Fendalton Factors (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By Grandalf on Monday 9 May 2005. Waypoint GCNJCR

5th

Found with assistance from Little Horrible and Big smoke, while out on a trip. # 115
 

21st

Nice wander Took Spring boks TC
 

22nd

Found this on my way home from work. What a great little area around the cache. Dropped off geocoin.
 

20th

Threatening thunderstorms kept the muggles at bay. Cache found after a pleasant walk.
 

15th

Popular area with lots of foot traffic. TFTC
 

14th

Found with YuGeo4, had cousins living in this area before I took up Geocaching, but isn't this always the case, nice drive around Fendalton, cool multi for the last cache for the day, was great catching up with you at the event cache, TFTC TNLNSL (1155)
 

14th

3459
Many thanks Grandalf for taking us on a tiki tour around Fendalton, an enjoyable and well set up multi. A great spot for the final and a quick find with Yeetrees. Nice to have met you at the Cachers Garden Party.
TNLNSL, TFTC

 

14th

A good day for a stroll around this neighbourhood. It's a shame so many of the nice houses where hidden behind such high fences. TFTC
 

11th

I felt a bit conspicuous riding a bike around this one. Best to be driving a massive european 4wd to fit in. There also seemed to be a fair few packs of teenagers wandering around (and sitting near the cache) at 6.30pm on a Saturday, maybe I should have waited to see if there was a party.
I got one of the letterboxes wrong but a quick change gave me the co-ordinates.

Nice one!
 

5th

After a few attempts,finally got this multi.Had great fun,lots of laughs.Lots of muggles around.Beautiful garden plot in front of cache-site.Added black gem,play money and green car.Love these type of multis.T.F.T.C.
 

5th

We had a lot of fun doing this one after dropping off fellow gc at airport.Took a few attempts as were too keen to finish, had a lot of laughs.What a nice little park even though a lot of young muggles about.Would love to do a lot more of these.As container was empty except for replacement log,added pink smiley face,Holly,Jandal Key-ring,Fox Animal.
 

4th

At last! It is so easy to find when it's actually there. From previous visits to the site, high school muggles use this as a smoko hangout. Today was a cold Sunday, gardens are looking lovely. #817
 

3rd

Thanks for another cache O Grand Alien Life Form, and yes it was easy to find now that it's actually there! TNLN
 

1st

Hooray - found it at last! This has been top (or close to the top as new caches appear) of my closest unfound for months now, so I'm delighted to despatch it at last. Now is a very good time to do the WPs as the gardens in the area are looking lovely. Enjoyable multi, though not a fan of the hide of the final.
TFTC.
 

23rd

Aaah, the joy of being first to sign a fresh new logbook. OK it was only a replacement but it still felt good..... TFTC
 

22nd

The cache had indeed vanished - it appears there has been some gardening done recently. So I have placed a new cachebox in the correct location. We will watch its progress.  

20th

Alas, we could not find it either, but the walk around the rich folks streets was pleasant, if a little cold.
 

20th

I did check it not too long ago - but time has this habit of passing, doesn't it?
I'll go and check again, and take a replacement cache with me just in case.
Thanks for your patience, Grandalf  

20th

Nice walk around the area. Found all the WPs easily but no luck with the cache. Seems to have been missing for a while.....
 

25th

Thought this would be a quick finale after doing the walk weeks ago. On that walk, we didn't quite hit a suitable GZ so had to retrace to a possible error. Even in good neighbourhoods, numbers go walkabout from the poshest houses, & by the time we got to recalc'd GZ, a group of college students had gathered for smoko break. Thought we gave it a good look over today but still no cache found.
 

20th

I had found this cache a while back with StreetWalkerNZ. Recalculated the co-ords using Google maps to jog my memory, and I remember that it was not an easy find back then. Too many places fitted the hint (which was open to interpretation) and the tree cover meant GPS coverage was not great. I took the instruction that I didn't need to go on the garden literally and if I couldn't reach from the lawn, then I didn't search. It was a crap day weatherwise, but at least that meant I wasn't not distrubed in my search.
But no luck.
 

