CSGQ: Merivale (Canterbury) Strowan, South Island, New Zealand
By dan.reilly on 13-Sep-11. Waypoint GC2ZBA3

This cache was visited today and removed.

The time has come to archive this series. I apologise to the Christchurch Geocaching community for letting it fall into disrepair. If you have found some of the caches and not others, and you want to find the final, email me the codes you have already got and I will reply with the location of the final (if you have emailed previously for help with this series and I haven't replied, please email again). I will archive the final at the end of the year. Regards, Dan.

This entry was edited by mrdan01 on Monday, 28 July 2014 at 05:32:28 UTC.

Nice and easy, thanks

Another nice easy find after a coupld of DNF's earlier in the afternoon. TFTC.

#7423. Out for a walk with the pooch we are house sitting. This cache was reasonably close so we thought we'd make it our destination. Quite a few fellow dog walkers were taking advantage of a mild summer day, and a number stopped to chat. Troodles found the cache, and the dog wasn't interested; looks like it won't make a decent geo-hound. TFTC.

Found it!!

Found it

I found it this time because there wasn't so much bark.

Easy find. TFTC

Found it

Not easy to be discret With cricket match nearby! TFTC

TFTC pensez à prendre un stylo !

Found

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Phew! Took forever but finally found it!

Account has been split, this was previously logged under another name,

A few places to hunt but good find. Missing number though.

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Quite fun this one they had manure around the trees

No numbers. Needs new log

Finding the last caches of 2013....and this was the first for today. The fine weather had brought out the muggles - a family group were playing cricket and a guy was mowing the cricket pitch (with a reel mower which he had to keep emptying around GZ).
Had to keep one eye on the mowerman while disappearing into the bushes. Found in third place I checked. No sure what's happened to the info for the final - no sign of any numbers in or on the container. TFTC.

Nice little search as it began to rain, tftc!

Checked today, last log is correct, cache all good. I have made it a bit more obvious (to cachers) and so long as everyone re-covers as found it will stay simpler, remember note about coordinates.

Possibly missing.

Cache was there - just buried under some lawn clippings from a neighbour. I used the GPS and hint and it was soon located. TFTC - this is my most Southerly cache on a quick visit from Wellington.

Maybe as they just put new bark down.

A few dnf today starting to loose interest in this series...

I expected it to be harder due to the mulch and number of possibilities but eventually I saw it peeping out. TFTC

Quick find while picking up a few caches in the evening - couldn't see a number in it though. TFTC, #5091

Found but have to look hard as park has recently been mulched

Another lovely park we didn't know was here! TFTC

Not too hard to find but as previous cachers have noted, there are no numbers in the cache.

Quickly found but had used the hint. No numbers found though

left pen at home will have to come back cold bleak GC day

While out and about had a little spare time after a gym session followed by a coffee appointment went and checked this GC, some workmen nearby but too busy to notice what 1eyennbf (on eyed and proud of it) was up to. Quick and easy, the second CSGQ find ofr the day (Papanui being the other one). Nice one TFTC

Tftc

Hi ho hi ho a caching i will go. Gps was bouncing about a bit but that's to be expected under tree's with a a cell phone. But a little bit of persistence and process of elimination and the cach was in hand. Tftc

A quick find as I raced around the city picking up the series. I'm sure I've been here before but haven't logged this one so it may have been an old archived cache. Note: I couldn't find a number, two digits or otherwise, in this one. Tried inside the container and on the front and back of the log sheet. No joy

After abandoning a previous attempt because of a torrential downpour, I was thankful that this was an easy find today. Cache was covered by some lovely yellow fungus of some sort? or hopefully it was just pollen or something. Thanks for the cache. Good to knock another one off in this series.

A quick find after dinner,

TFTC

Didn't have any success on my first trip here. I also hadn't cached in a while and need to remeber how to be stealthy, got some strange looks from dog-walkers and joggers.

This cache proved really tricky. This was my third visit here and I was thinking that it might be a DNF. I had tried the day before and found nothing but persevered and only after a short search - there it was! CatMad had been there before me and possibly had "refreshed" the location.

Almost gave up but spotted something that didn't look quite right and there it was. Happy Valentines Day.

Finally! This was my 2nd attempt and I almost cracked a wobbly but at last pass I spied something.

Tftc. Coords seem fine... came yesterday, but no pen so completed on another loverly day

Tftc

I walked all the way over and found one person in the park in the corner I wanted to go to. But he was occupied with his dogs so I managed to duck in and retrieve the cache. Phew.

Just one more cache for the day and from this group found. Knocking them off one at a time.
Found the cache exposed so put it back where I thought it was supposed to be.
Parked on the side street and there seemed to be a steady stream of people from the alleyway so I was concerned how I was going to grab it but ended up being straight forward and I got a few nice photos taken as well.
Thanks for the cache.

17/01/2013 5:40:00 AM
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Another early as morning pre-going to the gym cache find. Had been eyeing this cache up for a wee bit already actually, as I saw it was not too far off the road, part of this series, so it couldn't be too difficult, and also on the way (ish) to the gym... (When you geocache, everything seems to be on the way to somewhere... )

Parked on by early morning, and saw someone in the building down the end of the park!! Was pretty surprised at that actually!

And then once I got to the GZ, yes I did have a torch with me, but I didn't even need it, as I spotted a bit of obvious cover somewhere where the GPS pointed to, and yay!

TFTC!!

