Down By The Ducks (Christchurch) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By Sambolini on 06-Jul-18. Waypoint GC7T73X

Golly no ducks but an eel swam past . Took a while but got it phew TFTC

NZ_B and I are on a road trip to the Geo Toroa Mega. I'm also hoping to get a multi everyday, so it is now titled the "Mega Multi Road Trip". Today is Day 3 and our second day in Christchurch. This cache was one on our journey. Took a bit of searching before the find was made. It's nice to have a trip where alongside targeted caches we also take time to find one's on a whim or ones that take a bit longer. We have all day and the caches are calling...

Quack, quack, quack. It took a wee while to spot this cache, but perseverance was the name of the game here. A muggle on a walk was quite interested in what I was doing and was I ok -well, I did have my head down, rear end in the air and I was near water .TFTC Sambolini.And so 7 days after returning home from a five month trip to the UK and Europe, I am off on another trip. This time its within New Zealand as Itchyfeet2020 and I are on our mega road trip to Dunedin. We are focussing on particular caches for various challenges, as well as having a great lot of fun and seeing the scenery in our wonderful land. -LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!!On May 3rd, 2025, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in Rotorua, New Zealand with a special Block Party event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the "[GCAKR25](https://coord.info/GCAKR25) 25 Years of Geocaching NZ! event page, the [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz/) for more details, join the [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz/?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your "Will Attend" log onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.-

Found eventually, I feel the ducks are move able than the hint suggests. tftc

Took us a while to find. TFTC!

Ttfc

No giving up will be back!

Stopped at this cache while visiting **New Zealand**! [^]**My #151st visited Geocaching country!**---This cache was easily found and the logbook was signed.One more smiley face for me in the GEO map.Everything was in good condittion.Thank you for hiding this cache and showing me this place! ---Greetings from ***Riga, Latvia***! [^]**Happy caching!**----------***For a little entertainment, here are 10 Fun Facts about Latvia!*** 1) Latvia is among the worlds greenest countries.2) Its home of the first Christmas tree.3) The Latvian flag is considered by many to be the oldest national flag in the world.4) Country has the widest waterfall in Europe.5) Latvia boasts the finest Art Nouveau architecture in the world.6) Jacob W. Davis, a Latvian tailor, was an inventor of rivets on famous Jean pants.7) The Latvian Song & Dance Festival is recognised by UNESCO as the largest amateur song and dance festival in the world!8) Alexander Laime, a famous Latvian-born explorer. He is most noted for being the first recorded human to reach Angel Falls (highest waterfall on earth), located in Venezuela, by foot.9) Latvians love basketball and Ice Hockey.10) Latvia is famous for being the home country of the inventor of the flavor of Pringles.----------..\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",.\...\ ------- **MATISONS!** ------- \....\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",..\.....\......\ /// \Paldies/ Aith / Ai / Thanks / Merci / Gracias / Danke / Bedankt / / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon

Tyfc

Found with ThatDarnBear no log inside but have put a small sheet in until you can replace

Out this afternoon with MomsOB finding some caches for my Bakers Dozen challenge. Interesting find. Took less than a minute to locate, but very confused when I opened the cache and it was empty. Have added a fresh sheet of waterproof paper and replaced as found.No ducks around, but a very friendly cat. Thanks for the cache.

I've been here before for an unsuccessful search so thought I'd have another go. Had a long look around 3 potential sites that matched the hint but nothing. Read some logs but again came away empty handed. No idea about this one!

I obviously don't have my brain tuned to Christchurch hides.... Nice location though, but no ducks spotted!

The log was way too wet to sign, but we found the cache anyway. Excellent hide, nearly had us stumped! TfTC.

Have looked for this one before but got fixated on what seems like the obvious spot but isn't. Having read previous logs which suggested feeding ducks not trolls, I returned this evening and made a quick find.The logbook is in need of some TLC. TFTC.

