Pants on fire! (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By 2wombles on 28-Mar-15. Waypoint GC5CNPX

A plan was hatched quite a while ago when the Dunedin Giga event was announced to come over to the South Island again.I have only been to New Zealand about 1000 times before and I loved the South Island.So a chance to come back for a Giga event was a no brainer for me.So I dragged out my trusty kayak packed my swag and then launched it from station pier in Melbourne.A battle of the high sea endured and so after a battle with Moby Dick, a meeting with King Neptune, then being rescued by a couple of mermaids and then a friendly tow from Jaws I made it to the most southerly tip of NZ.So now how to get to Dunedin so after a chance meeting with the Flintstones, then The Thunderbirds then finally Dr Who and they all helped me in their own special way to make it to Dunedin for the Giga event.I then had to make it back to Christchurch so Mr Spook could teleport me back home after the event.The largest cache that I have ever seen was soon located after having to free climb the tree which was guarded by a ferocious group of Keas.Now for the very boring part of this log.So Day 15 of my Mega NZ starts and I have made it back to Christchurch where this trip began 2 weeks ago.I have throughly enjoyed my time on the South Island and will miss the place.Im doing an outer loop of the city as I had a list of caches that I wanted to find before leaving.A fav goes out to you for this great cache.Thanks 2wombles TFTC.

The Nifty Swifty is my geo mobile and does get driven over a variety of terrains to get to caches. But this time it resisted all carrots behind swung in front of its nose (usual things: motion lotion, showers). So, hire we did. I let Itchyfeet2020 and taybee nz fight out who was going to be the driver. Off we set in a cloud of dust with photos being taken in the mirror of the dust cloud we were making. Our TOTT for the mega also came in handy along the journey -especially the air bed which we used to surf from one rapid wave top to the next. Nifty would have enjoyed that! Finally we arrived at GZ only to find there had been cache creep and we had to lash the telescopic ladders together so we could bridge the gap. Then one of us crawled out carrying the fishing poles with one of the red band gumboots attached. It was carefully lowered, manoeuvred into place and soon the cache was reeled in for us to sign the log.And so 7 days after returning home from a five month trip to the UK and Europe, I am off on another trip. This time its within New Zealand as Itchyfeet2020 and I are on our mega road trip to Dunedin. We are focussing on particular caches for various challenges, as well as having a great lot of fun and seeing the scenery in our wonderful land. -LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!!On May 3rd, 2025, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in Rotorua, New Zealand with a special Block Party event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the "[GCAKR25](https://coord.info/GCAKR25) 25 Years of Geocaching NZ! event page, the [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz/?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your "Will Attend" log onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.-

NZ_B and I are on a road trip to the Geo Toroa Mega and back. I'm also aiming for a multi every day, so it is now titled the "Mega Multi Road Trip." Today is Day 14 from Christchurch to Blenheim. This is one we found on our journey today. Well, where to start with the adventures that occurred to get to this logbook! We had been pre warned and hired an all terrain vehicle for the job. NZ_B, taybee nz and I all fought a duel to determine the driver of the impressive vehicle. Then we were off (who won the duel? well, you had to be there for that). The vehicle came with supplies for the formidable desert and the tropical jungle, which was lucky as we only had the standard TOTT when attending a Mega as the transport vehicle ie 2 Ladders, 5 sets of gumboots, 4 fishing poles, 1 sleeping bag etc. Having conquered the environment, there was only the raging rapids to go - where was the raft? Here, it is under the kitchen sink in the back of the Swifty. A hard fought journey, but one that gives great pride in achievement and the signing of the log today. Thank you 2wombles for such a worthy opponent. A FAV for sure.

All good! TFTC

A last minute decision to visit New Zealand for the Mega before we headed off to the UK. A quick find at GZ. With the cache in hand we signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache 2wombles.The following TBs came through for the mileage: Bob geoMinion, Dave geoMinion, Evil geoMinion, Jerry geoMinion, Larry geoMinion, Mary Hyde's Treasure, Stuart geoMinion, teamMerlin's 7 Deadly Ducks Tag (Lust), Vanlith The Youngling, Hidden Creatures Geocoin TB, teamMerlin's Football, LA Monkey

The deceit is masterful a Favourite point awarded for a epic cache that tested all my resources All good at the cache cheers

OMG the ants, the lantana. The road works so many obstacles in the way of getting this. After trekking for days we finally made it. Sun beating down, no water and finally success.Finally back in NZ and this time for a Mega. Starting in Christchurch before heading south. Lots to see and do with Kittykatch and Grimraider. Will be joining with others as the days go on.Thanks for getting me out and about 2wombles

Dunedin MegaThank goodness we brought all our TOTTS on the plane! A quick find once we got ourselves sorted. GrimRaider, Joolay and I are in NZ for the Dunedin mega event. It is great to be back to see more of this beautiful country. Thanks for hiding this cache 2wombles

My biggest challenge was navigating to GZ. I could have made life easier off of out the parking coordinates onto Google first up. I finally arrived, skirted around some earth works, smelt smoke and made a quick find. TFTC

I found it! I have to edit this log because you may think my name is not in the log book, but it is. ??

I was sent on a mission to rescue an Australian Geo cacher who shall remain unnamed from the perils of this cache...I came equipped with all I could carry with my 20kg luggage restriction...I brought backup in the form of Snips and Co. Reconnaissance was done and we cautiously approached GZ.circumnavigating the waters....a plan was made and executed...the cache retrieved and signed.... unfortunately there was no help we could provide for the Aussie we left him to the perils of this cache and his own demise.

Decided to walk to this one now parking is hard to get. Over 10 kilometres one way to get here now and had to wade up the stream to get by the construction. Once we got it GZ we had to dive down into the creek to recover the cache.All in good condition TFTC and the adventure

I've been trying to collect all the attributes, and although I have found a UV light cache before, and used to have the attribute, I now don't have it anymore somehow. So I decided to set off to find this one. Seeing as it clearly needed to be reached by magical means, I intended to ask my unicorn for help getting there, but unfortunately that didn't work out, so instead I relied on my carebear and their cloud mobile. On arriving at the cache I realised I had forgotton my UV light, so my care bear had to shine his belly badge at the cache for me to be able to locate it. With his help I quickly had the cache in hand. Thanks!

Thanks

FINALLY found this cache after several attempts (and many broken bones). Thanks (or not) for the cache.

