Lady saves a Village (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By La Vista on 12-Nov-09. Waypoint GC20VMR

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

looks like will need replacing

Had a bit of a look, noticed the 2dnfs and decided to try my luck elsewhere .

Could not find this cache...next to the power pole there is a bush that seems to have been cut and I believe that the cache was taken when said bush was cut...

Out looking for geocaches with Tairanium. DNF this one, appeara to be missing.

Thank you for cache. Hope one day this is open to the public to wander through

I was fortunate enough to have a vehicle for a little bit so I ducked out to grab three caches that I had been watching and particularly one puzzle I had solved a while back.
This was the first cache for today and after parking on a side road it was a little walk there and back for the quick find.
Interesting village that can be somewhat seen.
T F T C La Vista.

Kangaprue found it on 14/10/18 cool cache, busy road, forgot a pen

Neat find. I've wondered about this place too.

Nice Cache. TFTC

Nice

Easy find on a lovely sunny day in Canterbury

Quick easy find TFTC

Busy road. Been past this many times
Good to get it done.

Tregearp and I were passing today and noted this cache. We were fortunate enough to know Diana Lady Isaac and some years ago had a tour of the village as it was being started.

We were quite moved to when unexpectedly we found a tribute cache to someone who was a special part of our lives. Many thanks for the cache La Vista.

LD was a friend of SJT_NZ and me and we were lucky enough to enjoy Peacock Springs for our wedding reception and enjoy the company of LD and other guests. While heading to retrieve another cache we drove past a cache and given its location checked out the theme. On the return a gumbootless SJT_NZ braved the puddles for the retrieve and log. Thanks for dedicating a cache to a good friend and I hope at sometime the village will be accessible to the general public as was her wish.

9:05
Just by the title I expected this to be a memorial for some heroine who has saved a village from fire hundred years ago, or something like that.
Turned out it's a different kind of saving. Not less curious though.

TFTC!
#5819

Easy find. Cows were interested.

Christchurch
Today we wanted to visit the city centre, we had not been back to NZ since the earthquake.
The area certainly has changed. We found a coupl e of caches then decided to head out to the sea side. We did a tiki tour of the area.
Thanks for placing this cache La Vista

Only In christchurch for a few hours today while having interview at university for teacher training. So I'm specifically targeting caches close to where I am which have dates or months placed that I need. Quick grab here although got my nice interview clothes dirty. #fail

Nice sunny Sunday drive on the way home. Quick easy find

Up in the area to meet up with the Oamaru Geofest committee. Out with muggle friends on a roadtrip who wanted to visit the zoo and on way we grabbed some caches.

A well cancelled cache and loved the story behind this one.

To find out more about Oamaru Geofest click here

Cool!

It would be great if this place opens to the public one day - it looks fantastic TFTC

We go to watch the planes a lot but finally had a chance to stop and grab this one. Tftc

We always wondered what these buildings were. Finally had a chance to stop and grab this one quickly. Tftc

A nice we hide thanks.

Quick find where all good at GZ. Thanks for another smilie.

Hoping to see you at the [Oamaru Geofest](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6M2V0_oamaru-geofest-2017) during Labour Weekend 21-22 October 2017. Let's all help this a successful event!

Did you know that planning has started for a Mega Event in Wellington in 2018? Check out the details on the [Wellington Event NZ (WENZ) Website](https://sites.google.com/site/wenzgeo2018/home) or visit the event's page on [FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/590545297801072/)

Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Great find thanks to the hint.Fast road!! TFTC

Nice quick find on my way to do the whereigo at the zoo. Tftc

Found all safe and secure on a caching adventure to grab the whereigo at the zoo tftc

Easy find but you need your wits about you as it is close to high speed passing vehicles...take care!

18 February 2017

#2,717: Saving Smiley!
I came to this one after a nice evening mountain bike ride with GeoYoungling #1 (a rare event!). Very interesting site to visit. A security guard in a car pulled out of the site while I was looking, but he drove off after locking up. Quick find, sign, and return. All in good shape!
SL/TFTC!!

I have been planning this trip for a while now as I had some airpoints due to expire and wanted to go somewhere for Wellington Anniversary Weekend. So I've made it a 4 day weekend and come down from Palmerston North for a caching road trip. I have two goals for this weekend, to get to 2500 caches before 23 January (which I've completed) as that is when I took up caching last year and to get caches on as many latitude minutes as possible that will hopefully qualify me for a challenge cache in the Manawatu. This is day four and my last day. I've had a great time and found over 200 caches but it's time to head home to reality.

On to the last couple of caches before heading to the airport. Thankfully it was a quick find here whilst the trucks screamed past but it took a while to return to the road because of them. Love this story. TFTC

Easy find nothing taken nothing left

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Out geocaching with Amyie. She has found her first geocache!

This was my first geocache. Thanks!

Wow. What a great cache. Well hidden.
I struggled until I read the hint.
The fence that appears to be in the photo is gone.
But the light colored line across the road had me very close.
Thank you

Cache#5 for me

Very good spot.

a nice park and grab, almost parked right next to it, TFTC

nice and easy drive in. thanks for the box

Quick park and grab, spotted from the front passengers seat even tftc

Phew. Worried for a minute I was going to miss a day! Great wee cache. Easy find at night too. Tftc

Spent a bit of time couldn't find it busy road at the time

Quick find. Nice spot. Tftc

An interesting story. A quick find while I was passing. TFTC

Well hidden, interesting to read about the 'retirement village'. TFTC!

Wow, that's pretty impressive. I've dreamed about doing this if I had the money. There are just so many beautiful and special historic buildings that are being lost, and it would be wonderful to save them. It's great to see someone is doing it. I look forward to seeing if this place is opened to the public in future. Tftc.

