Buried Avenue (Canterbury) Avonside, South Island, New Zealand
By stoutwind on 29-May-05. Waypoint GCP399

Cache hiding place has been destroyed. No suitable nearby hiding place.

This cache has been muggled. All contents and container gone.
Will be replacing shortly.

I think I found the hiding place for this one but there was no cache, must have been muggled?, brilliant hiding spot, thanks heaps.

Cache is gone. Found what I am sure was the hiding place (owner can email me for more detail if they wish) but container is gone.

Another nice wee park. TFTC

Didn't take long to find the cache. An unusual/interesting hide.
The last entry in the log was a bit rude and suggests that the cache has been found by some muggles. Luckily they put the cache back in it's hiding spot.
- geocoin
TFTC

Really good hide!!!

TFTC, TNLN,
WallaceDuo

This was our first find ever. Nice little park. Found in the dark on a cold night. Easy find along with particuary large pile of dog doo which attached nicely to shoe.

Had no swaps, Utah geocoin was still in there, left a note

Very nice park, I'm sure the local kids spend a lot of the summer there. Easy find, took Tumbleweed Geocoin and left a Utah Geocoin. Daughter enjoyed her play in the park.
TFTC

Nice hide. Beautiful day to be out and about. Left Little Griz's Compass Coin. Thanks!

Number 13 for the day took the geocoin and put in the car
A clear hide TFTC

after a litel time waiting, then the air was clean and i were be supriced about this nice cache!
Thank you

Really great hiding spot, in a lovely park. TFTC,TNLN

Had three of us looking, but didn't discover treasure....

Lovely park...fantastic hiding place. Some of the houses around here...especially River Road are just fantastic.

- Stone disk - hairy little dwarf
+ Panda

TFTC

BEAUTIFUL hiding place!!!! SO well done. TNLN

Great hiding place! It was nearly dark and I wasn't getting very good reception, so it was the last brink I touched!

TFTH

This is a great hide in a park I never would have discovered on my own. Thanks for the fun !

Early Saturday morning so no muggles about.
A cunning hide!
TFTC

An attempt called off because of too many muggles. Nice park, but we would have been way too suspicious. We are Geo-travellers, vacationing from Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) and we brought a few travel bugs with us to New Zealand to drop off. Sorry we couldn't get to your cache, but with Parents and tots in vicinity we would have been way to "weird" snooping around suspiciously, so we called it off. We went down the road and placed our TB in "Held in Trust", if you'd like to pick it up and bring it to this cache be our guests. It's journeyed a long way to this lovely country of yours! All the best, your Canadian friends the O'Bents.

Great spot - nice and local for us.
Took stone, left metal puzzle.
TFTC.

late at night with an almost dead torch
very cool, thanks

Found it early on a Sunday morning,what a lovely well-kept park.

It was dark and rainy and I needed the head lamp.
It ended up beeing my last cache in NZ. A really cool hideout

I was actually glad to have it raining here as it meant a muggle free vist to this site. GPSr initially had me to far east where I found little of interest. 10 minutes later the Garmin changed its mind and I soon had a cunningly concealed container revealed.
TNLNSL but uplifted Moneydorks Keys TB.
TFTC Well done.

Dropped off TB.

Very tricky indeed-there was a big BBQ right next door.
Luckily there was a tree conveniently placed in the front of us while we were looking.

Nice spot for sure-I didnt know existed.

My old home town but now live in the Waikato

Fount it today, Scott(3) and Willaim(5) played in the pool.

A Winnie the Pooh show was on next door!

Nice park, we will visit it again for the pool.

The pencil is getting quite small, purchance another visitor can replace it?

TFTC!

Great hiding spot. Took TB and then went for a paddle and play. TFTC

Only a couple of kids playing in the swings, so not that difficult to find. Quite impressed with the ingenuity of this cache, so dropped in the Kiwi Ingenuity TB (looking for ingenious things) and took Top Cat's Butterflys TB. Thanks.

Liked the hiding place.

Surprised at the number of times I had to come back to try again due to muggles in this secluded reserve.
T4TC stoutwind - M@

Muggles!!! Interesting spot but why was it called buried avenue?? T4TC. No swaps.

hello

it was nice and quite in this area.
well the sun had set.

nice hiding spot.
took the geo coin.

trevor

We found this one today , quiet a nice wee place to. what a great hiding place well done.. we had a good laugh when we found it,,, cheers and thanks very much for all the hard work,,,Bo & Bronnie..ps thought this was such a good cach we dropped off Tennessee micro coin...

Found this on a warm windy afternoon. I have lived only a few hundred metres from this park for quite a few years, and did not know it existed! Took my neice along (her first time) and she found this to her delight. Quite a few muggles around, but it didn't deter her at all!.
- TB Sign'n'Send
- Plastic dice
+ TB Top Cat's Butterflies

So much we don't know about our city, we have such nice gardens and parks. A great job on the hidding place.
TNLN
Thanks Cheers

Nice day and a lovely park. Great hiding place.
Left Sign `n Send Travel Bug from Who is Beverley. Can`t use the tracking system as number doesn`t work. Don`t know why.
Thanks
John and Donna

[This entry was edited by dekway on Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 8:00:41 PM.]

