Growth in Community Spirit (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By sharkiefan on 03-Sep-13. Waypoint GC4MHKG

No luck today

Out to do museum mystery but this was a DNF for us.

Time for this to go.
Thanks to all the finders

Looked for ages, did not find.

We had no luck finding this cache today. Thought it was great no one here, park outside meant to be. We looked for a long time but sadly have to admit we didn't find it.

TFTC

Out entertaining the niece and nephew. A quick find thanks.

The clue was very helpful

Evetytime I've driven by here the garden has been busy and I didn't stop. Today all looked quiet but while I was signing the log I met one of the gardeners. She very kindly gave me a bunch of flowers fresh from the garden. Thanks for bringing me to this lovely spot.

Lovely quiet place in the early evening, only danger of being muggled was from two of the neighbourhood cats who kept a watchful eye on me the whole time.
TFTC

Great find but had a little help

Nice quick cache. Thanks

Delightful spot. Thanks for bringing us here! TFTC

Found it. With a little bit of help...was hiding in the shadows.

On our way to visit my Aunt in the nearby Nazareth Village.
Time to make a quick find here.
Glad that nobody gardens on a Sunday morning.
TFTC

Awesome spot and lovely area! TFTC

Great spot and nice garden. Thanks for the awesome cache luckily we could reach it! TFTC

Found

Found, great hiding spot!

Thanks I hope the bird had finished with it

Great initiative!

Nice community garden. TFTC

Neat spot that I've not seen before. Cool idea too! Tftc!

Today I did a big Geocaching tour to earn some smileys and souveniers.
Fast find, but had a look at the wrong rock for a long time
TFTC

Log was missing. Didnt have a notepad so just put a reciept in there. Happy logging.

What a cool place. Cache is empty.

Found with Mrpotomus, Purplebeauty and Geodog. Obvious spot but definitely need to be or with someone tall. Found it empty so Owner will need to place a new log. TFTC.

The amount of times we have driven past and never stopped is shocking. Thanks for making us call in. Its great to see the community helping each other out. TFTC

Tftc

Drove past this today and saw the amazing garden. I’ve heard about this place but never had the chance to visit. Pulled over, did a U-turn and pulled up. Amazing space and excellent place for a cache! Thank you for bringing me here.

I stopped by here on my way back from the nearby CITO - had planned to come here first as I was worried about the muggle factor, but left home a bit later than intended so didn't get the time.
In the end, it didn't matter as there was no one about just after 10 on a Saturday morning. Was able to have a wander about and admire the garden. Great effort and every thing looks so lush after a wet winter. A quick find, luckily I'm not any shorter . Thanks for bringing me here and TFTC.

I love these gardens, we should have more of them. I had to pay two visits today because it was so lovely and sunny that people were gardening during my first visit. Nice hide, I had to look closer to see it in the gloom. Tftc.

What a great use of an urban space. The cache was a quick find. I will give it a favourite for the location. TFTC.

Great hide, thank you

I love these spaces. This was one of the first in Chch I seem to remember. Thanks for bringing me here and to acknowledge this and the heart this brings to our community. TFTC

Great wee hide in a lovely spot - good work. T

What a lovely wee spot. Spent more time looking around rather than hunting for the cache. TFTC!!!

I wasn't sure if the location of this cache was accessible to the public until I spoke to the trust manager.
After getting the 'go ahead', the cache was quite easily found with guidance from the hint and pin-point accurate co-ordinates.
TFTC.

Nice quick find with spot on co ords tftc

Lovely cache in a lovely spot A great place to stop and look around on an evening walk. TFTC

What a great well kept and productive venture. Thanks for bringing us here. Tftc

Great find

Nice quick find on a lovely evening thanks

Everyone going by seems preoccupied. Christmas countdown I guess. A nice quiet place for a cache marking a brilliant shared community resource. Tftc

Found with cab165 hughdg and geegeefromfiji- loved the playful hint.

Found with odgersaj cab165 and ggff

Lovely we spot, out on a cache finding adventure with odgersaj, cab165 and Hughdg. TFTC

Found with odgersaj when he was doing 100 in a month, and geegeefromfiji and hughdg! Signed the log back then but didn't do the online bit so logging now. Thank you!!

Cool garden with loads of amazing veggies! Just one small problem; the co-ords are about 10m out... Thank goodness for the hint.

Found with moneydork. TFTC

All quiet at night

Cache find number 18 for the night (if you don't count the event) and the last for the evening. Well that keeps my mini streak going, only six more days needed to tick of another requirement for the MGSc in Nelson. I really want to get the rest of the requirements ticked off before I celebrate caching for ten years early next year, so the clock is ticking.
This looks like a really well loved community garden. It is such a great way for people to come together and share both food and knowledge.
Thanks for the cache.

At the moment Pfote and me are on a work and travel backpacking trip through the world. After more than two years in Australia we took the chance to be so close to New Zealand, which is the farthest place on earth from our home. So we hopped over and will travel at least most of the south island in the upcoming months.

