Home away from Home (Canterbury) Waddington, South Island, New Zealand
By Vorn73 on 06-May-12. Waypoint GC3JQZK

As this cache has been out of action for too long and the cache owner has not responded or performed any maintenance, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to un-archive it.
 
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Will place a new one shortly

Hunted for 30min but couldn't find it.

Out again to drop daughter off at camp. Hooked up with the CO at said camp and got solid instructions and hint. Off hunting I went and found something that could been bits of the cache. But no cache found to log again 3rd time not a charm for me tonight. ....

Hagar had been working in Christchurch since Thursday last week, and Helga joined him this Thursday to spend the weekend sightseeing and caching.
On Sunday we headed north-west, up to Arthur's Pass. The weather was nice when leaving Christchurch, but once up in the mountains it got cold and windy and it also rained on and off.
On the way back to Christchurch we didn't find this cache, no matter how we crawled around.

Spend around 20mins trying to find it :/ we will come back soon to try again. Not sure where the 'v' is either.

Spend around 20mins trying to find it :/ we will come back soon to try again. Not sure where the 'v' is either.

found with Gingaridge while attwnding the adjacant camp.

Small but we found it.

Did some digging very small cache to find

Tftc

Tftc

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On a road trip with the family

First for the day

Heading home

TFTC

Found with Penpanky on our way to Castle Point.

Found by Izaac again, must beat him next time!

Found at 1:20:00 p.m. on 11/05/2014.

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

TFTC Vorn73

After an hour and a half drive we arrived at our first cache for the day. Then we realised that we had been here before when the "Home away from Home" was still here. It is gone now so the cache was much easier to find.

Lucky find as not sure the clues helped much. We don't use a GPS so rely on good clues, didn't take too long though and a beautiful day to be out. TFTC.

Had a look about but no joy.

Great day out caching, one of many found, foggy start, but soon came out hot. - Bitsprayer

This entry was edited by Bitsprayer on Monday, 24 March 2014 at 08:19:14 UTC.

A nice wee area with a surprising facilty opposite.
Thanks
erninz

7 searchers and finally had success. Great one. Kids were up and down all sorts of trees. Great disguise for container. Well blended to bark.

Didn't find it. A fairly desultory effort to be fair. I'd been up on the mountain tops and a bit tired, getting cold, late in day, blowing like the devil and I gave up. Feeble effort on my part.

Next time I shall get it.

Took us !!AGES!! but eventually found! TFTH

Found pretty quickly in a deserted area. Thanks for the cache.

This entry was edited by 2wombles on Sunday, 09 February 2014 at 08:49:17 UTC.

lovely wee stream TFTC

Sorry looked and looked for about twenty minutes, climbed trees crawled under trees and scrabbled around the concrete.

No luck

Can't see it for looking shame as would have loved to have found it! TFTC

Went for a climb, then back tracked, looked in there, up there and round there. Then checked the clue and had another look in there. Smiley!
TFTC

Dont know why but we made a meal of this cache, took three visits TFTC

Quick easy find on my way out to rescue some mates with car problems after a practise coast to coast paddle. Thanks for the hide.

Found this one during our drive around the Canterbury region chasing some caches. Tftc.

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

After flying into Christchurch today and visiting Banks Peninsula, we then headed out to Arthurs Pass and found this cache along the way. Didn’t take us too long to find this one, TFTC!

After flying into Christchurch today and visiting Banks Peninsula, we then headed out to Arthurs Pass and found this cache along the way. Didn’t take us too long to find this one, TFTC!

Super-cool camo container. TFTC.

Quick stop on the was across to the coast, TFTC, #5783

A nice wee hide, think I fluked it in the end

TFTC

#6818. Spotted quickly (bit of luck if the number of DNF's is anything to go by!). This was a relief, as I didn't fancy searching GZ high and low for a micro. TFTC.

Yew trees can be tricky to search but luckily the cache was in the first spot StreetWalker looked. Nicely camoed container. TFTC.

Second attempt here after a DNF last visit. the tree has certainly had a haircut since I were here last. Found cache on the ground so have put it back where I think it should be. TFTC.

Aaaggghh! I stayed at the camp across the road for a family reunion last Boxing Day. Do you think I checked for caches in the area? No. No I did not.

Biked up from Christchurch to have another go at finding this cache.
Home away from home has gone, the little hut is no longer there. Whether the winds have sent it on its way I dont know. As for the cache we still coudnt find it. Biked to the pie shop and then headed home.

Looked everywhere! Felt like a monkey but no luck.

