One for the road (Canterbury) Otaio, South Island, New Zealand
By erninz on 26-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2V1BQ

On our tour we drive through different landscapes and learn a lot about the history and origins through lab caches, virtual and earth caches.We walk through nice villages, enjoy the food and coffee or smoothie and also like to look for traditional and bonus containers. We would like to thank all the owners for the caches and send warm greetings from the Moorhelmi from Germany.

Found with ivss_xx driving back from Dunedin.

14:34FITW ObnoxiousSpaceCatA quick rest and cache stop. Another SI minute ticked off.Thanks to the previous finders who did the uncovering. Might have left the cache too uncovered because it was visible in plain sight. I put some leaves back on top of it.Kia ora! Paldies! Thanks for the cache, erninz!#11531

Wee bit of a fossick but found it easy... along with a spider keeping it safe...lol

Lots of leaves, could not find it. TFTC

4-week family trip through NZ - Find #179!First find here for almost one year ! GZ is ankle deep in dry fallen palm leaves, so I had to dig and rummage quite a bit before I eventually found the box.TFTC!

Count find

Find #7221
Found on March 20, 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.

Thank you, erninz 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.}

Heading south, so the opportunity presented itself to get some in. So here I am.... nice and easy. Cheers!

Picked up on the way back from collecting a ftf. Tftc

Gps a bit off but soon tracked it down.

Gps was jumping everywhere but we managed to find. Tftc

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Cache in good condition. TFTC easy find once I
Found the right tree.

Nice easy find. Our twelfth cache of our last day of our holiday. Heading back to Chch now. TFTC

A quick find on our way home from Dunedin. TFTC

Quick find today as I head north to visit grandchildren. Thanks for the cache erninz

Doing a few caches while I’m on my own ! Picked up a tb will move it on. No smiley camera here today TFTC

Yes. Driving from Mosgiel to Ealing.

Found it. Such fun.

Explored and cached the majority of Waimate and surrounds the day before, a town visiting for the first time. Off northwards today to pick up one or two before heading back down south. Blink and you could miss this one.. and nope I wasn't speeding tftc

We had a weekend of 4x4 in the area with our club. Stayed the night near here to geocache on the way home. Nice and easy to pull over for this one. Found the cache and signed log. Thanks for this cache erninz.

Nice in easy

Today I was out and about on a very specific caching mission. My objective for the day was to accumulate enough missing 'minutes' qualify for the South Island 300 Minutes Latitude Challenge - GC8RQ1G. I started collecting missing minutes at S 44 03 and ended up down at S 45 15. I was able to park safely next to the cache here and find it in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Found southward trip.

Quick find. TFTC

Good spot. TFTC

Day 12 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

Today's plan was to drive from Timaru down to Dunedin, following the coast but with plenty of side trips to get caches targeted as per above. I have been so lucky to have dry conditions my whole trip so far, with the sun really putting in an effort to convince me it wasn't winter! I didn't mind the chilly starts knowing that the rest of the day was going to be great caching conditions.

This was effectively a quick park n grab. There was no revenue gatherer there today as I parked up near GZ. I had no problems finding the cache, and there were no issues with either it or the log so once signed everything was replaced back exactly as found and I was on my way again.

Thanks for placing this Cache.

Found on the way to Waimate. Nice easy find but alot of road works and culling back of the roadside trees is going on. I wonder if the cache will be safe later on?? TFTH

Mums find. Out on the maiden trip with the new caravan. Only got 5mins down track and stopped to fix something only to discover a cache here.

Quick find on way south. Slept in the car last night and woke up at 5.40 for an early start. Well maintained
Tftc

TFTC

Out on a roadtrip with MinionOne to go to Timaru and pick up a kayak from RayNZ. Must be the place to be as we found some small patches of blue between the rain. We had a great day and stopped in Otaio to pick up MinionTwo before we worked our away around Caroline Bay grabbing the new Geotour caches.

Yay a break in the traffic meant could grab this one. All in good condition.

