Triangulation (Canterbury) Mount Pleasant, South Island, New Zealand
By Sallies on 12-Oct-02. Waypoint GC9A44

CaptainVimes and I have crossed the ditch to attend the Geo Toroa mega in Dunedin and tour around the South Island for two weeks.Beautiful morning to be out by the water. My 25th find of the 100 Oldest in NZ.Thanks Sallies and happy caching

Tina and Oromai on a geocache mish

Day #15 Christchurch to Melbourne - The Mega New Zealand ExperienceA chance for an overseas Mega was too good to pass up. Especially with half the state seeming to be attending also. I set about some last minute planning. Flights still available Accommodation found Mode of transport securedLooks like its time to cross the ditch. Ive never visited the South Island before so it is bound to be a fun filled trip.And just like that Its almost over! Half a day left until I fly home. Just picking up some last finds before I finish this wonderful adventure.Another quick find on the way back from walk the walk.A big thanks goes to Sallies for taking the time to add Triangulation (Canterbury) to the geocaching map for us all to find and enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Wow! The fun just never stops.Have you logged your will attend for Victoria's first ever Block Party? (Think Mega but even more special!)Join us on 22-23 March 2025 in Sunbury to celebrate 25 years of geocaching by logging your will attend at [**GCAP417**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).

TFTC

Found with Kittykatch today. TFTC Sallies

Dunedin MegaGreat to find this oldie here. We placed a new log sheet in the cache. GrimRaider, Joolay and I are in NZ for the Dunedin mega event. It is great to be back to see more of this beautiful country. Thanks for hiding this cache Sallies

Lovely walk along the water edge. Replaced log.Day 2 and chasing oldies and challenges today before heading south.Finally back in NZ and this time for a Mega. Starting in Christchurch before heading south. Lots to see and do with Kittykatch and Grimraider. Will be joining with others as the days go on.Thanks for getting me out and about Sallies

Triangulation is the art of standing in a triangle, where GZ forms one of the angles. We created a scalene triangle, where one angle was GZ. This is only possible when one person stands further away than the rest. So Posums is the GZ angle, Tiz13 the next, and I am standing too far away. Thanks Sallies, a bit of fun was had here ??

A plan was hatched quite a while ago when the Dunedin Mega was announced to come over to the South Island again.I have only been to New Zealand twice before and I loved the South Island.So a chance to come back for a Mega was a no brainer for me.Everything was booked and I flew in on Saturday after a bit of a delay.Im staying at the old Offices Mess building at the old Airforce Base and it is a wonderful old building.Day 3 begins so lets go find a few more caches.I met Tiz13 at the airport as they happened to be on the same flight over and we organised a day out after I missed their message yesterday so the plan was to meet up at the event near the Botanical Gardens.So Snips and Co, Tiz13 and me, Posums set out for a fun day out with plenty of laughs along the way and of course a few caches as well.After a bit of inner city caching it was time to hit the burbs for a bit more fun.After Walking the Walk we we making our way back and picked up the couple of caches that we passed on the way.The weather was perfect for a walk along here.The log is very wet and sorry we didnt have a replacement on us.Thanks Sallies TFTC.

Found this cache on our caching journey around Christchurch prior to making our way to Dunedin for the Mega.

Nice quick find, dad went for it as we were walking barefoot. Container was in good condition but logbook is full and a bit damp. Probably needs a replacement. Thanks for placing this here!

Thank you!

Tftc. Caching with Jennyfromthefarm

This morning laying in bed I did a search on some old caches placed before mid 2003 OCW irondale. Two goals today- to check out the ocean side and to go to a lookout. Achieved both with a selection of old caches. We specifically avoided any that had logs about relentless bush bashing and knee deep mud.This cache was found quickly and exactly as the hint describes. Thankyou for maintaining this one over the yearsTFTC

Fun little find! Thanks!

First find for me and a friend. Hell yeah!

Found it!!!! That was hard

Thanks nice cache hunt

Hello friend I was in a bit of a rush so didn't have all the time in the world to find it, but definitely had a good go at it. Did not find it.

Nice we walk tftc

Thanks, very fun. Good walk.

Great walk around the area with a stop at CBK. Lovely spot for a hunt. TFTC

TFTC. A successful birthday cache for Miss 13!

Thanks! Easy find

Found while visiting family TFTH

Family took Seth around some of our geocaches to show him how it works.

I had walked by these during the even and subsequent wander to collect the Walk the Walk cache.. I was going to grab these then.. Anyway, got them for todays streak day. No issues making the find, nice to find an older cache too!Thanks for the placement. TFTC Sallies, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #4623

Checked on this one today on our way past. All dried out now. One of our oldest caches! Rodney and Iris.

