At rest in Waipori ( Otago ) Waipori, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 22-Sep-09. Waypoint GC1Z04G

Here in the land of the king white cloud to attend the mega in Dunedin. Many thanks to all those involved in the organisation! Today we targeted some of the DT puzzles plus a few unusual caches as extras. Much better weather and some scary roads . Travelling and caching as a group Qld+1. Cheers ps must always get a cemetar cache, my most favourite

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.Doing a loop with barefootguru, CrystalFairy and GreenGecko. Logs signed as BBCG.All good here, and thank you to Bitsprayer for the placement of your Traditional Cache.Find #7324 at 27 October 2024 2:31pm

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.Loved the location and views from here.. Not a throw me down cache. FP awarded.

Day 3 of our Dunedin Mega visit. Teamed up with gonefishing for a most enjoyable weekend. Some logs were signed with our separate names, some were signed 'Team bogo' to save space. Today we're heading to Lake Mahinerangi. Enjoyed being out in the countryside.Thanks to everyone involved for putting on a great Mega Event, and also to all the local Cache Owners for placing and maintaining all their caches.Cheers and TFTC

Day 3 in New Zealand Lovely little spot Have attended the mega site now picking up D/Ts My first overseas trip ever started off eventful with my tree fishing pole joining me in Brisbane after deciding not to travel on my flight. Virgin staff made up for their boo boo, so my adventure could continue stress free but making for a long day Day 1 involved my first FTF in another country, another webcam under my belt, a few virtuals and a couple of favourites. Thanks Bitsprayer for placing this Traditional for me to convert into a smilie

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 Bitsprayer

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.Quick find, interesting read, thanks Bitsprayer

Down in Dunedin for the Mega. Great to be back for another Mega 12 years after NZ's first Mega here in 2012. Finding a few caches with Boxhill and having a few laughs on the way. Today signing some logs as Team BOGO or our individual names.Nice to get this old cache, still with the original logbook intact.Thanks to the team for putting on a great Mega weekend, and also to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches.TFTC Bitsprayer

Later this morning I decided to do a road trip out to Lake Mahinerangi mainly to sign off a few of the D/T grid and any others that might get in the way.I didn't disturb any of the residents nearby.Cheers for the cache, Bitsprayer..

Cache 1865 we happened to be passing by so a quick grab of this cache was a must as I doubt I will be back down this little road, nice little spot, quick easy find, cache is in good shape T4TC

Out for a Saturday drive, and while visiting the cemetery took the opportunity to grab this as well Quick find, all good here. TFTC

My lovely SO offered to take me out for a drive somewhere so I said how about over to Lake Mahinerangi, haven't been that way for years - he didn't need to guess my geocaching ulterior motive.
Home time, dusk falling, but couldn't resist stopping for an old cemetery cache. Cache took a bit of finding, signal was all over the place and there are lots of hint objects so that didn't help much, but after giving up on the app and having a methodical search ... easily turned up the container, in good condition but log book is quite damp. Interesting cenotaph at location. Had a quick walk around the cemetery grounds to read some stones - beautifully kept grounds with a beautiful view over the lake, and there's a nice new-looking info station at the entrance with some interesting history worth reading. Enjoyable find. Tftc.

What a great place for a cache. All good. Thanks

This was towards the end of our day out, and an afternoon tea stop. Beautiful day, barely any wind, and a peaceful spot with a bit more historic information to read.

Found it

Very nice spot for a cache

Beautiful spot, cache in good condition. Tftc

Cute kunikuni felt sad to leave her behind

A very nice but sad place, still in use I see.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Ghgu0

On a New Years round trip with my No1 who finally had a few days off Caching today in an area out of the way around the lake. Big monument high up and a nice stroll around the cemetery. Views cool.. as most cemeteries have tftc

#10,441. I did a bit of a diversion on my way to Invercargill from Dunedin. Yes its the road less travelled to reach that wondrous southern centre of hospitality and sophistication. The lure of some challenge caches and a virtual or 2 pulled me away from the mainstream. Its extremely windy up here today but very warm and sunny. I am from Wellington and even by our standards this wind is up there in the blasting stakes. Hold on to your hats!!

Parked close by and wandered over to the memorial. Always amazed how many families in remote areas were affected by the World Wars. Such a waste of promising young lives in distant lands. Humans need to learn to live together, not die together. The cache was soon found in its snug hidey hole. Signed the logbook and replaced the container where found. Thanks Bitsprayer for hiding it here.

