Rocky Pine ( South Canterbury ) Twizel, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 03-Jan-10. Waypoint GC22MNC

Trees gone new fence blocks caches.

No longer able to drive up to it but there is space to pull over about 160m from the cache. TFTC!

There is a fence between the road and the cache and without a gate or stile I did not venture into the paddock. I suggest that the cache is archived.

Grabbed the trackable ya! New fence around the area - maybe the ownership has changed? Wandered up to find the grave which was cool to say her name

#509

Another nice cache on our drive from Christchurch to Twizel that included many stops on the way. There was a fence stopping us from driving to GZ so we walked there and found the cache after a short search. Nice vantage point, took a few nice pics.

This cache was part of our 2015 New Zealand trip in which many great moments were had. Many views were seen and more photos were taken. Several caches were also found.

Thanks to all the hiders for their caches.

TFTC TN L TB SL

Condorito

I drove all the way here, For others wanting to do the same, I recommend the eastern entry as it is much less scratchy

I wonder why all the trees have been cut down and organized in neat rows, almost making a giant enclosure..

Found at 01:41 PM - #5592

TFTC

Found, taking the long way from Dunedin to Christchurch. Thanks.

Easy find TFTC

100th cache wohooooo!! TFTC

Cool one

Tftc

Quick enough walk in from the road for an easy fine. TFTC.

Found it and didn't get blowin away, slight breeze out. Thanks

Good spot. TFTC

Easy one for miss 5 yrs

Long arm needed

Would have been nice place once

TFTC

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way from Mount Cook Village to Lake Tekapo. We had a beautiful day!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Tftc

TFTC nice wee wander. Lots of rabbits round here.

Found it. Though the name might have to change to just Rocky as all the trees have been cut down

Found it.

Quick find after a short stroll, which was perfect to stretch our legs. Thanks a lot for hidding the cache.

The last one for today. Thanks!

Tested out the new 4WD's capabilities driving to the bottom of the slope. Lovely area, logged find with granville86a

Found with Chosen1978. Quick find on way back down to Omarama. TFTC

The pines have been felled,but thr rabbits we saw didn't seem to mind.TFTC

found on 10/07/2014 at 3:52:00 PM
An odd spot for a cache, the trees have been felled but the rabbits are plentifu..


Thanks for the cache Bitsprayer
Pipedream

Lucky we hired a 4WD! TFTC. Mr & Mrs D.

usually the shortest distance between A. (car) and B (the cache) is a straight line except when the young ones are in charge of the gps so we checked nearly every rock on the way to GZ was worth it though first cache of a great day in the McKenzie MT cook area

We found this cache during our wonderful journey through New Zealand. Thank you for the cache and the great time in your country! Greetings from Germany.

Big rocks but no pines! TFTC

Quick find. But the pines have all gone but rock still there, wonder what is going on here. TFTC

27/04/2014 9:37:00 AM
4404
Anzac Weekend, and my bf had a photography course in Tekapo, and it's my mum's b day also, so decided to make a whole weekend of it!
Spend time caching together with the fam, and just having a nice weekend in Tekapo. Found 50 caches, but some very awesome ones in some beautiful scenery!!

Last day morning, me and mum snuck out of our accommodation before the boys were up to go and get some caches. We like caching more anyways!!!

Took a bit of bush bashing.. wow that was rocky... huuuuuuuuuge!

Most hides found with the whole fam were simply signed as 'Team Polak' to save our ink and the logsheet and our hands

Consec caching day # 538

TFTC!!

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Found with Hinemoana while on a trip around the South Island. Thank you for placing this cache.
TFTC

Walked from the road - what a big one!! Great spot for a cache!!! TFTC!!!

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TFTC

quick find after a bit of a hike from the road. We had to park there as towing a caravan on behind so makes some of these caches all the more challenging for us. We took a more direct root back on our hands & knees going under !!!!!TFTC.

TFTC SL Wow what a rock. Easy to find, but the drive in was a bit scratchy off the Rosehip bushes, on the sides of my new car !! Thanks Bitsprayer for this rock - It was a super place for a cache. How did you find it in the first place ??

Wow what a site. Tftc SL.

