Devils Staircase (South Canterbury) Timaru, South Island, New Zealand
By waitaki999 on 21-May-08. Waypoint GC1CF96

Make room for another one.

Third time trying and still no luck. Honestly looked everwhere. Are co-ordinates off?

Needs Checked.

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 23.752 E 171° 13.362

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 23.755 E 171° 13.368

Distance from original: 31.8 feet or 9.7 meters.
Updated coordinates.

Coordinated Updated.

No luck with this one ... we are thinking someone has taken it?

We will be watching to see what the future result for others is.

no luck tracking this one. had a good look in plenty of hiding spots but this little devil was not found. will have to have a look next time in timaru.
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Found this one with _aphrodites_dog_ on a trip to the big smoke. We took Friedys Cacher Thermometer to visit.

My first Geocache find!

My first geocache

Took a bit of spotting!

Great day 4 a cache or 2!

A bit hard to park the camper-van here. TFTC.

Been to worse ones

First find in the park while out for a great walk. Thanks from this Canadian!

Took some hunting but worth it in the end!

Not nearly as steep as I was expecting. TFTC waitaki999

almost gave up

Awsome find

thanks for the cache

Got some strange looks as we uncovered the cach from Muggles driving by. Fun to find.

Nice hiding place

found in rock wall of zig zag

Awesome first find for the kids

iPhone had us on the wrong side, but found quickly when we read the description thoroughly.

TFTC Nice hide

Love having ones close to home. TFTC

Had to resort to the hint for this one as GPS out tftc

iPhone had us on wrong side of road. Looked at logs and switched sides and found after a few rocks searched.

Great cache, had to look in a few suspect holes though

TFTC

Nice fairly quick find in a likely area. SL TFTC

#705
Another find on the way to the NZ Mega Event at Dunedin. Interesting location for a cache.
Many thanks for the cache. TNLNSL

Reperio at 1940.

Stopped by here with Roostaman today after a great day of caching traveling from Christchurch, and I was thinking that this may be been a bit of a steep climb to get to it...but it was a nice gentle walk. The coords had me in the middle of no mans land, but once I was in the right spot, I had to wait for several cars to go by and a few walkers...and the cache was in hand.

Gratias waitaki999.

Found this neat cache on our epic tour of the South Island on our way to the Mega Event.
Many thanks for the cahce............TNLNl.............................Cheers.

#1043
Geotooter and I had travelled to NZ from across the ditch to attend the NZ Mega Event down in Dunedin. After staying the night in Timaru we ventured out to find a few local caches. This location sounded quite interesting so we made our way to GZ. The coordinates put us right on the inside bend but my geocaching nouse said it would be somewhere in the wall. The cache hidey-hole was soon discovered and the container extracted with no muggles in sight. This is a beautiful area so we decided to explore it a little further. Thanks waitaki999 for bringing us to this interesting location.

Find # 4324 and a total of 84 today with Marcus Vitruvius.on the 2nd day of our NZ Mega trip,
on the way south from Christchurch to Timaru. I just loved this country and driving around it looking for caches.
Another nice cache and hide and a quick find. TNLNSL TFTC waitaki999,
Roostaman.

Nice one tftc

Found on the other side of the road from where our GPS was sending us TFTC

Found at 8:45 AM on 9/09/2012.

Coords were a bit off but caching sense came to the rescue.

TFTC waitaki999

2nd attempt, got it!!! Cheers

T4TC! Nik from PT13

Our first find really enjoyed. Also found trackable Jeep JPEJ34 this could become addictive....

This area has now been planted and wood chips have been put down.. Pretty sure it has been removed!

Nice hide. Dropped of a TB.

Yes, my GPS was well out, but geocaching sense took over and easy to find.

GOTCHA !

well at last.. after 3 attempts spread over a number of years, but like many of the loggers we ended up putting the gps away and just scanning for "odd look" - finding it inside and error of 12m's

unless its the idea - may i suggest an improved way point of S44 23.755 E171 13.368 ( averaged ) as we found the published to be greater than 12m from the location - and seems many are having to search and ignore the gps?

TFTC

it was getting dark, but that meant less muggles to worry about, able to relax and take time to look carefully which meant easy find. tftc.

