A Reminder Of The Past! (Central Otago) Millers Flat, South Island, New Zealand
By Onslow Fisherman on 10-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2G7YE

Logging the mint tin as it's removed from the hide. A couple of trads in the area now. TFTC

Never too late for a cause célèbre. Once I figured out what a bison was, it would still have been nice to light upon this one if it was still intact. Camo'd micro drop at GL with full copy of log at obvious place. Thanks for bringing me here. Still in place after a year.

It will have to go

Another DNF today.

Fifth caching stop as Tufty and I rode the Clutha Gold Trail to Beaumont. Didn't spend very long looking. What is the use of half a bison? Cache should be archived.

1/2 a bison is not a cache! Cache needs to be archived.

Tftc - easy find but yes some is missing

Found at night

Half of container I missing but good find.

First Millers Flat cache after coming through from Beaumont via the Millenium track, quick find. TFTC

Cool wee place

Easy find half container missing

Only realized what this was a couple of days ago, funny that your cache would bring me back here so quickly. TFTC

Another cache on my April Central Otago caching trip with my grandparents, where I went from Dunedin through to Queenstown. A good reminder of many past caches found. TFTC

Thank you so much. Another smiley.

Thanks for the pen as I hadn't bought one on my bike

Tiny! Nice walk

Found it! Thanks had to work for miles...lol

TFTC

Easy Park and grab. cheers from casa del hince TFTC

I put a new log in and baggy round the cache. Unfortunately the old log was compost. cheers from casa del hince TFTC

Quick find but needs maintenance.

TFTC, a straightforward find despite builders building nearby. Log is now pulp, sorry unable to rectify, my normal caching bag was at home. I have a photo as evidence if the CO requires it. Nice to see the remnants.

Log requires a replacement - odd as these containers are normally 100% watertight.

The juniors and I made a quick detour on our ride from Pinders Pond to Beaumont and it had to be quick because we were concerned that Big Fuzzy would ride past us coming from the other direction where he had dropped the motorhome and rode back to meet us! TFTC Onslow Fisherman

Nice easy find

Found log soaked. Replaced as week as we could.

Too wet to write on log. Great spot though

tftc

Our month long trip to Southland, Thanks for the cache

Soggy wet, tiny as!

very soggy, but liked the container.TFTC

Log is full and damp. Needs tender loving care. TFTC.

Awesome , log pretty damp , sun shining

Tftc

A nice quick find on an old piece of infrastructure.
TFTC

Another piece of great history. TFTC

TFTC

Cool cache container and historic site. TFTC

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Once a busy railway station, time has all but eroded any sign of its existance. Mother Duck was quickly into finding the cache ... no doubt assisted by the discovery of a pen.

I'm sure that most people who drive past here wouldn't be aware of the platform that is right beside them. Thank you for showing us this reminder of the past.

A sort of a platform find this one

Quick find, up the road from the fire son. SL TFTC

This is what geocaching is all about. Interesting.
Thanks for placing this cache!

Too easy with pen left marking spot! Shifted pen!

Quick find on way through, brought back some memories of staying on other side of river when younger, TFTC!

Another good spot with some great history on this old railway system. TFTC.

Relogging this under individual account, previously a member of Gaz'n'Kab account.

Previously logged under a team account. Re-logging with my individual account.

It certainly was quiet out here today, and as we sat on the old platform, we soon spotted the cache

TFTC Onslow Fisherman

Gaz'n'Kab

TFTC

Thanks for pointing out this historical feature

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...17:10 JC Cache Dawg played guard while the 17:10 Caching Express from Rotorua briefly whistle stopped. Cheers, GC.

17:10 JC Cache Dawg played guard while the 17:10 Caching Express from Rotorua briefly whistle stopped. Cheers, GC.

