Early Settlers Hall ( North Otago ) Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 03-Dec-11. Waypoint GC38NA7

Making way for new cache.

Stopped here for lunch withn the celebrant. Interesting little town.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

One of a handful of DNF's on the day. Had a quick look in the likely places - by obviously too quike or not unlikley enough!

Found before the log was replaced...Yes co-ords are dodgy, but I had another idea...and there it was. Sneaky enough to earn a favourite from me. TFTC SL

New log in place

GPSr a bit wobbly in here but found it through a process of elimination.

TFTC

No success, no fun

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 GC2K5NZ - "Where everyone can get a smiley" (North Otago), we decided to check our GPSr and noticed that there was another cache that was not too far away as the crow flies less than 250metres, well it was giving us a chance to go for a decent walk and get some extra steps in.

The walk to GZ didnt take too long and as we neared GZ, 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 we soon spotted something that matched the hint as we neared GZ, well that was a bit obvious wasnt it.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and then replaced the cache back where I found it. Thanks Bitsprayer for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (5223). Glad that we decided to come and find this cache after hours as I think that it could be muggle central if we arrive here at the wrong time, but tonight the area was deserted.

This was our last cache for the day, what a great spot for a cache, really love these old building around Oamaru, now it is time to make our way back to our motel and call it a night, ell that was a bit of extra nocturnal urban caching and it was great fun.

Disclaimer: The above log may be based on true or actual events.

A reasonably quick find in the dark. Thanks for the cache 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.

It took a bit of searching to pin this one down.

Thanks for the cache, Bitsprayer.

Came here with fozzmiester, -gonefishing- and Yeetrees while staying the night in Oamaru. The cache was a quick find - signed log, TFTC!

Love the way Oamaru is manicured as a historic town, with quaint buildings & is a really lovely place to visit & find caches !

Nice old hall, in fact we have really liked the old buildings in Oamaru and wish we had time to stop longer. Quick find. Log is full, we managed to find a tiny space to sign. SL. TFTC.

Day 9 of our campervan tour of New Zealand with Angel, Teachermom and Hynr. Today was a relaxing day. We found just a few caches around Oamaru and walked around the town a bit.

Thanks Bitsprayer for hiding this cache.

Found as part of Team Spinner during our Great New Zealand Mega and other Adventures. TFTC

Found by The Empire
Day six of the NZ Mega invasion
Our time in Dunedin was over, we left early in the morning and set our sights on another night in Oamaru, before our flight from Christchurch back to Melbourne. This was one of the caches we found along the way. My thanks for the cache.
- M
Melbourne, Australia

Traveling as Team Spinner in our campervan to attend the Mega Event in Dunedin. At this point we are heading back north. Spent the day in Oamaru to take in the sights. TFTC

Found during a tiki tour of the area with The Empire while here for the NZ Mega from Melbourne .
thankyou for your cache
Steve

TFTC.

On a caching day with Thee Mole and Miss Smarty Pants great day with 28 finds and 1 DNF. They had tried before GPS is out here but we found today. Great hide log book is full.

log is full

looked for this before, got it this time. happy mole. tftc

took a bit of looking but got. tftc.

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

We were first drawn to another spot but after expanding our search we soon had this one in hand.
Thanks

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

We searched in the wrong spot initially before making the find.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache.

Our 6293rd overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. By the time we looked at the title of the cache we made a simple find.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

This was one of 69 caches for the day along with bogonghazy enroute from Oamaru to Dunedin for NZ Mega. We had sunshine, rain, snow and wind throughout the day. But still got to enjoy a greats days caching. Thanks to the CO and greetings from Oz.

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

Once we looked in the right spot The Rats made a quick find. TFTC!

Found with Sully1 on our third day in this beautiful country.
Today we headed from Oamaru to Dunedin, enjoying even more of this scenery
and friendly Kiwis, and finding a great variety of clever and educational caches along the way.
Thanks again Bitsprayer

The GPS was leading me astray so took a chance on my instincts and found it. TFTC

Thankfully The Marble was searching with me today because my GPS had me at the agapanthus! Took us a while to find it, but we got there in the end, though not without circumnavigating the Settler's Hall! Now back to Thames St to take photos of the Opera House and assorted historical buildings. Such a lovely streetscape! TFTC, Bitsprayer. =^.^=

Found quickly - in the dark of night

Spent a bit of time looking in not quite the right place, then had a wee read of the info & a wee think, and all was good. A CD muggle drove past just when we were signing, but looked totally unpeturbed so I guess he knew what we were up to. TFTC

Sneaky find... Muggle central today!!!

Sneaky! I thought I'd already checked there once! Good to get this one done. Log nearly full. TFTC.

