City Lights NOT!!!! ( South Canterbury ) Normanby, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 08-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1WZB5

New Pole - Cache Gone

New power pole

No luck. The lamp post has just been replaced, wonder if this matters? Will watch this one to see if I need to come back.

This entry was edited by puxxdelux on Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 07:25:50 UTC.

Every day we are traveling around is same but also different. Today we had again the pleasure to visit some very beautiful spots and were also able to find nearly placed geocaches. I thank every single owner for placing it and giving us with doing this an other good reason to come here.

Mallorcatommy and I were on our journey through the southern island of New Zealand. With the help of geocaches we came to so many beautiful places, saw breath-taking landscapes and had, all in all a very wonderful journey! Thank you to all owners for placing all those nice geocaches!

... had me puzzled for awhile!

Really easy find, spotted while driving up the road!! Seen these before. TFTC

Quick find heading south. Tftc

This entry was edited by warfi on Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 08:06:06 UTC.

Soon had cache in hand. Thanks

Sneaky wee hide! Was almost about to give up!

Crafty!

Great hide - will be fav!!

Whey-hey thanks for the hint, I have looked soooo many times for this one, and it was there each and every time.

I drive passed this one every day, unfortunately I have not been able to find this one. I cannot see I in the blue gums or on the lamp posts. Any ideas please?

Out for a quiet Sunday drive/caching trip. With the sun shining we couldn't have wished for better weather.
Mission for the day is to attack some caches in the Pareora Gorge and head to Fairlie for lunch and ice cream.
First stop of the day was just outside town and a place we drive past every week. We understand what you mean about the lights.
#697.
TFTC

We were fooled into thinking that we wouldn't find the cache when finally, our mojo kicked in and we found the sneaky hiding spot. TFTC!

Found immediately, since I was still thinking about a dnf in Oamaru.
I'm sure all those lights are necessary....

TFTC SL - What a beauty !! I love this sort of cache. Didn't take too long & got the goods !!

Nice hide. Tftc SL.

Good cache. We enjoyed finding this one. Thanks.

Spent the day geocaching on the drive from Christchurch to Dunedin. Resulted in 156 finds. Quick find. Signed log. TFTC!

This one turned out to be a bit of a park and grab as on approach to GZ we had seen similar so drove and parked next to it and confirmed what we thought was the camo so opened the window, grabbed the cache, completed the signing duties, re hid and drove off. TFTC

This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Saturday, 05 April 2014 at 09:31:09 UTC.

Holidaying in the South Island, grabbing a few caches on the way. Easy find. Thanks for the cache.

We are staying at Rakaia Gorge this week, and we decided to spend a day travelling south so we could complete 2 Auckland challenge caches. For the 'So Far Away Challenge' we needed to find 10 caches that are 1000km or more from home. And for our Full Geocaching Licence we needed to find 50 caches in a day that are at least 1km apart. We have also been wanting to visit Moeraki Boulders (which also happens to be 1001 kms from home), so we had to time our trip around the tides. The 8.30am low tide meant we had to leave very early to travel 220kms from Rakaia Gorge to Moeraki , then find at least 10 caches further south before caching our way back north.
We had a very enjoyable day exploring further south than we have travelled before, clocking up close to 500kms, finding 69 caches along the way, and achieving both the challenge cache goals we had set.
Daylight still when we arrived here so no city lights on and a quick find. It is always nice when driving at night to know major intersections are well lit, and they can make good caching spots!
Thanks for your part in helping make our day so much fun.

Found this one while on holiday from home at Whangamata TFTC

first find of the day as we headed to the maizing maze, after reading previous logs it was a quick clever grab

Great hide – a little like “Transformers - more than meets the eye” GC26TMD.

Thanks to Zorgon for adding the paper. I say it will become wet after the next rain we have.

Needs more paper and a plastic bag.

My only suggestion to Bitsprayer is to put it on one of the side roads. It would make it a little more safer and finding it could be done in stealth.

