Siamese Twins (Canterbury) Springfield, South Island, New Zealand
By gracie7 on 11-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3CGYB

Found it with red ink

Found it with t/blue. Did not see the latest log to know it was taken down. Sent the girls in first and while standing back watching them pull the place apart we saw the cache lid in the twins next door. Moved it back to the original spot. TFTC

Gone again, so we decided to archive it and make way for a new cache.

Pile of rocks there but no cache. DNF

Had a really good look here - found what seemed to be the obvious place - related to the clue, and a logical caching spot, but not there. The first DNF so maybe cache blindness, but maybe not>>

TFTC

Tftc

14th July
Found it by accident on the way to the coast during our morning tea break. We were sheltering from the rain and my son with an eye for something not quite right, uncovered it.

Nice to have protection while searching for the cache. It was snowing quite heavily as can be seen by the added photo. Tftc.

TFTC. Found after a great ski day

My 9yr old raced me to this one. TFTC

Quick find tftc

Found at 9:35:00 a.m. on 11/05/2014.

This cache was found on a road trip to Christchurch and Canterbury.

TFTC gracie7 + Mum

TFTC. On my way to investigate Castle Hill and decided to collect a few caches along the way.
The road was not too busy today - perfect for a few park and grab caches.
Thanks gracie7 + Mum for placing the cache.
#3385

Tftc

Cache is gone. Was looking with biggles246.
All we found was toilet paper.

CACHE IS NOT THERE.

SOME MUGGLES HAVE USEDTHE TREE FOR A TOILET AND MUST HAVE FOUND IT.

The pile of rocks were there. Unfortunately the cache was not and camper canners must think it's ok to use that area as a toilet. Not your fault.

Looks like some filthy muggles have been using the area as there toilet going by the smell and the loads of Pooh paper about with evidence. Had a really good look under what hints says but alas narda. May have been poohed on.

Thanks for the heads up ladies. Mum and I will be passing the cache early on Easter Friday (18th) and we will have a look where we put it, if we cant find it we will leave a replacement instead.

Nothing there but toilet paper and other unmentionables. A van was parked a few metres from GZ and obviously bedding down for the night. Need I say more.

Nice place. TFTC

Geocachelette found this one and was quite excited about it. TFTC.

My first cache on NZ! My first cache in this part of world. And quite nice one. Nice area, perfect weather. Great NZ. Tanks!

Took a tag and left a tag I got from West Coast
Tftc
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Found it

Found it on my way to Lake Coleridge. Nice place. TFTC

4 days, 1600 KM's, 0ver 300 caches found, a whirlwind of a road trip,great fun.

4 days of cheap motels, washing back greasy cheseburgers with ice cool 7 Up, of flat tires, great scenery, good weather, good company,riding shot gun, shared driving, speed tickets, mars bars, bottled water, photo ops and finding caches

A nice stop over

TFTC

Good spot for a cache TFTC

What, no bridge! Oh well, a couple of trees will have to do I suppose. (Later in the day I'd be begging for trees. )
Nice spot for a breather.
TFTC

During our Journey to the south of New Zealand we found this Cache.

Thanks for showing us and best regards from Ferdi/ Germany/ Bavaria

On NZ-Tour together with Ferdi

Bavarian greetings
***mac***

quick stop on the way east. tftc

After a brilliant day in the mountains why not bag a few caches on return trip home?

Cache found quickly and in good order and dry. Almost bagged some fresh lamb turning in here - Stock loose and running on the road ...

Nice find on our way to the West Coast today. TFTC

Muggled out last time we were here. No trouble today.
Thanks gracie7 for the cache.

#7679

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

After flying into Christchurch today we made our way out to Arthurs Pass, collecting caches along the way. A quick find in this rest area, TFTC!

After flying into Christchurch today we made our way out to Arthurs Pass, collecting caches along the way. A quick find in this rest area, TFTC!

Clever! Thanks.

As part of our annual Boxing Day picnic, we decided to go collect the West Coast CANZ cache and secure the Bridging the Gap caches (thanks gracie7 + Mum for a great series) that appeared along the way.

This cache was secured along the way and the GZ provided a disturbing view of an accident that was in the process of being attended to by emergency services.