A nice easy one after swimming in the lake for the last one. Nearly warmed up now.

TFTC - heading home from Naseby via Lake Mirhingerangi with NZ Bozzy for some caching fun. Found most of the caches that we wanted today. Thanks for bringing us to this area. Was on my 'bucket' list as I had not been over this way before

Thanks always find the cemetery when caching in an area. With Kiscardi finding cache around Lake Mahinerangi.

Went to where my GPS said but there was nothing to be found. Used my geo-senses and soon had the cache in hand. Bag ripped but log still dry. Tftc

GPS wasn’t going to be much help. Over-thought it and ended up well away from where I ended up finding cache. Such a peaceful day today

day out with raylnz, first time in this area for about 40 years. tftc.

Am visiting Dunedin and spending a day geocaching in areas of my childhood and student days is looking like becoming an annual event. Out with gdkja. Really interesting place. Took a bit of scrambling around but easy when you know where . Took tb. All good here, log dry. Thanks CO for the suggestion to come here. we even stopped here for lunch as we were out of the wind. Looked around graves.

#17093. Another great out of the way cemetery (a bitsprayer speciality). TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 8 of our extended Easter break, today we are travelling from Clyde to Dunedin via Lake Mahinerangi on a beautiful Anzac day.
A vehicle followed us down to the parking area, but the occupants were visiting the cemetery itself so were well away from GZ. SW overshot GZ but I spotted a suss rock and after moving it, found the cache. Interesting location. TFTC.

We are at the top of the world. Lake Mahinerangi is just a silvery mass via moonlight way down over there and ots of sparkly stars in the sky. Park on the concrete pad and the headlights highlight a sign board. Well just have to check it out. So with our trusty night vision equip and an extra layer of clothing I go checkit out. The Seagnoid moves on early to snag and tag this one. Its 7.30pm so past time for dinner and I am hungry. Drag the camp stove out for delicious vege noodle soup, compliments of The Seagnoid. Its then back on the road to find our way back to Mosgiel. Stopped off at one place to get our bearings and a truck stops with local hunters, happy to give us some welcome advice, just as The Seagnoid got his tecky thing sorted to also sort us out. Grabbed some giggle juice for Toby in Mosgiel and its homeward bound. Finally arrived ar Zara at 9.30 for some well earned ZZZZZZ's. Good night. Its been an amazing day.

Its Wednesday 24 April and we are off exploring Milburn, Lawrence and Lake Mahinerangi today. Awesome!!

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..

Stopped here for dinner and to find the cache. Parked up on the nice concrete platform, got the billy out. Nice night, so we ate outdoors, inbetween finding the cache. Last cache for the day. Back to Dunedin.

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!

A quick and easy find. There was a group camping down the way so I am glad the coordinates were a bit out. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove from Dunedin to Invercargill with lovely weather most of the day till we reached the south coast.

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

Interesting place. Tftc

I had just completed the Livestock challenge doen the road and really felt that this one should have been called that as I had to drive slowly through all the sheep and had several running madly in front of me along the way. Yet another facinating piece of history here - first New Zealander killed at Gallipoli from a tiny place like this. Lovely views out across the water from up here. TFTC # 13,611

Cool place for a cemetery. More like a picnic spot. Must be some interesting characters around here. TFTC Bitsprayer

Found

WhTs not to love about a caching trip combined with downsouthinv having to deliver parts for work.
Any excuse is a good one, and time to head off the main road into the wilderness to find us some caches.

TFTC

At last, a free weekend before the onset of chaos. An early morning phone call...'are you able to take xyz up north to a customer?''
There was no excuse not to, quickly chucked clothes on dragged her outta bed raced into work,got parts, and on the road before 8am.
As we drove, the voice from the passenger seat, piped up and said ' look at all these,aren't we going near here?'
Oooh Goody!! Now it's a fun work trip,might be a long day!!!
A quick find on a beautiful day

tftc

Out for a Sunday drive to a spot that has been on the explore list for some time. Nice quick find. TFTC

A

A bit of interesting history here. Thanks

Neat

Thanks for taking us along this drive. Made for an interesting route from Dunedin to Alex.

Found easily enough. Looked for the Atkinson/Dickson graves without success,but some are unnamed. Notable memorial. TFTC

It was a pity that I didn't have time for a proper look around the historic cemetery after finding the cache as it was already after sunset when I arrived. Cache is all nice and dry.

