn't actually found it herself or seen exactly where it had come from but still managed to find it in under 5mins when I had been looking for 40! Had felt it but not realised that it wasn't structure I was feeling as nice snug hide. Going to claim the 'find' anyway - but might go looking for a 2nd cache today to feel I can claim another day in my 146 day streak.

Dropped by to land a TB in NZ. Much quieter later in the day!!!

I and JBG63 took these caches on our holiday to Australia and New Zealand. We went from home on the 5th of January and came back home on the 30th of January. First we stayed in Sydney for four nights and then we went to New Zealand, Auckland. We hired a car and drove up north to Whangarei and around. Then we drove back to Auckland and down to Waitomo caves, Rotorua and in Wellington we left our car. Instead we met a friend from work who was there as a guide with his Swedish group. We followed them in their bus from Wellington and down thru the west coast of the south island. In Queenstown we stayed for two nights and then we followed with the bus to a boat trip in Milford Sound. When we came to Dunedin we hired a car again and drove up to Christchurch from where we took a plane home thru Sydney, Singapore and London. We have had a wonderful trip and seen lots of new beautiful places and met lots of nice people. Thanks for all these new places and caches.

Took this cache on our holiday in New Zeeland. Took it with iza. Greetings from SWEDEN. Tftc.

Thanks for the cache!

TFTC! Found with YayBeards.

Left very frustrated as I normally enjoy these types of caches. I will be back another day.

Very disappointed not to find this one! We searched all the likely places but just couldn't find it.
Greetings from Wales

I can't believe it has taken me 75 mins in the last year to find this... I swore I had looked everywhere at least twice...

glad the area very quite as it took more than a few minutes to find!

Stopped by just before 7am to try this one. GZ was nice and clear and I'm glad I picked this time. This would be problematic during the day at the moment. It looks like the spot where the tradies have their smokes. Students will be gone for the holidays. It took me a wee while to locate the cache. Stashed in a nice wee spot. Signed log and have kept my streak going, day 78 now. Thanks for placing this cache in the ol' Polly.
#652

This one was hard to find, but after looking around I found a spot that I overlooked in the first place.
Et voila!
Merci de smorp7

Quick find tftc

Had a really good look, but had seat instead

Found, after a bit of searching...was probably good that it was 6.00am...this corner must 'buzz' during the day, what with it being a smokers area and all that. TN:LN:SL. TFTC. #168 for us.

Reperio at 1850.

This was one of many caches found today with Roostaman on day 7 of our New Zealand mega caching holiday, after completing Thompsons Track series, we continued on our way into Christchurch to find a few more. We must have picked a good time to be here as there were no muggles about. After a short search...we soon had the cache in hand.

Gratias Troodles.

It took a bit, but we finally found it. Thanks!

Find # 4759 and a total of 113 today with Marcus Vitruvius, on our NZ Mega trip.
Another day of Mega caching after arriving back in Christchurch for a few more days.
Another nice cache and hide and then on the way again.
TFTC Troodles,
Roostaman.

Took a little while before we put our hands on the right spot, but we found it. Thanks!

TFTC

Found while on tour with The Empire on the way to the NZ Mega event
tftc

Found by The Empire with tackle_head
Day one of the trek south to the NZ Mega, our eighth cache of the trip.
We spent the first night in Christchurch, it was my first time here. Great to see the city bouncing back from adversity. My thanks to Troodles for the cache.
- M
Melbourne, Australia.

In Christchurch today to explore this beautiful city on my way to the NZ Mega in Dunedin... My heart goes out to all those affected by the earthquake...

The weather was great here today. Warm in the car & a cool breeze outside...

Grabbed this cache whilst travelling & taking photos around this city...

Thanks For The Cache Troodles

An easy find on our first night in Christchurch with the Earthbounds. Forgot the torch but still found quickly. TFTC

Found in the company of the Walenators on our first day of caching on the South Island before heading to Dunedin for the Mega. TFTC

Must be missing something no where to be seen

Have been looking forward to checking this site out. Not to many muggles around however the offices do have mirrored glass...haha the things we must look like. Thanks for helping me around the city!

First Christchurch find thanks to the now welly based Troodles who we puzzled over for sometime recently! Introduced Ginni to the lifestyle. TFTC

Nup

Sunday morning raid. Tftc

TFTC:)

TFTC. A great find!

