Fruit (& Vege) Loop - Capsicum-Green (Canterbury) Swannanoa, South Island, New Zealand
By Team_Gaters & TheWanglers on 22-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5DGW6

Placed in 2014 and found over 160 times. The Fruit & Veges around the loop are now pretty deteriorated, no longer water proof & generally quite gross - No longer bright, crisp and fun to find. A lot of new houses around the road now too. Time to archive the series....(cache has been removed)....

Nice!

Easy find, doing caches in the area TFTC

Out on a mission to catch some horses today and daughter found this one relatively easily.
Found, signed and returned. Thanks for the cache.

Out for an 8km round trip walk with some family. We passed 4 caches on the way and signed 3, being spoiled by a muggle dog at the other.
Easy find, all good in here just off the road. TFTC.

Couldn’t locate

Great hide

Out collecting some smilies. Great series. TFTH

thanks for the placement, we have been loved travelling and visiting the roads of Christchurch and the many caches each CO has taken the time to place, thank you for taking the time to place and maintain them.

It was nice to get out of the rain for a few moments as I signed this one. tftc

It had been awhile so we headed off to ChCh for some maintenance and then up to Rangiora to round up the last of our solved horses. A long day with 22 of our own maintained and still managed 30 finds before retiring for the night. Last of the F&V Loop for us. I had a REALLY strong sense of dejavu here. Has this been a cache somewhere else? My fav capsicum would have to be the red one. Good cooked or raw. Dropping a fav to finish the series.
Thanks for placing the cache and adding to our smilies

I wanted to get out of the house and round up a few caches nearby in the sunny afternoon, and I had a great time! TFTC!!

Found it!

Begins our holiday in NZ in Christchurch, we came from Italy to find our son who lives there for two years.
After being in the North Island in Wellington area to hunt for historical cache and spending a few days at sea while finding bad weather without being able to take to the beach, here we are back in Chch, we decide to resume the trail already made in part two weeks ago , we reach Oxford and back.
Thanks for the laying and maintenance of this trail
Greetings from Italy
Dopo essere stati nell'isola del nord in zona Wellington a caccia di cache storiche e aver trascorso alcuni giorni al mare trovando però brutto tempo senza poter scendere in spiaggia, eccoci tornati a Chch, decidiamo di riprendere il trail già fatto in parte due settimane fa, raggiungeremo Oxford e ritorno.
Grazie per la posa e mantenimento di questo trail
Saluti dall'Italia
TFTC

Awesome! GOTTA CUTE PENGUIN

Thanks. Great day to finish my numbers for the year.

Replaced mushed lod

Replaced wet log book. Found with moneydork TFTC

Ahhhh!! A little more private and away from the driving muggles. TFTC!!!

Book is wet sorry

Found it

Today we enjoyed picking up caches from the lolly scramble trail, the fruit and vege trail, the cust trail and other various caches around the area. We found 50 caches altogether and had a great day. Caching with Injeanious and theBurnsy we signed the log books as JeJeBu to save time and space. Thanks to the cache owners for placing and maintaining the caches! Sorry for the cut and paste logs.

It's been a slow couple of months for me and Jess.daphne, so we decided to team up with The Burnsy and get a whole lot of caches. We headed off to pick up more of the Lolly Scramble, Fruit and Vege, and Cust trails, signing the logs as JeJeBu. We had a great day and grabbed 50 caches. Our best day yet! Thanks to the COs for the caches.

Headed out for a day of caching with Mr. Kiwi, to celebrate my 30th tomorrow. We had planned originally to nail our 400th - but the effects of both recent celebrations and real life in general meant we decided to cruise through the lolly trail, fruit and vege loop and whatever else came our way. It was a great day out together, and we were grateful to the cache owners who take the time to set up and maintain their hides.
So to you all, TFTC!

Out visiting a friend and did a couple of caches on the way home. Log very damp and starting to disintegrate. Fun wee spot and cache.