Another great spot that we would never have visited if it weren't for caching. Found with Conbat. TFTC!

Sunday drive with Ice Diva
Quick find
TftC

Great to visit the cemetery again and recall the history of the place

This was an interesting memorial and a quick find.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Making my way towards Gabriel's Gully with tmann421.

Took the time to read of the history here and appreciate what life must have been like for the locals all those years ago. Another lovely cemetery cache and monument.

Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC

Another good find with Just-Lookin.
Thanks for showing us this area - enjoyable drive.

Enjoyed the history here.
SL

explained to some of the locals what geocaching was about, they were relatives of the land owner and creator of the monument, they knew exactly where the cache was and were happy to look after the cache site.

Friendly muggles around... descendants of the Knight mentioned on the monument. TFTC!

A quick PnG on a dreary day. Back to the lake for a bit more fishing.
TFTC

Trying to reach 1000 before the end of the year. Not going for the easy park and grabs around town, want to have some fun and roadtrips to get the numbers up, Today went from Dunedin to Waipori to Lee Flat.

When we approached saw signs up advertising a reunion of decendants of people who are laid here. When we got the GZ a woman approached us and said are you here see family and I said no always find cemeteries have the nicest of views and that was accepted. When left grabeed cache.

Cache container and log in good condition.

Then the grandson of the peron who build this monument came over and told us the history of his uncle (first NZ man reported back home dead during first world war) and of the gold finds of the area.

Down in Dunedin for the weekend to visit family and to attend graduation, but was able to get away to target a few certain caches while I was down here. Headed out with the brother In law this afternoon with three specific caches on the list to find and whatever else we come across on our journey we have time to find, as we have a bit of ground to cover this afternoon.

After locating the nearby Virtual Cache we had a little time spare to find a few others in the area. Thanks for showing us this neat bit of history, cache easily spotted. Thanks for the hide.

Nice spot. Nice bit of history. Tftc

Nice area, thanks for bringing us here, interesting reading the memorial and exploring a little, enjoying the views and sun shine, TFTC

Found with Chosen1978. We picked the right time to get this cache as the sun decided to come out at GZ and made it quite pleasant. A great spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

Quickly found and SL. An interesting spot to visit on a sunny day.

Tftc very hilly wind

Choice cache my nose froze off from the bitterly cold wind.

I had booked flights for a day trip to Dunedin today - the weather was lovely so I decided to drive to Lake Mahinerangi - it must be 25 yrs since I've been here and it was a great opportunity to explore.
1st stop the Cemetery - my business partner's wife has forebears here - Atkinson, Cotton - it was good to look around & pay my respects.
Thanks, Bitsprayer - the cache was a major incentive to come here.

Old graves. The 'locals' gave us a few strange looks (baa baa baa)

Found it. You would never know this monument was there.
TFTC

Great place, interesting history on the plaques. The lake was low today so we got to see the trees in the lake from the old township. TFTC:)

Quick find after the CITO.
TFTC. SLB.LNTN.

Great place for rest - and for cache! Thanks for the excuse to come this far!

TFTC

Found the memorial very interesting - learnt something new. Love these old cemeteries and the history you can find in the 'out of the way' ones. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

tftc

Very cold wind here today so didn't linger as long as we would have liked. Found with debsnz

Never been this far around the lake before.

Beaut day and great spot for a cache.

TFTC TNLNSL

[Find #600]

Sure is a peaceful spot.

Tftc. Taken travel bug

Found with #1Alpaca. Beautiful location. Never knew this place was here.

Found with Buzzybe TFTC

Nice walk down to the cemetry, and very interesting history of the family. Kia ora for the cache Bitsprayer.

Cache was easy to spy. TFTC.

Very quick find. TFTC.

Hey, woof... JC Cache Dawg here...

Im loading all my finds from my Alpha Males (aka GenCuster) logs, where he deigned to remember that I was with him... As if he could forget...15:55

15:55 JC Cache Dawg unwillingly stayed in the van due to seeing rabbits and with his known 'deaf ears' syndrome in such a situation. What a peaceful spot! Cached with Respect. Worth the backtrack from the ol' stamping grounds Surprised to see a few above ground residences there too. Cheers, GC.

As in Australia, I just approached this the way I would there. Shut the gates behind you.. drive slowly.. etc.

No signs of life (so to speak) near GZ. I made my way in and started the hunt. It took me about 10 minutes of looking around before I found the well-hidden beast. It was found by a muggle at some stage - but they have treated the cache with respect.