Found during our cycle-cache tour of whats left of the CBD.

TFTC, no muggles this time.

Taking a walk round the red zone on our visit to Christchurch. So sad to see the almost total destruction.
Easy cache find.
Thank you. David and Noeline.

Picked this one up tonight after a quick bite at a nearby BK. Hadn't been to this spot before, I really liked the sculpture nearby. Found this cache with no real trouble, although GPS had me a good 8-10m away from GZ. First of a short night run with S-L-P.

Found after a sweet burger king dinner, with teamelliottfamily. Nice hide tftc

Greetings from Ayrshire, Scotland! Loved the sculpture next to this one. TFTC

Ended up first in a rose bush, then clicked, I'm in the wrong place. Then found it. Was strolling around the CBD, well what's left of it. TFTC

tftc

I enjoyed finding this cache with some Scouts, while out on a walk. Several new converts, I think!

Knew where it was from other wanderings but normally lotsa muggles so left- today no-one around so quick pickup and off to the next.

One of 16 finds today on a pedestrian trip around the city
TFTC

Found this while out on a training bike ride approx 7:25am, a few muggles out they were not taking any notice of me. I used to be a regular visiter here many years ago studying, it was nice to sit on a seat write up the log opposed to rushing from class to work and back again. TFTC.

Passed this on my way to my lodgings in Canterbury and was thinking that surely there must be a cache here but carried on as I had my bag with me and needed to go check in at my accommodation. Once settled in I needed to head in this direction anyway. However no luck with the cache, I first started with the obvious, nothing there and some results of vandalism around, but I suspected I might be looking for someone else and the previous log confirmed it. However nothing where I thought it would be, and one option I tried turned out to be a genuine feature and not the cache at all!

Nice hiding spot and need container; I might have to get some of those myself.

The coords pointed somewhere else and that seemed "reasonable" regarding the hint, but I did not find it . Some disappointment came, 5km walking for nothing [?] But a bit more searching in the close surroundings revealed the cache quickly. Was a quite lonely place there tonight. TFTC, Wei

Found whilst walking the perimeter of the red zone. Truely amazed at the damage caused.

Thank for setting this cache up.

Think i saw someone leave this cache, thanks for the wave. TFTC

Relatively quick find. No muggels in the rain. TFTC

Quick find. Tftc

No one here which is a nice change since it's a very popular spot each time I've been here. TNLN Thanks

Easy find.

We found this cache on our last day in NZ.
Exact 1 year after the earthquake.

T4TC
wijo (holland)

Another nice evening for a walk and another good find..thanks

Found it today in a short break before getting a car. Had no muggles and could search and log easily.

This entry was edited by j-sch on Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 07:54:56 UTC.

Dropped Tardis_chick off at her accommodation across the road to start her degree this weekend, so we had to do the nearby cache! TFTC
Cheers,
G.

Such an interesting piece of art. Great location. TFTC!!

A quick find, my last for tonight. Cheers!

Found on the way to Buskers Festival TFTC from Czech Republic

Quick find at way from the airport (where I dropped a friend) to the hostel.
TFTC,
Fuxl

found in today's the day's search cache. Everything I went through on foot, in the city and in nature, and thank you for the interesting places in New Zealand. Greeting from the Czech Republic

Going around the closed area i found this one. Tftc.

Thought today would be a nice quiet muggle free day to find this one. It was nice weather and quiet (as it has been for a while here) ... but a muggle was firmly fixed near GZ. Fortunately he had chosen the other set of seats to site in, and I was just out of sight. A quick find and off home. Last of 4 today - first one this morning on my bike, and the other 3 while getting daughter to todays work location with the PopUp Picnics.

First find of the year after a bit of a tour of the shaken city. Campus as like most of the CBD was very quiet and empty...Thanks for this one.

Loved the number sculpture at the entrance. Thanks Troodles.

A quick find on a stop to have a look at some of the damage in the area this evening while visiting Christchurch. Signed log, TFTC!

Hard to believe that this is the centre of Christchurch, so quiet and no one around.
Thanks
erninz

easy find.

easy find

Liebe Cachebesitzerin, lieber Cachebesitzer!

