Surprise! (Otago) Kelvin Heights, Otago, New Zealand
By ajbenn on 03-Apr-14. Waypoint GC51NFE

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi ajbenn

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

No surprise here to not make find after a string of Dnfs.This one has surely been muggled. First dnf for our holiday.

not there anymore u thnknut was under the westher pls relaxe soon

Quick look, checked logs - soon left.

No luck for us today

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

No idea

Great sculpture here but couldn't find the cache.

No dopamine released here . Should be 4. today, too hungry to keep going searching and also dissatisfied - so much time for small dusty box only .

Spent a bit of time looking but was forced away due to the incoming rain storm coming down the lake. Will be back

#271

So happy to have found this after several attempts to no avail.
Last cacher had left GZ quite obvious, so with the help of the spoiler photo, it was easy to find the cache.
Thank you for maintaining.

**TFTC**
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Found it thanks

A quick stop while in Central. Cool find tftc

Cache 346 wanted to do these ones yesterday on my holiday but time wouldn’t allow so I vowed I would be back today to finish them This one took me a little while coordinates were a bit off and gps kept bouncing, but with a little help from pictures I got there in the end, cache is in good condition, Rock bug added to cache T4TC

I like your cut g #2

TFTC great hide even after spoiler photo

Very stealthy good hide

Took way to long but found it in the end

Even with all the photo hints no luck today.

No luck for me today. - Bitsprayer

This took a while... scratch, scratch, scratch... then lined up spoiler photo from above and bingo, how come we hadn't scratched that bit?

Wau super stash thanks

OMG we were ages here - spoiler photo wouldn’t open at first so no help. Then eventually got a bit of a signal and managed to track down the very sneaky cache. We were even joined briefly by a local cacher who had looked for it twice before, Favourite point for the delight after the frustration. TFTC

Holiday caching. Thanks for the hide.

Brilliant TFTC!

#46 of 366 goal for 2020

5th find for today! Loved the hiding place. Very creative!!

With Cami211996

After giving in and checking the hint we finally found this one! Great little hide! I’m loving the containers! Great day for geocaching with smiley568!
#48 of 2020

Find #3198. One of a few random finds while on holiday in QT. A search required to find the cache and had to use the spoiler photos to match to the right spot. In the end the cache was some 15m out from the geo-coordinates. Clever hide but the published coordinates should be updated. SL TFTC

This one took us so very long to find. So many places to look. Looked at all the previous photos but none helped us very much. Not sure which picture was supposed to be the spoiler photo. After many of us looking in all places just finally stumbled on it completely by chance. TFTC. The location is lovely too.

FP from me, very fun and cool hide! TFTC!

Nice hide, a favourite point for us. Easy find, thanks for this nice little cache along the walk, a bit cloudy, rainy windy and cold today, but very nice walk. Thanks a lot for this cache, both container and logbook are in good condition.

Today we went gold panning in Arrowtown where we also found a few caches, then drove over to Kelvin Heights where we walked around the golf course and found some caches there.
We used the two photos provided to find GZ and then easily locate the container. Lucky it was very easy to find because it was very cold and windy. We liked the camouflage and the views, and the sculpture. TFTC!

Found after a bit of a search with help from the photos. GPS coordinates are a bit off. Thanks!

Wow, that was tough! Picture did it...TFTC

Took a little while to find this one as we were originally looking in the wrong place. Gps is a bit spotty with all the trees and hills... once we locked on to the right area we made the find pretty quickly. Thanks for the cache and lovely walk

Tftc!

#17015. The coords are well out for this one. A couple of photos got us to the right area, and after a careful search Troodles came up with the goods. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 6 of our extended Easter holiday in Central Otago. Today we are heading to Queenstown and Arrowtown, our main objective: a couple of solved puzzles plus an old cache.
The tree cover made pin pointing GZ difficult, but the spoiler photo at least had us in the general area. Took a few minutes, but relieved to find the sneaky wee hide. TFTC.

What a joke this GZ is having. We found the proxy fake cache everyone had found and flicked it as rubbish. The real Surprise cache is in good condition and returned it as found. Owner can log a O/M log as all is well here.
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*11 Feb 17 Found Picking up a few before a plane needed catching. Nice walk around the peninsular. Manually loaded the logged coordinates that hadn't been updated to the GC.com site and found the sneaky hide at my boot toe. Nice One. SL TFTC*

Top only. Nothing to sign.

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from Austria  
Die_Asseln

Might need maintenance, think we found the lid but not the bottle. Put lid under a small cairn of rocks.

May not be correct, think we found the lid but no bottle.

Today D4nielB and me walked the Kelvin Peninsula track and took the time to look for some geocaches on our way.
When I still was looking around everywhere. D4nielB just took the spoiler photo and found it in a few seconds. Cool idea!
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Juliane

Jul1ane and me wanted to relax a bit today, so we decided to pick an easier walk for today. We chose the Kelvin Peninsula Trail from our hotel to the tip of the peninsula and back. We had luck, at the beginning of our walk there were a few drops of rain, but this stopped after a bit, and we had dry weather, later even the sun came out. On the trail we also searched and found quite a few caches.

Since it was quite muggly today, we searched this one with the help of the hint, which made finding it a breeze.

