Sculpture Park (North Otago) Hampden, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 03-Jan-10. Waypoint GC22KRZ

Out for a walk before we retire to bed - parked up in NZMCA park over property - TFTC

Bit of a strange place for a cache but no worries finding it. I couldn't see much evidence of limestone sculptures and it didn't look like visitors were encouraged. Thank you!#10652

I'm parked at the NZMCA camp nearby, and set out for a walk around the block this afternoon. Nice easy find here, TFTC

STOOOOOONESSSSS

Out cyclocaching around Hampden on my eMTB. This was the last cache on today's ride. Sadly, the Sculpture Park is no longer open to the public. TFTC

Quick park and grab not the best street to go down if you're towing something

Quick find today when out with coconuts3. TFTC

Out exploring the area today. Didn't see any sculptures today. Cache found all good here thanks drawp.

Found after a short search today. Getting windy ! TFTC

I turned every stone.... is it still there?
Pitty of the stop here

Quick easy find on our way back to Oamaru after driving thru Dansys Pass. Tftc

I have no idea why I have not found this one previously but today changed that yftc

Tftc

Quick stop to pick up.

Tftc. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh ️️️️

No sculptures

Perhaps the sculpture park has gone or maybe I am unobservant.
This cache was found on our second summer campervan trip. JDScout and I plan to do three this summer. This trip is from Christchurch to Bannockburn to the Catlins and back.

Thanks for hiding this cache drawp I appreciate it. It has helped add an extra layer of fun in our holiday.

TFTC, 5 out of 6 of the Hampden Caches

Found it.

Nice and find, TFTC

Another quick find

Didn't see any sculptures, as the light was ading and everything looked all locked up, but might come by here again during business hours and see if scupltures can be viewed. Found cache without any problem. Log paper was a little damp, but no problem signing. TFTC.

Cache was a quick find and my left knee is protesting at kneeling to find caches

Cache container is still available

Nice quick find for the young cacher

Sadly can only see one sculpture

Lots of bugs as a bonus with this one

Quick park and grab tftc

On the way up to christchurch leaving from dunedin for a wedding. First cache of the trip. Lovely and well maintaned cache. TFTC

No trouble finding the cache.

Broken container replaced.

I'm pleased I didn't need to go under to reach the cache, lots of cobwebs under there. Thanks drawp

#9347

Down from Auckland to claim the last 2 Geotour caches and to pick up a heap of others for a challenge I’m working on. Not only that, I’m working towards my 8000th cache, oh where will it land I wonder??

Parked up near the cache, without going onto the property I could see very little of any sculptures, did see one by the cache though. Gorgeous day to be caching.

Log later

Found today but both wet and container full of bugs so photo taken instead of signing

Nice one tftc

Thee container is cracked and the log book is soggy

Would pay next time this way to check and replace container. Was in good enough condition that no temporary replacements were required.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

I always thought this was in the sculpture park. But it is closed for now but easily retrieved by Natalie247 TFTC drawp

Nice quick find thank you! Container has a crack and the log is getting bit wet!

I knew a Geotour was coming out soon and glad to see we have some local ones. MinionOne and I were going to head out for a roadtrip and decided to invite Eve07 to come out for some fun. We headed out mid morning with the intent of just getting the Moeraki Geotour caches but we ended up as you do following a trail of caches to the middle of nowhere. A cold but lovely day for it.

Log was ok but the cracked container means it needed to be bailed.


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TFTC another quick find for today.

Quick and easy find with wymo

Container full with water, logbook still.
TFTC
# 1334 July 19, 2019 16:28

Tftc

Easy find

Yebo Drawp

We are on the southern island for business and leisure and that leisure part includes geocaching, of course

Found well and all good!

Tftc

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 1669

2nd find on our wee walk around. Thanks

Quiet morning in hampden

Once we found the correct access off SH1 it was a quick find but no sculptures visible. TFTH drawp

Found ot

Found it after trying a couple of other posts. Closed up today so no sculptures. Tftc

On a go slow after a late ish night last night seeing the new year in. I felt like a wander - and no one else offered to keep me company so alone it was.
Felt a little uncomfortable grabbing this one - it did feel like I had eyes on me - so I make it a very quick grab and off.... TFTC drawp

I had a goal to get to 2000 finds before the end of 2017 so a 2 day caching mission to Oamaru was in order. A quick drive around Hampden and this was one I was able to stop at and make a find. There are a lot of muggles wandering about here today! TFTC

Day 8 - of our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara, & myself) epic adventure around amazing Oamaru. Moeraki Boulders have been explored - but what else can we find down here?
Would have liked to explore the sculptures - but all closed up today. We tried from this side, then from the front only to return to this side again to snag and tag this one. Cheers

Taybeedragon and headed south, still geofesting after the Oamaru... um... Geofest. Stopped off in Hampden on the way back.
Man, this looks like it would be an awesoem place if it was open to the public! At first we assumed it was and intended to get to the ccache via the entry on hte main road. No go there so walked to the side entrance. That worked much better!

