The legacy of Max Smith at Ruataniwha Twizel, South Island, New Zealand
By Eve07 on 22-Jul-23. Waypoint GCABQWW

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there we are staying at Twizel & enjoying the nice weather & the fantastic scenery as I had done a lot of Rowing in my younger years, 50 years or so ago, I was familiar with the name of Max Smith and the contributions he made to the setting up of the Lake RuataniwhaView Rowing Course not that I ever rowed on it mind you but this was one of those caches that I wanted to get, sort of a personal satisfaction cache the area was deserted today when we visited, so it was, more-or-less, a quick and easy find, logbook signed & cache was returned as found were also pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:LS this was #6,547 for us!

I am glad I took the short detour to find your cache. Nice and sheltered from the wind the sun beating down what more could I ask for. I spotted the likely hide hole on approach and sure enough there was the nicely hidden gem.

A fascinating piece of local history. Found with MummYPenny on our way into Twizel today. Thanks Eve07.

Good on you Max, good story thanks Eve07.Quick sign up on these lovely shores.

We started our beautiful journey through the South Island in Christchurch. Here we went on a big sightseeing tour and visited lots of caches. We then travelled via Lake Tapeko, Dansey Pass and Moeraki to Dunedin for the MEGA event. In Dunedin we visited the MEGA events and together with many other cachers we found many caches around Dunedin. A few days later, we travelled on through the Catlins to the southernmost part of Bluff. We then visited Te Anau and the tourist town of Queenstown. In Wanaka we went on another sightseeing tour until we reached the west coast via the Haast Pass. We hiked to Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier.We continued along the west coast up to Westport, stopping at various sights along the way. Richmond and Nelson, the sunniest cities, were also on our list.A few days later we reached the east coast again in the wine region of Picton and Blenheim.After a few days, we travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.We visited many geological sites, completed many adventure cahes and found many caches along the way.We travelled almost 3500 km and had so many great experiences.Many thanks to all the ownersTeam sissifalke

A nice quick find. Very quiet at GZ though we did see so rowing across the other side of the lake. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are off on a cruise around the south of the South. Great to be away. The day was mostly fine, with stunning views of Mt Cook and the mountains of the southern alps.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

All quiet apart from a noisy putangitangi, sent flying by St Andrews rowers on the far side. Saw a likely GZ while still on the level, so it was a quick retrieval.Thank you Eve07

Nice quick find on such a beautiful hot day lots of development happening area here so beautiful thank you for bringing us to this area it's just lovely tftc

Nice easy park and grab

easy peasy

Parked up the caravan then did a few caches around town

Found with JacquiMay on a sunny but windy day passing through twizel!

Found it on a lovely sunny day thank you kindly for placing this one.

#23612. Made hard work of this by heading up hill in the wrong pace, and then sidling quite a way. Should have got as close as possible to GZ on the flat and then headed up. Oh well; easy find once I got to GZ. TFTC.

Luckily I didn't blindly follow StreetWalkerNZ, who took the scenic route to GZ! Cache was a quick find once in the right place .This is the first time I have been here, it was very quiet today, but I can imagine at certain times, it would be very busy. Thanks for the interesting write up about Max Smith. What a legacy. TFTC.

A late log found this with Alijoy when out campervaning great spot so different than it used to be years ago.

Quick find on a daily walk. The lake is like glass. It wont be like this in 3 weeks time- 2024 Maadi Cup 2024. Good luck to all

Quick find all good TFTC

We had a wonderful time playing in the water and having a picnic lunch further down the lake. The middle grandson thought it would be a great place for a "treasure". I remembered doing several around here a few years ago and thought maybe one would be close enough for him to find but they were all a bit far away but I hadn't found this one which was on our way out to our next adventure. I spotted the hide on approach and he "found" it. Win/win all round. TFTC Eve07 # 20,865

Nice little hide - and thank you for the history! TFTC!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - MEGA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!

We spotted the doorway to the cache as we drove up to park. A lovely easy one, thanks.

Quick find on a nice walk. Tftc

Dog happy to have swim while I grabbed the cache. Could see a likely spot from the car & there it was. Easy.

Trees played a few tricks with gps. Great hide. Thanks!

Great spot so scenic & clever

Tftc

Found it on our way along this wonderful lake.TFTCHilgenerSchatzsucher

Nice one. Thank u

In Twizel for New Years with AlpiSteve. Bit of a scramble and AlpiSteve soon had cache in hand as I had totally overshot uphill! TFTC Eve07

Nice hide, thanks. TFTC

Took a bit of effort on low battery but after some huffing and puffing we got there. so easy in the end. t4tc

Out with the gradiesQuick find. TFTC

Trouve we lost our pen during our bike adventure around lake Ohau this morning so photo for proof Tftc

Day 9: Across the Lindis PassThe route for today brought us back to close the big loop of our Southern journey by passing through Omarama and the Lindis Pass and back into Cromwell where we stayed the night. This would be my first trip across the Pass and we found many caches along the way, including the highlight of the day at the Bendigo Historic Reserve. Thanks for all of the caches along the route!(End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for the cache:We had some time to kill before the salmon shop opened, so I stopped by the lake to pick up a couple more caches for the road. I made this one harder by going too far up the slope initially and having to slide myself back down to what is actually a pretty gentle T cache. Sigh the stupid things I do sometimes. But once at GZ, the cache was easily found. TFTC and the great biography of the man who made this all happen!

Nice view. Thanks for the cache

I have no idea what Hobbiton rock is intended to mean, but found the cache anyway, because it looked out of place. Thanks for the hide.

A great cache.... love the listing story.Down south for electrical engineer gathering with RadioNut50.This was the perfect cache to find for this trip

Yay found cute spot good for kids TY4TC

We were intrigued by the rowing course so came here to see it. What a great spot. Quick find at GZ.

Found it

We are both former MOW employees and we were well aware of the "trouble" at the time. The whole project is a good legacy of Max Smith.

Parked up on wall of dam in approved campervan parking, spotted this cache while lying in bed looking at fresh snow, very windy last night - TFTC

Outfor a chilly but sunny mtb ride. Tftc

Hi Eve07, congratulations on your newly posted cache. Hopefully I'll look for him someday. Love from Merahdog NL️️

I headed along his Drive towards this cache. Quite a few rowers out training, (perfect weather for it today) and one watching muggle, right where I didn't want them to be. They moved on and I pounced before anyone else turned up. Thanks Eve07.

Early morning grab, but a few boats on the lake training, and FTF. Thanks Bitsprayer

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