Esk Valley ( South Canterbury ) Esk Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 12-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F3XT

A slight detour to find some caches in the Esk valley while heading south to Alexandra tftc.

Found on 26/6/24 on my way home from work. Thank-you!

Found with toddler

Beautiful day to go out for a look

Cafe closed! Kids just started arriving for the day as I hastily departed.

Nice local valley for an afternoon collecting caches. Tftc

Old educational site& memorial interesting

Quick find this morning with Hal2929 as we find some new and definitely not so new caches around the area.
Thanks Bitsprayer for placing and taking us to some new roads

On a roadie with Kiscardi getting some caches. Had some watchers.thanks

Thanks for giving us a reason for stopping here all good

Found on a nice drive in the area. Enjoying the caches

We hadn't ventured inland off State Highway 1,so heading up to Maungati to find just a few Caches.
A nice Monument for the 1st World War Soldiers..TFTH

Driving north and have had a pleasant detour around this area - the o nly times I've driven this way have been for caching !
Thanks for your efforts, Bitsprayer.

Thanks

Happy to turn the blue frown into a yellow smiley. Thanks for replacing the cache, Bitsprayer.
#7147

Had a DNF here a couple of years ago so very pleased to return to turn that frown upside down. Thanks for the replacement. Enjoyed hearing the children playing over the fence while I was here. TFTC # 17,254

Out for the day in the back blocks of Waimate for a days caching, glad the floodwaters have receeded. Great day out and some more to come back to another day. Apologies for the generic logging. TFTC!

Great day for an outing! And once I left SH1, I did not see many signs of live civilization, only saw 3 cars and 1 tractor. On the other hand, I spotted 4 magnificent hawks and had an almost continuous view of the mountains! Thank you for a nice tiki tour. TFTC!!

*Another good find going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
SL: **tm/ww NZ**
Thanks for putting this out for us to visit, we enjoyed the drive / walk around!

Raining here and turned quite cold - good drive around in the dark!

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Tricky but we found it

It's the last day of 2020 and StreetWalkerNZ and I are on our way south to spend a few days in Dunedin. With the forecasted rain, we decided to cache as much as possible en route to take advantage of the fine weather.
Didn't take long to track down the cache, but the log book fell to pieces (no staple). Popped the name of the cache on cover . First find in over 3 years! TFTC.

#19111. Found while looking for of the 50 new BS caches (presumably the CO replaced this one while placing the new caches). TFTC.

New cache in place - page updated - Bitsprayer

A DNF for me.

Searched for quite some time. Perhaps missing?

Could it be missing?

I couldn't track down this clever hide. I looked close up then looked from a distance to see if I could see this odd one out - nope not today

Very clever was not going to leave without finding this! Thanks

First find it’s the odd one out

Struggled a little, little brother who had found it before to give some clues

Look for something that doesn't fit in

Good one! TFTC!

DNF.
Was in the South Island on some R&R with Mrs Yeetrees on our 5th day now staying in Waimate to do some house keeping and chores, and of course pick up a few caches.

Decided that I would get up early and find a couple of caches before heading back when I was required to do some cleaning and go out and pick up a few caches, this was the next cache that I had on my list that I wanted to do today.

After the previous DNF, I thought that I would check my GPS and see where the next nearest cache was and go and check it out as I still had a little bit of time before I was due back.

The drive to GZ was quite familiar as I have being down these roads a while back picking up a few caches with Mrs Yeetrees as we were making our way to Timaru for a family appointment.

Arriving near this spot, the memories started coming back and I soon realised that I have being pass here before. Managed to find a safe parking spot out of the way and it was a short walk to GZ.

Started to have a quick search around the obvious spots but couldn't spot anything and decided that it was time to move on as the traffic was starting to pick up as the muggles were starting to make their way to work.

Oh well that was a bit of bad luck, will need to come back again sometime as there is a few caches that are in the area that I need to try and find, maybe next visit.

