and fire.......Roxburgh Otago Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand
By haydn.seek on 28-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6R37H

Sorry we didn't realise this cache was archived, but we found it anyway... TFTC

Closeness to another cache

Hi hayden.seek

For a traditional cache, the cache must be at the posted coordinates, and based on many previous logs, the cache is actually up to 70 metres from the posted coordinates, and about 130metres from another cache, well within the 161metre limit

https://www.geocaching.com/play/guidelines#traditional.

Rather than straight archiving I am giving you 14 days to sort the cache.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.309 E 169° 18.550

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.305 E 169° 18.529

Distance from original: 92.7 feet or 28.3 meters.

to make it easier to see the canon

Not sure if intended to have co ords out by 70m to avoid proximity of other cache as its only 136m between physical containers.

No luck here today. Location was bouncing about. The hint is the longest non hint I have ever read.

Well we found it, but it's a bit of a odd one. - Bitsprayer

Was unsuccessful on an earlier visit but got it today. Coordindates published were at least 70m out for us, not sure whether it was intentional or an error ??? TFTC

Found but only becos grandson insisted on looking at a different place. Coordinates are far from correct

Staying at pinders pond in Motorhome, biked the trail and had lunch then thought would look for geocache. The coordinates are well out.

Finally found after 3 visits of this place and after asking owner. Happy catcher .

After a lot of looking we were moving onto the next one and found it. Cor ordinates are well out but still a nice cache.

After not finding at coordinates given, decided to move on and found it.
Cool hide for the cache.
Thanks P& Vee

Good find

Found

Keep walking and it’ll point itself out to you!!!!

Difficult find not we’re it says it is good luck

Please the notes...that may help.

Found

Quick easy find this time. TFTC

Last one for the day and I had been up this way 3 time before and the coordinates are so far out that it is no wonder I did find it the first 3 time. Got there in the end tho. TFTC

Found with c@chetracker TFTC
Location is a bit out. Walking up the hill to the right and it will point right at you. It's pretty neat

TFTC found with rachb

Had a bit of a browse, but was getting dark and decided we’d come back for it.

Neat cache, thanks for placing.

Could sèe from 100m away. Rode up from Pinders Pond.
Nice ride around the town on sunny warm day.

GZ is a long way off. Found after walking 70m up road. Cool cash though! Someone is creative!!!

#16996. This one had us puzzled as nothing at the published coords looked promising. I decided to follow the street up hill, and soon spotted the artillery piece (and cache). TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 5 of our extended Easter break in Central Otago. Today we are travelling south to Roxburgh, via Roxburgh village and Roxburgh East Rd, then back to Clyde again via SH8.
I was ready to throw in the towel, as I expect trads to be at the published co-ords, but SW trotted up the hill to look for this gun. He found a dog, a gun and a cache. I suspect that if the co-ords are changed to the correct ones, the cache would be too close to another one. TFTC.

Obscure hint and directions.
Gave up and did not waste more time

Neighbors showed us where hidden.
A long way from ga
Look at the gun

But way off coordinates

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.311 E 169° 18.548

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.309 E 169° 18.550

Distance from original: 15.2 feet or 4.6 meters.

just more acurate

Riding the Roxburgh Gorge Clutha Gold trail with a group of muggles. Great views best bike trip I have done. Very sneaky I had given up looking and it was only when we had left the area that the solution appeared. TFTC.

Found it!!! Forgot pen though srry. Didn’t have any in the car left them at home

Dam it we were defeated

Perseverance and a little hint pays off.
Didn't see this the first time looking... but soon had it this morning.
Cool cache i want one to keep the enemy at bay and certain boys under control!!

On the way back home to collect geokids from a camp... it's been great! .. adult time!!!
Sitting in the navigator's seat, telling downsouthinv where to go, what more could a girl ask for!!

Had a good look on our way to Alexandria with no luck so decided to have one more look on the way home from Alexandria with a little hint soon had cache in hand sl and returned.
Great cache love this one gotta keep your head down and stay low. I want one would slow the door to door sales men down

After A early morning start to pick up the younger geo Kids at a camp.
A road trip was in order .
So off we go let,s see where we end up . Annielin in the navigators seat calling the shots with a let's go this way and then let's go that.
A in order nice and dry
tftc

Took a wee while but finally located...all made sense in the end

I want one for my driveway! Reached the GZ and found the cache. Was kind of just sitting there and after SL, returned a little more 'in' the hide. Added a minigrip for the log as there wasn't one. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.317 E 169° 18.555

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.311 E 169° 18.548

Distance from original: 47.2 feet or 14.4 meters.

a tad more accurate

No luck this time

my aim was unfortunately off today. The veges in the community gardens looked fantastic though

*Cache found in ready to fire position. Safe from the flooding and gorse of course.*

19 Jan 17 Found Tucked this one away after finding it not that wery well hidden in the late evening before heading to the camping spot after correlating some more of the wily fisherman's puzzles. SL and tried to hide it a wee bit better. Bagged my first artillery piece Wheep!! was not as big as the Alex [Howitzer](https://coord.info/GC1M961)! TFTC haydn.seek - Jim's caches have good protection now.

GZ is a gorse bush [B)]. Not for me. Didn't search.

All ready to go once more! but remember you are in the firing line!

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.317 E 169° 18.555

Distance from original: 268.9 feet or 82.0 meters.

struggling with this hopefully !!

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.555

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Distance from original: 179.0 feet or 54.6 meters.

back in firing line as found by earlier cachers

Up dated co ords
S45 32.300
E169.18.525

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.279 E 169° 18.535

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.301 E 169° 18.525

Distance from original: 140.5 feet or 42.8 meters.

Checking coords

This cache has been moved too close to Was Beckoning (Central Otago) GC4R3FJ - 134.5 m NW
Please fix distance to current guidelines of 161m as soon as possible before activating again please.

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TheCur8or
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Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.279 E 169° 18.535

Distance from original: 98.6 feet or 30.0 meters.

A closer rad to where it now is

This is all up and running again

Fun find this one! Another GC down! Millions to go!

Probably technically got muggled at this one, don't think it's anything to worry about, found with purplegoosenz.
TFTC

Spotted the likely location upon arrival. A lady from the nearby house approached us to ask what we were up to. Friendly lady, intrigued by the geocaching concept. Log signed and cache returned. Tftc

Having correct co-ords this time made the cache a breeze. Soon in hand. A small gathering in the driveway behind the bushes behind the cache didn't even know I was there. TFTC.

Staying in Roxburgh while riding the Clutha Gold trail. Biked to this one. Thanks for this straight forward find haydn.seek. This one is certainly a long way from home for both of us!

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978 on our way thru to Omararama for weekend caching trip to the lakes. Easy find thanks.

First cache of the weekend, mrandmrs with Thor and Granville
Tftc

Found with hayleyhnz, hannahhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A. on our way from Wanaka to Mosgiel.
A quick find by W.E.K.A.
Thanks.

A quick easy find at the interesting object, with markhnz, hayleyhnz, hannahhnz and hollyhnz. TFTC

Found with markhnz, hannahhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with markhnz, hayleyhnz, hollyhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Found with markhnz, hayleyhnz, hannahhnz and W.E.K.A.
TFTC

Nice wee hide. TFTC

An interesting piece of apparatus in a random spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

found on 12/09/2016 at 12:24:00 PM
A nice relic of fire fighting in days gone by.
Thanks for the cache haydn.seek
Pipedream

checked

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Distance from original: 0.1 feet or 0.0 meters.

S45 32.284 E169 18.513

Co-ords up dated

Co ordinates spot on!!! Nice easy find and glad to have this new one marked off. TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.555

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 32.284 E 169° 18.513

Distance from original: 178.9 feet or 54.5 meters.
up dated co-ords

All set to go. The east reading should be .515. I'll alter on site when I can access a computer..

Sorry but this cache should not have been enabled again while the published co-ords are acknowledged to be incorrect. People may go looking for this cache on the basis of those published co-ords without reading the logs. Enabling it again with openly incorrect published co-ords is not being fair to other cachers.

Temporarily disabling cache until CO performs the necessary maintenance to correct the [published coordinates as per the guidelines](https://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#coordinates)

We had found several of this CO's caches near Levin on our trip south after the MEGA at Turangi, and the co-ordinates were fine. Here we figured that one of the co-ordinates was probably correct, but that there was an error in the other one for some reason. This meant that the cache should be N, S, W or E of the given GZ.

On arrival in Roxburgh we drove slowly past GZ, and on turning the next corner immediately spotted an item of interest, parked beside it, and had the cache in hand in less than a minute.

Taking averaged co-ordinates on the item of interest (object) gave the following.
GPSMap64s S45 32.284 E169 18.511
Etrex 30 S45 32.283 E169 18.513

Thanks for the FTF on this. An interesting object.

Until checked out

Well, on the basis of the CO's note I respectfully suggest that the co-ords need to be checked. On my visit GZ was being indicated well away from the road on a rocky bank/wall at the back of the grassed area. With KJR having a similar experience to me I would suggest there is a problem with the co-ords. Also, the fact this has never been found despite being listed for some time and despite being on a prime tourist route suggests plenty of unlogged DNFs and that, in turn, suggests a problem with the cache, probably the co-ords. It is vitally important to get accurate co-ords when a cache is hidden in a spot where there is a fine line between public and private property.

NO need to go near private land the said object is on the wide road!! as the title suggests. -further hint -- wheel nearest road!, inside!

Not sure why this hasn't been found over a month after being published but perhaps something to do with location. GZ is right on the border of two properties but even after looking on both sides no luck. Felt very invasive being on someones property and didn't want to search too closely. Will keep this on our watch list in the hopes someone is more daring with better luck.

Sorry for the late logging (24/10). Placed this on my watchlist after visiting it last week but didn't log it. Just had KJR's DNF log pop up and when checking that realised I hadn't logged it myself. I would add my concern to KJR's about how open this cache site is. I withdrew after it became obvious that I was being watched by neighbours. I feel very uneasy about caches that, whilst nominally on public land, are so close to private property that the distinction is blurred. Like KJR I am surprised that this hasn't been found yet but am left wondering whether others have looked for it but pulled out.

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