Dosing Strip (Canterbury) Takamatua, South Island, New Zealand
By GH6710 on 16-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6NMH1

A quick stop on the way back to my accommodation to do this unusual multi it was almost buried. And I almost missed finding it.

Found with ZEALOG who did the donkey work

Solved and now time to collect. Tftmc

Quick find on a stunning day today.

Great spot and kept us busy for a bit. Cheers

Started in Little Akaloa for an FTF and slowly made my way down to this one. Last for the day! Now back to Chch for a well earned dinner.

Quick find up the bank in the treeThanks for the multiThanks for bringing me here

Found today while on a walk from our campground. TFTC and the views don't hurt!

Out for a walk from the holiday park and going to the sculptures. Easy find. Thanks.

Theres some serious unloved with this multi! Longer log to follow on my return to Aussie

Replaced the cache and attached it to the tree. Small bison

Interesting background story.No find at what seemed the probable spot.Thanks

No luck today, shall put on my watch list.

Last day in Akaroa today. Decided to go for a walk and grab a couple of caches.
I always struggle with offset ones. But am convinced we were at the right place. There was even a perfect hiding spot but we could not find the cache

Indeed- really only one place it could be. Thanks.

Out for the day caching along the way. This was a quick find in an interesting place with no muggles about today. TFTH

First cache on my way home today. Only one logical place for this to be but there was no cache there. Couldn't spot it on the ground either. So back to the start again to retrace my steps more methodically and as I walk up I did spot the cache on the ground - happy dance! Have placed it back with a couple of rocks on top to hopefully keep it in place. TFTC # 17,309

Thanks GH6710 for the cache. It’s #1506 for us. We found your cache on 2 May 2021. Didn’t initially find cache at corrected coords. Double checked and still nothing. Then while we were walking around scratching our heads I spied it lying on the ground. Have replaced it where the hint suggests it should be.

A nice quick drive by type multi cache soon located and log signed - thanks for the cache

Love having an easy multi so a quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find

We had a couple of night's stay in Akaroa on our way down to ride the Otago Rail Trail. It's been a good twelve years since our last visit but this time was far quieter than we remembered.

The end of our walk and time for a doze for us too. It's hard work all this relaxing.

Still a good few hundred metres back to our accommodation so not too much rest allowed here.

Thanks GH6710
#2912

Found today. Thanks!

Found on a beautiful spring day with matagouri on a South Island road trip. Tftc.

Last one in a loop walk with TharntheHalken. Nice easy find as per hint. All in good order. Tftc!

A quick find with SJT_NZ while heading back to see family & friends in ChCh, thanks GH6710 for the cache, all in good order.

Found with Tregearp whilst on a quick overnight visit to Akaroa. Offset soon sorted and cache quickly in hand. Completed formalities and replaced as found. Thanks GH6710 for a third cache today.

In Akaroa for a couple of days with the family so obviously couldn’t resist in finding a few caches. Thanks for the cache

Cache number 4105

Found it easily !

Cycled up here while staying in Akaroa for a few days. TFTC Nice shady spot for a rest.

My first multi in New Zealand. What a hike from the pier. On Holland America Noordam and visiting from Hawaii. Now to hike back the same way I came. A lady on a horse stopped to ask if I was okay and mentioned that I had a long walk back to the pier. Thanks GH6710. This will be my third find of your caches. Awarded a Fav point. ️ Mahalo from Hawaii.

We took the short drive from Akaroa this morning to locate this cache. A beautiful obvious tree helped us locate the little treasure. TFTC

Found this „nearly-Traditional“ on a drive to the Heritage Garden.
TFTC
twin trapper

We love easy multis! Enjoying our time on the peninsula. Thanks for adding to our fun. TFTC

A nice easy find here on our way home from Akaroa. The cache was full of water but I managed to etch my name onto the log. TFTC.

A lovely day for a trip out to Akaroa and exploring. Enjoyed the multi and reading the history and seeing the area. Then did the required distance to the cache. Found the cache full of water, emptied out but thankfully the log is waterproof paper so could sign. Thanks for the interesting info, lovely location views and the cache GH6710.

Found after doing the children's bday walk

Quick find. But the eclipse was swimming in a pool of water. We dried the log, and added a raft of sticks under the container so hopefully it may stay a little drier. TFTC!

We were spending the afternoon in Akaroa as the boys had sailing with their Dad in the evening. The morning was spent visiting Akaroa Heads before heading back into town for a late lunch. Boys went for a walk around town to find something for dinner and I nipped out to find a couple more caches by myself and to get some Ingressing in.
Once I worked out which direction south and the correct tree it was a straight forward find.
Thanks for the hide, nice to grab an easy multi while away from home. I had already found the one in Dunsandel.

