Lupin Valley Stop (North Otago) Waitaki District, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 25-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2H5MH

Fab spot to stop and stretch the legs! Tftc

On the way to Queenstown on our 3 week visit to New Zealand.TFTC

Easy peasy, thanks for the cache

Cool bro

Very quick find here today awesome spot for a break tftc cache all good here

Quick park and grab on the way to Twizel, tftc

Nice spot for a quick stop tftf

Stopped for a break and got a geocache as well - thx

Stopped here for lunch in a spot where we could view the little stream and bridge. Then turned on the gps to find there is a cache here. Nice quick find - thanks for placing

Thanks drawp for the cache and greetings from Krakw, Poland!

4-week family trip through NZ - Find #154!Nice spot for a break in the drive, and a quick cache find .TFTC!

Trouve ! / Found it ! Stop lunch and GC 4745me cache trouve.Merci drawp pour la cache 4745th cache found.Thank you drawp for the cache

Tftc great hiding place, neat stream to paddle in

Didnt take long to find here thanks to good hint. Tftc

Good place to let the dog have a swim. Hint made for a quick find.

15025.

Roadtripping in NZ from Finland. On our way from Mt. Cook to Wanaka grabbed this one. It was a quick one! TFTC!

Trouve very nice spot Tftc

Thanks

A nice quick find, although there was a lack of lupins in the spot there had been plenty along the roadside. TFTC.

TFTC

Day 9: Across the Lindis PassThe route for today brought us back to close the big loop of our Southern journey by passing through Omarama and the Lindis Pass and back into Cromwell where we stayed the night. This would be my first trip across the Pass and we found many caches along the way, including the highlight of the day at the Bendigo Historic Reserve. Thanks for all of the caches along the route!(End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for the cache:We turned off a little too early here and I ended up on the wrong side of the stream so I had to get back into the car and make my way around. Ah another instance of stupidity here, but once at GZ, the cache was really easily found. My mum loves the lupins so this was a fun stop for her too. TFTC!

A nice quick find here. TFTC.

23/9/2023 Find #6596Day 15 of the Fangsoki/1MinnieMoo New Zealand South Island adventure. We were supposed to head from Queenstown to Haast and Franz Josef today however the pass was closed, so we headed up to Wanaka and then across to Christchurch for the night. To break up the drive a little, we stopped at just a couple of caches on the way. We pulled into this little rest stop and saw someone had put a snow head on top of the bin. There was snow all over the tables. Over to the cache and a quick find was had before Fangsoki tries to throw a snowball at me to get back at me for my earlier shot. And missed. Then while he headed back to the van to make a phone call to adjust our nights accommodation, I made my very first ever snowman. And for that it gets a favourite point from me. Thanks for the cache drawp.

Ni ce picnic spot

Stopped for a shory break. No lupins today. Tftc

A dnf avenged. The place looks a lot tidier than last time we were here. Unfortunately, it's still used as a toilet. Thanks for the placement drawp

Quick find thanks for the placement

Quick easy find if you take the actual rest stop turn off lol

Day 3 on our holiday in New Zealand. On the way from Twizel to Te Anau, we also visited this traditional cache, searched the box, found it, and signed the logbook



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to drawp for hiding and maintaining the cache.*** ️

Today I drove from Wanaka to Aoraki. To make the drive a bit more exciting I stopped here and was able to log the cache. Thank you.

Nice place with a little stream. Quick grab. Thanks for the cache.

Quick and easy find, tftc

Quick stop on our way to Mt Cook. Apparentely a favourite toilet spot. Tftc

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Stopped here with spoonz2 to get my blue face to a smiley face after it was missing some time ago. Both times toilet paper was around the area. It would be rather nice if the users cleaned up after themselves as its a great picnic spot with a lovely stream running thru it. Nice and cool on our feet too! TF replacing this cache drawp

Nice to have somewhere to get away from the traffic while hunting. Beautiful spot, too. After the caching business was done, Eve07 and I stood in the stream for a while and cooled off. Thanks drawp!

Schnell gefunden. Tftc

Hi there drawp - Last days for this trip - and we had to travel to Christchurch from Wanaka.. We found this cache at 1117am after a short search - and the container and log were both in good condition unless noted in the Fieldnotes below. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to drawp for this cache - the 5th of 7 finds for the day.

FieldNotes: The cache and log were both found in good condition.

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04.10.2022 9:50 Uhr GMT+11
Gesucht, gefunden, geloggt ...
DfdC DeSchmidt_n #5

Luckily it’s high and dry , a nice little stop when driving through the Lindis thanks for the cache.

Cool spot to stop. Tftc

Looked like the area had been recently flooded so was worried that cache may have been washed away, lucky for everyone it's still there and sitting pretty. Tftc!

Stunning on a snowy day
Thanks for the cache

Nice spot to stop

Thanks for replacing. Got it this time

One of 14 caches located today whilst travelling from Lake Ruataniwha (near Twizel) to Cromwell. Stopped at this spot for lunch and to pick up the cache. It was a quick find. Sadly no lupins at this time of the year! #4824. TFTC.

Replaced

Replaced

More a did not look as it appears a hint item has been cutdown and given the previous logs.

Might be a victim of more pruning.

No lupins no cache no luck ..add me to the long list searched high in both end trees

Had a pretty good look but no luck

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No luck for us

Unable to locate sorry

Stopped for a bit of lunch. After searching for quite awhile we could not find it.

Not finding it here today after searching but way too much toilet paper at GZ which made it more complicated and disgusting. Found plenty of possible hides but nothing there.

