Saddle View(Taieri@Otago) Outram, South Island, New Zealand
By BirdFlu on 21-Dec-08. Waypoint GC1K1BB

Beautiful spot

Having had a busy geocaching weekend in Dunedin, at the MEGA, matagouri and I are now continuing on with our holiday 'road trip'.We stopped here for some supplies before targeting some more puzzle solves and a handful of other caches.A nice quick find here. Thanks for setting it up

Rattll and I are continuing our holiday in the South Island after the completion of GeoToroa in Dunedin. Today, we're heading from Brighton Beach to Middlemarch, aiming to pick up as many solved mysteries as possible, and to visit the Sutton Salt Lake.Into the hills behind Outram to pick up solved caches from the D/T series and Black Knight series (plus a couple of others). At GZ, a quick find. All well in the container. Signed, and returned as found. Tftc!

DAY SUX (27/10). The weather has turned a little less rainy and the wind has dropped off a little. By the afternoon it had become a very pleasant day to cache and our team was playing catch up. The lost time saw us madly racing around and sourcing caches that we missed previously, yep it is going to be a big day. For the next two days the plan is to finish the rest of aeroplane and albatross, to get and make a start on the dts. Oh and then there is the old caches and some whereigos and multis ... OH so much to do. Plus we have to fit in some events, there is no time for food, lucky its still daylight till 8.30pm. Thanks to the COs for all the caches we found today. It was a great day and all caches were replaced as found.

Day two- Geo Toroa DunedinStill cold, wet and rainy With Queensland buddies, Snickersallan, chamad and WollastonSigned log as QLD+1Thanks for creating and placing for our enjoyment

Outnabout with Chamad, Snickersallan, Ardom & Bluewattle on my first ever trip across the ditch. Log signed as QLD+1 to save some space. After a week of caching around Brisbane and at events last month with other Geo friends, I couldnt pass up the opportunity to hop on board for a NZ Mega adventure. Another great day for caching. ?? TFTC BirdFlu

Day 4 of my 6 day trip to Dunedin to attend the Mega and clean up all the puzzle caches solved over the last few years.Todays journey took us to the Mega to meet up with a few cachers and then hit the BT81 series before heading back to Dunedin.Thanks for all the puzzles, caches, find, frustration and enjoyment.Spent the day with BFG, Bruzie and GreenGecko1. Logged at combinations of BBGC.Quick find. Very little view today.

Heading south with Heihei, along with most of New Zealands cachers, for the Dunedin Mega.Out for a day of caching with bruzie, CrystalFairy, & GreenGecko1, logs signed as BBCG.Instant find on our way to the rest of the DT grid

Our second long day of the Mega weekend with geofriends from QLD and one from NSW. We had two more friends join us for a couple of days, so our fun group consisted of Bluewattle, chamad, Wollaston, Willis007, kolour, Ardom, Gcoven, BenM70, and all logs were signed as QLD+1.Although the weather was still rather chilly and overcast at times, we all enjoyed the beautiful scenery everywhere we ventured. The majority of caches found were in great condition, easy to find, and a credit to all the CO's that placed them for the benefit of the geocaching community.Apologies for the generic logs, as I rarely log them whilst travelling around the countryside and tend to do them once back at home.

This is day four of my Dunedin Mega trip (and IS the actual date of the mega, despite some previous logs to the contrary), the first time I've ever been here before (never mind geocaching). Obviously with such a plethora of caches to find there's going to be plenty I'll skip but I hope to find my targets.Unfortunately logging is going to be generic, but thank you to all the cache owners and event organisers for the things you do.All good here, and thank you to BirdFlu for the placement of your Traditional Cache.Find #7293 at 27 October 2024 11:25am

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) Were here for Geo Toroa (Dunedin Mega). Between flight cancellations and re-routing, things could only get better, right? But wait, theres more! Somewhere on our caching escapades, I dropped my wallet (Tuesday) Its still at large, so if anyone finds itOne of us usually drives, the other is the retriever. That works for us. Weve either logged caches with our separate handles, or weve used FANGS to sign the logbook. Using the latter handle is more for mental health and well being. Its tiring having to write 15 + characters on each logbookAfter yesterdays wallet debacle, I had to shoot into the bank for card replacements or risk being penniless and homeless for the next few days. The bank was amazing, and they had me fixed up and out the door in good timeGood rural views here. Thanks BirdFlu. TFTC.

I am in town in advance of the Mega and trying to get the ones that the gang might not be so interested in along this road. TFTC.

Quick park and grab while on this road. TFTC

#23366. Interesting view of Saddle Hill (peeking over the bank and under the trees). Quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a slight detour as we travel from Dunedin to Invercargill.IAt first I was skeptical that the would be a view with the hedge between the road and the hill, but I was wrong. I liked the way the view was nicely framed by the hedge! A quick find on our way down to Outram. TFTC.

A stunning day to find this, not a cloud in the sky. Amazing views, I'd never been up here!

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Couldn’t resist a quick PnG here. TFTC. The trees rather obstruct the view now, although there is a fine view lower down the road.

