Calling International Rescue! (Canterbury) Waltham, South Island, New Zealand
By Bear_Left on 22-Feb-04. Waypoint GCHQJ1

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Logs

27-Dec-04
Drat, should have read the logs before leaving home.
Finished the clues last week, but too many Xmas commitments meant no final assault was possible til today, eventually finding the nice rectangle of flattened grass where the cache had been. Great views though!
 
26-Dec-04
Thunderbird Five (aka Sugarloaf) is now available again for another cache! (It's a great location...)
Thanks to the finders, and I'm only sorry that the next cache was only available for such a short time. There was also a third planned...
 
25-Dec-04
I Finally did it! Did the waypoints quite a while ago ( well two of them anyway - the others were deduceable from a map ).
The rest of the family were perched in front of a DVD on Xmas afternoon- ruminating, but I ( Gary ) was getting a bad dose of cabin fever - a good walk was in order. And the cache was getting removed pretty soon too.
I ended up having a bit longer walk than necessary - I didn't realise the driveway was a public accessway! Red Face
NB - The cache is no longer there. I removed it at Bear_left's request and delivered it back to them.
No swaps. Thanks and Bon Voyage!
 
25-Dec-04
 
27-Nov-04

This cache will be archived between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 2004, so you'd better get on with it if you're planning to find it!
 
05-Sep-04
Once again, this cache had been part of my MTB'ing mission around town to pick up as many multi-cache waypoints as possible. I picked up the final point today and my first calculation put me in a place that obviously didn't have a cache nearby. I revisited my workings, and tried an alternative and got back to the cache site close to the end of the day and found it! Fun cache, and a good wander around town. No exchange made. Thanks PBL and MB! Cheers Gav [220]
 
09-Aug-04
Finally after starting this cache months ago, I finished it today. Needed help on thunderbird 3 as after 5 visits I still didn't get it. I have been sitting in the final location for a while now but haven't had time to go and pick up the cache. Yesterday I set forth to finally log the cache...however after the light rain turned to heavy rain and the heavy rain turnrd to hail I retreated back to the car soaking wet with 2 very wet muddy dogs. Just as well as I had started in the wrong place (as I always do) and probably wouldn't have got there. May it was the thunderbirds raining on my parade...for a reason!
However today was the day and once again parking a great distance from the final location I set forth. No rain today but very muddy, slippery tracks.
Success at last!!!
No swaps as I left them in the car some distance away...didn't know there was a car park close by!
Thanks a lot Bear_Left for another great adventure
Trinitty Elijah and Justice
 
28-May-04
Travelled around the waypoints with Badger-Ferret today.
We think we might need to pull some strings to get help with Waypoint 3.
 
25-Mar-04
Last night, after having only visited Thunderbirds One, Two and Four, I attempted to deduce the location of this cache. Managed to guess the latitude pretty well (would have been about 50 m out) but I was a whole minute of longitude out. Just as well that I took the precaution of visiting Thunderbird Three before heading here. Thanks for an enjoyable cache. Thanks to the Sallies for being the Beta Testers this time. + Palmable Geocache #19 Travel Bug. + Piano by Candlelight tape. - keyring calculator.
 
24-Feb-04
Found the clues last night but it got dark too soon for us to keep going - getting soft aren't we! This is a great cache - we really enjoyed the hunt.
+ Stereo headphones and bangles - Travel Bugs
Thanks Bear_Left
Iris & Rodney