Quick find while travelling after a family wedding.Thank you for placing the cache. I have enjoyed my opportunity to cache on Te Waipounamu (South Island Aotearoa New Zealand). I acknowledge the Maori iwi of Waipounamu, the custodians of this beautiful land.

TFTC. Clue spot on. Didn't sign as log totally wet.

Found after 10 minutes or so. Only found it due to the comment that others are referring to TFTC

I'm waiting for my son to let me know he's done partying, so I'm stoked around night caching. Nice one to go after a dnf just down the road. Made a night tick tok as well. Lols fun times. Oh and plenty of muzee and pokemon things as well

Found using a Trackme NZ supplied Garmin Montana 750i GPS inReach, connected with Trackme Pro+ to the iridium network for tracking and 2 way communications, 100% coverage around the world .
Thank you for bringing me to this area Sambolini and for placing and maintaining Down By The Ducks (Christchurch) geocache from Mr Cuddly Brick
Found on this awesome day the 26 August 2023.
Cache number # 2595
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3rd time lucky!! Accidental finding but stayed on the right side of the bridge. Helpful reading from other finds. Thanks for the cache!!

Found it! As the previous finder said the book is too wet to sign but I took a pic for proof. Good hunt for the kids

Made very hard work of this one, anyway the log was too wet to sign, so a photo was taken; TFTC

In Christchurch with AlpiSteve for Matariki weekend and time for another geo scooter adventure before meeting friends for lunch nearby. Took a wee while to locate this one and reading previous logs certainly helped...one in particular. Logbook very wet but dried enough to add our names TFTC

Found eventually with KJR, nice hide! Good fun! TFTC

A bit of a later night find than I intended, but after a bit of a look at a few possibilites I made the find. Nice, another day of streaking completed.
TFTC Sambolini, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 1 today, making this find #4175

Took a wee while to locate. A nice wee spot tucked away. Cache is very wet so cant sign the log. Have photo if needed. Tftc

Found it first time - kind of over thought it as too many interesting places was more prosaic TFTC

That’s where it was this whole time????!!!

Guys. This cache. I’ve had more attempts on this cache than any other by a lot. Pushing double digits. I have made this one a stop on many a caching expedition, trip to the dentist, grocery store run, and Sunday morning bike ride. Some of my caching friends have witnessed some comical acrobatics as I went over this area inch by inch. I know more about this little plot of land than I do my own backyard.

I decided today was the day. I would not be defeated.

So as I sat there feeling defeated I took a careful look from a distance. I saw a thing! Maybe it’s there! Turns out it wasn’t but as I scrambled away from said thing I uncovered the cache with my foot.

Success! My DNF avenging tour continues!

Its raining lets find cache Tftc

Gentley managed to sign the damp log. Water flowing well through here tonight. No ducks.

TFTC, found on a night walk with sidthesusguy (no premium acc so didn't log) took a photo as it was very wet.

Found. But couldn't log as I dropped my pencil in the stream Leave for uk in the morning. TFTC. Photo'ed without giving game away.

Day 1on our holiday in New Zealand. On our tour, we visited also this traditional cache, searched, found the box, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many thanks to Sambolini for hiding, and maintaining this cache***. ️

Great day for the ducks

What a lovely wee creek. Spent a few minutes on a more ambitious hiding spot before the geosense was triggered. Enjoyed watching the bullys in the creek. Tftc!

Cute little spot close to where we are staying. Hello from Connecticut, USA!!staying in Christchurch for a few weeks to visit my muggle bf who is here until May. Geocaching tends to give you great tours of cities. Thanks for the hide. This one had us stumped for about 20 minutes.

A nice quick find! TFTC!

This is my fifth go at this one. WiscoBryo and I spent a good half hour searching the obvious thing and the not so obvious things. Not sure where else to check.

Terrain and difficulty had me looking in some more obscure locations but ended up finding it in a simpler location. TFTC!

Was raining so was just about to give up. Then out of the blue I just found it. TFTC

I managed to get my wife to accompany me. I was looking in the wrong side of the water. She said why don't you look over there and back there it was. Thanks.