Having recently moved to Christchurch from Wellington, it has been our pleasure to host some of the Wellington Geocaching crew for caching weekends. This weekend is The Seagnoids turn.TS and I made a plan today to hunt out some of the oldest caches around the Chch area. This was our first stop, and after a short walk to GZ the cache was a quick find. Had a chat with a wind surfer who was about to set off onto the estuary. Would love it give it a go someday.Thanks for the cache.

I have a few days between Christmas in Palmerston North and starting work again so I headed to Christchurch, home of numerous challenge caches I now qualify for. The last time I was here tackling challenge caches was 2014! So I got up at 5am, (because I always get up at 5am) and headed out the door for a few hours caching while I wait for the rest of the household to wake up.That done, today's plan was to tackle some older caches. So That Darn Bear and I worked out a bit of a salesman's route and started with this one. A bit of a problem find because it was easier than expected and we missed it on the first run through. Them's the breaks. Re the cache title - I suspected I knew what it meant - I was still surprised to find I was right!But while walking the last 20m to the cache we noticed a new cache had been published. So after finding this (since we were so close), we abandoned today's plan and headed off to find the new one. And then headed over towards Akaroa for yet another new cache. I was starting to wonder if I was going to get back in time to catch my plane, today being my last day in Christchurch. But of course I was - you don't miss flights!!Thanks for the cache.

Nice easy one

Easy fun find

1MinnieMoo and I enjoyed our peaceful walk along the waterfront here. We soon found the cache safe and sound. TFTC Sallies

29/9/2023 Find #6671Day 21 of the Fangsoki/1MinnieMoo New Zealand South Island adventures. Today was our final day of travel, heading from Hanmer Springs back to Christchurch, ready to fly home tomorrow. We parked the car and wandered the short journey to GZ where we made it a little more difficult than necessary but soon had cache in hand. Thanks for the cache Sallies.

Easy find on walk -BM

Found Freya

First one, thank you!

FITW angelic_kiwi
Few of us were heading to attempt walk the walk. This one was along the way and glad that we stopped to find it, especially because it is an oldie goldie.. TFTC

Thanks for looking after this cache for so long! Had a lovely walk along here today with some other geocachers.

Found on the way to attempt Walk the Walk - a nice wee stop and amazing that there's been a geocache here for so long. Tftc!

Pleased to find this solid gold oldie on my bike ride.

TFTC

Replenished the pencil etc. Container still fine.

Cache 1407 ️ Heading to Christchurch for a geocaching holiday this week where I’m targeting hidden days/months and a few D/T and to sign challenge caches. This cache was a needed hidden month. Started walking over to GZ with my geopup till I got to the gate and realised this was a non dog area So I tied the pup to a gate and told him to wait while I darted to GZ for a quick find T4TC ️

Out enjoying a crisp walk, with lots of kite surfers to watch. Cache found with lovely clear hint. Thanks for this cache Sallies.

Found by CM with HAT clients

Cursing as I got to gz as didn't have my glasses. Where is the other marker over there? Then looked the other way. Aha.

Found

Nice quock find on a quiet and muggy sunday morning.

Nice lil walk today for a quick find TFTC

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.
Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.

With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signed

We puzzled a lot in advance and the tours were well prepared
So this box was also well found.

now I have another on my personal cache card.

many thanks to [^] **Sallies** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany

TFTF

**Geistercacher**

Found almost in the dark on evening stroll with NeaveWilloghby.

Found it

I found after 10 minutes took so long lol

Found it with dad like always. Cool cache we put the paper in a little plastic bag.
TFTC♡

Nice day for a walk and get in some caches at the same time. Added bonus today (all going well) I'm finally going to crack the big 1000 club. This is 1002. Nice and easy... But logbook is of many pieces. Just signed where I could. Cheers!

Thanks

Cool wee find, nice walk
Thanks

Easy find

Easy find

TFTC! Nice find, in a great location.

Found with Elly and kaitlyin

hiyaheya..nice easy find on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Found it

Found it

Slightly confusing but a nice find on a pleasant walk

Tftc

Nice easy find on our way back to the car after walking across the flats.

Trip log: When cheap flights presented the opportunity to go to NZ with GreyHams, who was keen to get the 5 2000 caches and the web cam I was of course very keen to tag along. I didn't want to miss out on that... Equally as keen for those caches myself and the first chance to get the passport out in a long time and head overseas while we could. Covid Happenings of course did put the trip in doubt and a last minute effort from GreyHams to get the flights changed and it was looking like this might actually happen... until I arrived I truly didn't think it would!

The cache list was quite simple, the 5 2000 caches and the webcams. Of course we did look at others as we travelled, types, DT, not chosen which were in abundunce and caches of quality, if your cache made our list it had a quality we needed. Many thanks for your cache that helped guide us along our way.

Certainly it was a memorable time, barefoot 500 plus metres across a mud estuary of shells and crabs was more fun than it should be. As was pushing through wet thick high flax or tall wet grass across to the caches. But the most memorable would be the fog, the thickest, most relentless fog but it provided some stunning scenery at times and was just crazy.

