Cust River Cache (Canterbury) Fernside, South Island, New Zealand
By connorc204 on 10-Jun-14. Waypoint GC56QVG

I am archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in a prior reviewer note.

Hi connorc204This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.RegardsTheCoddiwompler

While in the area with Lytteltonwitch, we decided to find this one. Pleasant walk in, saw miniature pony with her foal- so cute. Looked - both of us for 20mins, tried 3 trees near co- ords still no luck, so we really feel it is missing. I will write to the last finder ( 5 caches in total) and ask just where they found it, it's really making me curious.

Busypaws and I looked for ages with no luck here. I seriously doubt that the previous person who said that they had found it actually did find it

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Second try and could not find again

Couldn't find this one, thinking either taken or wet

Dnfi we think sum1 took it.

Dnf it is not there grass is too long as well.

All rather wet here.

Good

Dnf it was hard

Everything inside wet

Ez

Found it!

Tftc

Took the short walk upriver to this one. Shame not many cachers do more than png.

Found it, however it needs maintenance check. Managed to get my name on there though

Nice walk with the dogs. Log is very wet after the little rain over winter. Able to sign ok though

Out for a days caching adventures. We enjoyed the walk to this cache. Thanks for the cache connorc204.

A pleasant walk down the dry riverbed; TFTC

Nice walk but guess who started on the wrong side. Duh. Anyway once at gz it took very little time to find the cache. I provided a bit of excitement for three dogs out for a walk with their owner but they were very well behaved. Thank for the cache.
#4850

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Working towards 1000. Thanks for the hide.

Nice stroll.tftc

Not used to the off road track after doing the k2r series earlier in the day .cache was highly visible as I approached so tucked away a bit better when I left tftc

Nice walk!

Had a couple of hours spare today so decided to get some caches in this area. Started nice and early so the day wasn't too hot. No problems locating the cache today. Thanks for the cache.

A perfect spot to drop the TB .every time it amazes me where geocaching takes us , places you would just drive past. Left TB "plenty of time" . Thanks

Out for a spot of cyclocaching. This cache was a quick find along a very pleasant walkway. Thanks for bringing me here and TFTC.

Easy

In the morning I had to take care of a semi-long task, but come lunch, I was out of the house in search of caches! I thought I'd better acquaint myself with the neighbourhood and get the count up at the same time! Very nice walk! I voted against coming from the old bridge, as there was not much space to park out of the way without getting stuck knee deep in much. Other side all fine! TFTC!!

Thanks. Happy Easter.

A nice little stroll to find this one. TFTC.

Chur

Nice stroll after lots rain past couple days good excuse for gummies. Tftc

17/09/2016 3:14:00 PM
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I'd been quite exhausted all day - done a lot of napping!! And then I needed to go find some caches I realised as we were off to a friends for dinner, and I only have 4 found caches on the calendar! And so if I wanted to make that the darker colour, that would involve finding at least 7 caches!! And despite being tired, this gives me something to work towards in this aweful waiting period, of when will this human come?!!

So I marked an approimate route before leaving home, and headed out. Unfortunately my running shoes are still drying as I had to give them a good wash after my escapades caching in the port hills, and so the only alternative shoes I had don't have very good grip, and so I was slipping and sliding constantly!! Made getting those at least 7 caches quite tough!!

Number 3. And one that I still hadn't found, despite coming out this way many times, as it's usually been dark by that point!!

Was a pleasant stroll in the daytime.

Consec caching day # 1413

TFTC!!

Off to an event in the area so stopped for a walk along the river. Tftc

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TFTC - nice way to spend a Sunday morning

Hook and his crew come to the plunder treasure. But there was not much to plunder,so signed the book and off to find another. aaRrrrrgh

Took a roman spear from work and trundled along the pathway to collect this cache. It was a bit blstery and I was sandblasted for my efforts. Quick easy find at GZ. Would be a nice walk in less trying circumstances. Thanks for bringing me here.

I'm in the Christchurch area mainly for work for a few days this week. Today I had some spare time to go out and about finding a few caches. After a day of mostly finding park and grab caches it was nice to have a bit of a leg stretch along the trail to this cache. Funny how it looked like it was in the middle of nowhere on my GPS map but the track is nice and easy to follow and a quick find at GZ. TFTC, Biggles.

What a nice peaceful walk along the river. Thanks for a great cache

Another weekend day and another foray into the North Canterbury countryside to find a few more caches. Today we went out a bit earlier than yesterday, so it was a few degrees cooler but still pretty warm when searching for caches in the hot sun.
We had stopped nearby this cache yesterday, but decided we couldn't face a 1 km plus walk there and back to this cache in the hot afternoon sun. It didn't take long to get to GZ today, though we did appreciate the brief sections of shade along the stop bank. No sign of any water in the river after a dry summer.
I searched one side of the obvious object and StreetWalker the other, and he found the cache. Thanks for the walk and the cache.