Well this was going to be an interesting search from description and logs. Called in on way home from West Coast in drizzle to give it a go and with help of non caching mate as he has a better head for this type of search than me. However I located it pretty much straight away. TFTC SL.

Last find on our way home from an event. Somewhat surprised at the location. An obvious hideout for some locals. Cache safe and in good order. TFTC

Used old logs to find it, after much fruitless searching. Just didn't look hard enough in the spot I first thought it would be!

Found it with Karlanz. Excellent cache for the first hunt.

Awesome challenging cache LGM

no luck for me today...

We couldn't find it.

no luck for me and sevren

No luck for us today. Not to say it is not there we just have cache blindness in some cases.

Awesome wee hut, found by theroamingreliever while I was looking elsewhere tftc

Found tftc

Had a quick look on the was back from an afternoon in the snow at Castle Hill. Too cold to linger too long in the freezing twilight. Next time.

Heading home from a windy but fun family adventure to Castle Hill rocks. Wee dudes had fun clambering around and throwing things into the water race. Took a committed search to net the cache. Cheers.

Two attempts and still can't find it, will have to come back again

A very good hide - definitely easier for kid size to find - thx

Swung past for another look at this one but the junior woodchucks were in residence and doing somthing right beside GZ.

Next time.....
Cheers,
S.t.

Well glad to finally get this one off my list, I have had a couple of shots at it and this time I finally got it. A tricky wee hide. TFTC. Cheers Bo

No luck for me.

Sadly no find for us....but what a cool spot!

5043. On a three day geocaching trip around Mid-Canterbury. This was cache number eight on the first day. Took quite a lot of searching around the home but found it in the end. Thanks, Rodney and Iris.

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
DK

Found it together with Moselund United on our trip on New Zealand:)
DK

GPS kept pointing me to a newly built fort the kids have made. I couldn't find the 'v' or the cache

An intriguing little hideaway. It took a while to locate the cache, after initially looking in the correct place, but not thoroughly enough. TFTC

We found it OK this time after a DNF on an earlier visit. TFTC

02/02/2013 1:01:00 PM
2396
Third 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!!

SUCH AN AWESOME WEE SPOT!!! Had so much fun exploring it and looking through it!! I would have absolutely never wanted to leave this place had I been here as a kid!! I love things like this!! And looks like they have some pretty strong defences here - found a water gun at GZ! Haha.

Cache was surprisingly quick for location. I think it's the good hint!

TFTC!!

A quick find on another superb Canterbury geoday. In the 2nd spot I checked.
Thanks for placing this cache!

Very clever, there were quite a few v's and when we stopped and thought about it, the cache was then found. Great spot too!!!

Last time Heafudd M was passing he couldn't get at this because of weather damage. Today success. Some children have used the cut and broken branches to make a decent fortification so we also found 2 water pistols which I'm sure they have fun ambushing their mates with. But beware as you wouldn't see them until it was too late!

Easy find once I figured out to enter the tree hut, even some weapons there for a water fight. TFTC

TFTC Chelonia

Second find for Sophie. Fab place. Kids (&dad) could have played here all day!

Awesome site tftc

Big day out caching Christchurch to Arthurs Pass and back with AAMOFIDOTR.

Fairly easy find on a drive by,

Local kids have made a great fort around the cache so it's well protected. Watch out for their water pistols TFTC.

Good place! Found with Jamien. TFTC.

Great location and a neat hide that took some finding. TFTC.

First place I looked, seldom this lucky; TFTC

Our 3rd visit here and this time was lucky. I had picked though previous logs for some clues as to the whereabouts but when we got there we didnt end up needing them. It has certainly changed alot since our first and even our second attempt not that long ago (I hope it wasnt geocachers who have done that to the poor tree) Cache was a quick find. 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.

Typical for us Wombles,there is always someone closeby.Today two Electricians pulled up just as we were walking over to GZ.We must have looked quite odd,two olddies,going in there,found it quickly then stood and looked at the Stream.They set about their buisness ,so we high tailed out of there.TFTC

Big congratulations to whoever had the ability and time to pull this together. Should have taken longer to find this one but got lucky with a guess of where it may be. Well placed cache.

Awesome! T4TC.

Found after a short search. Nice little spot here. Thanks for the hunt Vorn73

Really cool. On the way to a west coast trip after attending Mega. Beautiful scenery today.

OMG! What an awesome place!

Cool place.
TFTC.

Journeying through NZ on our first international geocaching adventure making our way to the NZ Mega at Dunedin. Heading to the west coast today.

What a lovely tree house, built by nature. If only these trees could speak, I bet there's many a tale to tell.

Our 750th find. TFTC SL