SMS Stake Land #8 (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By sharkiefan on 24-Nov-13. Waypoint GC4THMY

Dj and shon

Good hide!

We landed in Christchurch yesterday with Robmc to start our 7 week adventure. Today we rode the gondola up to Mt Cavendish where we had a couple of DNFs and then down to Lyttleton Harbour for lunch and a couple more DNFs. This one we did find thank goodness and we were surprised to know the owner. Nice hide

Day two of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Staying in Christchurch and spent the day on the gondola and the tunnel to Lyttelton.We were looking for a place to have lunch, and checked out this park.No picnic tables (or chairs!), but we did located a cache.Nice hide, but needs restaking.Thanks, Robmc.

Interesting hide. Definitely needs some TLC. Thanks

Yea found it very cool!

Nice wee park and grab. Cache is well and good

Thanks

Thanks Lulu and Gabe

Nice wee find on a sunny day out... happy to tick this one off my list

Quick find, cool hide. TFTC

Excellent cache! Found with NZLats on a random adventure. Tftc!

First cache for the year. TFC!

TFTC. Had to look twice at it to make sure I'd not missed it. Great idea. Didn't sign log though. Looked as though it had been just chucked in the bush.

Cache 1408 Heading to Christchurch for a geocaching holiday this week where I’m targeting hidden days/months and a few D/T and to sign challenge caches. This cache was a needed hidden month, Parked up right next to GZ, man there is a lot of rubbish in and around these bushes Even still I was quite to spy the prize, I struggled to get log out of the internal container which is very rusted, log was a little damp but writable T4TC

Wow, it would have been a great cache once. It's looking a bit the worst for wear. Unfortunately there is a lot of rubbish around as well. Thanks for the placement sharkiefan

Visiting the area today along with gathering a few caches found this one ..I can see it was once a great cache..sadly it requires some TLCits just lying there amongst the rubbish thanks sharkie fan replaced as found

Good night for a drive TFTC!

Quick find since previously finding another of sharkies stakelands. Also made quicker by a late muggless evening. Thanks!!

Found with Wisco Bryo and Hugh the Cache Dog. Love these kinds of hides.

A nice day out with OSC and a happy dog

Not quite the nice quick find we were hoping for but we got there in the end

Cache is getting a bit worse for wear and inner container is missing it's lid.
Log is fairly dry but bag was ripped so I popped it in a new plastic bag so should be good for now.

TFTC- clever idea!

Nice quick find. Top of inner container is missing but all dry inside. TFTC

Finally found it, nice hide. TFTC.

Have looked for this before this time a quick find

Parked right there to do the lab.

Way better than most caches under bushes ! Liked this TFTC

Cool hiding place. Thanks. Nice and quiet on a Friday afternoon

TFTC sharkiefan Found at 11:58 AM
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Cache 148
Logged with cachly.

We were heading towards Lyttleton to spend the night with the freedom campers over there, so we decided to find a few caches as there was still a bit of daylight left.
We did have to wait for a few muggles to move along before we could search for this one.
I read through some older logs and soon realised where we needed to look to find this one. It was a quick enough find. We signed the log and returned it as we found it.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Too many muggles about only had a quick dash... Found a baby car seat in the bushes but sure this wasn't it
Will come back when it's less busy

At first did not go deep enough, but found in the end. TFTC

TFTC .

Finding a few between my afternoon appointment and evening outing. TFTC!!

Had a quick look but no find, will come back another day.

Out for a quick caching mission this side of town. Quiet in the afternoon with no one around so a quick find.

21:21
Stakes are always high in Stake Land!
This could be the tagline for the imaginary Stake Land TV series!
I came and I found the cache at stake right away. Where was I looking the last time when I had a DNF, I don't know. Seemingly at the same spot!

TFTC!
#6144

Cool cache but seems to be infested by ants! TFTC

Returning from walking the bridal path I picked up a few caches on the way home, Tftc!

Thought we would find a sneaky geocache after a round of minigolf. TFTC

#3,240: Stake Smiley!
What do you do when the wee ones want to go ice skating, and you don't, and you have two hours to kill? Throw the bike on the back of the car, and come out to cache! Had a nice day out riding the nearby track.
Ha! Nice one here.
SL/TFTC!!

A nice quick find. Cache dry and in good order last finder replaced the log...go them. Kept this cache in play. Off I go for another.
Thank you for bringing me to this area sharkiefan and for placing and maintaining SMS Stake Land #8 (Canterbury) geocache from Mr Cuddly Brick
Found on this awesome day the 12 May 2018.
Cache number # 2013
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Didn’t realise I had actually found another one of these last year. So cool. Very damp log paper so I put in a couple of bits of waterproof paper. Tftc

Cool cache! Thanks!

I'm getting used to what I should be looking for, and they do come in different shapes! This one was having a sleep, so not quite the normal. A quick retrieve between muggles, cheers!

