Games People Play - D II (Otago) Katiki, South Island, New Zealand
By N!mrod on 14-Mar-10. Waypoint GC250H2

Disappointing and we gave it a good 25 mins...

Gave this a good try. But unable to find. Was a bit close to the road and the area under the tree was full of debris. Unfortunately Illwah and I had to pass

In no position to maintain thus archived

Stopped for a cache and found a cache. Simple.

Found it. Tftc

Stopped in the motorhome for the night. Cache all good

Travelling around the South Island.
Looking at our wonderful home land.
Weather has been improving every day. Wonderful to travel.
Not a Pine Tree it's a Macrocarpa and cache is about 30cm above ground stuck in tree, not covered in needles.
SL.  TFTC.

I have been planning this trip for a while now as I had some airpoints due to expire and wanted to go somewhere for Wellington Anniversary Weekend. So I've made it a 4 day weekend and come down from Palmerston North for a caching road trip. I have two goals for this weekend, to get to 2500 caches before 23 January as that is when I took up caching last year and to get caches on as many latitude minutes as possible that will hopefully qualify me for a challenge cache in the Manawatu. This is day 2 - Oamaru - Palmerston - Ashburton.

I haven't been to Oamaru and the surrounding area for five years and it doesn't look like it has changed much. Such a pretty town, full of history

Out bright and early for a quick run down to Palmerston. Not sure about the logic about this hiding spot as the is not very good parking and yet a perfectly good rest area is just north of this. Anyway, cache was quickly in hand here. 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!
Just out of sight of the coffee cart in the layby.....quick find and sign. Cheers.

Hello Local Geocachers,

#Queenstown#
We are from **far far away**, i mean the *other* side of the world. We came here in this area for our Holiday . We have seen our daughter who is here living for a year in **Queenstown** *(in 2017 April or Mei, she went back to The Netherlands)*. We stayed in the direct area of her in Queenstown for a few days.

#Travelling with a Campervan#
After that we have hired a campervan and explore the south island of new Zealand for its very nice Nature. Our Campervan is picked up at **Queenstown**, nearby the airport of Queenstown. It's a nice van and it drives fine. Everything is OK with the camper and i learned left driving very fast, it's not a problem for me .

The quantity of people at a square kilometer is less then in The Netherlands. During our journey we don't see much peaple but enjoyed the nature as well.

Thanks a lot for placing and maintaining this cache in New Zealand.

##"Team Kleijn"##
Rob en Jacoline

Late Log - TFTC

out and about to catch a few caches. Making the most of a rare sunny spring day. Thanks to everyone for your caches.

A bit confused as to where we should be looking until we spotted the geo trail then it was a quick find. nice view of beach. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc N!mrod. Find # 3683

Even though this is in a safer place to previously its still a bit too close to the road for my liking to get to it.

Nice quick P&G on the way to Christchurch. Had to wait for a break in traffic before heading in but once at GZ a nice quick find. TFTC

On a trip south to head to the Higlanders Game on Saturday and collect some caches on the way. Nice to have a N!imrod cache in his old stomping ground. Quick easy find. Thanks for the cache.

After a scout around along the beach, realised cache was on higher ground. Good cache

heading down to dunners for the weekend to catch up with my prodigy KJR decided to make a quick stop to grab one along this stretch quick find not to sure of the clue for the puzzle but made a note anyway tftc .

On a geocaching weekend with my sister NZ Bozzy.
TFTC

#12 road is busy crusaders coming down for the game against the highlanders tonight

A plan was hatched for a geocaching trip with eve07 and challispoint and young eve07. This was one of many found.

Challispoint soon had this in hand. TFTC

Found with eve07 and P&vee, TFTC

That was fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

Didn't find it but had a hell of a lot of fun on the beach

Found with CJ-Curry on our easter journey to Moeraki, cheers!

Hevic and I spent the day exploring the northern part of Otago. Cache #1 of 23 was a fairly easy find, once we'd battled through the scrub and the GPSrs not giving us good enough readings. We approached this one from below for a bit of extra fun (and a slight bit of safety) but returned on the high road. Cheers!

