Grace Chapman Reserve ( East Otago ) Waynes, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 29-Nov-09. Waypoint GC21HAD

We have been hte before with no luck nice to get a smiley face- TFTC

On our way through to Ranfurly. A good pull over for our bus. All nice and dry here. TFTC

As already daid the reserve isnt more than a pull over spot but most suitable for us in motorhome.TFTC

Thanks for replacement

Google Waihemo Grange, James and Grace Chapman had stewardship of the Grange for 40 years from 1899.They also donated land for the Dunback domain, tennis courts etc, there is a plaque there.

Good spot

Perfect explanation, thanks for renewing containers

For my last day in Dunback I decide3d to try for the caches West and East of here.I couldn't locate this one so with the CO's permission I replaced it. It is now a 200ml Sistema container.Cheers for the cache, Bitsprayer.

Couldnt find it? Its a bit hard in my opinion

TFTC weid wee reserve nice hide

FITW HariSree

We are on a caching trip to Dunedin . Picking up few caches along the way.
It was an easy find here. TFTC

FITW albijos

Heading to Dunedin for some caching. Finding few along the way. TFTC.

After spending time (and caching) in Ranfurly and Naseby I was now heading via the Pig Root to North Otago. Picked up a few caches along the way. This one was a reasonably quick find. #4964. TFTC.

Loved the fantails

This took a bit of scrambling around before the prize was sp. GPS wandered a bit here. Thanks for putting this here

Who was grace Chapman?

Out and about ..nice evening ...TFTC

As we pulled over to start searching for this cache, a car that had followed us from the previous cache area, pulled alongside and enquired what we were up to. The station owner nearby had seen us and thought we might be poachers that they'd had problems with recently. Once we'd explained our purpose, we spent the rest of our journey laughing at the thought of our being mistaken for poachers. Soon found this cache tucked away and signed the log with Flamingo4850. TFTC.

Found it.

Nice easy find TFTC

Nice cool spot on a hot day

Quick easy find. TFTC

A quick find, on my roadie, cache all good.. gathering a few of yours bitsprayer and there's plenty! tftc

Went out today with the aim of changing green boxes on the map to yellow, but unfortunately a few blue popped up too. Most of our finds were nice and simple, but a few took a bit of time.

More a gravel pull over area than a reserve which is a shame. Cache found quickly and logbook signed off. Dropped in a tb. tftc

Heading home with sheep from Oamaru. TFTC

Fun find

TFTC nice and quick find

A nice quick find today. Cheers.

And now it is time to head home. Today we started from Alexandra, and travelled through the Pig Root. Once we hit SH 1 No caching! (As there re none left)

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

Quick find on way home from Ranfurly. Tftc

Nice. Apart from the gravel.

Headed to Naseby for a weekend of caching. Awesome weekend for this!! TFTC

TFTC
I am wondering who Grace is as well - I am pretty sure my grand dad lived down this road as a child and also made money rabbit hunting in this area during the depression

Quick find - on my way home but overnight tonight in Naseby

Tftc found it on way from Ranfurly to our stopping point somewhere north.

A quick park and grab while out about heading to Cromwell for new years eve. Grabbing a few caches to get my numbers up so I can crack 2000 before the end of the year. TFTC

Thank you Grace Chapman for creating a space for a redeeming feature and thanks Bitsprayer for seizing that opportunity. TFTC # 11,476

Quick park and grab. Would be interesting to find out who Grace was. TFTC

Planned a bit of a trip up Dansey's from Ranfurly to get a few caches. But halfway up decided to go all the way over and back via the Pigroot. Unfortunately I was unprepared and hadn't stored all the caches along the route. I also didn't have the GPSr/phone charger. Many were therefore missed but this one wasn't and a great day was had. Thanks to the COs.

Found it

Nice little spot by the river

On my way from Alexandra to Oamaru, I wanted to find some caches along the way. Another quick stop; the cache was found quickly. Thanks for hiding!

Nice park and grab
TFTC

Quick stop on our way to Clyde for the long weekend via the Pigroot. Easy find. This was going to be our morning tea stop but it wasn't overly exciting so decided to wait til our one after the next which fingers crossed would be a FTF. TFTC

Found on way to Oamaru for the night

11.45am. Easy drive by but location not very inspiring.
Tftc.
M&P

TFTC

Lovely quick find. Makes number 50 for us now. Thanks for hiding

After watching the all blacks win the world cup, my muggle friends and I were buzzing and as it was a nice day we decided to go to St Bathans via the pig route as a fun road trip to get some sun and take advantage of this long day.

Geocaching helps so much for a long car trip. TFTC.

It's not much of a reserve but it is there for future use and it is always nice too have somewhere to pull over if need be.

One of 20 odd found on a day trip. Thanks.

