Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Orange (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By Team_Gaters & TheWanglers on 02-Jun-14. Waypoint GC5698M

Placed in 2014 and found over 160 times. The Fruit & Veges around the loop are now pretty deteriorated, no longer water proof & generally quite gross - No longer bright, crisp and fun to find. A lot of new houses around the road now too. Time to archive the series....(cache has been removed)....
Wonder if whatever animal had a chew on this cache got a bellyache?! lol....

Found tftc

Barb wire!!!!!

Came out to grab the enabled horses and picking up a few others on the way home. Tftc

Easy find, doing caches in the area TFTC

Out on a mission to catch some horses.
Mr found this quickly. Looks like someone has been enjoying the orange.
Found, signed and returned. Thanks for the cache.

Ambling around N Canty on this gorgeous Good Friday, with no particular route or destination in mind. Caching is such a good reason to be outdoors!
Quick find; thanks for placing & maintaining this cache TG & TW.

I like oranges good source of vitamin c

Kids loved finding it

Love this trail

Quick park and find. Thanks.

collecting some smilies from the area. TFTH

Over from Australia to attend the Oamaru Geofeast. In Christchurch caching with Di Morgan and doing this series while in the area. Enjoyed the mountain scenery and country side out this way.
Thanks Team_Gaters for placing the cache for us to find.
6460

Christchurch
Some fruit & vegetables found while looking for horses.
It was that great looking horses head that we targeted today. The roaads took us all over the place, in the end we had found most of them. A few we did some maintenance on.
Fantastic Mountain scenery glimpsed along the road.
Thanks for placing this cache Team_Gaters

Came down this way from the North for the Oamaru Geofest, and decided to add a few more days to the weekend trip and turn it into a bit of a Mega mission, starting 5pm on Wednesday 18th and finishing 3pm Monday 23rd! Teaming up with Cats&Dragons for the first 24 hours then with Iammrwalker joining the team for the remainder.
Just a few of the stats for the trip were:
- 700 caches found, including 270+ puzzles (thanks to the Christchurch Geoart)
- 3300 km's driven, using over 500L of fuel $$$
- Just over 20 hours of sleep (about 4 per day on average), and about 100 hours of caching time.
Certainly a Mega Trip!

Day 1: The focus for this evening was on the Horses 101 Geoart plus a few extras which were nearby. This was a great warm up for the trip with a few tricky finds which took a bit of searching to find. It was great turning these puzzles into smiles after the many hours spent solving them all. A fairly successful run through the series with only a handful of DNF's along the way.

A big thanks to the CO's for the hides and especially the CO for the Geoart as I can only image the effort involved for setting these up. Sorry about the cut and past logs, but that seems to happen with cache runs of this size!

thanks for the placement, we have been loved travelling and visiting the roads of Christchurch and the many caches each CO has taken the time to place, thank you for taking the time to place and maintain them.

The orange has had better days but the log is fine. tftc

I wanted to get out of the house and round up a few caches nearby in the sunny afternoon, and I had a great time! TFTC!!

Not a very good description but we found it

Very little

Orange lol

Found container looking a bit worse for wear.

So quiet around this area today. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Team_Gaters & TheWanglers. Find # 3347

The orange looks old

Found with moneydork TFTC

Just as well the residents across the road weren't at home here. TFTC!!!

Woohoo

Found it

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.

It's been a slow couple of months for me and Jess.daphne, so we decided to team up with The Burnsy and get a whole lot of caches. We headed off to pick up more of the Lolly Scramble, Fruit and Vege, and Cust trails, signing the logs as JeJeBu. We had a great day and grabbed 50 caches. Our best day yet! Thanks to the COs for the caches.

Headed out for a day of caching with Mr. Kiwi, to celebrate my 30th tomorrow. We had planned originally to nail our 400th - but the effects of both recent celebrations and real life in general meant we decided to cruise through the lolly trail, fruit and vege loop and whatever else came our way. It was a great day out together, and we were grateful to the cache owners who take the time to set up and maintain their hides.
So to you all, TFTC!

Nice easy find

Easy find. Watch out for the barbed wire at waist height nearby.

