Four Sisters (Canterbury) Oaklands, South Island, New Zealand
By HotPJ on 13-Mar-10. Waypoint GC250DW

log missing

I solved the puzzle and found the magnets. Was waiting for new log but it is now archived. I did the required work so are logging as a find.

Replacing missing cache

Cache is gone but magnets remain.

Nice hide
Tftc

With Sonia 26642 Back logging now for all my previous finds over the last 9 months....

First find for the day. First crack had me in the wrong place. Looked at the numbers , saw where I went wrong and then had the cache in hand. TFTC.

14/09/2013 03:44PM
# 3077
I had finally finally hopefully fixed the last thing that needed fixing on my car!! My brakes!! Did a few lots up and down my street with the hazards on, testing them out... and yup, they were on!! Pretty pleased with myself, so time to find a cache that's a wee bit of a way more out I decided. Somewhere where I could go over 80km/h at least was needed here!! But couldn't take too long, as I had volunteering starting at 5pm, and I can't leave after that till 9am the next morning!!

This seemed like a good location, and I had viewed this cache page before, so had a basic idea on what needed doing.

Came along, and very quickly cottoned on to all the clues. One of them we had two possibilities for, but then with the hint deduced which would be the real one!

A nice wee cache. And an amazing so tucked away wee location! Amazing that it has lasted this time!!

But reading this sign reminded me of another Magdalene Covenant. The movie, the Magdalene sisters. Very very sad, but a fantastic movie - I'm sure the sister here lived better though!

TFTC!!

Quick find. TFTC.

Tftc. Good start to a nice day.

I didn't realise this was a puzzle until I had been poking away for a few mins. Had to write the co-ords on my hand. Our co-ords were not quite right but were able to make a quick find anyway. Another very interesting spot and another favourite. TFTC

A very interesting bit of Christchurch history, and a place I had no idea existed. Couldn't get an answer for D, plus it seems I got E wrong, but I still manged a find despite all that.

Many thanks for the hide.

Another interesting HotPJ cache. I havent been in Christchuch that long, but even I remember when the houses and some of the roads werent here. But, I never noticed the graveyard before. Cheers for the lesson.

Must have mucked up one of the answers but with the aide of the hint this was an easy find. A very pleasant way to enjoy a lunch break from work in what turned out to be a lovely restful spot to de-stress recharge. The cache wasn't especially well hidden and the owner may wish to check that it's hide is as they intended. I replaced where I found it but am afraid that it might easily be spotted by muggles. Perhaps the owner should consider an alternative method to attach the cache at GZ. TFTC

Had this one on my radar for a fair time and had been to GZ once before to gather the info but did not find the cache. Tonight decided it was time and the cache was a quick and easy find in the gathering darkness. TFTC and the interesting info.

Thanks for sevren for solving again the puzzle tftc quick and easy find

An amazing, contemplative spot I never knew existed. Great puzzle (mult-choice is my favorite). A favorite from me

Took longer than it should have, messed up counting the number of crosses first time around; TFTC

Quick easy find after completing the research. Had to check after one of the answers could have gone either way. This is yet another cache in one of my subdivisions, just completing the last two stages of this one with over 1000 sections in total. Thanks for the effort in placing.

New replacement log.

Replacing logbook as it has been mangled.

Had my eye on this one for quite a while but hadn't had a window of opportunity until today. This cache is worthy of a favourite - it's great to be brought to places like this to learn about some of the local history. TFTC

357 - This was a beautiful morning to visit the four sisters. What a lovely spot. Wandered around and gathered all the info and then the fun started. Geochecker kept telling me I was incorrect. In the end I gave up trying to check the final co-ordinates and went with what I thought and there it was. I was really surprised to find the cache exactly where the co-ordinates were that I had been putting into geochecker, but being told they were incorrect. TFTC

Leraning about geocaching at discovery 1 with the the help of Theroamingreliever. This is lots of fun.

Found it by mistake

Wow life of the contemplative! Wonderfully informative cache. TFTC, SL took geo coin.

Yea boy! My first one

Very enjoyable mystery tftc no. 500 for me yay tftc

Was relieving at Discovery One and come down to meet my caching friend to find after school. Justanurse has solved and we then found together.

Dropped off a GC while I was passing

Great little history multi. Had to review one question and found I had retreated to right beside the cache to try and get myself on the right track again. TFTC, I enjoyed it.

Worked this one out a long time ago.
But because of open/public location was reluctant to
go there on my own. Today, happened to be walking
near by with our two grandsons and remembered it.
One of them actually found it.
And yes there was a great big spider in residence too.

Found easily after getting the coords, which were out, but had a good guess!

We researched the answers to this puzzle cache last time we were in Christchurch (18 months ago) but our co-ords put us in a grassy area. It was getting dark, with no time to check our answers, so before we left we had a quick look at a nearby likely hiding spot, without success. Took another look at the cache page before this trip, spotted the one question that was open to interpretation, and tried the resulting co-ord change. Success! This time at GZ a quick find. TFTC!

# 3976

We visited the Four Sisters and researched the answers on our last trip to Christchurch (18 months ago), but the resulting co-ords led us to a grassy area. It was getting dark and we did not have time to re-check our answers, so we briefly searched a nearby structure without success before leaving. Had another look at the cache page before this trip, and realised that one of the questions was open to interpretation. Made a slight change, and this time success! Today we made a return visit to the Four Sisters, and spotted the cache after a short search. TFTC.

