Touchdown (Canterbury) Harewood, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 12-Feb-06. Waypoint GCTEXZ

A good spot to watch the aircraft while eating.
Finding the cache didn't take too long.
Thanks for the cache.

2 of 7 for the day

Cache gone to the cache graveyard.

Bitsprayer

Looked for an hour - coordinates about 10 feet from fence; filthy dirty place - turned up lots of dangerous broken glass, even searched in and around decomposing lamb and garbage. How about a better site with less bacteria?

Daughter and I looked around for about 30 minutes but did not find cache. Not a particularly nice location, lots of broken glass and a decomposing lamb.

You did find where the cache was. I regularly visit and usually check to see if the cache is still there. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the grass was a lot shorter than when I originally found the cache (but that the cache was still there). Last couple of times I have visited the cache has been missing.

Pretty sure we found where the cache should have been, there was an indent in the grass of what looked liked was a square container. No sign of the cache. There is also a dead lamb very close.

Fast Find.
Had to wait for muggle to leave though.
TFTC anyway.
ClownyCacher

TFTC. nice spot to watch the planes.

Nice spot, watched a plane land. Good view of the airport.

Thanks!

A ice spot to watch the craft. Thanks for showing us this.TNLN.

Easiest find of the day. Had a day of tough finds with kids getting grumpy. Left Sellotape, toy car and monkey. Took keyring, smiley face and purse.

Found it!

After easy find, had to enter hostage negotiations with Jnr B as he was clutching fence while muttering must get closer .. must get closer .. he just loves those planes! An excellent place for a cache, pity about the broken glass & other debris making this a bit of a Jnr hazard. No sign of the TB that is listed as being in this cache.

I think this Cache was my closest find to my car, a nice easy find and a cool spot, thanks for the Cache.

- Arctic TB
+ Old Ozzie One Dollar note

A quick, easy one. Windy!
TNLNSL

Cheers,
Blarghster.

A little bit of a detour on the way home from the geocoinfest in Ashburton gave us one more easy find for the day. Discovered TB, left nothing.

On the third go, I got to pick this one up. Unfortunately i didn't have all my caching gear, but looked in the most obvious place and there it was! A popular spot for plane spotting troublesome for cachers trying to get in!
- CommanderScout, + handcream. Thanks.

An easy find.
I dropped off Antarctic Explorer TB because this cache is very close to the airport and the TB wants to go to the Antarctic.
+ Antarctic Explorer TB
+ Commanders Scout TB
TFTC!

my 4 year like the lambs

My last cache in NZ, half an hour before flying back to Oz.

Would benefit from a CITO visit; lots of rubbish but a great view.

TNLNSL

Nice easy cache.
Thanks

Easy Find

Nice easy find on a pleasant winter day. No muggles so it was quick work. Dropped off a couple travel bugs, one of which has a time sensitive goal to get to Europe ASAP so I hope we've got some airport watchers out there! TFTC.

Easy find after droping off friends at the airport with rebeckingham palace
TNLN

Nice spot to watch the planes from
Stoped by with simpsonsrgr8

Avoiding an amorous couple in a car who were not that interested in planes I snuck in found this this cache. Left a turtle and took a dice. Thanks. Hatas

Found on the way to the airport to go back home, TFTC Picked up a TB to take home.

A quick find before dropping Aussie geocacher at the airport

NZ trip cache #106

Nice easy hide, no one around, planes weren't using this runway today when we were here.

TFTC

Sat in the car eating my lunch watching the planes. Then when everyone had gone we got out to find the cache.

47. Muggles again but this time we had time on our hands. Gave the boys some food for lunch so they were happy to wait, watched planes, ate and waited. Yes they have gone, ran out the car easy find lets hope no one comes now before we get it back!
Not much in the cache so we left a Unite for Diabetes TB for someone else to discover.

Obviously a popular park up area, lots of rubbish
Found cache quickly TNLN TFTC

Muggles, again. Got out took some photos but not enough time to wait for them to move we had a plane to catch.

[^] i defintely liked this one! easy find, second one of the day.

Nice One!!!!!!! Great long weekend of Super 14, shopping and geocaching. Easy find, no touchdowns but a couple of opposites. +Dice -Toyman Thanks

Last cache of the day and a 5 day SI trip. Got here at 7:45pm and my plane was scheduled to depart at 8:25pm so good thing it was an easy find. Would of had a good view of the plane I missed though

Great spot, many thanks.

Found on a dark and stormy night so no muggle problems. Lots of litter laying around. With all the paranoia about airport security I was wondering whether poking around in the dark, with a torch, on the perimeter of an international airport was really all that clever! So completed the formalities and legged it before I was arrested.

