Sheep Country (Canterbury) Cheviot, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 31-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2ED5G

Nice find loved the farm life thanks for the hide

Nice to be out & about thanks

Drivenby this resting ovid so many times, and finally had a reason to stop. Log a tad damp. TFTC

TFTC

Great to see the merino is keeping an eye on the cache.

We were supposed to do a whale watching trip today, but it got cancelled as the whales were outside the area. Instead we set off to find a few caches. We parked next to the lonely sheep and soon after found the cache. Tftc

Nice wee find on our usual journey to Kaikoura and back

Quick find!! Grabbing a few as we head back home to Picton! Tftc!!

Thx

TFTC

Found on this beautiful day Great hide Thank you for Log is very wet. Replaced the log

TFTC a quick find along our journey. Log sheet is soak

Didn't take long till we had cache in hand. Tftc

No one around taking any notice of us so narrowed it down & soon had it.

The last leg of our journey on our 2nd tiki tour in NZ heading from Kaikora down to ChCh grabbing a few caches as we went.We stopped off and once parked the cache was quickly found TFTC Tim and Viv - ddm

Awesome wee cache

Good job Piwaka54 knows her trees! I was aiming at the wrong one. TFTC

Found with Nutty Nora on a crazy hot day

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Found on the way to Picton to ferry. Thank you for the cache.

Nice and easy while waiting for a tow truck

Easy found. Thanks a lot!

Thursday 13 July 2023 8:06 pm. Found the sheep by torchlight on road trip north. TFTC bumandworker # 4019

I couldn't begin to count the times we've driven past here without stopping. I usually managed a "there's a cache over there" though.

Today we'd targeted a cache up the coast near Oaro but were foiled by the weather. Heading home with our tails between our legs there was a break in the weather. "That's where that cache is", "*sigh* do you want to get it?" There's only one answer to that so I leapt out of the now-stationary car. There was an obvious hide, though not *quite* as per the hint, but definitely holding a micro cache. Yay!

TFTC bumandworker
Find number 5076

(Logs signed Rincewind3 or R3 if saving space. Occasionally signed BRN if caching as a team with *B*o&bronnie, *R*incewind3 and *N*otManlyJack)

Road trip to kaikoura quick park n grab

It's easy to miss those Cheviot sheep.

Nice spot it was under the rock instead of bark but all good TFTC

First approach looked too good to be true and it was... Spotted a smaller version of the same and there it was.

T4TC

TEMBO! and I visited "Greta Land" today. On our way to Picton we cam along and found some caches. Sheep Country was one of them.

Thanks to bumandworker for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

TFTC 1st find on.my 1st day of my 2 week holiday on wsy up to picton ferry

TFTC

Ein Besuch in Cheviot und ich habe den Cache gefunden. Danke dafür und Grüße aus Deutschland.
Wir sind unterwegs nach Kaikoura.
A visit to Cheviot and I found the cache. Thank you for that and greetings from Germany. We are on our way to Kaikoura.

Tftc and greetings from Czechia

Never noticed the sheep before.
TFTC

An easy find. Lovely sheep watching over the cache!

Found it. Baaaha!

Managed to grab this one without disturbing the guardian. Was it a Cheviot? I'll have to consult Auntie Google. TFTC .

01.10.2022 14:30 Uhr GMT+11
Gesucht, gefunden, geloggt ...
DfdC DeSchmidt_n #5

Day 6 of my Spring Holiday. Leaving Christchurch and heading to Hamilton with an overnight stay in Picton. A couple of stops along the way and this was the first. A nice quick find here using the truck as cover from the muggle mowing lawns in the house across the road TFTC

A park and grab on the way back from Spotswood; tftc

Quick find after a break in traffic. TFTC

Quick easy find, making a detour into Gore Bay on our way home from Blenheim - TFTC

Love these sheep and have taken photos of family from Holland with them a few times. We have put in a replacement log in black mint container where the cache obviously had a home. Thought Baaabaaara was lonely. Hope this is Ok with you, if not please delete our post and we can collect it on our way home. Thanks for the cache bumandworker.

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and taken the cache with her

Nice sheep. Nice find. Tftc.

Cute wee sheep. TFTC

TFTF just passing thru time for a quick hunt

Quick find, like the sheep!

Have driven through here a number of times recently but had never noticed this lone sheep. A quick find with angelic_kiwi. tftc

A quick stop here and checked the first area with no luck. A second area looked likely and up pops the cache. Signed and returned. tftc

#10195. Day 6 of the South Island road trip around the top of the South Island (Canterbury and Westland) with Infoferret. This trip was planned to replace the Labour weekend Auckland Mega adventure. We have stayed overnight in Murchison and today are heading to Christchurch. The weather has improved in the morning and by time we reached Canterbury it was like a hot summers day.

