Ngutukaka Creek (North Otago) Hillgrove, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 06-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Y92Q

Trouve ! / Found it ! Je confirme que la bote est compltement hors service. J'ai russi me loguer mais si plusieurs jours de pluies arrivent, je crains que le bois par du ne suffise pas l'abriter...5106me cache trouve.Merci drawp pour la cache I confirm that the box is completely out of service. I managed to log in but if several days of rain arrive, I fear that the wood by disappointed is not enough to shelter it...5106th cache found.Thank you drawp for the cache

New container and log required.

I found the earlier cache at this historic bridge many years ago. I meant to find this cache yesterday but busy traffic on the highway prevented me from pulling over and parking. A quick find of this now aged cache revealed that the log was unwriteable and that the cache container had suffered from the ravages of time with the plastic having shattered from UV exposure. New container and log required.

Quick find nice bridge!

Good find. Nice day for cache hunting. No muggles around. I remember this bridge being the main road when I was a little girl. The container needs replaced.

One of several caches located today in driving from Moeraki through Oamaru to Awamoko, North Otago. Another little snippet of history. The cache was a quick find. #6253. TFTC.

Have been here before for a cache. Had to hunt a bit then we laid our hands on it. TFTC!

We are camped at the red barn so decided to explore Hampden. Love how thus took us to the old road and bridge. Thanks for the cache drawp.

Good hide. The top isa bit broken but log is dry. Found with geomum007 on a great day caching. TFTC

Find #7213
Found on March 18, 2023

We are from Abilene, Texas, USA and have come to New Zealand to visit with a friend. We have gotten ten different Cache Types and will get the 11th Type (Webcam) when we go to Christchurch on Monday. Today Bitsprayer is taking us out to find more caches around Oamaru.

Thank you, drawp for placing this cache for all to find. We sign log sheets either as Love Cachers or LCers.

Driving over 50 miles to have...
Rusty barbed wire ripping through your clothes...
Curious rattlesnakes that come out of nowhere...
Itchy mosquito bites on every inch of your body...
A 40 mph wind gust blowing sand into your ears, nose and mouth...
Cactus needles getting stuck deep in your hands, arms and legs...
Thorny Mesquite trees scratching you up from head to toe...
Some or all of these things on a hike through 101° heat...
To sign your name or trade a toy...
SOUND LIKE FUN TO YOU?

It does to us, we're geocachers in West Texas! - {Taken from a Greater Abilene Association geocoin.}

Lovely old stone bridge. Cache needs some maintenance, showing age.

Container broken so will get wet someday. Left usd to help prevent it.

Quick find. Nice old bridge. TFTC

Time to escape the madness and go for a road trip to just get away if only for a short time.
Today we will see the borders and explore the area.
So parked up and wondered along to a likely spot and a quick search soon had the goods in hand and paper work completed and now just take in the views before heading back to the car and on with our adventures.


Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Qucik stop on our trip around the South Island. Interesting bridge. TFTC.

We had driven past the sign to this historic bridge twice, so the third time we stopped out of curiosity. Found the cache quickly and spent most of the time making friends with the horses in the paddock. TFTC

The amount of time driven past... tftc

Would never have found this place if it had not been for the cache. Headed down the paddock to the bridge and patted some very friendly horses. Soon located the cache. TFTC.

Found it

Cache was a quick find and what a sad little bridge

Cache checked and all good

Chatted to camo owner in Kakashi who had worked on the bridges.
ThNks

I headed south in my tow wagon today to locate a few caches.

I felt as if I was walking through property here. I assume that the property owner's permission has been sought and been granted.

Cheers for the cache.

#19127. Good research work by Troodles meant we finally stopped to find this one (next time we pass this way we won't need to think "must get round to doing that cache one day"). TFTC.

It's the last day of 2020 and StreetWalkerNZ and I are on our way south to spend a few days in Dunedin. With the forecasted rain, we decided to cache as much as possible en route to take advantage of the fine weather.
This was another cache that we had driven past many a time, wondering how to access. I did a wee bit of research and via the wonders of Google street view, found a stile just by the start of the barrier on the north side of the (new) bridge, so we stopped by today to look for the cache. An easy find. TFTC.

On a return roadie up to Oamaru, picking up targetted (and other) caches along the way.
cool bridge and interesting log tftc

Tootling along this stretch and have always been curious about this bridge... so stopped and jumped out for a quick walk to have a nosy... thanks for bringing us here... can now tick another roadside interest off

Nice wee place to visit

TFTC cool bridge. Another one found with Juuju5.

Lovely bridge. Easy find with wymo

A quick and easy find. A nice bridge too. Cheers

Time to head back home from Dunedin, spending the morning cruising around the town and the afternoon on SH1.

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

For our NZ visit we created a "wishful-thinking-to-do-list" ... knowing we can not do them all but we can at least try. Old caches, earth, virtual and webcam are on the top of our list... but also some traditionals, multi etc...

Today on our way to Christchurch and decided to stop for some caches along the road as we calculated that we should not have much time left considering the travel distance for today...