Found the cache but log inside so added some paper and signed that.
Many thanks

22 of 100 on a road trip up to Christchurch and then down to Te Anau. Found cache but no log and unfortunately didn't have paper on me. Have come across a hide like this before, very clever. Rain was heavy at this cache site today. TFTC

Thought where it would be but no, friend gunado1 found it in the long grass, have replaced the log so hope it stays in it's proper place. TFTC

Found it

Great hide, tricked us for ages, TFTC

We could see something,and thought..Mmmm that's got to be it,but had to get help from something we had in our Caravan.Waited until there was a break in the Traffic,and made a quick grab,signed and put it back just as quickly.TFTH

Hehehe tricky camo but we had seen the same one in singapore so we were able to find the cache. Tftc

We have done some Night caches on our way to Oamaru today... You should have seen us. 2 crazy geocachers looking desperately with lamp torches near the highway... Fortunately at this time, not a lot of cars around and nicely found the cache. Nice one!

Quick drive by and spotted easily. Tftc

Had a fair idea what to look for due to past logs so a quick find which was good due to the traffic going past.
TFTC

Found with Hinemoana while heading back to dunedin.
TFTC

a bit of stretch for tunfisk for a quick find - thanks for a cool hide!!

tricky for us, but we found it. TFTC

It would seem that Bitsprayer decided to replace the cache slightly further up that where sonia26642 had left it! None of us had a hope of reaching it but with some lifting and reaching we soon had the cache in hand. It did take a while though with all the traffic passing this area. TFTC

Cache checked. all well

After a shopping day in Timaru make a short stop here.
I found this one direct and easy.

TFTC from Germany

Koppa-s

08/03/2013 5:35:00 PM
2488
I had decided to go down to Dunedin some weekend, visit mum, and ofcourse, the plan was to find heaps of caches along the way!!
And with an event in Dunedin this weekend, that was just the kick I needed! So I left work early, and started making my way south.

Well... someone who last found this was extremely tall... unlike me... so though I knew instantly where it would be, and what sort of hide, it took me a few seconds to spot it! And then a bit of jumping and nudging till I managed to actually get the cache down...
And awkward! Got a ton of toots as I was doing that...weird people...

So happily signed the log, and returned the cache slightly lower down, as my hand doesn't reach up that high...

TFTC!!

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
DK

Found it together with Moselund United on our trip on New Zealand
Denmark

Sometimes experience pays off. Instant find.
Thanks for placing this cache!

TFTC

Found on our trip through this wonderful country

Thanks for this cache and showing this place.

tricky, tricky !!!!!!!!

die mümmels, Germany

had stopped here for a look a long time ago as well.
This time, from my car I could see something which might not have been meant to be there.
Sure enough - -a great hide.

Cheers

Nice fast find this time- after having looked for it a couple of times as a green geocacher.

Quick find before we hit the SH1 again

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

NOT the city lights alright.

#997
Missed on the way south last week but picked up today. Heading north towards home after a great weekend at NZ's first MEGA in Dunedin. Put faces to many names - and met lots of other fellow cachers. TFTC.

Reperio at 0730.

After staying the night in Timaru, we got up early this morning and hit the road as we had plenty of caches to find on our way to Dunedin, and this was one of the many caches we stopped at along the way. The one thing that stood out for us was how beautiful the countryside was...everything was so green...and with snow capped mountains off in the distance it certainly made for a pleasant drive.

Gratias Bitsprayer.

Find # 4344 and a total of 113 today with Marcus Vitruvius on the 3rd day of our NZ Mega trip, on the way south from Timaru to Dunedin. Another nice cache and hide and a quick find then on the way again. TNLNSL TFTC Bitsprayer,
Roostaman.

Our 6235th overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. A quick little driveby on our way south.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

Day 2, Geraldine to Dunedin. Nice hide. We had already found this type of cache hide in Nelson over the Easter holidays so I had a pretty good idea that this was the same and it was. You have to be careful how you put it back though as that can give away the hide. TFTC

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

This one turned out to be a very quick little driveby. TFTC!

