Coastal Sanctuary ( North Oatgo ) Hillgrove, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 16-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1F969

done it dash. - Bitsprayer

No pen at cache and plastic is cracked a a bit snapped off so needs a replacement

The container has broken so not weather tight

Found but definitely needs maintenance! Tftc

Found during our roadtrip through NZ.thanks!

Tento hr oznmil pokozen schrnky.

Got this one after visiting the boulders. Nice to have a few caches in the area to find!

Mit 37 Geocachern, aus Deutschland, Dnemark, Luxemburg und der Schweiz, ging es auf groe Reise. Drei Wochen nach Australien und Neuseeland, beginnend mit einem Zwischenstopp in Doha in Katar. So lange und so weit weg von zu Hause war ich noch nie. Eine aufregende Zeit.Beim Geocaching lag der Focus auf viele unterschiedliche Cachetypen, aber auch besondere Wertungen, Challenges und besonders ein paar sehr alte Caches aus den Jahren 2000 und 2001. Aber auch natrlich ganz besonders die Geocaches, die zu Fu vom Hotel aus gut erreichbar waren.Natrlich wurde stand aber nicht nur das Geocaching im Mittelpunkt, sondern auch die Sehenswrdigkeiten der einzelnen Stationen, die wir besuchten, verdienten ihre Aufmerksamkeit.In die Logbcher trugen wir uns mit unserem Teamnamen "Downunder 2024" ein, Logbuchplatz sparend und effizient.Es war eine ganz besondere Reise im groen Team, das auch sehr viel Spa gemacht hat.Heute ging es mit dem Bus von Christchurch ber Oamaru und Moeraki weiter nach Dunedin.Danke fr diesen Geocache. Danke fr die Ausarbeitung. Danke frs Zeigen.Lieber Gru aus Duisburg / DeutschlandAndyDieser Logeintrag wird mit Hilfe von Google bersetzt.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________We set off on a long journey with 37 geocachers from Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Three weeks to Australia and New Zealand, starting with a stopover in Doha, Qatar. I have never been so long and so far away from home. An exciting time.When geocaching, the focus was on many different cache types, but also special ratings, challenges and especially a few very old caches from the years 2000 and 2001. But also, of course, especially the geocaches that were easily accessible on foot from the hotel.Of course, the focus wasn't just on geocaching; the sights of the individual stations we visited also deserved attention.We entered our team name Downunder 2024 in the logbooks, saving logbook space and efficiently.It was a very special trip in a large team, which was also a lot of fun.Today we took the bus from Christchurch via Oamaru and Moeraki to Dunedin.Thanks for this geocache. Thanks for the elaboration. Thank you for showing me.Kind regards from Duisburg / GermanyAndy

Together with 36 other geocachers, the KiSt team undertook a very long trip to Australia ???? and New Zealand ???? for three weeks. On both the outward and return journeys, there was a stopover in Doha, the capital of Qatar ????.We experienced a great deal on this trip and gained many very different impressions of the two countries, their nature and their culture. Of course, the main focus was on visiting as many caches of as many different types as possible and also all accessible old cans. However, we also made sure to visit many special places of interest and to gain as comprehensive an impression as possible of nature and its flora and fauna.To save the logbooks, we usually signed in with our team name **Downunder24**. For "special" cans, however, we have not missed the opportunity to leave our nickname as well.This beautiful cache is now also one of our finds.Due to the large number of caches visited, it is unfortunately not possible for us to write an individual log for each can, which is why we would like to apologize to the owners for this collective log.We also met other cachers at some of the events and were able to share our experiences. Many thanks to the event owners!Of course we would like to thank all the owners for showing us the great locations, the sometimes tricky puzzles, exciting multis and wherigos, as well as the interesting virtuals and earth caches - TFTC!!!---In der Besetzung KiSt unternahmen wir zusammen mit 36 weiteren Geocachern fr drei Wochen eine sehr weite Reise nach Australien ???? und Neuseeland ????. Auf der An- und Abreise stand dabei jeweils ein Zwischenstopp in Doha an, der Hauptstadt von Qatar ????.Wir haben auf dieser Reise sehr viel erlebt und viele sehr unterschiedliche Eindrcke von den beiden Lndern, deren Natur und deren Kultur mitgenommen. Natrlich lag ein Hauptaugenmerk darauf, mglichst viele Caches mglichst vieler unterschiedlicher Typen und auch alle erreichbaren alten Dosen zu besuchen. Darber haben wir es aber nicht versumt, vielen besonderen Sehenswrdigkeiten einen Besuch abzustatten und uns von der Natur und deren Flora und Fauna einen mglichst umfassenden Eindruck zu verschaffen.Um die Logbcher zu schonen, haben wir uns dort meist mit unserem Teamnamen **Downunder24** eingetragen. Bei "besonderen" Dosen haben wir es uns aber auch nicht nehmen lassen, zustzlich unseren Nicknamen zu hinterlassen.Auch dieser schne Cache zhlt jetzt zu unseren Funden.Aufgrund der groen Anzahl der besuchten Caches ist es uns leider nicht mglich, zu jeder Dose einen individuellen Log zu verfassen, weshalb wir uns bei den Ownern fr diesen Sammellog entschuldigen wollen.Auf einigen Events haben wir auch andere Cacher kennengelernt und konnten unsere Erfahrungen austauschen. Vielen Dank an die Event-Owner!Natrlich wollen wir uns bei allen Ownern fr das Zeigen der tollen Orte, die teils kniffligen Rtsel, spannenden Multis und Wherigos, sowie die interessanten Virtuals und Earthcaches bedanken - TFTC!!

