You Shall Not Pass! (Canterbury) Ashburton Lakes, South Island, New Zealand
By TwoSharpe on 04-Apr-16. Waypoint GC6EYEH

Der erste Tag unseres Neuseeland-Urlaubs ! Auf gehts Fritzi1219 mit dem Camper auf unsere Rundreise!.Alles gut gefunden! Grandiose Gegend und ab und an ein Cache, was kann es schneres geben!TFTC# 7446 / 16:25hGru vom Team Lawinia11 aus Deutschland, LilienthalThe first day of our New Zealand vacation! Let's go Fritzi1219 with the camper on our round trip!Found everything well! Great area and the occasional cache, what could be better!TFTC# 7446 / 16:25hGreetings from Team Lawinia11 from Germany, Lilienthal

initially went too far and almost fell into the water! logbook was too wet to sign

A little wet, but we found it!

Amazing place, love it

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Tftc. A bit windy in winter. Nice views. Logbook is wet however.

Nice walk up mt Sunday found this on the way back to the carpark

No luck with this one. Water was very high, so I didnt want to fall in..

Found. Love this place

Found it with dad and my brother

Loved the views from Mt Sunday! Of course I forgot my pen in the car. Photo attached as proof.TFTC

Yay. Lovely looking at all these waterways through here. The track is really nice. Logbook and cache in good condition. Find #856

Container , logbook ... Going next... TFTC# 2062 - 4 January 2024 11:15

No orcs about, but some bovine guards pretty close.

Thanks for the cache from czech republic.

Don'f follow the lights... because i fell into the water.

Found these Cache today while visiting Mt. Sunday aka Edoras.

Beautiful view.

Thank you for the Cache and greetings from Germany .

I have passed and found,nice sunny day

Cool container, TFTC!

Took us a little while to find this one. Fun walk with fantastic views

Took a few minutes to snare what I seek.

Now to try and find my own cache nearby and retire it.

PS, I couldn't find my own darn cache!

Got it. Wet and very windy here today. TFTC

Tftc ! Awesome day and astonishing scenery

Quick stop on our way to Edoras. Tftc

Hello ,

of course we wanted to visit the famous hill, even if today is Monday
I had imagined the road to the parking lot to be more exposed, but it drove without much difficulty
The view and the whole valley are breathtakingly beautiful
Cache in very good condition!
Greetings from Germany
TftC Famass

Quick find! TFTC!

Beautiful day, found but forgot my pen

TFTC

TFTC. Out with Flobberworm! For a chilling wander to the top. Happy to sign the log.

A return visit to Mt Sunday for some new caches, and a quick easy find as we headed towards the hill. TFTC

Lovely day for a walk up Mt Sunday. Nice quick find. And of course I forgot my pen. Tftc

I enjoyed the walk.

I bent down to look for this cache an my drink bottle fell out of my pack side pocket into the water. Mrs C guided my drink bottle towards Jude. Mr C held Jude so she wouldn't fall in when retrieving it. Mr C found the cache after a good search. Busypaws organised an earthcache finding trip. There were eleven of us. The weather was fantastic. Thanks for hiding this cache TwoSharpe I appreciate it.

Out with a group of cachers to get the earthcache nearby. We stopped to look for this one on our way to the top. It took a bit of finding but persistence paid off and one of the team found the cache. TFTC .

We all approached this with a doubt in our heads. However, Mr Coconuts3 came up with the cache, all safe and dry. Possibly not quite in the place where initially laid by CO, message sent.
Very happy to be one of 11 of us to find this today! TFTH

We had a lovely day exploring Mount Sunday with caching friends. Stopped here with everyone looking. Then Mr C had a go and could feel the cache and out it popped as described. All very happy to sign the log. After that a fishing expedition to rescue a water bottle and then on our way. Thanks for this cache TwoSharpe and letting us pass.

On a caching trip inland with Coconut3 and heaps of others. I shall remember this cache for sometime. Initially those of us first on the scene couldn't spot it howver the search was disrupted as told in Nosynel's log. Water bottle safely retrieved Mr Coconuts3 reckoned he knew where it would be and sure enough, he was right! Thanks, TwoSharpe!
#7282

We thought this one was lost, but no way;--- all warm and dryish. Looked a treat to passers by with all the oldies tail up looking in that spot!!! Thank you, enjoying the chase again.

