Swing bridge, Kaiapoi, North Canterbury Kaiapoi, South Island, New Zealand
By NakedArt on 14-Oct-15. Waypoint GC65C5E

As there's been no cache to find for a long time, I'm archiving it to keep it from showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Please note that if geocaches are archived by a reviewer or Geocaching HQ for lack of maintenance, they are not eligible for unarchival.

Add my DNF to the list. I'm confident this is gone. Pretty sure the CO has too - only one find in 4 years and no attempts to maintain their two caches.

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could not find

I think its gone

Needs renewing please!!!

Had a wee look but didn’t find

Had a good look with hubby, but could not find it

DNF
I don't think it's there...

Nothing found, can CO check please.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Quite sure not here had a pretty good look

Looked for about 10 mins and couldnt find it

Looked for about 10 mins and it kept saying i was right in the area but i looked and looked and couldnt find it.

Another DNF think someone in the area has gone around and swiped them all!

Can't find it

Considering others said it was am easy find I think it's gone. We looked but to no avail. Look forward to looking again in the future

Are you sure?!?!?!

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Today I drove to Kaiapoi to find some Geocaches and do a little bit of the powertrail towards Oxford.
A busy area. I saw thousands of dogs with their mugglefriends, schoolkids, teacher, running muggles,...
After a long wait I went straight to the Cache, logged it and hide it at the same place. High mugglearea
TFTC

Nice old bridge ..just passing through so had to get some caches.thanks nakedart for the placement

We parked close by for lunch and thought it would be rude not to find this cache. There was a muggle family giving but they were other wise occupied. Cache soon spotted. I think the local kids have all added their names to it. Thanks for the cache

Eaay find. Eaaiest one yet

It was super fun to find, thank you

Easy

Found during our holiday in NZ

I woke up way too early this morning, so what to do? Find some caches of course! No muggles in sight and a so quick find! TFTC!!

Not easy with muggles jumping off into the river. Very hot day today

River extremely high. Easy find.

We took some of the extended NZ family geocaching for their first time, and this one was found by one of the newbies . It was interesting to find out from them that the Kaiapoi River has become more tidal since the earthquakes, with this stretch of the river now being more like an estuary. We saw a spoonbill (different species from the ones we're used to in Perth, Western Australia) on the way to the cache.

Yay! Found another

Another park and grab thanks for the cache

Awesome cache! Took my a second to find but really great spot! Couldn't sign the logbook though :c forgot my pen

Quickly found during a lunch break nearby.

On a fabulous sunny Carnival day, lovely to visit this particular landmark.

Great cache

Good spot

Tftc

TFTC

#8300 @0900
Back in Kaiapoi for a few days to do some cache maintenance and find some of the new caches placed in the last couple of years. Easily found. TFTC.

Trying to get to my 200th. TFTC

#2,884: Green Smiley!
Out for a MMM with TW and TG! We stopped here so I could make the find. Nice location. All in good shape!
SL/TFTC!!

3994
Quick find.
Tftc!!

T

Found on 5/06/2017.

Travelled up to Canterbury for the Queens Birthday Orienteering wekend.
Grabbing a few caches in-between the showers on my travels

TFTC NakedArt

A nice find on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Thanks CO!

Took us awhile to realise where it was, but success found it

Got muggled by an entire dragon boating team before going to a quiz night to raise money for another dragon boating team! Thanks for the hint that allowed me to get the cache in my tight time frame with no one the wiser to what I was doing.

A nice quick and easy find as I was lucky to have the place to myself. The river was up a bit today so I decided not to walk across the bridge to see if it really does swing. Tftc

Great troll find.
TFTC. Regards JordanandMichelle

Not a problem. Thanks from a Dutch.

Een gemakkelijke vondst. En een Nederlandse TB achtergelaten, die verder wil reizen.
TFTC.

Kids one

Quick find

Thanks for the cash

#433. #11, and last, for the trip.

Team Northwood headed down to the South Island for two weeks travelling around the top half, and catching up with family. Printed a few caches to look for along the way as time allowed. We struggled for finds with the first few and then had more luck.

Close to where we were staying, made a pretty easy find in some light rain. Cache in good order.

TFTH.

Cache number 188. Didn't know this bridge was here. TFTC

A couple of ladies were sitting on the bank not to far from GZ so went for a short walk to see if they would have moved on by the time we returned. They were still there but having their backs to us allowed a quick duck down and grab without being spotted. Great area for a wander and cache.