Together with 37 Cachers, we start a journey to Australia and New Zealand via Doha.In Qatar we spent one night and had almost one full day before heading to Sydney.In Australia we visit the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Cairns. In New Zealand will be Aukland, Rotorua, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown.To safe Logbook space, we signed the logbooks with our team-name "DownUnder24".Our Teammembers are:\_gc_, AmoebeST, AndyausDu, B@cker-1, Biggidag, Brummelbren, CacheTaucher, cooljo, Fotopinguin, Freizeit-Tina, Gazelle5111, GEO Karen, GoanToni, Hfi1, hupsi-1, karrai*, Leilah03, lenny love, Lupus54, Maxipimpf, muschel3, Ollilein, Opaundenkel, penalty96, Rheins, Simowl, sozioma, Sr. Elli, Team Zyanor, viko76, Webmasterrollerin, Whlhase, XenSuoThank you for the Cache.

38 cachers from ????, ???? and ???? made a tour with a stopover in ???? and visiting ???? and ???? to get lot of impressions from Down Under.We log with Team DownUnder24 to save space in the logbooks.The following Geocachers are members of Team DownUnder24:gcAmoebeSTAndyausDuB@cker-1BiggidagBrummelbrenCacheTauchercooljoFotopinguinFreizeit-TinaGazelle5111GEO KarenGoanToniHfi1hupsi-1karrai *keeinerLeilah03lenny loveLupus54Maxipimpfmuschel3OllileinOpaundenkelpenalty96RheinsSimowlsoziomaSr. ElliTeam Zyanorviko76WebmasterrollerinWhlhaseXenSuoDay 17: Together we drove from Christchurch via Oamaru and Moreaki to Dunedin. And found many nice places to take pictures and find caches.TFTC from Bavaria

Gefunden im Team DownUnder24.Danke fr den Cache.

Quick findTftcDe Brokkenmakers (NL)

Out on an attempt to cache Moeraki clean of unfounds today. This was the first of the day. Quick find. Sad to report that the container lid is showing the effects of its old age (15yrs) - cracked and leaking water.

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 52 - Christchurch, Canterbury - Dunedin, Otago, South Island, Nov Zland (360 km)Rno bylo slunce a ist obloha. Nahzela jsem vci do auta a opustila Christchurch. Teprve dnes se tedy podvm vce na krajinu Novho Zlandu po cest na jih do Dunedin. Je nedle a konec przdnin, tak byl zven provoz. Dlnice vede jen kousek a pak se mn v normln okresku s rychlost 100 a obasnmi pedjdcmi pruhy. Jela jsem pes vesnice a pr mench msteek. Je to tady opravdu trochu jak v Hobitn. Malik pkn domeky a zelen zvlnn krajina s horami na obzoru. Cel den se oteplovalo a do 30C. To zde nen obvykl a m to dost pekvapilo po tch verejch 15C. Zastavovala jsem u vybranch keek nebo jen na prohldku msta a jinak jela. Ve druh pli byla cesta hodn vyhldkov - pohledy na ocen, kopce a kopeky a lesy. Moc pkn. Super byla zastvka u geologick zajmavosti - velkch kulatch utr na pli Moeraki Boulders. Asi 40 km ped koncem cesty se nhle zathlo, objevily se vt kopce a hory a teplota spadla z 27C bhem minuty na 15C. A tak to u zstalo. Dunedin je sice pln u moe ale zrove v horch. Je tu pkn kosa a cel msto se rozlz po kopcch. Jen jsem jej dnes projela cestou ke Star kole, ve kter te budu 4 noci bydlet. Mm hlad a pank je nutn. Tak jsem ve natahala do barku a pak u jen odpoinek.Today I finally went to the countryside and from Christchurch I drove to Dunedin. I really liked the landscape along the way. It was very hot and sunny, but before Dunedin the temperature suddenly dropped from 30 to 15C. I also stopped at some caches and enjoyed a nice day. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

Thanks! Needs a new container (see attached), however contents are dry Swapped a toy

Quick find through long grass. Nice spot next to railway and overlooking sea.Thanks

Container

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Prickly climb but found it!