Out visiting a friend and just enough time to fit in a cache before collecting kids from school. TFTC

When we did the first caches of this series we decided to grab the rest on our bicycles. Today was a beautiful day and with all caches quick finds the breaks were shorter than expected (and needed by parts of our team). A great loop, thanks for placing them all. TFTC

Our recent multi day Canterbury cache raid was so successful we decided to have another one before the holidays finished. Again we got stabbed, prodded, pricked and scraped by the variety of hedges the region is so famous for. And of course we can now hold our breath a lot longer. A skill well worth developing to avoid breathing in part of the road surface every time a vehicle passes. Just over 200 finds were logged this time and a great time was had finding the caches with a variety of shapes, sizes and placements. A big thank you to all COs who made this possible.

With a few more days of holidays left we decided to head south again and find some caches we didn't have time to look for last week, plus some more off the beaten track. This was one of 52 found today.
Thank you to all CO's who made this possible.

Found. The neighbor was a bit curious what I was up to but tried to be stealthy approaching the cache

Another park and grab thanks

#12134. Troodles found this one on here second pass (after decoding the hint). TFTC.

StreetWalker's streak is still going strong, so we decided to head out south west of Rangiora this afternoon and find just some of the many caches in the area. With the 30 plus degrees temperature (according to the car's dashboard display), we were keen on finding drive bys only as we didn't want to exert ourselves too much. Lots of choice in this area, with plenty of Horses, Fruit and Veges plus some others to keep us busy for a few hours.
The colour of the orange tones in well with the hiding place. TFTC.

TFTC

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC nice quick find.
☺

Good find

This one is becoming compost.

Tftc

Found the orange!

Found it with Griffin Baxter

Came out with wee dude on a fruit and vegetables maintenance run.
Straightened out log. New plastic bag. All good.

Finding a few caches in the area

Having having too much ham and turkey needed to get thefruit and vege!

Straightforward find. #898. Thanks for this series of fruit caches. Located seven in the area this afternoon.

Great find TFTC

Another quick find TFTC

#3881

Orange

Ok

[green] Out with Hanknstone, Haydn.seek and thestepahine on an awesome 200+ day. We managed to get 210 caches in 11 hours, an average of 3 minutes each. There were a few awesome caches out there, but mostly it was a blur. Thanks to all the cache owners, and my apologies about the cut and paste!
Signed log as HHSS.

Hanknstone, Haydn.seek, the Seagnoid and I had a challenge of doing 200 caches in a day. We started at 7:30am and finished around 8:00pm with a total of 200+. Apologies for the copy and pasting of the logs but there were so many we found that it would take so long to write them all up individually! Thank you for the find.

The next on our 210 run finding caches for the day with our team of four- HHSS. Working as a team each doing diff. roles we were able to speed up the find rate quite well and we managed to do about the first 100 with no Did Not Finds but after that the distances increased and the find rate dropped but we still managed to finish the day with 210 cache. The seagnoid has planned etc our route so it was all efficient Thank you to The Seagnoid for this pre work and thank you to the different cache Owners for these great, interesting caches. I just loved the huge chuppa chup and all the veges and fruit. . Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

Long time dream came true and we could visit New Zealand. NZ Mega was our maingoal and we had time to find others too. We travelled together with Veke68, Katsukka and tanjuli (+husband) and had great time. We used TVVK Fin (that is tanjuli, vipema, Veke68 <3 Katsukka) in mostly logbooks to save space.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings from Finland.

Day 2 geocaching in NZ/Christchurch and surroundings in good company (=tanjuli with husband, vipema, Veke68 & Katsukka = TVVK-FIN in the logbooks most of the time) to NZ. Had a great time and found a lot of caches + saw so many interesting/beautiful places.

Thank you!!!!

I came back to Christchurch for Mega 2015. Many for a great time and of course the cache

Second day in New Zeland with Tanjuli, Vipema and Katsukka.
We found lot of nice caches, saw beautiful views and attended two events.

Thanks!!

At Mega with Dutchie50 and Rhyssa6. Having a great time. Tftc

# 926 - During the Mega time to undertake a trail (or 2... ) with Rhyssa6 and Triciac2. Love to combine the healthy with the unhealthy!

Great job on both trails.

TFTC Team_Gaters

Attending the Christchurch mega with Dutchie1950 and Triciac2.
After doing a few more on the nearby lolly trail we decided to head up this way and do some fruit and veggies for a change.