After rescuing nosynel’s water bottle with my walking pole by about three or four of us the cache was found by coconut3.

Searched for this one both times crossing. Couldn’t find it.

Had abit of a look but couldn't find. Don't know when I will be back

New Year’s Eve caching with the family and first time up around these parts.
Found with Ice Diva
TftC

Found on our day trip up to the Lakes to visit family. Forgotten how stunning this place is! Found with Conbat. TFTC!

We passed, but couldn't find any cache. One our way back from Mount Sunday, we stopped and looked on one side only. More details sent to CO, to help him determine if it is missing, or if we were looking in the wrong place. Thanks anyway for placing and maintaing caches throughout Canterbury.

We passed and while searching almost digged too deep and waked monsters from underneath. Just no cache

Nothing? And i looked very thoroughly. Only a swallow nest.

Found on an enjoyable walk up Mt Sunday!

I wanted to drive to Mt Sunday today but unfortunately the road was closed. So I decided to walk to the mountain to see this LotR location in real life. In the end it was a 34km and 8h walk, but it was worth it. TFTC!

Vacations 2019 - Road trip trough New Zealand
With Geoesposa, this was my 50th anniversary. 16 days, 4200Kms and a few hundreds smilles after, i was sure i saw nothing....

I liked everything, the friendly and civilized people, the way the country works, the roads and especially the natural beauty of New Zealand.
I fell in love....
I decided to go back in 5 years, I easily see myself living my last days somewhere lost in any stunning scenery of this wonderful country.

With the itinerary studied at home, the caches were the ones that were in the chosen places, and a few used to stretch the legs. It was decidedly not the most important on this trip. Of all the visited, only half a dozen did not appear, all being in good health except two or three.

I will use this generic log, not for disrespect of the owners, but due to the amount of caches visited. Here the majority of caches serve to show something beautiful (as it should be), not giving importance to the container.

My thanks to all the ownwers who, allied to the natural beauty of the country, have made this vacation unforgettable.

Nuno Salvador
aka ToKayx (Portugal) (translated by Google)

We went to Mount Sunday in beautiful spring Sunday afternoon. Unfortunatelly we were not lucky here.

DNF

No trolls under here either

TFTC great walk up mt sunday

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Out with BaldEd on a caching adventure in the upper parts of the Rangitata River. We were ahead of a busload of American toursts.

Still ahead of them but they are catching up as this one took a while to locate.

Cheers for the cache.

Out with Tufty on a caching trip to Erewhon. This was the second cache we sought to find ahead of the busload of American tourists that parked alongside as we exited the cachemobile. We managed to pass ahead of them. TFTC

Spending a day geocaching with Tairanium. On our way to Mount Sunday (Edoras). TFTC.

Great find with Cedsta on a day of geocaching! TFTC!

Catching up with logging my finds. We shall pass anyway

We shall pass!!!

tftc

Tftc Best place in nz (middle earth!)

I passed.

Greetings from Texas! We are enjoying Mt Sunday on day 13 of our 19 day visit to New Zealand. This is a beautiful area. Thanks for providing a great place to stop and have a look around. TFTC!

A quick find here with briarose59 tftc

Found yesterday but lack of signal prevented logging.
Got a bit wet doing this one but when we found it, it turned out we didn't need to get wet at all!

Found the cache lying in the water, the plastic bag was full of water but the log was dry inside the inner container. Placed it in a higher location so that hopefully it won't float way. TFTC

Clearly this is being found so the needs maintenance is no longer relevant

Luckily there was no Balrog to worry about here. Glad to check off another filming location. TFTC

An afternoon drive to Lake Clearwater and beyond with BCD. We drove right to the end of this road as far as we could go. Nice quick find on our way up to Mt Sunday TFTC

Found with StreetWalker on an Easter weekend trip to the Mt Somers area, and beyond.
We took one side each, and SW chose the correct one. Had to be careful not to fall into the stream. Very happy to have bridges to cross these days (apart from the first stream near the car park, but it wasn't deep) as the water looked cold and deep. TFTC.

