Otaio ( South Canterbury ) Otaio, South Island, New Zealand
By
Bitsprayer on 08-Mar-09. Waypoint GC1NH44
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We also found a zip tie but no cache connected. Nice to stop and look at the memorial. The Hall has been sold and the locals were clearing it out. Wonder what it will be used for now.
It's sad to see all these country gall falling into disrepair after being such a ital part of the community. Thanks for the placement bitsprayer
Not a problem for finding this cache. A couple of muggles working . But distractions made by Mr vdh56.
Thanks p&vee for the trip.
Thanks p&vee for the trip.
Starting our trip back to Dunedin with Mr and Mrs VDH56 knowing it is going to take 2 days,
One milk tanker and one fuel tanker plus drivers parked here having a break, Lucky Mr DVH56 likes to talk.
One milk tanker and one fuel tanker plus drivers parked here having a break, Lucky Mr DVH56 likes to talk.
Nice easy find. Our eleventh cache of our last day of our holiday. Heading back to Chch now. TFTC
Explored and cached the majority of Waimate and surrounds the day before, a town visiting for the first time. Off northwards today to pick up one or two before heading back down south. A quick park n grab just off the highway tftc
We had a weekend of 4x4 in the area with our club. Stayed the night near here to geocache on the way home. Nice to turn off main road and park for this one. Area looking very sad. Nice easy find thanks for the cache Bitsprayer.
After a fairly long and intense day on the road caching yesterday, today I planned to take a more relaxed approach, finding a few more caches on my drive from Oamaru to Christchurch. The playground looks a bit neglected but the cache was in good condition. TFTC, Biggles.
Found but not where the hint said. Log was a sodden mess. My last find for the day. Time to make tracks and get to Christchurch before it gets too late. Thanks Bitsprayer
#10508
#10508
A brief look for this cache with no luck. It was starting to rain heavily which is why the search was brief.
Took kiwitien to pick up some caches on 16-02. Approaching GZ realised I had already found it in the past... sadly not found this time...
Logbook is full and be great when CO do maintenance.
TFTC
# 1231 21 June 2019 16:38
TFTC
# 1231 21 June 2019 16:38
On a geocaching adventure around the country with myself, my car and my tent. Drove almost 4000km and collected 170 caches over a week of roadtripping, camping and seeing the beautiful sights of New Zealand. Lots of fun and so many great caches were found, as well as a lot of DNF's. Apologies for copy paste post. Thank you to all cache owners. Day seven driving from Dunedin to Temuka. Thank you for the cache
Finally found this cache. There are always muggles around every other time we have tried. Cache is damp and log is full so may need some maintainence.
I decided to pull off here for the cache as the rain had eased somewhat. The cache didn't take too long to find.
Found with nissan 65. Flew in from sydney for a short holiday. Hoping to see as much as i can on the south island and pick up caches along the way . Thanku for the cache.
Weekend trip to Oamaru and Dunedin for the Pink Concert so doing some caching on the way. TFTH. Dropped a trackable.
Heading South for a break and a bit of Geocaching. Grabbing a few between Christchurch and Oamaru. Quick find at GZ
There was a Muggle at the other end of the carpark but they didn't seem interested in us.
Signed log, TFTC Bitsprayer.
There was a Muggle at the other end of the carpark but they didn't seem interested in us.
Signed log, TFTC Bitsprayer.
Found quick, is quite wet this, including the log book. Thanks nice spot on a busy road.
16:03
Last stop on our drive from Dunedin to Christchurch today. After having spent quite a lot of time exploring Oamaru tourist traps, there was no more time to find caches on the way back
There it was - the suspicious pile of stones!
TFTC!
#5722
Last stop on our drive from Dunedin to Christchurch today. After having spent quite a lot of time exploring Oamaru tourist traps, there was no more time to find caches on the way back
There it was - the suspicious pile of stones!
TFTC!
#5722
Visited the cemetery down the road then stopped to collect this one on the way to Waimate
TFTC
TFTC
After attending the Oamaru Geofeast we are now heading back to Christcurch. Caching with Di Morgan and grabbing a few caches along the way.
Thanks Bitsprayer for placing the cache for us to find.
6183
Thanks Bitsprayer for placing the cache for us to find.
6183
Stopped to find this on our way from Oamaru to Mayfield.
Thanks for placing this cache Bitsprayer
Thanks for placing this cache Bitsprayer
Well we are on our way back to Christchurch from a great weekend in Omaru attending the Geofest. we met some lovely people some we knew and some we didn't its been great seeing familiar faces along the travels all geocaching of course. Now to get the last few of the Thompson track series and head to our nights accommodation, but not before stopping for this cache as well, why not its a caching weekend. thank you for the placement. signed the log and placed it back where we found it. TFTC
This was the eighth day of my driving trip down to Oamaru for Geofest 2017. I stopped every five to ten kms or so along the way to grab a cache. This expanded my driving time to a total of two weeks to get there and home again. I ended up going a total of 3,500 kms. TFTC.
Looking for some where before out pq runs out(soon) to off load some Tb's, but noted the finds where low so we will keep the TB's for home
our find was completely protected from the road, given a nice muggle had parked his large dump truck trailer right acorss that side.. while he went off some where else with his truck no doubt.... never felt more muggle proof!
our find was completely protected from the road, given a nice muggle had parked his large dump truck trailer right acorss that side.. while he went off some where else with his truck no doubt.... never felt more muggle proof!
This cache was left out in the porch at the front door of the hall. We have now put back in the right place
We found it left in the porch of the hall Beside a shot bottle!! Have now put cache back in its correct place
A nice quick find here. Great place for a cache I like places like this having a cache. Tftc
Day # 6 in New Zealand on a geocaching holiday-trip covering Thailand, Australia and finally my beloved NZ 
.
I had so much looked forward to return to this beautiful country, and now I'm here again - awesome!
Today's tour took me from beautiful Cromwell via Omarama, Otematata am Kurow to beautiful Timaru.
I passed along some great lakes [^] that showed stunning views, inviting for a photo-stop or for a little rest 
. And - best of all! - the sun was shining all day today [^].
Along the road there were quite a few treasures waiting to be discovered
This little cutie was nicely hidden under some stones. What a huge community-center... [:o)]
Hey - Otago and Canterbury - you have awesome caches [^] [:X]!
A big thanks to all Owners involved [:X] [:X] for hiding and maintaining. [^]
Cheers from Germany
.I had so much looked forward to return to this beautiful country, and now I'm here again - awesome!
Today's tour took me from beautiful Cromwell via Omarama, Otematata am Kurow to beautiful Timaru.
I passed along some great lakes [^] that showed stunning views
, inviting for a photo-stop or for a little rest . And - best of all! - the sun was shining all day today [^]. Along the road there were quite a few treasures waiting to be discovered
This little cutie was nicely hidden under some stones
. What a huge community-center... [:o)] Hey - Otago and Canterbury - you have awesome caches [^] [:X]!
A big thanks to all Owners involved [:X] [:X] for hiding and maintaining. [^]
Cheers from Germany
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.
GPS was bouncing around a bit and took me on a merry dance around the back of the building instead of the more direct route. But I got there in the end. 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.
GPS was bouncing around a bit and took me on a merry dance around the back of the building instead of the more direct route. But I got there in the end. 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
Quick stop off at this little memorial. nice to see these marked with a cache. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Bitsprayer. Find # 3593
Southbound with time for some caches quick find and sign and a welcome break''''' Thanx4tc
Went on a big adventure with Wafflekitties and geo pups, had a blast thanks for the memories! 
TFTC.
TFTC.Found while on a winter holiday with LCBuilder and our two geodogs. We spent 3 weeks travelling down the east coast and then up the west coast, setting our tent up at a different campsite each night. We didn't have any real plan, just went where the caches took us 
we saw a lot of awesome sights and will definitely have to come back one day as 3 weeks isn't really that long! TFTC!
we saw a lot of awesome sights and will definitely have to come back one day as 3 weeks isn't really that long! TFTC!An easy find on my travels to Oamaru from Christchurch today. A very frosty start to the day with ice still on the ground.
Thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache
A quick park and grab on way to Christchurch for the night before we drive to Picton and cross to Wellington for 5 days TFTC ☺
JdScout and I are on a camper weekend. Our first stop was Temuka.
We left Temuka this morning and picked up two travel bugs at a travel bug hotel on the way.
I organised this event and dragged JDScout along. The event was enjoyable.
We parked our camper at the Kakanui campground and stayed over night. Off we go to Danseys Pass camp ground.
We went for a drive out to the dams. After a short bike ride we drove around the lake.
After staying the night at Danseys Pass we headed back home. After a yummy lunch in Oamaru and a wee walk around we hit the road. We found this one on the way back.
We left Temuka this morning and picked up two travel bugs at a travel bug hotel on the way.
I organised this event and dragged JDScout along. The event was enjoyable.
We parked our camper at the Kakanui campground and stayed over night. Off we go to Danseys Pass camp ground.
We went for a drive out to the dams. After a short bike ride we drove around the lake.
After staying the night at Danseys Pass we headed back home. After a yummy lunch in Oamaru and a wee walk around we hit the road. We found this one on the way back.