We came out to explore this road today as lovely day. Great views on this route. Thanks gor the cache BirdFlu.

**#18,262**
Another older than us one ticked off, cache quickly located view are a bit dulled by the clouds and light rain, still a day caching is better than a day working...

Easy find. Thanks.

Found this as I headed downhill toward Outram. Nice quick find. Great view. Thanks for the cache BirdFlu.

After morning tea I decided to try to locate and sign the black army caches and any that get in the way.

This is one that got in the way.

Cheers for the cache.

Tough hill for the van. Made worse by the motorhome doing a 7 point turn half way up. Fine views though.

A quick find at the top of a steep hill for our poor old bus. Signed log and replaced. TFTC.

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache.

Time for another road trip for Ms_KR and KR, so we headed south toward Otago. We cruised around the Taieri area and over to the coast today. It poured overnight but the rain held off today which was cool. Another great day.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

A quick find as we head home! TFTC

On a tour of the area getting some caches. All good with the cache. Thanks

We were passing on our way back to do the airplane art so stopped off. It is a great view from here. Tftc.
#7745

I am on a 4.25 day geocaching road trip with Jude_E. We're going to spend most of the time near Dunedin. Some geo art was a real draw card. We are on day 2.25.
We just finished a we Knights detour and this one was back on the road towards the planes. Thanks for hiding this cache BirdFlu I appreciate it.

After checking into my motel it was time for a bit of night caching. No worries here. TFTC

found with the southern flight crew. having a break from the airplane series. the clouds lifted and we did end up with a good view

On a roadie the southern Flight Crew. Quick find while up here picking up the silver and black knights.

On a roadie picking up the plane geoart series. A wee diversion for this one tftc

I travelled south to meet up with the rest of the Southern Flight Crew, and together we set off on a diversion before lunch. Heaps of fun had by all. A moody foggy view today. TFTC

Out & about today looking for plane art & maybe some black & silver knights. This was the first going up & down the hill. Signed log as Southern Flight Crew. TFTC.

Wicked view, tftc!

Needing to boost my June numbers I headed out today to grab this and the business series along this road. Quickly found. Tftc

Saw there was a few caches on this road and with geohusband wanting to take his new/old car for a spin this was the perfect opportunity to get all these caches. Dry day but cold wind. TFTC.

TYFTC a bit hazy today, but still a great view!

*Found on a nice day going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
We soon had the container located. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
Thanks for putting this out for us to visit!

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Thanks for this cache, BirdFlu.
I am in Dunedin for a few days and decided to collect the "Office" caches on this road - and explore nnew territory. It would have been rude to drive past this one!.

nice and easy, beautiful views

We decided we’d have a go, even with roadworks just beyond the cache. Was a great hill climb - I imagine rally cars or cyclists use this road. Cache found quickly, nice a dry, and now with a race car TB. We got up into the cloud ️ so no view today (dropped tb)

.A quick snag and tag at Saddle View on our way past. Cheers

Tuesday 23 April - Outrum, Taieri Gorge, Middlemarch and Sutton today. With Jack and Jill along for bike ride at Middlemarch, in the mix.

Its another awesome geoventure to Dunedin, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack, Jill and William all along for the trip. Had a wonderful 10 days exploring Dunedin. It was great catching up with local cachers at several events we attended. Lots of walking and driving, with the odd cycle and wave ride to jazz things up. Thanks to all the COs that made this trip a wonderful success. Even managed to bag some lab caches along with wherigos, earth caches and events, with the usual mix taking us to some amazing places..

Today's mission is to cycle the (well, a part of the) Otago rail trail and to check out Sutton. Nice pastoral view this morning!

Taybeedragon and I have an eleven day Easter weekend in Dunedin. Although, let's face it, given that we are from Blenheim and Picton that means two of those days was spent in travelling. In that time we grabbed a smidge over three hundred caches. Not bad, considering the amount of time spent way out on the back roads, on bicycles or canoeing on the water. A few virtuals, larges, letterboxes, earths, wherigos, and even ten lab caches in the haul. An awesome weekend!

We had an afternoon free today and with the sun shining, we decided to find a few in the area. This one was quickly found and the log was signed while enjoying the view. TFTC [^]

Nice quick find lovely view

A quick park and grab while out about grabbing a few out this way. Lots of tasty looking lambs about. A wee bit little at the moment but one day yum yum. TFTC

Headed out late morning before the rain arrived. Beautiful road and scenery. Dragged H and friend along for the ride. Cache in great condition. Thanks.

A bit of cloud blocking the view of saddle hill today. Cache was found with no trouble. Thanks

Decided to take a round trip up this road this afternoon. Nice views from here. Cache all good and dry. Those poodle trees! TFTC Birdflu.

Tftc

Found it

Having come up from the Lee Creek walk caches, this one required a significantly less intense scramble to locate. Thank you for the cache.

Last for the day.

