Lolly Scramble: Easter Bunny Street (Canterbury) Eyrewell Forest, South Island, New Zealand
By M&Ms on 22-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GVE4

I have been Unleashed Upon the World alone for the afternoon, so I am making it the days mission to hunt down as many Lolly Scramble caches as I can. Caching alone as That Darn Bear already has the majority of this series.Tftc

Good cash just have to look up

TFTC

A great hide thought it may have been in the tv ttc

Great little spot. Thanks for the fun!

Did a CITO to clean up a lot of the dumped ribbish

Today the Lolly Scramble series is my target. I'm with MacPacMum and while I find them she performs any maintenance required. Most are in excellent condition, with some needing fresh logs and baggys, and an odd few that need replacing altogether. It's great to have a power trail where all the caches are themed containers, and each one has had so much time, thought, and effort put into them. Thanks for keeping this trail going over 10 years MPM.Oh my gosh! I love this cache! A beautiful spot and just really really cool. FP for sure.

Cool find Tftc SL lots of trash around

On a trip with Big Joey and getting some caches. All good. Thanks

Took a bit to find but just had to look up TFTC

Thanks MandMCachers for the lolly scramble series. I am really enjoying these today as I was after lots of caches with different attitributes. These fill some lots of gaps. I was wishing I had not found so many on previous trips. Haha. All caches were interesting finds and I enjoyed them all.

Definitely looked a bit sketchy with all the rubbish around... but found it eventually tftc

What where is it?

Nice day for a drive TFTC!!

Mr bunny looks to have taken up drinking!

Unfortunately, it seems to be a local dumping area but cache away from rubbish and in good condition.

Thanks M and and M. Surprising amount of rubbish left under the trees. The bottles drew my eye and then success.

Took a little while to locate but found an egg. log signed as RAZ. Tftc

Found after a bit of a search as the GPS was all over the place signed as RAZ

14:53
Creme Egg
Ok, thanks for the hint, I will also add that Easter Bunny is not a handyman.

Kia ora! Paldies!
Thanks for the cache, MacPacFamily! +Fav!
#9653

Out hunting for HFP caches. This one was nicely disguised.

TFTC it's getting a bit cold now. Took ages to find.

Another cool cache find with angelic_kiwi - I would not have been able to eat one that size!

Very cool with all the containers. Great searching in the trees where muggles can't see you. Thanks!

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Definitely looked like a black bunny . Love it. TFTC

Team G0LD: Geocachers 0B80B8, Lis's crew and DaffyNZ are down from Whangarei for a few days. We've all solved the 4 big geoarts so they are the main target for the trip. Of course there were many other solved puzzles that we collected as well.

This was our Big Day out plan where we'd planned to get as many caches as we could. Unfortunately we just fell short of our target as we lost track of the exact number of finds. Good preparation and a fantastic team to work with made this an enjoyable and successful day. We'd completed the Fresh Breath, the Smurfs and the new Skelly series. This line up of lollies was our next target caches.

I am a great fan of lollies. This was such a cool little series all with nicely themed hides. We hunted here for quite a while without success but finally had to make the call to move on. Thanks anyway

Team G0LD ( 0B80B8, Lis's crew & DaffyNZ ) on a caching mission to Christchurch. We had travelled down from Whangarei on Wednesday avo. Solved puzzles were going to be the main focus of our trip. We had spent a lot of 2020 and 2021 solving over 400 puzzles, so we had a lot on our list.

Today looked like being the best weather for our trip, despite a heavy thunderstorm overnight. We had a Big Day Out planned, with a perhaps optimistic target of finding 300 caches in one day. Working together well as a team, with a driver, a navigator and a jumper, we made good progress, but in the end, the bigger distances between caches, that we hadn't anticipated, meant we ended the day a bit short.

A fun day though certainly, and sincere thanks to the GeoArt & Trail CO's, and others, for placing and then maintaining such large numbers of caches so well. A testament to your dedication to Geocaching was the very low number of DNF's during the day. Apologies for the mostly generic logs, but be assured your efforts were truly appreciated.

Maybe we are getting tired after a long day and 230+ caches so far, but despite searching probably 10 minutes with three sets of eyes, no luck for us today. On a mission, so have to move along.

Found on this beautiful day Great hide Thank you for the cache loved the container

Tftc

Excursion with downsouthinv while Abbyk was at an event.

