Miss Neat's Street (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By Nosynel on 15-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4T3RY

Had a pretty good look but no luck.

I think it's gone. Time to archive.

Cache has had a few DNFs which seems odd because most have found it easily. Time for a check.

A brand new month seemed like as good a reason as any to go 'bikeocaching'. Today we also made a short video showing some of the fun we had. A great day out with the four of us all helping with the various finds we made.... Mostly eclipse containers, but one or two that brought genuine smiles to our faces too. We are really enjoying the cycle way and hope to knock the rest off before we leave CHCH at the end of the year.

We had a thorough search and came up empty handed. Time for CO to check this one.

Hunted well but either not well enough or it be gone

Easy find. Surprisingly dry considering no lid. Tftc

Took a while but found it needs a new container

Quickly found. Lid is damaged. Thanks

Easy find

Easy find took a few minutes tho

It looks as though the street has been cleaned up.

Found it, nice cache tyvm

Looked a couple of times here with no luck. Today as the day, I had my caching glasses on.

Thanks for the hide.

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This blended in well with its environment TFTC

Took a bit of searching, well hidden, but found it! Driving /walking around this area caching, but also filling up a bag with rubbish we see. TFTC

Found with Mporokosa on our Canterbury Show Weekend Bike-ride. TFTC

It was good to locate this one this time round.. The time i was armed with the new paperless GPS so i had the hint and it all made alot better sense..Your neat street is a temporary victim of all the building going on , on the the old air base and is struggling to be A neat street in terms of tidy but if neat is to mean Cool well it certainly has a lovely path/cycle way along the eastern side which is where i rode the bike..
It is well hiden and yet so casually placed. Thanks for this cache.

Busy area now, will soon be even busier. Hope the street does stay neat! Easily found cache. TFTC.

6388. After completing a cycle tour of the southern motorway bike path and Wigram subdivision this one was done on the way home. It was a quick find. The fragile container is already showing signs of damage. Thanks. Rodney and Iris.

Quick find this time after somehow missing it during the race for FTF. TFTC (1208)

A busy road, so I hope the car shielded me from one stream of traffic. Took a bit of groping and rustling in the undergrowth before I found it. The little pop up lid was open and I didn't the bigger lid came off so attempted to extract the logbook and plastic bag through the tiny lid. Bad idea. The plastic bag ripped , sorry about that and I didn't have my caching kit with me to replace it.
When I realised that I wasn't able to extract the log this way, I had another go at the bigger lid and this time got it off. TFTC.

I've paid a few visits to Miss Neat's Street. Sometimes workmen prevented me from looking, othertimes I was just to blinded by the neatness to find it. Finally today, after visiting the cycle trail with Troodles and LoVista they stopped here for me on the way for a coffee so I could make the find. I mean, we were driving right past it and the workmen finally weren't here.
The cap isn't shutting properly and unfortunately I didn't have my geogeekbag with me or I would have replaced the ripped baggie. I didn't dawdle chatting with Miss Neat for too long as we were all hanging out for a cuppa but it was good to finally "meet her". TFTC

Second time lucky on this one. Quick easy find this time around. Thanks for the hide.

In the dark with Moneydork. TFTC

Tricky at night. TFTC

TFTC easy find with description

Stabbed and spiked, got the in the end.. TFTC

Found without too much difficulty. Had trouble opening the container lid. Not very easy, and not waterproof! Water will get in the little flip lid as it doesn't seal well.

I had a quick search in the identified spot...but with too many dried leaves and too much traffic in the area I didn't want to hang around too long so gave up the search and moved on...

After 5 or more minutes rummaging around unsuccessfully my kids were starting to get impatient so I abandoned the search for today.

TFTC

Another off the list, great to have these placements to seek out!
Thanks
erninz

Quick find. TFTC

Great day caching in Canterbury, this was one of 70 or more caches found, Cool start to the day,with the odd shower but fine for most of the day my first big caching road trip in a long time. - Many thanks to all the cache placers

Thanks Bitsprayer.

Found as per hint!!!! TFTC

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No luck for us today.

Hmmm Good hints but no find.

the street is not that neat at the mo, due to road works and cones. but none the less i found a cache, cheers buddy.

it's been bust

A DNF for us here today so we were hoping it didnt start a pattern.

Found it along wth a pack n save doggy deposit yuck!

Had a good look for this one withou success, the hint had me further head scratching but will have to return.

Tried to be neat while looking but had other places to go, so will return.

TFTC. I am attempting to cache for 100 days in a row while also managing 250 caches per month total in my stats. So far I am at 51/100 and 222/250 for this month. Time will tell!!
On my way home from todays event I thought it would be rude to drive past these caches.
The key to retrieving this cache is following the hint exactly.
Thanks Nosynel for placing the cache.
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04/03/2014 03:46:00 PM
#4017
It's days like today that I wish I wasn't on a streak... really really badly.

I did have the foresight to check the weather this time, and so did drive to work instead of bike, however this did mean I needed to cache in my work clothes after.

