North Branch Gold (Central Otago) Roxburgh East, South Island, New Zealand
By Onslow Fisherman on 18-Mar-10. Waypoint GC253G5

End of the road as water too deep. Nice spot for lunch though as I head back.

Nice hide. Can’t quite remember why a week later writing up the logs (another week and the ford of the stream was memorable - just take it slowly next time)
• doing an Onslow Saturday drive, and stopped here on the way.
Tftc

On a trip getting some caches with kiscardi. A quick find
Thanks

Well the weather held so we could find a day with nothing else interrupting a days caching. The road, stated as a dry weather road was in perfect driving condition today. We enjoyed the caches and exploring a new area.

I shifted my snail shell to Roxburgh yesterday for a few days to enable me to locate and sign off a few caches up in thar hills.

Another muggle showed up and asked if I needed help. I replied that I didn't as I had just found the cache. You should have seen the blank look I got.

Cheers for the cache.

Reached our turn around point. Quick count in log book means I was about the 20th person to find since 2012.TFTC

Ford a little deeper than expected but no worries.

More isolation. Had ideas of how life would have been. Hard to imagine. Tftc

TFTC found w theroamingreliever

Tftc

Beautiful spot

Stopped here on the way towards Styx via Lake Onslow this afternoon. Found the cache after a brief search, there were plenty of places it could be. Signed log, TFTC.

Cracker day for a cache trip up here. Box was an easy find and SL. Returned to hide and off up the road for the last one up here. TFTC

Took the wrong road to the GZ, following an off-line map that didn't mention the signposted road back to Miller's flat. Stopped and talked to some muggles in their car in the middle of the road like it was the norm. You never know when a smile and a quick chat can lead to aide if stuck in a pickle on the roads around here. Parked at the ford which was a wee bit high, and returned to pick up the cache after the wery last one at the tops with the weather on the turn ([refer to log](https://coord.info/GLQ3YBRH)). Thankfully a quick park'n'grab and with 400ml in hand plucked from a wee budge as the event might have shifted the camo in the hide; SL and grabbed the goods in a PVC baggy in the time I had left. Remade the hide and scarpered back to the car to take the drier well formed road back to the LOL cache gate. My knees were a bit wobbly after the several km return trip walk to Berry Apt cache and all the gear changes on the hills. Yeah there were heaps of gates to open and close. Tick 5 of 6 on my Big OE (Onslow-fisherman Experience) to Lake Onslow. TFTC Jim.

Stopped near here for our morning tea break en route to the serpentine church and onto Alex.
Perfect day for it.

Nice quick park and grab while out and about with a friend. He's out for the mud I'm out for the caching. TFTC

Found at 4:27:00 p.m. on 13/02/2015.

A quick stop before heading on the last stretch into the Styx

TFTC Onslow Fisherman

Remember being here before once we stopped here for BBQ while four wheel driving through the area.

found with muzzer on a day out at Onslow.TFTC

Didn't find any gold, just tailings and eventually the cache site that will have watched many a vehicle get stuck in the ford.

TFTC

A pleasant spot to wet your feet on a hot day. TFTC

TFTC.

Hard to imagine this desolate place with lots of gold miners.

TFTC

[Find #596]

Easy find in the rocks, TFTC

Found while taking a break from the commuting traffic using this road over the long weekend - pretty busy!

Another good location and yarn, thanks Onslow Fisherman.

certainly plenty of evidence of man. we were the entertainment for lots of curious sheep.

I initially found a great hiding place, but it wasn't the right one!
A second pair of eyes soon spotted the correct placement, and the cache was quickly signed. TFTC

WEren't sure if we were going to do this one and the next, but seeing such a small distance on the GPS I was coaxed into it! Lots of bunnies & hares around here.... almost as prolific as the fishermen!!! One just pulled into GZ parking area as we came back from Berry Apt.
TFTC.

Werent sure if we could do this cache or the next but when arrived at GZ everything ok. Quick find amongst the usual OF hiding spots.

thanks for bringing to this area have wanted to come here for long time

Would be OK mining up here in the summer but would be really grim in the winter months. TFTC

Spotted the likely spot fairly quickly - thanks.

No trouble here thanks, fantastic place to visit cheers

An easy find, now to ride the bikes back into the cold heas wind. Pity we didn't spot "Berry Apt " on the GPS. Oh well, an excuse to come back for another ride in this maginificent countryside.

Easy find, thanks.

Found with moneydork and rediguna

This one took a little bit of hunting with the light starting to leave us. Cheers Gav [6657]

Took us a bit to search this one out. TFTC

Another rock, another cache, quickly found, although we were unable to extract the cache from its hiding place, just remove the lid to get the log out. We then continued through the ford, which was deeper than anticipated! TFTC

After finding the cache a nice lunch break in the sun near the river with JImny Cricket.

Found 17/4/10. Ford just deep enough,but no problems,then find the caches and then lunch in the shelter of the rocks with Mr and Mrs PIpedream.Great cache.

The river was only about 10cm deep, so no problems with the ford.
+ a large marble, - nothing.

FTF. Right by the stream that stopped me riding out this way last time I was here. Had been heavy rain in the week before and the stream was more like a river and too deep to take the bike across. Had to back-track to Millers Flat.

In the middle of nowhere when down the road came two motorbikes, one decided to play in the nearby ford so the hunt didn't start till they moved on.
Thanks
ernienz

Once the sheep and the motorbikes moved on the log was signed.

Thanks Bitsprayer

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