Discovering Gold (Central Otago) Alexandra, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 20-Feb-16. Waypoint GC6BQKA

Gone again, time to free up the spot.

Gone will archive

We too failed to find this cache. There seemed only one possible location which would be out of sight, but you never know.

Dnf. Been a while since it was found.

A trop to Alexander for a FTF and some shopping. Came here to eat lunch and had to get this after. Nice and easy. TFTC

After going to queenstown and the LUMA festival we came back to Alexandre to stay a couple of nights. Today we decided to go for a bike ride with my friend. This was the first find on this wee trip.
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Our first find in Central Otago. TTFC

Quick find

Found with StreetWalker as we explored Alexandra, letting cache hides be our tour guide .
There was one car parked near GZ with an occupant, but that was all, so no worries with muggles for us. SW found the cache quickly.
An odd sort of sculpture, not my cup of tea. TFTC.

#16924. An, errr, distinctive sculpture. Cache was easily spotted on approach. TFTC.

Visiting from Arizona, USA. Continuing our coach tour of New Zealand. Today we're heading from Milford Sound to Wedderburn. With a short break from the drive in Alexandra, we decided to make a run for this cache. It was easily found. Not so easy was the retrieval of the log. Even with our ToTT we struggled to remove it from the container, and struggled again to replace it. It took so much time we almost gave up on replacing it for fear of being late for our coach departure. But we got it back in place (and we were first to sign the new log) and with a bit of a run made it back in time. Nice location and an interesting artwork. Thanks for the cache.

New log in place.

Passing by this cache as I headed to Alex to go to some maintenance on discovering gold, then the plan was to go back home via clydevale to check on some of those caches on the trail.

On our South Island adventure from Perth WA. A nice easy find with Spuddycakes in tow. TFTC

A very quick find for Mr2+4, he had it before i got out of the car. The log is very full.

Randomly chose a few geocachers to visit in Alexandra while we were there. This was a good choice. Great location and hide. Managed to fit our log onto the page.

Need new paper

After completing the multi nearby I found this little one. Thanks for bringing me to that location.

Nice quick evening find. TFTC
Logbook is now full

Awesome wee cache. The smallest we have found yet! Tftc!

No pen nice hide tftc

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TFTC. Beautiful day to fine a treasure.

Quick find. Good hint. TFTC

Nice quick find - fair few muggles around but I was discrete. TFTC

Nice wee find

Omg so cute and easy to find thank so much

Great to see the marking of an area such as this by this means.
Thanks
erninz

Dam forgot to log this one, found on our road trip in December.- Thanks Bitsprayer

Convenient place to stop - plenty of parking!

Just completed the Otago Rail trail and tomorrow we are going to ride the Clutha Gold trail. A rest day in Alexandria walking 18 kilometres and cycling 6 kilometres geocaching. TFTC.

Found this cache post dinner with a second wind of energy on a walk to collect some Geo aches and check out the sights of downtown Alex before I head out of town on the rest of my journey.

I saw the cache first and passed it off to check the hint and sure enough that was it. The boaties left and muggles walked past and I managed to make the find no issue!

A bit gutted after everyone else has found it so easy. Went round and round and round with no luck

Find #6 today. I spotted as soon as I walked up to it. TFTC

Very easy find. Lovely spot. Tftc

Just completed the Roxburgh Gorge Trail from Alex to Roxburgh and now doing the return drive by car to shuttle the cars. Having HarrisGang5 with me a few more caches were done. A cunning little hide but quickly spotted and logged. Thanks for the cache Natalie247.

Nice little spot by the river tftc

*Found with [Geooh Live](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohLive)*

A good find, no problems

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Thanks up in Alexandra for a soccer tournament sorry football. my son playing for the Otago development team. Proud parents had to come and watch.
Time between games so must Find a geocatch. Quick find as couldn’t find the last one I looked for.
Cast off my arm hopefully tomorrow so I will be able to get back to lots of geocatching as not many found since I broke a bone and have had a cast on my forearm.

Super size tanks

Tracked this one down just on dark last for today great spot to finish the day
We are on a winter road trip to track down all of the hidden creatures and find the elusive world turtle and one more step closer to my 1000 th cache.
Road trip with annielin and Abbykitt. Day one let's go !!!!!!
Thanks to all the cache owners.
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A quick find on just dark with annielin and downsouthinv. A funcache.
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found just in time before the sun went down.
We are on a caching mission to find the elusive world turtle!

Up for a couple of days of caching staying in Cromwell. Loved every minute of it.
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Thanks for a Central Otago Gold nugget:-)

Found by D. Tiny

In Alexandra for a few days holiday over Easter...a long way driving today from Christchurch, but having unpacked and settled in we headed out for a walk. Its been a while since I was in town. After a play at the playground and a detour through the school we stopped past the river....Quick find and sign at a cool wee sculpture. Cheers.

mrandmrs and POB on a day trip loop through Otago, on a planetary pursuit
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Wow you could hardly miss this nugget. Struck gold here with the cache as well. TFTC # 12,153

Nice spot and a pleasing simple find...neat view of bridge and river thanks Natalie247 great cache

After completing the multi nearby we decided to find this little beauty. Such a fabulous day for walking after the last two days. Thanks for bringing us here

Quickfind, cool nugget but why so far off from the city :/

Wandered over to the GZ and found the little one. Had to use a small tool to get the log out, it was stuck fast. Unwrapped and SL initials. Put back together and returned, back to car just as cops came down to round up some drunk kids. tftc

Love this sculture, exceptionally hot day over 32 degrees, Tftc

Quick park and grab

Small and easy find. Tftc

Very tidy!
Thanks

TFTF

Quick find, thanks

Cool!

