I thought I had read everything I could on early caches in NZ
then one I found the cache page GC4A by accident and I have yet to
see any information on it before. So that this doesn't disappear
into history forgotten I decided to come and place one here.
Multiple approaches for this cache. While checking out the
location a convey of 4wd drove by following Selwyn 'River' (which
for nearly all the year is a dry river bed).
Cache update October 2007 Bob C has a new name and he has found
this cache!!! How great is that. Any way I asked him how close I
was to the original site and here is his reply:
Hi Catherine. The missus (Kaye) reckons the original was only
about 2 or 3 meters away, on the same side of the 'road' (her
memory is better than mine too) . It was placed at the base of a
council signpost, with 'No Rubbish Dumping" (or something like
that) on it. The whole area was inundated by the Selwyn river in
the big flood, and the cache, signpost, and anything else
recognisable were washed away out to sea. We enjoyed the search
too, brought back memories of the original cache! I hoped at the
time to be the first in NZ to do one, but 2 people in the N/Island
beat us to it, oh well... Thanks for keeping the memory alive, it
looks like your cache is going to be pretty popular. Incidental,
when we found it, it was fairly obvious since the grass all around
had been disturbed, and the concrete slab had been placed back on
_top_ of the surrounding grass. So when we left, I artistically
re-arranged it to look like it had lain undisturbed for years!
Cheers, Bob -----------
UPDATE 5 DECEMBER 2008 New container. My first cache here was
washed away in the same manor as the original GC4A. Do not remove
cache from its obvious hiding spot just open both lids and remove
log for signing. Feel free to add large stones to the outside of
the larger cache container.