Lolly Scramble:Butter Candies (Canterbury) Oxford, South Island, New Zealand
By M&Ms on 29-Mar-14. Waypoint GC518QC

Container past its best and corner now has muggle attractions

Today the Lolly Scramble series is my target. I'm with MacPacMum and while I find them she performs any maintenance required. Most are in excellent condition, with some needing fresh logs and baggys, and an odd few that need replacing altogether. It's great to have a power trail where all the caches are themed containers, and each one has had so much time, thought, and effort put into them. Thanks for keeping this trail going over 10 years MPM.Logging with permission from CO.

How cute. These are awesome

Out for the day with my geo buddy, and it's not raining, the joy of summer caching! Tftc

Out for the day with my geo buddy. Picked up where we left off last time we lollie scrambled. Love the variety in these caches. Thank you for creating and maintaining this series.

TFTC another nice find

Thanks M&Ms for the lolly scramble series. I am really enjoying these today as I was after lots of caches with different attitributes. These fill some lots of gaps. I was wishing I had not found so many on previous trips. Haha. All caches were interesting finds and I enjoyed them all.

13:19 FITW AaronE215Not one, but two cans of buttermilk!Bit rusty but still hanging on!Kia ora! Paldies! Thanks for the cache, M&Ms!#9926

Found on this wet day Great hide Thank you for the cache

Rather battered these days, but still usable as a cache.

Another quick find with ZEALOG cache all good signed RAZ

Lovin the conytainers on the lolly scramble with Rayzr. Log signed RAZ. Tftc

Quickly found the two containers, the first one I tried didn't open easily so tried the second one which was a bit easier, and there was a log book inside, yay! Thanks for placing these caches!

A quick find with angelic_kiwi - tftc

Neat hide

We soon spotted the cache, although the opening instructions were less than accurate. TFTC

At one point I was starting directly at the cache but it failed to register. Only when I got closer did I realise my mistake, then I had to ponder as to how I could gain access to logbook.
Getting old, going slower

T4tC M&Ms, Civvnr & MissTreadlightly ....(UK)

Find number 10315

The idea of doing 200+ caches in one day had been one that I had considered for a long time, but not something I had made any moves on doing anything about until the idea was raised by others in a geocaching group I am a part of. As we were all based in Wellington, the logical place to try this was Christchurch with it's lovely flat lands, long straight roads, and wonderful art work series. Unfortunately the weekend that worked for most of the group was not one that worked out for me, so instead I came down here a few weeks earlier than they planned to and did the the trip by myself.

I started finding Geocaches at exactly midnight on Sunday. I kept finding Geocaches for the next nineteen and a half hours, when at about 7:30pm I decided that the tiredness was getting to a point where this was no longer a sensible idea. I found:

31 Traditional
180 Unknown
1 Multi

For a total of 212 Geocaches in 19.5 hours. That's a rate of 10.9 per hour. I am pretty happy with that. I focused on the Smurf series, the Metal Mania series (a set of puzzles that I very much enjoyed), and the Glossary of Geocaching series, with a few other sets and individuals in between. It was a fantastic day, very much helped by the wonderful weather and the use of a car that had no problem on gravel roads ('cos it was a rental).

A huge thanks to all the CO's that place and maintain these Geocaches. Despite the rushed day I created for myself, I did enjoy each and every cache I found. It is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

Easy find TFTC

Quick find tfth

Team G0LD: Geocachers 0B80B8, Lis's crew and DaffyNZ are down from Whangarei for a few days. We've all solved the 4 big geoarts so they are the main target for the trip. Of course there were many other solved puzzles that we collected as well. This was our Big Day out plan where we'd planned to get as many caches as we could. Unfortunately we just fell short of our target as we lost track of the exact number of finds. Good preparation and a fantastic team to work with made this an enjoyable and successful day. We'd completed the Fresh Breath, the Smurfs and the new Skelly series. This line up of lollies was our next target caches. I am a great fan of lollies. This was such a cool little series all with nicely themed hides. Well I'm with friends, we have a pens and gps's so we're certainly getting our share or more of lollys and caches today. I agree that you can't go wrong with butter and sugar. I even like toffee but I fear the dental bill afterwards these days. A quick find. Thanks for the effort to make them all fun

Team G0LD ( 0B80B8, Lis's crew & DaffyNZ ) on a caching mission to Christchurch. We had travelled down from Whangarei on Wednesday avo. Solved puzzles were going to be the main focus of our trip. We had spent a lot of 2020 and 2021 solving over 400 puzzles, so we had a lot on our list.

Today looked like being the best weather for our trip, despite a heavy thunderstorm overnight. We had a Big Day Out planned, with a perhaps optimistic target of finding 300 caches in one day. Working together well as a team, with a driver, a navigator and a jumper, we made good progress, but in the end, the bigger distances between caches, that we hadn't anticipated, meant we ended the day a bit short.

A fun day though certainly, and sincere thanks to the GeoArt & Trail CO's, and others, for placing and then maintaining such large numbers of caches so well. A testament to your dedication to Geocaching was the very low number of DNF's during the day. Apologies for the mostly generic logs, but be assured your efforts were truly appreciated.

Lis found this one in the hint location

Northland's Team Gold (0B80B8, Liz Crew, DaffyNZ) are in Christchurch for a few days collecting all our solved puzzles and other cache types as we drive past. This is our "Big Day Out" to collect as many caches as we can in a day. Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks for placing the cache. We are loving every cache we locate that adds to our tally for the day.
Found it. TFTC

Tftc

Excursion with downsouthinv while Abbyk was at an event.
Have had fun collecting these and reliving sweet memories!

A quick trip to the area for a few more caches and some unfinished bissness.
So today we get the last of one geo art and start a new one .
Let's go have some fun .
First we in get some practice in and pick up a sweet treat or two or three .
After this lot I think I will be sick and need a dentist appointment.
Always loved a lolly scramble.
Now I'm getting hungry and I could do with a bag of lolly to snack on


Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.


Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Power-trailin’ with kozjah. Cool old containers.

Trying to kill a sweet tooth with ObnoxiousSpaceCat

Thank you for the series - love these tins

Power-trailin’ with kozjah.

Found on a caching trip south. Enjoying the caches

We were camped up a few ks from this end of the road so mrs rattll decided to go for a bike ride and see how many of these lollies she could polish off.
I did about 48ks cycling and gobbled up about 28 yummy caches.
Thanks for putting this fun series here.

Fpund

Dry log

Found

Found

FITW Albijos

We are out for some caching in the area. This was an easy straightforward find for us. TFTC.

FITW Harisree
We decided to go for a drive and grab some cache . Taking a break from work and spending some time outdoor.

TFTC

Busk spot but the cache was found and signed. Thanks!

Quick find, wasn't going to let this one slip through our fingers

Out and about getting some lollies, and visiting a couple of horses. I had started the Lolly Scramble while down over Xmas a few years ago. Now that I'm living down here, I have no excuse for not finishing!

No longer hanging, but still sitting nicely, making for an easy find.

TFTC MacPacFamily, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 3 find(s) of 18 today, making this find #2626

My pockets are full of lollies.

Always have these in my backpack

Found it, done .

**13,575**
We must be getting old, had always associated butter candies with old people but now we like them too!! hahaha TFTC

Found it but very prickly location! Obviously not been found for a while.... Sent Mr Juju in his skin is tougher than mine TFTC

Having a tiki tour around Canterbury and after lunch in Oxford had some fun caching for a few hours. Had fun doing about half the lolly scramble for the day...some were easy, some a took a little more searching. A few prickles got me and long grass + pine needles made me itch but a fun way to spend the afternoon. Tftc

Tftf love lolly scrambles

Down in Christchurch with the Squirrel, ABCDF4 and eyespyben. During Covid lockdown, we solved a load of puzzles and decided that this would be a good time to visit. We've enjoyed a few days of good weather and seeing the Canterbury countryside. The caches have been in varying states - some good, some not so much. Our time here has been a blast, and we'd like to thank all COs who have made this adventure possible. Thank you and TFTC.

With ABCDF4, eyespyben, and Gap (of Fap and Gap). Logging all finds as Team HRP (Huntly, Rotorua, Papamoa - Our hometowns)... During Covid-19 lockdown, we solved a truck load of puzzles around Christchurch - Canterbury region. No use thrashing the old grey matter for no cause - We decided we should make good on this handiwork...

There are lots of interesting trails and geoart surrounding Christchurch. What you aren’t told is how far flung some of these caches actually are. Some beforehand advice would have been great, so here are some of my notes... You’re welcome!

