The Helpers #6 (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By justmeg on 04-Dec-12. Waypoint GC3WDQ5

I thought I had archived this a month ago so not sure what happened that it's still online. With it going missing on a regular basis and the yappy dog I've decided to archive this. Info is on the page

Not luck today thanks

This was my 3rd DNF out of 4 caches - just couldn't see it at any height

Searched gz for ages infuriating a little dog on other side of fence!

Had another look here today with Mr and Mrs Sharpe and Victoriousone. Couldn't find it

No luck here today, looked pretty thoroughly I think too

Got it this time! Nice to know my DNF was only because it was missing. I'd actually already completed the final (a bit of guesswork helped), but I still wanted to complete the whole series - now I have. Next series to complete is La Vista's 'Angels and Demons' series, then Ruru_nz's 'Lunar Emergency' series.
Busy, busy...
TFTC

Easy find, good place

An easy find. Although just as we found the cache and were getting the log a muggle came along the track. There was a moment where we just had to chuckle as we looked most dodgy! TFTC #174

Thanks for the nice easy find

An easy find. Thanks for placing this cache.

A nice easy find once I had waited for the junior muggles to move on. The cache was a little exposed and pretty close to where the junior muggles were playing and trashing the trees. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Another easy find for the day. TFTC

Found it cheers. Pen would not work most replace pen

Found it with my sister Miško, in our ''cache-day'' ... TFTC!

Having a District Leaders meeting on this side of town made it easy for me to do this on the way home. Another of the series ticked off but still two to go. May take me a while to get to those two spots being on either side of town. Great night out even if the temperature was still in the high numbers. Cache all good and moved slightly out of sight if you just happen to go to that area as I suspect some locals use it for a loo (or at least last night it smelt a bit like it). Just take care no muggles watching on hot nights with the windows open all around. Looking forward to finishing this series one day. Thanks for replacing it.

Nice hiding place! Thanks fun times at the park

Found with the 3amigos TFTC

TFTC

Easy find thanks

Waited till evening so all the muggles were at home for tea.

Thanks. Nicely placed.

I've been here before, and today I signed the log. Wahoo!.

Dusted off the old cyclo cache mobile, to go hunting for new, since last time, caches around the forest. I say forest, but much of now seems to have been harvested! Still a nice ride though.

Thank you for the hide.

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Had looked for this previously but was missing good to see it back in action. Hopefully this time we won't upset the dog next door. after a fairly quick search the NosyBear team had it signed off. Cheers G.

Finally found this one. Thanks for replacing it.

Quick find after a walk at the beach. Tftc

Cache has been replaced. Not at ground level. Please leave in place and sign it there thanks

I'm pretty sure this is still in place but am hoping to get there to check soon

Was in the vicinity and did a check for you - it isn't there as best I could see - looked on the ground in case it was there but no. Definitely needs maintenance.

I don't think it is there anymore everyone said it was easy no one has found it recently could you please see if the cache is still there thanks

The last time I was here six weeks ago it was still in place. This is no longer the easy find it was but will disable until I get over to check again.

There for 30 mins we looked yesterday as well still not there could c if still there

I was there for 10 mins still couldn't find it. impossible.

Couldn't find today, despite our best efforts.

No luck today. Next time.......

Thanks

Quick find while tooling around on the bike in Bottle Lake. Thanks for the diversion

Nice day for a walk

found with RaltsRalts

Found with Grackatron! Encountered plenty of spiderwebs ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Nice easy find for the end of my walk.

Clever wee spot! My first cache. Thank you

Great instructions ... Enjoyed the hunt.

Oops I meant to edit the enabled comment, not delete it. The cache page has been updated as has the hint. Co-ordinates are the same but trees do interfere with GPS.

It sounds like this one may need checking so I'm disabling until I get over there.

Didn't find a cache but plenty of rubbish though. Shame really, I don't get over here often and am collecting the series.

No luck today. What 3 dnf's in a row? yappy dog, decided to give it a miss. Next time.......

getting dark and nearby dogs were barking so had to stop looking for this cache, next time.

Our last few searches have been singularly unsuccessful so it was very nice to find this one with no trouble.

it was easy to find, awesome case! TFTC

Arrived at GZ after work thinking I would have this place to myself but hadn't counted on effect of increased daylight hours after daylight savings change. Hordes of little people everywhere. Luckily my GPS led me off to the side a bit and I was able to have a wee poke round without attracting too much attention. Container was not at the level mentioned in the hint so I have repositioned it. Should shed some light on the final now that I have almost all the necessary data! TFTC

Nice find using my torch, sweet container. TFTC

[blue]Day 31 of our 31 Days of Caching Challenge.[/blue] [purple] We made IT!!![/purple] This was #13 of the 27 we found before the event today.
We arrived at a empty park for a quick find. We really liked the container and I am surprised it only has 1fav point.
So heres one from us. Thanks for the cache

Nice quick find after work. TFTC.

Nice quick find on the way to soccer, TFTC.

Sixth find for the day. Cool hide. TFTC.

It was an easy first find for me

This entry was edited by jackwillis64 on Friday, 04 October 2013 at 21:07:24 UTC.

Quick find, tftc

Nice container. Quickly found as found at feet. Replaced to hint.

nice container tftc

No help required to find the cache. Thanks.