#20555. It certainly is lupin time of year at the moment. Quick find on our second visit. TFTC.

Today, StreetWalkerNZ and I are returning to Christchurch after a week hanging around lakes in Central Otago.
We had looked for this cache last year but it appears it was MIA at the time. Good to stop by today and avenge the blue face with a quick find. Certainly this time of year is peak lupin flowering time, and they do look lovely despite being a weed. Thanks for replacing and TFTC.

Lovely luppins. I found this cache during a Mum Taxi service. Two of my children are walking the Routburne. So I offered my services for drop off at the Glenorchy end and am picking them up at the TeAnau end. I invited Jude_E along for company, so we'll be taking a few detours along the way.
Thanks for hiding this cache drawp I appreciate it.

A quick find on my way home to Christchurch

Nice park m grab BYO pen. TFTC

When I noticed this had been replaced since my last attempt I had to stop and get rid of the blue frown on the map. Nanzie found it quickly. Thanks for replacing it drawp

#11116

Another park and grab tftc drawp

Cache good and dry. . TFTC

Cache replaced

All go again

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 31.055 E 169° 43.642

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 31.053 E 169° 43.640

Distance from original: 15.0 feet or 4.6 meters.

Replacement cache following tree removal

Dnf with judithrichards this has been the case for previous Geocache hunters.
It simple is not on site and needs attention by the CO or removed.
Stopping and parking only to find it doesn't exist spoils ones Geocaching day.

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

appears to be missing

Just like the others. With Tokerau

No success here.

Spent too much time dnf

No luck for us, even with widening the search area.

Found a likely hiding place but nothing there

After spending a couple of days around Cromwell we are now on our way north to Omarama or perhaps further. Mr S made the find while taking a break from the endless traffic. We travelled around the South Island in November in 2009 and the lupins were in full glorious flower. Not today though. Just rain.

Thanks for another smilie drawp.

TFTC. Found easily on our covid stopped overseas trip so exploring nz instead

TFTC quick stop on our trip south

A few good hiding place options later I got there in the end.
TFTC

On approaching GZ there looked like a lot of tree lopping had taken place, also there was a workers station looked like a bit maintenance around the bridge. Discovered the tree lopping had not interfered with the cache hidey hole, 2 logbooks/ one soggy and unsignable/ but another in a separate bag all good. Minus TB/ plus TB don't forget to add to list lol

I'm catching up on my logging which seemed to have stalled even though we have been in lockdown, my excuse is that I have been working throughout.
Found on our southward leg - day 2. Watch out for the human deposits among the trees [:(!]
This started out as a Geocaching road trip to Invercargill to drop off some stuff for the niece and collect some other stuff for Mrs banian. It turned into a bit of a race back to Wellington to beat the Covid-19 lockdown.
We were able to rebook our Ashburton accommodation and ferry ticket to earlier in the week. When we arrived in Picton the vehicle queue was almost a kilometre long, and got longer behind us. Fortunately, as we had tickets we were still able to get on our sailing.

TFTC drawp.

Nice quick find. Tftc

During our roadtrip through New Zealand I found this cache "Lupin Valley Stop (North Otago)" from drawp on 22 februari 2020 13:20.

Nothing is as rewarding to find a cache without the knowledge of its existence (because you have no reception or downloaded cache data upfront). But you can 'smell' there is one in the neighbourhood so you look for the obvious places, look a bit more and bingo you found the cache!

Due to the car stop style of the cache it was a good place to hide TB paddock Banger.

Groetjes/Greetings and TFTC from a Dutchman (a long way from home, but home is here the heart is, on the bus).

Looks like the trees have been severely trimmed recently and I was hoping the workers hadn’t removed the cache. Found it after a short search but the logbook was out of its bag and was soaked - unable to sign without ripping the pages. I dried out the container and bag but didn’t have time to try to dry out the logbook.
I’ve added a temporary logbook until someone will have time to stop and dry out the original.
Tftc

All seemed well here today. Not too much trouble finding the cache.

T4TC

Together with TEMBO! I had a really interesting geocaching-trip today. We could find some geocaches, met some locals and had a great talk to them.
Concerning this geocache I want to say thanks because we had much fun in searching and finding this geocache! The cache made our trip even more interesting!
TFTC!

No lupins but lots of catkins. Lying on the ground like swarms of hairy caterpillars.

Lunch break, Found on the way to Twizel...TFTC

Found it!

Great place for a cache. It was deserted today when I arrived and it was nice to hear the nearby water as I searched. I was actually about to give up and was walking back when I saw a place and said, well that is where I would have put it. So, I wandered over and sure enough that is where it was. Cheers drawp for the cache!

TFTC - drawp
Quick find today on my way home from grandson's 4 year old birthday celebration

Dropped TB

Cache checked and all OK

For my personal challenge of working towards getting my calendar on GC.COM to be at least the same shade of green or darker I need to sign off at least 12 caches today. I won't grumble if I find one or two more. Today I decided to go for a drive through the Lindis Pass to locate and sign off the required caches.

I read a previous log which states that you don't have to be near the toilet paper. Very helpful.

Cheers for the cache.

Trip towards Mount Cook area today grabbing a few caches on the way.
Found after a bit of a search. Not easy when the area had several people having picnics etc.
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

Den heutigen Tag haben Heckenstürmer und ich im Gebiet Mount Cook verbracht. Wir staunten über die Kräfte, die ein Gletscher haben kann. Eindrücklich. Die Wanderung "Hooker Trail" hat uns sehr gefallen.

Greets from Switzerland

Day 7 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Lindis Pass to the Mount Cook and back to Wanaka.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of interesting places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc