13 July

Yesterday was the last day of just Brent & me time. Brent chose to go geocaching. After dropping Scott off at work we headed to the "elephant park" & finally found the "Where foxes fly" cache. It has always been a bit difficult to get because of all the children ("muggles") in the park. We went home & put a load of laundry on before heading out towards Methven. On the way out there we found 2 other caches. We stopped at Charing Cross to find another but couldn't find it, & despite being off the main road it was still very busy with farming traffic. We then headed for one that is at the entrance to Mt Hutt Station. We got there to find snow lying on the ground. Unfortunately the ground is where this cache is hidden so we never found it because it was either under snow or the ground was frozen solid so we couldn't lift stones or even branches to have a look.

It was about lunchtime after we gave up the hunt for that cache so we went into Methven to have lunch at Cafe 131. It wasn't bad but the wait to get the meal was a bit long, I seem to recall it was when Scott & I visited it earlier in the year. Obviously they haven't smartened up their act for the winter tourists.

We left there & headed back to Christcurch driving past a cache site in Rakaia. It was way too busy to contemplate doing, as there is not only a park there but they have now opened up a tourist centre too. It might have to be a night operation to get that cache.

There's another cache on the outskirts of Hornby so we headed towards it & wouldn't you know just as we got within 1 km of it the GPS ran out of batteries. I stopped put some replacement batteries in & then circled around to try & approach it agsin only to find that it looks to be on the other side of SH1. There was no way I was stopping & crossing that busy road with Brent so we just drove home & called it a day.


Edited to add my thanks to a geocacher by the handle of Warm Fuzzies (parkrrrr) for the wallpaper that I used in making this card.