Lolly Scramble: Exploding Chocolate (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By M&Ms on 31-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4B2AQ

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

As part of an eight hour maintenance run along the Lolly Scramble this cache was found to be missing. As it was in the 8th hour of the run, we didn't have an appropriate themed replacement left - will try to get a replacement out ASAP.

Schlotte and I went out for some caching today and this "sweet" trail was just perfect. Thanks for the imaginative containers! We liked it a lot and the weather was just brilliant. It is strange that the last logs were so long ago.
TFTC Yaws

Quick find. Log book getting a bit full otherwise all good. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent aka TB (prev known as BJ25). Find # 1759

Easy

One of 12 caches located along South Eyre Road today, last day of Queen’s Birthday Weekend and still dreary and drizzly! Needed to get out of the house to do a few caches. A quick find. #1828. TFTC.

Almost left my phone on top of a post at this one but fortunayely remembered az I prepared to drive off! Many thanks fir the cache. #2863

Cracking on today.

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Today I drove to Kaiapoi to find some Geocaches and do a little bit of the powertrail towards Oxford.
Fast find
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A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. TFTC

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Arrived into the S.I today. Our 1st stop was to pick up our Juicy van & then hit the road towards the westcoast.
We chose the area of the lolly scramble to take us towards our destination. We stopped where we found it suitable with a car we were not used to.
We found such a variety of containers along this route, a nice war to start our trip.
It's so lovely & green & not having to worry about snakes sure is a big plus.
Thanks for placing this cache MandMCachers

TFTC - Quickly found while up here today with some spare time before I catch up with 2 grand children
TFTC and maintaining these caches. Great to be able to come up here and grab a couple of caches. Really enjoyed this series. What fun - and it would be a great trail for the grandkids to join me on.

I am amazed at how such bright containers that are so easy to find have not been ruined by people who don't get what we do. This is probably my most enjoyable day caching yet, I really really enjoyed finding such an array of containers, many of which I have never seen before. I found myself imagining what I might find at the next stop. This is definately a trail I will bring my grandkids to if I ever get to bring them to CHCH. Thanks so much for the enjoyment I have had today

I wanted to get out of the house and round up a few caches nearby in the sunny afternoon, and I had a great time! TFTC!!

Quick find, love the glitter

Out with Pinksouth, signed log PSWZ
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Out with Wurzel 1947 log signed PSWZ
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Wow what a day, started at 7.30 just as daylight was arriving and the misty rain had me worried, turned out to be a great day with a total of 120 caches not the goal I had set myself (next time we are here we will try the 270 in a day again) but still a great goal at 120, thank you for placing and maintaining the caches we found, sorry for the copy and paste logs we had many to find and only recorded if damage or logs replaced.

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Found it

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Power line people working right at gz for this one so drove on by. I will be back another day

#3602. I had a work trip to Canterbury on the Thursday and Friday but decided to stay over on the weekend to fit in a couple of big caching days. I am working on the DGSC challenge and need some 50+ days for the bulk find elective. So Saturday and Sunday were earmarked for getting some big totals. Managed to locate about 130 caches over the weekend and about 150 over 4 days. Decided today I would do the lolly scramble series of caches along this road and any other caches encountered. It was a really enjoyable series with well themed containers. Once I got my eye in, the finds sped up as the day progressed. Certainly a very warm early autumn day (high of 29 degrees). Quickly found. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache. Was wondering how you might exhibit this cache and avoid turning it into a terror error.

Last for the day. Down from the North Island for a family wedding and so enjoyed finding caches with Tipsy Tui aĺong this very long straight road. Easy find but not sure what exploding chocolate is. Tftc

We were nearby for a post wedding family gathering and decided to sample some of these lollies on the way home. We have no idea what exploding chocolate is but it sounds awesome! A quick find here and the last for the day for us, tftc!

Begins our holiday in NZ in Christchurch, we came from Italy to find our son who lives there for two years.
Long trip, but surprisingly we arrived there very tired, almost two days and two nights without sleep, but it took just 24 hours we got used to the new day.
Having Been to Akaroa and Kaukoura, and trail AHHH FRESH, today we decide to make a part of the trail from Kaiapoi to Oxford, we will find many cache, not the other will find, before we left we had decided to devote no more than three minutes for each cache, if it was not passed over it, some need maintenance, beautiful landscape and few cars on the course.
Thank you for suggesting this trail
Greetings from Italy
TFTC
Eccoci finalmente in niuziland e dai e dai ci siamo veramente, appena arrivati capiamo che sarà dura, cena di qua invito di la, andiamo a vedere questo e quest'altro.
Dopo essere stati ad Akaroa e Kaukoura e terminato il trial di mistery AHHH FRESH, oggi decidiamo di fare una parte del trail da Kaiapoi a Oxford, troveremo tante cache ,altre non le troveremo, prima di partire avevamo deciso di dedicare non più di tre minuti per ogni cache, se non si trovava si passava oltre, alcune hanno bisogno di manutenzione, bello il paesaggio e poche auto sul percorso.
Grazie per avere proposto questo trail
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

Quick find, signed and on our way tftc sl

Found Duck Dash Racer who will now make his way to Oz

First post we looked at. Tb drop. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc M&Ms. Find # 3336

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On a day that started with bright sunshine, then some hail and finally drizzle, a day spent in the Christchurch area doing the lolly scramble series and some others. TFTC.

