Totara (South Canterbury) Levels, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 26-Feb-13. Waypoint GC46N19

TFTC!Saw some penguins yesterday wohoo!

Good easy find

Quick easy find - TFTC

TFTC found with nzref and Robynjst while out exploring the area

Thanks for a good find.

Quick park and grab with claireyc and Robynjst and the nephews

Took a few swipes over area to find it clever hiding

TFTC

TFC a noisy ffind

This is one of those caches that you drive by but never stop for. Today we were having a leisurely trp as far as Ashburton and with the lack of trucks on the road it made stopping easy. We pulled off onto the side road and there was an obvious track through the low bushes into the interior where my Garmin bought me right to the cache. This is certainly not going to blow away in any gale. All good with the contents. Thanks.

If took a scramble under branches , all ok with cache. TFTC

A nice quick find and now I know what a Totara tree is Tftc

Tftc good to park and good to log

A quick find on the way to the airport. TFTC

On our way to the airport with time to stop for this one. Quickly located and contents all good. Thanks drawp.

Quick easy find SL TFTC

Found with the help of Z and JR. Busy road pull off into side road.

Love having the driver. With Zealog and Tokerau

Showing Judith Richards and Tokerau around the local area. Tftc

Cute jar

A bit overgrown at the cache location, fortunately a well worn track showed me the way; TFTC

Quick cache found by Lulu.

Another goog find
Carol

Dunk

Grabbed on the way home. Getting out was easier than getting in.
This is a dodgy corner. Seems to be a competition going on for cars motoring around the bend on two wheels.

That took some hunting.

Spikey, but found. Thanks

Full log to come

Found after a short search. Nicely hidden. TFTC.

Cool hide. Thanks

Another in a series of random trips around the country, this weekend brings my down to Christchurch for a road trip down to Timaru for the Saturday night, and back home to Wellington on Sunday. With only a few real life commitments in between I had plenty of spare time for targeting some specific caches along the way (as required for some of my geocaching goals), as well as a few random others. This was one of them.

As others have mentioned, the bush is probably a little past being called small, but no trouble here as it was all quiet in the area today and the cache was found as described, all safe and dry.

Thanks to drawp for placing this cache here.

Sunday - 22/05/2022 6:24 pm
traditional cache small 1.5/1.5
Find #4,330

Came down the back road. Bit of a maze in here but soon tracked it down.

I found it

Finally getting round to collecting the ones around town area. Tftc.
I think the small bush has definitely grown

A nice quick find here. TFTC.

Easy go and on a great day

9/10 pointy bushes

With Special Agent G

Yus. SAG and WW.

TFTC

Had been holed up nearby during the past 2 days of bad weather. With the sun now out it was time to head outdoors for some caching. This was the first cache attempted. Nice quick find. TFTC drawp.

A quick find with Agent86. Was an easy find TFTC

Found with gadget169, nice find.

Iceman 88 was here
Tftc

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Found. But found isn't an option for some reason

Found it

Quick find. Thanks

It is still there the bush is now big but really fun

Quick park and grab TFTC

Parked on the side road and had easy access to area. Good hide. TFTC

Tftc,know to get out of here

Hints were helpful

Race to find with our muggle-cacher friend. I was first haha.

Find 2 on my way home easy to find once bush was located

Quick park and grab. If you use the road heading to the airport park well off to the side - we were surprised by a fuel tanker coming off the main road and wanting to pass. TFTC

Nice and quick. Thx!

Found

Nice and dry, easy find drove in from the airport side.

Quick and easy

Kim 5 - 9 - 20

Day 11 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

By now the weather was really putting an effort into trying to convince me it wasn't winter! I have been so lucky to have dry conditions my whole trip so far. Today's plan was to drive from Christchurch to Timaru, following the coast but with plenty of side trips to get caches targeted as per above, and any others I felt inclined to stop at including this one.

Effectively this was a park n grab for me today. There was only passing traffic as I parked up and walked over to GZ. The cache itself was a quick find, and finding no issues with the cache or log I did the expected caching field admin before replacing everything back exactly as found.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Not a fan of this one. The main road is pretty scary when there are 2 lanes of traffic going right past. Found but thankful we dont have to do it again!

Container replaced all good again

Note to placer, logbook might need to be replaced due to being waterlogged and falling apart.
Found reasonably easy to find, got a few twigs stuck in my hair but worth the find!

Good find!

This was indeed a quick stop as we made our way up the island to catch the ferry later tonight.
The drizzly rain was the worst bit, trying to stay dry in the bushes.
Thanks for putting this here drawp

I was expecting this to be a quick find so I stopped in the car while Antnich dashed out to GZ. He eventually returned after several minutes, surprised with how long it took him! TFTC

I can’t believe I walked round the bush twice! When I saw it on my second circuit of the bush I couldn’t believe how I missed it on the first!

TFTC quickish find.... Would not do this in high heels haha

Quick easy find. TFTC

Should have been straight forward, zeroed in, clue confirmed, but nope. This is a DNF for us.

Exploring Timaru while here for the National Daffodil Show. Didn’t really enjoy the prickles around this one but at least no blood was spilt. Cache was soon found and replaced. TFTC

Found it! Another nice quick find on a lovely sunny Timaru day. TFTC

Sorry for late log, just catching up on a few logs from earlier finds. Found on way back to chch after work project in Timaru ground to halt. TFTC!

Thanks

Heading North ..stoped to find and sign this cache...thanks drawp

Followed a geotrail in but I need not have in the end. Thanks for the cache drawp

Heading to Christchurch and stopped here to have tea and of course look for something close by nice quick find. TFTC

Driving back to Christchurch after a brief spell in Dunedin; this was on the way (sort of) and found quickly.
Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, drawp.

My second Timaru cache. Got a bit wet looking for this one. Eventually zero'd in on the right spot and noticed the hint objects. TFTC, Biggles.

The banians trip to Timaru for a wedding, and of course a cache or two.
We made the mistake of turning into the side road then noticed the No Entry sign so had to take the long way out.
TFTC drawp.

Found quickly on route north to Picton, we have been working down south tftc

Found with nissan 65. Flew in from sydney for a short holiday. Hoping to see as much as i can on the south island and pick up caches along the way . Thanku for the cache.

Day 7 of our trip to NewZealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

Weekend trip to Oamaru and Dunedin for the Pink Concert so doing some caching on the way. TFTH.

A quick find on the road north.

Quick find along the way to Chch today. TFTC

Out with Busy paws today, this was our last one of the day. Quickly found and signed. TFTC.

Nice easy find with geomum007 on the way home, after a day out In Timaru. TFTC

Tftc #teamawesome

A bit of a prickly search here as the weather warms up up and we have bare arms! Like a maze really.... nice hide TFTC

Nice day to be out cachin Another interesting spot!
Happy Cachin!!!

Took a bit of looking but got there in the end TFTC

Approach from side road very busy with the main road and passing lane right there. Thanks

After attending the Oamaru Geofeast we are now heading back to Christcurch. Caching with Di Morgan and grabbing a few caches along the way. No TB sighted here today.
Thanks drawp for placing the cache for us to find.
6189

Oamaru -
Left Oamaru today heading for Christchurch, we cached with Happy Feet 1 during our time here.
We found caches in some amazing places, travelled along some great country roads.
Thanks for placing this cache drawp

This took a bit of a search, then monsonclan found it. Tftc

Found amongst wet bushes. Glad day starting to clear. Returning home from geofest weekend. Thanks for the caches