Popped in a new log sheet

Macfam41 had a first find in Alex. Off to Wanaka now. TFTC

Thanks Natalie, cache in good condition. Beautiful day today here in central.

Found with a colleague while working in the area. Introduced him to geocaching over dinner so of course we had to go and find one. Quick find. Tftc

Interesting sculpture. Quick find. I signed GW. TFTC Natalie247.

Day 8 Cromwell - Dunedin. Heading to our 23,000 find
A day on the road finding caches as we went.
We found caches in some amazing places & wonderful scenery today.
Thanks for placing this cache Natalie247

Weekend away and a couple of finds. TFTC

Stopped in Alex for a bit of shopping and lunch. Had to get a cache too, of course, and this was it. A good quick find. TFTC.

Would like to discover some of my own

Nice quick find on a beautiful day. TFTC

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I believe this cache is ok following heavy rainfall over last 48 hrs, however roads in the area have been affected. A state of Emergency is still in place - for upto date info on roads go to www.dunedin.govt.nz/road-conditions
A large portion of my caches have been in affected area and I am currently through work/voluenteering have to focus on other post flooding activities.
As I expect it will be at least 1 week until I can do effective maintenance runs to check and replace caches I apologise now if you were hoping to claim this for a dot day/Mary Hyde gold and it is not in its expected state.
I would be grateful for any comments on what needs to be done and help empty water and provide dry logs.

rustynz tells me I need to catch up with all my logging

This was when we were in the South Island, doing the Otago cycle rail trail.

Sorry for the generic logs. But thank you to all the CO for the hides and the maintenance on all your caches.

After cycling from Clyde with rebel98, a quick detour down to the cache after we had cycled across the bridge. It was rebel who spotted this one, and luckily was able to retrieve the log and sign. Thanks for the hide, and bringing us here

Tftc!

Last find for the day, late afternoon with the sun on the right angle to get a great photo of the autumn-coloured trees and the bridge. Fairly quick find of cache. #1469. TFTC.

SITF #35 quick find at a lovely spot, cheers

Love the sculpture, quick find to start the day.
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Our first find of the day. Heading to Dunedin. Love the view of the bridge from here, and the autumn colours are just gorgeous. Tftc

Quick find thanks and greetings from the North Island. Tftc

Staying in Alexandra for a few days, called here this evening while walking back to my accommodation after a meal at a nearby restaurant. A quick find by torchlight in the dark. Interesting spot, I don't recall it being here on past visits to the area. Signed log, TFTC

A neat new feature to recognise the early miners to visit, TFTC

While visiting New Zealand, we headed to Dunedin to grab the oldies in the area. Mission accomplished, we headed off for a quick road trip around the South Island. Heading to Queenstown, we stopped to stretch our legs and to check out the site, and what do you know, there's a cache here as well. Thanks for adding to an awesome vacation.

SL TFTC Natalie247

An overnight stop at Alexandra and an opportunity to find one cache. This hide also offered a chance to view the river and the new and old bridges. Quick find. Tomorrow the group of Australians will continue our four wheel drive in the stunning South Island. TFTH

A nice 545m walk from our new temporary house in Alex. Am new to town and looking forward to finding some more great nearby caches and even running into or meeting local friendly geocachers. Worth a Fav Point since it's my first find in Alex. Tftc Natalie247

Beaut day for caching. TFTC

Very quick find. Plenty people around. Thanks for the stop and for the cold paddle.

Quick find on a beautiful day. TFTC

I'm down in Otago to cycle the Otago Rail Trail over a relaxed 5 day period and took the opportunity to find a few geocaches along the way. Day 1 was from Clyde to Omakau, with a detour along the Millennium track to start with. This was a nice quick find while passing through Alexandra. TFTC!

From Melbourne and doing a tiki tour of the South Island after visiting family in Nelson. Grabbing a few caches on our travels. TFTC.

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Wery early morning visit to Alex for this one, and was an easy P'n'G and easy find. The sprinklers came on while I was logging and some of the Lake Onslow mud got washed off the wagon. Wery tight roll and had a job with the tweezers to extract the log to SL initials. Rerolled and returned to place. TFTC Nat.

Find #72 on Team Walker's epic adventure from Blenheim to Bluff and back. A quick jaunt from Cromwell to Alexandra for a nosey. Dipped our toes in the river. Yeah nah. Not swimming today! TFTC

Nice find tx - couldn't retrieve with our fat fingers though

Found after a good ride around the area. TFTC

Nice place to break the trip. 1st smiley face in Alex. Thanks.

A super quick find which was just as well as I had a replacement logbook with me! Love this area, it's a great spot for a picnic.

Quick find whilst waiting for our waterborne ride. TFTC.

A Dunedin cacher is passing this way next couple of days and have a replacement log to go in

Busy spot today with boaties and picnics. Luckily none on the cache side.
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found on 12/24/2016 at 1:23:00 PM
A pleasant spot with all the boating activity going on. A quick find but the log paper is full, just enough space to squeeze our name in
Thanks for the cache Natalie247
Pipedream

My mission is my first 3 day tramp on Stewart Island. The Seagnoid has Xmas off so we are off on an epic adventure with Zara around the South Island. The Seagnoid is navigator and scribe, Zara and I have teamed up and Im cache logger. We leave Tekapo for Alexandra today.
After Danseys Pass our destination for today is Alexandra to meet up with a war friend of my fathers. We are running very late with Zara disapproving of Danseys Pass and boiling here head off. Get past that and know fuel is getting low but - bugger - no fuel. Luckily had some extra in the boot so loaded it in and thankfully Zara was kind to me and started. Had heard ugly things about diesels running out of fuel. OK lets bag and tag this cache, Cords way out but hints spot on - so easy find. Cheers