Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Lime (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By Team_Gaters & TheWanglers on 11-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5AR2P

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)....

Speedy find. Tftc

Zesty

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

Found it, Waitangi Day cruising

My Monday evening "Stitch & Bitch" embroidery group "meeting" was nearby at Silverstream so I came out early to find a few caches.
Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, TG + TW. Great container !

Busy road, even on a Sunday afternoon

A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. TFTC

Tftc

Arrived into the S.I today. Our 1st stop was to pick up our Juicy van & then hit the road towards the westcoast.
We chose the area of the lolly scramble to take us towards our destination. We stopped where we found it suitable with a car we were not used to.
We found such a variety of containers along this route, a nice war to start our trip.
It's so lovely & green & not having to worry about snakes sure is a big plus.
Thanks for placing this cache Team_Gaters

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

enjoying finding something different - delightful set of caches.
TFTC - Quickly found while up here today with some spare time before I catch up with 2 grand children
TFTC and maintaining these caches. Great to be able to come up here and grab a couple of caches. Really enjoyed this series. What fun - and it would be a great trail for the grandkids to join me on.

I am amazed at how such bright containers that are so easy to find have not been ruined by people who don't get what we do. 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 might 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

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!!

Very creative series and cashe. Prickles weren't too nice tho!

Out with Pinksouth, signed log PSWZ
TFTC

Out with Wurzel 1947 log signed PSWZ
TFTC

Found on a bike ride along the Eyre road on a cold day in winter. Gosh there's lots of traffic. Had cycling gloves on so prickes not such an issue. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

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. - cache 42 found today

Found it and maybe you shall pull out the prickles!

Nice quick find here and a great cache again. I am really liking the diversity in the type of containers used tftc

#3600. 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). A change from the sugar laden treats to something a bit more sour. Quickly found but had to be careful to avoid the prickles. Signed the log 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.
Long trip, but surprisingly we arrived there very tired, almost two days and two nights without sleep, but it took just 24 hours we got used to the new day.
Having Been to Akaroa and Kaukoura, and trail AHHH FRESH, today we decide to make a part of the trail from Kaiapoi to Oxford, we will find many cache, not the other will find, before we left we had decided to devote no more than three minutes for each cache, if it was not passed over it, some need maintenance, beautiful landscape and few cars on the course.
Thank you for suggesting this trail
Greetings from Italy
TFTC
Eccoci finalmente in niuziland e dai e dai ci siamo veramente, appena arrivati capiamo che sarà dura, cena di qua invito di la, andiamo a vedere questo e quest'altro.
Dopo essere stati ad Akaroa e Kaukoura e terminato il trial di mistery AHHH FRESH, oggi decidiamo di fare una parte del trail da Kaiapoi a Oxford, troveremo tante cache ,altre non le troveremo, prima di partire avevamo deciso di dedicare non più di tre minuti per ogni cache, se non si trovava si passava oltre, alcune hanno bisogno di manutenzione, bello il paesaggio e poche auto sul percorso.
Grazie per avere proposto questo trail
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

Found quickly . Tried to pretend I was looking at some advertising signage as some curious moterists passed. Tftc sl

Cute wee lime easy find on a beautiful sunny day

Found without a scratch. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Team_Gaters & TheWanglers. Find # 3335

TFTC

Nice quick find. TFTC.

Found tftc

Woohoo

After the CITO event at Woodend Beach, we took the scenic route back to Christchurch to find a cache or three .
The last Fruit and Vege of the afternoon as we head back towards Christchurch. A bit gorsey at GZ, so pleased that the cache didn't take too long to find. TFTC.

#13076. Last of the F&V loop for day. Thanks for the series.

Tftc

Managed to squeeze in some more veg between lollies tftc

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!

Back on the trail again after getting side track with Lolly scramble .This is a great trail too I enjoy doing these with all the great containers, A quick easy find on to the next one. Tftc Team-Gaters .

Nice easy find to complete the series. Great series, love the containers. TFTC

#4782

Found it

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 MandMCachers

I drive past this spot every time I come and go from my house, it’s on the corner of my street. Moved here in June 2015, about time I check this one out. Found it while taking the dog for a walk. 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, quick easy find, TFTH

Another find on the vege loop thanks!