# 3976

Beautiful day

Q&As and Geochecker recheck and all working as it should.

Finished the questions and got the Final. Not too hard.
Strange thing is Question D seems wrong.
There is no correct answer for the oldest resident.
I tried the geochecker and get INCORRECT everytime.
Anyway I managed to find the Final anyway. TFTC.

found it first cache

found this cache, but almost got eaten by spiders, tftc

Nice area to end up in. TFTC.

3rd time today I managed to find a final without doing the hard work. I like that sort of challenge. TFTC

Found after stumbling over a couple of the points, one of the center crosses are a bit worse for wear. Found nice and easy. TFTC (#185, 9.13pm)

A beautiful area and an interesting sign that we closely inspected thinking that I had already solved the puzzle - oppsss. All credit to Mr B on this one - had his thinking cap on and came up with a quick find. TFTC.

What a choice spot to enjoy the sun and contemplate. Interesting history. TFTC.

Another one I have been meaning to get to this one since Unlimited High School moved onto the Hallswell Residential School site.
Interesting reading about the history of the site we are now on.

Didn't understand question D.
We will come back to this one.

An excellent cache. Well done. TFTC

A quick find after working through the puzzle. An interesting area, quiet and peaceful. TFTC

What a nice area to find a cache! One of our first puzzle caches, and the lesson was well worth our time! TFTC

A very enjoyable history lesson in a tranquil location.

What an excellent spot to visit, and now it has a great multi cache too. Thanks.

An interesting historical spot indeed. It turns out that we couldn't follow instructions the first time around, but managed to get things to work in the end. Cheers Gav [7095]

A great wee spot - very good we cache. I loved it.

Tftc

5498 Interesting historical puzzle, great to learn about the Four Sisters and their colleagues, many thanks for history lesson, TFTC.

Found this spot a while back whilst out for a family walk....nice to stumble across a cache in the area and come back for a return visit...Easy find.

I too struggled with one of the questions, but after trying a few options found it with ease. Thanks for showing me part of my neighbourhood I didnt know about!

We loved finding this nice little spot that we didn't know was here.But spent sometime lurking here as one question didn't seem to fit,but thank goodness for the Hint,and it was finaly found.A lot of Builders in the area today but they were to busy to notice us,we hope.

was very easy[:o)]

5 one today

What a cool bit of history, that I never knew was here.

Bitsprayer

There is certainly a lot of history associated with this cache. Thanks for bringing us here. TFTC

3301. A very interesting area made for a great little multi.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

An interesting bit of history in a nice setting. Thanks for the cache.

What a lovely spot and the history lesson made it more interesting. Unfortunately, the drizzle was getting heavier so we couldn't linger. (The marble inscriptions are quite hard to read in the wet, especially if ones glasses are back in the car!)
The number of crosses question is open to intrepretation. Our answer came up cacheless. Then StreetWalker spotted another likely looking spot, and we were relieved to find the cache there.
Thanks for bringing me here.

#1389 (3/3 on a drizzly Sunday morning). Went out to find Cahllenged by Maht, and grabbed a couple of newish caches on the way home. Great spot for a cache. As Troodles said, we came up with at least 3 possible answers for E, and with the aid of the hint and some observation found the cache shortly before giving up and reverting to geochecker out of the steady drizzle. TFTC.

Soon after Tom Marvolo's Riddle, had no idea this place existed. TFTC.

So, the big question was, is the path counted as a Cross in the middle?

A nice quiet place today,so had time to have a look around this interesting place.TFTC

Thanks to geocaching you discover these little places.. TFTC

Nice area that I had visited when setting up Tom nearby. Interesting history and place - SL TFTH

Found it odd nobody was walking or biking. Everyone we seen in the subdivision was driving. Any way didn't realise how large the complex was nor the history.

Great little tasks to answer. Well done, TFTC.

I am very proud of myself - the second Aidanfield cache found without solving the puzzle! Don't worry though - I did stay and read stuff!

A really interesting place to visit. We didn't quite get the calculation correct initially, but were able to deduce the location of the cache, then recheck the questions to see where we went wrong. TFTC

Found this multi a bit confusing but got there in the end! Interesting place to visit, met another cacher doing family history research. Thanks.#1220

Love these sort of caches where you get taken somewhere close to home, to an interesting area you've never noticed before, you know nothing about the subject and you learn something fascinating. Thanks so much for this cache. TNLN

Got there in the end, with much discussion over question interpretation. Peaceful spot which I had not known about although living only a km away .Thank you.

A new place to explore. Interesting information. Some workmen having lunch near by, I dont think they were interested in us. TFTC

That wasn't too hard. FtF at 1.20pm We were a little surprised by that.
We scoped out this spot for our last cache. I am glad someone put one here, it is one of Halswell's little surprises and a very nice place.
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

A bit of a head scratcher with some questions but I managed to get there in the end, hoping for a FTF but beaten by a few hours by Sandfly Tucker. Lots of activity on out here, the folks buried here have had an interesting "view" of it all. It's good to see a cache here for them, although it seems more of a multi than an unknown. TNLN, thanks HotPJ.

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