One of my rare multi caches. When I am on holiday I usually do not feel like doing a lot of counting and calculating. But here measurements were not necessary. The hiding place is quite obvious. But careful, the little tin box is guarded by some nasty insects. TFTC!

Dosing strip! Love the organisation and will to eradicate! Found on the round trip walk from Children’s Bay to Takamatua and back to Akaroa. Easy find exactly where it should be.
TFTC

removing the needs maintenance log as the cache is still there and can be signed.

On my last visit to Akaroa (5/7/2018) this cache was AWOL but was replaced a week later.. I stopped by again as I headed home today. The cache was found to be in place but it was under water this time. Fortunately the waterproof log meant that no harm had been down. I wiped the log dry and signed my name. Nice one GH7610.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

I was heading for the lighthouse at the mouth of the harbour when I realised I was passing this GZ. Brakes on!
I soon found the replacement cache (exactly where I thought it should be last time).
Nice to start my day with a find, though it wasn't to be this easy all day.
TFTC GH6710
Find # 3539

A quick find due to the cache being on the ground. Replaced back into the tree. Log is wet. TFTC

TFTC. A quick trip to the Banks Pen for a few caches.
A great blustery spring day - prefect for a caching adventure.
A fun and fairly speedy multi. Loved the local history lesson.
Thanks GH6710 for placing this cache.

Cunning spot!

JDScout and I decided to have a Campervan weekend on Akaroa. No weekend away would be complete without a spot of geocaching. Thanks for creating this geocache.
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#196 tftc

Weekend trip to Akaroa. Thanks for the hide.

What a busy road today! Thanks for the history lesson.

Another GH cache before we head back over the hill(s). Parked near the start point and followed the directions to the expected GZ and, like others, discovered a log placed in the crook. After checking that it wasn't the cache I made up a cache with a trusty Eclipse min tin and added to act as a replacement. Interesting write-up here.
T F T M and C GH6710

Destination has been reached, we arrived in Akaroa after just a couple of stop offs for caches despite the rich pickings available en-route. We needed a bathroom stop, and grab some lunch as the day was getting onto early afternoon and some places were closed or closing. After a healthy feed in a nearby establishment I left my 2 passengers for half an hour and stormed around 'town' for 4 quick finds before a few more further up the coast.

Day 2 of the trip from (usually) sunny Marlborough and an ominous day to head out into the Canterbury sunshine on this Black Friday. Truth be told it was much more of a Blue Friday with beautiful clear skies following a really heavy frost and without a puff of wind. Perfect weather to head out of the town into Banks Peninsula and Akaroa and surrounds. A healthy quota of 20 caches and a bit of diversity too with a couple of Earth caches, a LB hybrid and a few caches from Blenheim buddy GH6710. A wonderful day out was enjoyed with the family and plenty of photographic memories to look back on days when we can't, or can't be bothered, to get out and about.
Many thanks to all the Canterbury cachers for their placements.

Followed the steps of recent attemptees, nada too. Botrched together a replacement with mint-tin and a LOG RITR the CO gave me earlier this week. This will keep this one alive for now.

To keep up with my personal challenge of achieving a minimum of 10 caches finds per day I needed to find 8 caches today. After perusing a map of my unfounds it seemed that utilising the cachemobile for a trip to Akaroa would be the best bet to get the necessary caches. Chance also to have a Fish and Chip lunch too. [^]

I had hoped to make this find #6, but unfortunately there was no cache nestled.

A DNF for me.
I found the obvious spot and found a cut piece of branch in a fork and several knot holes. No cache, though. I even double and triple checked the cut branch in case it was hollowed out or hinged but it was not to be.

This brought memories of my dad, a farmer, taking the dogs up the road for their hydatids checks. A quick find and nice to have the memories. Thanks for the cache.

What an easy one this is. I remember the dosing days of olde! The amount of dogs that would swallow that pill and walk away, tail wagging and happy owners and doser person. Only for the dog to spit the pill out about 100 yards up the road! They weren't silly!!! TFTC and the history connected to it. Found with JudeE.

Found it! Easy find, kinda slippery going up and down hill.

We well remember dog dosing and what an effective treatment it proved to be. A quick little find and one we enjoyed . Thank you.

A quick easy find with JuJu54. A nicely crafted little cache which gets a favourite from us. We remember when there were dosing strips all over the country. TFTC

Another nice find with Weka. No need for dog dosing strips these days TFTC

We came to Akaroa because it is a nice small town with free camp. We want to meet some people at New Years Eve. We walked all the way up the hill and eventually we found the small container easy. This is probably our last cache 2017.
Thanks for showing! Tftc

Cache check, replaced the log.

