Racing on the Rail (Nth Canterbury) Lowry Hills Range, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 26-Nov-12. Waypoint GC4212Y

A quick park and grab.

We were supposed to do a whale watching trip today, but it got cancelled as the whales were outside the area. Instead we set off to find a few caches. A quick park and grab on our way north to Kaikoura. TFTC

On our way to Picton. A quick detour to find the cache. TFTC

Heading up to the Tongariro river fishing, caching along the way TFTC

On the way south for a birthday celebration. Quick detour down here.

Trouve ! / Found it ! 5218me cache trouve.Merci bumandworker pour la cache 5218th cache found.Thank you bumandworker for the cache

On a road trip to Kaikoura - hot NW day nice and quiet spot easy find.

Today I'm back on the road, driving from Dunsandel to Blenheim to pick up some recently acquired musical gear. Finding a few caches along the way. This was the first one I stopped for. It's been a while since I found a B&W cache. No problems here. TFTC, Biggles.

One of a few at rail side locations today.

#12,461. After a fun week in Christchurch doing a lot of caching it was time today to drive north to Picton to catch the 6pm ferry. I decided to stop first at Cheviot for some lunch then do a few along the road from there to Kaikoura. Parked nearby and soon located the cache. Thanks b&w for the cache. Don't think I have heard of Spotswood before.

Tftc and greetings from Czechia

Good coordinates and hint led to quick find.

Yep, a quick find here. TFTC

A quick park and grab on a quiet country road; tftc

Located with Ricardinho

A quick park & grab for this one.

Heading back to Boomtown today from Christchurch & RNZ has targeted a few caches to grab on our trip back. Most on our side of the road home

TFTC

A quick find here. In my haste did not notice the racecourse, or if indeed it’s still active. Will check out next time through. TFTC B&W.

Driving today from Christchurch to Blenheim, and picking off a few caches on the way, as we tend to do. Mostly, but not exclusively, those on ‘our’ side of the road today. All pretty good, thanks all COs.

Out exploring the back roads for caches. Nice drive to the cache. Thanks for this cache bumandworker.

Interesting old racecourse here and ofcourse a cache! TFTC

Took a bit if digging but got it and rescued a TB.

Quick find, beautiful day tftc

Nice and quiet out here for a quick find with angelic_kiwi. tftc

Out and about after lunch and heading south this time. A quick stop here for the find and sign. Laminated TB left to continue travelling. tftc

Quick find. TFTC.

Driving to Nelson via a friend's winery at Renwick; I was a little challenged for time so decided to have only a couple of stops on the way north.
I've been meaning to drive down this road for a while - and was pleased to be able to today.
Thanks for this cache, b&w.

Having so far had 2 unsuccessful hunts today, it's nice to be able to put my name in a log book! TFTC

Tried my hardest to muck it up.

Seemed obvious from the hint but was so well hidden I nearly gave up. One last look and success

Took a bit of searching due to the vegetation, but got the in the end. Tftc.

After a bit of a break from caching I am catching up on my logging that stalled when the first lockdown happened.We found this as we were rushing back to Wellington before the country went into lockdown. TFTC bumandworker.

First stop to find a cache on my way to Kaikoura

Family holiday time...loaded up with bicycles to find some fun tracks. A couple nights Kaikoura, a couple in Blenheim & then finally a couple nights in Richmond.
Heading up to Kaikoura this morning - hot as today; ducked up this side road to find a cache or two. Nice quick find, thanks.

Nice quick find. Never knew there was a racecourse here. Thanks for the hide. #3513

Just love the different object up the power-pole just after the turn off. Jude_E took photos! Brought a smile to the dial for sure. Nice easy find, TFTC

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Yay, a b&w cache, always accurate co-ordinates - usually really findable and a good excuse to get out of the car and stretch the legs. At this point no 19 was driving - jeut allors! Survived and all was good. Cacche found and replaced same. T F T C

