Where Giants March (Canterbury) Avonhead, South Island, New Zealand
By Hello Mrs on 27-May-06. Waypoint GCW958

Was there at 09.45 hrs and sure at the right spot. Printed this one 4-10-07 before leaving Holland and reading the logs now..... Claim this one after 15800 kms of traveling!
Meryl(Holland)

This cache has now been replaced by Giants on the March a short distance away.

Looked for ages!!

With another DNF, visited the cache site today to see if cache was still there. Couldn't find any sign of the cache or contents in the vacinity so presume it has been muggled for the third time. The area has become rather tatty so I will achive this cache site shortly and list a new one nearby.

nice park and walk. think we looked in right spot but no luck finding it.

Great attempt to intergrate unsightly pylons into landscape - Jnr & Mr B located general area easily enough but a thorough search with help of the clue turned up nothing - Mr B fairly confident he looked in the right spot, who knows, sometimes you just don't get them!

I thought I knew where it was so I found the car park easily, then we had an easy walk to GZ and Mrs Nzcarey found the cache quickly.

Took a mini parachute and a Canada geocoin, and left carabiner keyring.

As Yankee in NZ said we drove arround for a while finding the entrance but a nice find and a short walk on a sunny day

18:25 We had a ton of 'fun' looking for the entrance to this park, the GPS had us going all over the place trying to get us close to the cache. Finally found the entrance and had no trouble finding the right place, had a bit of fun finding the exact location of the cache, but found it withing 5 minutes.

- Nil
+ Ellandel's Canadian Geocoin Nr3

TFTC

Found this after dropping mudblood off at the airport to fly home. Wanted to grab it as we are normaly in Christchurch for sport and have never bothered to try.
Thought we would be safe today and we did get it and hide without too much muggle trouble. Was very surprised at the number of dog walkers out and about. Each time one left another arrived.

That was a lot easier now there is somthing to find.
The park was totaly muggle free which is really suprising for the time of day.
Thanks for checking and replacing so quickly
Cheers,
S.T.
TNLN

An easy find and a cool spot!!! Thanks
- plastic submarine
+ badge

Nice park and an easy find.
- TB
TFTC!

Called by to check on the cache. There was no sign of it anywhere close the the original hiding place. If anyone finds the old cache please let me know as I have hidden a new 200ml camo sistema cache container and dropped in a geocoin. PLease take care rehiding the cache as there is not quite as much cover as there used to be.

We had apretty good look around here, went away and got the clue and had another good look. If it is there it is in a different place to the clue
Cheers
S.t.

No luck with this one even with the clue, had a good look but no luck

First find for my son. Enjoyed the walk. Had to wait to replace cache as someone was giving us very strange looks.

Thankyou. Nice walk in park. Easy to find entrance. What a strange sculpture. TNLN

Has someone mentioned that the entrance was hard to find . Thanks, all part of the challenge. Our direction was a bit different to the clue, which had us searching in slightly the wrong place. Well hidden.

Quick find, Second for the day
TNLN

Difficult to find a way in to the park expected there to be an enterence on the airport side
easy find once we were inside

Easy find with no Muggles,
Beats sitting in the office for lunch!

+ Golf tee
- Bouncy ball (which I nearly lost playing the fool in the park!) Brilliant!

Easy find, once we had read the clue. Noticed that our friends from NZRT11 had been there before us. Left magnet.

Didnt relise this place was so big,,easy enough find, not to many muggles about ,cheers

Quik find thanks

TNLN

Really is time to think what I want to do for my 100th as this was #98!
Easy find, ETrex took me straight to it. Like the abstract art (not often I say that, not usually a fan of abstract), very surprised at the size of the park also, I had no idea!
TFTC

Found easily today , have left a geo coin which i found in napier its called walking from cache to cache, has an interesting history.

Didn't find it, but forgot to take the additional hint with me, which looks like it'll help heaps. Will have another go! This park was EXCEEDINGLY popular with dog owners when I went there.

Rather suprised at the size of this park. Found cache OK after a bit of looking, and trying to straighten up those rocks before they fall over completely

TNLNSL TFTC

Found the cache on a long trip to Christchurch. Ran a long way to get here!

+ Chinese stamp
- hole punch

This was a quick dash between showers during the thunder storm Nice piece of abstract art at GZ, thanks for sharing TNLNSL

Nice walk in the Park Boys loved the large "Rocks"

861 Staying with friends just around the corner so popped in to collect this after a long day out in Bottle Lake and the northern suburbs of Christchurch. Didn't get as many caches logged as I expected but tomorrow is another day. Glad this one was there for finding. TNLN DS8300

Nice distance to cycle from home and visit friends in the area.

Thanks for the cache. I bet there is a spectacular EMF coming off those giants.
- croc
- keyring
+ ball
+ mini staple gun
+ gun

What a nice park. Once we found the way round the fences it was a nice stroll to the cache site. Picked up Geocoin.
TFTC

We walked past some serious baseball training going on, on a summer’s morning. Great to see the planting around the pylons here. Dropped in the Spotter coin from Germany for some more travels.

Great time had by kids hunting for this!! We had so much fun we didn't realise it was pouring down with rain!

