Salmon hooked on (Canterbury) Rakaia, South Island, New Zealand
By La Vista on 28-Mar-10. Waypoint GC25T1C

Got caught while caching in Rakaia,our stealth skills should be higher;but luck for me and for my sister,it was none other than "la vista";from the nice chat that did ensue,our hunger for more caches grew;to Christchurch we now make our way,and wish "la vista" a good day!

We stopped here on our journey from Christchurch to Dunedin and quickly found what we were looking for.Many thanks for placing and maintaining the cache and best wishes from Frankfurt am Main.TFTCFBBHaegar

Hello La Vista,Another day, another Cache.Together with Dr Donna travelling through New Zealand. We arrived at Auckland Airport and made our way up north. After visiting Cape Reinga we went on our way South to reach Stewart Island with stops in many different Citys all over the country. Of course we have an open eye for nice Caches but take what we can get. Today we came across your Cache "Salmon hooked on (Canterbury)" and signed the logbook with our names or took pictures for Virtuals and Earthcaches.Its great how many nice spots we are able to discover through our journey and how many of them we only See because of Geocaching! Thanks for bringing us to this place and takeing care for the geocache. Liebe Gre und vielen Dank fr die Hege und Pflege deines Traditional Cache! -moge-#############Der Cache "Salmon hooked on (Canterbury)" von "La Vista" war fr mich Cache 6670. Gefunden am 18 November 2024.Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat der Cache die Wertung 2.0 / 1.5 (d/t)

On our tour we drive through different landscapes and learn a lot about the history and origins through lab caches, virtual and earth caches.We walk through nice villages, enjoy the food and coffee or smoothie and also like to look for traditional and bonus containers. The city was beautiful and the Labcaches were good to answer. Here we spent an new little Box with an Logsheet!!!We would like to thank all the owners for the caches and send warm greetings from the Moorhelmi from Germany.

tmann421 and I are heading back to Christchurch after attending the MEGA finding caches along the way.We enjoyed all the caches found and thank the cache owners for their efforts in maintaining these for us to findLog signed tm/ww NZTFTC

Had to refer to previous logger and those coords. After a long search this did the trick! Tftc

Accio 08:27:33My first visit to South Island. Over the ditch for the Dunedin Mega, and arrived about midnight, and after a very short sleep am on my way south, but first a couple of caches on the way. Including this one.Thanks La Vista for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12764}*

The coords were out - but Tiz13 did some magic to put us in the right location, and the cache was spotted. Next, for a bit of fun on the playground, so dizzy!Thanks La Vista

Coordinates changed from:S 43 45.339 E 172 1.507Coordinates changed to:S 43 45.397 E 172 1.491Distance from original: 359.9 feet or 109.7 meters.Came by to check cache update coords.

Coordinates changed from:S 43 45.397 E 172 1.491Coordinates changed to:S 43 45.347 E 172 1.491Distance from original: 304.3 feet or 92.7 meters.this should be better!

Co not right ended up going with an old log cO ..FYI it's not on the play equipment but now it's time to go play on the roller thing before we get blown away .. well the roller thing was an epic fail for me.

We are four ladies from Sweden who are visiting Australia and New Zeeland We are logged as TULP This was one of the caches we found Thanks from Sweden

We are four ladies from Sweden on visit in New Zealand. We log as TULP (tigertassen, ursus67, lnganfans and pidjas). Today we drove from Christchurch to Dunedin. When we had access to wifi (mobile net) we made some stop. This was one of the stops.A big thank you to CO for the cache.

Four Swedish ladies driving around in NZ looking for caches. We log as TULP. Thank you

D var det dags fr lite ventyr. Resan gr till Sydney i Australien och sedan vidare till Christchurch och Dunedin p Nya Zeeland .P resan ker Tigertassen, jag sjlv, ursus67, Lnganfans och Pidjas, vilket gr att vi loggar under det gemensamma namnet "Tulp". Tanken r att vi innan vi ker hemt ska ha beskt ett Megaevent, Geo Toroa.Hlsningar frn Sverige, sdra Lappland Then it was time for a little adventure. The trip goes to Sydney in Australia and then on to Christchurch and Dunedin in New Zealand .On the trip are, Tigertassen, myself, ursus67, Lnganfans and Pidjas go, which means that we log under the common name "Tulp". The idea is that before we go home we should have visited a Megaevent, Geo Toroa. Greetings from Sweden, southern Lapland

NZ_B and I are on a road trip to the Geo Toroa Mega. I'm also hoping to get a multi everyday, so it is now titled the "Mega Multi Road Trip". Today is Day 4 from Christchurch to Timaru. This cache was one on our journey. Stopping here for the virtual we used the nearby picnic table to send our answers. Along came another couple with a GPS taking a photo of the plaque. Had to laugh. They joined in on the search for this one. Thanks to a past finder for the tip on about 15m out, that helped. Thank you La Vista. It's nice to have a trip where alongside targeted caches we also take time to find one's on a whim or ones that take a bit longer. We have all day and the caches are calling...