TFTC

Out and about with Team Welsh on a caching holiday in the South Island. T4tc

Nice quick stop off on the way south. TFTC

I had to walk past a group having a picnic. Luckily I was out of sight of them when I nipped into the bushes.

Mega trip to NZ with vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka, logged as TVVKFIN. Today our target was Dunedin, lots of kilometers and lots of fun! Thanks for the cache.

Long time dream came true and we could visit New Zealand. NZ Mega was our maingoal and we had time to find others too. We travelled together with Veke68, Katsukka and tanjuli (+husband) and had great time. We used TVVK Fin (that is tanjuli, vipema, Veke68 and Katsukka) in mostly logbooks to save space.

Thanks for the cache.

Greetings from Finland.

Day #6 geocaching in NZ in good company (=tanjuli + husband, vipema, Veke68 & Katsukka = TVVK-FIN in the logbooks, most of the time), today we headed to Dunedin and back to Christchurch again. Had a great time, enjoyed the mostly sunny day and found a lot of caches + saw so many interesting/beautiful places.

Thank you!!!!

Tyftc 1st for the day

Caching holiday in New Zealand with Tanjuli, Vipema and Katsukka continues and today nice trip from Christchurch to Dunedin and back. Lot of kilometers but many nice caches and of course couple of very old caches too.

We logged mostly only TVVK-FIN to save space in the logbook.

Thanks!!

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

Easy find. Could have been a hard one ! Thanks. Signed as PEGS, as we are all going to the Mega together.

Quick find on the way to Dunedin for a school holiday break. TFTC.

TFTC

Tried last night but not able tosee well enough. Bit earlier today so quickly found.

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

Easy find. Tftc

Tight fit but got it. Found with Southlandicebergs. Tftc

Found it stuck in a hole in the tree. Went to retreave a tool to get it out meanwhile the 2 IPC members with smaller fingers managed to get it out. With log signed placed the container under needles as per hint and blocked off the hole with more of the same. TFTC

Found by southlandicebergs he unable to get out of tree. J&L managed so all SL. with firekitten. TFTC

A very tight fit at GZ. Forgot to get the clue, so will need to stop here again.

Found on a trip to Dunedin.

Thanks for the hide.

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Tftc. Found it but couldn't get it free to sign the log. Maybe needs smaller hands? I agree, the hint is not quite the best way to pinpoint the cache, but a good look around will do the trick. A 'hole' Lotta fun!

We've been past often and never stopped for this one. Nothing at first glance but then spotted a likely spot quite quickly. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

Nicely hidden. Found with debsnz

Found jammed. But relased it!
Tflc

Found it
Tflc

Found easily enough but as previous log States not as per hint? TFTC our first for 2015!

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. Wouldnt recommend sandals here though. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3276[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 48/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 115/235[/blue]

Thank goodness for warfis scrummaging skills. Thanks

Took a while- and not found where hint implied. tftc

Thx

Very quick find as out in open for the easy spot. TFTC

Found with Sevren. See his log tftc

Easy to find. Harder to get. Tftc

Found no worries....extraction was a tad trickier.
Yep...hint bang on too.
Thanks for the stop and cache.

Sometimes I make things a lot harder then they are this was one of those times. TFTC

Found with Chosen1978. Quickly found on our way home, TFTC

No muggles around today and Granville86a found quickly, signed log and quickly admired views before hitting the road again, TFTC

Easy Find.TFHC.

A day Geocaching in North Otago from Dunedin. Aiming to achieve 30+ for my second highest one day total. Having to move to other places further North to get a better runs of Park and Grabs. 3/3
First stop that the dogs could get a run down on the beach. TFTC N!mrod #858

Spent the day geocaching on the drive from Christchurch to Dunedin. Resulted in 156 finds. Quick find. Signed log. TFTC!

