Gapes Valley View ( South Canterbury ) Gapes Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 15-Nov-09. Waypoint GC211GP

Easy find still couldnt work out what a toi toi was must be the bush.

Out and about caching here around the South Island in our travels from Australia. Arrived at GZ and searched. cache found and log signed. TFTC

Travelling from Cromwell to Ashburton today and collecting a few caches and ALs along the way. Saw some amazing scenery and ventured along some great roads. Thanks to the COs for placing the caches for us to find.

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Lovely spot tftc had some friends talking to me see photo

TFTC on way to Fairlie

Great view.tftc

Found with Gummi_Venus. A nice place to stop and admire the view. It was a bit cloudy but we think we could make out the ocean in the distance.

Found with ObnoxiousSpaceCat, quick find and nice place to stop on our way south.

Dieser Cache konnte heute leider nicht erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Found it on our way back to Christchurch.TFTCHilgenerSchatzsucher

A fast find for me today. TFTC

Fantastic view from here. I could not quite see the sea today but what a magnificent vista anyway on a little road trip around central South Island. TFTC.

My gps not accurate and now I learned what a toi toi is. TFTC.

Now I know the NZ meaning of toi toi. In other parts of the world it means a small cabin toilet.

Decided to stop and find this for a quick stretch. Found with help of the hint. Cache is all good here. TFTC

Passing through and decided to stop for this cache and pay our respects to those from this district who paid the ultimate price during WWII. TFTC

Nice stop on my way
Thanks

Day 2 on our holiday in New Zealand. On the way from Christchurch to Twizel, we also visited this traditional cache, searched the box, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many thanks to Bitsprayer for hiding and maintaining this cache.***. ️

Great view thanks

Found it during our vacation. Thank you.

Another nice view and an opportunity to quickly grab a cache.T4TC

Gapes Valley View with a great oportunity to handle a break. TEMBO! and I stoped, viewed and signed.

Thanks to Bitsprayer for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Super view easy find

Thanks

Quick and easy find, tftc

Quick stop on our way to Christchurch. Tftc

Hallo, auf einem Road-Trip über die Südinsel Neuseelands auch diesen Cache gut gefunden.
TFTC die Krümelmonsters

Good views. I like to stop at these sites. Thanks

Beautiful view 4th find in the South Island

Found with tobsjm and nasonttibe on our trip around the South Island from the mighty Waikato. We logs as it had a pencil as we lost our pen.

Yay found it on our way to Queenstown

Good spot a lot of traffic

Sad and beautiful. The views today were impressive.

Found after a second look. TFTC

A great view from up here. Nice to know the next part of our journey is gonna be fairly flat. Cache is in good condition. TFTC

A fun find with rustynz, thanks

Stopped at the memorial with rebel98. Once I got the right corner a quick find. Thanks for the hide

A nice quick find, great view down to the coast from here. A good excuse to stop and give the milk tanker ahead of us some space before we catch up again. TFTC

Well hidden, but for it. Thanks

It's Queens Birthday weekend This is quite a busy road! Had a few old old cars drive past while we were trying to be incognito about what we were doing! Tftc

Road trip from Rotorua North Island. Another South island cache found on the way back up North.
A quick easy grab, sign and flee.
Great views.
TFTC

Holiday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

We were heading to Mt Cook for a wee break and of course were caching throughout the area.

We had an awesome time with some brilliant weather apart from only one day where it didn't play ball. Great to see so many awesome caches throughout the area.

Grabbed on the way back to Methven in the rain. Quick park and dash across the road

TFTC

A quick find at an interesting spot. Some nice countryside here.
TFTC
P.S Sorry for very late logging.

Found with Piwaka54 as we head north at the end of our epic southern adventure. What an awesome spot! TFTC

Found with Nutty Nora

Didn’t like the parking for this.
Saw the hives, and quickly found.
Tftc

Pulled off on the opposite side of the road, heading south down to Alexandra, Not sure the plant is a toi toi, but found all the same, cheers

Heading towards Mt Mary to drop off some test equipment to some of the team, I stopped here and made the find. No issues here! Cool spot.

TFTC Bitsprayer, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 5 today, making this find #3021

Great spot, beautiful view

Good hint

Easy find. Nice location. And view
Thanks

Apologies for the cut and paste logs for these few. Out and about on a stunning day getting lots of smileys in the wonderful back roads of the Geraldine area. Lytteltonwitch and I had no problems with these caches, most being quick and easy finds. The views from here were so great. TFThides C.owners

Great views and quickly found the cache. On a geocaching trip with Busypaws. Took lots of photos here

Found with parking going towards Geraldine.

Found with Tokerau

A quick find on a road that is hetting busy with Easter traffic. The cattle were lowing too! Tjanks for the hide. It's good to stop and remember those who sacrificed their lives for us.
#6696

Loved the view from this spot. It is years since I have been in this part of the country, and I didn't know about Geocaching then. Now we get to stop in places we would have driven past before. Found the cache quite quickly, but note that the bush is not toitoi. It might be of the red hot poker family. Thanks for causing us to stop here.

