Working Class Man (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By sharkiefan on 29-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4M151

Another cache gone. I guess this is to be expected with the unpredictability with Christchurch's building and demolition schedule. I have had reports of a whole pile of rubbish in the area which is possibly unsafe to be putting your hands. Thanks for those who found this and sorry to those who didnt. Kind regards. sharkiefan

I spent some time here looking for the cache although my GPSr didn't get nearer than 7m. I checked every place I'd put one and came up empty handed. There was a lot of rubbish in the area. As it hasn't been found since Feb it may still be there but it would be nice if a finder dropped by and verified that this is in fact still in place.

Last morning in christchurch before catching up with a rep and heading home, so needed to collect before returning the car and meeting at 8am.
Nice quick find in the early morning and not a whole lot of muggles about

TFTC

a quick find on the way home this evening

A quick find on the way home from being at the Ruru Cemetry

This was a quick and easy find and the first one for today on our bike tour. Many thanks for this cache!

Used to have work xmas party here.

Easy find. Miss this place, had many a good night here!

I remember coming to Richmond wmc for housie. Look forward to the rebuild.

Found with Grackatron.

Found with RaltsRalts

Easy to spot where, but a challenge to retrieve during the day. Out waited the local muggles and got it signed and returned pronto. TFTC

A pleasant evening, a nice bike ride, a quick find. Perfect. I was a little fearful that it was out of bounds but spied it from another angle and another bit the dust.

With no muggles around in the evening I came past here for another look on the way to some other caches. I was just about to leave when I spotted it. I can't believe I missed this the first time! TFTC

I'm still a beginner and enjoying the experience. Tftc.

Spent ages looking, but couldn't find it. Lots of mini-muggles trying out christmas bikes in the park.

Nice to get on the bike after a week of walking around crooked with a bad back. After we logged this, we stood and watched the workingman shove around some massive chunks of concrete with his massive piece of machinery.

Found on the way home from Binn Inn. Tftc

Nice easy find. Picked up a TB. Same GCer owns all the ones I have found must be following them around haha.

Took a while to find this one. GPS had me on private property, but found the cache eventually. Thanks for the cache. Took trackable.

Had to be quick because suddenly there were people everywhere
Liked the clue
TFTC

Soon had cache in hand ... Sad to see this old icon being demolished dropped off a TB to continue its journey Thanks sharkiefan 4 TC

This entry was edited by Doodle Bug Oz on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 04:19:21 UTC.

Quick find and sign. Dodged muggles to-ing and for-ing, and replaced. TFTC

Nice find for our 107 consecutive cach. TFTC

Easy find.
TFTC

Had to chuckle when I found the cache. Loved the hint and the title. Sad though to see another building demolished. Thank you. The fav, for the poignant little series that mean so much to all of us. Thank you.

A quick find on way to my local supermarket across the road and cache #2 for me. I miss the RWMC especially the fantastic $12 roasts at the Earl! I hope it gets rebuilt soon.

Thouht this was going to be a post quake lockout...but all good and easy find. Tftc

Quick find during work. Tftc

A nice quick find here as the container was partly visible. We tried to hide it a bit better when we returned it to its spot. Thanks for the cache

Nice find with a short walk TFTC

Thank you.

Wee loop home to collect a few caches, that's what you do when you have a spare hour
After visiting a nearby cache I had to zig and zag via a variety of detours due to poo pipe repairs or road repairs. I have played a few games of pool at these clubs in the past. Only half left. I wonder if that's it or there'll be more demo. A quick find and photo. I used to live up the road on Alexandra Street. My high school years were spent in and out of this neighbourhood. I remember walking across the Barbadoes cemetery in the early hours of quite a few mornings come home from town. Those misty nights were the 'best'.
Number 8 of 11.
Thanks for the cache.
#1468

Tftc. Picked it up in rain.

An easy find and thanks for this cache..took me back to a place where I spent a to much of my time partaking in a few ales ..do hope they may have this building back up and running sometime in the future.

TFTC. What cool way to recognise your brother.
Thanks Sharkifan for placing the cache.
#2757

And another building gone - hope that we can see some buildings coming up soon. Thanks for placing the cache.

Last cache for the day. Tftc.

