Tennis time Ashburton, South Island, New Zealand
By salvation army on 25-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7HHB9

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi salvation army

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

No luck unfortunately

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Nothing spotted

Think it’s been taken

I didn’t find it probably because it’s been moved

No luck for us.

Found the perfect spot that also appears to have had some activity but nothing there nor in other likely spots

Couldnt find this one. Hopefully better luck next time.

In town a bit early to chase a hockey ball round the turf so thought I'd kill some time with a nearby cache. Cheers.

During our vacation in New Zealand we did some geocaching. We saw a lots of amazing places and say thank you to everyone who shared his geocache with us.

Greetings from Germany!
Rote Teufel

A nice place to stop

Labour Weekend means a camper van holiday. Morning tea stop. A great place to sit and relax.

Thanks salvation army for placing this geocache 7889 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. 
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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.

Heading up to CHCH with KJR for a make shift mega as there wasn't one planned in the south island this year. Stayed in Temuka for the night with some friends and pasted this one the next morning on our way up to CHCH. Nice and easy find TFTC

Heading to Christchurch with Gadget169 to meet up with some Dunedin/Invercargill cachers for a long weekend geocaching adventure and found this along the way TFTC

(:-) On holiday from UK visiting family here in Ashburton. Tried to find this one last August 2018 when we were here. As previous finder said, the log sheet was rather dam and I am sorry that I did not have a spare log sheet with me. However I just managed to find a slightly dry bit to sign. My log reads "3/10/19 G/Col" G/Col short version of GreenColonel. Put everything back as I found it. TFTC

Found it after a wee look,I couldn't write on paper as it's all wet and going mouldy,thanks anyway,would you mind if I replaced it with new paper so I can sign it off and it can keep going?

Easy find

Quick grab on the way home. - Bitsprayer

1st cache in Ashburton. Used to live here befire gc days so really excited to be back. Weather of course is not behaving but managed a break in between showers. Thanks for cache

#276 - 03/09/2019 16:53 - quiet park, we stopped after getting some food at McDo.
Logbook quite wet but managed with 10anna10 to write.
Container was exposed so we covered a bit.
TFTC

Cool spot tftc

Great spot for a picnic easy find

Easy find but damp log will be compost very soon

Another quick find but log also very damp. TFTC

Yeay found it

It is a very wet piece of paper. Maybe the next person should take a new sheet. Nice easy one to find

So here I am over the Queens Birthday weekend on a 2000km work road trip visiting six of our South Island branches between Nelson and Wanaka performing server upgrades as I go.

A quick loop around my hotel area to seek out a couple of caches: 1 find and 1 DNF so far, but at least this find here keeps me in the positive.

Thanks salvation army
#2401

Logged using Cachly.

25/05/2019 5:31:00 PM
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Hadn't been out caching for the day with mum in forever, so had arranged today as a day to colour in the calendar a bit more, and find a whole bunch more caches if possible.

We ended up with about 40 for the day, along with a few DNFs, and ended up somehow all the way in Ashburton - that was not fully expected - but the places caching takes you! Haha!

Was so great to tick so many off, and great to just have a day of annual leave off motherhood too, while hubby looked after little miss 2, so I could head out & play!

Thanks to all the COs that we could have this day!

TFTC!!

Geocaching date with daughter for the whole day, yipee! The hardest part was to aim for those neither of us has found, so there was a slight overlap. Great fun and good chats along the way. TFTC!!

Quick find. Log a bit damp but could still fill it in. Thank you

My first geocache

First geocache find with Dadabad

Cool

It was fun

Dancing Queen 25252, Yogiteam2 and myself are on a 4-weeks-geocaching-tour in New Zealand. Many thanks for the cache and best regards from three German geocachers.

On the tour with crypto51, Dancing Queen25252 and myself on our list are very interesting caches, also this.
We found the cache good.
Best regards from a German geocacher. TFTC.

It was our first one, looking forward to our next one

This is day five of a ten day trip down to Dunedin and back to move my daughter there so she can get her master’s degree at Otago University. I am now heading to Christchurch and staying for two nights.

This was an easy find and suitable for the first find for new Geocachers. TFTC.

A quick find and my last for the day as I now have the event to get to.

Found with muggle sister who joined me for a trip to Ashburton for the day and attend Kiwi Nomad's event. Cache was uncovered so covered after signing the log.

Thanks for the cache, found with the help of my grandson Hami

Nice spot.
Thanks.

Found easily but logbook is very damp
TFTC though

Out for a job. Must cache.

We'd been down to visit my wife's parents on their 67th wedding anniversary and I still needed a cache today for my streak. This was the closest and the thundery weather appeared to be here.
The find was quick, and so was the signing of the (slightly damp) log. I made it back to the car just as the rain started!
TFTC salvation army
Find # 3696

I was going about my daily business and started thinking I had not been caching for a while.... so looked for the closest one unfound... and this one was it... so pulled the trusty steed over and found the hidden gem in no time at all TFTC in perfect condition

A quick find as I drove by on the way back to Christchurch after Strawberry Fare in Waimate. Thanks for placing the cache. #3454

To continue with my personal challenge of having found a minimum of 10 caches for every day of the year I needed to find 2 caches today to bring my total finds for the 24th November to 10.