It was lovely day in New Zealand. Thank your very much and greetings from the Czech Republic.

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 Games People Play cache took us a while to find - nearly a DNF for us. Well-hidden by a beautiful beach.

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

found on our way home, after spending a few days in Invercargill
good one
thank you for the cache

Nice easy cache

DNF: No luck for us today was in the area with Mrs Yeetrees doing a trip around Central Otago and picking up a few caches along the way, saw this one on our GPS and decided to give it a go. Managed to find a park near GZ and it was a short walk to GZ, managed to find GZ without any issues, had a good look around with Mrs Yeetrees but couldn't find the cache and had to give up in the end we decided to give up will try again when passing but no luck today, nice views along the coastline from the parking area, thanks for bringing us here.

5979. Spent ages searching here the last time we passed through. This time we weren't going to stay long so luckily we had it quickly in hand. A nice hiding place but not where we expected it to be. Our second stop for the morning on our way back to Oamaru from Moeraki via Palmerston!!! We have to find 23 caches today to get our 6000. There appear to be heaps around Palmerston so we should make it easily now! Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Found on our travels around the south island. TFTC

Getting a bit late, but couldn't resist stopping for another cache. Nicely hidden, this one. TFTC!!!

Sweet wee hide

TFTC

T4TC:)

Easy drive by. TFTC.

Use your geo- sense for a quicker find. Surf's up today. TFTC

I had looked for this one previously but with no success, so I was determined to get it this time. The clue of pine needles had me off in the wrong direction and it was only after a thorough search did I find the devil..... not really at ground level and certainly no pine needles involved. Certainly a challenge.

An easy find once I decided to look for places I would hide a cache.

Stopped to look for this one with no luck GPS bouncing around a little, hopefully better luck next time

hi

Not quite where I was expecting. Tftc.

Nice day cute place

TFTC

A few surfers at the nearby CP today as the surf was well and truly up.
Nice hidey hole.
TFTC

Nice little hiding spot which rather surprised us as it didn't seem to be what the hint suggested. Thanks N!mrod.

Found this one but weather really crapping out so will have to come back to get the rest

It could be anywhere, but it's not; It's where it should be. Just stop and think for a second about where you want to start your search and you should see it.
Don't worry about the hint. R.

We found this cache having a short brake next to on our transit from Dunedin to Akaroa.
It was a very nice day, the sun was shining and we enjoyed the time on this lovely beach.

Thank you for hiding this cache and greetings from Germany.

mttu8683

#530

TFTC

Nearly gave up as didn't want to fall over the edge. But Granny herself was determined as we had missed so many caches today by driving past them as motorists behind would have been in the back of the campervan had we stopped in time. 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...29/01/2013 15:40

Found while on my lunch break when working on the roads

29/01/2013 15:40 JC Cache Dawg had a scramble & a doggy doo while I had a cache. I thought it was going to be tricky but spotted it from a few metres away. Now covered 'slightly' as per the hint
Thanks N!mrod, Cheers, GC.

The Boreophobic Tux #0 also visited

This entry was edited by GenCuster on Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 01:30:28 UTC.

So after all the lovely sunny weather we have had for the last four days the day of the wedding is the day its decideds to change Wedding stuff over its time to have a bit of caching fun with McWomble. So B is the driver and a little caching ride we decide to take.

Took a bit of work to find this one, nice location.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

The Unexpected Journey - a McWomble's tale
or
Helen & Brians Wedding in Middle Earth

Day Two: Wedding Bells

#2911
So you've just got married on a cliff beside a lighthouse, bid fond farewells to your family members at the beach, now what are you going to do on an overcast and blustery thursday in New Zealand? Go caching of course!!!
My first caching trip with HnB as a married couple.

Both perplexed by the gps pointing down to the beach - surely not. A quick read of the clue and a widened search and voila! Another one chalked up for Helen.
A truckdriver was a bit peeved at Brian parking in the layby entrance but he had plenty of room and of course he knew that his horn still worked.

Thanks for placing the cache.