What a fabulous hide. Tftc

Well camouflaged. Took me a few seconds to find. Tftc

Found it yay

Well camouflaged. ..no pencil..fun find

Cool cache. Thanks for the adventure!

Quick stop on our way to the airport. Had a puzzle nearby we had to find. TFTC

TFTC. Found with us04 and Spydude 13.

TFTC. Found with us04 and Lollipopcat.

Kia ora for the cache. Found with Spydude 13 and Lollipopcat.

Quick Find Thanks. GPS-good HINT- good CACHE-good

Nicely camouflaged

Another day, another random drive to cache. We set off after lunch to find a few in the wider area, to see how far we get and what we can fit into an afternoon/evening. The weather was perfect - drizzle the whole day, turning into rain at times, meaning a general paucity of muggles A huge thanks to all CO's for their hides!!!

Straightforward find once I’d managed to cross the busy road. #887. TFTC.

Une dernière cache en New Zealand avant notre prochain retour.. MPLC See you soon

Found on holiday. Nice hide. Left a large diamond. Thanks

Found it, TFTC

Never knew of this place before, how interesting! Tftc...

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On a bit of a clean up mission, picking up some horses we missed a couple of days ago. The Chief has his eye on a challenge cache and this cache was on the way. TFTC

Day 4 of the Mega. Decided to take a drive via the Cty Center to the Goldola. Stopped for a cache on the way and then up the mountain on a glorious day. Did two caches at the top of the mountain and then had lunch there and headed over to the Orana Wildlife Park. Really enjoyed it there and got to see lots of animals. Mycro Man had a ball there. Did a few more caches en route and on the way back to the airport. Thanks for a great day out.

Did with Crystal Fairy.

Quick find on 24/10/15. Tftc

Kyzabra and I headed over for the Christchurch Mega from Perth, WA. We teamed up with our caching buddies from Queensland, Gunnie69 and GhostGums for a bulk of the finds. We were joined by tealby and Urch fir this leg of our journey.

A lot of planning was involved with literally hundreds of puzzles solved and we targeted some highly favorited caches as well as those that filled gaps in grids and calenders!

We had a fantastic time caching in the cooler climate and with no fear of snakes or other nasties! Christchurch is my old home town but I did not know about caching when I lived there so it was fun exploring the City with a different objective.

We were glad to grab the smiley on this one and we replaced the container as found. Thanks La Vista for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

This is my find #4240 and find #10 today.

Jinta29 and I decided to head out this morning and grab a few smileys. we joined up with Urch and Tealby before heading to the Mega.

La Vista - Kyzabra found your cache Lady saves a Village (Canterbury) on 25/10/2015, 9:00 AM. This is my find #4140 and find #10 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

A group of us from Oz over for the Mega teamed up today to go cache hunting, with our wishlist being to find 12 varieties of caches in a day, a feat only possible whilst a Mega is being held.
With many eyes searching we had no problems spotting the cache.
Many thanks for the cache La Vista.

Urch and I were on a mission today, and joined up with Kyzabra and Jinta29 to find 12 different cache types in one day (or 11 types for me, as the Tealby B Team had already found the one & only virtual in Christchurch). This was one of several traditional caches that were found. TFTC.

Nice quick fins while in the area for the Mega, thanks for the fun!

Out on a MEGA adventure with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke) lots of fun with a great mix of cache hides and cache containers TFTC.

A nice quick find during our Aussie trip to the
the NZ Mega.
Thanks for the cache La Vista
troobloo

Out caching with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke) while down for the CHC mega event. This was one of the caches we visited along the way. Thanks to all the owners of caches we found! TFTC

Our team for the Mega weekend was signing as VYV (Vamber, Yorkshirekiwi83 and Vistra). we found quite a few in the short space of time we were together, where I can I will make comments about the cache. We had teamed up back in Auckland and had been busy planning what we were going to target and in what order, of course plans changed even more so when we were down here, but that is part of what makes it fun and I had a great time over the weekend, thanks to all the CO's for placing.

Quick find TFTC


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Tackling caches in Canterbury with vistra and yorkshirekiwi83 on a crazy numbers run for the Christchurch Mega. After some smurfin' good fun, it was time to grab some other hides.

This one was spotted pretty quickly. Thanks for the hide!

Today I teamed up with yorkshirekiwi83 and vamber to hit a couple of the cache trails around Christchurch and find a few other caches along the way. We signed the logs as "VYV" to save time and space on the log. After working on the Smurfs series we toured some of the back roads picking up a few more caches before heading back to the Mega event. TFTC!

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Found 24/10/15. Dogs barking nearby

TFTC. Grabbed onto the way to the Mega bike ride.

Great container, busy spot. TFTC

I was off to MacLeans Island to meet up with a few others for a bike ride. This one was on the way and I was a tad early.

Cheers for the cache.

Nice place. Will be interesting to see if it finally opens to the public. Cache was quickly found.

Found at 09:35 AM - #5473

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on my way to the big city for a few days for work (caching) so had time to pick a few off on my way to the hotel

that's one very busy road , coincidently I did some weed spraying work at the aviary around the corner a few years ago. quick find while dodging traffic tftc

A busy road but an easy find. TFTC

An easy find! Beware of those trucks, they sure whizz by! TFTC

TFTC. Nice easy find for my daughter and I.

Quick find last week some time. TFTC.

What a shame you can't visit the village as it looks like it is well done. I guess that's her place next door? TFTC

This was a nice quick find as we were filling in some time before it became dark and our flight home. TFTC

Nice quick find before it was time to fly away home. T4tc

Nice quick one you were right about the Trucks TFTC