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Working in Timaru for the week (from dunedin) and found with the boys on the way back to our motel. Beautiful evening

In unseren Flitterwochen in Neuseeland sieht und erlebt man ja wirklich einiges. Die Südinsel war eine wunderbare Erfahrung in Begleitung von unserem Campervan. Der eine oder andere Cache durfte natürlich auch nicht fehlen.
Cache war da wo er sein sollte, alles bestens. Was ein toller Weg, diese Wege durch Neuseeland. Selten so gestaunt über die ganzen Kurven,Palmen, Bäume Berge und Seen, herrlich!
Danke fürs verstecken!

#17009 15:35

During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!

Today we have found the cache "One for the road (Canterbury)".

erninz, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

No one else here today. TFTC

Found

Found with nissan 65. Flew in from sydney for a short holiday. Hoping to see as much as i can on the south island and pick up caches along the way . Thanku for the cache.

Day 6 of our trip to NewZealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

Weekend trip to Oamaru and Dunedin for the Pink Concert so doing some caching on the way. TFTH. Picked up and dropped a trackable.

Swapped a TB.

Tftf #TeamAwesome

Prepare to slow down early

Had to stop as youngest child feeling sick. No service. Must be a cache here I will have a look while he walks. Yeah. Thanks
Dropped a trackable

After a fun and EVENTful weekend in Geraldine it was time to head home - with a few stops along the way of course! Had previously searched for this a few months back with no luck but a quick find today - go figure! TFTC

A quick park and grab On way home from dropping off / picking up a van in Timaru for work. Nothing like getting paid to cache. Busy with traffic here took a bit to get back on the road again. TFTC

Our last day in the South Island which brought to a close our trip to attend the Oamaru Geofest 2017, a fantastic sunny day. Thanks to all the Cache owners who made finding these caches possible

After attending the Oamaru Geofeast we are now heading back to Christcurch. Caching with Di Morgan and grabbing a few caches along the way.
Thanks erninz for placing the cache for us to find.
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Stopped to find this on our way from Oamaru to Mayfield.
Thanks for placing this cache erninz

A quick find and there were lots of police on the roads so I didn't speed but saw a couple of cars that had been pulled over.

Easy find
All ok
Thanks

Nice quick find tftc

Second fine getting wet with Creek Rd girls and salvation army thanks to co

Second one for the day after reading the clues found it quickly

Found it after a good search good find

Nice to see how a cabbage tree trunk lying on the ground can send up a line of shoots.

Easy find. With Kiwitien. TFTC

TFTC

I actually just stumbled across this one. Was searching around for it couldn't find it was just heading back to the car when I nearly stood on it. Tftc

I have been planning this trip for a while now as I had some airpoints due to expire and wanted to go somewhere for Wellington Anniversary Weekend. So I've made it a 4 day weekend and come down from Palmerston North for a caching road trip. I have two goals for this weekend, to get two 2500 caches before 23 January as that is when I took up caching last year and to get caches on as many minutes as possible that will hopefully qualify me for a challenge cache in the Manawatu. Day 1 is Christchurch to Oamaru.

Pulled into the rest area and quickly located the cache. Just as I was returning to my car another vehicle arrived whose occupants started mysteriously peering at bushes. Another set of cachers perhaps?

Tftc

Cool cache location

Quick find. No flash vans taking expensive photos tonight! TFTC

Quick find. Noticed a motorbike noticeable slow done, thinking our mitzi outlander was a camera. Thanks for the laugh.

Changed the log and covered a bit, noticed most of the so called swaps had disappeared!
erninz

At World’s End – New Zealand – One of our dream become true.
Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.
At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.
Greetings from Germany – Luco235

Quick stop off to grab this cache. hmm where could it be .... got it! On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc erninz. Find # 3592

One for the day

Easy find

Found @3:28:00 PM.

Getting late in the day and also getting very cold when I grabbed this one. Grateful for an easy find.