Boys Believe the second cache at missing in action was this cache

Love this container! Great job

In Queenstown for the Gibbston concert so off for a walk around Kelvin Heights with Gadget169 before heading home. Have never been over this area before so it was nice walking around the lake and then driving around looking at all the houses. Didn't take long at all to locate cache once in the right spot TFTC

I tried to search this about 15 minutes without succes

3 of us searched for 15 minutes without success

In the right place but no luck

Found this one in a very different place than expected…clever container and camo…TFTC!

Quite a group of us searching in various places but really its a bit like a needle in a haystack with the number of hiding places. Found with the help of the spoiler photo and even trhn it wasn't immediate. Very relieved when piobaireDon uttered those magic words. TFTC # 12,917

No luck today. Will try next trip

Had to use photo as GPS was well off, but still took a little while to locate

I found this before RowenaD

Needed the hint and photo but got it in the end.

Pictures helps.

Tricky find

Fynn found it and gus too

Found with the help of a spoiler photo and a small geo kid.

Good clues, well hidden in a beautiful spot.

Definitely a little tricky but found it. Earth cache nearby was easier. TFTC

Greetings from Tauranga. Pleased to find this as we had no access to the photo and no real idea of where to look. however we did find it thanks to the good clue. We estimated it to be 15m from the gz. Cache is all good. Carefully replaced. TFTC

thought that is just rubbish... nice spot

My dad was not any help.

Found with nomunomad TFTC

Definitely needed the spoiler photo as coordinates and alternate coordinates in the log both out for us. Surprised then on the relatively easy find given the needle fall. TFTC #37

Took much longer to find than expected; TFTC

No luck here. I also didnt have the spoiler photo

Sneaky little spot. Had to use the photo for a better idea. Top spot

Found while on holiday from Australia. Very tricky hide .TFTC

Mrs Brewsterjuice found this while i was working on the earthcache. Great spot. TFTC

Today we had a relaxing day in Queenstown and the surroundings. Just some hiking tours and - of course - some caches. This one was easy to find due to some most recent logs. Many greetings from Germany and TFTC

We found it together with Blue HD Rider. TFTC

Macfam41 frm Lower Hutt found it. It is a bottle top but not a Crown lager top.
TFTC.

Gee this one took mr a while but got it in the end. Tftc

We certainly needed the spoiler photo to guide us to the hiding location for this sneaky little cache, as for us the coordinates were 14 metres out. Our coordinates were S45 02.677 E168 39.918. A nice, but unusually constructed sculpture. TFTC

Very late logging ... Found with Mporokosa. TFTC.

By the time we got to GZ, the wind was hurricane-like and the sky looked like it would start dumping any second. Fewer and fewer people about by the second. We grabbed the cache, logged our find and quickly skidaddled.

Bracing wind this morning and certainly not shorts weather. Having climbed to the skyline and Queenstown Hill yesterday I decided something a little more sedate was needed today, so off I set round the golf course walk.

I got very diverted here examining the sculpture so much so that I walked on without looking for the cache and had to come back. My coords were 10 m off line everyone else’s but the spoiler pic had me in exactly the right place and an out of place rock gave it away. TFTC

Off for the weekend with AnnieLin, Abbykit and Downsouthinv to plan the layout of an up coming Guide camp in Kingston. An overnight trip so we can cache on the way.
My GPS a wee bit off, so was searching wrong side of track. I was just pulling up the spoiler pic when AnnieLin went "Ha!" - looked up and she had the container in her hand.
Another nice sculpture on the track.
Thanks for the smilie.
12:45 PM 3rd Sep 2017

Yes found by Annielin on a nice day out for a walk ruru and abbykitt great hide tftc

eagle eyed me found this little fella. Great hide in a nice spot

We were looking and looking....mum had the best eyes here though!!

In full view but still hard to pick!

Found!! Haha I found it straight away the photo has been taken from where it is not actually where it is

With Lorena on day walk

No! Couldn't suss this one out at all. Still worth the ride out to this stunning spot, will be back! Perhaps if I come in the morning the light will be better for a good photo!!

Loved this one must replicate when we return to England. Tftc

Nice one. We liked this sculpture too. Tftc.

This os a toughie spent far too long searching and unfortunately ran out of time as we needed to be somewhere, may try again if time allows on our busy schedule, thanks anyway and hello from Bury in England

Hier haben wir gesucht und gesucht. Aber irgendwie lagen wir falsch.
Den Hint haben wir zuerst nicht verstanden. Aber dann sahen wir das entscheidende Detail.
Echt tolles Versteck!! Hatten wir so auch noch nicht.
Greetings from Germany!
TFTC

Very very clever! Photo hint helped us, thank you!!

Was looking in the wrong place, but the hint soon had it sorted. Tftc

Taking a rest day on my south island bike tour today. TFTC.

Quickly found on our way through the peninsula. Nice loop and nice sculptures Muggle Jan found it thanks to the hint so i could sign the logbook.
Thanks for hiding

Took me a while to locate this one but got there in the end. Nice camo & views & scuplture. TFTC

Our team if five cachers have just jetted into Queenstown to tackle the Five Passes tramp in the mountains nearby. With a bit of time to spare this afternoon, we took a walk to grab this cache.

The wind was a little brisk. We had to revert to the photo spoiler clue, as our GPS's had us looking elsewhere, many thanks ajbenn.

Pete

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