Just Kidding ( Central Otago ) Minaret Bay, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 02-Jan-07. Waypoint GC104ZG

What a stunning campsite nearby. I'd say short thick log and bush edge.

If you've gotten to the more-recently cut trees you have gone too far. coordinates off, impossible without hint...more to the left when facing away from lake needs maintenance- interior extremely wetMade for a nice walk from the campground

Tftc. Very wet. Used the hint to find it.

Tftc

impossible but got eventualy

Impossible to log, 1 centimeter of Water inside the cache

Found, but cache needs maintance, was full of water. Have emptied water but log book unusable

Didn't find it but

I count find it but we had some pinnappple lumpsp and we walked up to the bush line it was so much fun it reminded me of the time when I went up grandview and had gummy bears. When we were going to kidds bush there were some lambs jumping around. That was weird I thought they would just sleep all day. There was also a few cows on the road and they smelled a bit weird but it was too dusty to notice. Then we saw some goats that were with there mum and it was weird because I thought that they would be alone anyway tftc.

Yup

Had us searching for a while

Stop during drive along great road.

Coords way off use the hint. TFTC

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are currently parked up at the DoC Kidds Bust Campsite just before ‘The Neck’ between Lake Hāwea & Lake Wanaka … went for a walk to ‘nab’ this cache … this cache was easily found, log completed & replaced … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #3,873 for us.

Another quick find on an after dinner walk from the nearby camp. TFTC!!!

We stayed at Kidd Bush campground since it was difficult to find a reasonably priced hotel on a Saturday night. This was a nice campground on a beautiful lake, so it worked out well.

We even got to see a herd of more than 1000 sheep being driven right past the campground. It was quite a sight! One sheep farmer asked the three of us to guess the number of sheep running past. None of us guessed over 500, but he said there were 1200 sheep in his herd! We asked if the sheep drive was a frequent (daily/weekly) occurrence, but the farmer said it is once a season, to separate the lambs from the adults. I guess we were lucky to see this rare event!

The two sheep farmers each controlled 3 dogs. The 6 sheep dogs actually ran through the campground in order to keep the sheep away from the tents. It was interesting to see 3 dogs herding and 3 dogs sitting and waiting while their master was chatting with us.

I found this cache in the morning, and the coordinates seemed a bit off, but the log by Fullofun helped. ("The cache is in an open area that could be parked in").

Tento hráč oznámil poškození schránky.

Find by walking around Lake Hawea. TFTC. THX.

That took me longer than it should have had. The cache is in an open area that could be parked in almost opposite a make-shift gate. TFTC

Gps a bit wayward but easy find with the hint. Just checking out the campsite for future reference.

A very early morning start to head up here for an assessment and we'll I mite as we grab a cache or two.
A quick find in my favorite place new Zealand beach forest.
I had to drain out the water from thr cache . Log damp but still easy to sign .
Dryed out the rest of the cache content and returned to hide .
Sadly I can't stay the night as I have to be back home tonight but will be back as this is just a beautiful hidden gem of nz and I will ne back for the night
Thanks for bring me to this place

Found with and downsouthinv.
Tftc

A very early morning start to head up here for an assessment and we'll I mite as we grab a cache or two.
A quick find in my favorite place new Zealand beach forest.
I had to drain out the water from thr cache . Log damp but still easy to sign .
Dryed out the rest of the cache content and returned to hide .
Sadly I can't stay the night as I have to be back home tonight but will be back as this is just a beautiful hidden gem of nz and I will ne back for the night
Thanks for bring me to this special part of nz



Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Taking some time out to explore our amazing country...camped up in the reserve for the night ...great spot...
Having seen a couple of dnfs on this I wasnt holding out much hope..but had time to kill before leaving..
Followed the coords to what i thought looked like the suitable location..had a good look around but nothing ..expanded my search area to other similar hints and still nothing. Spent a good 15min looking then gave up...only to check one more place a lot closer to the road.(5m)..!and bingo there it was..glad to make the find..cache all good..

Spend ages looking but couldn’t find it.
Went of gps first and then followed the hint but still no luck.

