Giants Marching, Marching (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By Hello Mrs on 06-Nov-11. Waypoint GC377WX

Checked. Area has changed and is exposed to muggles.

Wow looks like I managed to find this in the nick of time as it was archived the same day as I found it. I had a search but wasn't really dressed for rummaging round under trees after spending the morning visiting. Went and got changed and it was a quick find after that using the first part of the hint combined with logic. TFTC # 12,054

Couldn't find it

No luck either

Tuffy. Found with help from photo.

Got poked, scratched and pretty dirty looking for this one. For a D1.5 I must be losing it!!

Well hidden, had to avoid a 4-legged investigator

Wow this one took a long time. Finally found it. Thanks for the cache

Spent ages in the undergrowth. Could not find it.

Damn, 2nd time trying to find this one and still I luck maybe next time I'm back in chch in a few months time...

On the last day in Christchurch and NZ I went out to find some caches after check-in as I was early and the plane running late. This cache could not be found on the way.

Found it. Forgot my pencil.
Took a photo.
Cool Cache for our 9th

Thank you

Found it Left TB.

Took a while but eventually found it

TFTC nice walk around the area.

Found with help from Claire spiky shrubs

TFTC

Found it thank you

17:54
I ducked into the **cavernous** cover of trees, bushes and shrubs, first I found a broken off bottleneck of a bottle that I mistook for the cache but after a bit more of crouching around the real cache container showed itself.

Thanks for the cache!
#4292

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Moree later

ended up being a good hunt, a lot of places to look, but soon had the cache in hand and signed, TFTC

Took a while to find. Learnt how to fly a stunt kite from my 10 year old. Fun times.

On another fun road trip with tmann421.
A bit of a search on this one, but tmann came up with the cache. TFTC

Another good find while around the area with Just-Lookin.
Bit of a search to get this one found on the way to the airport.
*SL TFTC*

Found after a good long search. Clue and GPS correct but plenty of candidate hides, and it's not the most obvious location. I love the towering pylons nearby. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

Couple of hours to spare before an appointment in this part of the city so a perfect time to collect a few smiley faces. Had been here before but it was full of kids playing sports, but no one around today. TFTC

Found after a while - lots of rubbish around. TFTC

Tftc

It took about 10 minutes of searching but I got there in the end.

Took me a while to find. GPS,HINT,CACHE all good

Giants Marching, Marching (Canterbury) was transferred from Hello Mrs to user TheWanglers

Oh, no!
My time in New Zealand has come to an end. Rental car has been returned, luggage been packed up. All that's left to do is get some dinner, a short night's sleep and then board a plane home (with a layover in Sydney at leat)...
Well, and then there were still some caches to be found near my bed and breakfast.
Thus, my walk to the pub turned out to follow a detour in order to find the nearby caches.
I did some 'bushwalking' here before spotting the cache...
**TFTC** says *kinderarzt* from Germany!

nice one. follow the instruction and you'll strike gold

Found with TregearP in an area we haven't visited before.

Find was straight forward, and all in good order.

TNLNSL, TFTC.

Never knew these Giants were here, thanks for creating a cache that took us here, quick find with SJT_NZ

Thanks - an easy find before baseball. TFTC

I think I looked here years ago for this cache. Today was a quick find

Hunted for a while, found lots of rubbish but no cache

In Christchurch for Christmas with Grandchildren 6 and 3. On walk this afternoon were deleted once again. Found a largest shrub but no luck. May need a more detailed hint. Will walk there again tomorrow.

Looked high, then looked low. Oh, there it is! Tftc.

So many wires !! [:o]
I could feel me hair starting to frizz !!
Would the cache have a neon glow from all that energy above ??
That would make it a bit easier to find

About 10 minutes of looking did reveal the cache's hiding spot

TFTC.

Out for a stroll with our son. TFTC.

Found it #27

This entry was edited by sting1606 on Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 16:20:03 UTC.

Stopping off for the odd cache. Thanks.

Following the GPS pointer to GZ and paying close attention to the hint, it wasn't long before we had CIH. A good spot having a self shielding effect from muggles.
SL TFTC

Took us a while found it in the end

cache find #3820 Whilst here in the parkland we stopped to locate the cache. MrGT54 was quick to find this one. TFTC.

A Challenging day out around Christchurch with Gullivers Travels54 collecting many challenge caches and a handful of those in between.

After another nearby cache this was nearby and actually on the way back to the car so why not make the stop and sign the log. All done and onwards.

TFTC

[green] My first day in Christchurch, having arrived last night. Normally I would head out each day and cache out a suburb, and so by the end of two weeks pretty much have cached out the city. But it is all a green field! I could not decide which way to go. So in the end I let the GPS decide. This is the first time I have cached in a city restricting myself to Garmin's Get Next Closest and seeing where it lead me. I started in the middle of town at the square and ended up at Riccarton Racecourse, with a trail of 50 little smileys behind me.
Took me a little bit to find this. Turns out the obvious hide is not the correct hide!

Down in chc for the day and managed to get away from the airport briefly. Found straight away and then back to catch my flight back. TFTC!!!

Nice hide found on a cold windy day with loads of muggles about bit all good here. TFTH

07/08/2015 02:25PM
# 6235
Time to find my cache for the day on my way home frome work.