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.

Quick find here after grabbing a bite to eat.

TFTC - thought we would grab a couple of Hampden caches on our way through to Oamaru for the geofest . Quickly found this one

Thanks couldn’t really see any sculpture . On the way to Oamaru Geofest with Kiscardi

With 8 caches in Hampden I felt sure i could clean the area out. Nope. 6 from 8 today. This one was a smilie.
TFTC

After staying with my cousin for a few days in Dunedin, I am now heading to Oamaru for the Geofest.
A quick find. Logbook signed and cache returned to its hide.
Loved the family of mum and lambs in the nearby paddock.

TFTC

Day-10 Palmerston - Oamaru
A day on the coastal road finding caches as we went.
We found caches in some amazing places & wonderful scenery today.
Thanks for placing this cache drawp

First one found in Hampton.

Tftc

Found it.

Found it!

Thank you

Maheno School

Second for day

Nice hide cool sculptures

Awesome hide nice sculptures

I was on the way from Oamaru to Dunedin ....
This was a not a beautiful, sunny day ... only some sunny minutes I strolled over to ground zero and searched for a short time and found the container. The coords are right on the mark.
The cache is in good condition and the log paper is nice and dry. I took nothing, left nothing, and signed the log paper.
I carefully replaced the cache right back where we found it.

*thanks to drawp for your caches!!*


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... from Germany on tour around the world

Heading north again after a couple of nights in Otago we stopped here to find a few caches to break the journey. This was a very quick find by Hazedarus before I even got out of the car.
Thank you drawp.

The slight contour in the road and the fact that the neighbour was bum up and head down tending the road frontage was enough to make the find unnoticed. No pubic access it seems to view the sculptures. Thank you drawp

Begins our holiday in NZ in Christchurch, we came from Italy to find our son who lives there for two years.
Today we decided on a multi-day tour, after stopping at Omarama today continues to Dunedin, scenic road we will stop on the lakes that meet
Dunedin is back in Chch, stopping to pick up some cache
Greetings from Italy
Eccoci finalmente in niuziland e dai e dai ci siamo veramente, appena arrivati capiamo che sarà dura, cena di qua invito di la, andiamo a vedere questo e quest'altro.
Prosegue il nostro tour di più giorni, dopo aver fatto tappa a Omarama e aver visto il Lago Tekapo, lago Pukaki, scesi a Dunedin, città molto amata dai geocacher per le sue storiche cache, oggi si torna alla base, chiudendo il cerchio, passeremo da Oumoru, cittadina famosa per una colonia di piccoli pinguini che si sono stabiliti sul molo, per la strada ci sono cartelli che indicano agli automobilisti a stare attenti, noi li vedremo da lontano.
per strada raccoglieremo alcune cache
TFTC

Found it. TFTC

Heading south for a wee family holiday. Family caught a cheap early flight down to Dunedin this morning...and will spend the day exploring Dunedin attractions...whilst I drive down to meet them...and find a cache or two along the way!
Quick find and sign of the replacement....and a cool sneaky peak through the fence to the sculptures. Cheers!

Coordinates changed from:
S 45° 19.951 E 170° 49.200

Coordinates changed to:
S 45° 19.953 E 170° 49.162

Distance from original: 163.0 feet or 49.7 meters.

Relocated cache

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

Heading south to Omakau with Mum (Nana2Five) on a quick daytrip. After grabbing an iceblock thought this would be a quick grab - but as per previous log - new houses letterbox is about bang on GZ! Checked remaining fence posts to left of new house but found nothing...

Pretty sure this cache needs a new hiding spot as there has been a new house built at its co-ords.

Quick find for my geocaching expert eleven year old TFTC

Found whilst staying at moeraki. Lots of construction next door.

Got this one on my way back to Alexandra. Good cache

I never noticed this place before.

Found on my way home from Christchurch. Thanks.

Another nice quick find on our way to Dunedin today. TFTC #7168

Do not drive into the Oakham Street as there is no safe u-turn. The grass areas are full of mud and your car will get stuck like we did. Luckily there was a couple of nice gentlemen who live in that street who pull us out from the muddy front yard.

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

Quick find. Thanks for the cache.

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.

Easy find

TFTC

Looks like a lovely weee park but the gates looked locked tonight. Maybe next I might get to have a look in . Cheers for the cache though.