Quick easy find before Kindy & school. Thanks

Day 2 of my mini roadtrip travelling around Timaru on way to Christchurch. Also only a couple of days left to complete my 2016 new years resolution - reach 2000 by the end of the year (fell 35 short but I didn't just go for park and grabs).

Had my muggle friend who comes caching with me along for today as she now lives in Timaru area and through hunting for this and few other caches she's seen more of her new town over the last 24hrs.

Thank you for this cache. All in good condition.

The hide is so obvious that we nearly overlooked it. Duh! We have a similar hide so should have known better. Found with AorakiSheep.

Out and about grabbing a few caches on the back roads. Found with debsnz

TFTC. A quick grab between showers.

Bit foggy today to go caching!! Still found some!! TFTC

Another combined effort with Wymo. Lovely little kindy here

Thanks

Cheers for the drive by. Good hide

Quick find despite sneaky cache! TFTC

Found this cache on our way to Dunedin. Great weather! Nice place for a cache. TFTC! Greetings from Denmark!

I have been waiting for one of these to turn up well done my first one !!!! TFTC

This entry was edited by RAYZR01 on Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 07:40:23 UTC.

Very clever

Quick grab very nice hide#6 on the back roads today tftc

Found on a day's outing to Mt Nimrod. TFTC.

Found it very camouflaged looks very realistic

With Hyena Wills

Cool

One of many War Memorials scattered around the South Canterbury and the NZ districts. What looks innocent is more than what meets the eye. I know,it took me a while to find the cache.

Got it on the second time of asking, I had picked it up on the first visit...... :-0

Nice hide and quick find. Place is quiet today. Thanks

Had a weekend in Timaru, so did a bit of caching in around the town. Not so many WWII victims on this monument. Thanks for the hide.

I found some caches out here some time ago, but when I went to get this one, found I'd not loaded it to the GPS, and couldn't remember any details.

Found within moments today. A great container. The little Bairdys had lunch and a play in the neighbouring site - a welcome break from the car. TFTC.

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

So many caches done to remember all, but got a kick out of all that we found (0ver 600 in 8 days)e

Nice easy find - playcentre closed today so no mini muggles around Awesome container!

Awsome find kids loved it

Quick find, good camo tftc

Good hide.

Bit of history. TFTC

New type of hide for us. Had nearly given up TFTC

Driving around the countryside outside Timaru picking up caches but never expected to find one with my niece's name in it - from Saskatchewan 2010. TFTH!

Havin fun cachin in NZ.....
TFTC Happy Cachin!!!

Lots of holes but all empty. Sob...

Quick find. TFTC.

Cool hide and quick find.

Glad I spotted this one quickly as the sun was hot and I was keen to go check out the nearby church. TFTC.

Another war memorial to our countries young.

It is sad to see all these war memorials, but good that they are still remembered.

3554. The maps are only any good if everything is facing in the right direction! However we finally turning around and got there! A good hide. These local memorials are great historical records.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Didn't need to spend a lot of time here.
TFTC

hadnt seen this container b4

Another one ticked off, Oliver52 had never saw this type of container before. TfTC

5546 A nice hide at the Esk Valley war memorial, TFTC

Another one done.

Took a trip from Canada to New Zealand to visit my brother and nephew over Christmas. Did some caching and was taken to some pretty amazing places. Thanks for the cache!

found on an afternoon caching with the kids

This entry was edited by mtamta on Saturday, 13 November 2010 at 22:23:52.

A nicely hidden cache, which fortunately didn't take too long to find. TFTC

Found with moneydork and rediguna

Took a little to find, but Moneydork had a sharp eye. Cheers Gav [6422]

A tricky wee hide - well done.

Paced around for a couple of times before finally sighting it.

A quick find on a trip around Bitsprayers latest batch of new Sth Canterbury caches. TFTC

A nice afternoon for a drive around these roads with a welcome interlude or two!
Thanks
erninz

FTF TNLN thanks!

Quick find, thanks. Short detour and rewarded with second to find - hurrah! (and a hint to the last first to find available in South Canterbury). That's my next stop!

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