Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Cherries (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By Team_Gaters & TheWanglers on 08-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5CN77

That house wasn't there when the cache was placed- it was an empty paddock!! Cache hides aren't that hard & hint explicit - cache awol. With the new house directly overlooking GZ it seems a bit silly to replace.....lets leave them in peace.
Thanks to all who found. Cheers.

Would suggest the previous logger was onto something - clear clue, obviously not there.

No luck here today... either blind, or those neighbours who are in full view of this cache if they look out the window came to investigate!!

When we did the first caches of this series we decided to grab the rest on our bicycles. Today was a beautiful day and with all caches quick finds the breaks were shorter than expected (and needed by parts of our team). A great loop, thanks for placing them all. TFTC

Super! Tftc

Nice n easy

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 Team Gaters

Moved to the Swannanoa district in June 2015, about time I checked a few GC’s out in the hood. Found it while taking a roundabout drive to Kaiapoi. 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, mmmm cherries TFTH (catching up on logging my finds)

Found

Found thanks

Tftc

Another quick find. Great caches, thanks for the efforts

cruising around north of the Wimak. did some 30+ boxes. nice series here.
easy find. 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!

Dash-no fresh cherries!

Another fun find thanks..

TFTC quick find

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC nice quick find

Quick easy find, thanks

Tftc

Loved this series, thank you! They didn't quite look like cherries now -- I guessed mushrooms!

Tftc

Came out with wee dude on a fruit and vegetables maintenance run.
Straightened out log. New plastic bag. All good.
We. Cherries looking a bit worse for wear - not sure I'd eat them now! Log all good though.

Having having too much ham and turkey needed to get the fruit and vege! And the last one was the cheery on the top of a fun series of finds. Thanks for the effort in creating each container

Found on a trip down here. Enjoying the trail

My twins raced to these twins but in was Crood K who got the cherry on top. 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 and the odd detour such as this one for a healthy change. Nice wee hide and another interesting container. TFTC.

Cool container

Easy find

Great stuff thanks,TFTC

Yum one of my favourite fruits. I picked cherries one year during school holidays, needless to say I didn't make much money. TFTC

#3891

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.

[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!

Hanknstone, Haydn.seek, the Seagnoid and I had a challenge of doing 200 caches in a day. We started at 7:30am and finished around 8:00pm with a total of 200+. Apologies for the copy and pasting of the logs but there were so many we found that it would take so long to write them all up individually! Thank you for the find.

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.

Good to see a healthy option available nearby. TFTC.

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

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

# 920 - 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.
After doing a few more on the nearby lolly trail we decided to head up this way and do some fruit and veggies for a change.

This entry was edited by Rhyssa6 on Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 03:27:25 UTC.

Felt slightly overlooked by nearby neighbours but thankfully far enough away I think. Love this Fruit and wish we still had the tree in the back yard but sadly not to be. Roll on Christmas to get my hands on a few as they are so expensive now.

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. Really enjoyed this series of hides TFTC.

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!!!

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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Cherries are a bit rotten, quick and easy find.

Team Farkis - T4TC

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

#2019 Found with nic-jay while down for MEGA. Decided to head to the end of this road and head North collecting the caches on this stretch. Bumped into team FARKIS as they were leaving this cache and ended up following them right up to pumpkin. It was easy to work out where to stop next 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.

Another break from the lollies to some delicious juicy cherries. Thanks for the hide!

Found with Skaga during the Mega.
We bumped into Farkis here and managed to follow them to each cache along this road - didn't need the GPS for a wee while! Nice quick find.
TFTC

Day 3 in Christchurch and I again teamed up with yorkshirekiwi83 and vamber for another big day of caching. We signed the logs as "VYV" to save time and space on the logs. We made an early start to the day as we knew we would be going for 200 caches. We started with the Lolly Scramble caches (which we had begun the night before) and made our way up to Oxford, before returning to Kaiapoi and working on the Horses 101 series, finding a number of other caches along the way. Apologies for the generic logs, but thank you to all the cache owners for placing these caches!

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Now that I'm home I am going back and logging all the caches I found during the Mega.
Very cute container as are all in this series. As we were leaving Sharkiefan and another cacher from the Melbourne group turned up to search,(bringing with them the infamous trackable hat) . Was nice to be able to put some faces to names.
A nice easy find, TFTC.

Grabbing caches with the DCC at the NZ Mega

Caching with capperz and G H 6 7 1 0 chasing caches and numbers across the Canterbury area. Was a great MEGA weekend and thanks to all the CO's who made it all possible.
T F T C . Logs signed as G C N for our 3 caching initials.

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.

Rest of the horses 101 caches in the morning and some fruits and lollies and some more for breakfast. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

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

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Great, it was Mega event day and found many caches.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Nihth 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!

An expensive fruit but lovely to eat.. TFTC.