Thanks to erninz for the cache

No speed camera today! Found pretty fast though. Tftc

I came over to New Zealand to meet my son, who is staying now for more than five months on the other side of the world. Our intension is, to travel now for 4 weeks through this fantastic land and visiting a lot of fine spots on both islands.
Met in Auckland, our first trip led us to the Far North with some spectacular locations. It was a lot of driving, but we think, it was worth the result.
The second part of our travelling route led us to the south. Going via Hamilton with some fine locations, Hobbiton was an absolutely must of our "unexpected journey" . Went then to Tauranga with a hard upclimb to Mt. Maunganui, visited Rotorua to see lot of vulcanic activities, have had a lot of fun with Zorbing and Claybird shooting and drove then to Taupa, to doing Skydiving.
Here we go: Napier with it's beautiful Art Deco district and the great Aquarium was the next stop.
Final destination on the North Island was Wellington, were we visited some great places and met some friends from Germany.
After crossing Cook Strait now we will follow the east side of the southern island down to the most southern point of New Zealand.
Blenheim with its wine yards, fantastic dolphin watching in Kaikoura, the story of earthquake in Christchurch, following the famous coastline down to Dunedin with its beautiful and interesting places as well as the nice city of Invercargill were our main spots on this part of our journey.
Of course, even if it is not our main activity during this holidays, we will looking for some caches, which are laying beside our route.
So this cache was one of those, we've picked up.
Many thanks to erninz for this fine cache and best greetings from Germany.
**Geovortex** & *Nilito*
# 6155

Loged as cg3 - 3 caching-girlies on NZ-tour, greetings from austria tftc

On tour in NZ! To safe space and time we logged as cg3 (caching girls 3)!
Tftc and greetings from Austria

tftc. logged as cg3.. quick stop and find

No photographers today!

Wonderful little cache full of goodies

hopefully we were not fast enough to get a photo...nice break...TFTC

found together with Tinu72 and SeRi84...TFTC

Another quick and easy find. TFTC

A nice little stop on our way south. TFTC

Very quick find. TFTC

6yr old finally found one she's very happy

A quick and easy find. TFTC. no camera today!

on the third attempt, again I'd swear it was where I had looked on the previous visits!!

Here I am, still locating caches in the Waimate District and having a ball.

Cheers for the cache.

Found all safe n secure although the Muggles that pulled up slightly after I did threatend to make this a wasted trip BUT bingo they left and I fou d the cache exactly where it should have been TFTC

Quick easy find

Good stop for coffee break TFTC

The plan was hatched a few years ago now and it has been a standing weekend away with a few of us mad keen cachers. This trip was made up of Karma Reprint, Team_Gaters and me (TheWanglers). We couldn't use a previous anagram to sign the logs as one member was in Aussie. So we had to come up with another... Hmm, KiTT? We decided on KiTT but after signing the first few logs something KR mentioned took a while for me to sink in and I didn't really take on board until the next time I signed the log. "Hey, the double 'TT' looks like Pi!". Oh, that's what KR said! So we signed the log this trip as KaTT pronounced 'Kapai'! And the trip was kapai!!! We had an epic weekend starting with a detour to Peel Forrest for a few FTFs, stopped in Omaru, thrashed Dunedin and detoured to Port Charmers for a FTF and then back to Pleasant Point and Peel Forrest to finish off the weekend with more FTFs. We got home to our families at a respectable hour after clocking up just over 1100km!
We had a few milestones we really wanted to crack. My 4000th, TG's 5000th and KR's 10,000th. We cracked my and KR's goal and got really close for TG. It really is about the numbers. This trip was awesome as it has given me some ideas
Quick parking action from TG and even quicker find.

Thanks for the cache.
#3797
Cache number 45 for todays total of 123
Cache 45 of my total of 288 for this epic trip!

Show weekend and a Road Trip to Dunedin with 'The Boys'....Karma Reprint & TheWanglers. Initially came up with the acronym KiTT but on seeing the TT looked like a Pi symbol we quickly changed to Ka(Pi) (ie. Kapai)....and a fantastic weekend it was. 3 days, 1100km, a heap of caches and great fun.
Quick find and sign along the way. Cheers.