Spent half a hour looking unsure on the accuracy

I misread the hint so focussed on the wrong place but Mr Pazza used geosense and found the cache

Mr Pazza made a reasonably quick find here while we wandered in too deep from the track. Our last cache as the sun was going down. Tftc

Searched for one hour, coordinates did not tie up with hint

We're hunting Tour caches and anything that's not slowing down our objective to much. After setting up camp at Kidds Bush Reserve we plan to explore as far South as Wanaka. Our base is established and we had a lovely walk to this cache enjoying the shade and the birdsong. It took a few minutes until we had the right hint item. Thank you Bitsprayer

We are camped at Kidds Bush Reserve for a couple of nights so ventured up here to find this. Lovely wander up through the bush listening to birdsong.
Thank you Bitsprayer.

We found the cache after a few mins. There were lots of possibilities but the cache was pretty close to the posted coordinates so it didn't take us too long. A nice place and good to find another cache by Bitsprayer which he placed way back in January 2007. Impressive.

Easy find and really nice walk

There’s a souvenir up for grabs today - Goodbye 2019 - so ‘popped down here’ after work to grab this cache, which I’d been keeping for just such an occasion.
Gorgeous weather at the moment. With clear skies and the thermometer sitting at 30 C Kidds Bush DOC camp has the Camp Full sign out. (So does the other nearby DOC camps.)
After finding and signing the log KrystalKath and I carried on to the Sawyer Burn stream to soak our hot feet and have a cold beer or two with cheese and crackers. **Nice**
Lovely way to celebrate 2019 before heading home to Makarora. TFTC, dropped TB

The rain stopped our search. They were so many logs and roots and trees. We couldn't find anything but it's most probably still there. Thanks for taking us to this wood.

Found with Ivetacek.
Sleep in near campground, very nice place, quiet and full of birds.

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, now WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

Camping in the area thought we would explore and find a couple caches. The gps was showing up ten meters out and beyond the cache closer to the further log. After searching we backtracked to expand our search until we found the cache. Very dirty around and even plants germinating on the lid. All good inside although the pages are coming apart inside the log. Thanks for giving us a reason to explore and thanks for placing the cache.

Ended up being a quick find after both me and kelboy walked right past the cache. TFTC

Great camping area, would never have come up here without caching but really enjoyed visiting this spot. Quick find, TFTC

Went on a bush walk while staying the night at the DOC camp. TFTC

Thank you for the cache.
Greetings from Latvia!

Found it on

Thanks for the cache and the clue!!! Without the clue we would probably still be looking for the cache. Happy Xmas!!

15.00: On the way up to Kidd's Bush Camping Area. We do not know what happened here, but cacher's fortune was not with us at this place. Most likely the coverage was lacking so we searched way too deep in the forest. We could not spot anything what have would matched the hint so we gave up after about twenty minutes.

Anyway, thank you for showing us this place!
Oliver+Gabi

Found with our 3 and 5 y.o. Thank you Bitsprayer for making us stop here. The cache was wide open when we found it. But the logbook is dry.

*Day 11 of our amazing trip*

blumen-wiese and I had stayed overnight at the DOC campsite. Before leaving the area towards the starting point of the Isthmus Peak track, we made a little detour to this cache. The hint seemed clear enough, but GPS reception was rather poor, so we had to search for a few minutes, but in the end we found it.

Thanks for the cache and greetings from Austria.

Day eleven of our wonderful New Zealand trip Oztriaco and I started at the near campesite. So before we made our way to Ismuth peak we stopped for this cache. It was not easy to find. But thanks to the hint we found it. Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Austria.

Found it!!! Nice bush!!

Found on 18/04/2018.

Sorry, I found these caches ages ago. Just grabbed the files off my GPSr now.
Nice spots to explore and cache in.

TFTC Bitsprayer

Today I left the DOC Boundary Creek campsite for Lake Hawea and after parking up my snail shell I backtracked to locate and sign off a few caches.

I thought I might catch up with a couple of caravanning friends here but they had already moved on.

Cheers for the cache.

After we stayed in the campground last night we did this one quickly in the morning. TFTC

Found

Good luck

good luck

Took a bit of searching but finally it was sighted! GPS way off, so follow the hint. TFTC

The lion is disintegrating - the wood that is.

There were several logs at various stages of rotting but the right one was quickly found.

TFTC

Awesome location and a exciting find!

Another great spot

Sister found it first, well done Dups16. I was close behind you.