Nice spot. Unfortunately, we left our day pack (with tradeable trinkets) on the ground while kiwimum took one child geocaching and kiwidad took the other child for a meander around the grounds. An opportunistic thief worked the seam between us and stole our pack. We took a whistle from the cache, but had nothing to leave!

Easy find lovely day
_luggage label
+dice

We stared at the cache location for a bit thinking it must be here somewhere. A few kids around so didn't want to look too obvious. Waited for the right time then went in for the find. TNLN

Great hidding place, Very impressed with the hidding place. Lots of Mums with Kids walking around. Had to wait for right moment to find Cache.
Cheers

We enjoyed the clever hiding place here.
A quick find on our way north.
TNLN
Cheers

Very clever hiding place! We did this one without any cache notes as we just happened to be passing. Took Spongebob, left fart whistle. Thanks

Very cool hiding spot . The team were more interested in playing here than the hunt. Added silica. TFTC
-Car
+Spoungebob Water game

12:50pm, #5 of day 6 of our week in Chch (that's 90 to date). Loved the hiding place! Thanks.

Great cache location. took awhile to rid park of jnr mugglers Last cache of day two TFTC

Our first cache find, in a very nice hidey hole. A beautiful warm and golden-lit Nor' West Sunday afternoon gave a break from Winter dreariness and took me back to some significant moments spent around this place. Also meant lots of other people were around, so we had to pick our moment carefully.
Plenty of other visitors mean the log book is almost full, with only a couple of more pages left.

Wow! What a house, and many more lovely old but well maintained ones about. Thanks for this cache, our final one for our weekend in this city. Removed the golf ball, so that lid would close. Great hidey hole. This cache came highly recommended by others at the event yesterday, so was a must-do on our list. Thanks

Found mid afternoon on a Saturday. Lots of muggles about skate boarding and climbing on the roof by the pool. Had to bid my time. Worth the wait. Good one. Took a bee and left an apple.

nice hiding place thx for the find

Nice location and a very cool idea how to hide a cache. Thanks for the cache.
TNLNSL (#104)

14.03.2006 19:55 h #303 7 of 65 in NZ
On our way to our motel the last one of an intensive caching day in Christchurch. A nice inviting pool but too late and too cold for us. However, we met the first sandflies or simlar biting biests.
No trade. TFTC
Albatross1901 and Florian from Germany

Nice location and a great way to start off my career as a geocacher. Thanks.

Ooow! That dog freaked me out!! Great cache, my heart was beating pretty fast after the Hunter to Hunted feeling.
TNLN
Cheers

Nice way of hiding. Always liked Lego. Found it! Thnx
Team jusa Maaike and Eric from the Netherlands

By nt reading the instructions, we headed to Mona Vale, only to be suprised by our GPS. We realised what we had done and set off again. We left a UK pound and took a keyring.
Great hiding place,
Thanks!

Lots of kids playing in the pool near by but was able to find without to much problem. Great day and place for a long walk. 7th of 15 for the weekend

Nice hiding place. Thanks

6:01 pm - Took magic card. Left 15 second timer keyring. Quick geocaching fix before dinner. Thanks from Linley, Richard and Max.

Very nice Find.

Thanks for the very cool hiding place

Ryrager & Amethyst

Smart hiding place in this little park. TNLN

Very "creative" (though sneaky) hiding place
TNLN
TFTC
Cheers
Bruce

Just down the road from my house, great hiding place.

We've been here late afternoon, no muggles around. Well hidden, THX! Met Black Panther and could find the cache together. Took Geocoin, Left Japanese Frog
Greeting, Thomas & Birgit (Germany)

Looking around for abit then along came Redgecco & in no time the cache was found.
Thank for the help.

Found it just after sunrise on a brisk morning. I had to decrypt the hint to uncover the clever hide. Took a geocoin that has yet to be dropped in by previous visitor and left an other.

Nice one! A few Muggles nearby, so had to wait for appropriate moment....

T4TC, left Geocoin

Leaving Treasure

On vacation from Finland. I came here with my wife. The park was occupied by very short geomuggles, but the cache was in the blind spot, so it was quite easy to log it. Great cache idea! TNLN.

[This entry was edited by Divine on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 at 3:44:36 AM.]

Lovely piece of work! A not too hard cache in a friendly quiet garden setting. Took & left nothing. 4th in NZ.

Spent the day Geocaching with Daughter Nikadoodle as she has to head back to Aussie on Boxing Day... GPS took us almost straight there... Couple of Muggles but they were occupied watching lots of Muglets. Disappointed that we didn't get barked at.. Very neat hide.
Left White Pawn.
Took Figurine.

