Royals at Play ( South Canterbury ) Winchester, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitspayer on 05-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1VFW0

done it's dash - Bitsprayer

Cache 882 found the lid and partial contents but rest of the cache has gone missing have put a needs maintenance tag T4TC

found the lid and partial contents but rest of the cache has gone missing

Picked the wrong weekend for this one, too busy

Found what looks to be the remains of what's left

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. Cool spot for the cache. Managed to sign the slightly damp log. TFTC, Biggles.

This cache needs some maintenance as everythinh damp inside

A nice easy park and grab on our way home with P &Vee. TFTC

Easy find with vdh56

Spending a few weeks roaming around the South Island in the camper finishing the TMGT caches and picking up any others that were nearby. haven't brought our bikes this trip so not doing any long trails or back country hiking. Haha, we were curious about the name of this cache until we arrived at GZ. No one here today though. Mr S found this one, all a bit damp but signable.

Thanks Bitsprayer. That will be the last one for this trip, we have no more time to spend on Geocaching, but we will be back.

Nice quick find. THanks

Thanks for the quick find

Day 11 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

By now the weather was really putting an effort into trying to convince me it wasn't winter! I have been so lucky to have dry conditions my whole trip so far. Today's plan was to drive from Christchurch to Timaru, following the coast but with plenty of side trips to get caches targeted as per above, and any others I felt inclined to stop at including this one.

Effectively this was a park n grab for me today. There was only passing traffic as I parked up and walked over to GZ. The cache itself was a quick find, and finding no issues with the cache or log I did the expected caching field admin before replacing everything back exactly as found.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Found it after a good look and then clicked. Picked up a TB. TFTC

After breakfast time for some caching
Retrieved a TB

We made this find harder than we should have today after searching the base of everything before having a d’oh moment and we had rage hide in hand. We dropped off a couple of TB’s here to continue their journey. TFTC

Down to work in Oamaru. Landed this afternoon in Christchurch for a leisurely drive and cache through to Oamaru.

Cool find. Original log still there from 2009. AWESOME!!!!!

TFTC

Last day of the school holidays so headed north to find a few, no muggles around, just a gorgeous spotted grey horse sworn to secrecy. Tftc

While I was looking at post, husband thought outside the square. Thanks for cache

Alot of people about today for the local a & p show. Managed to sneak in find quickly and sign. Log book a bit damp.

TFTC Dunedin roadtrip stop

Quick find while heading south to balclutha. Need 6 caches to get my goal of 100 caches on the holiday.
Tftc

Gefunden
Das Papier ist leicht nass und die Stachelbüscher sind nicht nett....

Gefunden
the logbook is wet!!

Tftc niece found this one on her first mission ! Thanks again

Found it! On way to Christchurch for flight to Oz. Tftc.

Found it. What the prickles. TFTC

Got it.. with a few prickles ouch! tftc

On my way to Dunedin from Christchurch. Nice way to break up a trip. TFTC

Quick easy find. TFTC.

Thanks

Had looked here a couple of times in the past. Easy on the third. Thanks

Heading South ..stopped and found this cache the blackberry gave me an unwanted cuddle ..ouch thanks Bitsprayer

Two large black berry canes to negotiate ti get to the cache. Both got me. Thanks for bringing us here

No problems here for Mr CD. Stamped and returned. TFTC

I think that I did this one a couple or so years ago so I must have failed to log it.

All in good condition

We misinterpreted the clue at first but soon realised what it meant and then made a quick find.
No Royals at play today, just a man on a tractor. TFTC

Day 7 of our trip to NewZealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

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.

Saw this on the way up to christchurch and vowed to stop n get it on way back.

Had to make way for an ambulance, only right that we stopped properly and got the cache across the road too. TFTC

A busy road to cross... best to get this traveling south.

Quick park and grab whilst heading back to Christchurch from Dunedin. Needed to search our legs and intake some oxygen! SL TNLN TFTC

Found and signed log while touring NZ from Australia.. TFTC

Thanks for the find #Team Awesome

Our third day led us from C. to T. and brought again many new impressions and some caches. Here we should do some forbidden things. TFTC!

Tftc

Found with kids.

found it

Nice quick find before heading to Geraldine to meet a friend for lunch. TFTC

Having a great time caching in the area TFTC

Visiting from Brisbane with Slow Puncture for the Oamaru Geofest, and we're seeing all the wonderful sights the South Island has to offer as we travel along. Day 1: After landing, we had a few hours caching around Christchurch in the afternoon and evening. The area was buzzing with activity for today's match. Quick find away from the prying eyes.

