To a Fault (Canterbury) Burnham, South Island, New Zealand
By wingid on 11-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F0K0

See notes of april and may

Could you please let us know if you intend to replace this cache, or if it will be permanently archived? Would be good to see this up and running again if possible. (Right now it is just marked as temporarily disabled.) Cheers Gav

Found the post, found the stone. No cache.

Missing in action.

Lots of elephant tracks in the fresh soil, all converging on GZ, found the post and rock at GZ, but no sign of the cache.

Took a while to find this one but we were determined to find it. When we eventually found it, it wasn't according to the clue, so we put a rock on top of it.

Found the rock but no cache

Another interesting spot, thanks. SLTSLS.

Roadway all fixed now, and new grass seed on the road edge.

Bitsprayer

It is hard to credit anything happened here intil I saw the fence.
Thanks
erninz

I'll leave the obvious puns to one side. Nice to see normality returning slowly. TFTC.

Wow there are certainly a lot of new caches thanks to the shake up. It looks like it was very scary and the next day we saw the very sad side of things in Kaiapoi. TFTC,.

The area has certainly been tidied up since the quake. TFTC Cheers Bo

Nice easy cache, quiet road. They have recently planted grass seed down around this area. TFTC!

Amazing. simply incredible how much the power lines have moved!
This seems to be a well visited area if the tyre marks are anything to go by.
TFTC

Me and Mum stopped here on a day trip to ChCh. This was the last earthquake cache in the area. Thanks for bringing us here so we could visibly see the effects of the quake. TFTC

The moved a wee bit round here! TFTC

Last of the earthquake caches for the day. Cheers wingid for the cache!

Heard a lot about the earthquake while overseas. Today Old boots Rosie and I went out for a closer look. An easy find doing the circuit. TFTC.

Followed LFTB to the two road shift ones on Friday. Looks a lot better now that the road is resealed.

Wow, it is great to see that the power of nature can do, amazing how much the ground shifted on Sept 4th. Easy to find cache, took a finger monster puppet, and left a travel bug to carry on its way, good luck little clog!! TFTC.

(568) Another interesting location.. TFTC, SL

Viewed the wonky transmission towers, the upheaval of the water channel and the zig-zagging road markers. Oh, and found a cache!

The water race has risen somewhat!! TFTC

When I found it I was shaking all over

Our first stop while showing our oldest that tectonic plates are bigger than our house. Took Treff Hotel geocoin.

Thought I had better keep up with current events. Especailly after the aftershocks.- TB, + coin

+pirate tb. TFTC

The boys wanted to see the cracks in the ground. I found the fence posted snapped off at ground level amazing. The wires on the fence have been pulled very tight by the earth moving. More cracks around the base of the posts found for the boys to look at. Thanks for the cache I'll visit the other earthquake caches another day.

Trip out to see what remains of the damage to the sites around Darfield. One of a few today to make the most of the journey. Quick one to find (199)

The hedge and the water race suffered somewhat.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Went to this cache from "kinky", easy to see where the fault is where it has moved tree lines and fences, harder to see it in paddocks.
The last earthquake cache for the day.

TFTC, Jeff, Matthew and Cathy.

One month after the quake was a good time to visit these three caches to see all the places you just knew from TV.
This looks more impressive from a helicopter, but the fore of the earth is just amazing.

Just after completing the log a group of Japanese engineers? arrived complete with tape measures, probe things, safety vests, lots of loud talking and amusing hand gestures. TFTC

Found while returning home form a day of skiing. Amazing force of nature. TFTC. Took TB.

4th was quite an experience that we're pleased not to suffer injury or significant property damage from.

2nd find on a day exploring Earthquake zone. Impressive rearrangement of the road.
Took TB. TFTC.

Found with moneydork

Aqwesome spot - quite a bend in the road.

Wow, I've seen a photo of those trees from the air, amazing.

Thanks.

The road certainly has been "disturbed". Nice and quiet today. TFTC

Unfortunately the norwester had become very strong by this stage in the afternoon, so we didn't linger.
TFTC.

Thanks for drawing attention to this spot. We'd have never found it otherwise. No body around just an old man Nor wester.

#1501 (11/11 on a Sunday drive). A nice cache to finish the day. TFTC.

Family day out combining science & "treasure hunting". Mother nature at her most impressive!
TNLN. TFTC!

Whilst I walked back up the road to take a photo of the kink in the road Mrs BaldEd hopped out of the cachemobile, walked 6m and picked up the exposed cache which had be blown clean of it's debris covering by the strong NWerly winds. + The Great Aloha to Murrumba Downs Race! - Mara TB.

Mother Nature Rocks! (and rolls) Very sobering...

The place was abandoned today, so a nice easy find.
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

A lovely morning for a drive in the country - out came the Nuvi and the 3 earthquake caches were soon programmed in. Off we went - to a fault. This location is interesting and impressive - impressive in the view of the trees, fences and pole lines all with an abrupt 2metre kink. And interesting in that there seemed little evidence in the paddocks nearby, other than some slight mounding of turf. I think the Kinky location GC2FAHQ is even better, but this is still a sobering reminder of the sheer power of Mother Nature. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1854)

After negotiating the 'straight' Telegraph Rd it was interesting to come here. It looks as though it is on the same line / fault. Thanks for bringing us here. Hatas

Like the others, we had to wait for a car load of muggles to leave before signing log and leaving TB. TFTC.

Like half of Christchurch we went to find the fault. It was quite an amazing experiance as we followed it for km's across the country size. Though we had experianced the quake, it was difficult to imagine all this damage and offsetting of the roads occured in a few seconds.

We were a bit out with our dates in the log book. An interesting drive on a sunny day. TFTC

Wow its pretty amazing round about here. Just after this I was trying to drive down a road which was once a straight road and now side by side. TFTC #1568

Great to get out of the City and come hunting for a Fault Line!!!The Earth didn't move for us here thank goodness.But two Muggles were wandering about examining the roadside.This is our 590th to date.TTB TFTF

Beautiful calm sunny day, all very tidy now, kinks & all. Dropped off "Plant a tree" geocoin to begin adventures in NZ..

Bouncy bouncy ground eh? A van load of muggles were parked up as GZ taking photos of the tree line and ground around the fault line. Waited till they took off then made the easy find. TNLN Thanks

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FTF on a mild and "shake-free" Canterbury night. Just might get some uninterrupted sleep tonight? TFTC.

wingid