Travelling Tinker - Elastoplast (Canterbury) Loburn, South Island, New Zealand
By TheWanglers and Team_Gaters on 30-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5BYWR

Its missing. I seen the telltale metal used to secure the cache.

Running out of luck today

Trying out a car for my nephew - the dealer at Rangiora said that Loburn was the best place locally for hills; it would have been rude to ignore this cache "on the way"!
Thanks for the cache, TW & TG.

One of 20 caches located today, mostly in the Loburn vicinity and north of there. Another quick find. I was quite happy about that after three successive DNFs, at least two of which I suspect had gone MIA. #4481. TFTC.

Cool thanks

Visiting from Nelson for a few days xaching with Karmzjay. Today was a cruise around Loburn and White Rock.

Nice quick find, starting to recognise the theme now

Found easily...a great hide...i must follow the series TFTC

Easy find!

Easy find

Lots of spiderwebs!

BOJ

Thanks!

Hot assss

Found it

Our last day before we head home so headed out in the car to grab anything we came across. We had 29 finds and 2 dnf's so not too bad a day. Most of our finds were nice and quick and caches need no attention. Anything extra I will detail below. Thanks to all CO's for their caches.

Awesome view

Out and about Canterbury today, hitting the Horse Caches for most the the day then a few more uo the back - Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Cache in good condition. TFTC

Awesome hint

Out doing some caching this morning as the weather is going to turn bad wet and cold nice quick find here cache all good thank you for placing a cache here very close to where we are staying.tftc nice quick find makes the numbers go up faster cache all good

Number 7 of this series for today, log nice and dry; TFTC

Gps off a bit but followed what we learned from other caches

Clever hide found by our group, signed as Girl Power, This is Busy Paws, Coconuts3, Jude_E and lytteltonwitch. Really love this series already want to go back for the rest. Thanks

Qef on a day out with 3 others. We had a lot of fun doing this series. Thanks for the cache.

Another good find on the 4 ladie's day out, log signed girl power, What would we do without elastoplast?? TFTH

Cache was a quick find by Girl Power team of Busy Paws, Coconuts3, Jude_E and lytteltonwitch. A great wee series and we had fun finding them.

In the area attending a pathfinder camporee. Tftc

Easy find

Thanks

TFTC

Quick easy find TFTC

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are exploring around the Ashley River this weekend. Left Zara in Sefton and headed out in Toby. We have located the elusive turtle, but lets see what else we can find today.
Tinker - Whats a Tinker - The Seagnoid asks. Great to see you gave us the answer on your cache page. Found this one on the ground - tagged and tucked back away. Cheers

Taybeedragon, Toby, Zara and I came down this way to search the nursery for the world turtle having heard it was in this vacinity. We found it yesterday, and now are just wandering around, collecting all the rest of the cache between the Kowai and Ashley rivers.

Quitte enjoying these tins. It was for the memories of one or two, but now it is for trying to make out what they were, as they are not really suited for being left out in the weather.

Camping at Mt Thomas DOC camping ground for Easter. Out & about the region for a drive & picnic and of course a spot of cache hunting. Thanks to the cache owners for placing the caches.

Thanks for the hide. Out on some Sunday caching.

My original plan involved caching somewhere else for the weekend, but winds interfered, and gave me an opportunity to cache closer to home. So out I went for a few hours of caching, and had great fun. I ended up with small rocks, dirt, and vegetation everywhere on myself and the car Definitely worth the fun! TFTC!!!
I needed the Elastoplast at the previous cache lol!

Nice quick find on a day out. TFTC

Easy find but busy corner

Over from the UK for a few weeks and staying near this cache in North Loburn. Not only our first find in NZ on this visit but also our first find of 2017. Here's hoping for a super caching year for all lovers of this pastime. TFTC.

Out and about after dinner, grabbing a couple of caches, targetting this series. Thanks for the series and the effort it went into setting it up, I really liked the variety of containers, with a couple of DNFs I shall return to grab.

TFTC TheWanglers, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 23 finds of 32 today, making this find #1426

Was out with Survey Base to make a few finds to help reach my caching goal by the end of the year. No problems locating the cache today. Thanks for the cache.

On an evening raid with 2wombles love this series and especially the containers. Quick easy find then on to the next. Thanks for the effort that has gone into this series.

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My first day of not needing to go to work!! - Though a Saturday means no work anyways, but given that I only had 4 finds on the calendar, and I am now free to get started on my massive to do list, it's time to grab a few!!

Aim was at least 7, but I really wanted to clear out the little patch I still had within this area, so set my eyes on completing that before lunch.

Ended up getting 12!! And pretty much all 12 I had wanted without the rain starting up again, and without getting too blown away by the wind either!!

Consec caching day # 1392

TFTC!!

A lovely day for a drive to North Canterbury with Karma Reprint and Lorok, picking up a few tinkers we'd missed from previous trips up here. Cheers

Had a great day full of geocaching with Kiwi Moose and karma reprint. On this sunny day we went around Rangiora for visiting an event and plenty of caches.
Thanks to the CO's for the hides and thanks to Kiwi Moose and karma reprint for taking me on this trip full of fun.

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No 6 for day. Thanks. Coolish day but nice views

Cold out here

#12302. We'd done enough of the series to know the likely type of hide. TFTC.