A quick trip to the area for a few more caches and some unfinished bissness.
So today we get the last of one geo art and start a new one .
Let's go have some fun .
First we in get some practice in and pick up a sweet treat or two or three .
After this lot I think I will be sick and need a dentist appointment.
Always loved a lolly scramble.
Now I'm getting hungry and I could do with a bag of lolly to snack on . Yumm


Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.


Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Trying to kill a sweet tooth with ObnoxiousSpaceCat

Thanks for the great series

Power-trailin’ with kozjah. He had the sharp eye for this one. Hard to sort the trashes from the caches. This whole area could use a CITO.

FITW Albijos

We are out for some caching in the area. This was an easy straightforward find for us. TFTC.

FITW Harisree
We decided to go for a drive and grab some cache . Taking a break from work and spending some time outdoor.

TFTC

Found with NZNina - finally figured out my password, filling in time, while waiting for friends to catch up, sorry about copy and paste as can't remember all details from day,, TFTC

On the way to go water skiing and our friends were running late so we decided we would kill some time by doing a bit of geocaching on the way. Luckily they had the boat otherwise it would have been tricky pulling over.

This is getting a favourite for the container luckily one of us holds the containers while we sign the cache.

TFTC

Rubbish in the tree line was a distraction, but found the right thing in the end

Neat find thanks

Definitely better to use the coordinates and not get mislead by the hint! TFTC

Found with SarahJane20 & GeoKels, TFTC

Typical. Spend a week down south with the family visiting the outlaws, and ChCh bakes. Get back .. about 40 caches shy of where I want to be for the year, and it rains. I guess I have a jacket... They say you don't have to be mad to Cache, but sometimes it helps. Cheers!

Almost gave up because it was such a mess but worth the effort. We put lots of treasures in it

Headed off to collect the lolly scramble trail on a windy day in spring. I note that the pine trees are covered in pollen which was upsetting my hay fever so I did not collect all the caches in the series. I very much enjoyed the creativity that was put into these hides and all were very much in the theme. This one was complicated by the fact that someone had dumped some rubbish including an actual TV which confused me for a nano second. TFTC.

I didn’t look hard - unbelievable amount of rubbish which I wasn't game to clear up.
This row of trees could do with its own CITO - sadly no reason to believe that it is any different from lots of other similar stands.

Good old easter bunny. With Tokerau

What's rubbish and What s not.

**13,545**
Glad the Easter Bunny was happy to share his cache with us today - TFTC

Interesting cache TFTC

Having a tiki tour around Canterbury and after lunch in Oxford had some fun caching for a few hours. Had fun doing about half the lolly scramble for the day...some were easy, some a took a little more searching. A few prickles got me and long grass + pine needles made me itch but a fun way to spend the afternoon. Tftc

Down in Christchurch with the Squirrel, ABCDF4 and eyespyben. During Covid lockdown, we solved a load of puzzles and decided that this would be a good time to visit. We've enjoyed a few days of good weather and seeing the Canterbury countryside. The caches have been in varying states - some good, some not so much. Our time here has been a blast, and we'd like to thank all COs who have made this adventure possible. Thank you and TFTC.

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap). Logging all finds as Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa - Our hometowns)... During Covid-19 lockdown, we solved a truck load of puzzles around Christchurch - Canterbury region. No use thrashing the old grey matter for no cause - We decided we should make good on this handiwork...

There are lots of interesting trails and geoart surrounding Christchurch. What you aren’t told is how far flung some of these caches actually are. Some beforehand advice would have been great, so here are some of my notes... You’re welcome!

1. Mobile coverage is patchy, especially in those quiet, rural areas where it was most needed. Saving caches to offline might show that you are prepared and organised...
2. There are many dusty metal roads on the trails. The car will get messy, and your hair will feel like cardboard at the end of the day...
3. Suitable clothing and footwear are essential. You will climb in and out of hedges, gorse, and other rough stuff. You might get scratched, cut to shreds, and bleed a lot. It’s not advised to wear your brand new jacket on the day...
4. Take lots of food and drink. You’ll probably be head down, tail up and not realise you haven’t eaten until late afternoon. There are very few shops or gas stations out there...
5. Make sure that you secure keys and wallet and know where these are placed for easy retrieval. A full box of pens might be useful too, especially if you’re inclined to free some into the wild...
6. Know the difference between left and right, and north, south, east, and west. Turning right and heading north will not get you to South Christchurch quickly.
7. Look with girl’s eyes rather than boys eyes... Some caches haven’t been found in a while and you might have to get down on your knees to pray.
8. Always be prepared for misleading hints. This is what turns simple caches into D5/T5 hides... “Head height” could mean the cache is positioned at your toes.
9. Have a sense of humour and like the people you go caching with. It’s going to be a very long day, and you might want to hurt someone during the journey...
10. Make sure you can operate your phone/device and it doesn’t crash when you most need it...
11. Learn to cut and paste logs because you’re going to repeat this function so often when logging all of your finds.
12. Above all else, have fun and be kind...

