One Road Too Few! (Canterbury) Winslow, South Island, New Zealand
By
keewee on 19-Aug-07. Waypoint GC158FJ
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Logs
Travelling from Cromwell to Ashburton today and collecting a few caches and ALs along the way. Saw some amazing scenery and ventured along some great roads. Thanks to the COs for placing the caches for us to find.
Got a very strange look from some bloke driving past on a big tractor, probably wondering why there was a campervan parked along the dirt trail here. Nice and easy find, cheers
I took a drive to Ashburton and its surrounds to find a few more caches today. A lovely winter's day for it. Last cache for me today. Found my way to GZ and the cache was quickly found. The log is getting quite fragile but I managed to sign it. TFTC, Biggles.
On my way to visit my sister and getting some caches for a challenge. A quick find. Thanks
Wanted to collect this as it's my closest unfound South Island minute cache. Quickly located on the return trip from Dunedin. All good here.TFTC keewee, the cache was found in good order 
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 2 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #4496
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 2 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #4496A quick find in the obvious place by torchlight tonight. All was quiet at GZ. TFTC keewee.
Quickly found here on a roadtrip to Wellington from Dunedin.
Thanks for the cache, keewee
#3909
Thanks for the cache, keewee
#3909
Quick find today after detouring down this road as I head north to visit grandchildren. Thanks placing and maintaining keewee
Long weekend road trip, tome to head home, but always tube to stop and grab a cache or two.
Downsouthinv, Abbykitt, AnnieLin .
Downsouthinv, Abbykitt, AnnieLin .
On the way home from Christchurch.
Quick find to fill dgt board.
Found with annielin and downsouthinv.
Tftc
Quick find to fill dgt board.
Found with annielin and downsouthinv.
Tftc
After a few days of caching fun and tracking down some amazing hide we have to do that work thing . Dam it work seems to always get in the way of caching .
On our way home from a road trip to Canterbury for a weekend away from the deep south
A nice but cool day let's go .
After a early morning start we are on the road and this was one of my targets for the day .
A quick detour and an even quicker search soon had the goods in hand and log signed.
Thanks for the first smile of the day
With Annielin and Abbykitt
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
On our way home from a road trip to Canterbury for a weekend away from the deep south
A nice but cool day let's go .
After a early morning start we are on the road and this was one of my targets for the day .
A quick detour and an even quicker search soon had the goods in hand and log signed.
Thanks for the first smile of the day
With Annielin and Abbykitt
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
Nice find but not in container as per description. Good way to fill in a Saturday afternoon
Out and about to collect some new smilies on my map. I made a good loop today and visited some great spots and this was one of them. TFTH
Heading up to CHCH with KJR for a make shift mega as there wasn't one planned in the south island this year. Stayed in Temuka for the night with some friends and pasted this one the next morning on our way up to CHCH. Nice and easy find TFTC
Day two of a work trip and with the day having dawned dank and wet it was not the best for caching opportunities.
That said, this golden oldie just outside Ashburton, where we’d spent the night, was too good an opportunity to pass up.
I seemed to go the long way round to get to the GZ but once there it was a quick find.
Thanks keewee
#2488
Logged using Cachly.
That said, this golden oldie just outside Ashburton, where we’d spent the night, was too good an opportunity to pass up.
I seemed to go the long way round to get to the GZ but once there it was a quick find.
Thanks keewee
#2488
Logged using Cachly.
I made a new camo container while on site as the previous was completely destroyed and full of water. Log book unusable. New waterproof log in what was a red M and Ms pot. Thanks for placing the hide. Hope you don't mind me doing maintenance on it. #2939
Travelling home from duck shooting. Thanks for the hide. Cache needs repair as lid smashed.
Tftf #TeamAwesome cache needs attention: log saturated as there is no attached lid as it’s broken!
Cache found with no problem, but I will add my voice to the many others - this cache needs maintenance urgently!!
On holiday in ChCh (Ashburton) for the weekend with darkangel so we decided to join the local Ashburton ianfr on what turned out to be an 11 hour adventure through Thompson's Track and around town, in an attempt to collect 100 caches in a day. We'd all always wanted to do it, and we saw a perfect opportunity to try. What we got to around 80 before we hit a brick wall and soon could only log DNF's, but thankfully and eventually, we hit the milestone in the end (104 in the end!). Signed all logs today as Team DIM.
#89. Nice quiet little spot. TFTC.
#89. Nice quiet little spot. TFTC.
