Gnome Chomsky Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community, South Island, New Zealand
By Spankymoore on 31-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95R5R

Needs maintenance wet log going moldy

Almond thought we were locked out. But hurray we were not TFTC

The garden was locked

thanks

Thanks for my first find!

Found it, thanks

Spotted right away. As previously stated, container is wet and log book soaked. Thanks!

Found with Lou and Ella! Needs some maintenance.. zip lock bag is ripped and book/inside of cache is water damaged

The inside of this cache has water in it, damaging the book and toys. Might need a new Ziploc bag and logbook.

TFTC. Thought you had to enter the garden but you dont, cheers.

Nice hiding spot but wet inside and paper all wet - can't record details - may need replacing

Cool hiding spot. Thanks for the cache!

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Log book was wet

Found. A bit wet

Thanks! Log book is soaking wet though

Log book is soaking wet. Didn't leave a message

Thank you

Quick find. Cache waterlogget.

Found after some searching. Cracked container and the inside was soaking. It needs urgent attention. TFTH.

See last log. Cracked container, wet inside, and soaking log.

**Day**Doing a tour in and around Christchurch by bike. Nice and easy going on the flat terrain. Just had the webcam cache as main target and doing a lot of tradies and labs along the way. After a while the idea came to make this my day with the most different cache types found. Unfortunately I could not see an event for today but other than that I found: tradie, multi, mystery, lab, webcam, virtual, letterbox, wherigo and earth. That smashed my previous record of 6 and set the new record to 9, very nice! Thanks to all CO's for a lovely day of caching!**Cache**Haha, love the name & description. No need to enter the community gardens for this one, could sign from outside, tftc!

Easy but fun TFTC

Good cache. TftC #16

Nice blackcurrants

Partner in Caching found it pretty quickly and got it signed just as quick.... TFTC

Found. Seen on approach. Dont need to enter garden.

code lock

Super quick find as I could see it on approach. The gardens look great from what I could see through the fence. Had a few black currents before heading off again. TFTC # 20,708

I'll have to come back when it's not closed

Down in the Christchurch area with woolwood9. ????Thank you for the reason to visit this cache and location ????SL *tm/ww NZ*

Another day on my trip to Christchurch with tmann421.Bit of a slower day today but still many fun hides found.Signed logs tm/ww NZThanks to cache owners for all their efforts??????

Gnome missing but signed the log. Thanks!

Found!

Woooooo!!!! Lovely community gardens

Out for an early morning run so thankfully no muggles around as looked in a few different places before finding the right spot. Lovely garden. Tftc

Thanks found it

After a hard look and being slightly confused I finally found it

Cheers

Cool

Cute little gnome outside the garden at Dovedale. Poor Chomsky is looking a little worse for wear unfortunately…. Cache container in good order though. Thanks for bringing us here.

Tftc, left a trackable

Another month, another challenge. I don't know if I'll manage the full 28 day streak but I'm keen to see how many days I can get out and find caches this month. This is Streak Day 7. Ha ha! For some reason this popped into my brain as I search for this cache - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJmRQ6LbZA - I did have to refer to a few prior logs before I found the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

Gggejejejjedjhdhrg

found gnome

Thought he inside the secret locked garden but managed to catch him before I went away, he definitely needs a day at the spa to recover

TFTC, gnome is a bit smashed up. Poor thing

Found with logandmaia. Poor gnome seen better days. Log is there....not gl

Found Mr. Chomsky but he's a bit smashed up, missing the base and the top of his hat. If there was a log in or around him, it's gone now, unless it's in the garden which is locked.

Mr. Chomsky isn't looking too good. No log to be found unless it's in the garden.

Found him chilling by the fence. He’s a little worse for wear. Hope someone enjoys the bag of tiny teddies.

Found it after confused about not seeing a tree but then found it. GREAT SPOT!!

Cheeky gnome great spot fun little walk

Great cache. Was slightly confused as it looked like we had to go into the garden, but there is no need for that.

knotobsessed had found this, but pointed it out to me. I came in not thinking I'd make a find as there was a car with a person inside... but some crafty parking meant I was obscurred from view. Nice
TFTC Spankymoore, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 3 find(s) of 4 today, making this find #3732

Found this long time ago forgot to log it on the app

Deserted at this time of year.

A quick find as we walked around the campus.

#7041

What a wonderful Christmas caching treat! Just completed the adventure lab and we were heading home to put cream on the pavalova, when we spotted this highly favourited cache nearby. Had to grab it and a photo. +Fav Merry Christmas

Easy find, didn’t realise the altitude but only took a minute.

A little hard but found it in the end. TFTC!

Very cool container with equally cool swaps. TFTC!!

Found it! Great cache! I hope all is going well with you in your new role Spanky! Merry Christmas! TFTC!