Not doing well with my solo geocaching at the moment. Disappointed I could not find it. Geosense might be failing .

Quick find. Tftc

What a lovely spot!!!

After establishing that the cache is not a troll, my coords still wouldn't settle so I stood back, used my and geosense and soon spotted a likely possibility....

Muggle gardeners and builders working nearby meant I had to act casual- taking a scenic rest to reach down and retrieve the cache.
Container is now a film canister.

Bag is wet and the logbook is damp but quite able to be signed.
TFTC
*quack quack*

Found with Makiwi as we were about to leave lol, our first proper geocache outing and forgot to bring a pen! Enjoyed the quiet gurgling drainpipe sounds too.

Will have to come back, spent a while looking was a nice walk though!

Visiting from Rotorua and found a street with my name and a cache for a bonus. This is a must have.

Unfortunately not. Nice and peaceful though. Thanks.

I’m sure I’ve looked for this one before without too much success but today made an instant find. Many new townhouses

Very cool! Was quite hard and almost gave up but luckily didn’t and found it in the end. Water was in the container so might wanna change that but all in all TFTC️️

Nice quick find while visiting with tmann421 today
Enjoyed the challenge of the find
Signed log tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Geocaching around Christchurch with woolwood9.
Weather has taken a turn for the worse - lots of rain now and everything wet!
We soon had the container found. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
*Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit, we enjoyed the drive / walk around!*

Took a bit of thinking but soon enough had cache in hand.

4.09pm found with a friendly nudge. TFTC

Thanks for the fine

TFTC Sambolini
Signed with GCC stamp or hand written.
Replaced log
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Cache 367
Logged with cachly.

Cache is needing a maintenance run.

Found, but it's in a bad way... mushy log. I'll swing by and replace some time unless CO says they've done some maintenance

Found today but needs a new log - mushy!

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

Found empty Sistema container at GZ.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Took me a while. Log too wet to sign, so sent CO a pic. Lovely stop on my way home from town to North Canterbury. TFTC

Back in the big city for a search and rescue workshop weekend so a great chance to knock of a few more caches...
Early morning stroll round the block...reading a few logs help eliminate a few places so didn't take to long to discover ..log to wet to write on needs some TLC..tftc

By jingo, no luck for me. Hmm, I'll be back. Cheers

What a gorgeous wee area. Found the cache but unfortunately the log book was wet. Thanks for the cache

Container is in good condition. Logbook is moldy.

Mrs Biggles and I are on our way to Dunedin for our daughter's graduation. We have stopped in Christchurch to break up the trip. After we settled into our motel, I went for a walk to find a couple of caches. This is the first one I came to. TFTC, Biggles.

Very over grown we sting metal dnf

fun to find i was stumped at first with SonofAnarchy and Purdie269 + Geomurph

Lovely quiet spot here with no one around. Enjoyed sitting here in the sun for a break. Mr C found the cache and Mrs C signed the log, no ducks today. Thanks for this cache Sambolini.

Taking in mind the capabilities of ducks nowadays, it took us a few minutes to find the right spot. But there it was. TFTC

Todays walk in the beautiful weather took us to Abberley park. Very few people around because of the curfue.

Continued west to get closer to the ducks. After a short walk we found the small bridge and started looking for a hide. Thought it should be difficult, but found the wet container within a minute. Left it to dry for a while and then put it back where it belonged.

Thanks for the cache!

Greetings from Sweden.

No. 865 at 10.10 pm. Found without GPS, as usual. Got a little help from bypassing nice lady neighbour for exact location, in the dark. TFTC SL. Greetings from a Norwegian walker.

Took a little to find it after doing a few virtual waypoints. Cheers Gav

A nice easy find

nearly gave up, be careful not to slip in the river!

Today I'm flying home again.
On my last day in Christchurch I could still find this can.
Thank you for this cache says Pöni.