Thanks for the hunt **Bitspayer**, this find makes #4218. Discover our TB

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Saturday. Slow Puncture has teamed up with Orange Crew to make a Moreton Bay assault on the Oamaru Geofest. Day Two saw us travel from Christchurch to Oamaru. Unusually for me, I was able to deduce (correctly) the hiding spot before I got there! Has to happen occasionally!

This was the 31st of 49 caches found on today's trip.

Thanks ***Bitsprayer***, for showing us this place.

Over from Australia to attend the Oamaru Geofest. Picking up some caches along the way. This was a quick park and grab. Took TB.
Thanks Bitsprayer for placing the cache for us to find.
6016

plenty of horses nearby as the rodeo is going to be held here TFTC

Found this one faster than a speeding bullet.TFTC.

Well, that's a posh looking field and I would expect no less from a polo field. It was very quiet so no sign of Charles & Camilla or Will & Megan. More important was legging it to the cache and it was in the first place we looked so no problems here. The cache is in perfect condition so all is well here. Suprisingly given the number of cachers we think are on their way through to the mega that a travel bug was still in the cache so we picked that up and will take it through for everyone to share before dropping off. Lovely spot and thanks for the for the cache.

Good park and grab heading away or to Temuka TFTC

Fun

Out in the open..breaking up the drive... some ones gonna have to put more along this road....nearly run out of shops...with my 6monthly trips South picking them off 1 by 1 lol

TFTC last one today must get home!!

Found while on a visit from chch. Heading to a wedding soon. Tftc

Beware of the pickles

Nice greets from Dresden in Germany . TFTC

The second day in NZ consisted of a long journey by car from Christchurch via Moeraki to Queenstown. We had not so much time, so we searched only a few caches. This one lays directly on the road, so we stopped for a short search.

TFTC
jekejaerfi

Quick easy find

Day # 7 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 Timaru via Alpine Roads to Arthurs Pass.

The weather was brilliant throughout the trip – although very strong winds . The landscape was sensational [^] and scenic spots invited for a photo-stop or a little rest - or a little cache ....
Needless to say, that along the route quite a lot of little treasures were waiting to be discovered .

Ended up in rainy and chilly [B)] Arthurs Pass - but rewarded with 30 Finds - a good days work [^] !

This little cutie was my first catch of the day today !

Hey - Canterbury and Southern Alps- you have awesome caches [^] !
A big thanks [:X] to all Owners involved [^] 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 two 2500 caches before 23 January as that is when I took up caching last year and to get caches on as many minutes as possible that will hopefully qualify me for a challenge cache in the Manawatu. Day 1 is Christchurch to Oamaru.

It coming up to lunchtime and I'm starting to get a bit hungry but I'm holding offfu til temuka. Pulled safely off the highway and the cache was quickly found. Tftc

On the way to Oamaru picking up a few caches to assist with our self imposed "Road to 6,000" Challenge

A quick find.

#5942

Found!

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

Not such a quick drive by when u either have to jump or crawl under a fence with gorse and blackberries around. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc Bitspayer. Find # 3568

Quick find.

Really great day out caching with JuuJu5. TFTC.

Found with Wymo, quick and easy find, TFTC

Tftc

Nice tftc

Thought I'd stop for another cache since the snow & rain has stopped

Nice quick find. Was highly visible when found so tried to cover it up a bit more. TFTC

Thanks we are having fun. Our first time out.

Nice hide love these ones were there is easy parking

awesome spot for a hide

Awesome hide

Quick drive by. Tftc

Another find on my caching holiday with heyhaynz. TFTC.

Found on geocaching weekend with jordanhay0112 TFTC

Cool stop on the way south

An extra for me not counted in our trip over the weekend

Stopped here on the way south this afternoon. Good accurate coordinates led me straight to the cache. Signed log, TFTC

Sweet wee hiding place. Tftc our first swap

On our way to Dunedin we had a short break at this location.

Thanks for the Cache
Anke and Chris

Robertson family on holiday in Geraldine found it!

Quick find. TFTC

Could see the cache but had one obstacle in the way. Thanks

On my trip home from oz - in a van I picked up from Wellington
TFTC

Tftc!
First of find of today

Quick find in the rain. TFTC

Out and about with Team Welsh on a caching holiday in the South Island. T4tc