An epic day out with darkangel10151 and MikefNZ on a mission to find 100 cache in a day, Pleased to say that made it
Signed "Team DIM"
Cache lid smashed and full of water
Signed "Team DIM"
Cache lid smashed and full of water
As I was heading back from a day in ashvegas I stopped to grab one final cache. It's a bit buggered in all reality.
yep.. cache needs some repairs it smashed,waterlogged..essentially not a.cache right now:(
On my way up from watching the Highlanders v Lions and took a couple of days off either side to cache my way down and back. Quick easy find on this one. In desperate need of some TLC.
A fun find on a sunny day. Not many swaps so we added a few needs new container. Tftc
#14039. I've got a feeling we'd planned to do this one on another trip, but hadn't realised we needed to turn off SH1 well in advance. Today we were better organised, and the cache was a quick find. TFTC.
Found with StreetWalker while taking the scenic route back home to Christchurch, via Cave and Pleasant Point, after spending an enjoyable Easter break in Timaru.
We have driven past this cache many times, but always on SH1. Today, we were organised enough to make the detour on to the parallel road. While we were doing the paperwork, a ute came out of the "local unformed" road! TFTC.
We have driven past this cache many times, but always on SH1. Today, we were organised enough to make the detour on to the parallel road. While we were doing the paperwork, a ute came out of the "local unformed" road! TFTC.
Easy find on a quiet corner. Container quite broken, sorry I didn't have a spare with me to replace. Surprisingly the log is nice and dry. TFTC
I have been planning this trip for a while now as I had some airpoints due to expire and wanted to go somewhere for Wellington Anniversary Weekend. So I've made it a 4 day weekend and come down from Palmerston North for a caching road trip. I have two goals for this weekend, to get to 2500 caches before 23 January as that is when I took up caching last year and to get caches on as many latitude minutes as possible that will hopefully qualify me for a challenge cache in the Manawatu. This is day 2 - Oamaru - Palmerston - Ashburton.
After spending the morning on a quick run to Palmerston and collecting a couple of must dos in Oamaru, I'm now heading back north to ashburton.
on the home straight now I am north of timaru but there is time for more caches.
Headed off state highway one for this cache. Overshot the gz so pulled a u-ey. Cache was lying out in the open so concealed it better on return. Dropped a trackable that has traveled with me since Palmerston North. Tftc
After spending the morning on a quick run to Palmerston and collecting a couple of must dos in Oamaru, I'm now heading back north to ashburton.
on the home straight now I am north of timaru but there is time for more caches.
Headed off state highway one for this cache. Overshot the gz so pulled a u-ey. Cache was lying out in the open so concealed it better on return. Dropped a trackable that has traveled with me since Palmerston North. Tftc
02/12/2016 5:01:00 PM
7698
We were off down to Queenstown for the weekend with some free accommodation - wahoo!!
So off we were. I didn't plan on finding too many caches though, as I'm a bit over some of the caches around these days, but I was keen on ticking off my second closest unfound to home cache - and that's the South 43 degrees challenge - and when I checked how I was standing on that - I needed one more cache to qualify - but that cache was in Ashburton!! Darn!!
So coming through today, and decided to find this one to finally get my 56 degrees!! (I hope I remembered correctly, and that it was in fact 56 degrees that's missing!!
Haha!! )
Cache was an easy find here... and as I was feeding the baby and checking her nappy given we were already pulled over, I realised I'd forgotten all the nappies!! Argh!! So a stop in Timaru it was!
TFTC!!
7698
We were off down to Queenstown for the weekend with some free accommodation - wahoo!!
So off we were. I didn't plan on finding too many caches though, as I'm a bit over some of the caches around these days, but I was keen on ticking off my second closest unfound to home cache - and that's the South 43 degrees challenge - and when I checked how I was standing on that - I needed one more cache to qualify - but that cache was in Ashburton!! Darn!!So coming through today, and decided to find this one to finally get my 56 degrees!! (I hope I remembered correctly, and that it was in fact 56 degrees that's missing!!
Haha!! )Cache was an easy find here... and as I was feeding the baby and checking her nappy given we were already pulled over, I realised I'd forgotten all the nappies!! Argh!! So a stop in Timaru it was!
TFTC!!
At World’s End – New Zealand – One of our dream become true.
Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.
At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.
Greetings from Germany – Luco235
Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.
At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.
Greetings from Germany – Luco235
Only one road sign. Cache was in the open, have replaced in the obvious place and disposed of a rusty fishing lewer. On our final days of an 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc keewee. Find # 4040
How many tests did Sir Graham Henry win as All Blacks coach? Answer is in the cache... tftc, TN, left bling pen.