Another gorgeous autumn day just asking for a caching expedition so we headed north of the Ashley to turn some green icons into smiles, travelling as far north as White Rock. It's been a while since we were last in the area and I'm pretty sure I've not been to White Rock before so had an enjoyable time exploring these North Canterbury roads. Thanks to the COs for their cache placements.
What a pleasant spot, with the view to the hills and the autumn colours on the trees. TFTC.

After several days in Chch and surrounds we headed home today but of course made time to find some caches on the way. As well as caching around Ashley and Loburn we returned to the Greta Valley to finish what we didn't have time for on our way south.By the time we reached home last night our count for the day was 53, tired but satisfied with our efforts for the week.The logs were signed HZ+HM, H+H, or on some case with our full names.
Thank you to all CO's whose caches we found this week.

After caching managed to hold us up for two days we're heading for home. Not without picking up caches on the way and not so on the way though. And a detour via Greta Valley to take care of some unfinished business from a few days ago on the way down. The landscape is a lot more pleasant here than both the dry and irrigated land further South. A good variety of caches were found. Nice after doing some series on days previous. Our final tally for this multi day raid was 380+. The Travelling Tinker series was fun, a bit different with the appropriate containers to the series name and it brought back memories to boot. Thank you TheWanglers

Another first aid find - thank you.

It was rainyish at home but I still wanted to go find some caches. So I drove out to Cust. No sign of rain there. Onwards to country roads. Still no rain. Yay
Back to sealed roads. Time for some tinkering. Hopefully I will finish finding this series today.

A quick easy find as we travelled down memory lane. A favourite from us. TFTC

8 year old head height

Found

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC

Tftc second today as we continue this series

Catching up on a few we missed when we first did this series.

Easy find TFTC

Cool cache

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 TheWanglers

In town for a “Mega” weekend of caching. I joined up with Yeetrees and gonefishing to form 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.

Monday. Day Four, Area 4. Today we ventured north up towards Amberley. A change of scene from the long straight roads on the plains that we had experienced in the previous days. We then headed back to Pegasus and Rangiora to round out the day with a bit of urban caching.

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

Cheers and TFTC

Continuing on our Mega trip with tmann421 and enjoying the variety of caches in the area.

TFTC and the series

Enjoyed the series of fun caches. SL TFTC

Like the cache container -you don't see many like them nowadays. Apologies for being so late logging this. Found during the Mega weekend. TFTC

I remember these old containers. TFTC

Easy find

Nice, thanks for all the effort

Tftc

TFTC!

Quick find.

On the way back from the top of Okuku Pass, picking up everything as I go, and exploring an area I haven't had much to do with until now. TFTC (2236)

Planned a whirl wind trip to Canterbury this weekend to get some numbers and collect some puzzles - what a fantastic weekend for it, the weather was brisk but clear and sunny.

I think this is the first time we have come across this Travelling Tinker series - loved the containers, must have taken you a while to collect, throughly enjoyed all these finds and a +1 fav point for the series, although we have some more to collect one day I think.

TFTC
# 4,259

tfgc

A few caches before we leave New Zealand after four weeks of traveling. This was number 10. Finally a tinker that hasn't disappeared!

TFTC from the Netherlands

Having an Easter "it's all about the numbers" weekend. Day 4.
Called by for a quick park and grab.
TFTC

Down this way for a spot of work and Rep training through the Southern Regions and Christchurch so this is an opportunity to grab a few caches that i otherwise would not get to. And as i'm working on a MGSc Challenge numbers are quite important.
After rushing off of the plane and getting a car it was straight off caching up a storm. This the one of many hopefully tonight as i want to have completed the requirements for the challenge before heading to the OZ Mega

THanks for the placement

TFTC

Great Tin

Making our way to CHCH, took the scenic route to this trail. Very nicely placed and was a pleasure to do, many thanks

TFTC

I apologize for the EXTREMELY late log. 5th and last day of our End of Year caching trip. Last night we stayed at furpurse's house in ChCh and today we are heading home via the Travelling Tinkers powertrail. Most were quick easy P&G's as they were seen from the cache as we pulled up but some were lying on the ground so we put them back where the had come from. Thanks for the powertrail

Had a yummy Christmas lunch then thought we would go off and find some caches. 36 caches later and 3.5 hours gone we are back home

Lovely day for a drive

Merry Christmas!

took tb

Quick find on a great day out. TFTH

Another great container on the tinker trail today. TFTC

Great little series, had a lot of fun with these. TFTC

Oh there were 3 brands of plaster! I think I've got that sorted now. TFTC.

A very old tin here - quite different from today. TFTC #6316

A nice series to spend the day on!

A day spent around the Oxford and Rangiora areas. Nice and sunny, with a bit of a cool wind.

Thank you very much for the hide.

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Great series tftc

Hadn't had a decent caching mission in ages so off I went on a windy Sunday. My grandfather used to have an extensive selection of these containers and I remember being fascinated by these when I was a nipper. TFTC and the series!!!!

A quick find thanks

stop, grab, off we go again. tftc

6418. Out on a travelling tinker mission this afternoon. Aim was to do all 33 plus a few others, as well as checking a couple of our own. This was cache number 11 of 37 finds. Retrieved the container easily. Great hide! It was a lovely day to be out on the trail. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

TFTC. Out for a days caching adventure with purdiepurdie so we decided to sign the log TeamFP. We started the day off with a little healthy Fruit and Veggies and then finished off with a nice piece of Tinkering around.
The series was great, with nice old containers which were well placed.
Thanks TheWanglers for making this fun trail.