Another quick easy find on my way home from work Monday. The log book is a touch damp (the silica bag not doing it's job) but writable. Thanks for all of these caches.

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. This logbook is pretty damp. No replacement logbook on our bikes, so maybe for the next cacher. TFTC

Our recent multi day Canterbury cache raid was so successful we decided to have another one before the holidays finished. Again we got stabbed, prodded, pricked and scraped by the variety of hedges the region is so famous for. And of course we can now hold our breath a lot longer. A skill well worth developing to avoid breathing in part of the road surface every time a vehicle passes. Just over 200 finds were logged this time and a great time was had finding the caches with a variety of shapes, sizes and placements. A big thank you to all COs who made this possible.

With a few more days of holidays left we decided to head south again and find some caches we didn't have time to look for last week, plus some more off the beaten track. This was one of 52 found today.
Thank you to all CO's who made this possible.

13/04/2016 8:54:00 PM
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I had work, but too knackered to get a cache after, and so planned on getting one later, but had completely forgotten about home group!!!

Plus today was a day when I needed two caches!!

But all was quickly soved, and I raced out for two with hubby on the way to home group - luckily we were actually out at someones house this way this week!!

Consec caching day # 1255

TFTC!!

Found

Found thanks. The log was wet but still able to write on

Tftc

Log was dampish so didn't sign but good hide, thks

#12132. Quick find once we found our way to GZ. TFTC.

StreetWalker's streak is still going strong, so we decided to head out south west of Rangiora this afternoon and find just some of the many caches in the area. With the 30 plus degrees temperature (according to the car's dashboard display), we were keen on finding drive bys only as we didn't want to exert ourselves too much. Lots of choice in this area, with plenty of Horses, Fruit and Veges plus some others to keep us busy for a few hours.
Another quick find on the fruit and vege loop. TFTC.

TFTC quick find

TFTC younger cacher is enjoying the containers

Quick find, TFTC

Another soggy cache unfortunately.

Nice spot, but easy find

Bit difficult to find bit found it anyway

Came out with wee dude on a fruit and vegetables maintenance run.
Straightened out log. New plastic bag. All good.
Top + hook had come away. Reglued. Hopefully all good. If hook comes away again just rehide at base of second post in.

Finding a few caches in the area

Found this one in the small creek. The top has broken away from the body. Placed back in a spot matching the hint.

Having having too much ham and turkey needed to get the fruit and vege!

Reasonably straightforward find. The logbook is very wet.
#895. Thanks for this series of fruit caches. Located seven in the area this afternoon.

Top of log there rest not needs repair

I like peppers cool cache thanks

Enjoying arriving at each GZ and wondering what fruit or vege I'm going to find. TFTC

#3867

Thanks

Capsicum

[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!
Signed log as HHSS.

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 chuppa chup and all the veges and fruit. . Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

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

# 929 - 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.

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.

Quick find TFTC


[u][Teal]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016 Labour weekend in Turangi visit [url=http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz/]New Zealand Geocaching Adventure 2016[/Url] [/Teal][u]

Friday 23rd. Warm up day before the Christchurch 2015 Mega event starts tomorrow.
Having a great time caching on the way. Thanks to all the people who have taken the time to plan and hide all the caches we have found over the
long weekend. Its been appreciated.

Exploring Canterbury on Day 2 of the Christchurch Mega with yorkshirekiwi83 and vistra picking up solved puzzles (which we worked on in preparation for our trip) and various other caches in the area on our big number run.

More fruit picking...thanks for the cache!

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!

[red] For information on the 2016 New Zealand Geocaching adventure being held in Turangi please visit... http://www.http://www.nzgeocachingadventure.nz [/red]

This geocache was found on a great day of geocaching with some very fun people that I met at the mega! We were very intent on having lots of fun and seeing the sights that your wonderful country has to offer. Thanks for placing and maintaining this geocache for us to find.