Day eight of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.A traveling day today from Christchurch to Oamaru (with a few caches on the side!)The cache was about 10m from GZ, but in an obvious spot.Found with a couple of NZ cachers on their way to the Mega.Thanks, Robmc.

A plan was hatched quite a while ago when the Dunedin Mega was announced to come over to the South Island again.I have only been to New Zealand twice before and I loved the South Island.So a chance to come back for a Mega was a no brainer for me.Everything was booked and I flew in on Saturday after a bit of a delay.After a great few days in and around Christchurch its time to head to Twizel for the night with a detour via Mount Cook.So Day 4 of my Mega NZ trip begins and Im on my own again so lets go find a few more caches along the way.Now that would be one big fish to reel in.Cache was located using one of the previous finders coords.Thanks La Vista TFTC.

After completing the virtual we walked across to find this cache. After checking a tree at GZ we read a few logs which then helped us to locate this cache. The Australian cachers we met at the plaque for the virtual joined us and soon we had the cache in hand. It is now at a height of about 1 metre above the ground.TFTC La Vista.And so 7 days after returning home from a five month trip to the UK and Europe, I am off on another trip. This time its within New Zealand as Itchyfeet2020 and I are on our mega road trip to Dunedin. We are focussing on particular caches for various challenges, as well as having a great lot of fun and seeing the scenery in our wonderful land. -LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!!On May 3rd, 2025, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in Rotorua, New Zealand with a special Block Party event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the "[GCAKR25](https://coord.info/GCAKR25) 25 Years of Geocaching NZ! event page, the [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz/?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your "Will Attend" log onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.-

Great way to stretch our legs and a for toilet stop tftc

Thank you! Good find for the 4yo!

**S 43 45.345' E 172 01.502'**#3864 Today is day 8 of my geocaching holiday in New Zealand. I'm driving from Timaru to Omaru first, then up north to Christchurch. Of course, I find geocaches along the way.It took me some time to get this one as the coordinates were off. Found it about 15m off at 2m high. I put it back to 1m.La Vista, thank you for the cache!-crystaloops from Taipei, Taiwan on October 8, 2024 @ 19:34:36[GC25T1C] Salmon hooked on (Canterbury) was a D2.0/T1.5 Micro Traditional Cache at the time of finding.

Found it with Ramakristan, wasnt an easy cache to find but luckily, luck is on our side.TFTC to Co.

Was not easy to find this cache, took me & my wife awhile to find it, we were at the wrong place but checking the logs, we realized we searched at the wrong place, luckily helps from log, we finally found it. We were on the way from Lake Tekapu heading to Christchurch & stopped by for a toilet stop, both Virtual & traditional were as well, what a lucky break.

In Rakaia today, so naturally grabbed this cache while I was here, nice quick find, TFTC

On way home from Bookarama

Thanks!

Its very easy to find Its in the tree

Heading home from a very quick trip to the big smoke and annielin said lets try to turn the sad face into a smile so we did z quick search soon had the smiley we were looking for. Now a quick pit stop on back on the road south. Found with Annielin and Abbykitt Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow , theres no hill to high or valley to low , so let's goooo and have as much fun and adventures as possible tomorrow may never come and we never know what tomorrow may hold for us all just do it Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns , lets just go for it .Thanks for the hide tftc

3 years ago I dnf, today I have a smilie.Thanks for making us stop here, always great to see the big un.Now heading home and will see a brown trout on the way!!

Found during a quick stop for our caching buddy to charge their EV. Took a bit of looking, but soon had it in hand.

Was so high i couldn't get it but 20 min late i didlve spot fir all ages

Couldnt find it but a beautiful day to be looking.

TFTC nice quick find with nzref

Nice easy find with claireyc

Pit stop to photo the big fish. A few muggles around but a successful find

Amazing fresh sunny day in the middle of winter, finally found it

Shadey spot fun for the kids

Great spot. Thanks

Found this sweet wee cache. TFTC

Easy, fun find to do with the kids. Bring a pen/pencil

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC25T1C Salmon hooked on (Canterbury)31 May 2024T16:38:15 NZSTTFTC La VistaQuick find between playing at hamsters and jet boating with heihei

This ticks off another of my 360 degrees from home thank you

Good find! No pencil with it though.