A real quick roadtrip weekend 'down the line' to Chch and surrounds for us this weekend. mrs capperz is on her own 2 week roadie, so it's just nightowl19 and I for the long haul, 800kms, puzzles and trads, a couple of badge upgrades on Statto project-gc, and a few take-away establishments visited to maintain the caching machine. A good weekend which as usual is over too soon, but still a good couple of days away. I had a meal to go to on Friday night so was not on the road until the relatively late time of 0800 on Saturday morning, and back home again just 36 short hours later on Sunday evening. Treble figure haul over those 2 days and plenty of back road sights and experiences of parts of Canterbury not travelled before. Managed a couple of earth caches, a load of apples (enough for cider!), some childrens names and even mustered some errant horses (on the loose from Kaimanawa?}

Caching my way north. Nice easy find thanks bumandworker

#7312

One of my fav ways of spending a weekend day - jump into the car with a direction in mind, stopping for caches along the way, enjoying the journey. This time I piled a couple of 'kids' into the car also, and we headed to Kaikoura making the most of the road being open for the weekend and not that much traffic thanks to the Picton detour still in place. Needless to say that we never made it as far as Kaikoura, although we leaft early enough and got quite close. Try explaining that on a monday at work - where did you go over the weekend? Well, Kaikoura, but we did not quite make it there. Oh, is the road still so bad? LOL!

Quick find in a beautiful deserted spot, TFTC!!

Kaikoura
What an experience it has been caching in Kaikoura, every way you turned it was either mountain or sea scenery. We learnt so much abour the earthquake you had here last year,
Thanks for placing this cache bumandworker

On spotting the race course I wondered when the last race meeting was held here, and when the next is scheduled? Like Kiwi Moose I had to dig a bit to get my hands on this cache. Aside from that, the cache is in good condition.

Easy find, even given that recent road works had covered it with soil and gravel. Spotswood races last held here in the early '90s. They now race at Rangiora. Thanks for a reason to stop at a lovely spot.

A bit of digging required again as that is a keen digger. No idea there was a race course out here, not the normal oval type either. Cheers

There was only one place that matched the hint - only problem was that a grader had been along the road and pushed a significant amount of soil ontop of the cache and post. GK went to the van and found a tool to do some excavating, he dug, he found what we were looking for. This is one of those caches for us that allows us to discover the unexpected and this is in between two unexpecteds so a fav from us. tftc

A quick park and grab- which was good because the temperature was starting to get up where I don't like it!! tftc

Hi quite like these park and grab. Warfi had this even before I had the car stopped.

Dropped TB

Interesting the infrastructure these small settlements support(ed). Thanks

Thank you B&W for being the first cache on our return from the north island after so many rainy and unproductive caching days found with team_macdonald TFTC

Found on our way home after a rainy wet holiday in the north island which resulted in minimal caches found. tftc found with rayzr2

With a few more days of holidays left we decided to head south again and find some caches we didn't have time to look for last week, plus some more off the beaten track. This was one of 51 found today.
Thank you to all CO's who made this possible.

Our recent multi day Canterbury cache raid was so successful we decided to have another one before the holidays finished. Again we got stabbed, prodded, pricked and scraped by the variety of hedges the region is so famous for. And of course we can now hold our breath a lot longer. A skill well worth developing to avoid breathing in part of the road surface every time a vehicle passes. Just over 200 finds were logged this time and a great time was had finding the caches with a variety of shapes, sizes and placements. A big thank you to all COs who made this possible.

A bit late logging. Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

As we drove closer to GZ the train was just coming by. I got a nice close up of all the creative graffiti all over the train carriages. Wow! Then as we got out of our truck, the train stopped. Funny. The last carriage was maybe 10 meters away. Easily found.

Chelzea and I on a day trip from ChCh to Kaikoura, North up SH 1 and then return via the inland road through Waiau. A good number of caches both on the way up and back but not as many in Kaikoura itself as we would have liked but a good trip never the less. Found many cool places and caches and thanks to all the CO's for their placements.

Caching road trip with Sevren tftc

Found while heading back to Picton on a beautiful warm sunny morning, collecting a few caches I didn't get when I came down a few days ago. *TFTC bumandworker, #8608*

No problem finding this one either.

Found at 02:38 PM - #6071

TFTC

Making our way North towards home after the Christchurch Mega with tmann421.

