Prospecting (Otago) North Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
By Cumbyrocks on 04-Jan-10. Waypoint GC22NJG

Almost ten years archived and the CO hadn't removed the 2Lt sistema found chucked down the cliff at GZ. No lid or contents found on a search around and base got Cito'd for spare parts. Another area of Dunnas showing it's volcanic bones, explored as high as the cliff would allow picking hand holds here and there. A dry place a bit overgrown but a magnet for the local kiddyboos who maybe pinched the TB but who knows; there are a lot of cache looters out there targeting inventory. Nailed the first [s](https://www.geocaching.com/souvenir/?guid=e7b55d82-5f64-42e1-bc4c-79b66a88fc45)ouvenir. TFTC

Muggled and not a good place it seems. Time to say goodbye.

Bad news I'm afraid- it's been muggled by local children. Logbook still ok, and I added a dry pen.

Went this afternoon to collect the three TBs meant to be in the cache. Found the cache in the open with the lid off. Luckily the logbook was under the lid, and in it the children had written their names, what they took and where they lived. They left a banana passionfruit with "Dont Eat" written on it.

I retrieved the plastic laminated Flower Signal geocoin.

I also found a wet piece of paper describing an "Aunty Duck" good luck Feve owned by Ossy which looks as if it must be a TB, although I can't find it listed.

I went and talked to the children's mother, who was interested to find out what the "plastic box" was that her children had found. She had thought it must be some discarded second hand things. I explained thta the swaps didn't matter, but the TBs were important. They do still have the stuffed duck, and will try to find it and return it. However, they don't remember either of the other TBs listed as being in the cache (birkebeimer and Madame Cholet).

Hmmm, sadly a muggling with mystery TB tragedies. Will disable until I decide whether to archive or not.

The two children who left the note in the logbook have checked and didn't take the Orinoco or birkenbeineren TBs, so it seems those may have been taken earlier by other muggles. The Duck hasn't got a TB tag, so it must be just a random "pass along".

Easily found - very pretty park!
First cache in NZ!

-Tjeiken, Denmark

also had a good look around, found a marble, but never found the cache. We will be back.

Found the 'rock face' but couldn't find it for the life of me! Awesome awesome location though, I shall have to return!

My favorite cache on this tour. Of course I approached it from the wrong side.
But I found it. Hah!

TFTC!

lg
Rüdiger aka Huhnbeauftragter

#324 11:22

100th cache.
Didn't realise this park was so big, nicely placed. Took the climbing option, and spotted it as soon as came level with it.
TFTC.

Loved this cache! Slippery at the moment, added to the excitement. Left swap.

Cool hide! Enjoyed the hunt for this one. Kids also enjoyed swing in trees nearby. Left Lucky Duck and Flower Signal GC. TFTC

Awesome cache thx. Nice little adventure. Coords pretty good.

Had to work for this one! Unless you take exactly the right approach path, this is very difficult to get to! But once you reach GZ, it's an easy find. TFTC.

Cool little spot and good cache! Nice one.

TFTC,
Cheers,
G.
-0, + Ice cream book

TFTC

I'd say the critical line in the cache notes is the last one - the GPSr wanted me to keep going over there but there was no chance I was going to do that. So I read the instructions and decided on a plan of attack which quickly yielded the cache. Being late for dinner I quickly signed the log and headed back down the hill. Thanks for a good cache.

Hadn't been on this track before, use to play foory next door years ago.

Had given up on this as I was out of time to get to an appointment. Then found I could see it from my giving up spot. No TB's in the cache.

TFTC

A quick find. TFTC

This was fun in the dark, although I'd debate that it was 'as high as you could go' I was about to go quite a bit higher and then went "oh, there's the cache!" Cheers Gav [6551]

never new this walkway existed TFTC

Good hide in a very nice location. Thanks for the cache.

No TB's present.

Dropping TB's and checking cache.

First find today with Old Boots. TFTC

TFTC! Found with INZY.

Bit of a scramble to find this. Nice isolated spot so no fear of muggles. TFTC

Found after a short while. Nice spot! Took symbology Geocoin. TFTC

Tough area - searched for ages. TFTC

Mr W.E.K.A. was glad he didn't have to walk the whole way up the path after just completing "Butt it's Muddy".
TFTC

Haha, awesome location. No camo needed because of GZ! Was about to give up, but you have to trust your GPS...
+ Geocoin

Cheers,
Blarghster.