3rd find for today. No camera to take our picture! TFTC

Mega trip to NZ with vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka, logged as TVVKFIN. We stopped here on our way back to CHCH from Mount Cargil. Thanks for the cache.

Long time dream came true and we could visit New Zealand. NZ Mega was our maingoal and we had time to find others too. We travelled together with Veke68, Katsukka and tanjuli (+husband) and had great time. We used TVVK Fin (that is tanjuli, vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka) in mostly logbooks to save space.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings from Finland.

Day #6 geocaching in NZ in good company (=tanjuli + husband, vipema, Veke68 & Katsukka = TVVK-FIN in the logbooks, most of the time), today we headed to Dunedin and back to Christchurch again. Had a great time, enjoyed the mostly sunny day and found a lot of caches + saw so many interesting/beautiful places.

Thank you!!!!

Caching holiday in New Zealand with Tanjuli, Vipema and Katsukka continues and today nice trip from Christchurch to Dunedin and back. Lot of kilometers but many nice caches and of course couple of very old caches too.

We logged mostly only TVVK-FIN to save space in the logbook.

Thanks!!

This was the start of a MEGA caching weekend in the company of good caching friends. In the company of both HKCB & 11HPG11 this was going to be another memorable caching road trip for many reasons.

This is the mission that we had set ourselves up for several months back. It was HKCB's idea, I was just dumb enough to think it was a challenge and I'd be up for it, 11HPG11 was silly enough to come along for the ride once we confirmed a spare seat (Nova Lightening pulled out for family reasons).

We were going to try to beat the NZ one day record in New Zealand (it would have been easier with 4 people), so after 2.5hrs sleep after a good feed at Omarama we were ready to go. This was the number two hundred and eighty second on what was to be an epic day with what amounted to 401 caches collected for the day and about 38 DNF's. We managed this with 10minutes to spare but by this time we were done for and still had to drive back to Kaiapoi. All in all an epic days caching with good friends and something I don't think any of us will repeat in a hurry.

All in all it was going to be a big day with a number of challenges, great scenery, and of course great company. Fantastic driving along and up here as the landscape was so different from what we are used to back in the Waikato. One good thing about backroads being that we could continue our neferious activites without being disturbed by muggles.

Nice quick find here without any issues .
thanks for the placement , thanks for the cache

Headed down south with C&D and 11HPG11 for the CHCH Mega as part of the HOAC team, and decided that a Mega road trip/Mega Mission was the right thing to do. After a great day caching from Dunedin to Omarama we manged to get a few hours sleep before the big day 2 started.

Day 2 was the start of a ambitious plan to try and find as many caches as possible in one day! To maximise our chances of a big number we decided a 24 hour caching day was the only way to go. What an epic day, and some great moments too. The rough idea was to cache from Omarama to Oamaru, and then head north towards Christchurch. A huge thanks to everyone for the cache placments, and I apologise for the copy and past logs.

Find #282 for the day.

What a Mega Mission for a group of Hamilton Over Achievers! A great trip, a long time in the planning. I teamed up with Cats&Dragons and HKCB to grab a couple of caches while in Christchurch and surrounding areas for the 2015 Mega Event. We flew out from Auckland on Friday night and traveled to Dunedin in the dark of the night. Stopped for a few hours sleep before setting off to grab caches in the Otago area on Saturday before attempting a few more on Sunday and then arriving at the Mega on the Monday. An amazing, yet crazy road trip. Signed logs as HOAC to save room

When C&D mentioned a day with over 400 caches I should have turned and ran... instead I said yes, and here we are. 401 caches in 23 hours and 50 minutes. All done on about 2.5hr of sleep. It was hard work with only 3 of us and there were times that were hard and tiring but I still had a blast! An amazing experience that one has to be slightly crazy to even consider

Thanks for bringing us here and placing caches for us to find. No picture taken for us although we did have a police encounter the previous day

Found on our way north to the Mega in Christchurch. No cameras here today but we did see one parked here on our way home! TFTC