#12139. This is a walk we wouldn't have known about had it not been for this cache. It was a hot nor' west day, and the river bed looked like it hadn't seen water in a long time. There was a bit more shade than expected along the way, and the cache was a quick find. TFTC.

TFTC, nice quick find

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC nice walk on another warm day

A quick easy find after a pleasant stroll down the (dry) riverside. TFTC

I enjoyed the short wander along the walkway for a nice quick find. TFTC #7856

Greatspot

Nice easy find on a lovely walk. TFTH

Quick Find

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

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

Came down to Christchurch for the 2015 MEGA with a group of caching buddies for the weekend. My first MEGA, and it was fantastic- loved every minute, the caching, the events, meeting other like-minded crazies (sorry, I mean cachers!!!). Our group found 283 caches throughout the course of the of the weekend, so apologies for the cut and paste logs- but it's going to take me hours to log them all!!!! All logs were signed as SEAC (South East Auckland Crew), to reflect out home caching base!
HUGE thanks to all involved in putting on the MEGA event, and also to all of the Chch CO's for the effort gone to in their hides- we found some awesome caches, including fantastic hides, and cleverly done camo.... well done Christchurch, you're an awesome bunch!

A nice walk to this cache through a lovely area of countryside. Found in the second place we looked.
TFTC!

Day two of the ChCh mega weekend and today was scheduled to attend a few of the talks on offer at the mega and tidy up a few caches we may have missed yesterday...
A few of us took away some good ideas and gathered more knowledge which was great, thanks to all whom were involved in these, which leads us to here... one of the few caches that got away from us yesterday...plus a few night caches thrown in...

Signed as 'SEAC' South East Auckland Crew, to save log book space.

Now found onto the next one...
TFTC.

Was a long walk, but enjoyed it.

Part of the “South East Auckland Crew” here for the Christchurch Mega. All logs done as “SEAC”. Sorry for the Generic logs…but when logging 200 in a day it can be a bit much. But thank you so much for placing all these awesome caches

A plan was hatched way back in April to bring a group of crazy cachers from the South Auckland area for a weekend of lovely caching at the Mega. For most of us it was our first Mega and what a blast we had. From the first event cache at the Airport, surprising one of our group with a birthday trip to the Mega (literally 30min warning to boarding!), meeting lots of like minded people around the Kaiapoi district and to the manic days caching to late, late in the night with our mega flags flying we all had such a great time.
All logs were signed as SEAC South East Auckland Crew. Sorry for the cut and paste log, but all the trails, trads and tricks imagined by all the local CO’s were fantastic.
Thank you to everyone for the wonderful hides. TFTC!

Second day whilst down in Christchurch for the mega and this was much more relaxed with some caching, some socialising and then some night caching.

Thanks for the cache - signed log as SEAC (South East Auckland Crew)

We headed over to New Zealand for a trip around the South Island, to visit the NZ Mega 2015 and Christchurch, and to explore more of this beautiful country. We were joined by catscatscats22 who had spent some time in the area before, and made for great company This trip was full of everything, we explored Christchurch, Hanmer Springs, Dunedin, and Akaroa all whilst managing to find a heap of caches along the way This one was next up for us today, so we continued our walk down the trail and pulled up alongside GZ and after a quick search we had the cache in hand and added our names to the logbook [^]



TFTC connorc204



Gaz'n'Kab

Found during the Mega weekend on bit of a tiki-tour around the Canterbury back blocks. Great weather, great caches, great fun! Thanks to all the cache owners for putting out and maintaining caches for us to find. All in all, a fun road trip with Boxhill and Yeetrees, we signed many of the logsheets as YGB to save both time and logsheet spaces.

TFTC connorc204

In town for a “Mega” weekend. As part of Team YGB I really enjoyed exploring the country roads of Canterbury. We travelled a fair few Kilometres in the 4 days we were here, and had a great time, with a lot of laughs along the way. Good weather, and good company. It doesn’t get much better than that does it.

A nice stroll to find this one.

Thanks to all the CO’s for all the caches we found.


Cheers and TFTC

Thanks for the walk. Having a great adventure. Kids learning as we go they are very proud. 8 - 3 = 5 I'm being told as I write this. Tftc

Found this cache pretty easily, after having to ford the river because we where on the wrong side!!! [:o)]

Found with Tillythedog, by forwarding the river!

A very pleasant walk to this one.

