Fishermans Friend (Canterbury) Harewood, South Island, New Zealand
By Conton on 09-Jan-05. Waypoint GCMF49

This cache will not be replaced due to roadworks.
Conton

We will claim this as a find, but the Cache is [xx(] [xx(]
It looks like it got muggled by a bulldozer. We found the cache note, the bits of the box and the "Squashed TB" which had been squashed into the ground. It surfaced while I was digging around to find some bits.
We have disposed of the container
Cheers,
S.t.

We have archived this cache as it has been destroyed by a bulldozer.
Cheers
Conton

Hi - it looks like you might have got your log type muddled.
You mentioned archiving - but the log type ( and cache state ) is actually 'temporarily disabled'.

Had a stop off after visiting Orana park which was great. However there has been excavation work at the cache site. We found the remains of a cache box in splinters, the cache laminated instructions, and thats about all. No contents that we could see. Will need to replace the cache, or check it out anyway.
Cheers,
SeaJ&Kat

Easy find. It was an obvious hiding spot once we got close enough! Cold day so not many people around. TNLN Thanks!

There weren't any fishing spinners, they would be a good addition though.

Found on a beautiful frostie morning. Very nippy. Took a train & left a submarine and a TB.

An easy find, as was not well concealed. A tidy well stocked cache. Replaced & covered with more stones, but they seemed to keep wanting to slip off. But I can't imagine many people getting close enough to cache to notice it. Thanks - went onto enjoy the gravel road to next cache. Wheeee.... slip sliding around....

Nice quick drive by, couldn't beleive the number of vehicles going through the gate, thankfully I had taken the cache back to the car to sign the log.
TFTC, TNLNSL

I tried really hard on the cache. Standing on the fence for 90% of the time.

Kiwijam and McPossum were here with the cache and sympathised with my choice of lunch. Nice cache, I remember the area well.

A nice location.
I remember being young and irresponsible (I'm no longer so young) and driving along this road with it's 'ramp'.

Nice Hide!! Picked up Bearly for return to the US, left card, SL. TFTC!!!

Thought that the southerley change was going to ruin our caching on the way home this evening, but after the initial wild blast of wind, big rain drops and a bit of lightning it has drifted out to the east - on to the next one!
TNLN. TFTC.

An easy find, but a little more difficult to retrieve it.
Lots of muggles around so we returned to the car for a map and then back at the cache, spread it out nearby while glancing back at the sign and pretending to talk to another on a cellphone.
Took a bit of heaving to get the cache out but t'was managed subtly.
Left Bearly Fishin' TB
TN
Thanks Conton.

Nice easy find on way home from work.
TNLN

Easy find. Lots of people about - we pretended to check out broken signs. Very windy and dusty today.
- Boof pencil end
+ Champagne bubbles
+ Shampoo
+ Ugly ball

Froogals gps was leading him all over the place, But an easy find. Thanks

Found this on 21/12/05. Taking Daughter Nikadoodle to the Coast for some fishing and Geocaching and trying to do as many caches on the way over as time allowed. A quick easy find.
+ Chess pawn
TN.

Nice and easy on the way to west coast. Took penguin, left hair clip.

A pleasant drive.

Found this while waiting for a friend on a wood collecting trip. Didn't realise it was so close to where I was standing when I turn the GPS on! TFTC. Took warhammer figure, left Yu-Gi-Oh card. Linleye.

This should have been a simple find but I was continually dodging fisherman in their SUV's. TNLN.

Found it easily - while introducing a friend to geocaching. I think we have a convert there. We also climbed Mt Grey to get the Ashley Views cache. Thanks Conton for a nice easy find. No swaps. Cheers, Grandalf

Made caching sound interesting enough for my sister to come along for her first cache. Nice and straight forward, as advertised.
+ penguin (looking forward to more fish
- cow

Shitty day, went off track a bit. Finally found it with Sam and Jeff. Unleashed 'Gorbag', another of Mordor's Minions - fishing hooks. MORDOR&ANDRE

Grabbed the cache and went back to the car to log our visit. Unfortunately we were gatecrashed and had to wait about 30 minutes before we could actually put the cache back. It came for a little drive with us to avoid suspicion. Took kangaroo ("roo"), left sea horse (about as fishy as our swaps could get).

not many fish here some nice biker babes though total rock solid hiding place thx 4 the find dude

We were driving by here, so just had to stop and have a look. An quick find, Cameron got it this time - his first.
- tape + whistle

[This entry was edited by metrafolk on Sunday, March 27, 2005 at 3:21:03 AM.]

Had to be discreet as cars parked nearby.
+ kangaroo
- calender

Quick find. -Lure (slice), +small Calendar from Rome.

Straightforward find. Been to the area before for 4wd fun.
TNLN

Dropped in after picking up the wife from the airport. Been mountainbiking up this way before - also used to swim down here all the time when we were students. TLNL.
Thanks, Tim & Vida

Nice quick find, at 9.30am

Many thanks Bitsprayer

A long drive in the afternoon, saw us heading past this waypoint. Great to have these things loaded on your GPSr!
A quick easy find - thanks!
+ Sticking plasters (I always seem to hook myself)
- TB Shelley

Off on another caching expedition. This the first stop. Easy find. Sorry, no exchange as I had left my fishing flies on the bench at home. Thanks Conton team for the easy start today.

Good to come home and find some more caches out there for us to find. managed to leave it until everyone else was going home from work so got caught in the traffic across town. It's amazing how much traffic there is in Christchurch when you've been around the South Island and never seeing many cars on the road at once!!
left Shelley the TB.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Forgot to log this cache. Had a nice walk on a sunny afternoon. Might have been a nice boulevard here once. Thank you for this cache

Fantastic day for cache hunting! Swapped a "Boof" character for a red and black spinner. Also swiped our first travel bug - not 100% sure what to do with it but will do a read up and find him a further away cache for his next resting place. Cheers, Koska

***Edited to remove Travelbug logging number***

Easy walk up to it find.
+ Sunscreen.
- Nil.

Haven't been out to McLeans Island for years.

What a nice afternoon to be out cache hunting! Drove and walked right up to the cache and found it pretty much straight away. No exchange was made. Cheers Gav [363]

Cheeky bugger! Raiding your own cache like that...

(A Papa Bear_Left solo adventure)
I had an appointment in the area (I did! I did! I can produce references!) and used the opportunity to do a little cache-fishing.
(If BaldEd was on duty, he could've been tracking me by radar!)

I like the idea of the Salmon Shop, it's so much easier than catching them yourself, and you can still brag about it (as long as you take the price tag off first...)

A nice wee cache of the traditional box under a bush type, and the gateway to a pleasant bit of forested reserve.

I had no B_L signature items with me, so I left a nice car mount kit, designed for a mobile phone but very suitable for a GPS, as a consolation prize for the second finder(s).

Thanks for cheering up my "first Monday back at work" blues, ConTon!

Popped out so the Ton could try finding the cache (Con did the hiding of it), and to drop off the Travel Bug "IT Keychain". Traded it for the car kit.
Cheers
Conton