A nice quick find for us here.

TFTC

Another great cache found with Just-Lookin.
Driving towards Picton and the ferry back home today.

We soon had the cache found.
SL TFTC

On my way to the MEGA - Day 2.
On my way to Kaiapoi.
Looks like a good way to avoid Cheviot.
TFTC

[green] At last I am on my way to the mega. Two weeks of insane caching in Christchurch. Looking at 7 Badgegen upgrades, a 200+ cache day and, of course, the Mega. But first I have to get there. It took me 9 hours to drive to Christchurch, pretty much what I expected, found 55 caches along the way.

Why no cache for those really cute railway stations?? Dropped in an emerald here.

I had parked my Mobile Travel Bug at Parnassus last night so it was off to do some of the "off the main track" caches today.

Cheers for the cache.

Found on the drive north from Christchurch to Golden Bay. On the road before sunrise and I was timing the journey to be in Nelson by 4pm to meet dad at the airport. The weather was not too bad most of the way, but starting getting a bit dodgy through The Whangamoas. Quick find at this cache. TFTC (2420)

Driving a car back to Palmerston North for a friend. Quick stop, for a easy find. I did not know the race course was here .Thanks for the cache.

Nice find on the way to running the St Clair half marathon.

Quick find on the way to Kaikoura for the weekend. TFTC.

Enjoyed seeing the reason behind the cache name as I pulled up because mostly I haven't read the description until I'm logging. TFTC #6573

On familiar ground here we farmed only a few kays from here.

Thought we had finished for the day but couldn't resist

Found on way to kaikoura

Nice quick P&G. We were in a race of our own to see how many more we could do before we could find a toilet stop.
Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #2894[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 8/46[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 139/224[/blue]

Double pun. We'll dun

Racing the rails today on the way to kaikoura, nice wee diversion to find a cache, always good for a quick stop. Cheers.

No trains today.

Quick find. Thanks

13775… Interesting piece of info, raced over to grab the rail cache, TFTC.

Quickly found. Tftc

Quick find tftc

No action on either front. log slightly damp so had problem with my pen. tftc

No Racing on today. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Nice crisp morning for train racing

Tftc

Driven past many times, had no idea this racecourse was here! TFTC

Came here on a slow day's geoaching trip between Kaikoura and Christchurch. Found the cache quickly - signed log, TFTC

Nearing the end of a days caching.This was another easy find, but the drive has been enjoyable,.

Easy find.

Another quick find. Fellow cachers who try this one in the dark should avoid the space between the pole and the railway line;--some disgusting by products. Thanks.

An easy find thanks to clue. TFTC

Enjoyed the stop, no problem with the find.

TFTC

Now that is race course we had never heard of before.
+ a marble, - nothing.

We had stopped for lunch rather than caches in Cheviot so had time for a few more. on the way home. Two showed on the side road so we did the detour. Interesting wee country spot. One train even went past while we were there which is a novelty for Nelsonians.
Thanks for the reason to sidestep from the main road home.

This entry was edited by SoBad on Saturday, 04 May 2013 at 10:58:25 UTC.

A quick easy find between the two features described. TFTC

#5423. Must have been too focussed on locating the cache, as I don't remember spotting the race course. Our first B + W cache on the way north; good to be back in "bumandworker country" (there should be a sign beside SH1). TFTC.

Interesting to see the race course up close.
TFTC.

Out with Kiwicampnut to assess a camp in Kaikoura - so made the most of the day and cached there and back

A quick find and although the cache had been wet at some point the log book was dry.

Thanks - today's bumandworker streak continues

Deviated to do these two caches having done T Post first, located this one and then headed on our way towards our destination of Kaikoura. Thank goodness we didn't need to do any racing on the rail would have made life interesting.

A quick find after dinner,

TFTC

Interesting to find all the race courses in NZ, is there still one without a cache? Sure you would not expect one here. TFTC

Quick n easy find my way to Kaikoura for cache maintenance.

TFTC. Lovely to find a few new caches just off the main drag. A short deviation and they were both in hand.
Thanks bumandworker for placing the cache.

Great place for a cache. Quick find. TFTC