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After the CITO event at Woodend Beach, we took the scenic route back to Christchurch to find a cache or three .
Never heard of exploding chocolate before, and am more than happy to eat the non exploding kind . TFTC.

#13074. Another quick find. TFTC.

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Nice quick find tftc

Headed out for a day of caching with Mr. Kiwi, to celebrate my 30th tomorrow. We had planned originally to nail our 400th - but the effects of both recent celebrations and real life in general meant we decided to cruise through the lolly trail, fruit and vege loop and whatever else came our way. It was a great day out together, and we were grateful to the cache owners who take the time to set up and maintain their hides.
So to you all, TFTC!

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After a few days staying with family in Chch we started heading north again and with no family commitments we focused on finishing the Lolly Scramble trail and hunting down the horses 101 series. The day also included a few other caches with our tally for the day being 92.The logs were signed HZ+HM, H+H, or on some case with our full names.
Thank you to all the cache owners for making this possible.

It was a combination of holidays, family visit and caching. Since our last visit lots of trails have appeared and there were many puzzles to be solved. And a lot of trads thrown in for good measure. We almost forgot what it's like to be cut, scraped, prodded, pricked, bruised and stabbed by the large variety of hedges you can find caches under in Canterbury. We were not deterred and it was fun to find them. On our way home again and trying to find as many caches as pos. In the end they made us stay another night in the area Thank you MandMCachers

Moved to the Swannanoa district in June 2015, about time I checked a few GC’s out in the hood. Found it while taking a roundabout drive to Kaiapoi. Had the GZ to myself, although a few vehicles whizzed past they were all too busy to notice what 1eyednbf (1 eyed and proud of it) was up to, quick easy find, mmm chocolate, TFTH

Found it

Found thanks

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Decided that on my last day of my holiday I'd do a blitz in the area before I fly home tomorrow, now a very tired bunny!

what a long (straight) road that is. followed the one or other series... nice caches. All easy to find and spot on. very creative and themed containers. loving it. thanks from Austria

Got it. Tftc.

Easy find thanks

Found it

Great fun, tftc.

Fairly exposed so spotted on approach. Tftc

Love this series thanks

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Loved this series, thank you!

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Found on a trip down here. Enjoying the trail

Wending our way home after Christmas in Hanmer Springs with most of the family so thought we'd take a slight detour and try and collect the rest of the series. Didn't do too badly by the end. TFTC

Really enjoyed this series of lolly scramble caches. Went out with injeanious, we had every sort of weather, sun, hail, thunder and lightening! Thanks for the cache!

What to do with a free Sunday? Go geocaching! We decided to do the Lolly Scramble trail today and we had plenty of fun doing it. We even had a couple of bags of lollies along the way. It was a lovely day to start off with but it soon turned to hail, so we did a bit of dashing around. Another nice and easy find. Tftc!

Sorry about the generic logging but I have many to log from the mega in Kaiapoi.
I had a wonderful time at the Mega with my Mum and Nanna, I couldn’t have imagined it any better myself!
TFTC!

This was my second visit to Christchurch in as many weeks, a fortnight ago I flew down for the Mega event with my family in tow, this time I was down to attend a conference held at the school of Education. My wife generously agreed to allow me to stay an extra day (and night) to explore the city and do some Geocaching. I made the most of the opportunity and found just over a hundred caches during my visit. Having already completed the ‘cutlery’ series earlier in the day nearby I decided to soldier on and find some Geocaching sweetness by having a crack at the Lolly Scramble series (with the odd detour here and there).

A quick stop after the last cache. Thanks for the cache and the series.

Cool hide

Another nice quick find on my Sunday drive.

Today was allocated to be the day to do a run up South Eyre Rd to sample all the different lollies. Also to sign off other trads that were in/on the way.

Cheers for the cache.

Out for some Mega caching with Kyzabra, Jinta29, Gunnie69 and Ghostgums.Saw some beautiful countryside today and had a blast caching. Thank you %owner for placing and maintaining this cache.

Kyzabra and I headed over for the Christchurch Mega from Perth, WA. Today we were joined by The Green Geckos today and we targeted some of the larger series around this area.

We had a fantastic time caching in the cooler climate and with no fear of snakes or other nasties! Christchurch is my old home town but I did not know about caching when I lived there so it was fun exploring the City with a different objective.

We were glad to grab the smiley on this one and we replaced the container as found. Thanks MandMCachers for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

This is my find #4355 and find #13 today.

