Cambourne Bridge Blenheim, South Island, New Zealand
By Arandee on 25-Feb-22. Waypoint GC9NZ8C

Quick wee find one evening. Lovely.

We stayed last night in sunny Blenheim. Hopefully we get some more biking days. It is supposed to be fine all day. Sadly JD has a squiffy tummy so I am caching solo. I decided that I needed to explore in a more daring manner. Probably doing a terrain 2.5 manoeuvre and getting a tad muddy. It was fun

Thanks!

Is it still there? Looked everywhere

Yay! Found on 2nd attempt! Thank you

Super fun on q family bike ride

Out exploring in Blenheim on our bikes. Quick find although one part of the cache was on the ground. All together again. TFTC

Thank you for replacing it, can finally check this one off!

It's quite a while since we headed over the hill so a spur of the moment decision was made this morning and off we went.Hazedarus spotted this one in between muggles.Thank you Arandee.

I let my fingers do the searching with zero result.A visual inspection did locate the cache without problems.I haven't found one like that for a while.Thank you Arandee

After dropping off the non caching member of the party in Redwood, I did a circuit to tick off some of the new caches in the area. Another quick find of a classic Blenheim hide.. TFTC

**20,196**A nice quick find here, pretty flashy neighbour. Lucky Me Geckoh had showered up and was looking clean and tidy so he didnt stand out like a sore thumb. TFTC

Log getting rather crowded

Took a lot of looking but I'm a beginner. Thanks for the challenge

Forgot a pen

Tftc more later log almost full

Found it, nice and fast. Thank you

Found it awesome

After work had a stroll along the river then driving back stopped for a couple of cache. Wasn’t sure about my compass bearings so pleased to spot this hide reasonably ably quickly. Great hide. Was interested in the name as my brother lives near Camborne in Cornwall. There is a Cambourne in Cambridgeshire. I hadn’t realised there were two ways of spelling it.

Took a little while but found it

Tricky find unique cache. Cheers

Finally found after a decent search

Eeekkk found it, 1st timer

FOUND IT BOO

I found it

A quick find on a walk up the cycle way. Thanks for the cache.

Marchwood and I were in town for a day of caching. This was one that neither of us had found previously, so we had to come here for the find. TFTC.

Out on a raid from the West with Agazo for the day.
The morning was spent in the Grovetown Lagoon area. Now, after lunch, it was time to hit the big smoke.
A quick park and get here.
TFTC

After dropping half the family at the after hours medical, and another quarter of the family at football practice, I cruised over here for what should have been a first find just after it was listed. Now looking at the correct corner it was an easy find in the light of my phone. Lots of 8-legged freaks living here but managed to get it without disturbing any. Good to turn a blue into a yellow.

Nice walk to beautiful spot. Clever hide! Favourite point from us. TFTC

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I are off for a wee break "up north" and today is the first caching day, off to the North Island. The ferry sailing was relativly calm which was fine by me.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. .

Took a while to find this clever hide. TFTC

Needed some time to myself so off caching for the day over the hill

Day 2 cyclocache ride around Blenheim. Joined the bike trail to Riverlands and nearly missed this one as it's icon appeared under the Parking icon. Weird! Quickly found. TFTC Arandee

Very sneaky. Thought the log was missing, but it was. TFTC

Great to get this one ticked off. Kids playing backyard cricket small possibility of stray balls being hit over the fence TFTC

This one is really tricky

A nice quick find for us today. Tftc

Quickly spotted as I was trying to sort my east from west. No one in sight on the track. Tftc

Despite accurate coordinates and hint and terrain rating, it took us a while to spot this sneakily hidden cache, which gets a favourite from us. TFTC

Found with NZDi. It is International Geocaching Day and GCHQ is encouraging cachers worldwide to get out and find a cache in order to break the record for the most geocachers finding a cache on the same day which has stood since International Geocaching Day back in 2013. NZDi decided to get ours out of the way early on in the day and deliberated long and hard as to which one to grab as local caches are few and far between and a lot that we could get around the district could have access difficulties due to the three days of torrential rain causing flooding and a province wide State of Emergency.

This one was selected, and was one I had attempted a FTF on when released but the CO had directional problem with the hint which put a couple of us off. Today is was a QEF SWaG (Quick Easy Find, Short Walk and Grab) thanks to the amended hint.

TFTC R&D

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC Arandee

A nice easy find - could see how high the water got! TFTC!

Working in Blenheim again today. Time to grab a few caches before heading back home to yet another house full of visitors - seems to be the year for it! I thought I spotted a likely looking rock - nope not under that but from where I was standing I could see the sneaky hide. TFTC # 18,529

Reasonably quick find. Clever hide. TFTC

Having a relaxing Easter at home.... but was a bit bored today so out and about on the bike thinking about grabbing a few caches.
Clever wee hide here - took a while for me to find...even though I've seen a few of these cache types before.
TFTC Arandee

My day's work is done but before I head back home there's the matter of a few caches it'd be good to pick off, seeing as I'm in the neighbourhood.

This new cache is quite close to where I've spend the day so was an obvious stop off. I needed to wait a wee while for some dawdling dog walkers to wander away but once they were out of sight I hit the GZ and got lucky straight away. A Fast To Find for me which I was surprised about given the earlier logs.

Thanks Arandee
#3863

Sneaky hide watch out for the paper wasps thanks for this cache Arandee

Took a bit to spot, sneaky hide. Beware of the wasp nest close to the cache. There were a couple of wasps there when we were there but they seemed docile at the time. Thanks Arandee

#11880

For the life of me, I can't figure this one out.

[FTF]{FTF} etc at about 7.15am.
A bit of background first I suppose.
It’s February, and a sporting goal for me is doing the Aotearoa Bike challenge which runs across the country this month.
The idea is to get on your bike as much as you can, and also get a bit of inter-work rivalry going. This is the last day of course, and I just sat out 6 days with no bike rides, but with a few decent after work rides my kms are right up there and I am second in the company.
So as this is the way to and from work for me, I have been along this track a lot in the last few weeks.
It would be a bit silly then not to have a look.
I got away a little earlier today, expecting to have to wait out a few muggles (they can be visible for quite a distance both ways) and also thinking I might need to do some serious fossicking/thinking, with this cache already collecting a DNF.
It was less cool than I expected, and a lot quieter. I had already figured out from home (with the hint) the exact area I would start the search, and I got into it.
Up, down, under (kind of) and then I tested out all the sneaky hide styles I knew.
No joy.
All I did was disturb a decent sized spider minding its own business (note to fellow cachers - you don’t need to lift the yellow waratah cap).
So I rethought things, decided I would reinterpret the clue rather than take the D/T levels up a notch with more intrepid searching, and then made a quick find. There you go. Not in the most obvious interpretation of the hint, I guess, but it still works.
And it’s on a structure that I have often though could probably do with a cache.
TFTC Arandee, FP from me

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