Couple of muggles around in the sunshine but they were preoccupied with kids, excellent clever cache! TNLN

Nice One!!!!!!!! Easy find. Lovely historic park even on a very grey rainy evening. Not a muggle in sight. Take a 10 out of 10 for the clever hiding place. TNLN Thanks

Haha no kids swimming at 8.30am.
Nice spot. Took tealight candle left glitter glue. Thanks

Cool park but as a stinking hot day dozens of muggle children swimming. Tried to wander inconspicuously, but don't think we succeeded!!

Will try another time.

We are visitors from Holland and enjoy our stay in NZ. Even more due to the geocaching spots. This was an easy find nearby our hotel. Thanks. NI/NO

I was right in front of this a week or so ago, but couldn't touch it as there were muggles around. No one around at all today, so I grabbed it. Really like this hiding place. EXCELLENT!!
-compass keyring
+Hairy Little Dwarf #11

great hiding place. had to come back later on as there was a couple smooching on the grass in front of cache.thanks a lot

Found without to much trouble, the german shepard next door diddnt like me fumbling around to much and i thought he was going to come through the fence. Very nice hidding spot. TNLN Cheers

found by kitchen hand sponge and his bro(stephen)
great idea for a place to hide a cache !!

thanx stoutwind for the cache!

A great hiding place. It took a while to find. The council worker was supicious at my lurkings and came over to investigate. She thought I might have been a noise control officer holding the unit this way and that. She was using one of those noisy blower machines. However she became enthusiastic and thought her partner might just get into geocaching when she saw the cache. TNLN. Hatas

very good idea for the cache

Easy straight forward find - we like the work thats gone into the hiding place - Sean and Dyland

While the kids were playing on the playground we bumped into kiwisean. After finding the cache, we had to wait for ages until all the people left.
- Fifi TB
+ keyring compass

Find #250! Woohoo! Cool park, and a great walk along teh river. Thanks! T- TB. L - nothing. Clever hide, too.

Very well done great hiding place.... gps went right to GZ

Now on a sour note... I feel cheated no DOG barked at me what did I do wrong to be left out!!


Many Thanks Bitsprayer

What a great hiding spot and hide! The nice doggy came over briefly and had a woof. I disappeared around the corner for a minute before returning and it had gone. Free access to the cache. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [573]

This was my second visit.
And it was worth going:
Excellent precise coordinates,
fantastic signal close to the cache,
even the dog came silently to scare me.
And of course: an original hiding with a hint that only makes sense when seeing the location! Great!

Thank you for this great cache!

To the next cachers: Dont come here when the weather is excellent, especially in the afternoons. There wil be too many muggles around...

Out: nothing
In: Two TBs (Dog Tag and Fifis Worldtraveler)

What a great hiding place. Coords were spot on.
No exchange made.
Thanks,
Greg, Tiff, Jordan, Josh & Akiko

What a cool hiding place! Had to wait for muggles to go away. I don't think they would have found it anyway.
- Upper class TB
- Pineapple keyring
+ 2 Crystal agate stones

Wow! I don't think I have ever visited a cache that has been done so many times in one day. A pity the others didn't put times in - it's certainly interesting to see how close you got.
I think the dog has got scaring the cachers down to a fine art. He leaves you to get right up to the area, with your head down, before letting out a bloodcurdling/smalls-soiling bark. Most impressive.
The hide was most impressive too. Well done.
+Julian the Hairdresser TB.

Very clever Really enjoyed this cache.
-whistle
+golf ball
Cheers
Conton

Visited 6:40PM
Didn't have cache page with me.
Easy find, but a neat hide.

+ Upper Class TB
- Julian the Hairdresser TB (which I will log out after KiwiLegend log in.

Had a second go today to find this cache.....my gps showed me on the other side of the park...so I made a few adjustments and went looking again and found it. Very good spot...rather clever. TNLN. Signed the log book there.

What a neat cache! Great hiding spot! We were just getting close to the cache, when the dog came bounding up, scaring the hell out of us! Then I remembered reading the cache logs a while back, which always seemed to mention the dog! Still don't quite get the significance of the cache name. Many thanks!

Very busy park - and the dog too!!
Yet another interesting place introduced to the buckoboys. Thanks
+ Kids Travel Luggage Label
- sponge ball

Our second cache for the day and ever! Great location and very well hidden - I like this game. There is however a loud barking dog near the cache who's owner may get annoyed at people looking for the cache.

A couple of teen muggy boys on the swings wouldnt leave so Mrs Buzz distracted them while Mr Buzz grabbed the cache.
This is the most elaborate cache hide we have ever seen, very clever. Might try that somewhere else one day.
Nice work Stoutwind.
no exchange (didnt have time!)

Wow! What a cool cache. Well done on the hiding of this! We really enjoyed finding it and had a laugh when we finally exposed the cache itself. The park is a great find as well. We never knew it existed - "Mona Vale of the East" is a good description. Thanks for a great cache hunt and we really look forward to more