Walk the walk or talk the talk (Canterbury) Duvauchelle, South Island, New Zealand
By planetace on 25-May-13. Waypoint GC4D0KN

Made a few stops on the way to Christchurch!TFTC!

Day four of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Staying in Christchurch and spent the day traveling down to Akaroa and playing tourist.The tide was a long way out when we stopped here, but it was still a lovely view across the bay.A quick find along the path.Thanks, Robmc.

Day 4 of our Enzed adventures with Robmc. We are staying in New Brighton and today we headed over to Akaroa for a day of mixed fortunes. A beautiful sunny day and a beautiful location but quite a few DNFs.This one we did manage to find though.Thanks for contributing to the fun planetace

Found with ZEALOG on a trip around the country I had not visited before.

Quick stroll to locate and sign.returned safe and sound. Tftc

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On way back home to Akaroa, stopped and found this cache quickly! Thanks for hiding it!

Sweet

We are all the way down here in NZ to support our daughter at a sporting competition. And we are making the most of our time to check out the beautiful city of Christchurch and grab some Southern hemisphere caches! QEF at GZ, TFTC

Really enjoying the scenic drive and some caches whilst Im visiting the area. Found caches, no probs. TFTC!

Great walk

Great spot and a great view. Dropped pencil through the boards. Have replaced.

Over from California visiting family TFTH

Camping nearby ...biked over from Little river TFTC

I very much love getting to visit the South Island. Until recently it wasn't something I got to do very often, but in the last year I've managed a series of mini-trips for geocaching, and here we are at the start of 2024 with another one. Just like my first SI trip in 2023, I've come to Christchurch to target a few specific caches to help with my Jasmer Grid, and qualification for a few challenges I'm currently working on.Having arrived an picked up my rental car, I wanted to head over to Akaroa, a place I've only ever visited once before on my first trip to NZ back in '88. It was winter back then, and left an impression in me of being stunningly beautiful. What would it be like in Summer?The answer to that is simply "more stunning". From the moment you crest a hill to see the harbour laid out in front of you, to strolling around the charming townships themselves, I'm so glad I came here today. That feeling is helped with also managing to eliminate 1 of my last 3 remaining NZ Jasmer Grid dates.I was now on the drive back towards Chch, and was picking up a few caches as I went. This was one of those. A quick park up and wander over to GZ, where the find was immediate thanks to the Hint. No issues to report here, so I soon added my name to the pristine logsheet and replaced it all as found.Thanks for setting this one up.

Thanks for the find!

Easy park and grab. Beautiful town! TFTC

Day three of my trip away with tmann421.Heading to Akaroa and surrounding areas of the Banks Penninsula. Loved the drive around and all the caches we foundSigned all logs tm/ww NZThanks to all the cache owners for the efforts in placing and maintaining all caches.

Down in the Christchurch area with woolwood9. Day 3, Heading to Akaroa - another very nice day out.SL *tm/ww NZ**Thank you for the reason to visit this cache and location* Soon had the container found!

Found with Gummi_Venus on the way back to chch after a nice day at the French Festival

Didn't sign, log book soggy

At last a nice easy one. Tftc

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia

On my way to Akaroa

I thought that rock looked suspicious.

Quick and easy find, tftc

Found it during our trip to Akaroa. Tftc

Petit tour des geocach de la région pendant les vacances en famille

Maintenance again Thank you to all those who have found the cache

Found on our drive home after spending two nights near Le Bons Bay. Two very hot nights. Great little hiding spot. Dropped a TB.

Good spot! No pencil.

A quick find after stopping here briefly on the way from Christchurch to Akaroa. TFTC!

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Day #4 of my 11 day holiday and heading to Akaroa for the week.
Nice quick find here TFTC

Rock

Just love Akaroa! First find this trip.

Nice find

On our way home after visiting Akaroa with our daughter frosty1995. A nice find and contents all good. Thanks for the placement

Easy find log book was very wet though

In the area so popped over and made the quick find. Thanks for the cache

I was surprised it was still there given all the mud!! Great find - thank you!

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I have been notified that this missing due to flooding. I plan to check maintain and reinstate the cache 3rd or 4th of Sep 22 and will update the log then.
Thank you for your help every one and take it easy out there

Found it

Love a coffee

Cool spot took me a little

Took us a wee while to find this one. Was hidden really well. Im the biggest kid living this adventure. Thanks

Expected this to be a park and grab, however, took slightly longer as very well hidden; TFTC

It is Easter and this was great to find, the hint sort of didn’t help me but definitely some wood close by

It wasn’t where I expected to find it, but it was out in the open, so easily spotted. I tucked it back under a little. Drizzle today but we are going to drive the scenic route back to Christchurch regardless. TFTC

Thank you for the cache.

A bit surprised this is here considering the level the flooding seemed to have got to judging by the debris on the fence.
But it is, and it’s all good.
I retrieved, signed and replaced seconds before some cyclists came around the bend.
TFTC planetace.