Finally reached Cheviot, one of our key locations today. Parked nearby and wandered back to GZ. Found in the second place checked.. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks bumandworker for hiding the cache here. Note I added a new logsheet here.

Just pulled ovet and got it

Time to start heading home after a great weekend exploring the kaikoura area grabbing caches along the way..
Quick find tftc

Travelling from Ashburton to Kaikoura to see some whales! Stopped in Cheviot for a spot of lunch and grabbed a cache. TFTC

First one found today. Log needs replacing as full

Nice little sheepy

**13,347**
Coming into Cheviot to collect the PWGT cache, couldn’t resist grabbing this one – used van as cover from any interested muggles and after a false start was away, with cache in hand in no time! TFTC

Found with BoertjieRSA.
Thanks for the cache.

From Pretoria South Africa.
TFTC.
Found with VinnigeVoete

Already found caches in the following countries:
1 South Africa, 2 New Zealand, 3 Australia, 4 USA, 5 Spain, 6 Portugal, 7 Latvia, 8 Estonia, 9 Finland, 10 Andorra, 11 Antigua and Barbuda, 12 Saint Lucia, 13 St Kitts, 14 Netherlands Antilles, 15 Qatar, 16 Mozambique, 17 Swaziland, 18 France, 19 Belgium, 20 Italy,
21 Croatia, 22 Montenegro,
23 Greece, 24 Slovenia,
25 Netherlands
26 Botswana, 27 Namibia, 28 Russia, 29 Turkey, 30 Zambia, 31 Tanzania, 32 Kenya,, 33 Rwanda, 34 Uganda, 35 Malawi,
36 Zimbabwe, 37 Singapore , 38 UK England, 39 Ireland

Wow . Last time I was looking in wrong place. Easy find this time

Not sure how I missed that in a previous visit.

Second searched birch. Patted the stone sheep.

Thank you from Howard and Kath
Manchester UK on tour of South Island

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Found it.

On my way to Christchurch this morning.
I dnf'd this cache over six years ago. Today it was a fairly easy find.
Plenty of signs across the road telling me that the Whanau were all voting Labour in Te Tai Tonga
TFTC

Day 10 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

Having slept parked up in Kaikoura overnight, I awoke to a very fresh but otherwise beautiful morning. Today's plan was to drive from Kaikoura back to Christchurch to catch up with an old friend there before heading further south after that.

Whilst I would simply not be able to stop at every cache I was near on my tour (otherwise I'd be taking 2 years instead of just 2 weeks) I was happy to randomly stop at caches in locations that caught my eye occasionally to break up the journey, such as this one. That way I hoped to be able to add a few more Minutes to my quest to fulfil a Challenge Cache back home.

Once I had parked up and walked towards GZ, I had the place to myself to be able to search uninterrupted, and it wasn't long before I had located the cache. On opening though, I discovered the log was soaking wet! I was still just about able to make my mark on it before replacing everything back as found. Sorry I didn't have any spares on me today.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

Found with NZDi. We were down in Canterbury for the third time since September for follow-up treatment on NZDi's ongoing health issues. The specialist appointment was on Wednesday and yesterday we did some big city retail therapy in the morning, then allocated some time for a bit of geocaching at McLeans Island in the afternoon.

Today it is time to drive back to Blenheim so I've save a few caches to look for on the trip back. We left at 6.30am so the first part of the trip was in darkness. Once it got light enough we started caching but in the end this was our fourth and final cache of the morning as the weather had really settled in by now.

It was good to get this previously (unlogged) DNFed cache under our belts.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl while returning to Blenheim after a few days in Christchurch, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Strategic parking and a quick find! TFTC!!

Great dat day, nice hide

The first cache found on my South Island adventure! Getting out of the big smoke for a few weeks, road tripping around and hopefully picking up a few caches along the way.
I overshot the location a touch on my approach, but once I located the correct item referred to in the hint, the cache was a nice easy find. TFTC!