Found it, no pencil, bring one with you

While in the South Island of New Zealand for a 20 day walking experience. We were driving back to Christchurch when nature called. That is one massive fish. Nice looking town here. Greeting from Australia

Great place to stop and an easy find. The pencil is missing, and I didn't have anything small enough to fit to replace it

It certainly is a mighty fish. Great playground for kids here too. Thanks for the Virtual.

Oops booboo. Wrote this up as the Virtual by mistake. Both now done and this one logged. Sitting free tho so put back where found. Sorry my mistake.

Found it but no pen. Photo evidence attached. Tftc.

Hi

On the way south we stopped here.After searching for a while we could find this cache.What a big fish here too.Thx for this cache and greetings from the Siamkiwi

Thanks La Vista for the cache!

Way too many muggles to keep looking que sera sera. Two Aussies enjoying NZ for 6 weeks

Good spotting Sally you were in the bushes today

TFTC. Well hidden

In the final week of what has been a 2.5 month working holiday through South East Asia and Oceania. Some roughly accurate overall trip stats:~ 830 total finds (non-AL)- 424 in Australia- 196 in New Zealand- 131 in Thailand- 40 in Hawaii- 14 in South Korea- 12 in Nevada- 5 in Indonesia- 4 in Malaysia- 2 in Laos- 1 in MyanmarOf the 830 total finds, roughly 110 of them were multis (my favorite cache type).14 year 2000 caches including all of the year 2000 caches in OceaniaOldest caches found in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and Indonesia9 virtual only fizzy fillers (5/5, 4/3, 1.5/3.5, 2/4.5, 4/3.5, 2.5/5, 2.5/4, 2/5, 3/4.5)2 earthcache only fizzy fillers (2.5/3.5, 3/3.5)4 California original fizzy fillers (5/2.5, 2/4.5, 3.5/4.5, 4.5/1.5)Many thanks to all the COs who have placed these caches for me to find!Nice twofer!

Quick find after Salmon photo stop, TFTC

The salmon was fun! Thanks for the stop. TFTC

Thank-you for another great cache

TFTC. Lovely spot

After choosing the right tree found.Tftc.

Nice park, glad we stopped here

Quick easy find. Tftc. Thanks for getting me out and about while wife had her coffee.

Found it on a quick stop. TFTC forestcats on world cruise 2024

My husband and i are on holidays for 2 weeks from BrisbAne Australia and today we were travelling from Dunedin to Christchurch and picked up a few smileys on the way. This was a fun stop and i nearly did not find this as there were a lot of muggles around but then i noticed a fellow cacher and soon enough had the cache in hand. Nice to meet a fellow cacher and thanks for taking us here and for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

We are on a trip in New Zealand. We Just started today . We found and signed this cache in good condition. La Vista, thank you for this cache, regards xizat-NL. Take care, this hobby can develop to an addiction.

TFTC

Good hide, TFTC

On the road to the Tekapo lake , we stopped here to search the cache and take a picture of the salmon. Tftc!

Great place. Easy find. TFTC. Foutleftfeet from sweden

Found!

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 52 - Christchurch, Canterbury - Dunedin, Otago, South Island, Nov Zland (360 km)Rno bylo slunce a ist obloha. Nahzela jsem vci do auta a opustila Christchurch. Teprve dnes se tedy podvm vce na krajinu Novho Zlandu po cest na jih do Dunedin. Je nedle a konec przdnin, tak byl zven provoz. Dlnice vede jen kousek a pak se mn v normln okresku s rychlost 100 a obasnmi pedjdcmi pruhy. Jela jsem pes vesnice a pr mench msteek. Je to tady opravdu trochu jak v Hobitn. Malik pkn domeky a zelen zvlnn krajina s horami na obzoru. Cel den se oteplovalo a do 30C. To zde nen obvykl a m to dost pekvapilo po tch verejch 15C. Zastavovala jsem u vybranch keek nebo jen na prohldku msta a jinak jela. Ve druh pli byla cesta hodn vyhldkov - pohledy na ocen, kopce a kopeky a lesy. Moc pkn. Super byla zastvka u geologick zajmavosti - velkch kulatch utr na pli Moeraki Boulders. Asi 40 km ped koncem cesty se nhle zathlo, objevily se vt kopce a hory a teplota spadla z 27C bhem minuty na 15C. A tak to u zstalo. Dunedin je sice pln u moe ale zrove v horch. Je tu pkn kosa a cel msto se rozlz po kopcch. Jen jsem jej dnes projela cestou ke Star kole, ve kter te budu 4 noci bydlet. Mm hlad a pank je nutn. Tak jsem ve natahala do barku a pak u jen odpoinek.Today I finally went to the countryside and from Christchurch I drove to Dunedin. I really liked the landscape along the way. It was very hot and sunny, but before Dunedin the temperature suddenly dropped from 30 to 15C. I also stopped at some caches and enjoyed a nice day. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

