Southern Motorway Cycleway #16 - Hamlet (Cty) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By looking4thebroc on 22-Mar-14. Waypoint GC4YKYP

Sounds like the hiding place is now gone and the cache with it.

This may need to be checked as the overhanging branches have been lopped off

10 minutes of methodical searching turned the cache up.

TFTC found while biking

Found! Cache reminds me of xmas. Thank you

Finally

Could someone have thrown over the fence...?

A nice long trail of caches with some very unique and creative containers. Thanks for all the hides!

Found on way to Akaroa for the night

Thought I best get this one ticked off while I was in the area, not sure why I did not pick this one up when I did the bike ride. Cheers

Visiting Christchurch for the MEGA, and was staying another couple of days with friends, near Halswell
Borrowed one of their bikes and headed of for the Motorway cycle path and other caches on way back.
Weather wasn't the best, but didn't get past a heavy drizzle, which cleared up around mid day.
Thank yiou everone for you cache hideing. Have enjoyed my visit, managed some of the touristy things, inbetween caching TFTC

Liked the changups in cache containers and possitons - kept me on my toes and stopped boardom from setting in.

Back on route again after heading straight through the lights earlier and a walk to this one as 2 MTBers talking under the other one close by. TFTC #7376

Someone should have said bring some tweezers

Dusted of the bike for a nice ride around ChCh great way to explore before he Mega gets to busy. thanks for the cache

Out caching today with OrionJ with no particular plan.Glad OrionJ found this one. I might have taken a while..Thank you looking4thebroc for placing and maintaining this cache.

Out with THE GREEN GECKOS, caching our way from an event in the city this morning through some of the suburbs and finishing at the evening event.

Walking along to this one it was nice to see a little stream running under the bridge back a little even spotted a mother duck with her ducklings. Anyway we soon got close to GZ and a little look turned up a container, log signed and returned and moving on.

TFTC

[green] What a day. Out on the bike again, hoping for my target of 40 caches. Wasn't looking like I was going to make it - multis, wherigos and DNFs slow you down. And I had a LOT of DNFs today - one had even been archived just a few days ago. But I got my 40, although I arrived back at the backpackers an hour later than hoped. Hot, tired, sweaty, smelly, happy. And sun burnt. Better pack the sunscreen tomorrow.
Took friggin ages, but eventually I found it

Found on second attempt after a dnf earlier. Tricky wee thing. Just had to stand a while and focus the eyes.

This took a lot longer than it should was about to go when the cache appear in front of me. How could I have missed it!!! TFTC

In Christchurch for work stuff but with spare time today to go and find a few caches. Took a while... TFTC, Biggles.

Found by Tim

Found it.

Caching in the dark added to the challenge so I was happy with a five minute search for the cache. Once I'd signed the log it took a bit of hunting to find the other end of the cache container to return the log and seal it up!
TFTC

Packed the scooters with the kids and set off to spend our Easter Sunday afternoon doing this trail. 17 caches done with 1x DNF which will have to come back and try again for. TFTC.

Found it with my sister! After lunch trip on a bike for a few caches. TFTC!

About to think this was going to be a DNF but there it was staring me in the face.
TFTC

Surprising we didn't take too long to find this one. A relief after the last dnf. tftc

I did have to scratch my head a bit to get this one, It blended in well. I think some folk out walking may have thought I was out on leave from the hospital over the road,as I was standing there looking into a tree lol, TFTC, Cheers Bo

Very cute.

Found it! made me quite happy tftc

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I was on my way to do the Motorway series of caches today but ended up finding 36 caches on my 25 km walk. A muggle appeared as if from nowhere when I was logging this find but probably just thought I was a botanist/weirdo inspecting the cones on the tree.

TFTC

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Hahaha didn't take long. As soon as me and my partner leaning on the well we found it. Thanks

Easy cache to find as the last I was find shelter from the sun under the over hanging branch reached for my partners phone and looked towards the road there it was this heat is excruciating so these caches are nice finds out of the way from the sun. Thanks hubby not so happy I keep finding them all. Haha I think in our so far 12-14 caches he's found 1 or 2

Found while walking to the lake. Clue makes for an easy find.

Nice quick find found it a long long time ago forgot to log TFTC

Was about to give up, but found it - hooray with apples66

had to first see. but got there

Tftc. Nice quick find

It took a few moments but found it eventually. My last cache for the day as I was getting rather tired and I still had 2 or 3 km to walk home.

This one took a while to find then all of a sudden it was just staring at me. TFTC

Awesome hide, I was ecstatic when found this one these one are usually very hard to find!
TFTC!!!

A great hide. Glad to have "met" a bison ! TFTC

I was heading to Sydenham area, so decided to do a little detour and a little geocaching en route. Had to lurk at GZ while a couple of women pushing prams passed by - one did give me an odd look, though .
After they disappeared into the distance, I looked in front of of me, and spotted the cache right there. Yay, these hides can be hard to spot.
Good to have another bash at a few more Southern Motorway caches. TFTC.

Nice hide. TFTC

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Cute cache. TFTC

In Christchurch for ten days, found this cache while out caching with 2wombles. Nice hide. Thanks for this cache.