TFTC great to see the cache has survived here over ten years, such a gorgeous remote spot. Made friends with the inquisitive fantails

After inadvertently parking next to the cache, a decent search ensued in the surrounding area. Found in the end back where we started. Tftc

Spent a long time looking but I love these forests so was upset about that. Tftc

Mrs Gilfam walked on with me from the camping area and the cache was soon located and the log signed TFTC #3386 back to the motel and to clean off all the sand from the road

Cool spot thanks

Tftc,talk of closing this road to new owners

A bit of hunting, but my GPS was giving a better indication than I expected, took us right to it. Nice patch of bush proving the circle of life.
TFTC

today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course all found some caches along the way from Wanaka to Fox Glacier.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

Not easy but a really nice place ! Thanks.

Thank you for showing this wonderful area.
Tftc

Thank you for this cache and showing us this place

What a lovely area - thanks for bringing us here. Cache took longer than it should have, but got there in the end. tftc

Quickly found, almost a park and grab. Tftc

Easy find thanks.

Good

Nice drive for the morning... plenty of ppl at the camping area tftc... needed the hint...gps was wacko

Found while camping nearby.

Enjoying a morning walk. Arrived yesterday afternoon and it didn't stop raining until the middle of the night. Cold but nice now. It seems the storm a year ago brought down a lot of trees but hint and co ords still work. NINO TFTC

thanks for bringing me here loved coming down here and finding the caches and discovering the camp site aroha and happy caching picked up tb

Beautiful area. Thanks for bringing us here.

We’re here from the UK on the trip of a lifetime with Geocaching as one of the ‘must do’ elements of the trip.

Thanks to the cache owner for bringing us along this road; such beautiful views that most passing tourists would miss. A Favourite point from us and we left a Trackable we brought from home to find its way around the world on its own.

After spending the night at Kidds Bush Reserve we went for a short walk to find this cache. TFTC and Greetings from Austria.

Nice cache. Great camping spot.

Found it on our geocaching day.
TFTC

Found it

Day 9 of the Crookedclan's great New Zealand holiday adventure. It is a beautiful day today, but too windy for our planned Siberian Expedition from Makarora. So, my youngest son, Tom ( caching handle T.C.C.) and I took a drive from Makarora to collect a few caches. This was an easy find in a nice forest.

Thanks for the cache, Bitsprayer

Pete

#1,894

The road was damp on the way in, and down one of the hills there was a bit of a muddy spot, that I thought that the 2wd might stuggle with on the way back up. Found this and the other cache and headed back, a little apprehensive, but with no need. The MIGHTY Caldina pushed on through with no problems back to the main road. A quick find on a winters tour down the West Coast. The weather is great (though cool), and the scenery fantastic. What a beautiful country we live in. Thanks for the hide.

tftc

Nice place we found after our boat trip to Silver Island. Tftc!

TFTC

Found while taking photos for capturenz.co.nz TFTC old school disc!

quick find while we were staying the night at the doc camp nearby. took TB. SL TFTC.

Found in the dark whilst returning to Wanaka from Makarora. Glad for a torch in the Geocaching bag. an awesome camping spot nearby. Got to come here one day...

An easy find on the morning of census day 2013, just after a school trip descended on the nearby campsite to disturb the peace. TNLN TFTC.

Traveling through New Zealand in February with the Campervan we visited your Cache.
Thanks for showing us this place.
What a great place here, this was the best DOC camsite we have seen.
IN & OUT again: TB Flick the No. Flicker
TFTC Mammut75 with LumpiMaus / Austria

Thanks for the cache, which I found during my journey through amazing NZL. Kind regards.

Hey, woof... JC Cache Dawg here...

Im loading all my finds from my Alpha Males (aka GenCuster) logs, where he deigned to remember that I was with him... As if he could forget...12/01/13 18:10

very nice spot, and cache located easily - no kidding TFTC!!

This entry was edited by Hinemoana on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 at 01:38:57 UTC.

12/01/13 18:10 Nearly fell over backwards - 1st Bitsprayer cache I've seen bigger than a , well, you know... JC Cache Dawg observed from the van while HM & I used hint to locate from my parking 20m away. Interesting drive down the lake, noted that cannot camp with dogs here. Cheers, GC.