We have another one of those punishing plans to cache until we drop - An early morning start with the hope that we'll finish at a reasonable time... From South Christchurch, we took Highway 1 and crossed the Waimakariri River into Northern Christchurch... We've been lucky to have great weather, and extended daylight hours have given us more time to cache. Unfortunately, the sun must set each day and it's become a race to squeeze in a few more finds. So, at this late afternoon hour, we chose to knock off the the remaining Lolly Scramble hides... Thanks M&Ms and TFTC.

Took longer than should have. TFTC

Hot

Found it

After a big day yesterday collecting caches around the Mt Thomas tracks, we headed out in the car today to clear some roadside caches. We had a pretty successful day with 55 finds and just 2 DNF's. All finds were nice and quick and any specific notes will be mentioned below. Thanks to all CO's for your caches and sorry for copy and paste log but I had no internet at time to make detailed logs.

A nice quick find. tftc

TFTC.

Nice easy find. Tftc

Cool container!

Out to get our 1000th, this is 988. Tftc this one took a bit longer!

Lolly Scramble: Easter Bunny Street (Canterbury) was transferred from MandMCachers to user MacPacFamily

Sunday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Great fun, out with Baird fmly, for lolly scramble adventure now in the sun!

Great day lolly scrambling with C Boyd in the sunshine. Happy cachers

First cache found with my grandkids. Lovely sunny winters day.

found awhile ago tftc

Great cache

In Christchurch with abcdf4 for zephyr club convention and tagged along to pick up a few caches. A lot of quick easy finds and tons of parks and grabs. Thanks to the COs.

On holiday in CH/CH for zephyr Car Convention
Weather was great.Up early to get a good day cacheing
Thanks to COs for your placements
Happy Easter

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 16 Glentunnel to Waikari 76 caches found. Decided to do this series. I enjoyed the work that has gone into this. With every container I smiled and thought about the memories it brought back. Thank you for the placement

Really good

MacPacDad helping out MacPacMum along the trail today.

As part of an eight hour maintenance run along the Lolly Scramble this cache was checked and the street looked like it needed a lot of roadworks done on it. Thankfully the Easter Bunny said it was a favourite, so gave us something to replace the cache with.

still there is rubbish in here

Quick find but there is a lot of rubbish thrown in here unfortunately. TFTC M & Ms.

A few park and grabs in the Cust general area today before getting on to more important things. Thanks for the caches to all COs.

T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C.
---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
-- AR9ZB7

Took a bit of looking around before seeing it. Warm day today. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 1872

Sadly there was an unbelievable amount of rubbish including a TV just a few meters from the cache. Quick find though! TFTC!!

Quick easy find TFTC

Nice

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. Quick find. Kind of stands out! #1832. TFTC.

Quick find. Lid hadn't been put on so quite a lot of rust inside. Looks like some people think it's okay to dump their household rubbish here. Tftc. #2869

Speedy find. Tftc

Bit of a top! Sadly.

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This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

**#6536**

I did a number of caches in this series a few years ago but for some unexplicable reason about half didn't get loaded into my GPS. It was sure to be user error. Now I have tried to complete the series but I'm sure I will have still missed some. The lid was lying next to the tin which was full of water. In need of some TLC as the logbook was just mush and the rest of the contents were yucky.

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A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. TFTC

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

I don't imagine Easter Bunny would have any use for all of the rubbish that has been dumped nearby. 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

Great cashe! Lots of rubbish around

Out with Pinksouth, signed log PSWZ
TFTC

Out with Wurzel 1947 log signed PSWZ
TFTC

A beautiful day for a walk and some caching. This cache was a quick find which was a relief as I had attracted considerable bovine interest on the other side of the fence and they were making a bit of a racket! TFTC.

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. - heap of rubbished dumped near by

Took abit on this one and I don't know how I missed it but I walked past it twice and then spotted it the third time just before I was about to give up. Tftc

#3610. 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). This one took me longer than most to find. Walked around in circles, checked the TV, looked everywhere. Then I saw it. Not your typical bunny hiding spot. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.

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

visiting relatives in Christchurch for a few weeks and we are hoping to do some caching before we head home to Canada. Thanks for setting up this trail.