Tftc search a time but easy found

Schnell gefunden, nach Besuch der Moeriaki Boulders

The Swiss cacher family with Spiess, J_walk, MsSophie and Drayah visited also New Zealand and this cache. TFTC!

11:45The Swiss cacher family with Spiess, J_walk, MsSophie and Drayah visited also New Zealand and this cache. TFTC!

The Swiss cacher family with Spiess, J_walk, MsSophie and Drayah visited also New Zealand and this cache. TFTC!

The Swiss cacher family with Spiess, J_walk, MsSophie and Drayah visited also New Zealand and this cache. TFTC!

Found with campmotherandken- well hidden! TFTC

Quick easy find with Juju54- just parking up for the night at the Red Shed - TFTC

Super area

Found it

Good find, cool spot to stop and find

Great this old cache is still going, we stayed over night at the red barn very wet night and day. Walked up in the rain! Glad to find the cache not full of water ! Thanks

From here you can see just how many "lifestyle houses there are. Many of the very new. Replaced log. Thanks for bringing us here Bitsprayer

A quick find before leaving for Balclurha. Enjoyed a nights stay at the red barn by the sea

Looks cosy in there ..great lifestyle I guess..thanks Bitsprayer

TFTC. found with the team caching in the area.

Having a fun day out with busy paws and Geomum007. This was our first one of the day as we are camped here at the red shed. Thanks for this cache Bitsprayer.

Disturbed little lizard on way back from cache. Tftc

Find #7194
Found on March 18, 2023

We are from Abilene, Texas, USA and have come to New Zealand to visit with a friend. We have gotten ten different Cache Types and will get the 11th Type (Webcam) when we go to Christchurch on Monday. Today Bitsprayer is taking us out to find more caches around Oamaru.

Thank you, Bitsprayer for placing this cache for all to find. We sign log sheets either as Love Cachers or LCers.

Driving over 50 miles to have...
Rusty barbed wire ripping through your clothes...
Curious rattlesnakes that come out of nowhere...
Itchy mosquito bites on every inch of your body...
A 40 mph wind gust blowing sand into your ears, nose and mouth...
Cactus needles getting stuck deep in your hands, arms and legs...
Thorny Mesquite trees scratching you up from head to toe...
Some or all of these things on a hike through 101° heat...
To sign your name or trade a toy...
SOUND LIKE FUN TO YOU?

It does to us, we're geocachers in West Texas! - {Taken from a Greater Abilene Association geocoin.}

Nice quick cache before visiting the boulders.T4TC

TEMBO! and I visited "Coastal Sanctuary" today. We are on the way to our next location and could manage to stop here to visit the cache.

Thanks to Bitsprayer for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

I was close by, but it was wet arround

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches.
Found with Fisha1288
Cheers, Cympull.

TFTC - on the road vom Christchurch to Dumedim

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my ?? The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signedWe puzzled a lot in advance and the tours ?? were well prepared So this box was also well found.now I have another on my personal cache card.many thanks to [^] **Bitsprayer** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany ???? TFTF**Geistercacher**#34132

Quick find.

There is another swap in this box!

Found , thanks.

Found on our way from Moeraki to Christchurch, our last week of month holidays in NZ. TFTC

TFTC, needs a new log, sorry I didn't have any on me

A nice quick find and plenty of parking to make the grab. Contents are fine. Thanks for the placement.

Thanks for all your caches I've found in past few days.

Tftc

On the way to Oamaru we visited the The Moeraki Boulders too. A wonder what the nature could be created.
TFTC!
Greetings from Germany
Felsmaus

Unable to sign as fill of water. Needs new container as lit has large cracks. See photo for log. Tftc

Domino

Big container here

Nice view of our bus at The Red Barn.

Good day for a walk and a find TFtc

After a few minutes rummaging around i found this hiding in plain sight thanks for the cache

Second today found with CyclicalCaching, my GPS had me at the other side of the road! TFTC.

Quick find here with a team up with Red Echo.

Funny to run I to other cachers about!

Thanks!

I approached from the wrong direction and the trek through the long grass was a little more than necessary. Found the cache easily enough though. TFTC

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Tftc. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh ️️️

Out for a few hours gecocaching from Karitane. After finding some caches at Shag Point we came to the cafe here for lunch. A popular spot today. A quick find here - another walk through long dry grass but worth it to get a smiley. Tftc

#10,423. I have a big day planned picking out geotour caches on the north side of the harbour, up to Karitane and Moeraki and back to my accommodation in Dunedin. Plus grabbing a lot of adventure labs. The sun has come out and after some rather chilly December weather on this trip its forecast to reach 27 degrees today and I think they got that right. It was very hot today.