Agreed good view of the Airport.

I found this one today with my daughter ,I use to come out this way in my earlier days lol, A quick cache find cheers

[This was an easy one for me as I am training] to be a pilot at the International Aviation Academy of NZ[ just around the corner. Made sure I headed home during a lull in the "traffic" so no muggles.
-razor dragon TB
+golf ball]

I had ridden my bicycle all the way out here and there, right in front of me was the cache. I was standing but a foot away and I could see the pale color of the containers lid from its hiding place. However, only a meter behind me was a car with four teenage boys sitting in it and I was in plain sight. I waited for a while but came to the realization that unless they left or unless something happened to distract them, I wasn’t going to get the cache. I considered trying my James Bond skills to stealthily recover the cache, but then I remembered that the only skill that Bond and I share is that I can drink a martini. I just couldn’t retrieve the cache in good conscience, knowing that my find would result in a muggling. Ugg. So, I left the cache for another day. At least I got some exercise and the next time I look for this cache, I won't need to bring my GPS.

I've stopped off here many times before on the bike; only just found out there was a cache here. An easy find.

nice spot for airplanes fans
fortunately today was no muggles here,easy to found, but lot of rubish around cache.
TFTC
+ rubik cube [puzle]
+ T.B. Razor dragon
- T.B. Cliviger [for Nana and Pope]

Easy find, thanks for the nice spot

854 Passed by earlier in the day but muggles put paid to the hunt. None in sight when returning to Chch later in the day. Easy find. TNLNSL. DS8300

Not a muggle in sight - could be the pouring rain!
- Light bulb
- blue car
+ staple remover
+ plane
TFTC

Found this cache which was the first find on new GPS (christmas present). Pity didn't have maps loaded as we would have known quite which road to take. Dropped of Travel bug For Nana and Pops. Forgot to record the trackable number off this T/bug so have to contact owner so that I can log this visit. Swaps logged at cache site.

My second visit to this cache. The first time I called there was an extremely scantily-clad young lady there, sunbathing. I think there may have been a bloke with her in which case it was probably more than sunbathing. I can't tell the difference! Being the gentleman I am, I discretely did a 180 to return another day this time with more success. I was the second person to visit this site today.
A well-planted cache.

Saw a US AirForce C-130 Hercules lift off for the Ice while waiting for muggles to move on - unfortunately he appears to be dozing in his car, and waking when planes take off. Waited for a long gap between planes and grabbed the cache while he dozed, signed log and put back after a few more take-offs. Took TB Eastbound Pigeon. Thanks.

The 5th time I've driven past here and the first without a muggle parked up. Easy find and got too see the fire engine fleet racing away to something. TNLN Thanks.

Oh, nice place [^] Me likee

Dropped off TB Eastbound Pigeon
Picked up TB Captn Kermit

Blåmes, Sweden

[This entry was edited by Blåmes on Saturday, January 06, 2007 at 12:20:32 PM.]

This was my 4th time here to get the cache, the other 3 times muggles were parked up, so had to come back later.
A nice hide. The airport wasn't too busy at 7pm.
Cheers
TNLN

Planes in Rain! Lots of choppers buzzing about - hoping I wasn't causing suspicion.
Cheers Bitsprayer - M@

no action on the airport today.
In TB Captn Kermit
51st of 85

Just as we stopped. Massive downpour but quick work and we were back in dry car.

Thanks

Ryrager & Amethyst

Found with The A Team from Alex.
Nice spot for plane watching
+ Necklace - Finger thingy.

Found this one rather quickly while we were retrieving waypoints for a multi. Area looks like it is well used by muggles. TNLN

Great place for a cache. TNLN thanks

Dropped one KiwiHarv at airport, bagged this cache, watched planes land and take-off, then visited Orana Wildlife Park. A good morning. Took: TB Koalas, apple ornament, balloon. Left: rubber stamp, lightbulb. Cheers.

Found easily on a warm spring day with a good Nor-Wester blowing. No muggles here today.

- TB Patches
- smiley face keyring
+ TB 3 Cute Australian Koalas
+ Pack of Snap cards

Also took log book pen as it is running out. Left a replacement pen (NZ).