Looked for this cache before at this spot and finally found it this time , thanks to Bo & Bronnie

Once at the GZ I just knew or thought I knew where it would be. I spent ages looking and re looking then finally found it just where I thought it might be, Someone had just been over zealous in replacing the cache. But all good now. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Didn't find it. Is it still there? Maybe a bigger hint?

Didn't find this cache, searched for ages but couldn't find it.

Could'nt find it. Could you give another clue??????

On a caching trip with ingidayna to Oamaru and surrounds to get 1000 finds. A sneaky hide. TFTC

one of many to get 1000 caches TFTC found with wethreefourdices.

Heard that this one could be a little tricky so took some re-enforcements to ensure we didn't leave empty handed. TFTC

at last been here before

busy place today

found on my round today

good weather and all

merci

Tricky one. TFTC

Second time looking for this cache, this time with Geomum instead of a school group. Was pretty happy to finally find it ... Mum seems to have a knack for finding micro caches. TFTC!

easy find, quite a few muggles around though

Good quick cache. Good hiding spot. SL TFTC

Clever hiding spot. Almost gave up. TFTC

Found with Mitchell, Nicole and Carolyn. Quick nip in and out during the break in quiz at the pub

found with Lyndsay, Nicole and Carolyn. help from John and Jess. ill put my finger up there!

Darn it, couldn't leave 'me marble' though

A nice quick find here. Oamaru has done a great job of looking after and highlighting its old buildings. TFTC #3205

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through, on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.
Thanks for setting this up.
TFTC
Mud & Kim

Instant find after first wasting 5 minutes where the gps led me astray.
Thank you for placing this cache.

Crafty wee hide TFTC

On a day trip to Oamaru and took a very enjoyable stroll around the many historic buildings. Very impressive and more so as they seem to be well maintained.
Found the cache easily enough in a good hide but it took us longer to re-roll the log than it took to find it. .
Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache and greetings from Western Australia. [^]
Day 23 : Cache 3 : Total caches 78

Good hiding place. TFTC

That took a while. I was lucky that justanurse found it for us

Sneaky wee hide. Good work. Love it.

No muggles about, nice hide!!

Visiting from the UK with my brother, first of the day after a little retail therapy in town. Thanks for the hide

I'm sure I looked there last time. Nvever mind, have a smiley now. Thanks

Sneaky hide.
TFTC. TNLN. SLB.

A quick easy find at this old building – pen was required only for signing the log. TFTC

THIS CACHE WAS HARD TO FIND AND THEN RAY HAD BRAINWAVE


TRAVELLING AROUND BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH ISLAND FROM THE UK

TFTC

Returned to the scene of my previous defeat. I was more suitably equipped this time and the log signed!
Thanks
erninz

Got it this time Didn"t notice Heafudds name in the logbook

I told the male members of the expedition last time we went to this site where to look, but did they listen! Today we found it exactly where I thought. One up to the female geocachers!

Came back here after a little direction from Bitsprayer that both my GPS, and cachersense, hadn't pointed me at, and had an easy find. Moreso, actually, since the Civil Defence/Rural Fire muggles had left work! Cheers Gav [10506]

Went down this morning and spied what I was looking for but upon retrieval I couldn't get the log out to sign it!.
Thought of leaving a bit of paper with my name on it but I know the cache owners thoughts on this!.
I will have to return better equipped
erninz

4120. In the end we had more trouble extracting the log than finding the cache! We were glad to find this one after struggling with previous caches in this area.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Found this puppy. ALmost gave up the ghost, but Bitsprayer's pen advice provided a fruitful find. As it turns out, there IS something good to do while waiting for a meeting at the bank...

Did the obvious and quickly found - pen certainly useful

this third time unlucky even with gps, still there???????

Tried again this afternoon but still proves elusive!
erninz

Did not find it possibly missing

A very reluctant DNF after an extensive search.

Was a bit hard.

to hard

to hard

couldnt find it... gutz

Joint up with another school Geocaching group, and yet we still could not find it! Very tricky indeed.

was too hard

Must be some kind of record, 1 find to 10 failures! poor little garden. Next time

Two of us spent a good 10 minutes all around by torch light but no luck. That garden is going to feel mighty loved by the time the first smiley gets here! Cheers

*FTF* Had to come back for a second visit to find this one. A real tricky little hide. Kept going back to this spot and and with the assistance of a small aid the cache was finally in hand. TFTC

No luck for me either Another tricky Bitsprayer classic I suspect Will be back with a bit more time to spare

A beautiful morning, shaping up to be a good day, supposedly a cache not far from home so off I went nice and early.
Spent over an hour trying everything I could think of and no luck!
erniz

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