Found on our way to Rangiora with Sevren.tftc

Great hide on such a picturesque place

TFTC SL Easy find. The fisherman nearby wasn't too concerned about me "Using" my phone ! !

A high muggle zone today with photographers, walkers and loads of whitebaiters. Spotted the cache quickly and it was an easy retrieval when the nearest whitebaiting muggle was looking away. Swapped a TB. Tftc, we had a lovely morning walking along the stopbank and then a play in the playground.

Out catching Pokemon with the kids and as we were here with TBs in tow dropped a couple off.

Another quick easy find on my way home from work. Lovely spot and good to see the bridge back in use. Thanks for the cache

Easy as. Man i hate swing bridges when your companions like to try and make them move!

Was easier than expected although we did read the hint before looking. First time over the bridge in years and of course we had one of those people in our group who just had to make the bridge bounce!! Tftc

Quick find after failed mega mob gathering. Tftc

A quick find. Thanks.

Took the cachelets and the Mrs TW out for an adventure. The cachelets love the nearby hamster wheel. We had a good play and then went in search for a few caches and ended up finding a few stones to throw off the bridge. Fun. Sent cachelet #2 for the retrieval. Nice and quick.

Thanks for the cache NakedArt.
#4490

Nice find on a chilly morn

Was a pretty muggle populated area but there was no problem getting the cache in hand, signed and placed back. Had an awesome day out caching with Busy Paws around the area.
TFTC!

Easy find and Geo Jessie and I thought we would have interesting issues here! Lovely area and my first visit to this place. TFTC

Would be harder when river high! Easy find today. Tftc

Found it; TFTC

Nice easy find on a great day out after the rain and first find back in NZ after a trip to Hawaii. TFTH

Nice easy find clue bang on tftc

Down south once again for work and with bit of spare time to complete a number of tasks that I had set for myself. This included collecting a number of caches that have been sitting in my "to Collect" list for some time as they meet various requirements for challenges that I have set myself.

So wiith a nice and early start, it was always going to be a big few days caching and the work conforence that I was attending was still (damm it) going to be a priority.
Down from the hills around Godley Reserve and time to collect a few caches that I solved sometime earlier

So thanks to all the cache owners for the set ups and apologies for taking so long to log them but the logging of caches had to take a back seat to collecting the APE CACHE

thanks for the placement, thanks for the cache

Nice quiet day. Quick find. TFTC

This is the last weekend we are staying in Rangiora before moving back to Christchurch into more permanent accommodation, so we thought we'd try to make inroads into the unfound Kaiapoi caches while we are north of the Waimak. After weeks of warm autumn weather, the cold wind today was a little bit of a shock so we decided to pull the plug earlier than normal and head back to Rangiora for a well deserved cup of coffee.
Usually I leave the retrieval of bridge caches to StreetWalker, but I got to GZ first and had to find it myself! Thank goodness a nice easy one to find. Then went for a walk across the bridge, one of the less scary swing bridges I've been across. TFTC.

#12333. I went to GZ via the nearby public loos, and by the time I got to GZ Troodles had the log ready foe me to sign. I know this bridge well; I used to bike across it en route to work having left the car on the other side of the bridge. Recently I have been parking not far from Blue Skies (makes for a slightly shorted ride to work). TFTC.

Tftc

TFTC

Quick easy find thanks

Nice old bridge

GZ was busy with kids fishing and families walking over the bridge. We spied a crab and some fish in the water. Found when muggles looking the other way. TFTC!

So many muggles around today. I never realised this was such a busy spot. After some boys moved on to another fishing spot we swooped in and grabbed the cache. Tftc.

Nice quick find, tftc

I had been here before when the Mega was on but couldn't remember if I signed the original logbook or not. I think I did but there were quite a few of us here that morning. But I certainly didn't log it online then.

Cheers for the cache.

Thought a bit easier than the D and T ratings - but a great cache in a great place

Found it. A nice challenge

Tucked away nicely.

Found with aroha matthews

Met a bloke crossing it who knew some of the history so that was a bonus. Thanks

Took a bit to find but enjoyed the hunt. Thanks for cache.

Found with FIREDOMO.

Quick find on a lovely day

My very first find

TFTC quick find took TB

Quick find, TFTC

TFTC nice quick find picked up travel big will log when on computer