#2095

This was a lovely spot to have lunch and find our 600th cache!:-)

Stopped in to drop of a few trackables

13174… A nice meeting place for the Siamese Twins, TFTC.

TFTC, nice dry spot on a wet day!

#1 of 6 on our trip to Lake Mahinapua. It turned into a long trip (see Rincewind3's entry for more). TFTC

#1 of 6 on our trip to Lake Mahinapua. We only left Chch after picking Rincewind jr up from school and refuelling so on the road about 4pm. Between caching and playing tourists with cameras we only arrived at the DOC cottage at 9.15pm, only to find we couldn't get in! No cellphone reception but at least there was a note with an emergency contact number; we just had to drive halfway to Hokitika to make the call. Eventually got hold of someone who knew the code to the door. Suffice to say it wasn't MUCH different to the one I wrote down All in all it was an adventuresome day and we're all glad to be in bed now. At this early stage, though, we were happy to stretch the legs and find a cache TFTC

Team_Gaters and I have planned a this trip over the last few months. We finally got to the business end of things and kicked off out West Coast raid. We had two days and a lot of boxes to tick. We started at 5am on Saturday morning and it took over 12 hours to get to Greymouth. We drove a lot, walked a lot and had a lot of laughs. We experienced 4 seasons and even contemplated aborting the mission as we were standing in icy cold weather freezing as the rain came pelting down in Arthurs Pass. We encountered matigouri, rosehips, blackberries, brambles, spainairds, baby gorse and old man gorse!!! Still finding parts of prickles in my skin! We also saw kea, weka, cave weta, tree weta, giant slugs, giant spiders in caves, west coasters, fat wood pidgeons, tui and a giant dragon fly. Had wet feet for nearly two days. Three FTFs and on of them was unpublished (first for me).
First stop for me after being on the road for nearly an hour. TG already had this one on a previous mission. Nice quick find.
Awesome weekend. TG and I joked that going back to work would be a bit of a let down, so to combat that we would keep one foot in a bucket of water and the other one on top of a pin cusion, that should ignite the memories.

Thanks for the cache.
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#1747

Found it during a short Stop. TFTC.

Wondered what to expect. Cool location. TFTC

Mrs j found it before I turned on GPS and got out of car.TFTC

Nice hide. TFTC.

Awesome wee cache on a lovely drive

The first of the holiday, a sharp cold wind blowing here today. Nice easy one thanks.

Biking Ch-Ch to the Bealey hotel (During a Norwester duh) Doing some caches on the way.
This was the low point on the bike ride, 60 k to go and down to 12 k an hour. TFTC it gave us a rest.

Found on our way home from an event at Kura Tawhiti reserve. A Favourite roadside cache. Rosie enjoyed her exploration around GZ. TFTC

We stopped in on the way back to the Coast to drop off a couple of trackables.
Happy travels

We found it on our way back form Foggy Peak. Very nice day for travelling and caching.
OUT: TB

A quick find on the way to the West Coast today. Signed log, TFTC

quick find LGM

A neat little hide and good to be off the main road. Thanks.

Lovely spot. Good excuse to stop. TFTC

Amazing tree! Quick find on the way to the arthurs pass. Thanks for the cache!

with too much snow to get off road caches, it was just simply do the trail today. same owner, no bridge. signed log

Quick find on our way back from the snow

Thought this would be my last cache on this trip and purposely missed other bridge caches - as it turned out, unnecessarily so. Lots of snow.

Today i was driving from Springfield to Arthurs Pass. Because i am on Holiday i took my time and did this 80 km Route in one day. I wanted to do some hiking so i lokked up for caches, which requires a little bit of walking and fitness.
This was the first one along the Route and a easy park and grab. I wanted to start my Caching-Day slowly
Tftc, Fritz

L4TB grabbed the cache and therefore signed for us all - I just held the umbrella for log protection from the elements that persisted down from upon high. Thanks to the twins for a quick stop in a safe area. Just keep a look out for toilet paper!

933 - As we were passing it seemed rude not to drop in on the 'twins' and say hi. I think L4TB found this one but as we could all see it, not a hard find. Left it a little less exposed than when we arrived. I was so glad there is a safe place to pull off for this one. With a final wave to the guardian pair we were off back on our adventure ... heading to the wild west... hmm do cowboys venture out in this weather?