A quick park and stop on the side of the busy road, glad there was a good parking spot. Thanks

I started my great and unique round trip over the South Island in Christchurch.
My first major stopover was at Lake Tapeko - here I hiked up to Observation Mountain.
I then planned two days in Mount Cook NP with some unforgettable hikes. My big goal was the Mueller Hut - on a super strenuous hike I reached it.
I continued my journey over the lonely Danseys Pass to Dunedin.
Afterwards I drove along the Southern Scienic Route via Invercargill to Manapouri for some days. On this route I visited many sights and enjoyed the beautiful nature again and again.
I already booked a tour to the Doubtful Sound in advance - another highlight on my tour.
Afterwards I drove on to Queensown and Wanaka. From there I continued over the Haast Pass to the lonely Jackson Bay with storm and heavy rain. Afterwards I drove along the west coast always in pouring rain.
The rain stopped the whole west coast, but I had good rainwear with me. Only high up in Nelson the sun shone again.
Soon I reached the east coast again in Picton and Blenheim and the sun was shining again.
After a few days I travelled back to Christchurch via the beautiful town of Kaikoura.
At the end of my round trip I spent a few more days in Christchurch and its surroundings.
I visited many geological sites and found many caches on my round trip. In Rangiora I visited an event.
I travelled 3418 km and take home a lot of positive experiences.
Thanks to many beautiful caches I was also shown unique locations, historical sites and geological features.
I am overwhelmed by the fantastic and ever changing nature on the South Island of New Zealand - I will definitely come back.

Many thanks to all owners
Team sissifalke

The last of four located today on our drive down from Wellington (via the Bluebridge ferry) to Christchurch. A reasonably quick find, thanks to a very specific hint! #2899. TFTC.

Not quite as close to any sheep as I thought, however, a pleasant stroll in the warm evening sun while our Yoogo share e-vehicle was charging just down the road on our way home from Kaikoura. Lovely spot. TFTC SL

Grabbed this on on the way north.

The nearby sheep has quite a cold sense. Fast found. TFTC

Quick find on the way out of such a pretty town TFTC!!
Find 410

Today is our second day traveling the south island and the 22nd day of our travels south. We had spent the night at Lake Elterwater and drove down to Kaikoura after eating a nice breakfast. After visiting the lookout we drove to the start of the Kaikoura Peninsula walkway and chose to go to the top lookout platform first before heading onto the rocks to look for seals. We could not find any seals on the rocks but enjoyed the walk no the less. On our way back we stopped at the food trailer and ate some nice fish before stopping for another earthcache. Afterwards we started heading to our camp for the night but had some time to do a few roadside caches along the way. This was the sixth of them after it got dark. A nice quick find. Tftc.

KrystalKath, Tama the geohound  & I are en-route from Taranaki to North Canterbury to take up our next assignment of seasonal work.
Today we're on the road between Kaikoura and Amberley. Time for a break. Oh look... a cache! Walk the dog to the cache. Tama tried to round up the sheep but in the end just peed on it. Easy find. The road is not too busy today.
Then we retired to the pub for a late lunch.
TFTC That keeps my streak of consecutive daily finds going one more day... #109

One last find before leaving Cheviot. TFTC

We left Feilding n.z nearly two weeks ago and went from picton to reefton over Arthur's pass which we really enjoyed then Christchurch for a couple of days to get a trail done and of course some other caches along the way so far we have managed to get over 300 caches a great effort we thought we would try and average 20 a day.
Now we are getting this cache a nice area to discover a cache stamped the log and placed it back where we found it thank you for placing a cache here and bringing us to this location. Cache is all good here tftc so cute nice spot

Hello from Perth WA

We found this while on our South Island adventure.

TFTC

Erst an der falschen Birke gesucht.
Danke sagt der Snejg

A nice wee hide on our way from Christchurch to Nelson, TFTC.

Tftc

Heading back from Kaikoura to Chch today and stopping for caches along the way as well as meeting up with KCN in Rangiora and collecting a few just north of there. Thanks to all the COs for placing the caches.

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache after a few minutes search, thanks.

i was more interested in the sheep than the cache ..my geo map showed me a other tree but I had a cuddle with sheep and later doing the shopping ther where more sheep.Thank from Swiss guy!

Found it.
Thanks

A quick find, log is readable but not able to be written on. So left in there and added a small strip of RITR. All good, TFTC Bum.

A few caches after lunch with the family, and before hitting the road bound for Blenheim.
I decided to have a look around Rangiora. Was just a slight detour, and there were a few caches here that will help with certain goals I am still working on. Just a small handful and a few others on the road. Looks like I have been following in the footsteps of another Marlborough cacher for much of this weekend.

Nice quick find .. that sheep looks quite relaxes..thanks B&W

We despondently walked back from an unsuccessful multi and headed here. Automatically went to wrong hint item before locating cache. Thanks for the cache bumandworker

Not sure what I missed there, but the cache must be on the list!!

Another find for on now to christchurch

Highway stop in Cheviot for a delicious iced coffee in this hot weather. One more cache and now onto Kaikoura!

Tftc bumandworker!
#4306

One of the many caches during this year's vacation.

Revisiting by night- aha, not the nice hide by the sheep - a bit away from GZ. Log mushy but signed a waterproof label instead. Lots of locals eating out at the hotel and a museum has opened since we were last here.