T2C - Danger, do not dig. Ealing, South Island, New Zealand
By phlexish on 19-Dec-17. Waypoint GC7G7D6

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there we had stayed the night nearby & were now heading North again took to the back-roads just to nab a couple of caches they both turned out to be easy finds, log-books completed & replaced as found were also pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:LS this was #6,409 for us!

Took Heidi the Himalayan motorcycle for an overnight adventure, with the primary purpose to cache out the seaward side of SH1 south of Rakaia to the Ashburton River. After a largely productive day one and a night spent at Hakatere Campsite, a neat little unattended patch of grass on the side of a dead-end road right on the coast, I rose like the Undead to consume several coffees and continue my mid-week weekend mission.Day two consisted of many more kilometers of sealed and unsealed country roads, heading south to visit a Parental, then striking inland via the scenic route back to Home Base.TFTC

No digging required to find this one! TFTC

Cool, found it

Mrs Biggles and I are on the road from Dunsandel to Timaru (D2T) finding a few caches along the way. Found this cache in the logical place. TFTC, Biggles.

Nice and easy find in the middle of the countryside

A short detour on my way to Temuka to quickly find the cache

Staying nearby. Nice day for a bike ride. TFTC

The log was dry but tricky to extract from the tiny cache container. A road never traveled before; TFTC

Very cool little cache

A great container to find. TFTC

A great container - we really liked it. TFTC

TFTC never seen one like that before clever.

On a roadie with Hal2929 today picking newer and not so new caches. Quickly found. Thanks for placing phlexish. FP from me

On a roadie with Kiscardi getting some caches. All good. A favorite point awarded.

Quick easy find.TFTC

Quick find on the way to Dunedin

#12176

Out for a drive to get some caches for the last part of the reach the peaks challenge. This was a nice and easy find. Thanks gir he cache.

Full log to come

Found on way back to Rakaia after a walk at Mt Peel. Quick find

Out and about to collect some new smilies on my map. I made a good loop today and visited some great spots and this was one of them. TFTH

Found

On a trip down in the lower South Island with woolwood9.
We soon had the container found SL: **tm/ww NZ**
*Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit*

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

A quick easy find of a most unusual but appropriate container. TFTC

26 January 2021 15:10 Number 9171. signed as IE. log fiddly to extract and replace. TFTC

What a hot day it is today! The mountains are so clear. Having a short trip from Invercargill to Christchurch with Infoferret finding lots of caches, in particular the TMGT caches for me.
The cache may be signed with our individual names or ‘IE’.
Many TFTC.

A wee venture off the beaten track amongst all the sunset sandflies. A nice and easy find.
Thanks for the cache! Signed as L A

The logbook should be replaced. It is very moist and most of the signatures are now illegible.

Found it. Tftc

A quick find today while taking the road less travelled. TFTC

As I drove up, I was thinking that this cache seemed to be missing any point. Then I spotted the camo. aha - then it made sense. Nice. TFTC.

Good that we have to drive this road only once to find some caches... Quick find, TFTC

Photo log

Just picking up a few on the way home,

TFTC

If you turn left then first right and go along there for 2km you will find something.... Mrs abxt350 said as we were driving south... I did as I was told and I have a smiley now. Cheers

I was heading to Temuka for the weekend, good opportunity to find a few along the way. I did not dig!! TFTC!!

Found with my wife on her birthday.

Happy Birthday to me. JDScout and I are having a long weekend at Fairlie. We had a fantastic day skiing at Dobson today. Thankfully there was still a little time for geocaching. It was easy to find. Tricky to extract.Thanks phlexish for placing this geocache 7615 find for me.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Nice and easy on a typical farm road. Awesome

Farmer nearby, must have between suspicious at our sudden halt

An easy find. The guy on the tractor down the road must have thought we were a bit weird as we drove passed the cache and had to back up again.

Second cache on my way to Timaru for dinner, mum's night out. The name made perfect sense when I got to GZ. Had overshot it so had to turn around and go back. Quiet road and I was back in my car before anyone drove past to take any notice of what I was doing. Got almost to the end of the road before remembering I wanted to take a photo to remember the cache by.
Thanks for the hide.