I loved seeing all the chinese takeaways that did fish and chips, the perfect hedges and a deserved shout out to Indian Zaika for its great food! Certainly with the fog and rain it was an interesting trip and we got quite drenched at times, it hid a lot that NZ has to offer but 'it's a caching trip' after all so it ticked all the right boxes and was very enjoyable regardless. Huge thanks to GreyHams for letting me tag along while he did all the planning, booking, driving and sending in the answers for the caches... as always!

We came, triangulated and signed

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Trip log:

International travel!!...OMG it feels good. Grabbed some cheap flights and anxiously waited for some outbreak to derail the plan, but that amazingly didn't happen. Sure, I had to scramble and reroute our trip via Brisbane & Sydney as we were originally going through the plague pit...aka Melbourne, but we still made it.

Having done most of the North Island, it was good to finally have a crack at the South. 5 year 2000 caches and a webcam, thats a nice little haul. Sure, some of the year 2000 caches involved bush bashing....in the rain/fog/mist...but we got them all. We had lots of other little targets like getting all our types/sizes/DT, NZ in particular has so many 'Not Chosen' size caches, super rare back in Oz, so we made sure to get as many as possible. If you are reading this, its because this cache had a quality we were chasing.

As always, the Earthcaches and the Virtuals took us to some really cool places, the Steampunk HQ and the boulders being birthed at the beach being the highlights. My favourite cache though would have to be the one where we had to walk 500m over a mud flat, dodging shells and crabs with our bare feet.

This trip will be remembered as the 'fog trip' as we saw a lot of it, which meant we saw little else. Oh, that and how every Chinese takeaway also doubles as the fish & chip shop....its a thing!

Found it

Found it, easy find

Thanks

Found on a bike ride in the area

Iceman 88 was here
With Can tftc

Out biking today hoping to recuperate my new knee. Rode past here to check out the two caches on the track. This one was still in place but little room left on the logsheet. I will come back with a new logsheet - possibly on my bike again. Rodney.

Beautiful sunday morning on the estuary. Tftc

Day 3 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).

This is when it starts to get serious. I picked up my campervan this morning and by midday I was out on the road to start 2 weeks of touring around the South Island.
During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

I wanted to find this particular cache to fill a hole in my Jasmer grid. Canterbury had turned on the weather for me so it was a gloriously sunny day as I parked up near GZ. There was only a guy throwing a ball for his dog, so no issues with muggles as I walked to where my GPS was taking me, and thanks to the helpful Hint this was a very quick find.

No issues with any aspect of this cache, so the log was swiftly signed and everything replaced exactly as found, and I was back on my way again.

Thanks for placing this cache.

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Nice

Great one?!

19 January 2020 07:19. Tuened off one road too soon so i decided to see if there was a cache in the vicinity. After a short walk I was able to sign off this beauty. Tftc

Grate find

With Sallies and my siblings a while ago it was very fun.

Found it, T4tc

Back in the big city for a few days and on a mission to get some big numbers ..

Was unable to"walk the walk" so parked up at the windsurfing area ,had lunch and went for a walk along this track

Nice quick find tftc cache all good

Interesting spot. Must walk further on one day!

Got it!

Quick find. All in good shape. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 2190

Avalanche Pass trackable visited this cache with the cache owner.

In Christchurch for the weekend with Gadget169 in search of some high FP caches for the Carnival Souvenirs. This was one on our list to fill in the month hidden grid TFTC

Came up to CHCH with KJR to find caches with high FP for the carnival souvenir. Nice and easy find this one. TFTC

Found this old cache on my way to Christchurch.

Thanks Malta-Dinger

Visited with Oscar the clownfish in a lovely Christchurch morning. TFTC

Meanwhile this is my third geocaching-trip to Middle-Earth . And I love it! [:X]
Unfortunately, this great vacation is now coming to an end and Christchurch is the last visiting stop for this time .
Sadly today (day #29) with again splendid, sunny weather was the last day for treasure-hunting on this trip .
I dedicated it to visit a couple of ‘OLDIES’ [^] in the south and east of the city .
A good decision, that was rewarded with awesome views and quite some adventures in the countryside - E.G street closures .
Above that, some pre-solved mysteries, a cool challenge, the webcam and the virtual cache at CHR-airport were on the list [^]...
Happy to visit the selected jewels - just like this one:
There were about one thousand geese on the path ... They were not very amused about the disturbance and made a lot of noise...
A nicely hidden oldie! [^] [:X]
Thanks to the owner [:X] for placing and longterm-maintaining this cool cache and best regards from Germany!
P.S.: I’ll be back for the next kiwi-adventure!

A nice short walk with some scenic views. Thanks

Great hide placed items

Great find..

Cool oldie and quick find.
TFTC

Quick and easy, tftc

Rodney had the afternoon to himself so drove around and checked out twelve of our caches. This one was Okay once a new logbook and pencil had been inserted.