MacFarlane Bee (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By 2wombles on 23-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4ERX8

Often above the high tide mark, and I suspect a local resident has sabotaged this cache. Archiving.

log is wet and cache isn't able to be put back properly.

Will check this out over the next day or so.

[Went past here to start off my trackable's travels. Cache was on the ground a few metres away, with a sopping wet log book. The] magnetic component [was missing, so I replaced cache as best as possible.]

Good hints

Yep of course

A quick find, GZ was very quiet this afternoon. Nice walk to this park from my house - never knew it was here. Thanks for the cache!

Enjoyed the trio, lovely park.

TFTC

With Grackatron and Magicmeat88. Yay!

Found with RaltsRalts and MagicMeat88

Found a couple of months ago and forgot to log at the time. Was great to be able to do 3 caches at the same park. TFTC.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Due to the presence of muggles near Bee I did these as Aye Cee Bee . By the time I'd done Aye the dog exercising muggle was moving away from Cee so I headed there next... it took a little while and yet once spotted it was obvious. By this stage the group of muggles near Bee had gone so I wandered back to the car only pausing to sign the log here. Thankfully I sussed out where to find it as I approached so it only took seconds to retrieve the cache.
Tftc

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

Found with ally_cat23

Easy find hint lead us straight to it

Quick find while CO was watching. Thanks for the cache.

went straight to the obvious place and quickly had it in hand. TFTC

Quick find with clue

Quick find. TFTC.

Was pretty tricky but good find

Quick find but not so lucky with any of the others in the park. Enjoyed the walk though. TFTC

Fun on the bike.

Quick look in the obvious places but got muggled out

Found this one (eventually) after having to attend an errand nearby. TFTC, #5072

Thought I'd look for the MacFarlane caches with daughter while husband and son play hockey at Marist Park. Nice day for both pursuits. TFTC

Out after dinner picking up a few

Many thanks

Found it nice easy find thanks

Found quickly while watching some maintenance muggles doing their thing

Another easy find though I had to come back as there were some people playing football right next to the cache.

One of three caches found today out with Old Boots and Rosie. TFTC

2nd find in 10m. Quick find Sammyj66 had the location sorted within 2 seconds. TFTC.

TFTC managed to snaffle after dark by light of cell phone as a fire alarm at Northlands Mall while grocery shopping sent my timetable out the window. Day 366 of my cache-a-day streak. One more day to go for my goal think I am going go make it! I had left this series of caches as emergency ones, feel okay to go and get them now.

Quick find. The patch where the rugby guys practice seems to have dried up now, before it a mudbath. TFTC

[blue]Day 31 of our 31 Days of Caching Challenge.[/blue] [purple] We made IT!!![/purple] This was #18 of the 27 we found before the event today.
We told Dad to drop off us here and to meet us at the end cache. This was a nice quick start with noone else around. Thanks for the cache

Cache was a straight forward find with no one else in the park. Thanks 2wombles.

Found on my second attempt as I had a suspicious muggle at the bus stop last time. Found at the only obvious location. TFTC

Yeah - for another souvenir - nobody around at 10.45pm, all quiet. Took a while for my GPSr to settle but then quick find. TFTC.

Tried the series at night. Find No. 2. TFTC

I do like these type of caches. A quick find. Thanks.

These are the best. Good quick find on the way to work SL

Scored whilst on a break will head back and complete this series, tftc

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC.

I can't believe we were out in this cold! Brrrr. But the quick find makes it worth it.

A quick find and on to our last of the series. TFTC

Another quick find, great to keep te dnf's at bay, nice hide TFTH

We made this one a Night Cache,as it just seemed a wee bit easier,and it was, as nobody was about.Finaly found them all.Pleased to have them now all of our list.Thank-you for the series.TFTH
Cheers Barb,Bonnie(Geodoggie) & Terry...

I was going to save these ones for emergencies for the 31 days of August so I headed out this way this afternoon. I have already scored a few today but the bug was biting hard. I drove past the one by the kindergarten as the kids were still in I guess that'll have to wait for an early morning raid. I have grabbed one in this meadering park previously. I parked near GZ and got an email from a buddy working on an elusive puzzle. I pondered the email and went for the find. I spotted a likely host for the cache and headed that way. I found the cache and was crouching down as two older male muggles closed in on me. I looked nonchalant and my high viz may have given me some credibility. I signed the log and waited for the two muggles to walk on by. Replaced and headed southward to the other caches.
Thanks for the cache.
#1283

A nice quick find. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Spotted a bunch of caches in the park so decided to stop off for a walkabout to see how many I could find. This was the first one I found. Had a good idea where it would be and found it in the first spot I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Had to use the geoninga skills to find this one. Area location spotted, question how to retrieve cache without arising suspicion. Send in geoninga/kid. Mission accomplished. We loved the tardis across the road, really cool. TFTC

Quick walk around the park while the Rugby League game was on, so everyone was more concentrated on the game. TFTC

Quiet today. TFTC.