No time for a picnic as we were on a mission. Found by L4TB. It looks that a few of the twins friends might be departing sometime soon as they have been marked. MPF 1121, SF 525, JMG 933, KCN 910, L4TB 1334

This entry was edited by macpacfamily on Tuesday, 04 June 2013 at 07:19:57 UTC.

Found on a caching trip with L4TB, MacpacFamily, JustMeG and Kiwicampnut. TFTC

Not a BTG, but still a gracie7 + Mum cache. Found with JustMeg, Macpacfamily, Kiwicampnut and Sharkiefan. Cheers, gracie7 + Mum!

Out and about on a windy sunday adventure. Castle HIll rocks were fun but way to windy (gail force!) to have lunch......driving back we found this sheltered wee layby - perfect for a lunch stop and a run around. A couple other family groups thought the same - but still easy enough to grab this cache. Cheers.

Found. Cool trees

Found. Cool trees

Quick find after stopping for lunch tftc

Many Thanks for all the caches found today on a 1000km 20 hour trip from Oamaru to Greymouth and back.and maintaining them.

Bitsprayer

Today seemed to be a day for gracie7 + Mum placements. So a quick detour away from the bridges took us to a lovely picnic area that I have often passed and wondered that there was no cache placement, now there is!
Thanks
erbinz

Quick grab despite a bus load of students getting a lecture not to far away. Nice spot for a break.

During our visit in beautiful New Zealand, we have naturally sought some caches. There were many memorable impressions on our trip and showed us some caches the New Zealand off the beaten path. You have a wonderful country! We thank all Ownern for the cache and send best regards from Germany, Saxony, Leipzig 2 Supermuggels

My daughter (college student) was so excited to find the cache, that she misplaced her sunglasses and we had to search for them before we could leave. Ha! TFTC

Wo, they really are co-joined. TFTC

Quick find.

Have driven past this rest area many times before but this is the first time we have stopped, well worth the time today as we recovered this cache in between muggles stopping for food and drinks.TFTC.

Quick find

My 380th cache.
Thank you for a nice rest while I drove from Fox Glacier to Springfield.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

A quick easy find at another rest area. A solitary cyclist parked there recovering after the race. TFTC

Another good off road cache site. TFTC

02/02/2013 1:23:00 PM
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Fourth one of the day... main purpose of this trip was to finally find a cache in the one and only region in NZ I had never cached in - the West Coast. And to hopefully let the cache I find on the West Coast be the West Coast CANZ... A great day for it too!!

Drove pretty much right on up to the cache here - wow the places I take my wee car... I act like my tiny 2 door car is a 4WD sometimes...

Then once there I spotted the cache straight up. Wow people must not come this way much for the cache to still be here despite how exposed it was when I found it! So covered it up a bit better, but there are not so many branches. But what business would anyone have there anyway?! Lol.

TFTC!!

found on an epic road trip with endmosteye44 and our geomutt, TNLN, TFTC

Tftc

What a cool spot for a cache.
Thanks for placing this cache!

TFTC
Gruß Frodo32

A quick stop by on the way to the Lakes for a weekend of fishing. A nice easy find. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Hey, woof... JC Cache Dawg here...

I'm loading all my finds from my Alpha Males (aka GenCuster) logs, where he deigned to remember that I was with him... As if he could forget...08/01/13 13:35 Yay! Finally a run-a-round

nice break while hiding behind the van from genuinely picnicking muggles TFTC!!

08/01/13 13:35 Followed the (N.I.) lizard's suggestion of using the Cach'n Camp'n Wag'n as cover. Oh, and letting JC Cache Dawg have a run around. Good break for us. Cheers, GC.

Thanks
Goodbye Ludwig

Together with my family on a vacation trip to New Zealand. Starting at Auckland airport on transfer to Christchurch we went for a roundtrip exploring the south island. This was one of many caches we found while visiting so many nice and interesting places thanks to all the caches why I want to send a thank you to all CO for the work spent.
Was lying open on the ground. Tried to replace it to its original location. TFTC.

Very windy here today

Great location tftc