I tried for another, but had left the solved coords behind, and sort of just had to guess based on map. That was tough. So I gave up, and came here instead.

It was actually pretty easy. Despite there being many possible options.

Consec caching day #1006

TFTC!!

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When all else fails read the instructions. Could have saved 10 minutes! T4T$

#1359 Found the first place I looked - almost didn't bother with the previous log - but it was where the CO said it would be. TFTC

Looked for over 20 mins, found lots of beer bottles and other items of dubious origin. Still a great day out in the sun.

Finally found this after three unsuccessful attempts. Nice park for Sunday afternoon stroll between shifts. TFTC.

Quick find during work. Tftc

I searched for a good 15 to 20 minutes but no luck on this one.

Second DNF in a row in this little park. Searched a good 15 minutes, and expanded from the bushes in the vicinity to the grasses as well without any luck. Found a number of discarded bottles, and an empty plastic container (not matching the cache description), but no sign of a cache.

Today I rode my bicycle through Christchurch. I was able to discover many beautiful spots and find geocaches too. Thank you to each of the owners for the hide geocaches.

Another Dot Day to deal to - surprisingly cool in the evening after a warm day.
Some sports training going on, so I walked down the other side of the trees - cache well camouflaged and hidden.
Thanks for the cache Hello Mrs - I remember another cache here some time ago.

Gave up after a long, hot and scratchy search

Decided to look for this on our way back from Lavender Hill, didn't we choose a huge soccer sports day, fortunately having a child along meant we fit in just fine and though my phone is now full of random flora images we retrieved and replaced without being observed. tftc

Boys had footballl here today but I had left the GPS in the car. Have found a previous cache here so decided to leave this one with so many people around.
Thanks for hiding the caches so we can find them.

Found it today - TFTC!

The Nosybear team sniffed this one out.

After treading in doggydoo at the last, and trying to scrap it off on the way to this one, i found with Nosynel to form NosyBear. yukky slugs and goop on the bottom of cache...there was a soccer game on in the park very bright coloured shirts could seethem in the dark in the fluro orange. Nice area, Cheers.

Great guide. Little search but coords superb.

TFTC gr8 hide

Not many issues locating this cache once I eventually found a way into the park! Thanks for the cache.

searched high and low..,dnf

We were searching for this cache with my daughter, but couldn't find it. She was a bit disappointed

Was in the area so checked the cache. It is in the correct position. A hint - it is not in the prickly bush.

Spent a while searching on walk around the park while down for the weekend. As it hasn't been found since early February suggest owner check if it is still there. Will give it another go mid June on our next visit.

Found during a nice walk around the park..

Wltc!

Tftc

Had found the previous iteration of this cache, and I remember that it took some finding. Was worried that this one would be just as troublesome after my initial searching came up empty handed. After trying here and there and here again, tried over there and there it was. Phew.
Thanks for bringing me back here.

Found it! Yay after 2 DNF.

Spent a while looking. Noted the there was new bark mulch being spread and not sure if this makes it more difficult to find?

Took a few minutes to find. TFTC #1262

This entry was edited by paddle chick on Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 09:58:40 UTC.

Fast done, nice hide. Thanks

A surprising number of hounds being walked round the park this morning. The bushes gave me plenty of cover though. TFTC.

I do believe this may be the third time I've been here! A nice quick dash and grab before the gates got locked and left me walking home. TFTC

Got it tftc

Tftc

A few muggles around but park was generally bare. Easy find once GPS settled down. TFTC.

Staying in a motel on Russley Rd and thought I'd go for a short stroll to get the caches in Avonhead Park... an hour later after having to go down Avonhead Rd instead due to the high fences at the Russley Rd end of the park I managed to get my first cache in the park... this one. Found easily. SL TFTC

A nice find on a walk on a lovely Canterbury afternoon. TFTC!!!

Found in the dark with a good torch. TFTC.

Found rather quickly in the dark

A good day for caching without muggles, as it was raining and hailing as we searched for the caches in this park. I spent a while looking for this cache without any luck, before sending bugzptr in (who has found it before) neither of us had any joy, so moved on in search of the next cache.

Returned for a second try at this one although by the sound of it the cache had gone missing for awhile. This park was dog central today - after a week of bad weather dogs were desperate for a run. In between dodging dogs and their attached muggles, and avoiding mud and puddles from last weeks storm we managed to find this without too much trouble. A nice new log book was a welcome sight, all in good order and replaced in camo fashion. TFTC

This one had us looking for a while. Well camouflaged. TFTC!

Heading to the airport. I decided to leave a little earlier to score a couple of caches. Jet star running late again ao my friends won't land for a bit so I had plenty of time to get a few in. Left TB tftc

Found the other cache in this spot a while back and hoped I did not have as much trouble as last time when I had to come back again after a not found the first time. The soccer matches had finished by the time we had gathered the other caches in the park and the few dog walkers left were far away for us to be undisturbed. Turned into a nice quick find as coordinates lead us straight to the cache. TFTH.

nice hide tftc

TFTC!

Took Rosie for a walk. Cache was missing unless it has crept well away from the original hiding place.
Left a new camo 200ml sistema container with accessories. Please ensure cache is left camoflaged.

Third time lucky. Thanks for replacing this, we decided to go for it before any further misfortune could occur.
+ a marble, - nothing.