I arrived in Moeraki late in the day. I have visited the boulders several times so didn't feel compelled to walk down the beach to see them again. After doing the TMGT cache I stopped here and looked for this one. Didn't take long to track it down. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks Bitsprayer for placing the cache here.

Tftc. Quick easy find on a warm day exploring north Otago and the boulders

Located with Ricardinho

Moeraki Boulders is always a great stop! Quick find on the way to Moeraki

Day 5 of our South Island road trip and today is Lake Tekapo to Moeraki, with mini deviations along the way to the Clay Cliffs, Elephant Rocks & Oamaru.
A very cool day exploring & I've never driven the road from Omarama to Oamaru, so a win win!

TFTC

Nice quick find on the way out of this area. TFTC Bitsprayer.

Day 5 of a South Island road trip for RG1972 and I and today it is Lake Tekapo to Moeraki. A bit of driving then, and we need to leave time for side trips to the Cathedral cliffs and for a bit of exploring in Oamaru.
A pretty sweet day. There are hundreds of caches on our travels today, but we just drove past the majority. Nice views of the lakes on the left, and it’s the first time either of us have driven this road before and the towns like Kurow, although we have been through the towns that bookend the road many other times, from other directions. All caches found in good nick, and if they needed a bit of extra RITR paper they got it. TFTC all COs.

Sneaked away early from work on a quick long weekend road trip. We decided that Moeraki deserved to visit, and what a beautiful place. Not a breath of wind today.
Last time i was here, Abbykitt was probably 2, so things have changed alot
Found with downsouthinv and Abbykitt

Moeraki is some where I have wanted to visit for a very long time and it been on my to do list for ever so to day we tick it off .
After tea a drive was in order to see the borders , but we couldn't drive past this one and a quick search soon had the goods in hand.
It was great to have a good look around and stay the night.
A road trip in to uncharted territory so why not .
Loaded up the cache mobile and headed up the road and let's see what fun adventures awaite us.

Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

On a trip to Christchurch for labour weekend.
Quick find
Found with annielin and downsouthinv.
Tftc

Quick find. TFTC

Found it

I beat Jamie to this one!

Followed the path of others and found it under a rock!

First find if the day for me. Lovely still day but a little damp. TFTC

Quick and easy park and grab. TFTC!

Easy fine here. Found with the lid off and the content scattered. Placed everything back in the container and noticed the lid clasps were broken. I didn’t have a replacement container with me so I placed a rock on top of the container to keep the lid on. Tftc

Down here with my Mum & brother for a week travelling around the bottom of the South Island. We are heading around and across to the Milford Sound. Quick find made by myself here today . . . . . and then I found a cell phone as we turned around to get back onto the highway south . . . . . handed into the Dunedin Police. TFTC

Travelling the bottom of the South Island with my 2 boys for a week . . . . . lots of miles to cover, lots to see and using Geocaching as a way to map our trip, gathering a few as we go. Loving the scenery. TFTC

Cache was a quick find and some disgusting person had left a dirty nappy beside the road

Neat place great view

Sea views 2

Tftc, easy find on way home

I headed south in my tow wagon today to locate a few caches.

The lid has some of its clips missing.

Cheers for the cache.

cache all good

Yes. Stayed at the barn last night

Quick n easy find - thanks

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

Away in the Geocamper on a TMGT mission around the lower South Island and attending a few meetings as well. That's the first meeting done with now on the road for TMGT's and anything else we might care to find on the way. Mrs S spotted this one, signed and replaced no problem.

Thanks Bitsprayer.

Just on our way south we found it. Tftc

Third cache attempt and third find, yay. Clips broken on container but tg log safe and well. Our caching partner is on a roll today, being first to find all three. As a bonus, saw a cute lamb. TFTC

3 out of 3

We were on a road trip with three of our grandchildren, geocaching was not the priority for this trip, rather it was showing them around some of the South Island, broadening their understandings of how amazing our country really is. The wind was not being so amazing though, especially for those of us travelling in high sided campervans.

We called in to see if we could access the boulders but the tide was not really low enough so we thought we would just find a couple of caches (one for us and two for the grand kids). The container is not in pristine condition any more but the log is in perfect condition, no worries at all. The log was signed and all was returned as we found it.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley.

We are on a very special holiday with nana and grandad. This is my first time exploring this area and I am very happy to look around and experience all sorts of new things. Thank you for putting this cache here for us to find

We are on a very special holiday with nana and grandad. This is my first time exploring this area and I am very happy to look around and experience all sorts of new things. Thank you for putting this cache here for us to find

We are on a very special holiday with nana and grandad. This is my first time exploring this area and I am very happy to look around and experience all sorts of new things. Thank you for putting this cache here for us to find