Thanks for the cache

Not much room to park a caravan and a continuous rabbit warren

Fund it but it wasn't an easy way to geht there and back to out car.

An easy find after camping a night by Lake Pukaki. Tftc!

Find #60 on a road-trip from Blenheim to Dunedin, through St Arnauds, Hamner Springs, Aoraki/ Mount Cook, and Christchurch. After a cache drought all the way back to Tekapo, it was good to stop and stretch the legs. I managed to get to the formidable rock quickly, but GPS batteries failed and I had to bush-bash towards the road. I found myself right beside my car, which was lucky. TFTC

Were going to do this one on last trip south but got confused about where to stop. Didn't happen on return trip as in a bus after holing our sump. This time was a must do. About 20 rabbits ran away as we got out of the car. The ground shows why they are a noxious pest here. We thought yeah right a rock and a pine in a pine forest but we sure knew when we found it.

What a mission. Found with the help of the hint. Tftc

Drove to within 40m like the owner said, made getting out easier! TFTC

Found during our trip through New Zealand.

TFTC!

A bit of a scramble through the trees while avoiding rabbit holes but got it in the end. A bit trickier finding our way out again, could hear the traffic but couldn't see it. Thanks for the cache, a favorite from us.

Bit offroad ae..

TFTC

Quick find.

TFTC. Run Rabbit Run

Love these ones TFTC

Good hide thanks

Not as easy as we thought it would be, but dad didn't give up and he added another one to his tally!!tftc

TFTC
Gruß Frodo32

Found it during my kiwi traveling around south island. TFTC

This entry was edited by Zivaa.CZ on Friday, 22 February 2013 at 23:22:48 UTC.

This could be renamed Rocky Pine and Rabbits! And I let Heafudd M lead the way back. It may have been shorter but it was more painful! TFTC

did a bit of off roading in the townie 4wd to save the walk, glad i did as it could have taken a lot more finding other wise. tftc.

Nearly didn't find it due to the sun on my cell I persevered and then after falling over in a rabbit hole I found the rocks. Thanks loved this one

Nice rock! Great area! TFTC

Easy to find the cache once you find your way in. A hint to others, head west of cache to find an easier entry point.

Managed the drive to GZ no problem.

TFTC

Together with my family on a vacation trip to New Zealand. Starting at Auckland airport on transfer to Christchurch we went for a roundtrip exploring the south island. This was one of many caches we found while visiting so many nice and interesting places thanks to all the caches why I want to send a thank you to all CO for the work spent. TFTC.

talk about "watership down"!! for and awful moment there it though the cache may be in one of the holes, being moved around by the millions of furry bounces... wish i had brought my throwing stick i could of maybe taken one or two out to dinner!! - cool location - who would have ever known it was here - guess you found it before the tree's hid it?

TFTC

31st find for the weekend. GPS played up and while rebooting it, we found the cache! Such an amazing view today looking out to Mt Cook.

2192 #95 Found by baby&Mrs gopher in company with Team Ladava on our South Island Mega tour of New Zealand at 1430.The Mrs says lots and lots of wabbits.a bit damp to start but an easy walk after we got past all the holes.SL Tnx Bitsprayer

Found by Team Ladava with baby&Mrs gopher on our New Zealand Mega odyssey.
Continuing our Bitsprayer guided tour along today’s route.
Quite a soggy walk over a type of soil I am not familiar with but it certainly hosts a million rabbits.
Locations like this are 'the icing on the cake' of Geocaching with the locals hosting us anonymously to their favourite spots.
TNLN
Our thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache and bringing us to this location.
Cheers from Australia
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
*Overall Experience: 3*
Cache condition – fine

Rated: for Overall Experience

After NZ Mega event, accompanied with Sp00k & Ciotach on carvanning and travelling south/west tour. Thanks for the cache and fun.

Varuna was very polite in not mentioning that I decided to drive right up to this one... followed a couple of tire tracks through the grass until they disappeared then drove across some apparently dry ground which turned out to be anything but... the top 50 mm was dry but underneath the top layer was mud the consistency of hot chocolate. The truck bellied out on the underpan and we ended up having to set up the hand winch and pull the truck out using a handy tree as an anchor.. sooo... score one... about an hour to extract the truck.. score two.. about 2 minutes to find the cache!! Thanks for taking us here, I'll certainly be more careful around here in future!!