This was a very fun one to do. Maybe shouldnt have done it in the rain and it took us a few times to figure out where it was.
Took Monty. P TFTC

[This entry was edited by dazekrazy on Thursday, April 01, 2010 at 7:55:26 PM.]

Both daywalks scrambled as far as the fungus, then Mr Daywalk ended up in the right place. Large old coke deposit found! Left Bear TB, since it's a bush area. Left small ball we found in area. Picked up the broken plastic pot at the cache plus a few other bits of rubbish, including the handleless pot (sorry! have just read logs and realised it was a valuable clue!).

Another hill side scramble across to GZ and cache. TFTC

21/02/10 16:21 easy find after a climb from Woodhaugh. TNLN moving on geocoin and TB. TFTC.

Easy find, thanks!

Excellent description. TFTC

Had me scratching my head a for a bit.. up high and down low... then had the ah ha moment and retraced steps..no problem after that

No. 467

Nice spot, easily found.
TFTC

Nice cache on a nice day, could be less pleasant if it had been raining.
TFTC

I probably should have left this one to complete with johnnygoescaching but as I pass here up to 200 times a year I couldn't resist. No problems getting to the general GZ, there is a well worn cacher path there now. Saw a decent sized fungus growing out of a tree near GZ, it was huge (dinner plate sized), I've never seen such a large one that wasnt of the bracket fungus variety (photo uploaded)

TFTC, a good sized container. I made a trade, taking out the cigarette lighter (thinking that its just asking for trouble having a lighter in a cache in trees) and left some earrings.

+ Trackables.

Nice place TNLN TFTC

TFTC easy find lovely walk quite steep and bit scarey but managed it slowly got a thing about places like this but will overcome them

Clifhanger............[^] Well felt like that. Not too slippery today.TFTC.

Seemed to save the challenging ones for the last on this trip, a scramble and a bit of slipping and I signed the log
Thanks
ernienz

Got the bugger this time.

Thanks Bitsprayer

TFTC found as i was passing through Dunedin for a day. GPS was all over the show had to use a bit of instinct here.

GPS was low on batteries so it wasn't much use here. terman8or went to where he thought it would be and grabbed it for us. Thanks.

Took a while but found it in the end [8)] Fun find, glad it was a dry day. TFTC.

Considered approaching from the top, but decided that the lower way looked clearer. Things were a tad slippery after the recent rains, but all accomplished without mishap.

TNLN. TFTC.

Ventured forth, slippery rock face and more.. With a bit more courage, I found it. TFTC

Found the pot, saw lots of evidence of the "dance of the cachers", read the clue and went for the major feature. Found the cache too!

Well I came and prospected but no luck, mind you it was cold and wet in here to day, I will have to return.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Still didn't find it, someone else has been looking since I was last here, but they haven't possted a DNF or smiley yet. Maybe the 'depositor' muggled the cache- who would know?- it was a very recent deposit when I visited the site.

Checked this afternoon and the cache was present and in the right location. I am glad to report I could not find the infamous excrement, though I can't say I was really looking for it. Happy to provide a nudge if required Katie.

My 200th FTF! In 1326 finds. That makes 1 in every 6.63 finds a FTF. Nah, it's not about the numbers. I'm sure many others have much better stats than that. And quite a nice little challenge for the 200th too. A little bit of bush-bashing and a bit of dodgy reception under the canopy made for a bit of a mission. TFTC Cumbyrocks.

[This entry was edited by U.N.C.L.E. on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 2:12:15 PM.]

[This entry was edited by U.N.C.L.E. on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 at 2:12:33 PM.]

[Crawled around all over the place under the bushes, and got little bits of twigs everywhere. Didn't have the clue with me, I'll be back for another go.] Found a pot minus the handle, a pile of human excrement, and torn clothing, but didn't find the cache.

The pot isn't a million miles from the cache Katie! But didn't come across any excrement or clothing!

[This entry was edited by U.N.C.L.E. on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 at 1:08:49 AM.]

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