The next find in the series. We had to wait for some muggles playing in the nearby playground on this beautiful day. But again, we must be blind because we never find any hints for the big final. Quick find, TFTC

Found while out on a training bike ride a circuit from home in Redwood, North Beach, New Brighton, South Brighton, Redcliffs, Sumner, Heathcote and back home Via the CBD that was, a fantastic day for an awesome ride . I managed to find 9 of 10 on this ride . Had the GZ to myself, no one to notice what 1eyednbf (1 eyed and proud of it) was up to Quick find, yah for the Police. Nice hide TFTC. .

I loved the cache, very appropriate. This is my first of this series. I will now have to get on with finding the others. Thanks for the cache.

Really quick find in the first place that I looked, after I had to wait for some local kids to vacate the area. Thanks for the cache.

Quick easy find of another JMG unique container. Two of the helpers down today and I think only 2 to go. Thanks for the hide JMG

Nice!

Kids enjoyed the hunt TFTC

Had to be careful. A few muggles around. TFTC.

Avoided muggles. All good here.

A nice easy find

TFTC

TFTC!
Quick find on way home from visiting.
Well hidden cache.

Nice camo job, helps to get it from the right end. Cheers

TFTC!

Quick find.

Loved the container. Found quickly. TFTC

Love it! Found quickly while we were on our way to a friend's place nearby. TFTC.

We needed to be in the area to meet up with friends for a run and eyed this cache. When we pulled up we thought we might not have a chance since there were junior muggles playing. But they weren't a problem thanks to where GZ was. TFTC.

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After a 30C day today felt pretty cool at 16C. Liked the cache container.

ds8300

22/01/2013 8:53:00 PM
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I had DNFed a cache in the morning, followed by a DNF round the corner... well this made me super determined to get this one!!

I was in the area, as I had been helping 2 of my flatmates move out, and they were moving to a place near here. On the way home then, I said we had to stop for a cache... we had already DNFed that other one, so we parked in some random street nearby and wondered here.

There were some kids on the playground, but they looked to be hidden enough, and sure enough we found the cache quick snap easy. Nice as container here!

But then the kids must have noticed us as they became a bit curious.
Now one of these flatmates had been to one cache with me before, and the other had never even seen one and didn't even know entirely how it worked, but she instantly seemed to know what had to be done, and started talking about how the size of the rats here was ridiculous, good thing they had called pest control, and then would yell out, 'oh, get that one!', and 'there's a big one!' as well as 'Eww you got rat blood all over me!'.

Well, these kids were young enough to buy that, so seemed to freak out a bit, and retreated... I don't think they will ever want to go near that bush now... mwahahahahah... lol.

TFTC!!

Quick find in the first place I looked, co-ordinates spot on for me; TFTC

Nice quick first cache of the day
Cheers Gav

4945. Came back today with Reuben (5) who found the cache immediately, even though it was 1m away and not where the hint suggested. Very quick find. Thanks, Rodney, Iris and Reuben.

Cool hide. First on the last day of my journey north. TFTC

This entry was edited by bladesedge on Monday, 14 January 2013 at 18:35:14 UTC.

Searched for quite a long time in the extreme heat, trying to make the most of the little shade there was. This may have limited our search area somewhat! Had no luck, and the hint and other cache notes didn't lead to a discovery, even after we had given a very liberal interpretation to the hint. We will return. Know the area well as our niece lived nearby before moving north. Rodney and Iris.

Found quickly just a moment before Muggle Dad arrived with his Mugglets.Neat container.TFTC

for such and easy hide it eluded us today !

I was out and about fairly early this morning before I left Christchurch in the afternoon. Nice camo job here.

Cheers for the cache.

Thanks, justmeg, great hide.
Fortunately my sunnies were still there when I returned to collect the (also forgotten) info.
TFTC.

Quick find after new years lunch with the family. Nice hide.
TFTC

This entry was edited by victoriousone on Sunday, 06 January 2013 at 05:34:46 UTC.

Didn't know this wee park/playground existed and we're lived in the area for years. TY for showing it to us

Early Sunday morning was the best time for me to attempt this cache. I'm a little wary of being by myself in these type of locations. Quick easy find.

Easy find. Loved the container.

Out and about for an evenings caching adventure with The Wanglers. Quickly cornered the clever wee cache. Nicely done. Cheers.

TFTC. Out for a group night cache and with the cache owner on board we could hardly drive by this cache.
This is a great theme for a series, how many more helpers do we have? I'm looking forward to finding out. I remember to take notes this time.
Nice container in a lovely area.

After feeling I could not log the close by night cache that a group of us went to get (it was found) due to a dodgy knee, I went looking for another to keep my streak going. Another in the "Helpers" series was just the help that I needed to rescue me. Thanks to this caches resuscitation I am now up to day 93! TFTC

Had time to find one more cache before meeting cachemates at our nearby night cache. Didn't expect a hard job but had our secret weapon in the geomobile - the cache owner ! - who explained the significance of location by the name of the nearby street. A wonderful series to pay tribute to our number (any guesses on how many? ) of community helpers.

TeamGaters and I were on the way to meeting some caching buddies for a night raid on Conjunction and needed to grab this one on the way. We found the cache quickly and noted the extra information and noticed the ink was still wet on the log with the names of our friends we were meeting. Nice. We replaced log and head to the parking spot. Seventh for the night.
Thanks JMG for another cache.
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#2390 @1325
After dropping my daughter in town for work, it was caching the east of Christchurch on the way home. This was the last one before heading home. An easy find. TFTC.

The fine weather enticed me out for a bike ride. This was the first stop on the ride. Very quiet here this afternoon. In the log I noted that I was following another Kaipoi cacher today - I wonder how much he was in front of me? Dang, just realised I should have noted the code.