2nd

one of many found before i leave this beautiful country! TFTC
 

9th

Why did it take us so many trys to find it? It was there all the time. Very interesting finding all the W.Ps. TFTC
 

5th

Nice walk around on this one. Liked the final location nice wee spot that I didn't know about. Quick find in the end. TFTC.
 

19th

Did the tour mostly round the gates last night but whenI got to the final there was a couple of muggles sitting on the closest seat to GZ so needed to come back today. TFTC (412)
 

18th

Interesting houses to find for this cache. We wondered if the cache may have moved slightly from its original hidey hole but we found it reasonably quickly.
 

12th

This cache has taken me about a week to complete. I set out at the end of last week and collected all waypoints. Stopped for delicious lunch in the delikatessen shop between waypoints.
Unfortunately, the information I had collected didn't seem to result in a set of useful coordinates. Contacted the owner, who very quickly helped out. So set out again to find the cache (while completing Orient Express), only to walk past a homeless person lying on a nearby bench. I started the search, but must have been too noisy as he eventually decided to look what I was doing (I was searching in the wrong spot anyway, so no harm done). It didn't help that I had no idea what kind of bush I was after - I had failed to find a previous cache for the same reason. So abandoned the search, and returned this afternoon when the conference I'd been attending had finished. Despite the construction worker nearby, cache was located fairly quickly (I had help from KiwiLegend with the bush).
Greetings from Queensland, and TFTC! What a relief that this one is ticked off the list.
 

30th

Nice little walk about.
TFTC.
 

14th

A great day for a nice walk with an icecream stop in the middle. + little man - TB. TFTC.
 

12th

Came here yesterday but could not look as there was a worker nearby. Came today and had to wait a while for school kids to leave. A quick find. TFTC
 

10th

Was a nice walk amongest the houses, and was pleasantly surprised by the final location. Another place I never knew existed.
TFTC
 

21st

Hey there Grandalf I had nothing on this afternoon so I thought I would have ago at another one of your wonderfull caches lol.. After doing all the homework it was a nice easy find, I have been to the final caches location a few times lately and there have always been plenty of muggles about but not this time.. Cheers and thanks Bo
 

20th

Having heard that the first WP was obliterated, I went to check. Sure enough, new construction work has changed the landscape. So, I've added a Note in the listing to allow cachers to get that first number. I'll keep watching and change the listing again if needed.  

5th

[Not many Grandalf caches to go..
This was a nice walk and good maths practice without a calculator. Trial and error sorted out that issue with the missing house. Another place had a digit missing off its letterbox. Think] nine
[Thanks,
S.t.
-coin]
 

1st

We actually drove around the WPs as it was raining and we collected a few other bits of info along the way for another cache. First up, got the first number wrong then realised what others have mentioned in their logs about the house being missing.
However, we didn't find the final. We seemed to be in the right spot and PB had quite a reasonable search. Annie was a little disturbed by the rather dubious muggles in the nearby carpark, so we left without having made a find.
Thanks for the tour of the area, and especially the final spot - always good to discover these little locations.
 

26th

Found it despite the first WP home being no longer there... guess it was demonlished! But was able figure out with a bit of deductive reasoning! Thanks for the tour of the area... quite amazing homes indeed. Left Cache Blitz 2008 geocoin that was retrieved two weeks ago in Minneapolis. TFTC.
 

9th

A shame the lovely colonial homes are slowly being replaced by dreadful concrete bunkers, occupying the entire section and limiting the planting of trees and plants.
Still a lovely area of Chch though. Thanks for taking us there.
tuttifrutti et al.
 

12th

It's one of the older caches in Christchurch so I'm glad to have finally wandered around to get it off the list. It was interesting to see the difference in architecture (and how much some people are asking for a property) as time has gone on. The cache was easy to find, looks like the place might be getting a face lift in the future. Took coin, its been here a while. Thanks Grandalf.
 