Found it at 3:52 PM, Took a bit of geosense to find GPSr had us about 9m out

TFTC, waitaki999!
Jim

GPS out so put it away and just searched everywhere. Success at last.

Thought the groundsman might tell me off for parking on the staircase, but he just waved as he zipped pass on his mower. Very nice hide

Had given up, and was driving out when spotted something that caught our eye - went back to check and there it was!! YAY - TFTC

easy find, a few strange looks from many muggles, got outta there quick.TFTC

Nice early morning find. Mr B soon tracked down the cache. TFTC

TFTC! another dnf taken down

A very sneaky hide indeed. Took a while but eventually located. Claiming this little devil as our 5900th find TFTC.

Needed to escape from the mountain of food begging to be eaten!

The satellites were having a post Xmas dinner nap as well, so took a bit more time than expected.

TFTC

Found the cache container, plus all the bells and whistles...but the logbook was M.I.A. Replaced with a piece of paper from our 'analogue GPS.'

Spotted were the cache was hiding almost straight away. SL TFTC

Got it easily this time.

I groaned when I saw the GZ. A bit of patience and a few funny looks from drivers and the cache found and log signed.
Thanks

our gps said middle of the grass, but common sence got us there.heaps of bikers, walker,runners passing. wished we had more time to visit other caches around here.next time

Looked for this one without success on another occasion. So were pleased to find it this time. Wonder why we missed it last time. TFTC

Not sayin' its not there, but its not in the middle of the grass where our GPSr zeroed out.

Awesome TFTC

Finally picked this one up after driving past it a good 20 times. Everytime i went to go for it Muggles appear. But not todayTFTC

The gardeners were having lunch at the top of the staircase so a nice quick find with no one about. TFTC #2012

Quick find on a sunday morning drive thru Centennial Park

Needed to stand back and scout the area.

Disturbed in the search by a muggle walking a dog. Told her I was using my GPS she walked off, Do you think she understood? Free then to complete the find. TFTC

quick find. TFTC

GPS co-ordinates were out by 9m, but a bit of careful observation found the cache for us! TFTC

Log book a bit had it. Good search though. tftc

Our GPS was 8mts out.It took us to the Lawn.But put our Geo Brains into gear,and found it quickly.TFTC

Did with CrystalFairy

Lovely reserve.. Had to use the alternate co-ords to find the cache.. T4TC

Fun to find found with tinkerbell24 for the first time!!!

Good hide, Found with Family, and first out of town find

Thanks to Butterfly Lady's log coords, managed to find this. The GZ definitely takes you to the island grass in the centre - no help!

Had to admit, walked up to the general area, re-read the clue, and had some very harsh words muttered under my breath! LOL. Easily enough found though, even Mr Fang was able to point and say "that one, there?" as we drove past on the way out (yes he was right). Bit of a mission to be alone in that area though - lots of walkers and the occasional vehicle!

Approached from above then realised our mistake. GZ seemed to be out on the grass. Eliminated each possible hide until successful.

Couldn't find it.

Nice cache. Had to climb a little Thx

In: Dreirad-Alberto Geocoin

Searched and searched but didn't find. Will have another go.

Easy find this time. TFTC

Took a while to find this one, nice hide, SL - bell, left bouncy ball and soldier

Took me a while, found safe and sound in the end. interesting road. Cheers.

Pretty good as far as zigzags go! Last one of 12caches today. #1236

We will have to go back and try again. It is an interesting area.

Geodad spied out the cache hide while still in the car, while younger members were way off track hunting in all the wrong places! TFTC.

Found this after a couple of looks but needed to have a muggle free time. Also need to trust the GPS. TFTC

Well hidden but easy find. Had to be quick as site very open and muggles passing on regular basic. TFTC

Looked around a bit but no cache. We were looking a bit suspicious so gave it up and decided to try another time.

This one is cool

Loved this one. Tinkerbell24 jnr found it. Great spot. TFTC

Nice morning walk in a park, good hide. Nice to find a cache that is not in a tree! TFTC.

nice hide, TFTC

Took a lot of looking but finally success! TFTC