#15387. We did (over) pass! Another bridge to troll under, but this search was a lot speedier than the last one. TFTC.

Doing the touristy thing after our walk around Lake Clearwater. With kiwitien and reshamfiriri. TFTC

#2473
We have found this cache during holiday trip around south New Zeland. Thank you for the cache!

Well we did pass! Wonder what the container originally was for?? with kiwitien and kakariki TFTC

TFTC

Found on our way back from the top. Looked for quite a while but eventually found it. TFTC

I dared to pass! Glad I did Interesting little container too.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Didn't find it after a good look.

Not there anymore

Had a day out with Brendamc who is on Holliday from the UK and grabbing some caches on the way around. Cache has been replaced and in a good sturdy position. Cheers for getting me up here.

With ABTX350

No find today

Sadly like the previous log, we couldn't find it.

Suspect we are not the first who did not find this considering all the other logs on other caches. Maybe gone, maybe just too good.

A quick found!

At the moment Pfote and me are on a work and travel backpacking trip through the world. After more than two years in Australia we took the chance to be so close to New Zealand, which is the farthest place on earth from our home. So we hopped over and will travel at least most of the south island in the upcoming weeks.

Our final part of the holiday and road trip through the South Island, before heading over to Asia. Now we'll drive from Dunedin via Lake Pukaki, Mount Cook, Lake Tekapo and of course a quick detour to Edoras.
A quick and easy find while exploring Edoras.

TFTC and greetings from Germany.

--- This log is trackable! ---
-- Feel free to discover --
-- Please mention, in which cache you've seen this code: --
-- QR3BZF --

--- Dieser Logeintrag ist trackbar ---
-- und darf discovert werden! --
-- Bitte erwähne, in welchem Cache du diesen Code gesehen hast: --
-- QR3BZF --

We are traveling around New Zealand. We are so glad that we can discover this beautiful country. We enjoy it so much. This cache was found during our travel.

Thank you. Greetings from Czech Republic

Earlier in the week I had planned a trip out to Lake Heron for a family 'Fathers Day' adventure, but when I saw a few new puzzles out this way I changed direction - and we continued out to Mt Sunday to climb it again. Blowing a gale out on the plains but nice and sheltered as we headed up the valley. Passed no traffic on the road in (from Mt Somers village) so surprised that there were 3 other cars in the carpark.....more so too as the forecast was naff, the cloud had lowered and the valley further up was dark grey and clagged in.....We came prepared though; so with raincoats on & rain starting to fall we headed off. Great fun. Quick find and sign along the way. Cheers.

A lovely day for a drive to North Canterbury with Karma Reprint and Lorok. Just passed a bunch of muggles going back, good timing. Cheers

A find in one of the usual places. Cheers

I was planning a wee raid to Ashvegas today, then noticed 3 new puzzles up Lake Clearwater way. A quick change of plan, and a text to Kiwi Moose checking on his keenness, and we were off, to a glorious part of the country.

Had a great day, and found plenty to keep us busy.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Ninalila and I went to Mt Sunday to enjoy the stunning sceneries where they filmed the lord of the ring.
At the same time we searched the boxes along the track.

We loved so much this place and the 360 degree view at the top.

All the boxes were easy to find.
We signed the logbook with our team name : lekiprokos

Thank you for the cache and the discovery

Yes we can !

Fefe.adrien and I signed on the logbook with our team name : Lekiprokos.
Tftc

Came here about a month ago. But never got around to logging. Beautiful day in my backyard

Quick find on a cool, but sunny day. TFTC

Quick find on a beautiful day out.
TFTC!

Discovered Rohan today with some friends. What an amazing landscape around here. Was really cloudy today, but fits well to the scenery. Anyway we will come back on a sunny day for a hike. Thanks for placing a cache there!

Out with redsoxbean. Visiting from Pennsylvania, USA. TFTC ^_^

Had to see Edoras while in NZ with Loth! Great hike and views. Tftc!