Super hard

Finally found this after my 5th attempt managed to save lots of rubbish from the creek while I was down through there, finally found it after 2 hours make sure to bring gum boots.Amazing find

Great find, It was guarded by a really lovely and cute cat

Trouve ! / Found it ! English version below...Aprs avoir aperu cette cache aux belles cotations, il tait de mon devoir de capitaine du navire de mettre le cap sur ce trsor encore inconnu.L'ordre fut donn l'aube et tout l'quipage retourna son poste, prt toute ventualit. En route pour les mers du Sud.C'est alors que, aprs quelques heures we navigation, une frgate de pirates fut aperu par la vigie ! Brande bas de combat sur le pont, tous les canons furent chargs et les rserves de boulets amenes sur le pont. Mais quelle fut notre surprise quand la frgate fit demi-tour mi chemin. Nous n'avons pas tout de suite compris pourquoi mais c'est en entendant un norme bruit sourd derrire nous que nous avons vu le Kraken qui avait surgit des profondeurs ! Malgr un combat acharn, le Kraken avait frapp fort avec l'une de ces tentacule et le navire sombra dans les profondeurs. Seul une poigne de marins avait pu monter bord d'un canaux et prendre la direction de l'le o nous attendait l'objectif.Laissant une partie des hommes encore prsent sur la plage, avec le canot et ordre de btir un campement pour la nuit, je parti avec trois autres compagnons dans la jungle pour continuer chercher notre objectif. Malheureusement, au dtour d'un chemin, nous nous sommes fait attaqu par un jaguar qui attaqua la gorge un camarade qui s'effondra sur place. Nous avons d'chapp notre agresseur qui prfra manger sa proie plutt que d'en attraper une autre.Arrive une haute falaise, il fallait descendre et nous avons tress des lianes entre elles pour fabriquer une corde et descendre en rappel cette falaise d'une centaine de mtres. C'tait un exercice plutt facile aprs les quelques ennuis prcdents.Et aprs plusieurs heures de marche, travers plusieurs rivires, nous sommes enfin arriv l o la carte nous indiquait la prsence du trsor. Mais rien. Nous avons creus les environs pour vrifier s'il n'tait pas enfouit mais rien. Une heure plus tard, le mousse leva les yeux et aperu l'immense bote dans un arbre majestueux. Il fallait grimper. Et ce n'tait pas simple. La premire branche tait environ quatre mtres. Deux hommes m'ont fait la courte chelle et m'ont propuls dans les airs. J'ai russi saisir la branche et commencer mon ascension des trente mtres qui me sparait de l'objectif, pas sans difficults. Mais enfin, j'ai pu atteindre la bote, ferme par un trs gros cadenas. Install en quilibre sur une branche, j'ai commenc crocheter la serrure pour enfin reussir ouvrir la bote aprs plusieurs dizaine de minutes. Il tait l, maintenant, devant moi, le logbook ! J'y appose mon pseudo de capitaine et repose tout comme c'tait avant de refaire tout le chemin inverse avec mes hommes. Nous devions prsent reconstruire un nouveau bateau pour quitter l'le... Au boulot...Merci 2wombles pour la cache English version below...

English version (by Google Translate, sorry, my English is to bad for this )After seeing this cache with the beautiful quotations, it was my duty as captain of the ship to set sail for this still unknown treasure. The order was given at dawn and the whole crew returned to their post, ready for any eventuality. On the way to the South Seas. It was then that, after a few hours of navigation, a frigate of pirates was seen by the lookout! Brande low combat on the deck, all the guns were loaded and the cannonball reserves brought to the deck. But what was our surprise when the frigate turned halfway around. We didn't immediately understand why, but it was when we heard a huge thud behind us that we saw the Kraken that had arisen from the depths! Despite a fierce fight, the Kraken had hit hard with one of these tentacles and the ship sank into the depths. Only a handful of sailors had been able to board a canal and take the direction of the island where the objective awaited us. Leaving some of the men still present on the beach, with the canoe and order to build a camp for the night, I left with three other companions in the jungle to continue to seek our goal. Unfortunately, at the bend of a path, we were attacked by a jaguar who attacked by the throat a comrade who collapsed on the spot. We escaped our aggressor who preferred to eat his prey than to catch another. Arrived at a high cliff, we had to go down and we braided lianas between them to make a rope and rappel down this cliff of a hundred meters. It was a rather easy exercise after the few previous troubles. And after several hours of walking, crossed several rivers, we finally arrived where the map told us the presence of the treasure. But nothing. We dug the surroundings to check if it was not buried but nothing. An hour later, the moss looked up and saw the huge box in a majestic tree. We had to climb. And it wasn't easy. The first branch was about four meters. Two men made me the short ladder and propelled me into the air. I managed to seize the branch and begin my ascent of thirty meters which separated me from the objective, not without difficulties. But finally, I was able to reach the box, closed by a very large padlock. Installed in balance on a branch, I started to pick the lock to finally succeed in opening the box after several ten minutes. He was there, now, in front of me, the logbook! I affix my captain's nickname to it and rest just as it was before redoing all the opposite way with my men. We now had to rebuild a new boat to leave the island... at work...Thank you 2wombles for the cache

Ive tried to retrieve this cache several times now but I always forgot my ladder. It was the same today but I was on my way to a field trip with my son and 5 of his classmates so I detoured to the cache and got them to form a human pyramid so I could climb on too and reach the cache. It took us several attempts, one kid got a little hurt when the human tower collapsed the second time but another detour to a&e and they made it to their field trip to study how traffic cones are positioned when roadworks are being carried out. All in all a thrilling day.

I'm in Christchurch for a few days for work so of course I have to get some geocaching in. I came down a day early so I could get a rental car for the day to target some specific caches in the surrounding area.Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC, didn't get to bed last night. On the way the paper bag was on my knee, man what a dreadful flight.All good here and TFTC.Find #6419 at 25 February 2024 12:13 pm

Oh. nearly forgot....a Fav.point for the hide... well constructed cache.Thanks for the adventure.

Once upon a time (showing my age with this start to a story), a younger stik-a-crane started this game geocahing.....and soon got pulled into the rabbit hole of statistics and numbers, one of then being the D/T grid, and an easy application to run showing all the caches needed to complete said D/T grid of finds.....jump forward a few years (10 to be exactly how long we've been caching), and I see a couple of caches down in the Southern Island that fill a couple of gaps on said grid, this being one of them.So the expedition was planned and I started the journey to the Southern Island, the ship (airplane) took me from Auckland to Christchurch in and hour and a half, and I didn't catch scurvy (Covid-19), (that I know of yet), travelling over streams, roads, mountains, and valleys, disembarked to start the 6.7km journey to our dwelling for the next 3 days. This stage took 29mins by horse and cart (Bus #3) which luckily stopped right outside our dwelling.After being fed and watered we headed this way, making the 10km+ journey on horseback (bus#3, #5, and #60) winding through hills, valleys, washouts, mountains, villages, (what this is Christchurch... this place is flat as a pancake).....and then a short walk to GZ due to being a footpath......OH, and a bridge with a troll guarding the crossing....nope I just threw that in for giggles.....Arrived at GZ and nearly took out a cyclist whom didn't know how to use there bell clearly, to alert me of their approach, to make a swift find......And then for the long journey back to the accommodation.TFTC...................................................................THE END ..............................................................................................