Easy found.
TFTC

Thanks on a trip with my sister NZ Bozzy to our auntie’s funeral in Christchurch- made a plan to grab some caches around here that we hadn’t found on previous trips
TFTC
Sorry for all the copies

Thanks attached photo of log book. I think we found the missing cache that someone replaced. Didn’t find the other cache that the latest people have signed.

On a quest to complete the Hidden Creatures challenge so again off to Oamaru to find about 80 caches and this was one of them. I have driven past here a million times and today was the day to stop..TFTC

Away for a night, caching along the way on a beautiful winter day . TFTC 1668

well it used to go somewhere.... loved the note left by farmer brown... always wondered what was here in all the times I have gone past now I know tftc

Last stop on way home from Christchurch and being later in the evening the traffic wasn't as busy which allowed me to pull over safely as numerous times before have had to carry on past. A wee walk through the long grass to GZ and then a quick find. TFTC

nice old bridge, TFTC!

Day 8 - of our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara, & myself) epic adventure around amazing Oamaru. Its Moeraki Boulders today - so lets go.
Hey this bridge is neat. A quick snag and tag here. Cheers

It is I don't know how many days since the Geofest yet Taybeedragon and I are still Geofesting. Today we are heading down for a look at the Moeraki Boulders. Always a great place to visit.
Love the bridge. I like the entry from Farmer Brown who found the cache by accident

The (major road trip was about to begin) that was for the Oamaru Geofest trip in the company of HKCB and iammrwalker for a bit of a road trip across to the west coast, through Haast and in a roundabout way to Oamaru.

My trip stats were as follows: 617 caches (214 Puzzles), 3300kms, 500 litres of Petrol, 21 hours sleep, 100+hours caching time. THe weather was wonderful and apart from about a 6hour period on the sunday we had fine weather all the way and feel that we made a bit of a hole in the region.

Firstly thanks to all the CO's that put in the effort to to set up these caches and to all the CO's whose caches we did not find this trip, well we are already planning our next trip.
We worked hard at getting specific caches (especially the Geo Art around christchurch and hence our concentration on this area for the preliminary 24 hours. So after a couple of running repairs to the rental vehicle (fuses not working) we were off knowing that all ports could be charged and that sleep was for the weak.

Sorry about the copy and paste logs but that is what tends to happen with a number run of this size. What a day this was going to be and a chance to have a good look around the area. It was amazing to wake up after having afull nights sleep and not have that sand in the eyes feeling and sore back from sleeping in the back of a car. Starting the day off working our way along the coast, followed by a spot of inland caching before making it back to Oamaru for a bite to eat followed by a bit more caching.

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Came down this way from the North for the Oamaru Geofest, and decided to add a few more days to the weekend trip and turn it into a bit of a Mega mission, starting 5pm on Wednesday 18th and finishing 3pm Monday 23rd! Teaming up with Cats&Dragons for the first 24 hours then with Iammrwalker joining the team for the remainder.
Just a few of the stats for the trip were:
- 700 caches found, including 270+ puzzles (thanks to the Christchurch Geoart)
- 3300 km's driven, using over 500L of fuel $$$
- Just over 20 hours of sleep (about 4 per day on average), and about 100 hours of caching time.
Certainly a Mega Trip!

Day 5: With a good nights sleep for the first time this trip, we were up early and out the door for another full days caching. The goal for today was to cache our way down to the Moeraki Boulders and then see where the next cache lead us. One thing we were looking out for today was caches which hadn't been found in a long time.

Sorry about the cut and past logs, but that seems to happen with cache runs of this size!

I found this Geocache on a Geocaching mega mission along with Cats&Dragons and HKCB. With only just over three and half thousand Geocache finds I was very much the over achiever in training. We were in the South Island to support the Oamaru Geofest event, hunt down some Jasmar and D/T harder to find Geocaches, lonely caches (those not found in more than 6 months), virtuals and try and meet some milestone numbers. We signed the logs HIC, an abbreviation of our respective Geocaching names, (H)KCB, (I)ammrwalker and (C)ats&dragons. A huge thanks to all the CO’s who placed and maintain the Geocaches we found.

I arrived in Christchurch late Thursday evening having left straight from work and was picked up by my intrepid companions in our four wheel drive rental to find they had already grabbed about 270 finds in the previous twenty four hours. I wonder if the rental company would have still let us have it had they known we would travel 3300km in it before returning it four days later? Our trip took us to Greymouth via Arthurs pass, Ngahere, down the west coast to Haast across to Hawea, Cromwell, Twizel, Aoraki Mt Cook, Tekapo, onto the east coast up to Oamaru and back up to Christchurch via Akaroa and countless diversions and small towns along the way. We slept in the car for the first two nights, grabbing some shut eye between cache finds, taking turns to drive. We rented a small place in Oamaru for the other two nights and appreciated a bed to sleep in and a hot shower. It was an amazing trip, in which I discovered the South Island has some of the most incredible scenery in the world.

A quick stop here before heading off to check out the boulders.