- keyring
+ pinkie ring

A neat cache! Had me scratching my head for a minute or two.

Quick trip out after work. Easy find.
+ Keyring
-Magnet

Good find after waiting for the rain to stop and being mistaken for being a Baseball Team arriving to play.
+ puzzle
- coin
TFTC

A quick find in a large reserve, some people around, none that bothered my search.
Cheers
TNLN

Managed to botch entery of coords into GPS. Wandered round looking at various cabbage trees to no avail. Went to Avonhead Mall and phoned home to get coords, and got found the cache quite quickly with that info!

Can hear the pylons buzzing in the rain.
Cheers Hello Mrs - M@

Quick and easy find but had to watch the tractor mowing the lawn around site, thanks
49th of 85

Nice walk from my hotel. Once again you've shown me a park that I never would have seen without your cache. Thanks! TNLNSL

Nice cache... nice hidy hole

Thanks for the find

TNLN

Ryrager & Amethyst

Nice walk.
Thanks

Found with The A Team from Alex.
Took a bit of laptop navigation to find the closest entrance.
TNLN

Our last cache for the trip - an easy find in beautiful parkland. If this was Perth, I'm sure it would have been built out by now. TN, L: calling card, SL. Thanks for the cache.

The buckets of rain turned into a sunny but windy day, so I thought it would be nice to go to the park to find the cache. I can see the potential for a lot of dog walking muggles, but today the park was quiet. TNLN. Thanks!

The hardest part was finding an entrance to this park. Great cache, thanks.

Blowing a cold southerly, so did stick around for long. Wrote McPossums name in properly, but didn't have a spare pencil in my bag-o-cache tricks. TNLN. Thanks.

An easy find, but no pencil in the cache so had to scratch on with some bark.
TNLN, thanks.

i was just passing the area so popped in to have a look. a quick find but like kiwilegend said such a large park and so few entrances.
seeker36

A quick find on a very cold day,must go back and explore.Never knew this park was here and I used to work in the area.

Liz found quite quickly on a warm Spring afternoon. Only one football team playing nearby. TNLN.

Pouring with rain so used the clue. Easy, QUICK find and then a scamper back to the car. TNLN Thanks

Sneaked off from work to do this on the way back from the Airport. It took way longer than I expected - due to the time it took to find the entrance. It is so ridiculous to have so many houses, yet so few entrances to a nearby park.
Nonetheless, both me and the dog got a good walk.
TNLN, thanks.

10:50am, #6 of day 4 of our week in Chch (that's 54 to date). Biggest problem for us out of towners was finding the entrance to the park! Interesting leaning stones, and nice walk in the park.

Ha! Lots of little soccer players today, maybe future giants - who knows?! Found the cache easily as it was away from the game about to be played. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [872]

After visiting Kiwitonita I just had to visit this nearby cache. No muggles around today, but I am sure it is a popular place on a Saturday. TNLN. T4TC.

Lovely wee cache. Didn't know this park was here. Thanks for bringing us here
- Penguin TB
+ American Coins
Cheers
Conton

1140. We had just been at the hospital sorting out Rodney's treatment options - the Doctor said, "Just keep doing normal activities." So, what could be more normal than geocaching. Luckily there was this unfound cache sitting here that wasn't going to take too much energy or stretch too many muscles. We had scouted this park out a long time ago when we were doing our Avon river series but even so it took us a bit of winding and turning before we found the entrance! We enjoyed our walk amongst the giants. Thanks very much for the cache - we needed that today!
+ TB - just managed to fit it in!
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

9:44 am - Took rabbit TB. A few games in progress but they paid us no attention. Found exactly as listed. TFTC.

9:44 am - Cache 2 of 11 for today. Found a wabbit TB and hopped off with him. TFTC.

just behind money dork i'm a catching up lol

Found about mid day on beaut winter's day. Must of just missed moneydork. No sign of Bull TB here, we left Where Rabbit TB but whoever finds it will have to grab it as I don't have it's TB no. Still thinks it's at last ChCh event cache. Sorry.

A nice quick find - once we found our way into the park that is. + Angus Bull TB.

Quick dash in the rain, the hard part was finding the way in.

Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Better weather today so after being alerted by Bitsprayer of this nearby cache we went for a walk to find it. Many thanks. No swaps.

Very busy park,lots of dogs.
TNLN.

found with qmoto

here with Muzzman & Annie
TNLN

As I was coming from the north I found myself driving past the open sportsground - but how to get in?? It took some winding around (not having a detailed suburban streetmap!!) through pleasant housing to find an entrance. GPS was spot on, no need for a hint at all. But where did they get those huge rock pillars from?? Could go well in my garden - or add a few more and remake Stonehenge!! No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(509)

Nice little cache, not too much trouble finding this, the clues were excellent. Got to visit a park i have never been to in chch after living here for 30years! Thanks
- TB PA7FL Down Under

PA7FL Down Under TB dropped off.

First FTF for a long time. I had to forego watching "Dancing with the Stars", and walk under the stars to find the cache. Damp air sure does make the hum quite loud!!
It only seemed right when you found one of ours today, that I should find one of yours. Thanks for the outing.
TNLNSL

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