Found it well. TFTC

Travelling in our Geo Hire Car with the Aussie flag flying (almost Aussie ribbons now ), tends to attract a few comments from muggles, we were heading from Geraldine to Alexandra.

We didn't leave till nearly 9am but also didn't arrive in Alexandra till nearly 8pm, with lot's of caches picked up enroute and a lengthy stop to enjoy the scenery and a coffee after lunch.

This route was suggested to us on the local forum and we have to say, thank you very much for the information, it has proved to be a great day of epic proportions. Scenery has been fabulous even though quite cloudy for most of the day, still so much to see, enjoy and we took 100's of photo's.

Well this was an epic in itself. We sloshed through the puddles in our boots, but got it all wrong so actually ended up walking in circles till we were back at the road to corss the drain then off we set again through the water. Not bad as instead of the usual 3 GPSr's we only had 1 carried by Mrs Felix who as usual was at the back of the pack. Eventually we were 30metres from GZ, or at least Mrs Felix was when MM yells found it.

Mr Felix then takes the lead and heads directly back to the road, leaving MM to help Mrs Felix through and under the trees weaving our way eventually to the car. Phew. Glad to get back there. Thought we were lost forever!.....

Left a FelixII visits NZ pathtag here.

TFTC Bitsprayer

Well onto day two of my trip to NZ !!!

The aim of the today was to meander down through the center of the Island
covering about 200 km from Geraldine to Alexandra visiting a few touristy spots and picking
up a few caches on route.

I had heard that it was a scenic drive, but was still totally wowed by the diversity of
environments on show. Some quite incredible places.

I can't add too much to the log from FELIX below. !!! But I was wandering 30 odd meters
ahead without a GPSr and found a spot that was ROCKY and PINEY so it met the cache name,
so took a look round and discovered the Cache.

A great walk and adventure have a FAV point.

MM

We walked into the cache tiptoe through the puddles, found what we were looking for in the first place we looked and then came out through the pines. TFTH

The hint did help us out as there were many pines and rocks. Strange about the road that USED to be there somewhere. We couldn't understand when that was.

Welcome to Rabbitopia! A bit muddy when we were there but beautiful landscape. Enjoyed the wee hike, well worth a look. Tftc

Agree. Don't know how you found!

Surprised the rabbits haven't run off with it!

How do people discover theses wayout places??? Great place for a cache. Thanks

Mrs SoBad had the suitable shoes - the rain had stopped but the ground was still very wet - so did the last 100m. Took her longer to find than it should have - concentrated too much on pines. Thanks.

After some wandering around we found the rocky part of this cache.
The grounds there will be totally occupied by the rabbits ! TFTC

Much easier if we had parked on the road and walked across to the cache. We had a pleasant walk down the old road. TFTC

Drove in and out easily enough, to find a well hidden rock/boulder/small house! Thanks for the stop.

Can't see how you could possibly drive to this, not the way we walked anyhow! Cache safe in its hiding place. TFTC

Nice walk - thanks for the Cache.
Greets_derft

This entry was edited by derft on Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 10:14:42 UTC.

4029. What can I say - enormous!!
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Drove in one end and out the other. 160 m? Yeah right! You need to get your odometer fixed. Guwapo loved this find and had a good look around the rocks before coming up worth the goods! Lots of bunnys about!! Salamat!

Lots of cute rabbits around.

Left M in car as there is so much traffic and no very good place to park. Quick find though. Walked straight to it and back. Very hot and getting windy too.

#734: That's Some Rock!


We stopped by to search for this one on our way to Tekapo. Lots of cushion from the pine needles as we made our way through this new forest to GZ. Huge pinecones as well. GeoYoungling #3 made the fine, as GeoYoungling #1 made her way up to the top for a good look-see. All in good shape!


SL/TFTC!

Nice rock, pitty about pine trees and rabbits!

Spotted this one out of the corner of our eye, and thought, why the heck not?!

Nice quick drive to!

A great spot, that you'd never find otherwise. TFTC.