Luckily I had the place completely to myself this evening which meant I could have a good poke around before I spied what I was after. It's a while since I last found one. Nice spot. TFTC # 11,762

Tftc!! Second time here... cachelet found it.. nice hide...

Our second find in the series so we knew what we were looking for. Very nice hide, it still took us a few minutes to track down. Tftc!

Found it

A quick find on a lovely morning. Still a lot of smoke on the Port Hills.

Cheers for the quick find as per hint. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

Quick find. Thanks

TFTC

TFTC with cab165. Nicely created, good craftsmanship. So much more than a mint tin, which is important. Good job

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

Find #2656. Taking a short holiday in Christchurch to explore the city by bike and collect caches. Day three and 65km down the Avon and back up the Heathcote, collecting 29 caches. A great ride! Quiet here and a quick find. SL TFTC

Took quite a while to find - I was looking for an upright one! TFTC.

Out on a drive to try and get Mr2 to fall asleep (not working!) Had looked for this once before but failed. Today I had my caching eyes in a quickly found the wee cache. Cache damp but log ok. Tftc.

We headed out early afternoon for the Heathcote / Ferrymead area to look for some caches - our mission was to turn today into a least a tensy day, and we easily achieved that target.
We have found a few in the series before so knew what to look for. Got a park close by and soon found the cache. TFTC.

#12922. Good to (finally) find another in this series. TFTC.

Cache number 102. really quiet here since the park wasn't open yet. Had found two in the series before so knew what to look for. TFTC

Found whilst dropping off a TB around here. Tftc

Out and about with tmann421 enjoying the sights and collecting some caches along the way.

Found after a short search. TFTC

Took a bit of searching as was pretty well hidden here. SL TFTC

Very clever. Tftc

Nice hide

Very clever!

Quick find whilst attending wedding rehearsal

Tftc!

Biked over to this one from our daughters house. Very clever, TFTC

A quick find before we headed into the nearby heritage park. TFTC.

Great cache hiding place. TFTC

Great cache! Thankyou for it. Found with Geo Jessie on a fine but windy day.

Quick find with Busy Paws on a fine but fairly windy day.
TFTC!

In the area for work. Great cache. Thanks.

Found will in area on 29/10/15

#1295
This was one of many caches found while over here to attend the Christchurch Mega Event. Just took some time to log it. SL TFTC.

#2304
Geotooter and I travelled across the ditch to attend the Christchurch Mega Event. One of the things I really enjoy about Mega Events is meeting so many wonderful people. It is a chance to catch up with those I already know and to make a whole bunch of new friends. I even managed to catch up with Renelm, a cacher I met while in Copenhagen earlier this year. Fantastic! We also enjoyed tripping around discovering new locations and finding some caches along the way and this was one of them. Thanks to the CO for placing this hide and adding to my global geocaching experience. Cheers.

Took a while but got there in the end

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Quick find and whilst there was not much at stake I had to be stealthy due to the arrival en mass of people in suits!

MIBs???

Cache was a bit wet so dried it on car bonnet.

Tftc.

Took a few minutes cor the gps to settle but all good. TFTF

Pretty quiet out here today due to the bitterly cold southerly. Found after a quick game of mini golf. TFTC.

Was out taking the pup for walk in old hunting ground & check on one of my caches in area. So thought do this one on walk around. No pencil so photo will be uploaded.

Quick find on a lazy "what should I do day!" Propped up a bit to dry out. TFTC

Nice cache. I look forward to the others

Not the first time I've seen one of these, maybe the last one was yours as well.

After climbing the bridle path which lacked in caches I decided to make the detour to find this cache. Quick find and no one around today. TFTC

Tftc

Nearby barking dogs sounded a bit vicious Found lying on ground

Another smiley to add to our list. TFTC.

Quick find, nice hiding place. TFTC Greetings from Austria

One of those Aha moments! Cool hide, thanks.

Having had a lovely time at Ferrymead's community day, it's time to do some caching. And what a good one to start with. TFTC

Nice cache! Very creative, muggles were around but with a bit of stealth we got it.
TFTC

Arrived at GZ to find some muggles having a picnic in the carpark so was restricted with my search. Left after a while and returned later to find it almost in the first place I looked. Another clever cache. tftc

Awesome container.. The type we love to find well done!

TFTC. Nice place and we entered the park to listen to music played by chch junior Orchestra-

Today I rode my bicycle through Christchurch. I was able to discover many beautiful spots and find geochaches. Thank you to each of the owners for the hide geocaches.

raining today so no-one around which helped the find. Tftc

#1494 @1200 hours, bright and sunny, though quite breezy.

In the City from the Marlborough Sounds to do some business. So time out for to do some exploring, and have some lunch , and find a cache, in the car park, while the business is done for us. Thanks sharkiesan for placing this cache - really liked you creation (= a fave point from us)