Lots of people playing cricket today. The cache was lying exposed on the ground, so I put it back where I thought it was supposed to be. TFTC

Gps wouldnt give anything but general location. Spent ages looking but after being attacked by holly gave up

Was out in the open, easy to spot. Have now covered it. TFTC

Easy find, I am concerned it may not be in the right place. Sounds too easy considering some of the comments below. The cache was out, sort of in the open. I wondered if it was meant to be tucked into the nearby tree, but decided to just leave it as found. Will return to sign tonight. TFTC

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

Log to follow

In Christchurch for the Launch of Joy of the Mountains A climbers life - John Harrison who died in 1966 in an avalanche. he climbed with many of the famous climbers of the era. Being my uncle is also the reason my son is named John

Great stuff! 2 down now heaps more to find. This now needs to be the mission for the summer to knock off the other CSGQs!! GPS bouncing around a little so had to guess roughly where it may be. Glad I had already found the Riccarton CSGQ as knew what to look for as had no hints with me.

Very very well hid

Reperio at 1035.

After a great week was had touring around the South Island with Roostaman...including attending the mega event in Dunedin...we spent today finding some caches in and around this wonderful city of Christchurch. By now I think we had lost count of how many caches in this series we had found...but we knew we wouldn't be able to complete all of them so we didn't worry about collecting the info inside. This one was found without too much trouble.

Gratias dan.reilly.

Find # 4771 and a total of 52 today with Marcus Vitruvius, on our NZ Mega trip.
Another day of Mega caching around the Christchurch suburbs and city.
Another nice cache and hide, we had to be very discreet and then on the way again.
TFTC dan.reilly,
Roostaman.

Couldnt find it and was last one to goo hope to have a good hunt and find this tomorrow

After comming back a bit later on at night with a tourch we managed to find this sneaky little one! Dont trust GPS =P

Found while out for a walk before tea. Another one done in the CSGQ Series. TN:LN. TFTC. #94 for us.

This entry was edited by McMike2012 on Sunday, 30 September 2012 at 05:16:44 UTC.

566. Too dark and too many spots to seek.

did not find

Tftc

9662... Out and about on our Suburban Geocaching Quest, quick grab at Merivale, TFTC.

GPS didn't send me too far from cache, got it with about 5 minutes of search. TFTC.

Was about to abandon the search when the last 10 seconds of searching time turned up the cache.

At last!
My GPS really does not like this area.
Came back with KiwiCampNut after 8ManAfter's event cache. The second cacher I'd looked with who had previously found it.
After a 20min or so hunt over a 30m stretch of garden my GPS finally said 0m and KCN recognised the tree.
So pleased to have this one off my list!

Took longer than it should of in the dark TFTC

Another one gets a smiley

136 - Nice day for a lovely walk in a park that I have driven past many times. The log was out of its bag but thankfully dry, so after signing I returned it to its protective plastic covering. I would have liked to have stayed and played a while longer but needed to head home and catch up on some chores. TFTC

A quick easy find after walking across the park, with some wet squelchy patches in places. TFTC

Came to find this one while waiting for inspiration for a nearly puzzle.
Did not find this one - as I left a runner asked "Did you find it?" - it was SurveyBase who had found it before. So we looked together, but neither of us had any luck. Did find a find wire - could this be to do with the cache?
Either it has migrated quite some way from where SurveyBase found it, or it has gone in the last few days.
However, all was not lost - when I returned to GZ I managed to locate cache within minutes.

Found fairly quickly on the way past - some searching required. SL TFTC

Easy find TFTC.

A reasonably easy find after a bit of a search...look forward to finding the others in this series

A bit of a fossick. Nice spot. Disturbed some muggles smoking electric puha. TFTC

Gps ran out of battery only 86 meters from GZ so we used the hint and eventually found.
TFTC!
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

Pretended to be watching Cricket to find this cache. Quickly grabbed the prize during a exciting moment in the game. TFTC

Nice

Ahem.. container sitting on the ground out in the open.. .. I put back into a more usual kind of spot.

Few people around on a Sunday afternoon; TFTC

Found with my girls on a late Sunday afternoon. They climbed trees while I continued the search. TFTC

Was in Christchurch with Mrs Yeetrees for a long weekend and decided that we would do a few caches while we in town, arriving near GZ we were able to find a carpark on a side street about 100 metres from GZ and found a side entrance into the park where this cache was hidden. After a short walk with Mrs Yeetrees we were soon narrowing down on GZ and arriving at GZ we were very lucky as it was a week day and there were only a couple of local groundmans doing thier chores in the distance and we soon narrowed down the final hiding spot for the cache at GZ. This was our first cache for this series and I was glad I read the cache page and we gathered all the extra details after signing the cache and then we were soon on our way back to the car after hiding the cache back exactly where we found it, thanks for placing a cache here and for bringing us to this very interesting local sports park, TFTC TNLNSL (4093)

good find

good find

Not too many people around today, quick find. Thanks

Wow, what a busy park at 8am in the morning. About half a dozen dogs and their owners, a couple of guys rolling the cricket pitch, school children using the path bordering the park and 3 groups of 4 or 5 men passing by (I think they may have been a cricket team looking at the park). So, I had to be rather more furtive than I expected to have to be. Found though. TFTC

found in today's the day's search cache. Everything I went through on foot, in the city and in nature, and thank you for the interesting places in New Zeland. Greeting from the Czech Republic

Picked it up on my way home from work tonight
Nice night for muggles to be in the park apparently, but they were mostly preoccupied with their own interests.

quick find

I had been here before with a friend and failed to find. Here with another friend and she found in no time. Grrrr

Loud appeal for LBW, not out! Had to search the slip corden but soon found it. TFTC

TFTC! cricket game going on. lbw appeal was denied.

You may have trouble with the coordinates due to the tree cover. I have double checked but can't seem to get them any more accurate. If you want take a reading while you are there and send it to me, feel free.

Easy find.