Born and raised on North Sentinel Island I had a very sheltered childhood. I didn't know what Geocaching was, until I found out what Geocaching was. A cache just washed up on the shore, a random white bucket, something about GC46 it said. Eh, I threw it out... It looked really old and like lots of people had touched it.Anywho, it was time to leave the island and become a professional Geocacher. I put on my green swimsuit, so that I was colour coordinated with the Geocaching logo, and swam to New Zealand, because that's where I thought the best geocaches might be.What a load of codswallop! I don't know who publishes these caches but they are just junk, and in the most stupid places like next to motorways. This cache is the last one I will ever find. It has ruined Geocaching for me. I think I'll try that new game I heard about instead, something like 'Spoke to Mom Go-go'.(Thanks for the cache, all in good order)

Story ….. wot story ……would have been easy if we didn’t have to dodge in and out of those traffic management cone trucks …. Now they are a story in themselves ….. would have been easier if my pants were on fire !! TFTC

I'd love to spin some great story about finding this cache, but I don't have it in me.
I awoke before sparrow-fart, stepped outside the accommodation and hailed a #7 bus which shortly after delivered me to the Interchange. I swapped to a #60 and after some 20 minutes arrived at a nearby stop. After a twelve minute walk I'm at GZ looking for something that blends in but is out of place.
Shortly after I've signed the log and returned it.
With no bus route along here it's either back from where I've come or a longer walk to get GC93ZAD, which I did. Thanks for this great cache. Reminds me of my 'Trash caches'

Cache 1437 Heading to Christchurch for a geocaching holiday this week where I’m targeting hidden days/months and a few D/T and to sign challenge caches. This cache was a much needed D/T and I couldn’t pass up this opportunity but boy oh boy this cache was a lot more than I bargained for. Let me tell you about my adventure to get the cache. I noticed that this cache was an urban cache so how hard could it be I thought. So I parked up near the park and started making my was to GZ and I was confronted by a giant cave hidden in the flax bushes, I guess I have to go in….. I turn on the light on the back of my phone and squint my eyes, about 10m in was a hole ️ that went straight down with an old rickety rope ladder attached to the side GULP! I’m not great with heights and I couldn’t see the bottom. I stuck the phone in my mouth so I still had light and started my decent down ️ after 5 minutes of straight climbing down I could sort of see the floor in the dim light but as I was looking down my phone slipped out of my mouth and fell to the ground….. I could no longer see light either my phone is stuffed or it landed upside down I made the last few rungs of the ladder and my feet touched solid ground, I groped around on my hands a knees till I found my phone, phew the light still works it was like the bottom of a well. Walls surrounded me and all there was, was the ladder and a small box in the corner. YAY the cache I thought. I opened it up and inside was a UV light and an extendable magnet oh great, I turned the UV light on and turned off my phone light. I shone the UV light around and there must have been 100 marks on the wall and on closer inspection each marked a little hole. I slid the extendable magnet into the first hole and pulled out a nano, wahoo first try! I opened it up and the piece of paper said TRY AGAIN. OMG this is going to take forever….. 1.5hrs later on hole number 83 I finally found the log and got to sign my name what a mission, I put the TOTTs back in the box and made the difficult climb back up. I couldn’t be more happy to see daylight when I reached the top so you have been warned be prepared for a pretty difficult cache don’t underestimate what needs done here! T4TC

TFTC!

Been in training for months for this. Scoped out the location and realized frog fighting was needed, also a pogo stick would be handy. Hard to know how to avoid drawing attention to my mission. The curious gate to nowhere seemed to indicate alchemy.
Selected an overcast day, so there'd be no shadows. Donned my cloak of invisibility (given me by by sister in caching) and made several trips to bring in the right equipment (which wasn't necessary as it turned out)
Employed upmost stealth - even turned off my audiobook.
Opening and closing spells on the curious gate made no difference at all. In the end I simply picked up the hide - seemed the only way really, and it didnt seem to mind. No alchemy here apparently.
TFTC

Wonder what the gate was put there for?? Went on a tekee tour to try and find this. Google is not very useful at times. Drove to the parking weight point and had no trouble wondering to the final from there.
thanks 2wombles for bringing me here.

I planned for many months to attempt this cache. Finally the day came and I shouldered my backpack and set off. I walked from Ashburton to Lake Pukaki, trusting that my GPS was giving me the best route. At Lake Pukaki I took my kayak out of my backpack along with paddles and life jacket and paddled my way to the Mt Cook Village. Packed my kayak and gear back in my backpack. Took out my crampons, climbing gear and ice pick and climbed Mt Cook in the freezing snow dodging glaciers and fearing I was heading for hypothermia, this was an incredibly tough climb, but I made it and could continue to the cache. I waded through freezing cold rivers and climbed smaller mountains until I reached the outskirts of Christchurch, there I faced another perilous part of my journey a massive field of spiny Spaniards, Matagouri and poisonous cacti. This called for a special garment, so I rummaged in my backpack (my backpack is like the Tardis – bigger on the inside!) and bought out a 20mm thick wetsuit, boots, gloves and full head gear. I took a deep breath and walked across the deadly field, inside my wetsuit I was roasting and dripping buckets of sweat within seconds. I got through the field my wetsuit covered in cacti spikes, I removed my suit with difficulty and packed it in the backpack, took a well deserved 5 course gourmet lunch and a bottle of NZ’s finest Sauvignon Blanc out of my pack along with a table, chair and snowy white tablecloth and sat down to enjoy it. Feeling much revived and slightly drunk I continued my walk to the cache, still trusting my GPS had me on course. I was making excellent progress until I came across a herd of stampeding angry elephants being chased by thousands of mice, I suddenly had to become an Olympic sprinter to get out of their way – what a strange sight to see! Finally according to my GPS I was nearly at the cache, so much relief after this extremely arduous journey. After waiting for some muggles to walk past I finally laid my hands on the cache that I wanted to fill in a gap in my D/T chart, signed off and replaced. Such satisfaction!! Now for the return journey ……

Thanks for the cache and the opportunity to let the imagination run a bit wild!!

GZ visible from the road but no easy access. Had to wade about 200m up the creek before finally approaching gz with appropriate gear. Very happy to get cache in hand!

This was one of the few caches with the attribute that was required but how could i get this as on a geo day trip recently i had the misfortune to fall back wards off a fence i was climbing over to retrieve cache that my arm was just too short to stretch and reach the cache ? Lucky I fell back wards and not forwards on to the concrete foot path ! Result - one cracked rib and one broken rib The medical centre was worried i had punctured a rib as i has trouble breathing ! That aside ..... climbing etc was still painful but here i was in Chch and here was a cache that was badly needed ! Ladders ? no how else ! ah Son has helicopter licence ! and he lives in Chch so a bit a very very sweet talking i persuaded him to dangle a friend to retrieve this cache for me , winch back up for me to sign and then down again to replace the cache so it was finally achieved .. Liar liar your pants are certainly really hot ! well parts of this story are true like the ribs being injured from a fall off a fence while geo caching in Gisborne!

thanks for this cache !