3 weeks (adventure) vacation in New Zealand ???????? for dschinny and me. We were very excited about what awaits us and simply were looking forward to a wonderful time together in this beautiful country ?? We spent 1.5 weeks on the North Island and the rest of the time on the South Island, had an incredible time, visited so many interesting/awesome/breathtaking spots and locations - I am sure that we will never forget this time here at New Zealand our whole life!One of our last days of our 3 weeks roadtrip through beautiful New Zealand. We left Oamaru this morning after breakfast and made some caches on our way to Christchurch, where we visited the concert of Foo Fighters ?? this evening.We also made a stop for the nearby VirtualCache and could also find this cache too.Thanks a lot for this cache and many greetings from two German GC-crazy New Zealand vacationers ???? zh9 ??

Thanks a lot, nice wee fund while we had a picnic!

Great find! Another family were looking at the same time!

**#17748** After the virtual cache nearby I went to look for the **Salmon hooked on (Canterbury)**It didnt take long and I had located the container and signed the logsheetThank you La Vista for contributing to the game by the placement and care of the cache. TFTC

Quick stop and find.Had failed here on an earlier attempt

Good spot

Trouve:) Almost gave up as it started raining, but checked previous logs and quickly found it !

a perfect stop during the roadtrip for a pic with the salmon, thank you to have us stopped here! nice ideacheers from austria

Finalmente con Eletab sono arrivate le nostre vacanze in Australian e New Zealand.1 e 2 GiornoViaggio davvero lungo, pi di 18000 km da casa in linea d'aria !!!Appena arrivati affrontiamo una Trady per ottenere il badge ma poi alziamo subito la posta con una multi ma la stanchezza prende il sopravvento e abbandoniamo velocemente per uscire a cena.La vera caccia inizia solo domani..3 GiornoCi svegliamo presto e abbiamo 2 ore e mezzo prima di colazione per cui i primi 10000 passi volano cos. A fine giornata arriviamo a farne le quattro volte di piu' (39.000). Abbiamo visitato un mercato di prodotti alimentari locali e esplorati 3 bellissimi parchi. 4 GiornoOggi abbiamo deciso di provare a usare i monopattini. Io non posso reggere un numero tale di passi per due settimane.... Una figata, io sono abituato ma Elio si comporta divinamente e per me se lo comprer hihihi. Nonostante questo arriviamo a oltre 20000....5 Giornomattina presto ci facciamo 2 ore e mezza di monopattino in giro per Lab poi partiamo per Dunedin per cercare le cache storiche che ci interessano. Qualche sosta obbligatoria a cache di elevato valore statistico allietano il viaggio !!! About this cache:carino questo mega salmone !!! Poi avere una Virtual e una Traditional vicine un valore aggiunto che non ha prezzo...Thanks Owner

Direzione Dunedin ci fermiamo x far visita al grande salmone.Saluti dall'ItaliaTFTC

We started our road trip today making our way from Christchurch over to Otematata. We picked up a few caches on the way. We stopped off here and grabbed a couple. This took a bit of searching but we eventually found itTFTCTim and Viv - ddm

Great took forever

On our holiday driving around in New Zealand we stopped here for coffee. Well the rest of the family did. I went caching TFTC. My find no. 8.198. The cache is dry and in good condition.

Very busy muggle day at the end of the year. Snatched the cache between wandering tourists, sustained a few scratches courtesy of the cache guardian. Lovely hot blustery day here, cache in good condition. TFTC!

Nicely hidden! This was my second attempt; glad to have found it this time around.

14:45 odloveno.TFTC !!!

Yay!

Woohoo

Auf unserer Reise nach Christchurch hier vorbei gekommen und die Dose nach einer Weile gefunden.

Looked everywhere!

We didnt find today

First stop on our road trip. Good plaice for lunch Found on floor. Replaiced higher but not sure its in the correct plaice (See what we did there)TFTC

TFTC. Fishy fishy

Drove past so many times, finally made time to stop! Found the lid and paper on the ground and returned to GZ. TFTC

Quick find

Easy find. Did not sign

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