D2 Saint Martins, South Island, New Zealand
By HeathcoteXHunters on 14-Aug-18. Waypoint GC7W3PD

Dont think its there

This one took some time to track down this elusive cache. Finally got it snagged and tagged. CheersDay 2 - teamed up with Taybee NZ for the day caching around Christchurch , with ICUC on my radar.Zara, Toby and I are heading to the Dunedin Mega with some extra days along the way. Caught up with TaybeeNZ on 22 Oct for a day caching around Christchurch. Then made my way down to Waimati for the night. Arrived in Dunedin Thursday afternoon. Beautiful day Friday to cache around Port Chalmers. Mega Day was cold, wet and miserable and Sunday not much better. Sophia arrived on Sunday for a few days. Teamed up with TaybeeNZ for next three days touring the Catlains Monday, Stewart Island Tuesday and Milford Wednesday, then started making my way home, arriving Friday Morning.

I'm ditching dad again and heading down south for the Mega in Dunedin. During this trip I managed to do many things and meet many people over the 2 weeks I was away. Thanks to all the cache owners and other cachers for making this trip enjoyable.Day 2 of the trip. After spending the night with mum we teamed up together for the day. First was UC IC as last time mum was there it was down. Then we spent a few hours around the botanical gardens doing adlabs and caches. After that we headed up to the cabbage trees and then a few other caches. A nice quick find. TFTCAll log sheets on this trip were signed by any of the following:Taybee NZ,TBNZ,TNZ,TB/D (When I was out with mother)

Tried a while back and wasnt there easy find today TFTC

Replaced cache as a few dnfs. Keep it off the ground and branchy.Enjoy!

Searched all around the the GZ and moved some leaves around to no avail.

Couldn't find

Tftc

Think someone might have took it

Thanks for the cache, great find for the kids

Needed to go through the logs to save a long leaf-fall search. Cache is in good shape.

Got it! Takes a bit of searching!

Not sure it still there given the previous logs maybe it is will come back when less muggles and look harder TFTC

Didn't find it 25th April 2024

I might of dropped it im sorry

T+W

Found it very hard to find took me about 15 days.

Wahoo! Number two find!

Found the cache laid out in the open. It wasn't damaged, but I had no idea where the hint was pointing to so I replaced it behind one of the trees near the gate. TFTC.

Good hiding spot by a cool park

Found it, great little hide!

Our family moved to Christchurch a few months back, and since then we have had the privilege of hosting some of my Wellington Puzzlers group members for caching weekends. This weekend was TwigNZ's turn.TwigNZ made this into a quick easy fine, although he did have to widen the search area a little bit from where the coordinates were pointing us to. Thanks for the cache.

I very much love getting to visit the South Island. Until recently it wasn't something I got to do very often, but in the last year I've managed a series of mini-trips for geocaching, and here we are at the start of 2024 with another one. Just like my first SI trip in 2023, I've come to Christchurch to target a few specific caches to help with my Jasmer Grid, and qualification for a few challenges I'm currently working on.This is Day 4, my last day before catching my flight back to Wellington this evening. I wasn't sure what my plans actually were for today, but whatever they may have been was soon forgotten with the publication of a new cache. ThatDarnBear, who has kindly been hosting me for my visit, and I sat down and tried to solve it. We did well, but not quite well enough for a quick solve. A few discussions with friends soon had it sorted out and then we jumped into the car...We missed out on that FTF, but whilst we were in this area we took the opportunity to do some other caches including this one.Absolutely no problems finding this cache. No issues to report here, so once we had signed the log it was all replaced as found and we were heading back to the car.Thanks for setting this one up.

Checked all around the bushes and went on my knees to search for it but couldn't find. DNF

Thanks to the kids for hiding this! Was a great first find

Got it!

Found

A nice spot to stop on a winter's day walk. Tftc

Did not find Maybe has been taken no one has found it in a month

Found on 4June 23

Turned that frown upside down. TFTC!

Simple cash not much to it nice spot

Could not find it. Rainy day in fall does not help.

Fun!

Bright green

Found after a quick search with ruby!!

Left a TB to go on further adventures!!

Thank you for looking after this little cache!

TFTC, forgot pen once again!

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czechia, lovely gardens!

Nice day for a bike ride TFTC

Thanks D2! Nice quiet breezy afternoon for caching.

A few too many muggles around today, I'll have to come back another time

I went for a long morning walk today and found a few caches along the way. This one took me longer to locate than it should have done. I was back and forth a bit before I dived in far enough to spot the container. TFTC, Biggles.

Thanks for the maintenance. I found this one!

New cache deposited. Enjoy!

Unfortunately couldn’t find after a thorough 20min search. Will have to come back for this one

Gave geodog a few laps of the perimeter before nabbing this one. He would have complained all the way home if I hadn’t. Tftc

Took a bit but finally found

Found, but no pencil on us to write in the log book. Thanks for the cache!

Nice and easy thanks ️

Good one

Found with LittleTan finally!

Finally!
3rd time lucky.
Reading the last log I realized how close I had been on both past visits
I had avoided the wine bottle where it had been hidden.
This time it was a quick easy find as I knew the draft spot and it had been left in a more obvious place rather than buried.
TFTC- glad to finally tick this one off

Buried ! where the empty bottle is/was pointing; TFTC

Looked hard but no luck! Will come back later.

2nd attempt, this time with my caching buddy- no luck so logging as a DNF
This time of year isn't the best for searching in leafy areas.
First unsuccessful search was 10/5/22

Good hide took me a while but I found it.

Cool find my old teacher created it I think

Getting a few in to keep in touch with a target I want to get to by the year... Starting to fall behind already. I must always let the GPS settle a little before going on get first...... It might save me going in the wing direction. Well hidden, found a little bit by car chance - but found nevertheless. Cheers!

Quick find, thanks!

Couldn’t find. Will have to try another time.

Fun tftc

Thank you D2. You must have a pretty cool teacher!

Thanks D2 & co. Great little cache with some nice swaps!

Yahoo found it
Took a wee while to get to it but good cache!

Thanks HeathcoteXHunters for replacing the cache. A quick find this time and easier than the hint lead me to believe. Found a pen close by if anyone has lost it. tftc

Replaced Cache 14/9/21

Darn

Hunted around for quite a while but no luck for us today.

Looked hard, could find it.

M

Thanks D2!

Easy find

Nice little cache as we biked across town.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Had to be careful not to stand on windfallen plums.

Beautiful day to be out ... 4 out of 4 finds today. Whoop whoop TFTC

Last cache to get the wonders of the world souvenir

First find

Nice quick find on a lovely warm day with my family

First for today

Easy find this time.

Isaac and Jaxon

Easy

Quick find.

swag

I looked for ages but couldn’t find it

TFTC.

Found

Good fun

Scrambled about for a while before homing in on the right tree but then saw it quickly. TFTC

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1719 February 8, 2020 11:14

First stop on my morning walk.

Honestly I looked high and low, and just couldn't find it. I know it is somewhere on the ground but I just couldn't find it.

Yay

Found it

Found 4.01.20

Took a moment or two but got it in the end. Tftc

Last day in the big city and last day of the year , decided to park up and wander the area today collecting caches as I go ..and a bit of cito as well

First place I looked....we like those ones tftc

Good and easy find, TFTC. Good job D2/Lucky Lucy

Visited by a welcome swallow whilst Moneydork was logging the cache. Cheers Gav