Charles & the Monster Caterpillar (Dunedin) South Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
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U.N.C.L.E. on 01-Oct-24. Waypoint GCAYM9J
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Logs
A quick park and grab just as it was starting to get busier before the start of a working dayTFTC
I use to live 1.25 hours south of the headquarter of the company that makes this machinery which relocated to Texas in 2017. There they specialized in track type equipment while 45 minutes to the east of where I lived the the factory specialists in earth scrapers and ofc road trucks. People in the East Bank have seen the downside of this machinery.This evening I made a slight detour on my walk to the local supermarket to sign it. I've walked past it on a few occasions since it was published and today it fitted in with a personal challenge. Thanks U.N.C.L.E.
We must have missed the local cachette by hours as we had some business to do in a nearby workshop. Tearing the no.1 away admiring the big boat and deciding on a walk around the block to grab this micro before the next noob left it uncovered. The pillcan was an easy find and signed the last spot on the front side before peeps have to turn the logslip over to the other side. Good for another 40 signers as the Mega'24 hordes head away. Returned the cache as found after a veteran corrected the exposed cache. I had ridden the jump seat of my muggles D-3, D-8's on his farm. Never take a tractor where you can't take a crawler as the exposed limestone sheer rock on the slopes is unforgiving on self laying tracks. Benched tracks on the hills were first made only for draught horses working the paddocks. Shoring up a dam wall making his duck pond, an unfortunate mishap had a willow limb slip up through behind the blade and lodge itself in the radiator. The local garage had plenty of experience working on hydraulics but not radiator replacement so it sat in the valley for the big guys to repair. TFTC
A quick easy find, with several monster caterpillars nearby. The cache was in full view, but we recovered it. TFTC
Day 4 (last) of our mega trip and today was planned to be a bit more focussed on some specific caches or places some of the crew wanted to visit.First one of the day here whilst we waited for Nicols to open for coffeeeeeeeeThanks for the cache. Signed SEAC (South East Auckland Crew)
Team SEAC consisting of HeMaLuDy, Stik-a-crane, UncleSam, Keylev and ourselves headed to Dunedin for the 2024 MEGA!All logs were signed as SEAC to save paper (except where specific signing requirements were requested)Fourth and final day of our Mega weekend. The weather although wet wasn't as cold as yesterday.Thanks to all the CO's who had maintained the caches as we found a majority with fresh paper and containers!Quick find before coffee!TFTC
Found while up for the megaFound with Southern Raiders team thank for the cache U.N.C.L.E.
We came down for the Mega and today are out collecting caches. Thanks for this cache U.N.C.L.E.
Nice easy park n grab on our third day of blitzing through caches. Log all good and signed here. TFTC.
Ended up near here getting some food as I needed to head around the peninsula for one further geocache type I was yet to find. cache was quickly located, I was pleased to look up and spot the South Island branch of a company I used to work for in the North Island.
The name of the cache peaked our interest, so decided to stop for this, before we turn around to grab the one down the road. Nice quick find with the hint. Found with Gernita, signed as Rad Deer, thanks
In Dunedin for the Geo Toroa Mega Weekend with AbbyKitt,MrsHazzer, MrandMrsFraggle & Downsouthinv. Great day to get out,meet a gazillion of like minded people and see more of our country. Southern Raiders Team or SRT
Out in about in the liquid sun shine and decided to pick up this on our way back to the accommodation. Up for the Dunedin Toroa meg and a whole lot of czching fun, time to explore and meet new friends. With Annielin and Abbykitt and mrshazzer, TDRONSFIELD, wombat4 MrandMrsFraggle. ????????????????????????????Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow , theres no hill to high or valley to low , so let's goooo and have as much fun and adventures as possible tomorrow may never come and we never know what tomorrow may hold for us all just do it ????????????????????????????Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns , lets just go for it .Thanks for the hide ??tftc
In Dunedin for the mega event for the weekend. Found with annielin, Mrs hazzer, mrs&mrfraggle, wombats, KNCN and downsouthinv as southern raiders term. Tftc
Attending the Geo Toroa Mega, caching around town with the Southern Raiders Team.. signing logs SRT to save space. Having a fab fun weekend! Thanks to all COs
Out and about enjoying the gems of our country ??Here enjoying our first ever Mega, in Dunedin. Meeting lots of people, some are familiar. Getting out and discovering new places and putting more smilies ???? on my map with AnnieLin, AbbyKitt, MrsHazzer, DownSouthInv, wombats4, KNCN, and Tdronsfield aka Southern Raiders Team (SRT)
My first Mega in the 3080 days since I began caching in 2016. Missed out on my first one in Auckland due to covid. And my 2nd will be in Rotovegas next year. A drizzly day, I don't like copy and pasting, but I think it's a case of having to this weekend. Guwapo is the driver, and I'm telling him where to go. Pleased rain isn't too heavy at the moment.
MEGA WEEKEND CACHINGJoint find with DownsouthInv, Annielin, Wombats_4, MrandMrsFraggle, MrsHazzar, Abbykitt and KNCN (together the group is known as SRT, Southern Raiders and all logs were signed with that name to save space and save time) busy busy day for the group from the south, but enough time to clean up some more solves/caches T4TC PS sorry for the gereric logs so many caches to do so little time
This was our first find today on the way out to the beach. Nice place to tie my shoelace that's for sure ?? tftc!!
On a cyclocache ride to Andersons Bay and back.I discovered that I was hungry and needed a coffee break but as I headed to Mussleburgh I found myself riding past this cache. I couldn't resist gathering another smilie. TFTC UNCLE
Great day out in Dunedin, have not been down here cacheing for six months, many thanks for the caches. - Bitsprayer
We were going towards a known difficult cache. This one was on the way, so we used it as a warmup. TFTC.
Down in Dunedin for the Mega. Great to be back for another Mega 12 years after NZ's first Mega here in 2012. Finding a few caches with Boxhill and having a few laughs on the way.Thanks to the team for putting on a great Mega weekend, and also to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches.TFTC U.N.C.L.E.
Attending the Dunedin Mega this weekend. Out caching today with Agazo and AlunB. Signed logs as AMA.Heading towards this evenings event.A quick find here. TFTC
#15,306. Flew into Dunedin today to attend the Mega event this weekend. I am geocaching with geobuddy Infoferret. After picking up the rental car we headed out out to grab as many as we could today while the weather was still warm and sunny. We ended up with a good haul of 47 caches. Driving past so decided to stop and find this one. Quickly spotted. Thanks U.N.C.L.E for hiding it here. Just read the description. That is a fascinating account of how the company name came into being.
Day 1 of the visit to Otago for the Dunedin MEGA. Travelling with GSEL and enjoying the good weather while it lasted! No problems I remember with this find, TFTC U.N.C.L.E. No 14897 for me.
I seem to be finding recent hides around here without realising they are new, perhaps I should be paying more attention. Super quick find, interesting background. TFTC
FTF. Out for our Saturday morning walk, went past, seemed a shame not to grab it. TFTC
The hardest part of finding this cache was finding a park as there was something on at the stadium.As a child growing up on a farm at Brighton, my father had a yellow caterpillar bull dozer that he used to clear gorse and shrub on the farm. It was rather steep and my mother always worried that he would tip over and it was one of us children got the job to watch him from a safe distance. Not sure what we would of done if anything happened..............................however nothing did.Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
