Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Cucumber (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By Team_Gaters & TheWanglers on 02-Jun-14. Waypoint GC5699D

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)....

Quick find. Didn't realise there was so much housing out this way. Tftc

Today I drove to Kaiapoi to find some Geocaches and do a little bit of the powertrail towards Oxford.
Fast find and wet logbook
TFTC

Easy find

High cache density area, quick drive by TFTC

Follow the vegetables trail

might get to finish this series this time (missed these few last time I was in Chch) tftc

Out to get the numbers today TFTC

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.
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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

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.

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

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!!
Cucumbers are great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGlon_ezvU

Very realistic

Goodnhiding place

We came here AGAIN!
After looking for this for half an hour we sadly left. Then we came back the next day with some hope in our pocket. Fifteen minutes later OH won't ya look at that! We found it! Very sneaky find, very well blended in and buried well. We are so happy to have finally found this cache!

Old school roller being used near here. Quick find. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Team_Gaters & TheWanglers. Find # 3330

Nice cache

Found with moneydork TFTC

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Sneaky hide

#13068. Good to be back to make some more progress on the F&V series. We parked across the road, and made a quick find. TFTC.

After the CITO event at Woodend Beach, we took the scenic route back to Christchurch to find a cache or three .
Back on the Fruit and Vege loop again, with a few lollies thrown in as well . And a nice quick find . TFTC.

Having got a section close by we thought we had better grab a few of our local caches. TFTC!!!

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!

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Still didn't have my cache for the day, so a quick drive out this way in the evening was in store.

I'd been for this one once before, but it was missing then!! So was great to just walk right on up to it today! Nicely done, and quite cute these veggies are!

Then the nice drive home to bed!!

Consec caching day # 1272

TFTC!!

Cool cucumbers!

Cool as a cucumber

After a few days staying with family in Chch we started heading north again and with no family commitments we focused on finishing the Lolly Scramble trail and hunting down the horses 101 series. The day also included a few other caches with our tally for the day being 92.The logs were signed HZ+HM, H+H, or on some case with our full names.
Thank you to all the cache owners for making this possible.

It was a combination of holidays, family visit and caching. Since our last visit lots of trails have appeared and there were many puzzles to be solved. And a lot of trads thrown in for good measure. We almost forgot what it's like to be cut, scraped, prodded, pricked, bruised and stabbed by the large variety of hedges you can find caches under in Canterbury. We were not deterred and it was fun to find them. On our way home again and trying to find as many caches as pos. In the end they made us stay another night in the area Thank you Team Gaters

Moved to the Swannanoa district in June 2015, about time I checked a few GC’s out in the hood. Found it while taking a roundabout drive to Kaiapoi. Had the GZ to myself, although a few vehicles whizzed past they were all too busy to notice what 1eyednbf (1 eyed and proud of it) was up to, mmmm I like cucumber. TFTH (catching up on logging my finds)

Great hiding place

Found thanks.

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Such a busy rural country corner. Collected cache easy enough but took forever to replace. Thanks

cruising around north of the Wimak. did some 30+ boxes. nice series here.
easy find. Thanks

Decided that on my last day of my holiday I'd do a blitz in the area before I fly home tomorrow, now a very tired bunny!

TFTC quick find

Quick find, TFTC

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Blends in nicely with the green grass.

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Quick grab for Crood L then off our way. One of our least fav veges but a good cache non the less. Tftc

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Griffin Baxter showed me it

Easy find but cool cucumber!

Loved this series, thank you!

Tftc

Came out with wee dude on a fruit and vegetables maintenance run.
Straightened out log. New plastic bag. All good.
Cucumber still looking tastey - unlike some of the other fruit and vegetables!

Found while in the area

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

Easy find

This was my second visit to Christchurch in as many weeks, a fortnight ago I flew down for the Mega event with my family in tow, this time I was down to attend a conference held at the school of Education. My wife generously agreed to allow me to stay an extra day (and night) to explore the city and do some Geocaching. I made the most of the opportunity and found just over a hundred caches during my visit. Having already completed the ‘cutlery’ series earlier in the day nearby I decided to soldier on and find some Geocaching sweetness by having a crack at the Lolly Scramble series (with the odd detour here and there). Another nicely themed cache in this impressive series. TFTC

TFTC This is awesome

Enjoying the series. Thanks for another one

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Today was allocated to be the day to do a run up South Eyre Rd to sample all the different lollies. Also to sign off other trads that were in/on the way.

Cheers for the cache.

[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!

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 chupps chup and all the veges and fruit. . Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

Love the ingenuity of this series. Good competition. TFTC.

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

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

# 923 - 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.

Yummy for my tummy - cucumber sandwiches are my favourites. Pity some grown these days have no taste to them.

Out and about with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke) finding a great mix of cache hides and cache containers. What a mad bunch of cachers to be with, loads of fun and games with very little sleep over the 3 nights of the MEGA TFTC.

Out and about during the mega event with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke). This was one of the caches we found during the weekend. TFTC!!!

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.

Well themed caches and a great trail, quick find TFTC


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Quick and easy drive by!

Team Farkis - T4TC

Out hunting today with Team FARKIS (FMZ, Alpenmilch80, Rosmar, Kiwibug, Indiana Jill & Slieschke). Enjoyed my time out and a lot of laughter’s with this crazy bunch collecting geocaches all around CHCH. TFTC

#2022 Decided to head to the end of this road and head North collecting the caches on this stretch. Bumped into team FARKIS as they were leaving 'cherries' and ended up following them right up to pumpkin. It was easy to work out where to stop next TFTC!

Returned to the rest of the Lolly Scramble Trail today to clean up some of the remaining caches we missed yesterday, accompanied once again by vistra and yorkshirekiwi83, on a big numbers mission while visiting Canterbury for the Christchurch Mega Event.

Another quick hide for a break from the Lolly Scramble Trail. Thanks for the hide.

Found with Skaga during the Mega.
A quick find. Ska is finding these before I can even put the hand brake on!
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!

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Out with the Dunedin caching crew.DCC. TFTC!

Out doing some caching with Nacho the pug. Nacho found this one, I was searching in totally the wrong area. TFTC

Grabbing caches with the DCC at the NZ Mega

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 in the morning and some fruits and lollies and some more for breakfast. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

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!

Love the cache. Well made. TFTC.

We paused and pondered how these cache containers were created. Such a lot of work and all for our geocaching pleasure. TFTC

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, nice to get some fruit and vege before we move onto the sweets. 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
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Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew, (DCC).
Great containers.
TFTC

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

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.

Loved the series.

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

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

Nice find on a great caching day. Thanks.

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

#20 of todays power trail! cool cucumber!

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