Staying the first couple of days in the city we did a bit of the tourist program and searched for everything we came by.
Sry, mostly no individual logs, as all the boxes were easily found.

TFTC and greetings from Germany.

--- This log is trackable! ---
-- Feel free to discover --
-- Please mention, in which cache you've seen this code: --
-- QR3BZF --

--- Dieser Logeintrag ist trackbar ---
-- und darf discovert werden! --
-- Bitte erwähne, in welchem Cache du diesen Code gesehen hast: --
-- QR3BZF --

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Such a nice place! Long live community gardens! Away with the **elitist** gardens!
No one was home, but the cache was exactly where described

Thanks for the cache!
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Found with Bworm08 this morning, what amazing gardens! So much work and so many veges. We bought a couple of plants for her mum. TFTC

Fantastic garden we bought some new plant s for Mum Found with JuJu54 and Ralf06 TFTC

Took a wee while to find this one, but managed in the end.

Tftc and the place is wonderful

Final day of our holiday and collecting the last of the caches on our way to the airport with tmann421.

A lovely community garden and a quick find. TFTC

On holiday with just-Lookin.
We found this cache fairly quickly on a drive around.
SL *Thanks for the fun!*

Easy and nice place

I like these types of gardens, Thanks for the hide

Awesome garden. Thanks for the find

Out on a group cache, nice wee hide!

Found while out on a group cache. TFTC.

Nice hide close to home. TFTC!

Tftc . Beautiful little gap filler. Going to tell my mum about this place, she'll love it!

We u-turned for this cache - it appeared to be special (and was). I imagine it's the result of the recent earthquake, but it's still great to see these sort of things. The cache was found and signed quickly - rain appeared likely very soon and the wind was cold. Thanks to sharifan for the cache.

Cool spot, tftc

After a couple of DNF logs and the fact that I'm back in town, I decided to investigate. All set to replace this one when i found it. The cache had fallen down. Now back in its easy little hide. All good to go. Enjoy

No find for me

No luck

A bit of spare time this afternoon so decided to stop by for a look - I'm impressed. What a well set out area and lots of stuff growing. Cheers

Almost gave up. Thinking I was too short for this one. TFTC

Wow, what a cool community garden. We had never seen 1 before. Geokid took great pride in finding this cache. Was our very first for the day TFTC

The cache was found and signed quickly, no one about today, and then we had a good look around. This is the best community garden that I have seen! They seem very organised and well kitted out. Tftc, cool spot.

Found it.

It was too cold and wet for hill walking today but I needed to get out of the house and walk somewhere so I planned an urban circuit taking in a few caches on the way. This one was in a lovely wee spot. I must be mad to come out in this weather I thought as I trudged through the wet grass but at least there were no muggles about. A quick find with the hint (too grey for accurate gps today ) and a bit of a stretch. Tftc.

This entry was edited by Clurbee on Friday, 10 July 2015 at 02:21:42 UTC.

A quick find this morning on my early morning walk and it was easier than I expected.

Took us about 10mins to find but very fun and meet a lovely old man who chatted to us about egg tomatoes (:

tftc

This is the third community garden geocaching has brought us to. And the best! The other 2 were in West Auckland, but I think they do it better down South tftc

Finally - a time when no gardening muffles were in the vicinity.

This entry was edited by DarthGeeds on Friday, 27 February 2015 at 04:24:51 UTC.

A quick wander through the darkened garden for a dot day. TFTC (1671)

Eventually found after a long wander around the garden, and waiting for the GPS to stabilise.

Every day we are traveling around is same but also different. Today we had again the pleasure to visit some very beautiful spots and were also able to find nearly placed geocaches. I thank every single owner for placing it and giving us with doing this an other good reason to come here.

Mallorcatommy and I were travelling through the southern island of New Zealand. What an amazing, breath-taking landscape! On our way we did some nice walks, enjoyed ourselves and found great geocaches. Thanks to all owners for nice hiding spots... We wouldn't have been to a few places without these little boxes!

Thank you!

TFTC

Found on a walk with CiaranLogan. I spotted it and he reached it Cool wee spot which we have driven past a number of times. Great to have living spaces in the city. TFTC.

Nice. TFTC.

Nice easy cache. Found at 1155Hr on 13 February 2015. Left a 1967 6d. TFTC!

Nice hide tftc

After two DNF's tonight this was the third cache attempt for the evening and our cache for the day. Was a little overwhelmed with possibilities for where it was hid. Read the hint and narrowed it down and then Chelsea spotted it. Great little area and thanks for the cache.

What a lovely wee place! And they have golden queen peaches for sale, must come back here

Quick lunchtime excursion for some fresh air and some caching. As often is the case, looked at the cache a couple of times before seeing it. TNLN SL TFTC!

Found it TFTC

What a fantastic project. Thanks for bringing us in here.

I will have to come back with a taller person as I am far too short to reach. Feeling rather damp as I got caught in the rain and I was walking.

It is indeed a nice little garden. I also like the FP surrounding the plot. TFTC

Found