Took the long way home to find a cache. No problem here. TFTC

Doing a wee detour on our way home.Nobody about so it made for a quick find.We used to come to this WMC for Linedancing,Good times were had in there,very sad to see it now.TFTH

Met Aslan as we arrived at GZ. A quick easy find with three of us looking.

Nice easy find with some other keen cachers. Shame about the club.

Found with cfahey1 on a chilly Sunday afternoon after the rain had stopped; on the way to the nearby supermarket. It was fun to arrive at this cache at the same time as Aslan. I enjoyed meeting him as I have found several of his caches.
No TB. TFTC

The rain has stopped, so we are off caching. Spotted from the back, otherwise no idea where to look. Thanks for the hide.

Being shown around some of the devastation today and we passed this facility. It does not seem long ago I was attending a function here, certainly can't now!
The scale of the devestation is depressing and to see sites that I can't remember what was there is frustrating, I hope someone has recorded this.
I asked if the vehicle could stop for a minute and made a walk to where the needle was pointing in the rain and voila! all was revealed.
Thanks
erninz

Not-so-quick find in between passing muggles. TFTC, #5074

Out after dinner picking up a few

Many thanks

It is always amusing to hear what muggles think you are doing and finding this cache adds to the experience. There I was GPSr in hand but it didn't want to cooperate, so out comes I-phone to get a second opinion. Was standing by GZ where there are two black letterboxes. All of a sudden, bolts clank back and the local muggle resident appears quickly to get to his letterbox and quickly sizes me up! A couple of gidday's were exchanged but you can see his interest is high. He looks at the GPSr, sees the arrow etc and says "So, you reading my electricity?" So, I can add that to a ground hydrometer, a laser measuring gadget and a few other things. Oh yes.....once muggle had gone, I very quietly found the box, signed in truck and very quietly returned. Do, you think I should send him a power bill? Dot day knocked off.

I was dressed in my Canterbury working class clobber so I looked pretty good as a water care worker tending a water meter when muggles passed. TFTC

Coordinates weren't behaving but found it after widening search. Thanks sharkiefan!

This entry was edited by TwoSharpe on Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 06:31:43 UTC.

5396. Went out early this morning to find a cache to continue our streak. Had a busy morning ahead so got this out of the way first! Didn't use a GPS, map or description - just the cache name and hint. A very quick find. Now off to an appointment. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Old stopping grounds of some family members!! Thanks for this one, the message and the challenge! What a great day for caching!

A quick find after work. TFTC.

Not much left of the poor old building now. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Out and about at night and passing directly by. Rude not to stop. Took longer than it should have (without torch as a few people wandering around) - found quickly when I flicked the torch on. Weird drunk people yelling louding and exuberantly in the nearby playground. Onwards.

Quick find.

#3203 @1450
Initially bamboozled but then spotted it. TFTC.

Having a mere with sick children with a third visit of the Gastro Fairy and whilst I wanted to be at the CO's event grabbing this quickly as I stocked up on lemonade popsicles was all I could manage. Thanks Sharkiefan.

I know the area well as I spent some time here with the crews digging up the nearby road. I had seen the caches were published and drove over straight away. Arrived to find the 2wombles scratching their head as to where the cache might be. But soon it was in hand. Cheers sharkiefan!

Found

Quick find tftc

One of 3 new caches published near to my house this morning, so decided to get up as I was bound to get at least one FTF

Got to GZ after finding two previous caches. Hmmm, deserted...surely someone must have found the cache already? GPS was pointing to inside a fenced off area...hmmm...hint....was on the wrong track at first for this one, but just as L4TB arrived, I spotted the hide. And greeted with a blank logbook.

My 3rd of 3 FTF's this morning

I tried to log the cache found as a courtesy to other FTF'ers who may be racing here, but log didn't go through. Finally managed to log 2 hours later.

Thanks for the cache

This entry was edited by 2wombles on Friday, 30 August 2013 at 22:04:57 UTC.

3TF, I missed the notification one this one as my phone was in the bedroom and I wasn't. Arrived 30mins after the glory had gone.

Easy find after the afternoons event. TFTC

I remember a few fun nights at this Working Men's Club - another victim of our "City that Rocks".
TFTC. Left GC.

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