Ich habe meine Funde bisher immer gemeinsam mit team_BAFL geloggt (diesen habe ich am 07.12.2011 als meinen 1352. Cache gefunden), habe aber seit einigen Wochen einen eigenen Account bei geocaching.com und logge daher alle bisher gefundenen Caches nach. Ich hoffe, das ist in Ordnung für dich! Leider hat das Nachloggen im ersten Versuch nicht einwandfrei funktioniert, daher musste ich bei einigen Caches die ersten Logs wieder löschen.

mairona

Dear cacheowner!

In the past I logged my founds together with team_BAFL (I found this cache on 07.12.2011 as my 1352. cache), but I hace my own account at geocaching.com since a few weeks and therefore I log all my past founds for this account. Thanks for your cooperation! At my first attempt there were some problems with the logs, thats why I deleted them.

mairona

Liebe Cachebesitzerin, lieber Cachebesitzer!

Ich habe meine Funde bisher immer gemeinsam mit team_BAFL geloggt (diesen habe ich am 07.12.2011 als meinen 337. Cache gefunden), habe aber seit gestern einen eigenen Account bei geocaching.com und logge daher alle bisher gefundenen Caches nach. Ich hoffe, das ist in Ordnung für dich!

Knilchi

Dear cacheowner!

In the past I logged my founds together with team_BAFL (I found this cache on 07.12.2011 as my 337. cache), but I hace my own account at geocaching.com since yesterday and therefore I log all my past founds for this account. Thanks for your cooperation!

Knilchi

[blue]#2139[/blue]
@1430hrs

We found this cache easily.

TNLN

thx for this cache!

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[orange]team_BAFL (impr.) from Austria[/orange]

This entry was edited by team_BAFL on Saturday, 17 December 2011 at 06:16:55 UTC.

A nice spot to view some of the current work happening in the Central City. TFTC

A quick find as we travelled across the city. Still sad to see so much earthquake destruction. TFTC

Found with a fellow cacher and two muggles as part of a staff event. One of the newcomers lay her hands on the cache first. TFTC

We had a short stay at Christchurch. The destruction of the city which is still ubiquitous astonished us. How sad a fate!

Found suspect location, reach down and got lucky first hit. TFTC.

Day one of our round-trip holiday on the south island we spend in the city of Christchurch. Our first impression was the significant amount of damage that the horrible February earthquake caused to the city. The whole central part is still locked of and one can see damaged and collapsed buildings everywhere...what a pity. Nevertheless, the city did not lose its charm and is still a nice place to dwell.
When we were about 40 meters away from the cache and we say the hint, we thought that this will a really tough one, since we had the sculpture in plain way. However, coming closer, it was obvious that the hiding place was not really that complicated. After a short search, we were successful.
Thanks for the cache
Tasaio
Team Dragonslayer

Wow, I would not have expected it to be this bad here still. Afterall, the big shake occurred in February, didn't it? It took Tasaio und me quite some time to detour around the city centre. Quite a pity as some glimpses gave away the nice places hidden there.

This cache gave us another perspective of the current state of the city...

Thanks to the hint it was very easy for us to locate the box. Also there were not many muggles around, so no danger from this side. Once completed, we marvelled a bit more at the traces of the quake and went on.

Thanks for the hide here, greetings from Germany

da_miche
together with Tasaio of Team Dragonslayer

A quick and easy find. Thank's for the Cache and greet's from Germany.
Lisablyton

A quick find whilst crossing town in the early evenings rain ....Thanks.

Second attempt to find this between classes. I must have been lazy the first time TFTC.

#549: Polly Found a Cache.


I was over on this side of town visiting a great electronics parts shop on Essex Street. I've been past the nearby sculpture a couple of times, and always wondered what it was. Very impressive to watch them cleaning it today. Cache is a fun hunt, as the coords are a bit off, but nothing to worry about. No muggles about at this time in the morning. Saw some of the places being demolished or repaired just up the road. Very heavy feeling.


SL/TFTC!

Nice spot on the borders of the city cordon. TFTC.

TFTC

Riding past and stopped to look for this. Nice to sit in the sun and fill in the log. TFTC

In town for a spot of disaster tourism so thought we would do some caches also. The devastation is certainly worse than it looks on TV. Nice quick easy cache. TFTC.

Drove around in circles it seemed until I found the right route and a park. No muggles around to disturb the find and log. TFTC.

My GPSr was a bit off, but found it.