We found this cache as part of our NZ Mega Event adventure as we were slowly making our way back to Christchurch to fly home. We had spent the night in Gore and initially thought we would not be able to find any caches today due to the wind and rain. Just as we were heading out of town though, the sun broke through and we were able to slip a few finds in as we headed north. We were able to locate the cache quickly enough and with the log signed, we jumped back into our cache mobile and were off again. Thank you for having placed the cache Onslow Fisherman

Found on hunt with kevnchris and whiskers n petal

Last day of our MEGA cache raid so we decided to head further south before our flight home tonight.
The rocks and smell of tyme has encouraged us to plan a trip to Central Otago TFTC.

This entry was edited by rosmar on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 08:21:12 UTC.

Took Geo-grandad out to find this one and he was quick to point out his Uncle lived in one of the railway houses as he worked at the station here. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

No trains ghost or otherwise here today.
TFTC

Taking the 'long' way home from Cromwell. Found with debsnz

Found it while on a geocaching trip with Kev n Chris and Kevnic. Interesting history. TFTC

OF, this siding is for sale!
TFTC

Found on first solo hunt using s3 phone.

NZ12. The rain was making things difficult, but I poked in the wet and came up with this one, so only a bit wet. Thanks.

8791.212 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Geocaching License A#219

Albida

Quick easy find.

Cache number #43 on my Mega expedition to the South Island. Waited patiently at the end of the platform for the next train but no luck with that part of the exercise. TFTCSL

Found 2 for today wet!!!

This entry was edited by sting1606 on Thursday, 18 October 2012 at 19:41:22 UTC.

Found with renelm. TFTC

It's only if one knows what to look for that it can be seen what was once here.. the platforms is a telltale sign of what was here.

The cache was found easily.

Found at 16:46 - #2893 - with Alexesmann

TFTC

It must have been a busy place. judging by the size of remains

Easy find.

Left a temporary log. Maintenance required.

Really interesting bit of history. Great place for a wee cache.

Found on open ground,put back to rightful place,nice spot TFTC

The 21st find of 150 in 5 days on road trip with Ingidayna. TFTC

22/155 in 5 days, found with wethreefourdices. TFTC

Still quite obviously the rail station. Good one.

Oh, we did some remedial work on the log and origonal is now back in action.

#5837
We are loving this rail trail trip down memory lane, not our memory but someone's...

TNLN TFTC

Took quite a while to find cache. I couldn't get the log paper out of the container as it was jammed in there quite tightly. I got a piece of paper from the car, signed it and put it in the cache bag. I hope this is ok. TFTC.

TFTC, a few muggles during a marathon

Headed out on the bike pre-dawn for a 30 cache raid on the Lake Onslow/Millers Flat/Beaumont area. Over the Old Dunstan Rd to Paerau and over to Lake Onslow. Saw at least three others caching in the area and played tag with one down the Millenium Track. She told me that there had been a caching event in Roxburgh the previous day which probably explained the number. I think it was just before or after this cache that I passed the aforementioned lady in a blue Peugeot caching at a hide I had found a little while ago. It was the start of a leapfrogging game of tag from here and down the Millenium Track.

Quiet corner with everyone at the MF School 125th anniversary celebrations. Really interesting sites on this cache trail.
TFTC.

#10 for today's outing. Seem to have missed a couple along my route, but plenty more to go. Very quiet here today. TFTC

#8 for the day,amazed the old platforms still here. A lone cyclist went past just after
I had replaced the cache.TFTC.

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Just had to follow the track to the cache.TFTC

Quick easy find.
T4TC

A very long and solid reminder!

Quick find on trip home thru central otago. Imagine what this place would have like during busy times.

Found on our way from Roxbourgh to Dunedin! TFTC!

TFTC

Quick find,thanks for the great history lesson,will have to get books mentioned and study some more

Nice easy find
SL TFTC

Nice easy one thanks

Another interesting spot in the series, all highlighting a remarkable achievement.
TFTC

1430hrs A walk up the road. The Italian Job was here......! Our blog www.motorhominginxs.blogspot.com

Found this easily, there is certainly no need for a hint.

5877 A reminder of the past with another abandoned station, TFTC