Grabbing caches with the DCC at the NZ Mega

Cool hide. Found with Nacho the pug. TFTC

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 and some fruits and vegetables in the morning before going to registration of the Mega event. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Group assaults occured with the Aussie invasion of Travellinbees, Locus Cache, Paris Laura, Team Jacob, SnapHappy, Tomboy711, TR!, and two ring ins New Zealanders Fuzzy Fruit, & FiremanSam
TFTC
Still catching up on logs

[green]Find 7206[/green]...

Found this whilst visiting your beautiful country...

This was a great weekend and certainly one of my top weekends spent caching... Mega events are a great way to catch up with familiar faces and meet new ones... We also enjoy the social aspect of events

From the moment 'the Event' was announced we committed to attend... Planning the holiday around the Event is also something we enjoyed... This was Tomboy 711's first Mega and first time to NZ...

We saw so many beautiful places and quite a few special caches...

Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for my enjoyment Team_Gaters...
- P
Greetings from Oz...

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

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!

Found 975
Found while touring for a few days with Snap Happy prior to heading to the Christchurch Mega.
Thanks Team_Gaters for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment. Cheers Tomboy 711

parislaura, Team jacob and I flew to New Zealand for the 2015 Mega.
Never having been out of Australia before, this was a very exciting trip for me
Today was a good day with caching, pathtag trading and a convoy of New Zealand (fire-mansam & Fuzzyfruit), Victorian (TR! and Snap Happy) and South Australian (parislaura, Team Jacob, Tomboy711, The Travellinbees and I) sharing fun and laughs [^]
Today's tally was 34 cache finds, 1 Mega event attended and only 2 DNFs

What a wonderful thing is a Mega! Seeing fellow geocachers with their flags on driving around town, tooting at those who are at caches and meeting many new people

We made it out to do some of this series and laughed lots at many of the cache hides

TNLN. SL. TFTC Team_Gaters

Out and about with the Dunedin Mega Caching crew!

Out with sharkiefan for a few hours of caching to find the caches that we missed by heading overseas. It was a busy, but beautiful morning. Then off to the mega! Cheers for the cache.

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

Thanks to all the CO's for the fantastic caches, Team DCC (Dunedin caching crew) for a fun filled day and The MEGA team for an outstanding event.

I came looking for these vegies. TFTC

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

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

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

*New Zealand Mega 2015*
We collected these caches either as part of a group assault during the Mega or just Mr & Mrs Bee whilst traveling around with Muggle John seeing the sights of your fine countryside.

Group assaults occured with the Aussie invasion of Travellinbees, Locus Cache, Paris Laura, Team Jacob, SnapHappy, Tomboy711, TR!, and two ring ins New Zealanders Fuzzy Fruit, & FiremanSam

We jet boated, walked up hills, sat in sulphur pools, walked through ruined cities, botanical gardens and general beautiful countryside.

We have thoroughly enoyed our short holiday over here on the South Island and we based ourselves in the CBD, Adelaide and Christchurch are sister cities and it was surreal to be part of that.

We climbed fences, crossed rivers, climbed tree's and hopped around like gooses, we collected many smilies while on this trip and we collected many new friends.

Geocaching has given us many pleasures and this cache was one of them.
TFTC
Travellinbees
Sth Australia

Out caching in chch on a glorious day! Thanks for the hide.

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!

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.

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

Found today during our tour of the area local to the Mega. A glorious NZ afternoon to be out caching. Goodness what a busy road for 5:30pm on a Saturday. TFTC

Mega find

Nothing like teaming up with a group of mad auzzies. Na na naaaaa chch mega 2015

A great day was had caching at the mega enjoying the lolly scramble and fruit and vege trails. Found some awesome containers along the way! TFTC [:D

Reperio at 0755.

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 to feed these horses, and once at GZ, the cache was soon located.

Gratias Team Gaters.

#1970 Found with nic-jay while down for MEGA. A lovely evening for some veges. TFTC!

Found with Skaga during the Mega.
A nice quick find.
TFTC

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. 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

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!

Don't like green capsicums very much. Do like finding caches, however! Thanks!

In town for a “Mega” weekend. As part of 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

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.