Glad to have a smiley here finally. On a mission with BCD and this was first on our list. Quick find right where I expected. TFTC

out and about with kjr on an evening mission turning one of her frowns upside down first time find for me tftc

Adding my signature to the throw down before new cache was hidden at the spot. tfts

Found the rocky hide sans cache. A month without updates and threwdown a small cache in hide with more covering. Noice drive up the way but a long way to go for a DNF. tfts

*Finally discovered the [archived](https://coord.info/GC1JFZ4) cache that supplanted the initial placement by 5min. Bitsprayer's cache was eventually muggled by some atrocious Otago weather and after said bridge was washed away, [another](https://coord.info/GC7BE56) was placed straight after.*

Heading along George King Memorial Drive and this was the first stop. Pretty explicit clue on page and found rocks but nothing underneath. Have messaged CO and included pictures.

Found with CJ-Curry and SafetyKat on our day out to Middle March, dropped off Micas ICU TB

Found with cj-curry and hevic. gg too easy.

Found in the company of Hevic and safetykat on a daytrip to Middlemarch. The George King Memorial Drive caches were pretty much the only series we ended up seriously tackling, but it was well worth it. A fairly straightforward find but definitely one worth stopping off for. Cheers!

Enjoyed the views from here. Great day to be driving round the countryside taking it all in. TFTC #10,037

Nice one

Great spot

Took advantage of a lovely, warm sunny Sunday to tackle some caches up this way.
Great views from here.
The log book is soaked
TFTC

Took a pen this time! A nice walk with the kids.

Easy find with great views and friendly farmers

nice view TFTC found with emma&tony

great views, quick find with jodiandben

Great view from GZ, we really enjoyed the drive along this road. TFTC.

Easy find, first one of the year!

Quite a nice view as one heads downhill to the Taieri.

Our for a trip in the country so did the loop with all these caches on the way collecting the clues

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

Headed down south with C&D and 11HPG11 for the CHCH Mega as part of the HOAC team, and decided that a Mega road trip/Mega Mission was the right thing to do. We landed in CHCH late Friday night and after picking up the rental car we bee-lined it straight to Dunedin to grab a few hours sleep before the mission truly started.

The goal for today was to locate a certain few geocaches which help for certain challenges that we are all currently working on, and to explore some pretty cool country, before getting to tomorrows starting point in Omarama. We thoroughly enjoyed this day of the mission and saw some pretty awesome places, and managed to achieve most of what we wanted. A big thanks to everyone for placing all the caches, and I apologize in advance for the copy and past logs!

Some great views along this road, thanks for the cache placment.

What a Mega Mission for a group of Hamilton Over Achievers! A great trip, a long time in the planning. I teamed up with Cats&Dragons and HKCB to grab a couple of caches while in Christchurch and surrounding areas for the 2015 Mega Event. We flew out from Auckland on Friday night and traveled to Dunedin in the dark of the night. Stopped for a few hours sleep before setting off to grab caches in the Otago area on Saturday before attempting a few more on Sunday and then arriving at the Mega on the Monday. An amazing, yet crazy road trip that was thoroughly enjoyed by all.

A stunning view from up here. I took a moment to enjoy the view while C&D made the find.

This entry was edited by 11hpg11 on Friday, 30 October 2015 at 08:02:58 UTC.

This was the start of a MEGA caching weekend in the company of good caching friends. In the company of both HKCB & 11HPG11 this was going to be another memorable caching road trip for many reasons.

After driving down from Christchurch last night, sleeping in the car in Dunedin , and getting a good early start this is the practice day for the planned mission for tomorrow , thats not to say we are not taking the day seriously, but there were roads to travel, views to see (so unlike what we were used to in the Waikato) and of course caches to grab.

Leaving Mosgiel we were headed for Sutton Salt Lake by the backroads. All in all it was going to be a big day with a number of challenges, great sceanery, and of course great company. Fantastic driving along and up here as the landscape was so different from what we are used to back in the Waikato. One good thing about backroads being that we could continue our neferious activites without being disturbed by muggles.
Nice quick find here without any issues

thanks for the placement , thanks for the cache

Fantastic afternoon to go geocaching, came across drifters going down the hill, man they can move on those bikes, kids loved it as they videoed the whole thing, TFTC, awesome.

TFTC

Nice views, quick find. TFTC

25/12/2014 3:45:00 PM
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Spending Christmas this year with my family, and of course, lots of caching in the mix that means!!

After a caching trip in the morning, and returning home for some lunch, then went out for a second caching trip after lunch with mum! This way were a few caches that I needed for the geocaching licence series, so we made our way.

Fun times catching up, and finding caches along the way too

Consec caching day # 781

TFTC!!

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Quick find, TFTC

TFTC

Great view on a calm winter's day.

Nice and easy, beautiful view of Saddle Hill and the diminishing Scroggs Hill.

Fantastic view and a nice morning to tick off a cache created by an ex-student. Hope your year's going well Birdflu?

TFTC.Lovely day. What else would you do but get some cache

Found on 01/29/14 at 1:46:00 p.m.
A great view of the Plains, particularly when you are coming back down the hill
Thanks for the cache.BirdFlu
Jim & Mrs O.F.

Nice easy find.great view of the maungatua's & saddle hill.

Tftc. Not much of view today raining .

Found it

Tftc

tftc took tb nice views dropping another two trackables in the area

tftc

Dropped off TB