A caching expedition that has been months in the planning. Jinta29 and I headed over from Perth, and today we met up with the GreenGeckos again for a final day assault on NZ caches.
We have had a ball over here. Personally my first trip to NZ. The cache owners have been great and Ive enjoyed meeting people aling the way.
i apologise in advance for the generic log.

MandMCachers - Kyzabra found your cache Lolly Scramble: Exploding Chocolate (Canterbury) on 28/10/2015, 7:03 AM. This is my find #4256 and find #12 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

[green] Out with Hanknstone, Haydn.seek and thestepahine on an awesome 200+ day. We managed to get 210 caches in 11 hours, an average of 3 minutes each. There were a few awesome caches out there, but mostly it was a blur. Thanks to all the cache owners, and my apologies about the cut and paste!

The next on our 210 run finding caches for the day with our team of four- HHSS. Working as a team each doing diff. roles we were able to speed up the find rate quite well and we managed to do about the first 100 with no Did Not Finds but after that the distances increased and the find rate dropped but we still managed to finish the day with 210 cache. The seagnoid has planned etc our route so it was all efficient Thank you to The Seagnoid for this pre work and thank you to the different cache Owners for these great, interesting caches. I just ;loved the huge chupps chup and all the veges and fruit. . Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

Ah, the old exploding chocolate trick. TFTC.

I came back to Christchurch for Mega 2015. Many for a great time and of course the cache

We liked the toys in this one

Out and about with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke) finding a great mix of cache hides and cache containers. What a mad bunch of cachers to be with, loads of fun and games with very little sleep over the 3 nights of the MEGA TFTC.

Our main focus on this Mega trip has been on picking up solved puzzles, but we have heard great things about the Lolly Scramble series so decided to spend some time this afternoon following the Lolly trail. And we were not disappointed - loved the themed "containers." Our afternoon was made even more enjoyable by the Mega traffic, flags, toots and joint finds with other cachers.
Exploding chocolate Elves have become a christmas favourite in our house. TFTC.

Out and about during the mega event with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke). This was one of the caches we found during the weekend. TFTC!!!

Out and about during the mega event with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke). This was one of the caches we found during the weekend. TFTC!!!

Our team for the Mega weekend was signing as VYV (Vamber, Yorkshirekiwi83 and Vistra). we found quite a few in the short space of time we were together, where I can I will make comments about the cache. We had teamed up back in Auckland and had been busy planning what we were going to target and in what order, of course plans changed even more so when we were down here, but that is part of what makes it fun and I had a great time over the weekend, thanks to all the CO's for placing.

Well themed caches and a great trail, quick find TFTC


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Not very explosive but found quickly

Team Farkis - T4TC

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Found with busy paws and Geo Jessie. TFTC

Down here at the Mega with Firewoof having a fantastic time. TFTC.

I wanted chocolate.... Boooo #nzmega2015

Here at the mega with rowenad and flipnz. Having a great weekend with lots and lots of walking.

Last before we had to go to the Cito

At Mega with Dutchie50 and Rhyssa6. Having a great time. Tftc

On a mad mission with Riser5 and Minimaxi..signed the log. Thanks for bringing me here to this place, TFTC , from TeamMcI, 25 October 2015 12:48, cache number #1013!

Easy find on a great caching week end, Mega time! TFTC

912 - During the Mega time to undertake a trail (or 2... ) with Rhyssa6 and Triciac2. Love to combine the healthy with the unhealthy!

Great job on both trails.

TFTC MandMCachers

Attending the Christchurch mega with Dutchie1950 and Triciac2.
We ran out of time to attend the CITO this afternoon so instead we're making a start on this trail. Really enjoying the names and the various containers. Nothing better than chocolate.

Really fun series of caches to do at night with CO Hilton and FlipNZ

In town for the Mega event and of course one does as many caches as one can . The was one of the quality caches that we completed with Adventure Collectors. We had an awesome time , met many amazing cachers. TFTC

Out hunting today with Team FARKIS (FMZ, Alpenmilch80, Rosmar, Kiwibug, Indiana Jill & Slieschke). Enjoyed my time out and a lot of laughter’s with this crazy bunch collecting geocaches all around CHCH. TFTC

Returned to the rest of the Lolly Scramble Trail today to clean up some of the remaining caches we missed yesterday, accompanied once again by vistra and yorkshirekiwi83, on a big numbers mission while visiting Canterbury for the Christchurch Mega Event.

A greatly and fun themed series that we really enjoyed finding. Thanks for your effort gone into this trail!

Found with Riser5 and Team MCI

Day 3 in Christchurch and I again teamed up with yorkshirekiwi83 and vamber for another big day of caching. We signed the logs as "VYV" to save time and space on the logs. We made an early start to the day as we knew we would be going for 200 caches. We started with the Lolly Scramble caches (which we had begun the night before) and made our way up to Oxford, before returning to Kaiapoi and working on the Horses 101 series, finding a number of other caches along the way. Apologies for the generic logs, but thank you to all the cache owners for placing these caches!

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Grabbing caches with the DCC at the NZ Mega