A trip to Akaroa today for RG1972 and I and the plans (from a caching point of view) were pretty loose.
The adventure lab out there, if we can.
The geotour ones in the vicinity (although it’s unlikely we will ever qualify with all of those for PWGT4). Still, you have to get them while you are here, I guess.
Apart from that, just have fun and see what we come across.
A great day weather wise and we found a few spots that were new to us, including the Giants House in Akaroa and the Hinewai Reserve up the hill. Awesome fun, thanks all COs!

Located with Ricardinho

A perfectly timed retrieval by RNZ meant he wasn't snapped by the muggle cyclists who came around the bend just as he replaced it Lovely view of the colorful boat sheds from this spot

A trip to Akaroa today for RNZ & me, nice to get out of the city & explore. The weather was stunning & we had a great day all round. Highlight for me was definitely stumbling across the Giants house. If you get to Akaroa it's a MUST SEE!

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Quick find here. Thanks.

Found on a nice drive in the area. Enjoying the caches on a nice day

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Routine maintenance and a check of the cache. Plus add a few swaps.
Cache is looking good and thank you to all those who have visited and found the cache.
Happy caching

Three silver coins

Under the bridge. Great find thank You

Down from Auckland for another blitz upon the PWGT caches and other caches that appeal to us. On this trip there is FMZ, rustynz, Rebel98 and myself in Christchurch for 3 days of fun and another adventure.

A quick drive-by cache for us here, I think it was rusty who did the honours for us. Heading into Akaroa to get PWGT caches today, last day for us, back to Auckland this evening.

Fun find with some Westies, thanks for the hide

Easy peasy cache here. TFTC!

Fun find with some Westies

Not much of a day but get out and caching gave me a lift. Found some great caches in some lovely spots and some with great views and new places. A quick find. TFTH

Thanks planetace for the cache. It’s #1501 for us. We found your cache on 2 May 2021. Quick park n grab in a busy spot!

Easy find

First one of the morning great view

Found it

Quick easy find on an extra long weekend trip. Thanks for the effort that goes into placing and maintaining a cache. Will be back later with the clubs....

Great little spot. Easy to find with the clue.

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

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Staying at Duvauchelle and out for a bike ride to collect a few caches. Quickly found thanks to good coordinates and a helpful hint. Thanks planetace.

A lovely sunny day for exploring the region. TFTC

Found by team woof.had to wait for muggles to pass but found after that.

Found with TeamWoof (purdie, SonofAnarchy, Lilsoa and Geomurph) hunt 11 for the day. Tyfc

Picking up caches for my 172 challenge. 4 to go. TFTC

Dwyer Family Found

Found ️

Maintenance
All looking good. Thank you to all those that have visited this cache

Team BOP on another crazy mission to the South Island. Lockdown gave us a lot of free time that we directed into Canterbury’s many Geo-Arts and with the Auckland 2020 Mega postponement, Christchurch was an easy decision. Team BOPs current incarnation is DavidsonClan, NZFlossy, McJandals and myself and we’ve signed all the logs as Team BOP to save time and log space.

So it's Labour Weekend 2020, it’s a numbers mission and today we're here having a wander around Akaroa. This cache was found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords, a straight forward placement and a good hint. Cheers planetace& TFTC

With the Mega Covid cancelled this year a part of Team BoP decided to come south and try get all our solved puzzles, and some others along the way. So here we are!

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

As Auckland Mega has been postponed we decided to do a trip south to Christchurch. Four of us from Team BOP joined up to share a car and accomodation. I always love these weekends as the company is great and makes our days and nights out caching lots of fun. We have done lots of puzzles in preparation and did some long windy roads to get them. Found lots of great caches and thanks to all the COs for the effort that goes into these Please excuse the copied logs and I will try to make some individual notes on as many as I can This sort of trip is where I find the cachly app very valuable. TFTC

Found with Envy-Us on a caching trip around the southern sector of Banks Peninsular. TFTC

Had a stunning day driving around some of the peninsular. Great weather and some amazing views, and roads! Most finds were straight forward, but sadly noted many lonely caches. TFTC

Thanks! My first one

Found on a sunny ackaroa day. Tftc

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Found it today. Lots of vocal sheep. Thanks!

We decided on an over night visit to Akaroa as it is nearly 40 years since we visited the little town ship of Akaroa . we had a lovely time over in the town ship and i managed to visit a few Caches which were a bonus, although this weekend was a very busy weekend due to a relay race being held this weekend. thank you for the cache i took nothing and left nothing

Found with matagouri on a South Island road trip. Tftc.

Found out caching with TharntheHalken. Gorgeous day! Tftc!

A quick find as we make our way around the bay....wet and rainy so very few muggles to hinder the hunt. Thanks for the cache

Thanks for the cache beaut spot!

Found with cacheeater

Brilliant directions. Good find

Vonnienz took the photo. Tftc. Cool but still wearing shorts.

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