First day back to work after a summer vacation, I decided we should keep on looking for geocaches. On the way back from preschool we stopped to look at the truck digging. A lot of trees have been removed in the area. I sit and find the cache in just a second. Wow, after not finding it two times... I guess it's my gift for making it through the first day back at work... Container is in good condition. Logbook is moldy, I let it dry a bit in the sun, while little one was looking at the digger. Thanks for placing this here!

Was almost sitting on it so a quick find. Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

One guardian white and rough, David to the Goliaths around it, hiding in a very small cave.

Extra aus Germany gekommen um zu loggen...

Great place for it. Definitely over thought it. One of the comments helped. Amazing cache!

#0256
After a couple of rainy and cold days, it turns out all sunny and warm, so I decided to take a walk in the St Albans and Merivale areas. Last time I was here for the super long cache adventure alongside the Strovan stream, and left several caches unfound along the way.

Last time here I took nearly 15 mins to search but no luck. Somehow today I sensed where it could've been and headed directly to it, bingo! cache at hand! It was less than 30s.

TFTC!

A cooperative find here where a number of Canty cachers made the discovery for us to share. Tftc to both the placer and the finder.

Called in here with grandchildren Genevieve and Joel after attending the event. Took a bit of searching and thinking, and suggestions by Genevieve and Joel, but, in the end, Rodney found the hiding place and the container. We did see one duck! That is for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

I searched for this one before a nearby event unsuccessfully. After the event Jude_E, RandD, Warfi and ivss_xx watched. I was kind of guided to finding it. Thanks Sambolini for placing this geocache 7628 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.

Was meeting a bunch of keen searchers after nearby event, but I got here before them and found some other lovely people already there. Thanks for the fun

Searched down, and up, and around for about 20 minutes with junior cacher. No luck today for us - elusive cache!

Found cache quickly safe and sound despite the last two dnf's. Looked around for somewhere that matched the hint and voila.

Today, we went on a bike ride to grab some caches. We were not fortunate, and found only 3/8. This looked as a tricky one, as many previous cachers took several visits to find it. As we didn't find a lot today, we decided we would come back on a luckier (or at least better geocaching sense) day. We couldn't spot any ducks either.

Weather and time restraints were against us but still had a pretty decent search.

23/06/2019 6:40:00 AM
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After the event in town this morning, mum and I went for a wee drive to find some more caches while the whole world was still sleeping.

We aimed for some high muggle zones, and some that were new & on the way home.

Good to find this after a DNF a couple weeks ago! Can't believe I missed it!

TFTC!!

Since we were already up (mostly) and about so early in the morning, we decided to go and find some caches of course with daughter! We were encouraged by a recent find. I was stuck under the bridge when daughter, who dnf'ed it before, yelled out that she's got it. TFTC!!

Back out again after an early morning dash to Abberly Park for the new cache there. No ducks in sight on this cold foggy morning. I was surprised to find the log in the first place I checked. TFTC # 13,960

Nope. No luck. Spent forever, but still couldn't find it! I swear I looked in every angle possible!

No luck with this one. Carried on to CCMC.

Today is a calendar day for both StreetWalkerNZ and me, so we set out after dinner to find a couple of caches. Our first stop of the evening, the new adventure cache, successfully resulted in a find at the first WP, but for yesterday, not today. Grrr!
We changed tack, and decided to look for a couple trads instead. This was the first and fortunately, SW had sussed out the hide on an earlier scouting mission, so it wasn't a difficult find in the dark. Sat on the handy seat to do the paperwork.
No ducks tonight, perhaps all tucked up in bed. TFTC.

#17168. Needed a couple of caches after work. Luckily I had scouted out the location of this cache on a daytime visit some time back, so it wasn't too hard to find in the dark. TFTC.

Found this one while in ChCh for a week with my daughter.
TFTC

Tftc, 3rd time lucky, I think the best clue is the title of the name, I over thought it the first two visits

Oh goodness... was trying to show my brothers girlfriend how fun geocaching was and we had gone 0 for 2.. started getting a lil frustrated but then spotted the little piece out of place:) thanks for the hints!