Nice spot.TFTC

quick grab our last of the weekend as we head back to geraldine

Heading home to Blenheim today and had to make a few stops to grab caches. This was a QEF, thank you!
Found with coastalmartinis. TFTC

Driving back to Blenheim from Ranfurly/Patearoa was already going to be a loooong drive but we couldn't resist doing a wee bit of caching anyway. Sadly we had trouble finding a signal for many of those we'd written down but this was successful. QEF with the kidlets.
Found with FluffyUnicorn02. TFTC

Heading for home (CHCH) after a lightening fast daytrip to Ranfurly for a family funeral. No time to grab any caches on the way in this morning...trying to grab a couple on the way back.
Quick find and sign in the rain. Cheers.

Quick find on our way home after our holiday in Central. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

TFTC

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way from Naseby to Ranfurly, Palmerston and Moeraki. We had a beautiful day with a lot of found caches!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Good quick find thanks

What little purpose this reserve may have had is lost behind the piles of chip

I can't find out who Grace Chapman was?

TFTC

Heaps of road metal have messed up this reserve.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Surely is a mystery why this reserve is here. Cache found quickly and off to finish a couple more before heading home.
TFTC
picked up TB

Day 3 of our 5 Day end of year geocaching trip. Today was our biggest day with 75finds and 4DNFs with most of them being park and grabs. A quick find here. We dont know who Grace Chapman is either but with a name like that this cache was a 'must do' and a prefect place to start our gracie7+Mum signature trackable tag. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3254[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 26/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 93/235[/blue]

A quick find to help the journey take longer. There is a plaque at the Dunback domain that states "Chapman Park. Presented to the Waihemo Domain Board
Mr and Mrs Chapman
The Grange 1929.

Fumbled about in the dark and found it. TFTC

Didn't even notice this place until stopped for the cache. Quick find on way home from holiday house. TFTC:)

Nice to stretch the legs Tftc:-)

Found it! TFTC

A nice P & G on the way past.
TFTC

Quick find on the way to Clyde.

TFTC Bitsprayer!



You know It's Not About The Numbers

Over the cacher highway to the cache

TFTC

Found with wethreefourdices. 48 of 63
TFTC

48 of 63 on a days caching with ingidayna. A quick easy find. TFTC

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

So many caches done to remember all, but got a kick out of all that we found

Another eagle eyes conquest

Reasonably easy find tftc

Found on an afternoon heading home from Central with the intention to do as many as I can before it rains and it just started as I got here.

Quick find. TFTC

Quick find Thanks

Quick find

babbling stream and everything - seems we're following little horrible!

Found with Granville86a after a scramble and hunt, TFTC!

Found with Chosen1978. A scramble up and over gravel and soon found and signed. TFTC

Co-ords about 12m out for us but was an easy find using the hint. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

A clamber over the gravel piles then a reasonably quick find. Tucked it back into it's hidey hole then we're on the road again. Found with debsnz

Quick find with Hinemoana.
TFTC

No sign of Grace just huge piles of gravel at gz, but cache safe in its hidey hole - TFTC!!

I have seen better reserves but it was still interesting to visit. TFTC

A quick find, looks more like a gravel stockpile than a reserve

Grabbed it on the way to Ranfurly.
TFTC

Found on our trip to New Zealand crossing the southern island.
Today from Duneden to Patearoa (Ranfurly) to spend a few days with some locals.


TFTC , #1405 team cire-senga

Was in Dunedin to attended the first ever Mega in New Zealand. Managed to work it out so that I was able to team up with -gonefishing-, fozzmiester and agcnz on an 8 day caching trip around the South Island, this was day 6 of the road trip. Today we were leaving Dunedin region and making our way to Oamaru for the night and picking up a few caches on our way.

After finding GC24J9A - Take a Break (East Otago), this was the next cache that was on our list that we wanted to find today. We decided that we would take a small detour via SH85 and go inland and take a different route towards Oamaru.

Making our way along SH85 Dunback - Morrisons Road now. We neared GZ and we managed to find a parking spot not too far away from the cache and from there we made our way to the cache. Reading the hint we soon realised where the cache was going to be and decided to trust our GPS to guide us close to GZ, and from there this was a quick and easy retrieval, signed and replaced the cache back as found.

Thanks Bitsprayer for placing this cache here and for bringing us to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (5171). Another great little reserve, really enjoy visiting these areas.

A quick find but not so much of a reserve as a council shingle store. TFTC Bitsprayer.

Found as part of an epic NZ Mega Event trip. Day 6 - Dunedin to Oamaru via Ranfurly and Dansey's Pass with agcnz, -gonefishing- and Yeetrees. Thanks to the owners of the 500 + caches which I had the pleasure to find along the way and which contributed to a very fun trip.

Found on the great post-Mega roadtrip with agcnz, fozzmiester and yeetrees. A great trip from Otago to Wellington, taking in many backroads and some fantastic scenery along to way to over 400 caches. Thanks to all the cache owners for the great caches we found on the way.

Thanks for the cache, Bitsprayer.

Starting to rain a bit so pleased it was a quick find. SL TFTC

#2243 @1530
Found during NZ Mega while on a caching expedition to Naseby (for the South Island Orienteering champs) and back to Dunedin via Palmerston. Cache easily found. TFTC.