Great cache, thanks. Introduced me to an area of Chch i didn't know, so that's great. Mothy

One of a few we found while on holiday in Christchurch. Had to quickly discard gross objectionable contents before our daughters got their hands on it. Dirty muggles had found it and defiled it, even left an obscene log, mongrels.
Anyway was a great spot for the girls plane spotting.They loved it. Cheers,
SeaJ&Kat

Out on a bike ride and thought we should do some caches as well. Easy find

Easy find using hint. Not many touchdowns today and even if there were you couldn't have seen them through the rain and fog!! TNLN Thanks

8:50pm. #13 of day 2 of our week in Chch (total 45 so far). Easy find in a cool spot. No cars near the cache but lots parked up (presumably looking at the pretty lights?) down the road parallel to the runway.

Quick find, suprisingly there were no cars down here. Dropped off the patch bug for further travels. Bit of glass around the road at the end. No exchange. Cheers Gav [871]

9:23 am - Nobody about. Nice quick find to start a day of geocaching. TNLN. TFTC.

9:23 am - Cache 1 of 11 for today. First one ever for our UK teenage friends. TNLN. TFTC.

found with qmoto. muggles about

here with Muzzman & Annie
TNLN

Definitely a popular spot for plane spotting... oh well, get out of car and hang over fence, and eventually they move on. Easy find. Well stocked, tidy cache. Thanks

Dropped in to get this one on my way up to "Ashley views".
No muggles and no interesting planes about.
Thanks and cheers,
S.T.
TNLN

Our 3rd find ever. Kids having fun at this.
Cache is all intact and dry.
Cheers
- mini plane
+ bouncy ball

Found easily on a pleasant quiet autumn morning. Nice place to rest and munch on an apple.
Took an apple and left a funny face keyring

Someone should teach the yahoos how to use a rubbish bin!!! Spent a bit of time in the rain tidying up. Apart from that it was a nice spot for watching the world fly by.
- Air NZ Kids bag
+ Plane & Gel pen

What a cooooool spot!
After dropping off some Auckland family, swung around to find the cache and see them off from this view. Middle buckoboy enjoyed olmost as much as the big one did!
Found at 8:10pm and only ones at the site.
+ Air New Zealand Kids Club Bag
- Lens Cleaner

Lots of noise, planes and that kerosine smell, excellant stuff.
TFTC, TNLNSL

Another find spent standing on the fence.
Mostly to distract the locals fixated on planes.

Found this with Kiwijam and co.

Took longer than average to find this good hiding spot.
Plenty of locals around today, watching the planes.
Time for lunch...

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Nice hide, In the US, you can't get this close to a major airport anymore without major suspicion! Left card, signed log, took DK #1 TB

Wild evening weather with a southerley front right on our tail, thunder & lightning with extremely large spots of rain threatening a downpour.
Used to watch the aircraft here myself many moons ago.
+ Lipstick case
- Miniature clothes pegs. TFTC.

Yay! First find for us. Have just started geocaching.
TNLN

This was my second visit to the site - due to high muggle factor with the first visit. Great place for a cache.
Took Nothing, Left DK#1 Traveller TB.
Cheers

On a hot NW day, the planes come in to land from both the south and the east - so you get double views. The cache was an easy find, thanks Bitsprayer. + lens cleaner - TB Fireman(German)
Cheers from Grandalf.

tb drop

10.25am. Lots of planes coming in this morning.
+ TB Erli.
- Nil.
The backbrakebilly geocoin is not in the cache.
TFTC Bitsprayer.
Cheers M+S [:O)] (284)

Here with Tufty. Quick visit - the bros are in a hurry to earn brownie points from waiting wives. TNLN Thanks Bitsprayer. Cheers

Managed to do this one with BaldEd with one minute spare on arriving home to win one brownie point with wives. My last cache in the South Island for this trip.
TNLNSL.
Cheers, Bitsprayer, for this and the other caches I've done of yours.

An easy find, nice place, never knew it was there. Noticed the very secure lowered fence further down the road, for the smaller touchdowns..
Geocoin is no longer in the cache.
- TB Pumping Iron
+ pack of coloring pencils
Thanks Bitsprayer.

An easy find on a nice morning.
Picked up Somethingold TB
Dropped off Pumping Iron kiwi TB
- bear
+ apples

Found at 8:45am.
TNLN as Geo-coin had already been taken.

Easy find. Moneydork must of been here just before us. Andre wanted the airplane, so exchanged some bug pegs. Andre's flying to the west coast in 2 days while Mordor drives(caches).

Found tonight on our first caching expedition for ages.
Left SomethingOld TB and took the lens cleaner
Thanks for the cache!
Conton

nice easy find - saw a few touchdowns

nice find - thanks

Found cache on way to work.7:30am

Found cache on the way home from work
Actually on the way to pick up Liz from few days working up north. We missed seeing her plane land unfortunately.
TNLN, Thanks.