Decided I would go for an easy cache though - something along the lines of magnetic, and which has 'easy quick find' on most the logs.
But then I ended up needing to drop a colleague off home, and so the other cache I was planning on would have meant a huge detour. So I looked at GPS to see what else was about... closer by and along the way... and from a quick look, this appeared to fit the bill described earlier!

Arrived, parked, and hopped outside to tackle weather.

My, how this did not fit the bill...

Not magnetic... micro yes... but in a bush?! I rummaged around like crazy. I had to find this! If I did not, I would not be getting out of the car again!!

Spent a good 15 minutes there... till I was completely soaked through to the core... brrr!

And finally!!! Successs!!! Eventually... but by this point, my fingers were SO numb, that I couldn't actually open the cache container... and that ended up taking me another about 5 minutes of trying to dig my nails in, but having all my fingers numb!!

Eventually got there, and boy was I glad to then go home, take a shower, and wrap up in some warm woolies!!

Consec caching day # 485

TFTC!!

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An easy find on our way back to Halswell. Tftc!

Nice quick find on a walk round the area. TFTC.

Out on a Wigram cyclocache ride. Yahoo, the road workers have moved along a bit since my aborted attempt a month or two back. Nice quick find this time.

Quick find Tftc

Another quick and easy find TFTC

A bit difficult trying to be stealthy with the workmen about but after a couple of minutes the log has been signed. Worth repeating that the garden does not need stepping in to.

Difficult to park due to roadworks ! Tftc!

Signed the log and picked up the rubbish as requested! TFTC

TFTC

With a day or two spare at the end of our Christmas holidays, decided to head out for a full day caching. Roadworks going on at GZ at the moment. Luckily half the workers left just as we arrived. However had the digger driver curious for a bit. Bit hard to get the lid off the container but log was dry. TFTC!

Found this with Bo and Bronnie back in Jan and forgot to log.

Tftc.

Had to have a quick wee read of the logs then the cache was all mine. TFTC. Cheers Bo

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

So many caches done to remember all, but got a kick out of all that we found (0ver 600 in 8 days)

Had a couple of ummm errr moments read the logs and revisited the hint. Not long after had the cache in hand. Pleased to report that the log is nice and dry after the recent rain. Tftc

Well that's the longest I've taken to find a cache. Ended up pafing and still we had issues finding it. Have placed back semi visible as I don't think that the locals would appreciate their garden being trampled, which is what has happened. To future finders. Its 5m out, in front of the sign. Stay on the foot path. Tftc (I think)

Came out for a few caches on a Christmas day run. Road a little busy but Chelzea found it in the end between the cars going by. TFTC

Found with Sevren tftc

I stopped by here for only a couple of minutes as it was very busy and the "under survellience 24 hours" sign made me a little wary. Had a quick look but nothing jumped out "cache" so I'll come back in the dark when I think I'll feel a little less exposed.

An easy find 6m or so from the coords. Having not read previous logs I did walk across the garden before spotting it well within reach from the path. I'm not really sure what qualifies this spot for a cache other than "there wasn't one here". Unless it's a chance to watch the subdivision being built over the road?
TFTC

Out and about on an evenings caching adventure with TW. Still some light left in the day....started the search with apprehension (as I'd DNF'd previously), and I'd warned TW....but surprised ourselves by making a quick find. Co-ords seemed a bit off....also, cache was sitting out in the open. Tucked it in a bit but easily grabbed from the path. Cheers.

Out on a cache raid with Team_Gaters to collect a few of the multitude of recently published caches. The weather looked promising and we were both hoping the rain would stop as both of us were painting house exteriors tomorrow. TG had DNFed this one and we were determined to get it tonight. We fanned out our search and found the critter. Hmm, nice change a tictak consumer. It's usually a mint container.
Cache 3 of 19 for the evening.
Thanks for the cache.
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Got the little blighter tfyc

No luck for us today

GPS had us at wrong spot for a while. Just about to give up when ...there it was.tftc

Went back for another go after a helpful hint we got from fellow cachers we met along the way and were successful this time
TFTC

Quick find.

Did not help last time that the coordinates are out by about 6 meter. But at least nobody in the garden today, so plenty of time for a long hunt.

A long search and yes it can be found with long arm reach from path.

Bit of a hunt but perseverance paid off, well hidden tftc

Did not want to search too long as already some movement in the nearby house. May have to come back at night.

Came past in the evening...started searching. But occupant of house straight behind fence poked there head out a window (which had been left open).....must have heard me pull up in car and hop out - and were investigating why someone had pulled up. They didn't see me as such. Cache wasn't straight to hand and I didn't want to unduely stress the neighbour so moved on....

Tricky to spot as it blended in so well but got it. TFTH

Can't believe we were FTF. It is quite unusual for us. TFTC

I thought Miss Neat's street was quite tidy. Found in the afternoon and surprised that it was a second to find. Thanks.

ZSaw that this one had come out so off I went on a mission. third to find but that was expected as it had been released a while. TFTC.

No luck here tonight.

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