10culpados

So hard

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.

Found with Mporokosa - our third find on our Canterbury Show Weekend bike-ride. TFTC

Can be tricky, but it didn't take us too long. TFTC.

Not having much luck caching so far today so pleased to find this one. I am planning to do the whole series later this month, now I have a flash new bike.

On our way to breakfast in the city - a good day for cycling. TFTC

Very nice afternoon for a stroll- found after a little bit of poking around. TFTC

Glad to finally do another one of this series. Thanks looking4thebroc

Took a bit of searching but nailed it eventually TFTC (1215)

Fourth find whilst on a cyclocache ride from Redwood Park to Halswell Junction Rd and back via cycle tracks (mainly). I couldn't find this one last time I rode past here, but today it was found in seconds on the second branch I looked.at. [^] Thanks for the cache.

Too difficult (for me) a nighttime find. Got it today and happy to get the smiley. Thanks for the hide.

Was a nice sunny day to find this one

Despite feeling rather unwell and having been in bed from 4 till 9pm I was not going to let a little sickness get in the way of getting another cache for the year long stint we are aiming for. Little bit of a walk to get to GZ but with hint was a quick find. TFTC

Found with Sevren tftc

Tftc a good spot of hunting while waiting for a open to start

TFTC. In town for weekend . Making the most of a nice day

Found it, nice and easy with hint.

Tftc

Tftc

Another one in the series found, starting to get a few of these now. TFTC, #6658

Checking in on the cache and replaced the log.

Ed

#3882 @2025
Found after a couple of minutes searching (and being covered in pollen). TFTC

Big Fuzzy's exposed legs were getting a bit cold so a quick stop gave him a moment to warm up. TFTC.

Today was a perfect day for a cycle cache binge with my caching buddy BBear44. I have added a wee photo of my wee mascot searching for the cache, just for fun.

First find for the day. After a quick attempt at the tree climb one we came to the conclusion we will need to get a bit of assistance on this one, so we skipped by to grab this first. Honed in on it in a good time and was ready to go get the other one. Cheers for the fun series.

Looked & Looked but no joy for us today. Not Sure what we were looking for so that didn't help.

Very nice hidden, but I found it. TFTC!! I had much fun today with all these caches.

I had a good look but it wasn't mine to be found. Anyway, I've had a great day. thanks for all your efforts into hiding your cache series.

With eyes tuned in an easy find

TFTC. I am attempting to cache for 100 days in a row, now in the 80's so getting close. Time will tell....
I have been saving a few cycle way caches for those days when it is getting a bit of a time struggle to find my daily cache fix. Initially I wasn't't feeling to confident - then there it was exactly as the hint said. Cords were spot on.
Thanks looking4thebroc for more cycleway fun.
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Pretty easy find. Bells were going off at the monestary next door. TFTC.

Stopped off on the way to work for a quick find after dropping Wee Dude at School....Cheers.

Quickly found on a busy Saturday morning.

Quick find on a morning walk tftc

Quick easy grab of the clever hide. On a return after this mornings grab of the "sister" cache down the road. Thanks for the hide.

Quickly found thanks

Quick find.

Did not find. I need to google what a Bison container is?

Quick find on a cool but fine morning as the muggles hurry by in the metal boxes. TFTH

6058. A nice easy find beside the cycle way. Thanks for the well-hidden cache. Rodney

A fairly easy find on a sunny morning. Im sure Shakespeare would have an answer to that line. TFTC

Nice quick find. Are there anymore hiding places along here??? TFTC

GPS was pointing all over the place, and I tried in quite a number of possible locations, searching 20m eitherside of where the GPS was indicating. Eventually made the find. Thanks for the cache.

A very pleasant stroll to get rid of the cobwebs after a wet afternoon inside. Quickly located. Must be some wires there someplace, the GPS was playing a tune of its own. Loved the visual!! Thanks.

A nice stroll with the dog. A did aome planning ans did wonder where to park. Noticed a couple od cars just north of the bridge. Though this is a good park for me ans rhe dog not so much I guess if you had kids. After a short walk we made it to the GZ. The More FM announcer mentioned that the weather bomb was north bound and Ashburton was taking a hammering and leeston just had whipping too. So with that in mind I was hoping for a quixk find. Sure enough there it was and I scored the log. ..but then the blinkin pen run out I managed to scribe some resemblance on my caching name on to it and returned to its water proof container. Ttftc l4tb

Just when you have spent the last week doing the Sth motorway and Walk, Run, Scooter, Ride series another one pops up in the middle of the night, well it can wait till the morning, TFTC

I had spotted this when I woke up this morning at half past five this morning. I saw no one had logged a find on it yet. Hmm, could be found. Oh wait it's a L4TB one, no wonder it hasn't been found yet . It is actually on my way to work and I made an earlier start this morning. I thougth I'd go for this one first then try my luck at the other one. I parked near GZ and headed off into the dark. I had an idea that where it should be hiding. It did take me a bit to find as GPSr wanted me a bit further along. I was happy to have it in my hands. I was stoked for a {FTF} at 6.33am!!! So the question's answer was "to be"

Thanks for the cache.
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