Our kids cache (Canterbury) Rangiora, South Island, New Zealand
By FastFrames on 24-Jan-15. Waypoint GC5KP4V

Not today

Not today

No sign of a cache. Hasn’t been found in over 6 months

Out on a bike ride, cache hunting, done a 50km loop on a nice hot day. Thanks For the cache Bitsprayer.

Nice little park. Quick find thanks

Thanks kids. Good find

Clever!

After spending most of my time out Oxford way it was a mad dash though Rangiora for the newer caches. Made a series of quick finds which was just a well because I only got home with 15 minutes to spare before I had to go to with the wife.

Spotted when I was poking my head into the wrong bush.

A quick find today.
About to return the container and a lovely older muggle approached to share some additional info about the historic site.
Apparantly the house did not actually sit on this exact site but more like a few houses down by the corner.
A conversation ensued about some other local history- the monument provided some good cover for lurking around GZ and she left none the wiser and we were able to return the container and carry on our way back to Chch.

TFTC

Nice, quick and easy find

Time to tidy up a few caches in and around Rangiora and put some more smiley faces on the map. Nice easy find..... Cheers!

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Park and grab in the park. More adults than children in attendance; TFTC

Swtgeo found this one after some confusion maybe not the safest place to put it?

Good

Nice cache! I added a replacement log (not waterproof sorry) but may need a wee ziplock bag to keep it dry. TFTC!

Found it but log is missing photo taken as proof tftc

Went for a walk after I had a feed, and stopped by here. Quickly located however there was no log in the container, weird. All good I live close so I'll drop one off soon. Thanks for the placement! #3098

Doing some caches in the area, TFTC

TFTC

Nice easy find tftc

Nice quick find by Sir Belac thanks for the hide FastFrames

#11480

A nice park to have a picnic and to kick a ball around a quick easy find thanks FastFrames

The potato chips

Nice find while in the area withtmann421 today.Signed log tm/ww NZTFTC

This cache was soaked. I used my car heater to dry it out. Had to remove a paper log that was beyond the point of no return, however the waterproof one is still ok now it's dry, but it's fulI. I've added a very roughly cut up new paper log. TFTC

Nice and easy find. Tftc.

Swings occupied. Stealth used.

Hot

Quick easy find.TFTC

Found it

Nice hide. Here super early so no littlies around. Tftc

Have loitered here a few times but it is a very busy little playground. Finally caught a break just on dusk. Not where I first thought, but quick find before the light faded.

Playground was empty so I didn't need to look suspicious as I ducked into the bushes here. Not in the first place I checked but safely tucked away in the second. TFTC # 13,984

An easy find even with muggles on the play equipment. Tftc.
#4186

Found with grandchildren.

Found out, my nieces all on her own. Nice park close by with kids in it.

A quick snag here but the log is wet. Left a temp RITR log to keep this one rolling along. Cheers
Its Thursday - day two - Rangiora - Lyttleton today. K2R cycle is in the bag. So lets go exploring in Toby and see where the Geotrail takes us today.

Its Waitangi Day - day one of a five day weekend exploring the amazing Canterbury, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack and Jill. Two days Rangiora, a day in Lyttleton and 2 days in Banks Peninsula. I got call from The Seagnoid, hes taking a long weekend. Lets go to the West Coast! Lets Go!! but maybe not the West Coast - rain on the way. So lets go to Canterbury. We leave for Christchurch Tuesday evening after picking up The Seagnoid after work. We make camp for the night at Amberly. Today its off to Rangiora for a cycle trip.

In just two visits and one month this log has had to be replaced again! Maybe the container is the problem.

Down to Christchurch with Taybeedragon, Zara and Toby for a five day weekend starting Waitangi Day (which this year fell on a Wednesday. I reckon half the country would have been taking 5 day weekends!). Three days in Rangiora. We did two cycle trails there - having two vehicles makes it so easy. One of those cycle trails was fifty caches. Fifty caches in one day on a bicycle! Then a couple of days exploring the back roads around Akaroa. Darn close to two hundred caches in all. Dropped off a lot of path tags along the way, especially if the cache was nice and dry.

16.33
TFTC!! 2nd today.. nice find

Found, replaced log book and provided a small plastic snap lock bag to keep dry!

Nice

Easy find

Quick easy find TFTC

Still wandering around town waiting for the mechanic to finish my WoF.
This was a quick find (lucky given the traffic).

The lid doesn't seem watertight any more as I had to shake out water and dry the log sheet with a towel. Unfortunately florists paper is waterproof but most pens won't write on it while wet. Its dry now, but I don't know how long that will stay true.

Oh, the log is full too. I found a spot where the water had removed a previous signature (around January) and signed there. My spare logs are all in the geomobile (with the mechanic) so I couldn't replace this one. Maybe the next to find could bring a new log?

TFTC FastFrames
Find # 3551

One of seven caches located on a short Sunday afternoon outing, rather dreary weather that it was! No-one in the park today. Found reasonably quickly. #1821. TFTC.

TFTC. Out hunting down the name series with kotukuSI and then onto pickup a few caches in Rangiora.
This was about number 5 cache of the day that was placed by FastFrames. Thanks for providing so much entertainment
So a great day out with all names accounted for and a few others found along the way.
Thanks FastFrames for placing the cache.

Sunday, now afternoon, caching in N Canty with purdiepurdie - had tackled a new series nearby & stopped in Rangiora for a few caches on the way home.
Another lovely neighbourhood park; thanks for this cache, FastFrames.

Quick find in a cool park. Cat guarding the cache took off when it saw us!

Nice find. Log full but managed to get name on . Sorry no logs on me.