A lovely view for this memorial. Managed to park and walk back to this re all the road works. Thanks for getting us to stop and see this and the cache Bitsprayer.

Easy find

Nice view point whist journeying with caravan

Cool find!

Don”t know how many times I have driven past here without noticing it tftc

Quick find and a beautiful place to stop!

Certainly a great view. TFTC

Nice drive doing caches in the area. TFTC

Above group so kept hands dry

Found

Nice quick find, left TB. Thanks Bitsprayer

#10098

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. Now on our way up to Ashburton. Mr S found this one but searched a few hints before finding the correct one.

Thanks Bitsprayer. Smilie total is gradually climbing.

No bars until I got there so that was handy for the find, tftc

Be careful finding a park

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

Day 17, the penultimate day of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm still 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.

Yesterday I had finished up in Tekapo, only to discover that Freedom Camping was so frowned upon (even if you are in a certified self-contained camper) that there is a blanket ban in place across the main township. That forced me to think outside the box, and I ended up parked up on a nearby rural road with a fantastic view of the stars above me. Suffice to say that my rest was fantastic and so I set off on my last full day of touring with a spring in my step, expecting to be back in Chch this evening.

I love driving the roads around here, especially right now as they are generally free of tourists, and so I was happy to break up my journey by pulling over every so often to try for a cache, such as this one.

There was virtually no-one around this early on a Sunday so I was able to park up close by to GZ and then conduct my search in relative peace. I had no trouble finding the cache, and there were no issues with it so the log was duly signed and the whole lot replaced as found before returning to the campervan and carrying on.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ en route to Fairlie from Christchurch on a lovely late winters day.
We have driven past this cache before, on a trip nearly 3 years ago, but had to limit our stops as we were heading for Cromwell. Today, with a shorter distance to travel, we made sure to stop today. And it was perfect weather to admire the great views from GZ.
The cache didn't take long to find - in the second place we looked. Thanks for making me stop here and TFTC.

#18472. Nice place for a cache (good views and pretty good parking). TFTC.

A quickie
TFTC

Quick find, second option. Found some safe parking a short walk down the road. TFTC.

Second full day of a 10 day road trip for RG1972 and I to get to Te Anau, attempt a half marathon, and get safely back to Nelson/Marlborough. Today was Chch to Wanaka, so we hand picked a few park and grabs in between food and shopping stops. 20 plus for the day and all in good shape. Thanks all COs and sorry for the cut and paste bit.

Sad how many lives were lost from this district in the wars. TFTC

It always shocks and saddens me how many Kiwis have died fighting in the various wars! TFTC
With kiwitien and reshamfiriri.

Quick find. TFTC

On an adventure towards Hokitika wildfood festival. Cacheing on the way. Thanks to all cache keepers.

Found it

Great find

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwffvvh

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I started my great and unique round trip over the South Island in Christchurch.
My first major stopover was at Lake Tapeko - here I hiked up to Observation Mountain.
I then planned two days in Mount Cook NP with some unforgettable hikes. My big goal was the Mueller Hut - on a super strenuous hike I reached it.
I continued my journey over the lonely Danseys Pass to Dunedin.
Afterwards I drove along the Southern Scienic Route via Invercargill to Manapouri for some days. On this route I visited many sights and enjoyed the beautiful nature again and again.
I already booked a tour to the Doubtful Sound in advance - another highlight on my tour.
Afterwards I drove on to Queensown and Wanaka. From there I continued over the Haast Pass to the lonely Jackson Bay with storm and heavy rain. Afterwards I drove along the west coast always in pouring rain.
The rain stopped the whole west coast, but I had good rainwear with me. Only high up in Nelson the sun shone again.
Soon I reached the east coast again in Picton and Blenheim and the sun was shining again.
After a few days I travelled back to Christchurch via the beautiful town of Kaikoura.
At the end of my round trip I spent a few more days in Christchurch and its surroundings.
I visited many geological sites and found many caches on my round trip. In Rangiora I visited an event.
I travelled 3418 km and take home a lot of positive experiences.
Thanks to many beautiful caches I was also shown unique locations, historical sites and geological features.
I am overwhelmed by the fantastic and ever changing nature on the South Island of New Zealand - I will definitely come back.

Many thanks to all owners
Team sissifalke

A quick find and lovely monument.

T4TC

Thanks for the cache

Thank you for the short stop. Enjoyed the landscape (similar as in Germany)

Another monument from WW1. We must not forget this time. War never has a winner only losers.

Greets from Germany.
Tftc. Danke fürs Dösle

We have driven this road a few times but I don't remember seeing this monument before. Good to stop here and check out the views and cache. tftc

Quick find. Nice views on another sunny day.

Last cache for us for the year, now off to Geraldine to see family nice monument and views. Thanks for placing this one here

You are right, we can see the sea. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Hamburg Germany

Not a FTF but a 10th anniversary find. Quickly spotted. TFTC

Found IT on out wat tot Staveley

Out and about .. good day for a bike ride tftc

don't know how many time weve driven past this one, today there was space to park....the toi toi may have been small when the cache was placed, but now it's the largest.