Mega trip to NZ with vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka, day 2. We found tons of caches and had a blast. I liked the series!

We logged as TVVKFIN to save log books. Thanks for the fun and greetings from Finland.

Our team for the Mega weekend was signing as VYV (Vamber, Yorkshirekiwi83 and Vistra). we found quite a few in the short space of time we were together, where I can I will make comments about the cache. We had teamed up back in Auckland and had been busy planning what we were going to target and in what order, of course plans changed even more so when we were down here, but that is part of what makes it fun and I had a great time over the weekend, thanks to all the CO's for placing.

Quick find TFTC


[u][Teal]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 Labour weekend in Turangi visit [url=http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz/]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016[/Url] [/Teal][u]

Found at 0755. Found while attending the NZ Mega on our 4th day here. Nice easy find for an early morning. TFTC.

Exploring Canterbury on Day 2 of the Christchurch Mega with yorkshirekiwi83 and vistra picking up solved puzzles (which we worked on in preparation for our trip) and various other caches in the area on our big number run.

A break from all the horses, this time to gather some fruit/vege. Thanks for the hide.

Another great find with Just-Lookin.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of our MEGA trip.

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

On a road trip with tmann421 for the Mega weekend in Christchurch.

Really enjoyed visiting the area and collecting some of the local caches.

TFTC

Day 3 in Christchurch and I again teamed up with yorkshirekiwi83 and vamber for another big day of caching. We signed the logs as "VYV" to save time and space on the logs. We made an early start to the day as we knew we would be going for 200 caches. We started with the Lolly Scramble caches (which we had begun the night before) and made our way up to Oxford, before returning to Kaiapoi and working on the Horses 101 series, finding a number of other caches along the way. Apologies for the generic logs, but thank you to all the cache owners for placing these caches!

[red] For information on the 2016 New Zealand Geocaching adventure being held in Turangi please visit... http://www.http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz [/red]

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

This geocache was found on a great day of geocaching with some very fun people that I met at the mega! We were very intent on having lots of fun and seeing the sights that your wonderful country has to offer. Thanks for placing and maintaining this geocache for us to find.

Grabbing caches with the DCC at the NZ Mega

This was getting to be a busy little road by now, what with all the flag bearing cars that were about, and it felt like we were finally starting to see other cachers. The day started off feeling a bit eerie because, although we knew there was a nearly a Mega's worth of people out there hunting, until the last couple of caches we just weren't really seeing anyone. I had been starting to wonder if everyone else had already found these ones.
Once again, a quick find. Thanks

Caching with capperz and G H 6 7 1 0 chasing caches and numbers across the Canterbury area. Was a great MEGA weekend and thanks to all the CO's who made it all possible.
T F T C . Logs signed as G C N for our 3 caching initials.

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Rest of the horses 101 caches and some fruits and vegetables in the morning before going to registration of the Mega event. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Group assaults occured with the Aussie invasion of Travellinbees, Locus Cache, Paris Laura, Team Jacob, SnapHappy, Tomboy711, TR!, and two ring ins New Zealanders Fuzzy Fruit, & FiremanSam
TFTC
Still catching up on logs

Teamed up with Tufty and headed out into Horse Country this morning for a day of good company and multiple finds.
We took a short break from rounding up Horses to stop and pick a few random pieces of fruit. Thanks for an orange.

[green]Find 7208[/green]...

Found this whilst visiting your beautiful country...

This was a great weekend and certainly one of my top weekends spent caching... Mega events are a great way to catch up with familiar faces and meet new ones... We also enjoy the social aspect of events

From the moment 'the Event' was announced we committed to attend... Planning the holiday around the Event is also something we enjoyed... This was Tomboy 711's first Mega and first time to NZ...

We saw so many beautiful places and quite a few special caches...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Team_Gaters...
- P
Greetings from Oz...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Great, it was Mega event day and found many caches.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Nihth day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. We made it to Christchurch, so now it is time to do some caching!