Passing on the way to visit family so stopped to grab this one. Took longer than should have but got there in the end. Tftc an smiley

TFTC

We had dinner at the local Thai restaurant = highly recommended = and then found time to find a few caches on our way back o the motel.
We were surprised and pleased to find that we’d arrived at a place of historic interest when there was no mention of it on the cache page.
TFTC

Tftc

A day dedicated to as many finds as possible. TFTC

I went out for a day of caching, with no specific plans, just picking the next one off the map. I realised that I did not include many going north in the PQ, so heading west would be my best bet. Luckily I was here early enough to avoid all the little muggles - they may have been awake but the parents would not be that keen to head out first thing lol! TFTC!!

Soggy find. Tftc

Started a switch

Nice easy find. Found travel bug it's now on a new adventure

Found it

A quick find while the family played. Thanks.

Missing the castle but love the mini road for speedy kids! Tftc

Today Injeanious and I started early and left home at 7am aiming to complete our biggest geocaching day ever. We started in Templeton before heading to Thompson Track and Rangiora. Altogether we found 126 caches in 14 hours. We had maybe 3 DNFs all day so felt very successful, although very tired.
Thanks to all the cache owners for helping us with our great day!
Sorry for the cut and paste logs but there were too many caches to log individually.
We signed our logs as JeJe to save time and space.

Jess.daphne and I decided to beat our personal best caching day of 51 finds and try to get 120. We did better than that coming home with 127 finds! We started our mission at 7 am heading to Thompson's Track, then we went up to Rangiora before getting home just before 9 pm. An epic day. Thanks to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches. We signed our logs as JeJe (and JeJeBu when The Burnsey joined us). Sorry for the cut and paste logs.

A muggle was casually smoking by GZ when we arrived. The sight of us scared them off and we made a quick find. Tftc!

Good to see the local history is remembered with a decent plaque! Cheers

We thought Christmas day would be an ideal time to re-visit this cache, and we were right as the park was deserted. Even so, we had consulted the hint for a quick in and out as muggles can appear out of nowhere. After tussling unnecessarily with thorny roses, StreetWalker found the cache.
Good to get another Rangiora cache smileyfied. TFTC.

#13621. After a DNF last time, we were pleased to find the playground deserted. We searched the harder to reach places first, only to eventually find the cache in an easily accessible location, TFTC.

Mrs p grabbed this one. took longer than it should have. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc FastFrames. Find # 3428

There were a couple of family groups in the park, so I read the plaque while StreetWalker made a quick grope according to the hint but had to retreat as one group of muggles were looking our way.

A quick find to fill in time. Thanks

TFTC
Beware of the Rose Bush, it's prickly!

In the region for a few days for work but with a bit of spare time to go out caching. No problems here. Cache quickly found. TFTC, Biggles.

After checking in to my Motel, and decided I might as well look for few more while going to get curry for dinner. Cheers and TFTC

TFTC nice quick find when the right person looked

Took way longer than it should have, TFTC

nice quick park and grab. thanks

TFTC

Nice easy find with Wurzel1947. TFTC

A quick easy find, just out of sight of the children on the swings. TFTC

Finally find this cache. Not that it is a difficult cache but everytime I have been here before there have been teenagers sitting within a few metres of the cache.
I made the mistake of not zipping up my jacket pocket and when I got to the next cache I realised that my camera had fallen out. I dashed back and found the camera by nearly standing on it as it was hidden by the tussock.

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Last full day of caching before the plane trip home. Really enjoyed my tour of Rangiora today..Thank you %owner for placing and maintaining this cache.

Another nice wee park

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

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

We soon had the container located.
SL TFTC

Found by one member of the Team during a 3 weeks holiday trip to NZ.

TFTC

Before visiting the mega event 2015 i had a grand day out.
Fair weather, ... and a few nice caches.

TFTC

Found after attending local event

Found after attending local event

Out caching with Team FARKIS (fmz, alpenmilch80, rosmar, kiwi.bug, indianajill, slieschke) while down for the CHC mega event. This was one of the caches we visited along the way. Thanks to all the owners of caches we found! TFTC

Found on our way to attend the pre MEGA Market Event TFTC.

Caching after the nearby event. Pull up. Pile out. Rush across the grass. Who will be first to spy it this time!?!? TFTC.

bumped into CaligulaNZ on the hunt! tftc

Found after the nearby 'Twilight' pre-Mega event. Funny to bump into Dr Bogan here - my workmate back in Wellington and oft-times caching partner in crime!

TFTC!
with Tan1aNZ & Dr Bogan

This Cache was found during our Christchurch Mega Road Trip from the Deep South. We had had tea and where doing a few quick caches as we went back to our accomodation. A fabulous time was had exploring the region and discovering caches. All in all, a fun road trip with Granville86a, Mrs Hazzer and KiwiGeoswami, we signed the log as a Team under the name P.E.G.S to save both time and logsheet spaces. Thank you for the cache!

22/10/2015 07:00PM
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Day before the mega, and needed a quick one.

I had just been out getting prizes for the mega, and before that, trying to get car parts for the brothers car... it was a hectic time!!

So ended up finally being free after all the shops were closed and errands were done.

BAM! Cache time. Picked this one in the hopes playground would finally be empty, and I'd be free to search. And sure enough! Yay!

Made for an almost instant find!

Consec caching day 1082

TFTC!!

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The last few for our day trip to the Mega with team PEGS. TFTC

Found with Chosen1978, Mrs Hazzer and Kiwigeoswami as team PEGS on our way to CHCH Mega. We got this one after having a meal in Rangiora before heading to our accomodation in Kaiapoi.

Thanks. Signed as part of PEGS

Tftc