Having earlier found my 2 required caches for the day I was now in 'bonus' cache time. As I headed back to the travel trailer I found myself driving down the street passing this cache's GZ. How could I not stop and sign for another smilie? Thanks for cache salvation army.

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Called here this afternoon before leaving Ashburton to head for Christchurch. A quick find. Signed the new log sheet, TFTC.

Tftc. Travel bug left

Actually trackable doesn’t fit in vessel sorry!

With our grand kids and a young friend hoping to find this one. Always another day to try again.

At first I thought this one had gone AWOL but then I spied it. What a bold hide - amazing that it stays there. Gave it a bit of natural camo. TFTC salvation army # 12,857

Ahh, the park, the home of many many caches over the years. Cheers again SA.

A quick and easy find. Thanks

A little cruise to AshVegas and back for an anniversary lunch. And a few caches too, of course.

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

All quiet at GZ made for quick find. TFTC

Mad Monday Mission with TG. Nice to get out for an evenings adventure.
DNFed this last time. Nice to knock it off.

Thanks for the cache salvation army.
#5453

Monday night Mad Mission night with TheWanglers. Due to one thing or another it's been a couples weeks since our last adventure....so a bit of drizzly rain couldn't put us off (well; to be honest, it almost did)....Decided to head Ashburton way for a cache or two & a good catch up natter along the way (and head back before it got too late).
DNF last time we were here - had to have been muggled last time as it was a quick find today in the obvious spot. Thanks for maintaining.....

Nice easy find. Thanks

Find number 4001. I was down for the Indoor Bowls in Ashburton and we were on the way to the stadium to start play for the day. Yesterday I had taken our group (mostly muggles) on a bit of excursion (see log on cache GC7Q8JX Limestone Cottage I promised them a simple find. We were able to park up right beside GZ. Walk a few metres. Grab the cache and return. Thank you for the placement.

Youngest Mitangie found this while brother was playing saturday football.

Signed ss Aslan lovely tree

Nice easy find on a great day out with storm. TFTH

Found what I think is the cache..a few pieces of paper hiding under a stone with a jar and lid both lying on the ground close by. Have signed this one as being found and have placed back where found and nicely covered. Tftc

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

Figured I'd take a wee detour from my normal route to the gym for this cache. Easily found. Tftc

Quick find after we realised that GZ is not at the tennis court

Nice easy find, many thanks

The Road was quiet today and the Cache was quickly found.TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

This one has probably gone. I searches several other nearby hiding objects including some on the other side of the road. Blowing up the map and looking at the satellite view the icon is on the feature that I concentrated on. The hiding place that fitted the description is exposed to inquisitive children and has probably been discovered by them. The cache has been found frequently until the end of February and nothing since, another indication that it is gone as lots of people do not like to log a DNF.

Fun and easy to find

No luck today!

Monday night mad mission with TheWanglers. After performing some maintenance on caches along Thompsons Track we detoured in to Ashburton to find a cache or two before returning home. GPS pointed to a good looking tree...and we found a snug spot at ground level with a few twigs/sticks (covering camo?) next to it but no cache. AWOL or else our torches gave us tunnel vision and we over looked a better spot hiding the cache nearby?....

We were pleased that we had the park to ourselves, it might be more difficult at the weekend. TFTC

Fun and easy to find

TFTC SL. Easy find. The cache container was full of water and I could see how it was supposed to work but it was broken. Which made the log book difficult to remove. Replaced as found. Fun having another cache close to home.

Log book dry.

Quick find on the way back from Christchurch. TFTC

Found!

Found

Out for a walk to catch up on a few local caches. Nice hide! TFTC

Found it, tennis time

Tftc

A fairly quick find, although, although getting into the cache was quite difficult. A fun cache which gets a favourite from us. TFTC

#15171. Another fun, nicely themed container. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a Waitangi Day excursion to mid Canterbury, concentrating on the area between SH1 and the Rangitata and Ashburton rivers.
We enjoyed the variety of cache containers we found as we slowly made our way to the domain for the event. TFTC.

On a waitangi day mission to the big city to get some numbers . have set myself a target of 5000 finds by the end of the year ,thats an average of 106 a month so a few more road trips on the cards luckily the rain has stopped
after a full day caching it was time to head home but first a few new ones in ash vegas then on to the local event
nice quick find tftc

A peaceful spot and we just knew it had to be there!!!! Love that kind. The container was very hard to manage, especially putting the log back in. Thanks.

Great cache thanks to the co

Nice container nice place for a picnic

Published

Got the notification of a new cache and was watching a movie and thought well the movie can wait so off I go.
Approaching gz I seen someone quickly jump back in their car and I thought bugger I missed it but upon finding and opening the cache I opened an empty logbook.
Made the sign and just as I was pulling away another car pulled in, maybe someone else trying for the ftf?
Another [FTF] to add to my count for the year and another one closer to my caching goals tftc