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

This one was straightforward.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache.

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

A nice easy drive-by. Nice views of the snow capped mountains from around here.
Thanks

#707
Another find on the way to the NZ Mega Event at Dunedin. Many thanks for the cache. TNLNSL

We found this neat cache while on our two weeks Blitz of the South Island for the Mega Event.
Many thanks for the hide.
TNLNSL.

Found with Schatzsuche on or New Zealand MEGA EVENT Trip. I quick drive by

TFTC
Cheers & Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

#1046
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 continued our journey south. It didn't take long to find this cache on the GPSr and we discovered it was only a few kilometers in front of us. We soon arrived at GZ and parked just past it. The cache container was soon discovered. Thanks Bitsprayer for placing this hide. It added greatly to our travel enjoyment.

This entry was edited by Calypso62 on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 05:12:16 UTC.

Quick park and grab tftc

Could see it once we arrived. Good stuff. Tftc

481 and 9/55 for the day
The GeoJuMP team were heading south for the NZ Mega, and were just saying goodbye to Timaru when these lights were spied. Such a clever wee hide but we didn't have the light in our eyes so we could see our way clear to the cache. Nicely done, thanks. Why are these here??

TFTC. A quick stop and grab of a clever hide. It would have taken me a bit longer to find in my earlier caching days - I may be growing up to a slightly wiser cacher.

We had the chance to pull over here and grab this one on our way south to the mega. The GZ did give a chance to admire the local scenery which we did enjoy. Coruze, Bushbaby321 and I signed the log and continued on.
SL.....TNLN.....T4TC Bitsprayer
troobloo

Found on the way to NZ MEGA.
We have a few camos like this at home... so that made it easy.

TFTC
SS

Found with troobloo and Bushbaby321. Chilly day out and about today on our way to the NZ MEGA from OZ. SL TN but left some PT's along the way. Great drive with wonderful views. T4TC

5/51 Purdie Purdie made the find for GeoJump as we travelled down to the mega in the last of the bright lights of Timaru

NZ12. With the rain and the traffic I was a bit unsure here, but it was a cache and it was a quick one. Thanks.

8724.145 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Landsharkz Sydney A#133

Albida

wasnt fooled. ty.

Nearly drove past this one as wasn't in my hand held GPS but spotted on the TomTom. Nice hide

TFTC

Day 3 of our N Z Mega Event Adventure as we were slowly making our way down to Dunedin in our hire camper van geo mobile. We had arrived in Christchurch on a very cold and rainy day, but the weather was now beautiful and sunny - perfect caching weather. We found this cache quite easily and with the log quickly signed, we jumped back into our cache mobile to continue our adventure. Thank you for having placed the cache Bitsprayer

Quick find while heading south on my caching trip around the South Island.

26/08/2012 #78 Have seen this type of cache before. This one is great. SL. TFTC

Found with C Rexes after attending Ashburton event. There had been much discussion in the car about this one and there was a shout of joy when Mr Rex put his hand on it. TFTC

The in-car discussion on the way back from Ashburton made this a quick - and satisfying - find...

Luckily have seen 1 of these before! TFTC

Have seen these before, which makes them much easier !

love your work bitsprayer, nice cache, got one of my favourites. tftc.

Bitsprayer this is the best of yours that I've found. Very cool indeed.

TFTC

Found it at 5:22 PM, Clever one bs had us wandering around a bit before the penny dropped

TFTC, Bitsprayer!
Jim

How did we miss it last time. TFTC

I thought I knew what I was looking for but just couldn't see it. Oh there it is. TFTF #3183

Very sneaky. TFTC SL

Brilliant!

Oh dear the lights must have been out in our brains. Will come again when batteries are recharged.

excellent hide, nearly had us fooled.
another driver change on the ling drive from Christchurch

No lights needed to find this one TFTC.

A nice quick find heading away from Timaru, TFTC

Quick find, SL TFTC

Quick find. TFTC.

A great wee cache.. loved it. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Quick grab