One of my favourite fruit. Much prefer the real thing. TFTC

An epic day of caching today, out to achieve 200+ finds in a day while I'm in Christchurch for the Mega event. There was also the lure of a virtual cache down in Peel forest, which isn't really that far from the numbers game along Thompsons track. A great day out and about, revisiting places I haven't been in years, and finding new places along the way. I teamed up with Capperz and Nightowl19 at 0600 in Rolleston, and off we headed in my cache mobile and general all purpose off road land rover. We signed the logs primarily as G C N to save space and time. Sorry about the cut and paste logs, but with over 200 caches to log it's going to take me a while to catch up. Thanks to all the Cache owners for the time taken to place and maintain them, and making it all possible. A nice series this, T F T C

Off to the Mega this weekend and a 2 day pass has been granted for Geocaching purposes. It being a long weekend and all there was definitely a plan to get some caches and keep the numbers ticking along. Finished work at 12.00 and waited for the accompanying nightowl19 to finish her school morning. Pick her up and back home to get changed and a bite to eat before heading down the line. There's an event in Rangiora that we'd like to attend and we need to check into our accommodation. All interspersed with few caches too. Today is the planned 200 plus in a day, to be followed by as many types in a day on Sunday, then back home Sunday arvo. Quite the whistle-stop tour. Weather played fair, we ate take aways all weekend. . . . . . . . . . . shameful parenting, and had a great time. Even got to cache with G H 6 7 1 0 too, bonus. We set off at 0600 and were all done by 2000 so not toooo long a day. A few hundred kms driven by G H and in the comfort of his 4 x 4 too.
To all the COs that placed these caches many thanks for facilitating this epic journey and (normally difficult caching target. In Marlborough I've already done so many so big numbers days are nigh on impossible without having to travel out great distances. Most logs were signed G C N being an acronym of our combined caching names. We replaced around half a dozen which were plainly missing on Thompsons Track which will surely help those who follow us.
Apologies for the cut and past logs and last of all T F T C all . Thanks
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My first full day back in New Zealand and I was out with sharkiefan for a morning of caching before heading over to the mega. It was a beautiful morning with blue skies and a crisp breeze. Just about wrapping up this series before finding more of the Lolly caches. Cheers for the cache!

Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew, (DCC).
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 Team_Gaters

Found as part of the Dunedin Caching Crew (DCC), enjoying the Christchurch NZ Mega.

First full official day of the Mega long weekend we (Dunedin Caching Crew - DCC) hit the road and went for a drive to log as many caches as we could.

Loved the series.

Another great find with Just-Lookin.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of our MEGA trip.

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

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.


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


Cheers and TFTC

Tricky container. Nice find on a great caching day. Thanks.

On a road trip with tmann421 for the Mega weekend in Christchurch.

Really enjoyed visiting the area and collecting some of the local caches.

TFTC and the fun series!

Found with L4TB (the reunion tour). We set off to finish what we started a few years ago. Nearly 2 years has seen an influx of caches in this area. I selected the remaining Lolly Scramble caches and The Fruit and Vege loop specifically for today's task. A few extra ones tossed in along the way. We went from 9am til 3pm and then headed over to the Mega. All caches were good fun and we had a lovely day. Tftc

Big cache day at the mega! Tftc! Awesome container!

Found today during our tour of the area local to the Mega. A glorious NZ afternoon to be out caching. No mucking around here, the Chief had his hands on the prize in no time at all! TFTC

Out caching with the Dunedin Caching Crew (logging under DCC). Thanks for the variety of caches on this trail - most excellent.

#17 of todays power trail!

Reperio at 0935.

Day 2 of my New Zealand caching tour in the lead up to the NZ mega, and the day started out nice and early to finish off the horse series, and find a few others along the way. Another fruit and veg cache in between horses, and once at GZ, the cache was soon located.

Gratias Team Gaters.

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 their wonderful hides.

An end to a very hectic first day of the mega. We had an intended target of 200 caches but we fell a little short. This was the last one of the night as we found bang on midnight!

TFTC!

Down in Christchurch for the mega and with an epic day planned today we were on a FAST mission.

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

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!

This was the last find of our MEGA day- found at 11:59pm. We were aiming to get to 200 today, but ran out of time, and ended up on about 173 finds. Great fun, and luckily a quick team find to finish off with! Thanks!

Continuing on a whirlwind mission to find as many caches in 10 hours, getting a late start at 2pm after the day started with my great birthday surprise of being able to attend the CHCH MEGA 2015.
Really enjoying this series of caches and the camo's being witnessed...
Thanks for taking us on a tour around this area.


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

TFTC.

This was the ninth day of my fifteen day trip to go to the Christchurch Mega. TFTC.

We were trying to get 200 caches in a day, and only started at 1pm. We got 175, this was our last cache at 11:58pm

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

Found at 1931. Found while attending the NZ Mega. Nice easy find with the help of the hint. TFTC.

Easy

Easy

Foundit

awesome great find

TFTC!

Cute

Easy

We love cherries but watch the pips! Tftc

Had had a hard week and needed to unwind so decided to have some lollies and some fruit and vegetables on my way home. Thanks for these great series.

Found with quinella today on our fruit and vege loop - had ours in the back of the geovehicle as it happens Tftc

Spotted straight away, signed and off. Thanks

AS quick find today while in the area . TFTC

Nice and dry n safe

I had some spare time today between work commitments so decided to head out to find a few caches. I hoped to finish my caching day with a dose of 5+ fruit and veg caches. I think I managed that in the end. TFTC, Biggles.