A very nice area and well worth visiting. It has never snowed on me while I cached before - so this was a first for me (Queenslanders from Australia are easily amused by snow ).


The cache was in good condition. I have posted up the co-ordinates that worked for me today. TFTC Bitsprayer

I wasn't sure about driving down through the paddock, but I've been yelled at by experts so off I went. Dry conditions, leave gates as you find them and stick to the track.
I should really have had a better look around but it was a cold wind. Thanks.

Have uploaded some maps of Waipori Township and a photo of the town from Cemetery Hill.

An interesting website with info on Waipori is Kae Lewis/ Dave Still Goldrush Online http://www.kaelewis.com/Waipori/Waipori.htm
and for info on the Hydro Scheme Infratil – Waipori Centenary http://www.infratil.com/our-news/infratil-news/2007/trustpower-sustainability-celebrated-at-waipori-centenary/

On the Knight Family Monument is a plaque to Wilfred Victor Knight, 1st Bn A.I.F. , Born Waipori 6/4/1890, First New Zealander reported killed in action on Gallipoli in the Great War 1914 -1918. A.I.F.? Yes, he served in the Australian Imperial Force.

Look in the bottom southwest corner of the cemetery for the grave of Richard Atkinson, who died 31 December 1865 aged 45. On 23 December 1865 Richard, father-in-law of the owner of “The Diggers Rest” Accommodation House, was standing on a chair hanging up a piece of corned beef when he was stabbed by itinerant miner John Jones. When his daughter Margaret Dickson tried to save her father, she was stabbed in the hip.
Newspapers reported the http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18660106.2.38&srpos=6&e=-------10-ODT%2cOW-1-byDA---0atkinson+murder+waipori-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION- stabbing,
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18660310.2.11&srpos=11&e=-------10-ODT%2cOW-11-byDA---0atkinson+murder+waipori-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION- trial and then the
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18660407.2.19&srpos=15&e=-------10-ODT%2cOW-11-byDA---0atkinson+murder+waipori-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION- execution of Jones – the second person hanged in Otago.

I originally found this as part of the dakotacats team but I have my own username now so I am re-logging as whiskasnz. Thanks.

Found it : 05/Aug/2012 : We couldn't drive all the way down to the cache site, the local farmer had decided to put a fence across the roadway leading down the hill. Oh well, the 500 meter walk did us all the world of good! We collected pinecones on the way back to the car. Surprised to see a couple of new houses built on either side of the cemetery. A remote place to live I would imagine. TFTC

We couldn't drive all the way down to the cache site, the local farmer had decided to put a fence across the roadway leading down the hill. Oh well, the 500 meter walk did us all the world of good! We collected pinecones on the way back to the car. Surprised to see a couple of new houses built on either side of the cemetery. A remote place to live I would imagine. TFTC

'This way to the cemetery' the sign said as we set off across the field to our destination.
Didn't get far before we encountered an electric fence across our path and the ground becoming quite soft. "All out" and off we went down to the 'place of no return'. We found the hidden cache after a short walk and after inspecting some memorial plaques it was off up the hill to our car. There is little sign now of the township that was once here, but it all went underwater when the dam was filled..... drowned for the sake of progress.

TFTC, interesting place!

What a remote area for living but there was evidently an attraction up here in the early days.
Drove down the track and saw the cache as I was coming down, the wind must of caught it and dislodged it, signed and replaced with the rocks to secure it (hopefully)
It was a bonus to find this today away from all the muggles down by the water.
Thanks
erninz

TFTC

Found it at 3:34 PM, our 4th of 7 finds today. Howling gale up here and cold too. The trees ran interference on the GZ fix so, in spite of the good hint, we took longer to find this one than we should have.

TFTC, Bitsprayer!
Jim

It's taken years of trying to get this area polished off but I've finally managed it. It took a sneaky wee side trip while driving to camp to achieve this, but it was able to be quickly done.

Another one off the slowly reducing within 50km from home list!

TFTC.

A lot of muggles around as first day of the fishing season.

Sigh. Hoping to polish the general Mahinerangi area off but the snow now too heavy and too much settling on the road for me to want to risk the time delay of walking to pick up the cache. Next time.

A very remote quiet cemetery. TFTC

Did a little detour to this one. Intrigued to see that most of the roads here abouts can be shut off with deer gates at times. We had to back track to get around one at one point! A very remote location for a cemetery - guess there was a settlement here at some point.
TNLN TFTC