Tftc

Nailed it! 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!

what a long (straight) road that is. followed the one or other series... nice caches. All easy to find and spot on. very creative and themed containers. loving it. thanks from Austria

Tftc. An easy find.

Found..

Tftc

Loved this series, thank you!

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

Found of th 01 01 16

Found on a trip down here. Enjoying the trail

Wending our way home after Christmas in Hanmer Springs with most of the family so thought we'd take a slight detour and try and collect the rest of the LS series. Didn't do too badly by the end and with a few fruit and veg to keep it healthy. And Heafudd M says it's *!%# gorse not just prickles. TFTC

Found this while doing the lolly scramble series. Will return for more in this series soon TFTC!

Lime time and a nice easy find. Tftc.

Sorry about the generic logging but I have many to log from the mega in Kaiapoi.
I had a wonderful time at the Mega with my Mum and Nanna, I couldn’t have imagined it any better myself!
TFTC!

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).

A bike race meant I had to miss some of the fruit and vege loop due to a heavy muggle presence in some areas, although I was able to grab this one without any issues.

Gorse everywhere

Easy find

This was a quick find but I managed to miss the 7 previous caches. Was going to do these on my way home but I was too tired.

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.

Out for some Mega caching with Kyzabra, Jinta29, Gunnie69 and Ghostgums.Saw some beautiful countryside today and had a blast caching. Thank you %owner for placing and maintaining this cache.

Kyzabra and I headed over for the Christchurch Mega from Perth, WA. Today we were joined by The Green Geckos today and we targeted some of the larger series around this area.

We had a fantastic time caching in the cooler climate and with no fear of snakes or other nasties! Christchurch is my old home town but I did not know about caching when I lived there so it was fun exploring the City with a different objective.

We were glad to grab the smiley on this one and we replaced the container as found. Thanks Team_Gaters for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

This is my find #4353 and find #11 today.

A caching expedition that has been months in the planning. Jinta29 and I headed over from Perth, and today we met up with the GreenGeckos again for a final day assault on NZ caches.
We have had a ball over here. Personally my first trip to NZ. The cache owners have been great and Ive enjoyed meeting people aling the way.
i apologise in advance for the generic log.

Team_Gaters - Kyzabra found your cache Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Lime (Canterbury) on 28/10/2015, 6:57 AM. This is my find #4254 and find #10 today. The cache is in good shape and we replaced it as found. Thanks for placing this and bringing us to this spot!

[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!

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.

Lime and coconut, or with passionfruit. A favourite vege. TFTC.

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

Many thanks for placing this here

Nzmega slowing finishing with nabbing a few caches then off to home again.signed the log. Thanks for bringing me here to this place, TFTC Team_Gaters & TheWanglers, from TeamMcI, 26 October 2015 10:21, cache number #1019!

Mmm a sunny day today is perfect day for a lime in a corona and a lime and lemonade for cachlets!

Quick stop by with muggles across the road

Found with Riser5 and Team MCI.

Was planning on doing this series today but didn't get to far as there were things to do at home - loving the containers you guys are using to keep in theme.

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.

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.

On a Mega weekend caching around Christchurch area. Lots of fun and nice places with good caches. Thanks for the cache!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

One of us is rather fond of a long gin and tonic with a splash of lime - obviously a healthy addition. Carefully retrieved the cache this afternoon. Thanks.

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

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!!!

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Wonderful time and we had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Tenth 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!

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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Nice and quick!

Team Farkis - T4TC

TFTC

Found with busy paws and Geo Jessie. TFTC

Down here at the Mega with Firewoof having a fantastic time. TFTC.

Actual lime #nzmega2015

Here at the mega with rowenad and flipnz. Having a great weekend with lots and lots of walking.

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

Found on the Mega week end. Great themed cache. TFTC

911 - 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.
We ran out of time to attend the CITO this afternoon so instead we're making a start on the lolly trail. Really enjoying the names and the various containers.

This one's a ring-in! Tricked into finding a fruit with iur lollies!

Mega find

Really fun series of caches to do at night with CO Hilton and FlipNZ

In town for the Mega event and of course one does as many caches as one can . The was one of the quality caches that we completed with Adventure Collectors. We had an awesome time , met many amazing cachers. TFTC

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

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.

Great to move on from the suger-laden power trail to a more healthier altenative. Thanks for the hide!