Nice quiet area

Sneaky hide. TFTC.

Couple of hours to spare while Zekeasaurus is at preschool so thought I'd have a go at some of these MacFarlane caches. This is the first found. TNLN TFTC.

My last morning in New Zealand for now. TFTC

5246. A quick and easy find while circuiting the park. Thanks, Rodney and Iris.

Found but had to wait for person in kitchen to move before replacing.

Quick find, little harder to put back as muggles in their kitchen tftc

Found just above the high tide mark! Soggy today

good hide T F T C

Only one plac eit could be really - and it was!

Mrs TEF grabbed this while the little fella and I waited in the car.

Quick grab, no one about so we were on the road again within minutes.

Signed log on 07 July 2013 at 15:50:00

Have been saving these nearby caches for dot days and was surprised when I went to grab the next that this one was not logged as it had been previously found. The iphone logging has been letting me down again! Quick easy find.

Nice hide. One day I'm going to regret sticking my hand into an object of this type... TFTC!

Attempt one - muggles at sight. Bugger. Go to MacFarlane Cee instead. Peer through the dark toward cache location. Muggles still there. Double bugger. Head off to Sabina's Pony. Return to cache site and park down the street. Same muggles STILL there. Triple bugger! What are they doing standing round on the side of the street in the middle of the night?! Head off to Sanctuary gardens... Return... No Muggles!!!! A stealthy retrieval and we had the cache in our hot little hands. There was no way were letting this one elude us tonight. TFTC
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#3055 @1440
Made use of my late lunch break to go for a wander around the park. Another quick find in the first place I looked. TFTC.

This entry was edited by TikvaNZ on Tuesday, 02 July 2013 at 22:26:59 UTC.

Quick find.

Hmmm lost my pen between the last cache and this one, so had to go back to the car for a refill. A quick find on a lovely sunny day for caching around Christchurch. Thanks for the hide.

Nice hide easy find on cool sunny day:-)

Another day filled in nobody around for an easy find. TFTC

Congrats on the FTF ChCh Falcon.
L4TB - I was wondering today what a group of geocachers huddled around signing a cache were call. A geo-gaggle perhaps?

The dog found something interesting to eat on the ground nearby while I made the find. An enjoyable moring out with the dog in this local park, thanks 2wombles.

Nicely hidden and a cache you just know from "miles" away where it will be hidden!! We need these. Thank you.

Out and about on a cold and frosty evening. Quick find and sign - crunchy frozen grass. Nice wee hide. There used to be a cache in this park - around the side pretty much opposite to the Aye cache.
I wonder what early morning risers think of the frozen footprints going hither and tither?....

I saw a notification for a cache pop up as I was sitting in bed, ready to go to sleep after sending an email which I was writing… oh gosh.
Checked it, and it was the cache out in the Groynes… Hmm… why not? So I jumped out of bed, - stopped to pick up my jandals and jacket!! – and ran out the door. As I was running out, some of my flatmates were in the kitchen, and I think I yelled to them, something of the effect of: “Bloody geocaches getting bloody published in the middle of the night and forcing me out of bed!!”

At the second set of traffic lights after leaving home, this one got published too… hmmm… changed mind! And I raced off this way.

I thought I was pretty quick off the mark actually… but turns out I live on the wrong side of town…
As I arrived, I was the only car, and no flashlights. Then I saw a car that was parked a hundred metres or so up the road turn on its lights and come and stalk park next to the cache…
I sprinted out of the car, and sharkie fan showed up just then too.
Then ChchFalcon got out of the car that had stalked up to the park. He wasn’t really searching. And then as I was searching he goes, “yeah, sorry, I got it already”. What?!! Yup. Definitely live on the wrong side of town… And staying behind to stalk out the 2TFers…

Then I soon had my hand on the cache, and yup… 2TF with Sharkiefan…
But it’s ok. We got our revenge… the idea of going for the Groynes cache was thrown out there, and off we went!!! Haha

TFTC

Published

I thought that tonight might see some new caches due to the better weather. First one released tonight was too far away so I was pleased to see this one was really close to home. I arrived at GZ to find it deserted and found the cache quickly. Had it signed and returned and after a U turn up the street on the way back the rest of the searchers were arriving.
I have been for a walk recently in this park as I thought it needed a cache On the map it was probably the largest park in town without one.
Thanks

This entry was edited by Chch Falcon on Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 11:21:30 UTC.

2tf with Sonia. Yay!! Tftf

Arrived to find a gaggle of cachers already converged on the cache, so no FTF here. The log was signed and then sharkiefan, Sonia and I headed off for more FTF adventures. Cheers 2wombles!

Everything was againt me for this one.
First off a 5 minute light change delayed us. Then another 2 minute one.
Finally we were stuck behind a car doing 30kph for two kilometres-you do the math.
When I arrived there was already a trio of cachers signing.
TFTC