Found all safe and secure in perfect condition just out of timaru tftc

Out with Busy paws today, we found this one no problem, cache in good order. TFTC.

No need to dig this smiley out! TFTC

Another dusty road. Just as well the cache mobile is used to it. nice cache but hard to extract the log. TFTC

Nice easy park and collect. No hint needed. Cheers.

Found with Ice Diva and nephews

Quick park and grab on the way to the Bach. Found with Conbat and rileylowe11 (RL11). TFTC!

Heading home after a fun weekend in Christchurch and a few planned stops along the way to help me with my goal of getting to #3000 by the end of the year. Bit of a detour along this road and a quick find TFTC

I am off today to locate and sign off at least 6 caches for my personal challenge. I have parked my snail shell up at Ealing for a few days to allow me to discover this area's caches.

I called in to sign it off.

Cheers for the cache.

The log was as Team_Gaters said but worse. I was carrying replacement waterproof ones so have removed the mush. This one should last a while. Great container! #3083

Was initially planning a trip to Geraldine tomorrow (Sunday) to bike the river trails but forecast rain made me come today (Saturday). Frosty morning but a lovely sunny day. Bit late leaving home but all good. Will see how many I can find!
After completing the river trail Geraldine and finding a quick snack for tea it was time to head for home. Cut across to the main road to avoid the frosty iceness of the inland road. Snuck in this sideroad to make the couple finds along it. Silage rolls already had a layer of frost on top - made it easy to have a running slide over the top! Log mush - managed to just leave a mark. With the bicycle on teh back I couldnt access a replacement log from the car boot sorry! It'll need replacing.

A quick grab behind the silage roll on the way south. Interesting, Enable in the neighbourhood eh? Cheers

A quick and easy find. lid was open on the cache, is closed now. Thanks

A wee day trip today to Geraldine and back. A nice day for it, not too hot, nor too cold.

Thanks to the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches. Cheers.

The centre of that road nearly did our exhaust system in!!! However we rode in along the high part and all was well. Used our trusty dentist's tool again to extract. Thanks.

Good quick find, TFTC

The Snake at GZ has gone..and it was a nice quick find.

Long white snake has moved. #1962

But of a detour

#15155. The long white snake seemed easily able to support my weight, and I was soon over the top and signing the log. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a Waitangi Day excursion to mid Canterbury, concentrating on the area between SH1 and the Rangitata and Ashburton rivers.
Had to do a bit of climbing over a long white snake to get to GZ - so let SW retrieve this one . TFTC.

Great day out caching in the area, lot of neat caches, and interesting spots. many thanks the cache - Bitsprayer

Doing enough digging at home so didn't feel the urge.

7736. A quick find in the rain. Three days caching holiday around Geraldine. TFTC Rodney and Iris.

Got a new bike for Christmas so decided to go for a drive down to the Orari river MTB rack. Found a few on the way down and back as well. Enjoyed my day out and the bike went pretty well, shame about the operator. Thanks to all the CO's for the hides and sorry about the cut and paste.

Love the container thanks

Great container lucky we had something small in car to help get log out .

Another successful find

A lovely day to go for a drive on country roads. TFTC

After a 2nd to find down the road I expected to be the same here so was quite surprised to be 3TF. No problem just another smilely to add to the total after all. TCTC # 11,667

Published

Got the email and thought I was going to miss the ftf as I had slept in this morning.
A quick race out before going to help with a few things before Christmas.
I was surprised to get to the first one and find that I was indeed [FTF]
Tftc

2nd tf. Grrrr.
These popped up while pat was doing his rounds so didn't expect a ftf , but when I finished still no log . quick dash home to check on the kids and back out the door on the hunt left the kids finishing the jobs I had set
Pulled up at gz and still nothing finally extracted the log to to find another name had take ftf grrrrr.
Txt the culprit to thank him for my hopes being dash (at which he had a Lol moment and promptly logged his find).
Ah well save the other one for tomorrow on the way to the races. Better get back and check on the kids . look forward to the rest in the series tftc