This time we elected to make it an intentional dnf ...on account that gc was currently gc for new born lambikins and it's mum..who where looking rather bothered at the sight of us... cool spot though..still worth having a peak thanks:)

I think I have the right date for this. Somehow I overlooked it when logging my Weston/Oamaru finds during a trip a little over a years ago

Nice spot. Did worry as there was danger cable around the style but think that was to warn as elec fence might have been on.... after having just recieved a really nasty shock up the road I took extra care.

Container is in good condition and liked the muggle farmers comment inside.

Really lovely spot, spent time watching the fantail

Found it. 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

Out today to get a few caches . Enjoying a rare sunny spring day. Thank you to all , for the caches

Heading south to Omakau with Mum (Nana2Five) on a quick daytrip. Thought this was going to be a "parkngrab"...oops. Over the fence style and I was away. Cache all good..."Farmer John" signed the log recently as he accidently found it whilst rescuing a sheep from the river below ...Nice spot. Cheers.

Quick find with son (Team_Gaters) while travelling down to Central Otago to a funeral. Thanks for the cache.

A cute little bridge. Thanks Firnsy for the pathtag! TFTC

Found with 2wombles on our way to Dunedin for a gathering. Thanks for the cache.

Was heading down south with Popmac for a family gathering so it was an easy decision to get some caches on the way. No problems locating this cache, Thanks for the cache.

Too many posts. Had to give up

Spending a few days in Moeraki and managing to fit in a bit of caching ... did this one while waiting for opening time at the Moeraki General Store.
SL and dropped in a path tag. Thanks for the hide drawp

Missing cache replaced.

We searched for a while but couldn't found any box

Not been found for a while and was hoping for a find but nothing there. Looks to have had a bit of a prune around GZ and location of cache just full of tree leavings.

Quick find while in Oamaru for the Festival of Hockey. TFTC

On a road trip with VDH56 and I.C.U. but getting closer to home now.

good walk, style a bit dodgy

Found with Vydra20. TFTC

Nice stop on the way to north. TFTC!

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

Snowed in in Dunedin and then the road cleared, heading North...

TFTC

A great excursion across the farmers field dinging the mushrooms and whatnots.
Thanks for this cache - I would never have come here otherwise!

A favourite

TFTC

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way to Moeraki and Oamaru.
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Great bridge

Day 3 of our 5 Day end of year geocaching trip. Today was our biggest day of our trip with 75finds and 4DNFs with most of them being park and grabs. A quick find following the GPS We startled some sheep in the paddock but im not sure who got more of a fright. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3284[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 56/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 123/235[/blue]

Quick find today TFTC

On the trip to see the boulders make this cache.
tftc

Great bridge well worth the stop. TFTC #892

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.

This was our first cache find of the day, and our first Otago cache. Quite a grand old bridge, now just connecting paddocks. At least it is still in use. Quick find.
Kiwicouple's First Time Caching geocoin visited.

Thanks for your part in helping make our day so much fun.

GPS was pointing all over the place making this cache much more difficult but still managed to find it thanks to the hint.
TFTC

Cool to get a chance to get out of the car and get to the bridge up close - TFTC!!

Looked interesting on the map with a bridge marked across the stream but no roads so went to check it out.
TFTC!

Another cache on this wet wet day T4Tc:)

Found with Schnitzel04. Quick find. The bridge is higher than you think when you see it from the road. TFTC.

TFTC. I didn't know that bridge was there. Found with Waitaki999

what an historic place for our historic 100th cache yeeee haaaa pleasure goes to my eldest son on our way home from our weekend in moeraki 11 so far

Great old bridge, have never noticed it before. Tftc

Sweet bridge.

I needed this one to keep my streak going. Driven past this spot many times on trips between Christchurch and Dunedin and never noticed this bridge.

I wish there was a sign here explaining its historical significance because it seemed pretty ordinary to me. But then again I'm no bridge expert. TFTC #4727

worth the walk down to see the bridge better, picked up TB & coin
TFTC

My 353rd cache.
Thank you for a nice rest while driving from Oamaru to Duniden.
TB dropped.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

TFTC

Quick find after exhaustive searching
TFTC

Always wondered about this bridge - now it's 'been there, done that' Took a little longer to find than should have. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

A short wander over to the bridge gave us another smiley. Found with debsnz

Easy find TFTC

Found with Buzzybe. Beautiful wee spot. TFTC

Found with Nzbirder. Always wanted to stop here and have a look but never did, till now

TFTC loved getting close to the animals

Passed at speed the 'Historic Bridge' sign many times, so decided today was time to get a smiley nearby.
A good stretch after a long day yesterday and soon had the required in hand.
TFTC

Cache number #228 down south while attending the mega event. Good detour. TFTCSL

This entry was edited by bkj97 on Saturday, 03 November 2012 at 01:56:03 UTC.

One of many quick stops heading north in our campervan.

On a nice leisurely drive north after the recent Mega in Dunedin we are just meandering along an grabbing a few caches here and there. This one was easily located, log book signed and cache returned. TFTC.