Found it straight away as soon as I got to the right tree... had to sort out my south, south east and south south east first... cache covered in those wee bug things... gross.. GLB1721 TFTC (4113)

I’ve come across the ditch from to “tramp” (a new word for me) the Routeburn Track and see some of this beautiful South Island of New Zealand .

Today Swellerfungus and I have come for a drive to Arakoa, looking up caches on the fly and I liked the history of where it is. I managed to read it before we got too close and drove past...as did happen a couple of times.

Thanks for the history lesson.

A great bit of history attached to this cache. A quick find. We took the time to dry this one out as it was quite wet. All good now! Thanks for the cache

CZECH
to byla rychlá multi, bez luštění... šel jsem najisto, i když jsem původně tipoval jiný strom
keška leží ve vodě, není se čemu divit, že je promočená

Well done on this offset multi, good instructions and quickly found. Found with AorakiSheep

A quick stop for us for this multi. Found with debsnz

29/07/2017 1:10:00 PM
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Mum and me had a day to go caching - baby was with hubby, so no hold ups - just lots of caches was the plan for the day!!! And luckily we mainly succeeded in getting quite a few off the map! I think the final count was about 40, which is decent given that big days are getting tougher & tougher with the ones near home being pretty spaced out!

Didn't take too long to sort or find!

TFTC!!

Out for a day's caching with daughter, never mind the freezing temperatures at the early start, icy roads, and a bit of precipitation that did not promise a very nice day! It even got sunny at certain points during the day [^] We had great fun and visited some amazing spots in the process!!! Thanks to all CO's for placing great caches for us to find!!!

We returned the cache as best we could, but it was sitting in water as a result of recent rain. TFTC

#14310. A nice quick multi (especially as we parked a few metres from the cache hiding place). Interesting history in the cache page (I remember hearing about hydatids when I was a lad; mostly on the radio cancellation notices I think). TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker on a weekend trip to Akaroa, our first visit in over 7 years.
We parked very close to where we found the cache, but not before we looked in the wrong place (the instructions re not crossing the road was misinterpreted - I suppose you meant the main road, not the dirt road). Anyway, we soon realised where we needed to be, and SW scrambled up to retrieve the cache, handing it down to me to sign. TFTC.

Cool container!

Found it. Yaldhurst Rangers

The final cords were a quick grab. Cache container a bit stinky and slimy but got it signed. TFTC

Well, living in Dunsandel I know all about these things! A quick grab on the way home, cheers

Ms KR had a Christmas present to use.... a voucher for a restaurant in Akaroa. Road triiiip.

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

nice cache

Leaving my partner to renovate an old cottage in Barry's Bay I'm heading to Akaroa to find some caches
TFTC

Found it a bit wet...bag not sealed..have resealed.

Found

I remember going to dog dosing with Dad when I was a boy.

Out and about on a Monday night mad mission with TheWanglers. Heading for home and driving past; rude not to stop by and make the quick find and sign. Cheers.

TG and I headed out for the first Mad Monday Mission for 2017 and successfully found the nearby cache and decided to place a few caches as well. We grabbed a cache in Akaroa one up Flea Bay Road and we were heading home and stopped by here to make a quick find. Maybe time for one more cache on the way home.

Thanks for the cache GH6710.
#4696

My mission is my first 3 day tramp on Stewart Island. The Seagnoid has Xmas off so we are off on an epic adventure with Zara around the South Island. Zara stays put at Little River, so with trusty steed Toby, the Seagnoid navigating via phone & scribe and I delegated to log blogger and driver, we are off to explore Akaroa.
After bagging 20th Xmas, the Seagnoid says go up that road - but no there is a gate so its back to the main road. The Seagnoid had us around the place with this one before finally bagging it. Cheers

TaybeeDragon and I are off for a three day walk on Stewart Island. But we have a camper, so once you add in getting there and back, it's a three week trip. Day 3: Akaroa to Akaroa.

Initially tried to approach this cache from the road to the north but found some locked gates in the way so drove around to the proper entry point. Then the instruction about not crossing the road confused us as we both had to cross the road to get to the cache, then again to get to the final. Whichever side of the road you go, there is an obvious tree to the south at exactly 38 metres. Turns out the cache is only at one of them! In the end I realised that that was not the road the CO was referring to.

Love the inventive container!! We nearly dismissed it as rubbish before spotting the lid. TFTC

Found this interesting cache today. Had to wait a working muggle nearby but could finally grab the cache!
Thanks for hiding, good idea!

Found the other dog dosing cache some time ago, so today we had to stop here to complete them. Thanks for the interesting information - it is great to learn something while on the road. Cache was an easy find, although we crossed the road as we parked on the other side. TFTC

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Easy multi to grab on my way home. Has taken me a while to stop by and check this one out. TFTC SL.

FTF What a surprise. We remember having to take our dogs to dosing. Thank goodness we don't have to any more. TFTC

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