2nd

#135. Found with Troodles. First house is gone, but it's number is easy to guess once you have all the other clues. Went to a seat near where we expected the ache to be, and found we were just a few metres away. Reception not great, and were keen to get home, so solved the clue and then found quickly.
 

3rd

Quick Find.
Family, (kiwicachers) were gonna hide their cache around here but is taken.....
Great cache! Loved it. Thought we were going to give up after first waypoint but we actually figured it out pretty easily. Saw my old teacher along way. She said, "See you tomorrow!"
TFTC TNLNSL
ClownyCacher
 

3rd

TFTC. glad to finally do this one so close to home. A WP home is not there but able to figure it out. log book is almost full. gorgeous day. nice walk around.
+ geocoin -magnetic pen
 

20th

Thought it was time to do some of these multis instead of putting them off.
 

16th

Enjoyed the bike ride around the neighbourhood. Having a map on my Garmin made it a lot easier to plot a reasonable route.

Glad for the disambiguation hints on thewaypoints as I sometimes found GZ to be the neighbouring house, also a prime number!

TNLN. TFTC.
 

27th

Walked around this neighborhood. Found cache quickly. TNLN. Thanks and regards from Switzerland
 

3rd

Great hunt around the rich houses. I didn't like the Big Black Gate though...

TFTH
- Smiley
 

1st

Nice walk around all the flash houses. Waypoint 1 is gone, but there's only one number that works.

There was a bit of a muggle factor near the cache, but nzcarey spent a lot of time looking around at the wrong place, to put them off the scent, while his better half quietly found the cache five meters away.

Took a TMNT car, left a lion model.
 

28th

Thanx for this cache, teamKollMont from Germany xx
 

26th

sweet, must have missed rincewind by minutes.
I second his comment about wp 1 but no problems really.
Geocoffee coin out
 

26th

Saw some beautiful homes on a lovely day. Beaten to the cache so missed the Coffee Coin. Oh, and WPT1 doesn't quite meet the description anymore - the wall is all but gone and the trees have been ripped out! Coords take you to the right spot, though.
TNLN, TFTC
 

16th

Thank you for the tour,
of the finest state in town.
We managed to find the cache,
without so much as a frown!
[:o)]
 

20th

found on a cold wet night. with flat batteries in gps.
 

16th

Wow What a find! Headed up here after seeing TGF had visited, these coins are hunted down all over the world and we were lucky enough to score one from this cache We visited all the locations as required and marveled at some of the interesting arcitecture and lovely places some people live in. After doing the required mathmatics made our way to GZ and found ourselves in a fabulous wee corner of town (I can see why a fairy would visit here) Thanks Grandalf for an enjoyable cache with 2 great rewards at the end

- Geocoin Fairy Coin
+ Cache Mover Coin (Un-Activated)
 

15th

This multi cache looked interesting to a tourist such as myself. Really enjoyed all the architecture along my journey. The gardens and landscaping on the way to the final are beautiful too. I took nothing, but left a little something for the next finder. Please trade fairly for it. Thank you for an enjoyable cache.

TGF
 

13th

Well that was fun!! I was driving around (shame I know - but it was 9:30pm and literally freezing) trying to read street numbers. Drove the filthy car (been caching for acouple of days) very slowly down Fendalton Ave, looking carefully in the rearview mirror to make sure I wasn't annoying anyone. Spotted the house I was interested in and drew to a stop, looked up and realised... that I was 50m short of a random breath test point. Never seen a policeman run so fast!! Good cache too, thanks.
 

19th

I biked around the waypoints on Sunday as a recovery from a 12 hour Rogaine the day before. Because I copied down one of the coords slightly wrong I didn't get the cache then. It wasn't too hard to work out at home what the missing number was, so I was back again today for a quick and easy find.
Thanks Grandalf for the tour of Fendalton and the cache.
+ TB
- Mini card pack
 

14th

Managed to tour the block with looming black clouds and just find the final as the downpour started.
Cheers Grandalf - M@
 

16th

Thanks for the tour of the area. The cache was a nice find once I got my math right. When in doubt look for the primes. Thanks! TNLN
 

14th

Found this at 9:10pm tonight. Decided to pop out and do this one after dinner (how romantic!!) Found all the waypoints with no probs and the cache was equally easy enough to find. Had to use the PDA and GPS to light the way and one of us ended up signing the log by moonlight.

