Lolly Scramble: Time to Take Off Again(Canterbury) Eyrewell Forest, South Island, New Zealand
By M&Ms on 23-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5BFMA

On another mission for caches today, this time with ThatDarnBear as driver and UnicornLex to make sure I don't collect too much random stuff along the way Tftc

Thanks. Neat container

Ezay cash

I found it first, lol. Flying low.

Good spotting Sally low flying plane

Oh, that was certainly a great little catch. Thanks for the fun!

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.

Container replaced. Ready to fly on.

Extraction was a slight issue. All good now.

Took a bit to get at but was all good TFTC

TFTC nice cache but needs new log

Sneaky!!

Didnt realise that there was a wire rod

With a bit of fishing, and some electricity its not too dodgy. Previous record book full of water.

Flying very low... might need a TOT to access... will bring one out to put on correct flight path again.

In the area for work so was able to stop and grab this along the way, good to get another lolly scramble cache!

TFTC MacPacFamily, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 4 today, making this find #4124

Quick stop for this one along the way. Tftc

A nice quick find with ZEALOG cache all good

15:37
Ah yes, JetPlanes!
I actually know and have had these! They seem to be one of those staple sweets here in NZ

Kia ora! Paldies!
Thanks for the cache, M&Ms!
#9659

Out hunting for HFP caches. This cache was a bit of a mission to extract as it had gotten detached. Had a tool in the car which helped, and I returned the repaired and signed cache.

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Found after a quick search here, obviously an old cache container here too, but empty! Signed the log and off again TFTC

Stopped on our way to a BBQ friends place nearby as I needed a cache to keep up my streak.
Today is day #106 in a row.

This was a random stop along the road- now I feel the need to revisit this road and find all of this series!!!
I'll be back.

Cache and bag are damp and unable to be written on so I added another dry log in a new bag.
TFTC

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. Another favourite lolly type. I recently did a geoart in Dunedin GC9JFCA. I laughed when the description stated that planes were indeed harmed in the making of the cache. Another superbly creative cache container. 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.

Jet planes, another favourite. I 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.
Cache soon located hanging around. TFTC

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Excursion with downsouthinv while Abbyk was at an event.
Green ones are my fave

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 . Yumm


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.

Trying to kill a sweet tooth with ObnoxiousSpaceCat

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.
There were two hidden here, so I signed both

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

Clever

Very cool. Thanks

Found it. Tftc.

Typical. Spend a week down south with the family visiting the outlaws, and ChCh bakes. Get back .. about 40 caches shy of where I want to be for the year, and it rains. I guess I have a jacket... They say you don't have to be mad to Cache, but sometimes it helps. Cheers!

Clever

Headed off to collect the lolly scramble trail on a windy day in spring. I note that the pine trees are covered in pollen which was upsetting my hay fever so I did not collect all the caches in the series. I very much enjoyed the creativity that was put into these hides and all were very much in the theme. TFTC.

Thanks for this cache, M&Ms - another interesting container.
This group of caches will do wonders for some of my more obscure statistics (cache size etc).

Good hint found with judithrichards

Good find

**13,564**
After a slight detour from the lolly scramble series, we are back on course. Jet planes would have to be one of my favourite - we have a big bag in the kitchen draw at home (under the pretense that they are for the Grandkids) hahaha 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

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...

We have another one of those punishing plans to cache until we drop - An early morning start with the hope that we'll finish at a reasonable time... From South Christchurch, we took Highway 1 and crossed the Waimakariri River into Northern Christchurch... We've been lucky to have great weather, and extended daylight hours have given us more time to cache. Unfortunately, the sun must set each day and it's become a race to squeeze in a few more finds. So, at this late afternoon hour, we chose to knock off the the remaining Lolly Scramble hides... Thanks M&Ms and TFTC.

Quick find. TFTC

Hot

Found it

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 but we had to grab a tool from the car to retrieve as it had fallen out of reach. tftc

Clever! TFTC.

Cache log tricky to remove from the container, really need tweezers? TFTC

Cool cache. Tftc

Another cool container!

Out to get our 1000th, this is 990! Tftc

Lolly Scramble: Time to Take Off Again(Canterbury) was transferred from MandMCachers to user MacPacFamily

All ready to fly today.

Sunday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Great fun, out with Baird fmly, for lolly scramble adventure now not in the rain! Nice and quick, thanks

Great day lolly scrambling with C Boyd in the sunshine. Nice quick park and ride. We are enjoying this series. Thanks for all the thought you have put into the caches.

Evening walk with kids and dogs - found by Z much to his relief - his sister had got too many today TFTC

Found by my five year old son. Cool container. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 2160

Walked the length of the airstrip from my friends house before a stroll along the road to pick up these nearby caches. Not sure about the airworthiness of this model. TFTC M&Ms

One of 21 caches located in the Swannanoa – West Eyreton area this afternoon. A dozen or so were part of M & M’s Lolly Scramble series. Thanks for all the effort that’s gone into so many of these.
Found this one reasonably quickly. #2462. TFTC.

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In Christchurch with abcdf4 for zephyr club convention and tagged along to pick up a few caches. A lot of quick easy finds and tons of parks 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

Love it

As part of an eight hour maintenance run along the Lolly Scramble this cache has been checked and logbook replaced.

MacPacDad helping out MacPacMum along the trail today.

Back on this trail again tftc

Nice jetplane! Thanks for the cache. My tweezers were essential. This log hadn't been signed for a quite a while. Didn't see another cache but was only looking for something hanging. #2915

I couldn't find it was by the red and white power pole but could not see

Hanging?

Confusion over this cache as there appears to be two? Or is there?
Found and signed. Tftc

Some confusion.

On Tour with TVRAT
TFTC from Germany
Icehawaii

T4TKäsch
YES, we käsch!
Käsch ON!!

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
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TVRAT

Container was safe and sound but saw the creative material have fallen down the metal tube.

A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. 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 MandMCachers

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

Sorry for the late log, recently retired and have some spare time now for catching up on all the bits of paper I have lying around.
TFTC had a big day caching back on 31st August

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

Out with Pinksouth, signed log PSWZ
TFTC

Out with Wurzel 1947 log signed PSWZ
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.

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.

Well I wasn't expecting that. I was searching and searching and searching I was heading back to the car as I had given up when hmmm that shouldn't be there and sure enough it was the cache. Tftc

#3616. 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). I see there is some confusion in the logs over which cache is the correct one. Unfortunately I can't remember this cache at all now but signed one of them. Replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.

On way back to Christchurch from a family wedding with Tipsy Tui and had fun finding this cache. Our first thought was the cache was not very well placed and very easy to locate. As we were about to leave my four year old grandson found what we believed was the correct cache. Ingenious hide. TFTC and all the others in the series. Have only found a few so wil be back.

We found and signed what we thought was the cache but were perplexed about the cache name and hint not matching what we had found. Then Mr 4 announced that he had found it as we were about to leave. And he had! It was stuck tight but we managed to free it and sign the log. Previous signature was Survey Base so lots of people have found the bogus cache. We left it there but CO may want to check and remove to avoid confusion. Tftc!

Quick find thanks

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.

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

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!!!

#13480. A quick find, and then it was time to take off again. TFTC.