Travelling Tinker - Kauri (Canterbury) Loburn, South Island, New Zealand
By TheWanglers and Team_Gaters on 31-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5C0PJ

Gone

Well not sure if this is a needs maintenance or possibly an early warning for a needs archiving... hopefully not the latter!!

Unfortunately I couldn't find the cache.... OR THE SIGN it seems the sign has been removed fairly recently. Had a quick look around the grass but I was starting to get hungry and wanted to grab a few more before I head home for something to eat. One bonus is the posts are still in position, so hopefully it's just a case of waiting for the sign the be reinstalled.

Was out with Survey Base to make a few finds to help reach out caching goals 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.

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.

Found 5th for day. Thanks.

Didnt find a white rock. Signs all pointed to one thing

#12304. Hadn't heard of this product before. 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.
We didn't see much traffic on this section of road, but a van passed us here. 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

Gave up smoking many years ago.

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. I had to drive passed this one on the way up as a muggle was parked right by it. Thankfully they left as now I have found all the remaining Tinker series that hasn't been archived. Now to head home.

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

Found

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC

Tftc fourth today as we continue this series

I remember a few of these in the shed growing up - full of odd screws, bolts & nuts.

Beautiful sunny day out today for hunting TFTC

Found it

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

Another great find with Just-Lookin on a fun drive around.

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

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

Apologies for being so late logging this. Found during the Mega weekend. TFTC

Recalled such tins once I saw the cache. TFTC

traveling and tinkering

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 (2234)

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
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tfgc #100!

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Today was one of 13 remaining days when I needed to find at least 2 caches on the day, in order to be able to fill in my calendar 4 times over by early Nov.

So with quite a few caches out this way, decided to find a few here, and maybe assisst myself in getting closer to the 5 times over too!

As with the rest of the series, this was a quick and easy find

Consec caching day #948

TFTC!!

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A few caches before we leave New Zealand after four weeks of traveling. This was number 12. Good that there are still some caches left on this nice trail!

TFTC from the Netherlands

Having an Easter "it's all about the numbers" weekend. Day 4.
Called by for a quick park and grab.
Enjoying the series.
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. T

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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. I remember Grandad used to have one of these. 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!

Quick find on a great day out. TFTH

Another great container on the tinker trail today. Still have one of these tins in my old meccano set. TFTC

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

That's right. These tins were rather familiar too.

There were several of these in Dad's shed each containing a particular labelled item. Found the lonely magnetic strip. Found the tin quite quickly a short distance away due to it's glint from the sun. TFTC #6319

A nice trail 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!!!!

Soon had cache in hand.

Used to keep stamps in these! tftc

6421. 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 14 of 37 finds. Took the Canadian geocoin. 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.

TFTC. Out for a days caching adventure with flobberworm! 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.
I enjoyed the use of these olden day containers and found all of the placements to be great and accessable.
Thanks TheWangler for placing this cache and the entire series.
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Labour day and a drab looking one at that, what better way to spend it than out caching with buddies. Madcat9, JustmeG and I will join forces to become MadBearMeg for the day. Great series, we really enjoyed collecting them all (so far) Sure can have a fav point for the series from me, alot of effort has gone onto placing these and some great scenery and lots of baby animals where to be seen all along the way. A really awesome way to spend a dismal looking day. Thanks so much for all the caches

Another in this series found with Bbear44 & JustMeg and signed as Mad Bear Meg. This one we could almost reach from the window of the car. TFTC

Out on the trail of a "travelling Tinker" today with BBear and MadCat9 and what a great day's outing even if the weather didn't play ball with us. At least we had the comfort of a nice dry car, unlike the early travelling tinkers who had their horses and carts. Recycling is always good so it was nice to see the containers here being used. Made us wonder what the next one might be. We also enjoyed the scenery and during our drive spotted [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer_goat"]boer goats[/url], [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_cattle"]highland cattle[/url], deer, black sheep, white sheep, beef cattle, horses, cats, peacocks, ducks and a wide variety of birds. Fantastic day! I even got to try my first "dew" from a [url="http://www.southernbeech.com/honeydew-honey.html"]honeydew beech tree[/url]. Epic!
When I think of Kauri I think of trees or of the Chinese who dug for kauri gum, so it was interesting to see this one was about tobacco!

And another

TFTC.

Mrs Sharpe dropped Hubby off here and he quickly found it while she drove off to get the next one. He ran to meet her there.

#16 for the day, TFTC

A lovely, sunny Saturday morning to collect the Travelling Tinker series. 24 caches in one day is my all-time record. I love the containers and have a small collection of my own. Bugzptr, cfahey1 and I had a great morning out. Thank you.

It looked a nice day for a cyclocache ride so I decided to go for a 40km ride to seek and sign off all of the currently published series of Travelling Tinker caches in the Loburn and North Loburn area. Smoothhound also rode along to sign off those he hadn't visited. This was my number 10 of 24 .Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

Quick find tftc

Enjoying the series, visiting CHCH and had just arrived a bit earlier than anticipated so a quick run was made to find as many of these ones as possible.

TFTC

Found with Sevren tftc

Had done the fruit and Vege loop in the morning but still plenty of time left in the day so headed up to do this Traveling Tinker series. Was not sure what to expect with hides and containers. Soon discovered the types of both which made the series very quick for the most part. Loved the containers. Has someone cleaned out there fathers garage or been to an auction recently? I must admit being on the short side so some were a bit tricky with several having to park the car closer so we could replace using the car as part ladder. The weather was slowly getting worse with occasional drizzle which was lucky as at one GZ some muggles were clearing brush on the way up but gone on the way back probably due to the rain. Not too much traffic today but more than I would have expected. Managed to grab all that have been placed so far. Great series so far and I expect more to come?

TFTC onwards on this series that has brought me further down this road then I have been before

The language on these tins is so dramatic and such nonsense. Thanks.

#4084 @1455
My first weekend home for a while. An opportunity to catch up on chores around home. Then it was off to find some caches. This series seemed perfect for an afternoon's drive. A quick find here. TFTC.

Tftc

Quick find and not a single muggle visible unlike the one shortly along the road. The ground in rain would be a challenge ... TFTC Enjoying series and making me turn a few cranks getting about on MTB.

The tree?

Still Raining,but quickly found and as usual,had to wait until a Car had passed by,to retrieve and put back.Another neat Container.LTB.THTH

These tins were very useful for storing bits and pieces in the garage. What a lot of tobacco our fathers smoked. TFTC

3rd in the series that I set off after today. With some success. Loving that caching brings me days like this.

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