1. Mobile coverage is patchy, especially in those quiet, rural areas where it was most needed. Saving caches to offline might show that you are prepared and organised...
2. There are many dusty metal roads on the trails. The car will get messy, and your hair will feel like cardboard at the end of the day...
3. Suitable clothing and footwear are essential. You will climb in and out of hedges, gorse, and other rough stuff. You might get scratched, cut to shreds, and bleed a lot. It’s not advised to wear your brand new jacket on the day...
4. Take lots of food and drink. You’ll probably be head down, tail up and not realise you haven’t eaten until late afternoon. There are very few shops or gas stations out there...
5. Make sure that you secure keys and wallet and know where these are placed for easy retrieval. A full box of pens might be useful too, especially if you’re inclined to free some into the wild...
6. Know the difference between left and right, and north, south, east, and west. Turning right and heading north will not get you to South Christchurch quickly.
7. Look with girl’s eyes rather than boys eyes... Some caches haven’t been found in a while and you might have to get down on your knees to pray.
8. Always be prepared for misleading hints. This is what turns simple caches into D5/T5 hides... “Head height” could mean the cache is positioned at your toes.
9. Have a sense of humour and like the people you go caching with. It’s going to be a very long day, and you might want to hurt someone during the journey...
10. Make sure you can operate your phone/device and it doesn’t crash when you most need it...
11. Learn to cut and paste logs because you’re going to repeat this function so often when logging all of your finds.
12. Above all else, have fun and be kind...

No time to waste today - We each had caching jobs to do, and our day was mostly planned... It was our intention to break the back of this lengthy Lolly Scramble trail. But as time wore on, we watched the sun turn a deeper shade of orange as it began to set over the ranges. Thank goodness for daylight saving! We definitely enjoyed the various themed cache containers on this section. This was a good place to call it quits after a long day of caching... Thanks M&Ms and TFTC.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Found it

Hot

The long grass was quite damp on a drizzly morning and I was grateful to not have to navigate through the blackberries. Surprised to find two containers, signed the log in the one we could open. TFTC

After a big day yesterday collecting caches around the Mt Thomas tracks, we headed out in the car today to clear some roadside caches. We had a pretty successful day with 55 finds and just 2 DNF's. All finds were nice and quick and any specific notes will be mentioned below. Thanks to all CO's for your caches and sorry for copy and paste log but I had no internet at time to make detailed logs.

A nice quick find. tftc

TFTC.

One of 24 caches located this afternoon on a drive along South Eyre Road and back through Oxford and along Tram Road, picking up 11 Lolly Scramble caches (thanks to M&Ms for all those) that I hadn’t previously done, plus a number of others. Most were quick finds. Could hardly miss this one, or should that be two? #3027. TFTC.

Found it TFTC

Lolly Scramble:Butter Candies (Canterbury) was transferred from MandMCachers to user MacPacFamily

The spring growth has made the area a bit wild but cache still there.

Labour weekend caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Hmm. Two containers. Couldn't open the one saying open here but I found the log etc in the more squashed one, all in good shape. Perhaps it was meant to hang over the fence? It wasn't when I spotted it. Thanks for the hide. What a mission you had getting all these containers! Amazing!
#4895

Container , logbook ...
So hard to open. Going next...

TFTC
# 1457 August 14, 2019 14:38

Tyfc

Thank you for the cache

Quick find, log slightly damp; TFTC

In Christchurch with ABCDF4 for zephyr club convention and tagged along to pick up a few caches.Alot of quick easy finds an tons of park and grabs.Thanks to the COs

On holiday in CH/CH for zephyr Car Convention
Weather was great.Up early to get a good day cacheing
Thanks to COs for your placements
Happy Easter

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 16 Glentunnel to Waikari 76 caches found. Decided to do this series. I enjoyed the work that has gone into this. With every container I smiled and thought about the memories it brought back. Thank you for the placement Container jammed so unable to open

Quick find. Sad to see a memorial beside the road though. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 1983

As part of an eight hour maintenance run along the Lolly Scramble this cache has been checked and the logbook replaced. There are now two butter candies here but I'd use the one that has not passed it's use by date!

Watch out for the prickles tftc

Nice

Good hide and love the container. TFTC and RIP Melissa

Tftc

TFTC

A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. TFTC

Great day out caching, bit of a strong wind . - Many Thanks Bitsprayer

This is probably my most enjoyable day caching yet, I really really enjoyed finding such an array of containers, many of which I have never seen before. I found myself imagining what I migt find at the next stop. This is definately a trail I will bring my grandkids to if I ever get to bring them to CHCH. Thanks so much for the enjoyment I have had today

A nice sunny afternoon out caching where the water would let me! Very cool container! I was starting to crave some sweets, but I only had dried figs on hand TFTC!!

Visiting from the U K Out with Wurzel1947
TFTC

Visiting from the U K with Pinksouth she does any comments
Hopefully we will do some more of this series TFTC

Quick find where all good at GZ. Thanks for another smilie.