Found 977
Found while touring for a few days with Snap Happy prior to heading to the Christchurch Mega.
Thanks Team_Gaters for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. Cheers Tomboy 711

Out caching with the Dunedin Caching Crew (logging under DCC). Thanks for the variety of caches on this trail - most excellent.

parislaura, Team jacob and I flew to New Zealand for the 2015 Mega.
Never having been out of Australia before, this was a very exciting trip for me
Today was a good day with caching, pathtag trading and a convoy of New Zealand (fire-mansam & Fuzzyfruit), Victorian (TR! and Snap Happy) and South Australian (parislaura, Team Jacob, Tomboy711, The Travellinbees and I) sharing fun and laughs [^]
Today's tally was 34 cache finds, 1 Mega event attended and only 2 DNFs

What a wonderful thing is a Mega! Seeing fellow geocachers with their flags on driving around town, tooting at those who are at caches and meeting many new people

We made it out to do some of this series and laughed lots at many of the cache hides

TNLN. SL. TFTC Team_Gaters

An epic day of caching today, out to achieve 200+ finds in a day while I'm in Christchurch for the Mega event. There was also the lure of a virtual cache down in Peel forest, which isn't really that far from the numbers game along Thompsons track. A great day out and about, revisiting places I haven't been in years, and finding new places along the way. I teamed up with Capperz and Nightowl19 at 0600 in Rolleston, and off we headed in my cache mobile and general all purpose off road land rover. We signed the logs primarily as G C N to save space and time. Sorry about the cut and paste logs, but with over 200 caches to log it's going to take me a while to catch up. A nice series this, T F T C

Off to the Mega this weekend and a 2 day pass has been granted for Geocaching purposes. It being a long weekend and all there was definitely a plan to get some caches and keep the numbers ticking along. Finished work at 12.00 and waited for the accompanying nightowl19 to finish her school morning. Pick her up and back home to get changed and a bite to eat before heading down the line. There's an event in Rangiora that we'd like to attend and we need to check into our accommodation. All interspersed with few caches too. Today is the planned 200 plus in a day, to be followed by as many types in a day on Sunday, then back home Sunday arvo. Quite the whistle-stop tour. Weather played fair, we ate take aways all weekend. . . . . . . . . . . shameful parenting, and had a great time. Even got to cache with G H 6 7 1 0 too, bonus. We set off at 0600 and were all done by 2000 so not toooo long a day. A few hundred kms driven by G H and in the comfort of his 4 x 4 too.
To all the COs that placed these caches many thanks for facilitating this epic journey and (normally difficult caching target. In Marlborough I've already done so many so big numbers days are nigh on impossible without having to travel out great distances. Most logs were signed G C N being an acronym of our combined caching names. We replaced around half a dozen which were plainly missing on Thompsons Track which will surely help those who follow us.
Apologies for the cut and past logs and last of all T F T C all . Thanks
T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C T F T C

Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew, (DCC).
Liking the variety of containers.
TFTC

Thanks to all the CO's for the fantastic caches, Team DCC (Dunedin caching crew) for a fun filled day and The MEGA team for an outstanding event.

Great container. TFTC

Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew (DCC), enjoying the Christchurch NZ Mega.

*New Zealand Mega 2015*
We collected these caches either as part of a group assault during the Mega or just Mr & Mrs Bee whilst traveling around with Muggle John seeing the sights of your fine countryside.

Group assaults occured with the Aussie invasion of Travellinbees, Locus Cache, Paris Laura, Team Jacob, SnapHappy, Tomboy711, TR!, and two ring ins New Zealanders Fuzzy Fruit, & FiremanSam

We jet boated, walked up hills, sat in sulphur pools, walked through ruined cities, botanical gardens and general beautiful countryside.

We have thoroughly enoyed our short holiday over here on the South Island and we based ourselves in the CBD, Adelaide and Christchurch are sister cities and it was surreal to be part of that.

We climbed fences, crossed rivers, climbed tree's and hopped around like gooses, we collected many smilies while on this trip and we collected many new friends.

Geocaching has given us many pleasures and this cache was one of them.
TFTC
Travellinbees
Sth Australia

Nice easy find on a great caching day. Thanks.

First full official day of the Mega long weekend we (Dunedin Caching Crew - DCC) hit the road and went for a drive to log as many caches as we could.

Found with L4TB (the reunion tour). We set off to finish what we started a few years ago. Nearly 2 years has seen an influx of caches in this area. I selected the remaining Lolly Scramble caches and The Fruit and Vege loop specifically for today's task. A few extra ones tossed in along the way. We went from 9am til 3pm and then headed over to the Mega. All caches were good fun and we had a lovely day. Tftc