Macwatt tried to drive directly to this cache, but the nice lady with the pretty blue and red lights on her car gave us a note and suggested quite firmly that we should move on!! This was hugely problematic as we then had to travel another 2km in our land based time machine. The aliens occupying the buildings close to gz peered at us with much distrust as we disembarked. What was our next challenge? Oh yes, a multitude of trees to climb. Be very wary of climbing trees when the bucket has been chucked at the base. Wait, that was Ashburton. Ok, water - a swim then. In THAT?. Nope. The D/T today was definitely the wind, rain and cold. Or should I just log "easy tftc". Just as well I appreciate how much effort has gone into the incredible construction and imaginative hide. Well done 2wombles.

As I was driving along the Motor way the passenger side air bag and GPS system informed of a cache "right here" was the call as I braked quickly to obey the order thats when it all began there was an horrendous crash and now my vehicle is only half the length it used to be along with that theres a tail of 3 or other cars connected to it not to be put off out I jump to the for- mentioned cache ...sirens were whaling and the crowds gathered....GZ had me on the edge..water edge ooops in I go.. at that moment in time I sucked into the culvert blocking the water flow....as it was quite swift and steady after all the rain ...the plot thickened..water is now nearly above shoulder high along with this one is struggling for breath..

Kids loved this, had to think a little

Almost crashed my spaceship but i got the job done!!!!

After tuesdays pouring rain, we had to wade through the eels to get to the path. Legs were covered in eel slime and pond scum by the time we found and logged this.

Had heard about this box in the bush - Eclipse or so [xx(] via the interstellar communication broadband .
Coming from Planet Melmak - I really hate geocaching excursions to Middle-Earth.
I landed my spaceship close to GZ [^].
Showed up at GZ with all Todds you can ever imagine !
Took my laser pistol (extra Todd!) to devastate all the place and finally destroyed the container. This was fun!
There will be no cats around this place in the near future - ate them all! ...
Yummie! [^]
Anyway - a big thanks to the owners 2wombles [:X] for not hiding and not maintaining this cache [^] - and best regards from Melmak !
P.S.: Add a cat mhhhh - fav for the fun! [^]

We fought through a cyclone, blizzard and all that nature could throw at us to get to this cache. Nearing GZ the fields of flax ripped through our skin as we pushed forward, onward, hacking at it with machetes and fingernails. After three days and two fingernails we found the treasure. What a magnificent feat! Our names added to the log with blood, we returned it all as found and began the long journey back to our chariot. Thanks for the adventure and fun, 2wombles! PS. no blood was really involved.

Day 7654 of the North Island journey for some random that I found in the train station and I. Today we started off in Canberra and like
lightening made our way up to Melbourne. Most boring and uneventful journey I’ve been on for a long while, this place truly needs to work on their views and the lack of sheep sightings was utterly devastating. No thanks to the CO for this truly awfully dreadful cache!

I told my sister that the sole reason I came to CHCH was for her birthday. Getting some caches to fill in my grid plus a few for a challenge was just a coincidence . Thanks

Well...Well...Well...worst...Christmas...ever. The stories of the flax were no lie. They were huge. So huge I wish I had brought my machete with me. But, I hadn't, so started with bare hands, clawing my way in. All was going well until I disturbed the spiders. Those ugly, hairy, hand-sized spiders. I soon worked out they were venomous as my sight faded and I passed out and fell into the water nearby. The swift flow washed me downstream, far away from GZ. It was just like one of those blockbuster movies. Sometime later, days I think, I came to, muddy, cold, hungry and very very thirsty. And on the bank of the stream were a tribe of ancient looking people with a strange look in their eyes. I realised they had seen my GPS and were about to treat me like a God. The return trip to GZ was wonderful as they fought off the spiders to bring me the container and logbook to sign. Which I duely did.

Ugh, what a terrible cache.
I looked for hours, in the snow, and then it jturned out to be just a brown pill bottle chucked under a flax bush...

It's really hard to write this log- I feel so mean, particularly since it's actually such a clever wee hide.
The D/T ratings are an awesome extra bonus

TFTC

It's been a few weeks since my last great Sat morning exped. Weather and work have conspired against me. But no excuses this morning. Nice clever hide to start proceedings. I've got a couple like that one.... Cheers!

First to find! I set out for this one years ago. I’m only just now getting back to cell coverage so I can log it. What an adventure it was! Mountains climbed, valleys crossed, rivers swam but I finally bagged this rare cache. So, what’s new back here in civilization? Anything changed in the last few years?

That explains why Sofia is out of action for repairs (and I am not lying!).They blamed weather damage but now we know better. Perhaps you should amend your log and hope it's not too late or they might send you the bill!

Well, where to I begin.. I was lurking around the airport, checking out the sights and sounds when I was approached by a couple of Americans... They needed a pilot for SOFIA which just so happens to be in town, so I was a natural fit, given I used to play around on Flight Simulator.. We geared up, advised ATC our plans then realised I always auto-started the plans, rather than going through the process...
No drama, I knew a trick... I removed a panel by my knee and pressed the secret auto-start button, taxi'd out onto Runway 20, then hit the accelerator hard... Approximately 50million pounds of boost from the turbos had us up in the air in no time. We flew around, playing with the telescope then I had the bright idea of perving at the cute girls sunbathing at Bondi Beach... Easy with this camera and the lack of a curviture of the Earth.... definitely not something they teach you in Flight School... These will look great on my Instagram page! My parents would be so proud!

20 minutes later, the cockpit was abuzz with warning sounds.... turns out some dumbass forgot to stop by BP and fill up... Not enough to land back in CHCH, I guess we'll have to ditch it into the water or maybe we crash it into Auckland because noone other than Aucklanders give a crap about that place.. Because there's only a few people on board, we had our choice of which parachute we'd like to use.. Strapped up, out the door and we land gently on top of the viewing deck on the Sky Tower... security is a little pissy about it, but hey... these things happen, genuine mistake... the two Americans get caught but I just jump off the top of the viewing deck as one of the security officers make a grab for me. Gotta be quicker than that, my friend, I'm like a ninja... I safely land in Hamilton (Hamilton is South of Auckland, so naturally it's all downhill) and see a few friends who are towing a box trailer... they ask if I want to try out a new kayak on the Waikato River.. I think, 'well I'm here, why not!' They unload it and strapped to the back is a great big jet engine... my eyes moisten from tears of excitement and joy...