PDA has kept our logging up to date and simple for the last 12 days while we have been on holiday. Today was the quietest day yet for us.

TNLN Cheers Grandalf!
 

1st

The gardeners have gone, and the cache is now active again.  

26th

I've retrieved the cache, and I'm disabling this one until the gardeners have finished their work.  

26th

Disabling  

25th

This one took some time due to the fact that some of the fences mentioned have changed colours and the shades of these colours match the next door fence.however i found it after checking my figures .also the final wp acording to the gardner is to have a make over it may be prudent to remove the cache temporaly while this is done .
however thx for the find left a travel bug."f" is for
satchmo cat
 

10th

Good fun - did the waypoints last week, and found it today with grandsons' help. + Mountie TB, - matches, coin
 

31st

A nice walk after work.
+Mountie ManLean TB
 

5th

This was a lovely cache to complete on a nice Saturday afternoon. We really enjoyed the walk and the final location was lovely. Thanks Grandalf, we look forward to completing more of your caches.
 

19th

Found quite easily in the drizzling rain. I had checked all the WP's the day before but running out of time headed home to do the final calculation. No swops.
 

1st

Finally got to finish this one. I was down here at the end of March got all the waypoints but ran out of time to find the final.

I was staying in a local hotel so did this final before dinner but after dark and had no torch. I'm quite thankful that there are no nasties hiding in our greenery (just spent 2 weeks in Aussie).

Out. The Invisible Car TB (wjbwc left this one and not the one listed - have sent him an email)
In: Nil (left swag bag back in hotel !@#$%^&)
Cheers for the cache.
 

28th

Really enjoyed this cache. Nice day for a walk with my sisters, and we enjoyed the houses. Thanks for the cache.
 

30th

Nice short bike ride round the area. Cheers.
 

28th

Nice day for a stroll around some of Christchurch's stately homes, in the company of another cacher.... very pleasant walk.
 

20th

nice morning bike ride and great find - thanks
 

17th

Great cache found on a beautiful day. Swapped baker cat for shell keyring and also left travelbug.
 

1st

Cool idea for a cache. We will use a similar technique for a cache in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA in the near future - THANKS!
Took - Nothing
Left - NYC keychain
Stargeezer & Wife visiting from Schenectady, New York, USA
 

18th

Very hot day for walking around the streets of Fendalton. Found all so found a seat in a near by park to sit and work out the end, when done found cache was only 5metres away from the seat. Great park thanks
9th of 15 while down for the weekend with my boss to do some work.
 

6th

Very Nice walk

Thanks

Ryrager & Amethyst

 

31st

Called by to drop off a geocoin. Linleye.  

31st

Enjoyed an early morning walk around the area. Had a good view of trout swimming in the Avon at one point. lovely little garden and thanks to Linleye for dropping off the geocoin. I had chased it to Bon Voyage the day before and just missed it there. Took Geocoin. Left key ring.
 

19th

Used to live in Fendalton for about 8 years yet discovered some nice little places I hadn't visited before thanks to this cache hunt. Thankyou TNLNSL
 

7th

Lovely day for a stroll through Fendalton. Found and logged the cache just before a wedding party entered the area for photos.
TFTC
TNLN
 

2nd

It was a stunningly warm Christchurch day and we all enjoyed the amble around these beautiful tree-studded streets.

- lion TB
- burger king key ring
+ foam happy face and star
 

8th

Interesting houses, I didn't expect to sitting on the lawn doing long division though! TNLN
 

2nd

Dropped off travel bug 'Lion in the mist'. Can someone take him to Africa please? We are not heading that way. Linleye.  