Hoping to see you at the [Oamaru Geofest](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6M2V0_oamaru-geofest-2017) during Labour Weekend 21-22 October 2017. Let's all help this a successful event!

Did you know that planning has started for a Mega Event in Wellington in 2018? Check out the details on the [Wellington Event NZ (WENZ) Website](https://sites.google.com/site/wenzgeo2018/home) or visit the event's page on [FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/590545297801072/).


Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

In Christchurch for a few days, a good day to find some more caches along this road. Thanks MandMCachers for the cache.

Wow what a day, started at 7.30 just as daylight was arriving and the misty rain had me worried, turned out to be a great day with a total of 120 caches not the goal I had set myself (next time we are here we will try the 270 in a day again) but still a great goal at 120, thank you for placing and maintaining the caches we found, sorry for the copy and paste logs we had many to find and only recorded if damage or logs replaced.

#3628. I had a work trip to Canterbury on the Thursday and Friday but decided to stay over on the weekend to fit in a couple of big caching days. I am working on the DGSC challenge and need some 50+ days for the bulk find elective. So Saturday and Sunday were earmarked for getting some big totals. Managed to locate about 130 caches over the weekend and about 150 over 4 days. Decided today I would do the lolly scramble series of caches along this road and any other caches encountered. It was a really enjoyable series with well themed containers. Once I got my eye in, the finds sped up as the day progressed. Certainly a very warm early autumn day (high of 29 degrees). Took a moment or two to spot the cache. Then had to deal with the brambles. Signed the dry log book and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.

Begins our holiday in NZ in Christchurch, we came from Italy to find our son who lives there for two years.
After being in the North Island in Wellington area to hunt for historical cache and spending a few days at sea while finding bad weather without being able to take to the beach, here we are back in Chch, we decide to resume the trail already made in part two weeks ago , we reach Oxford and back.
Thanks for the laying and maintenance of this trail
Greetings from Italy
Dopo essere stati nell'isola del nord in zona Wellington a caccia di cache storiche e aver trascorso alcuni giorni al mare trovando però brutto tempo senza poter scendere in spiaggia, eccoci tornati a Chch, decidiamo di riprendere il trail già fatto in parte due settimane fa, raggiungeremo Oxford e ritorno.
Grazie per la posa e mantenimento di questo trail
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

Ouch is right, my blood was shed for it.

We are from Canada and visiting relatives In Christchurch for a few weeks. Started the lolly pop trail last week and we are finishing it today. Thanks to those who set up this trail. It has allowed us to check out an interesting area.

Ouch!

This one was tricky to find, the area is extremely over grown and has a nasty black berry bush with sharp thorns throughout. We were feeling like this one might be our first DNF for the day but finally spotted cache!!
In Christchurch on holidays visiting family who are also Geocaches and they mentioned this trail. So on our way back from Castle Hill today we decided to try and get some!! We have really enjoyed this series and the thought gone into it! We hope to be back in the future so we can do some more!! TFTC!!!

Abit too prickly and overgrown to find and quite close to a memorial

Had a couple of hours spare this afternoon and was in the area so came for a drive to find some of the caches along here. Had to wander about a bit avoiding the prickles before I spotted the cache. Signed log, TFTC

Decided to head out on a caching mission so the wee womble could have a sleep in the car, and Mrs 2womble could have a sleep at home. Thanks for the cache

Very overgrown corner! Nice cache. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc M&Ms. Find # 3381

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH watch out for the blackberry

After lunch in Rangiora, StreetWalker and I headed towards Oxford on a lovely sunny day to find a few caches. We didn't clear out the area, and will be back another time for some more caching (no great hardship).
Another GZ where there was some brambles to contend with. I spotted the cache, but SW thought he'd first retrieve the secateurs from the car to deal to the worst of the canes. While he was crossing the road to the car, I just got stuck in and grabbed the cache. No blood spilt either!
We both love Worthers Original Candies and keep a bag in the car for the times when blood sugar levels drop . TFTC.

#13182. We generally get through a few WO's on a caching trip; nice to find a WO container on our travels. TFTC.

Tftc

Should have put my gloves on quick grab tftc

Today we enjoyed picking up caches from the lolly scramble trail, the fruit and vege trail, the cust trail and other various caches around the area. We found 50 caches altogether and had a great day. Caching with Injeanious and theBurnsy we signed the log books as JeJeBu to save time and space. Thanks to the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches! Sorry for the cut and paste logs.