After a brief safety chat, filling out the relevant JSAs and Nondisclosure forms, I jump in, start her up and open the throttle wide on a straigh section of the Waikato... very nice. I slowly weave my way up through to Port Waikato, turn Left and start heading South... Once away from the waves, we hit max speed for 4000km/hr and I'm circling around Invercargill and up past the Catlins in about 3 minutes. Very exciting, lots of adrenalin.. have the GPX files to prove it. Nights setting in, so time to wander home I guess! I stopped by here to make a quick find on the way.

TFTC 2wombles, the cache was found in very bad order Didn't bother to sign and threw the log in the water anyway. 62nd find(s) of 1 today, making this find #9802734529834752

Tftc

Short surprise geocaching trip around Christchurch with woolwood9, supposed to be going to Rotorua but got on wrong plane!
We soon had the cache located. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
*Thanks for putting this out for us to visit, we enjoyed the drive / walk around!*

Container was in the open, left it as hint suggested.

Rotorua !!!! I thought the plane was heading for Aussie!!!!

Short trip to Christchurch to find some caches with tmann421.
Enjoyed the challenges of the finds
Signed log tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Awesome cache!!! lovely walk

What an adventure, this is what geocaching is for, right? At least, this is why we geocache... We took advantage of the school holidays to go and grab this one. After carefully reading the description and checking the weather forecast, we decided today was the best day to get the helicopter out. The strong winds forecasted for the next few days made it sound impossible to go later. after a smooth take take-off we quickly headed to GZ. While mum was keeping the helicopter right above GZ, dad helped little cacher go down on a rope. There was lot of water and waves, hopefully he had his wetsuit on. Suddenly he screamed I found it, but a huge wave pushed him away from the container, so we decided to change our approach. The wind was starting to get too strong for the helicopter. Back home, we put the jet skis on the trailer and went to find a place to launch them. Once in the river, little cacher showed us the location and with both parents help, he could grab the container. Log signed ashore, container back and secure at its location. What an adventure, thanks for taking us there!

Cough, cough. Struggling to gz almost on my hands and knees. Chest wheezy and head awful. Seeing spots. Should I have done that sneaky trip to Auckland last week with forged papers? Where is it? I think I can find one more before I die. Ah got it. Achoo!! Oh dear, all over the log paper. Can I get it back, all ok. Think I will just crawl into the river and float away to oblivion. Bye bye cruel world. ️️️️️️️️️️️️️

Great find with the wives

Great find with Demainiac TFTC

Smoking!!! Love it!

Trip log: When cheap flights presented the opportunity to go to NZ with GreyHams, who was keen to get the 5 2000 caches and the web cam I was of course very keen to tag along. I didn't want to miss out on that... Equally as keen for those caches myself and the first chance to get the passport out in a long time and head overseas while we could. Covid Happenings of course did put the trip in doubt and a last minute effort from GreyHams to get the flights changed and it was looking like this might actually happen... until I arrived I truly didn't think it would!

The cache list was quite simple, the 5 2000 caches and the webcams. Of course we did look at others as we travelled, types, DT, not chosen which were in abundunce and caches of quality, if your cache made our list it had a quality we needed. Many thanks for your cache that helped guide us along our way.

Certainly it was a memorable time, barefoot 500 plus metres across a mud estuary of shells and crabs was more fun than it should be. As was pushing through wet thick high flax or tall wet grass across to the caches. But the most memorable would be the fog, the thickest, most relentless fog but it provided some stunning scenery at times and was just crazy.

I loved seeing all the chinese takeaways that did fish and chips, the perfect hedges and a deserved shout out to Indian Zaika for its great food! Certainly with the fog and rain it was an interesting trip and we got quite drenched at times, it hid a lot that NZ has to offer but 'it's a caching trip' after all so it ticked all the right boxes and was very enjoyable regardless. Huge thanks to GreyHams for letting me tag along while he did all the planning, booking, driving and sending in the answers for the caches... as always!

Definitely gets a favourite

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Trip log:

International travel!!...OMG it feels good. Grabbed some cheap flights and anxiously waited for some outbreak to derail the plan, but that amazingly didn't happen. Sure, I had to scramble and reroute our trip via Brisbane & Sydney as we were originally going through the plague pit...aka Melbourne, but we still made it.

Having done most of the North Island, it was good to finally have a crack at the South. 5 year 2000 caches and a webcam, thats a nice little haul. Sure, some of the year 2000 caches involved bush bashing....in the rain/fog/mist...but we got them all. We had lots of other little targets like getting all our types/sizes/DT, NZ in particular has so many 'Not Chosen' size caches, super rare back in Oz, so we made sure to get as many as possible. If you are reading this, its because this cache had a quality we were chasing.

As always, the Earthcaches and the Virtuals took us to some really cool places, the Steampunk HQ and the boulders being birthed at the beach being the highlights. My favourite cache though would have to be the one where we had to walk 500m over a mud flat, dodging shells and crabs with our bare feet.

This trip will be remembered as the 'fog trip' as we saw a lot of it, which meant we saw little else. Oh, that and how every Chinese takeaway also doubles as the fish & chip shop....its a thing!

Well, I left home 276 days ago to find this cache. I got to Christchurch without an issue but as I neared GZ my GPS seemed to be malfunctioning. Testing the device, it seemed to be ok. Maybe the satellites weren’t working. How will I be able to find this cache now! I phoned President Biden and he told me there was a problem but there wasn’t anybody available to go up to fix the satellites. I said I was available and took the next flight to the US of A so I could complete a crash course at the Space Centre. Once I’d finished the training I borrowed the Space Shuttle Atlantis and launched into orbit. When I made it to the first satellite, I found some alien graffiti and a few bolts missing. The satellites had been muggled! I had to check all the satellites including GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. All of them had been muggled so I fixed each on and covered them with some camo tape. Now the aliens won’t find them! With the mission completed I flew back to Christchurch and completed my 2 weeks quarantine. This time I managed to get to GZ and sign the logbook! Tftc

Searched for nearly an hour this time it’s out fifth time looking for this cache but eventually found it TFTC

I've been in hot pants before but these ones are extremely hot, so hot that they are on fire and I had to run around in circles until I found a lake to sit in and cool down. That got me thinking about all the caches that require hot pants and so I accumulated a selection of hot pants that I could wear on my journey of discovery. Now I won't say that I am the biggest fan of hot pants, they can be difficult to get on but once on they sure make me run fast and run I did - so fast that my hot pants caught fire. Glad I got to GZ as there was a lake for me to sit in and while I sat, I looked and ahhhhhhh what's that I spy? The cache! Yep, it sure was good to find this pants on fire cache cos I don't need to wear my hot pants anymore. Found with spoonz2

This visit has been a long time in the planning- just assembling the equipment required was half the fun. Eventually the team climbed into the Red Rocket, with our scuba gear, tramping and climbing gear, survival kits and ration packs, and we just managed to fit the snowshoes in on top. Being very conscientious people, we carried 3 personal locator beacons each, and we scanned ourselves in on the Covid 19 app before entering the Rocket. On the way to the venue, we were nearly taken out by a motorbike which came from left field and caused damage to the rocket- some quick running repairs and with some intervention from the Thin Blue Line, we were on our way again. After an overwater experience involving a leper colony, several sunken wrecks, and a cliff that defeated even our climbing ropes, we finally made it to the site. Luckily our fire extinguishers put out the fire in our pants, so no body parts were exposed when suddenly we spied something out of place and the Holy Grail was found. Found with Debsnz. Thanks so much for this one, really enjoyed the experience, fav from me.

Out for the day windy as on e bikes bit easier tftc.

I was out on a cruise in Canada when this cache appeared in my magical inbox (I'm a witch) with a note saying "I'm the lost limb of 2wombles, please help me!" Confused, I did a scrying spell and found that this cache was going to be a bit of a trek, and only my trusty Dragon would take me there!

I knew of a whale that wanted to visit the world, so I put him in a bubble to bring him along.
The journey itself took a couple days, simply due to the size of the whale, and although my Dragon is fast, the extra weight slowed him down.

Upon arrival I saw that there was definitely a now empty crocodile pond, and somehow a Monkey and his dog (SonofAnarchy + Geomurph) had made it all the way up the cliff, only to half get stuck in the pond!

Using my Witchy powers, I carefully balanced the whale on the nearest non-crocodile-pond land, and sent my dragon down to retrieve the Monkey and the dog.

When we all met up where the whale was, I asked them what they were doing here, and they said they'd heard of this legendary container at the top of a mountain, and wanted to get it so they'd be free of the circus.

We all went and found the container, the daft tricky thing that it was; buried halfway in the mountain. Upon signing the paper with my magic seal, and the monkeys scribble, we dropped the monkey and the dog where-ever in the world they wanted, and I returned to finish my cruise and drop the whale back in the ocean!

Fav point added, even if just for the hilarity of all the logs!

After a monkey crawl under the bridge turns out that hint is spot on. Nice find by val

Yes! First to pre-Find!

We found this cache location back in 1915 and agreed amongst ourselves that this would be an excellent location for a devious cache hide and as such we pre signed the log that had yet to be hidden with a pen that had yet to be made.
Unfortunately this new pre-caching logging system failed to catch on and we have been relentlessly pursued across the space time continuum by a fella in a white suit who is always running like his life depends on it. We have managed to evade him long enough today to scrawl our mark on the log, that had been placed - with a pen that had been made.
Oh bugger, I can hear his running footsteps, time to dash! TFTC!!

Finally found it after being muggled by Santa and his reindeer. The reindeer stopped to have a drink from the creek just at the same time I was looking for this cache. I quickly hid in the sleigh with the sack of presents until they had finished. Unfortunately I didn't realise they were taking off again and before I knew it they were flying across the sky to Australia. When they next stopped I had to speak up and explain to Santa what I was doing in his sleigh. Lucky he is a geocacher himself and totally understands about being muggled. He is also a jolly good fellow and dropped me back in Christchurch to find the cache. TFTC

I actually did it !!! The way here was a long one, 18,000 km. I brought all of my MacGayver equipment with me and I needed it here, using the cutting torch I freed the can and burned my name in the log. The job was completed hours later; Sweaty but happy I was able to leave the gz.

Well what can I say? I was sat at home in Yorkshire, England, Europe looking for a cache about trousers and this one came up in the search as the nearest cache to my house I hadn't done yet. So I popped on my skateboard and was in NZ in less than 3 months. Grabbed this cache but no time to do and more caches before I took a pogo stick home. I'll miss Christmas, but who cares

Well with a huff and a puff I managed to shut the gate. Then this voice says 'oi leave that gate alone'. I like to be able to let people walk up the pathway and play in my swimming pool any time they like. But don't let the dogs out cause they might just yell at the sharks in there too They managed to sneak in up the drainage system since they re-did the road and pipework in the area. I believe they are quite friendly and won't eat you.

SJT_NZ and I consulted with a couple of local legends prior to starting operational planning for this one, given the conditions and time of day, scuba seemed the best approach. All was going well until I came across what I thought were decoy ducks but what turned out to be a new secret weapon and I was in the test zone. After a little duck and dive, managed to get to the bank and commando crawl in my frog lady suit to the GZ. Located what was needed, retrieved, logged & returned. Back through the thickets and safely out of harms way, and on to the next. Thanks 2wombles for another creative adventure, all in good order.

Fresh from my completion of 'The Cycle' - the SAS basic you get to do after passing the ever so easy selection, I decided I was up for this.

After coordinating with a freight flight to Dunedin I exited an A321 at 39,000 feet with a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) system and body foiled toward our rally point - about 500m down stream from the GZ.

After a landing our instructor would have been proud of we checked weapons, hid chutes and entered the water with re-breathers. It was deeper then expected and we had a clear run to the GZ.

We were prepared for muggles as we gently broke the surface with HKs on Safety yet rounds chambered and ready for action.

Gladly the GZ was clear and mission accomplished with no muggles being injured.

Thanks for the cache - especially for my D-T square which from memory this one will tick off one of the few remaining.

TFTC
A spec ops VTOL dropped me right in at gz.
My pants were literally on fire at this stage so I looked for somewhere to douse them.
Sadly the nearby river has been affected by tectonic activity which only made the situation worse.
As I made a break for the nearest burns unit, the warden asked me to sign the hospital register which was conveniently the cache log!
TFTC and this gets me some rare attributes I may not have strictly earnt.

Well we were out for an adventure of caching for a few days so car was packed and we headed off. Arrived in Picton for the ferry but alas we hadn't booked!! After a few words between us as to who was supposed to we picked on our daughter
she wasn't here to protect herself!! So change of plans Coast here we come well just because you say coast doesn't mean you mean the same coast so we headed down the east coast thinking it seamed a long way to West Coast. Car decided to pack it in so we had to grab a taxi to a car yard and get a new one we traded in old one told him wed just run out of gas hell we didnt tell him our real names to follow us up . Well we ended up in CHCH again so we wanted a good hill walk and some water crossings and this one seamed to fit the bill so co - ords punched in and off we went. Once close to GZ i pointed niteowlnz to the water crossing and said id watch till she crossed for her safety of course. As she swam along the water i went to GZ to await her . The cache wasn't in the water as we had assumed but we finally got our hands on it and signed. I found on return to the car park i found all my belongings in a pile looks like a long walk home for me . Dammit she's taken the GPS too
TFTC

