Rural Comm (Canterbury) Hilton, South Island, New Zealand
By wardsmithfamily on 03-Jan-13. Waypoint GC43Q1A

Took Heidi the Himalayan motorcycle for an overnight adventure, with the primary purpose to cache out the seaward side of SH1 south of Rakaia to the Ashburton River. After a largely productive day one and a night spent at Hakatere Campsite, a neat little unattended patch of grass on the side of a dead-end road right on the coast, I rose like the Undead to consume several coffees and continue my mid-week weekend mission.Day two consisted of many more kilometers of sealed and unsealed country roads, heading south to visit a Parental, then striking inland via the scenic route back to Home Base.TFTC

Great cache good swag

Good cache

QEF with the hint. Lot of pruned branches of trees been dumped there. TFTC and greetings from the UK

My first find yay great day out TFTC

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Excellent hiding place

This is lots of fun

Found it pretty fast kind of overgrown

Buried deeper than I expected; TFTC

Quick find on a quiet back road. TFTC!

Quick find once I got to GZ. No one around.

Thanks for a quick find on a never before travelled road

Had to dig dig dig

A bit sticky inside. Someone left a lolly in it. Yuk. Anyway a quick find. Thanks for the info and cache.
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It took way longer than it should have. Jude_E and I are on another road trip. We stayed in Dunedin and Oamaru. Last night we stayed in Waimate .Thanks for hiding this cache wardsmithfamily I appreciate it.

Quick find. TFTC

Good find

1st find ever TFTC

The last cache of the day for Busypaws and me

Found with Lytteltonwitch at the end of a great day caching in the area. TFTC

Last one for the morning before heading back home. TFTC!!

Quick find on a Sunday morning.

Great finding.

Pretty easy took about 10 minutes

School holiday request from Miss 8. So off we went for a cute family adventure. A lovely little hut for the dogs to roam around the area. Overgrown location but the dog found the cache first!

Great finding our first geocache. Kids loved the adventures!

found it years ago but the log cache has failed...an are I used to visit a lot when my in laws lived there

#16728. Thought we'd go round the block to get back on to the main road (via this cache). Quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 2 of our weekend trip to Geraldine. We headed out about 7:30pm to find a few caches in and around Geraldine before another bike ride along the Orari River.
A wee detour to this cache, parked right by GZ where SW quickly found the cache. All quiet in this neck of the woods on a Sunday morning. TFTC.

Extended family tenting for a couple nights at the nearby Farmyard. Popping out late afternoon for a couple things from the supermarket....detoured for a couple caches along the way. Supermarket visited; now a wide loop back to the campsite. Nice quiet wee spot....with a good bit of history. Cheers.

TFTC

Nice easy find with JsyBean. Tftc

Quickly found it while beetling around the Countryside.TFTH

Staying in Geraldine and this was a quick find on a morning drive around the area. TFTC

Well hide

Thanks

very well hidden under all the leaves but finally we had it in our hands.

On a mission from Rolleston to Tekapo, Twizel, Omarama, Kurow, Waimate and home again. Found over 100 caches, which was the goal for the day. A bit drizzly for a start but beautiful sunshine through the Mackenzie. Thanks to all the CO's and apologies for the cut and paste.

Better morning than feared. Bright sun and not even too cold. NINO TFTC

Nice cache out in the country. TFTC with heyhaynz

TFTC found with JHay0112 great historic remnant of NZ communications

Out and about on the 'new toy'... finding caches. TFTC!

Cheers for the drive by.

Nice hide. I thought it would of been somewhere closer to the building but never mind though

Log later 600

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found on the second attempt

Whey hey!!!! Up this way and today I (or rather mrs abxt350) found it immediately, thanks for the reply a few months ago and updating the hint.

Number7

Very hard!!!

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After finding an object consistent with the hint, but no cache, we relocated to another object lacking a member, for a quick easy find. TFTC

Good hide. Not where I first thought. But came up with it in a matter of minutes. Tftc

out for a drive in the rural zones where i just love coming across un selected caches by random, this was no exception, whistling past thinking that "would need a cache" and there was one... back track and dig around to find it just where it should be, but not before i had got all nice and dirty grovelling in all the other spots it might be.. hindsight is always a wonderful thing! lol

Glad of the useful hint - definitely needed it, as it was well buried. Thanks.

The hint helped a lot this time but we should have found it on our last visit. TFTC

Good clue - wouldn't have found it otherwise!!

Co-ords seem to move around a bit, maybe interference from nearby building, changed hint to make easier

no luck with this one today

A wee detour on our trip south, but I always enjoy a visit inland in this area.

TFTC

Found on our way back to Geraldine after the orienteering event nearby. Always good to see these structures representative of the rural scene. TFTC

#4348 @1445
In Geraldine/Timaru for the South Island Orienteering champs this weekend. After the first event nearby, I dropped by here. My initial search at GZ was unfruitful, so I searched nearby thinking the coords might be a bit off. Again without success. Returned to the original spot searching more thoroughly and found it. Co-ords bang on, and well hidden. TFTC.

Out for a wee drive in the country after a short visit in Geraldine. TFTC #6107

Unfortunately I could not find this one, both gps systems were telling me where it should be, but unless it is inside all that matting I just could not find it, I looked in all the obvious places even under the building, in the trees and otherside of the fence, spent a good 20 mins here today to no avail. I assume it is there but I could not see it, any chance of a clue please.

Third sunny day of the long weekend, great to catch some caches. TFTC.

Just been to check cache, still there, been moved about 1m but was visible. Put back in original location.

We also looked but had to DNF it. Bad start today 2 dnf's.

Hate to be the first to log a DNF. Spent some time hunting without any luck.

Staying in Geraldine for a couple of days, so was able to find a few local caches. Thanks.

Nice bike ride from Geraldine town, picturesque countryside. TFTC

Quick find on a wet day TFTC

Picked up a couple of muggle hitchhiking tourists leaving from my hunt around Fairlie. Explained caching to them, gave them an experience and there are now two new cachers to world! Quick find but I am glad I had the GPSr to put me in the right direction as this was not where I expected in arriving at GZ!

Quickly found. Tftc

Quick find tftc

5843. A good find on a short detour. Only had to walk a few steps. A lovely peaceful spot, but no cellphone coverage. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and iris.

A nice find on a dodgy day

TFTC

Found during our trip through New Zealand.

Out and about with Karma Reprint on a weekend down south. If you happen to find a Swiss Army knife nearby, get in touch eh please? Thanks

Found with Kiwi Moose on a big weekend of caching. A wee detour from the main road and the cache was ours. Thanks for the hide.

We lodged our call in no time.TFTC

Found at 3:46 PM
Communiciation has improved considerably

TFTC wardsmithfamily

pipedream

first of the day cheers

nice...oh, follow gps....over here! thanks

The log re the ford had me worried, but it is not even on the direct route, which was tar sealed all the way so that was good. A very pleasant drive from Geraldine. Thank you.

Quick diversion off the Fairly - Geraldine highway. Hope the water flowing over the nearby ford washed some of the mud from the underside of the cachemobile.. Nice quick find. T4TC.

Ring ring ring

Nice quick drive by . - Bitsprayer

Bit of a diversion off SH 1 for this one today. But a great drive in the country. TFTC

A quick find our first for the day TFTC

My cell phone is flat & so is the battery. Don't think the locale helped it out. I'm so low tech.

Easy find and a 2TF. A beautiful and hot evening out after a long day at work.

Nice quick trip before cooking tea! Took both wee Bairdys with me for a jaunt. TFTC SL dropped in a toy.

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