Quick find after doing nearby adventure lab

Doing the ride around for the AdLab and I got to GZ. Just the wrong side of the fence. However, slim fingers allowed the gnome to rise to new heights and tada, the log was retrieved. Reverse the action to replace and all good. Nice wee garden in there, well looked after. Cheers

Team G0LD: Geocachers 0B80B8, Lis's crew and DaffyNZ are down from Whangarei for a few days. We've all solved the 4 big geoarts so they are the main target for the trip. Of course there were many other puzzles solved as well which filled in the 24th. The 25th was the Smurfs and Fresh Breath. 26th was Rattle and Horses. We certainly made a great dent in my solved puzzle list but I'll still have enough for another trip.

An extra stop on our route for this traditional cache with so many favorite points. With a muggle gardening within we tried to spot him from the outside. I managed to reach in and carefully grab the log out. A bit of balancing was required to replace him as found. A neat title and hide. Thanks for the cache

Team G0LD ( 0B80B8, Lis's crew & DaffyNZ ) on a caching mission to Christchurch. We had travelled down from Whangarei yesterday, so today was our first full day to get into it.

Solved puzzles were going to be the main focus of our trip. We had spent a lot of 2020 and 2021 solving over 400 puzzles, so we had a lot on our list. Thankfully the weather looked like it was going to play ball today, as caching in the rain is always just that bit harder.

There was a muggle in the garden, so we didn't go in. We managed to reach through the fence to retrieve the log that was well guarded. Picked up the TB to take on further travels. TFTC

Neat hide. Found once we reach GZ. TFTC

Dropped off trackable

Good find. Good spot

TFTC. and a visit to a new place although a bit damp this evening

Tftc. Found while out caching in the rain with forestq1.

Was working my way through the nearby Ad Lab when I detoured for this one. It was a quick find once I figured out where to go. Because I hadn’t been planning on doing any ‘regular’ caches I didn’t have a pen on me. However I have a photograph as proof of the find. #5550. TFTC.

Enjoy make sure you bring papers and a lighter

Found it, TFTC

A speedy find as I was over on this side of campus for the first time ever. TFTC

Great cache! And awesome spot. Had been meaning to hunt this place out but hadn't gotten around to doing it so thanks for showing me

Nice garden it needs a bit of attention though. Thanks.

Not too hard to find, TFTC

Nice quick find! TFTC!

We saw that there was a geocache on the university of Canterbury site. There was no one about so M sat in the car in the car park while Beeba and I walked to the cache. I saw the cache from outside the fence but there were people inside. We walked in through the open gate and a lady said that they were having a working bee. We explained that we were there to get the geocache and she said that we were welcome. We easily reached the geocache and we signed the log and Beeba left a travel bug that she had had for a while. It was a little bigger than most so we had to find a box big enough to put it in. We admired the community garden and headed back to the car. Really enjoyed this special place and geocache container so I think a favourite point is in order,

Great to find this well maintained community garden where a working bee was underway. Went in and explained ourselves before going to gz. Dropped a TB.

Also logging this in GC9FAVE as a Discovered while geocaching - Locationless Cache. Although every cache could qualify, Gnome Chomsky's location appealed to in my heartbeing on Canterbury University groups (my alma mater), and i love a vege garden.
Lovely to be out with 1066 on international geocaching day, doing our bit. Eleventh for the day.

Thank you! Chomsky was a good find

Kozjah found it fairly quickly. As it was after hours, took a bit of teamwork and creativity to replace it (nothing illegal!). Nice little cache. Find #600!

I definitely selected the hardest way of accessing this by shimmying up and over the wrong side of a fence but logged it with OSC and returned it shimyingly back to safety

TFTC

Very creative hide. I didn't know about this garden. Tftc

Cute wee after lunch adventure w the boyfriend while on the campus cheers x

What an awesome cache! And a cute little garden I never would have known about. Thanks!

Cool spot
Friendly gardener
Cute cache
TFTC

Had to ask the Gardner to have a look but we found it and it was fun

so cute

Very cool little garden!

Your geocache was amazing loved the way it was done and I’m about to find more

Very pleased to knock Chomsky off my list. A university worker carrying out some maintenance in the area knew all about the cache, and offered to help but was not required; TFTC

Night time adventures. Neat spot!

CAVE (team of 4) found it!

TFTC. A lovely quiet spot on a quiet warm evening. I got quite wet from some sprinklers but didn't mind it today's heat. I popped out this evening to get two caches for Twosday.

Picked a christchurch cache at random to go and find today, and landed on this one. And I'm so glad I did! What an awesome spot this is!

On a break

decided to grab few while in this area

TFTC

Adorable garden and a cute gnome. added a couple swaps