23rd

nice early morning walk - thanks
 

9th

Moneydork and kids cycled over fron St Aubins and did this one by bike. TNLNSL. - Thanks.
 

10th

The cache no longer contains the orange spider, spongy waterbomb, lion fingerpuppet, superglue. It does now contain some stickers, some miniature playing cards and a Powerpuff Girls keyring. Thanks - it was fun and only took us three hours including a stop for lunch.
 

6th

First cache on first attempt! New GPS and first time trying it out. Great! Took a while to find the right tussock, but enojyed the walk through the homes of Fendalton.
 

5th

12.15pm. Thoroughly enjoyed the suburban walk and garden splender. Computed the numbers and found the cache pretty easily.
- paua whale keyring.
+ Shell keyring & Katie Kiwifruit TB.
Many thanks for the challenge.
M&P.
 

12th

Found third time lucky on a lunchtime walk from work (with a fair bit of prodding from Grandalf - thanks)
 

8th

Biked here in my lunchbreak and found it at last. Thank you Grandalf for the extra clue. Two previous lengthy searches were fruitless.
 

1st

Sorry, but having just checked on it today you can be assured that the cache is alive and well and living in the exact spot I left it. Better luck looking next time.  

31st

Well the walk was great, I'm pretty sure I got all the clues and I'm pretty sure I calculated the final spot correctly. But I searched and I searched but could not find the cache. The calculated spot was as described in the clue but its just after school holidays so I'm wondering if its still there. Then again some others found it with difficulty not so long ago. I think I'll wait and see if someone else finds it before I look again.
 

5th

Really good multi-cache!
 

25th

A beautiful post-frost Christchurch morning for a walk. Really enjoyed wandering around those street and taking a coffee pitstop at the Holmwood shops.
Great place for a cache. TNLN
Cheers Mountainpoetnz
 

24th

Yahoo! Found it at last, only had 2 tussocks left to search under. Glad I have knocked that b......d off. I was starting to get discouraged. TNLN. Thanks Grandalf. Now that leaves me those other couple of your caches I haven't yet reached. Cheers.
 

1st

Found eventually - after a couple of visits. I think a more specific clue would help a lot. A very nice walk for the dog - although he couldn't work out why I kept stopping!
TNLN - thanks.
 

29th

Enjoyed this cache in the early hours of this morning.
Left home without a supply of swaps so took 0 and left 0
Thanks Grandalf
Conton

 

24th

Much like the previous visitor, found the clues on a wet cold night biking home from Uni a couple of nights ago. But the calculation of cache coordinates would of put me at the entrance to St Mary's School??? Recalculated a couple of times using the neighbouring prime numbered houses and came up with something more sensible. Found it. Nice one Grandalf. + Sooki a Mordor Orc, - superglue.
 

20th

Biked around in the foggy dark last night and managed to collect the waypoints, quickly made the calculation, entered it in the GPS and found that my latitude was way out. Thought I'd try and find it with the Longitude but stumbled across some people where I thought it would be. Hmmm. Checked my numbers - hey wait, that one's not a prime. Recalculated co-ordinates and sure enough it was back where the people were. Returned this morning and found the cache reasonably easily. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [532]
 

14th

Decided to go for an evening walk to try and shake this cold off. Enjoyed the stroll. Had to do quite a bit of searching at the end, but got it eventually in fading light. Cheers
 

14th

On this beautiful sunny autumn morning we set out to walk the streets of Fendalton. We had family with us who are in town for a wedding. Together we had a lovely morning searching for the clues and seeing all the fantastic houses we were walking past.
Thanks Grandalf for the "grand tour".
Iris & Rodney with Lynda & John
 

10th

FTF, excellent! Went out in the daylight after work and collected the waypoints and then returned in the evening to find the cache. The park is very nice here during the daylight. Almost was sprung by someone walking their dog when I replaced the cache. + whale keyring, - lion fingerpuppet. Thanks Grandalf, Ridders76.