A Tibetan monk once told me " you will go far and conquer much adversity" little did I know he was talking about this cache !! To solve the puzzle I had to use up all of my pretend cat's nine lives ( was considering getting a 2nd pretend cat to get another 9 lives when finally the first one came good ) that was the puzzle out of the way - So now for the travel far - we had to catch one of Monkey Magics clouds ( think old TV show ) it wasn't very reliable as it wanted to keep flying from mountain top to mountaintop - finally we managed to get it to land in a vast forest - we then hiked for days to the triple waterfall that marked the entrance to the dragons lair - we crept up and without waking the dragon we poked and prodded round the mouth of the cave until we found a beautiful jewel encrusted chest that held the log - signed the log in our blood and returned the chest to its hiding spot - unfortunately we woke the sleeping dragon and we were about to run away when the dragon asked if I knew a Tibetain monk - as we swapped stories on our journeys to this point the dragon flew us home to a waiting steaming hot cup of coffee - a great time was had by all Thanks for the cache and the chance to write a story instead of a log

I was looking to buy some real estate. Somewhere to get away from it all. In case I get impeached. The South Island of Nu Zealand. Ya know the Danish government had already offered me Greenland. But who would want that? Just not big enough. I decided I needed something a little bigger. And as far away from the fake news media as I can get. They're such scum. Real scum. So I took a little jaunt in Air Force One. Then a helicopter. Landed in the middle of the mountains, near a lake. No road access. Completely isolated. Well, almost. Spotted a couple of loons scaling a cliff. "What ya doing? Trying to get that box up there? Well, I can get it for you." Cause I'm tough, real tough. And generous. So I got the box. "What's that? A geocache thing-ummy? No, I won't sign the log." I let them do it, and take the credit for me. Cause I am such a modest guy. I repositioned the box for those losers. Continued the flight to survey the property. Maybe, just maybe.

Caches of this quality were only once dreamed of when I started out many many moons ago. It might have taken 9k odd caches and a few practice trips to other counties to experience the full diversity of caches before I felt I had the required experience to find this, the pinnacle of caching, right here in Canterbury.

We had booked our expedition with the KM Outfitters and with my three trusty little sherpa's, we parked up at base camp and headed off. I hike of many miles to a vast and deep late where we encountered our first challenge of building a raft from the materials at hand. Once completed, we had to fight the ferocious crocodiles up river to the general location of the cache (as told by a mystical etching on my hand).

The raft was secured, the climbing gear was retrieved and we climbed the steep cliffs to where we found a gate. Something like Helm's Deep (but a bit sunnier, you get the idea). After sending the little sherpa's into do the dirty work (why have them if ya can't use them eh?) they had little success. A bit of a dig around with the pick and shovel, some more mining gear and a bit of explosives, the cache was finally uncovered. Phew! Time for a brewski.

Log successfully engraved using only the finest in BIC biro's, we abseiled back down the cliffs, into the raft, float down the river, across the lake and hiked back to base camp. What a trip! Cheers 2Wombles!

I wasn't intending to be in Christchurch caching this week but three weeks ago my wife had spinal surgery. Five days later she developed complications that had her admitted to Wairau Hospital in Blenheim. Tests showed the complications were more serious than first thought and last Friday we were medi-vaced to Christchurch in an air ambulance (sorry it was in a plane, not a helicopter as requested by the CO) to the neuro-surgery ward at Christchurch Hospital. On Monday she had another operation to repair the damage done in the previous surgery.

The neuro-surgery ward had a no visitors 'quiet time' between 1.00pm and 3.00pm in the afternoon so I borrowed a 1987 Toyota Starlet with a genuine 40,500km on the clock off my brother-in-law to go caching.

Which is why I am here signing this cache without getting any assistance from the CO, for a change.

The above story is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me... oh shit I'm an athiest.

TFTC 2wombles

Amazing how after 4 years, 3 months and 23 odd days the first to find on this has STILL not been claimed on this cache? It was only appropriate that I correct this wrong today.

My journey for this cache started yesterday with a 5.30am wakeup call from my cat (charlie), could you not give me another hour of sleep??!! Tried to find my happy pills and couldn't see them, but then looked in the first place I searched and spotted them under my GPS..... Anyway continued packing (and then my padlock disintegrated in my hand, how the hell??!!) and getting ready and then threw the cat in his cat box about 7.45am and did the final walk around the house to check i had everything. Left said house and realised had to get petrol, so headed south to do that. Made my way to Inglewood with no more dramas, headed to a cache to get the detective clue and ended up driving further north than anticipated so turned around to approach while heading South.

I then began driving down a State Highway in order to drop said cat of at cattery, and was no more than two minutes away from the cattery and smelt it. Poor Charlie who had been in the box for about 45 minutes couldn't hold it so had pooped and it STANK. Poor thing. Dropped him off before giving the cage a wipe down and then headed off to the warehouse to get a padlock before driving to the other side of town to drop my car off at my grandparents before heading back to the airport but this was AFTER arriving at my grandparents and not being able to find said Padlocks, a mad repack of the bags and then I retraced my footsteps to the car and found the padlock in the glove box, I must have put it there while getting something else out of the glovebox.

I then proceeded to board a big metal bird and fly some 500km towards this cache, but this journey was still not complete, there was still another days strenuous travelling to get to this cache. So I collected my cache mobile from the airport for xxxx dollars and made my way around Christchurch picking up various puzzles and caches for the current challenge. I finally arrived back at my accommodation only to be told you are not staying here, you need to cache somewhere else. After sorting out this disaster and arriving back at said accommodation, I got an early night sleep in anticipation of the next days activities.

Decided to head north and take a detour to pick up two caches that would get me to the next level of the mystery at the museum challenge as well as a date placed i didn't have. I then went for a drive for another cache and drove past the "road" it was meant to be on, there is no road here??!! Defeated, i decided it was high time to finally make the assault on this cache. Driving down QE2 Road, I had an idea of where to park and where the cache was because Google maps made it look soooooo easy. If you are on the right side of the road. Which i wasn't. Ended up driving a bit further on and then parking at the provided co-ordinates (totally could have found my way here without them). Made the long trek to the cache and quickly spotted the cache (which may or may not have been laying out in the open a bit). So after releasing the log book and putting my name first on the log (because still no first to find), I walked back to my car and realised I was still holding on to the cache. So from the parking co-ordinates, I just chucked it in the general direction - good luck to the next person trying to find this....

Not interested at all in the d/t, because that is such an everyday occurrence. And definitely no reason to award this fire extinguisher devious cache (whoops sorry am I not meant to spoil what the cache is??) a favourite point, its lame, don't bother. I don't even care that this brought up cache #1200, or did it??

PS - I did actually put this cache back where I think it belonged, in the rubbish bin.
PPS - Jokes, i did put it back so it was a bit more concelaed than when I found it. Or did I, time will tell I guess.

Quick & easy find thank you

Avalanche Pass trackable visited this cache today while with our church walking group. Rodney.

Avalanche Pass trackable visited this cache today while with our church walking group. Rodney.

Major expedition to check the cache today, had to take a day off work, and lost a limb. However, cache is fine and logbook has been replaced.

We are in ChCh to collect some points for the current souvenir hunt: Cache Carnival. It was cone-city here when we passed today and with traffic following so close we couldnt stop.

For our NZ visit we created a "wishful-thinking-to-do-list" ... knowing we can not do them all but we can at least try. Old caches, earth, virtual and webcam are on the top of our list... but also some traditionals, multi etc...

Today our last day in Christchurch before flying to Sydney so we picked some special caches nearby...

Nicely hidden but the logbook is completely full now...

As for the log itself... it was really simple to park nearby the cache as there where no road workers and it was beautiful hot weather today... so no need for raincoats....
We still decided to go for this and had a very hard time to find this huge cache....

TFTC

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

#10794 @0850
A day in Christchurch focusing on cache maintenance plus a few specific caches with D/T ratings I needed for some personal challenges.

This one took no time at all. I dived right in and soon had the obvious hide in hand. Drenched from head to toe, I scrambled back out. Not that getting wet mattered as it was a dreadful day for caching with the rain bucketing down. Definitely lives up to its D/T rating, but was easier than expected. TFTC.

Well, that was a mission and a half. Having set off from North Cape, especially to tackle this challenge and complete my D/T grid, I arrived at the airport to find all the commercial flights were cancelled, so I was left with no option, but to hire a Lear jet for the trip down.

Knowing that the terrain was going to be treacherous, I had arranged a Hummer cache mobile, but being an unreliable Yank Tank, that was out of service, so I ended up with a Japanese rice rocket instead. Not the best for fighting off the hoards of pointy headed aliens guarding the cache access route. No matter how many I killed, they bounced back with double the number and were determined to prevent me getting to my destination. Their secret powers scrambled my GPS reception and I was left totally lost.

Nothing for it then, but to ring my good buddy, Joe Reretewhakawe for some directions, but he was away fighting fires in Nelson. I really needed him here to help fight this fire. Abe Paketewhaino answered the phone instead, but he couldn't help me either.

Then I realised my secret Samsung tracking device was still working, so followed that back to the cache access point, fighting off untold more pointy headed aliens to do so. Luckily I had brought along crampons, as the route to GZ was steep and treacherous, but once there, with the help of some laser goggles, the cache was located, the log signed and then replaced securely, just as found.

Woohoo, grid completed..!!! Now to fight those aliens and make my escape. TFTC

I can't be bothered with stats!!! Don't take any notice of them at all so I don't care if a cache is a 1-1 or a 5-5 - its all the same to me. I had noticed the name of this one though so borrowed the full gear from my son who is working for the fire department thid summer as a paramedic so save those new expensive pants. OMG when I arrived there were vehicles parked everywhere so I went up and down, up and down and finally managed to squeeze into a very tight spot. After that I crossed the road with no traffic in sight. And then I found the most boring hide ever - just as well I hadn't driven all the way across town just to find it. Fire extinguished thanks. TFTC # 13335

Tell lies you say? That’s a shame, cos here’s what I was going to say.
I decided I’d leave the good car at home for this one, so took and parked the Lambo up across the road. To be honest, I was still feeling a bit shattered from the Victoria Secrets after party last night, but I soon focused on the job at hand here. A rare D/T combo - needs some focus. Found the ammo can up a tree. Didn’t see tree climbing in the attributes - maybe I missed something. Replaced as best I could, but sometimes these things are easier to get down than to get back up, you know. No, let’s be honest. I shoved it under the bridge.
As I was pulling out to leave, a cyclist swerved in front of me and I knocked him off his bike. Then as I opened the door to check on him, another man starting pulling on my leg - the same way I am pulling yours. Or maybe not. TFTC 2wombles.

We left the blue skied 43degrees Invercargill heading up to get this cache. Got as far as Oamaru. Flooding spent night in car with rain pouring. Next morning roads still closed but since rain stopped had an idea that road to Omarama even though still closed was passable drove through bits of surface water all ok. Omarama to fairly came across snow on road then snow falling. Truck had slid off road. Took a closed road towards Geraldine. Bridge getting cleared of tree as we arrived. Went via rakia gorge then to chch. Then to the cache.
There are elements of truth in this story as well as the far fetched lies. Please work them out yourself... the night in car, the flood, the snow all true...
Cache found early morning after collecting a chair in that part of town. Up for daughters uc grad today.

Took hour's to find this I can confirm, it's not in the pipe under the road. - Bitsprayer

I crawled all the way here from the city on my hands and knees. I was hoping for a quick find but no luck for me today. I spent hours looking. I gave up. I had a rest. I started my search again. I called a friend to help me to look. And, guess what? They found it. A favourite point from me, thanks 2wombles.

I was really pleased that I was staying right close to this cache so I didn't need to drive across town in the rush hour traffic. This cache wasn't all that special really, I mean who cares about D/T grids and all that and I haven't been caching all that long or found all that many caches so if it filled in the last space in my grid so what.
Ooo hooo yippee awesome oops nearly blew it.
Anyway, due to the very ordinary hide and the fact it was just another smilie to add to my collection I'm not going to award a favourite point. So there!!!

**This was 1 of 10 caches that was found by me on the 2nd of 19 days in New Zealand.**
**Which also was the 55th of 75 days that my travels thru southeast Asia and Oceania would last.**

During my event last night there was an little bird that whispered to me about this cache. That was missing in my database that supposed to have all caches in the entire New Zealand downloaded into the geo-application.
But that was soon fixed thanks to the local prepaid sim-card I had bought at the airport.

From what I was tolled about the adventures needed to reach the container I immediately got an deja vu from [The Impossible Cache](https://coord.info/GC25WHQ).

Since the bio control seized my domestic squirrel I had to do all the work myself. She is otherwise very handy when it comes to retrieving PET-tubes 15 meters up in pine trees.

*During 19 days I traveled from Christchurch to Auckland in an SUV, that i also slept in during most of the nights. 5.956 km of driving did it take to visit the 351 caches that I have marked as found in c:geo.*

*Earthcaches was my main focus during the stay. And I manage to visit 106 of them. So New Zealand is right now the only country where earthcaches are my most found cache type .*

Answers to earthcaches and virtuals did I send in via Message Center close after the visit, or when this log is written in March 2019.

Flew here from Macedonia especially to get this cache. Jumped on a Lime scooter as soon as the plane landed started my journey here. I was hit off several times and apparently have "internal bleeding". I figured that if it's internal then it's no big deal... That's where blood should be! I'm so glad i brought my metal detector with me as i wouldn't of been able to claim this 4 star cache without cheating. Thank you for making my dream come true.

Landed the helicopter in the nearby park, whilst balancing a jelly on my head. Quick crawl on all 4's to the vicinity, and a found was had whilst drinking a pineapple margarita. Tftc

I arrived on my unicycle dressed in my T-Rex suit an had a great time hunting for this cache. TFTC. #52