TFTC

A nice wander this evening with quinella

Nice short walk along the stop bank with Jillymc and geodog. Thanks

Mr Sharpe went for a run and grabbed this cache. Lovely day for it! Thanks

#10 of 45 finds today. I managed all the "Horses" series I had solved (11 of the 13 published so far), a couple of nearby trads, and cleaned up the remaining "Lolly Scramble" series. A long day, but a good time. I'm afraid the numbers will result in a bit of cut and paste logging, but I'll add what I can.
Nice to stretch my legs on a day of P&G caching.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Rincewind3 on Thursday, 30 April 2015 at 22:35:34 UTC.

After failing to get the FTF near Ohoka this morning I decided to carry on out this way and clean up a few more unfound caches. Drove up the dry river bed and grabbed the cache straight away. TFTC (1808)

Tonight is Mad Mission Night. We were armed with solved puzzles, bikes, flash new bike lights, phones, GPSrs, liquid sustanance in the form of coke and most importanly a steely resolve. TG grabbed me in the early evening and the plan was to try out our lights on a MTB track somewhere. We also were wanting to mop up a FF trail and the new block series. We ended up getting a few notifications on the trail and ended up travelling well over 200kms tonight scoring 3 FTFs, trying out our lights and having a blast all around the country side. Great night getting a couple of letterboxes, FTFs, multis and even an archived cache.
We got our bikes out and zoomed off to GZ with the sun setting. Not dark enough for us to use our lights yet. Quick find at GZ and it was nice to knock off another local cache. Lovely bike back and the sun was setting, it was spectacular. When we got back to the truck I noticed two new caches were published. Plans were hatched...

Cache 3 of 29 found tonight.

Thanks for the cache.
#3037

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Nice easy find on a river bike ride with GHIJKGardner and Weedleboy123 before the 2nd swim of the day. TFTC!

One for the road... or path, to be precise. TFTC

Strolled in from "Happy Day Out". TFTC

An early morning walk soon had the blood pumping. A quick find once we were there. Thanks connorc204

Nice stroll, coords spot on. Tftc

Today was road trip Swananoa, Cust, Oxford and then Ashley Gorge. Who else would I go with but BBear44? Thanks for hiding your caches along this area. I [:X] caching in country areas seeing the sheep and lambs, ducks and ducklings and curious cows. It was a great day out. I found so many caches I decided cutting and pasting is easier and it is still better than tftc.

We decided to walk up from the nearby cache, we took the not so easy way along the river bed which is bone dry, but it was a nice day and we enjoyed it, we did take the easy way back. Cheers.

I managed to drive right to this cache, But with no where to turn around it was a long trip back in reverse lol.. TFTC.Cheers Bo

After such grotty weather it was hard to believe a fine, sunny, windless day would greet us. Out for a ride enjoying good weather again. Never been along this stopbank before but have been to both ends at different times. Thanks for placing the cache here and giving me another reason to get out and ride.

Eventually sorted out how to access the start of the walk. Quiet here today.

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Found this one with La Vista

Found with Sevren tftc

Went to the bridge first but muggles there meant we came for a walk to this one. A nice break and leg stretch from all the Park and Grabs we had done so far that day. A short search and Chelzea found the cache. TFTC

Nice wander up the river to a quick find. TFTC.

A lovely sunny Saturday, and free to do whatever. Road trip to Oxford in order, havent been here for a while and there are few new ones to find. Knew I put the bike on the back for a reason. A nice quick ride and return. Thanks for the hide.

Out and about at night. Lovely crisp walk in with the gurgling river as a backdrop...wandered in from the Swannanoa Rd end. Scared the bejezus out of myself and a roosting bird who was roosting near to the cache! Nice.
Cheers.

6156. Out on a cache maintenance mission on a sunny warm afternoon at the end of July, around the Eyreton, Oxford, Rangiora area. 193km travelled, over 5 hours spent, 22 caches maintained, 11 caches found. A nice walk and an easy find, even though the GPS lost satellites just after setting out. Counted out the paces and stopped right at GZ. Thanks. Rodney and Iris.

Great spot, thought it would have washed away because of the flooding. : )

TFTC. Out for a pine cone gathering mission and decided that it would be rude not to gather a few caches.
This was a great adventure with a pleasant ride to the cache. The Cust River had more water in it than I have seen before.
Thanks connorc204 for placing this cache.
#3486

Quick find.

Thanks for the cache Connor

We are neighbors to this cache. A fun bike ride to explore and find.

Great spot for a cache and pleasant walk.
Serious money round here....so what is with this guy planting scummy pines and gums. Is that a private air strip over the river?
Thanks conner204 for the enjoyable cache.

#3898 @1650
After sitting down all day, I desperately needed to get out for some fresh air and exercise so chose this cache for my cache of the day. The stop bank was surprisingly busy with dog walkers/runners. It was all clear for a quick find once I arrived at GZ. TFTC.

Nice wee walk, good to get out and about as we both feeling sickly tftc

Quick find after a pleasant walk to GZ. Tftc