The Message ( North Otago ) Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 31-Dec-10. Waypoint GC2KVDX

gone

No luck for us either... noticed the DNFs after searching... needs replacing.

Saw the dnfs after looking

I was super keen to get this one at such a significant location, but logging on now we see that it has gone.

Walked passed here today and noticed cache was gone , only the stones once hiding it are there.

Our second DNF for the day. There were a few muggles wandering around, but think we had a pretty decent look between interuptions! Got some great photos of the shags. Cache stayed well hidden this time.

No Luck in Oamaro, 4 DNFs in a row... where do you guys hide your boxes.. ???

While waiting for the penguins, we found this cache. TFTC!
DH6AI

Had to leave this last trip due to car load of youths parked right at the cache. No worries today, reread the info too.

TFTC

A quick find while we were stopped to watch the little blue penguins come ashore just after dusk. I enjoyed this cache, it led me to a very interesting bit of history that I would not otherwise have known about. Signed log, TFTC!

We have been too early for the penguins. But as we had to arrive at Christchurch this day, there was no chance to wait. Fortunately the cache was found so the stop has not been of no avail. Thank you for placing this container.

Unfortunately no penguins, but we were lucky about a cache. TFTC say Uhiesscher and I.

Interesting history.TFTC

TTFC. Deposited trackable.

not to hard to find

Found it well. TFTC

After going out for dinner, we came down here for the Penguins, but decided to do some caching even though the GPS was in our room. We had all the caches on our Nuvi, but it isn't good close up. Found anyway, so SL. Thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache,

Easy and fast found
TFTC
krümel91

Interesting piece of history and quick find,. Took some stunning photos of the birds here and views of the boats. Did with Mycro Man on our NZ MEGA 2012 South Island Trip

Did with CrystalFairy

A really great piece history learnt! Puts a new spin on the area for us now, thanks for this interesting ca he.

We had no idea this piece of history was here. Rather a sombre place, when you think about it. We stopped to photograph the jetty nearby, and Mr Wibble didn't even know I had plans to find a cache here, until he spotted it and said "hey...... is there supposed to be a cache here? Because I just saw one!"

This was one of 69 caches for the day along with bogonghazy enroute from Oamaru to Dunedin for NZ Mega. We had sunshine, rain, snow and wind throughout the day. But still got to enjoy a greats days caching. Thanks to the CO and greetings from Oz.

Found as part of the Gangsters- The Rats, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt and Shell- as part of our NZ Mega Event Tour 2012.

Originally I thought this one might be out a bit but not so! TFTC!

Found by The Empire with tackle_head
Day three of the trek south to the NZ Mega.
After staying in Oamaru for night two, it was time to head to Dunedin. We'd had a cooked breakfast in an Oamaru bakery and grabbed a few caches in town before heading south. This was one of the caches we found. My thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache.
- M
Melbourne, Australia

Like Scott, I was lost and the cache was nowhere to be found. A chat with fellow cachers a few days later revealed I was snowblind.

Found with Sully1 on our third day in this beautiful country.
Today we headed from Oamaru to Dunedin, enjoying even more of this scenery
and friendly Kiwis, and finding a great variety of clever and educational caches along the way.
Thanks again Bitsprayer

Found this cache as part of the Gangster's Aussie assault on the first NZ Mega with Big Matt, FarmerFrenzten and steeba.

This was a quick find after leaving the pengiun area.
Thanks

Found during 'The Gangsters' trip to New Zealand, being Big Matt, The Rats, steeba and myself.

We had to reach through to grab this one.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache.

Our 6287th overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. Found quickly, there is only so many places to hide a cache.

Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache. Stats for our trip can be found here http://www.campersdownunder.com.au/geocaching/NZTrip/stats2.html

Found while on tour with The Empire on the way to the NZ Mega event in Dunedon from Melbourne .
thankyou for this part of our guided tour and your cache .
Steve

I was trying to focus on the tragedy that the message brought but instead all I could think of was that song, "Message in a Bottle", which kept spiraling through my head! The view across the jetty was perfect as it caught the last rays of sunlight. TFTC, Bitsprayer. =^.^=

After booking in at the motel we had enough time for a couple of caches before it got too dark. Found this one on a brief trip to check out the penguins. TFTC

Day 4 of our N Z Mega Event Adventure as we were slowly making our way down to Dunedin in our hire camper van geo mobile. We had arrived in Christchurch on a very cold and rainy day, but the weather was now beautiful and sunny - perfect caching weather. We found this cache quite easily and with the log quickly signed, we jumped back into our cache mobile to continue our adventure. Thank you for having placed the cache Bitsprayer

The things you find about your own area. Was a bit worried poking into holes that a penguin might bite but no need to poke in holes.

An easy find on a very cold and windy day. Impressive with all the 'steampunk'-stuff down the road

Found at 09:59 - #2793 - with Alexesmann

TFTC

Found with renelm. TFTC

Find #1342. On a lovely South Island holiday from Wellington, although the weather wasn’t quite so nice in this part of the country. A solo find in an effort to see some of the town with squally southerly showers blowing in off the sea. Loved the history of this sight and it’s nice to see the buildings so well looked after. A Leopard seal was basking in the cloud on a haul-up not far away. Surprised the see the cache in such an open spot. Wouldn’t get away with that in Wellington! SL TFTC

In Oamaru for a BBQ at a friends on Saturday and after a great lunch at the Portside on Sunday had to have a look for this one.
A quick park and grab and then a read of the sign soon had us clued up on the message.
TFTC

yaaaaaaay found it found it

Good to check out the area and the sea views. TFTC

Nice cache

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Nice TFTC

TFTC! Found this cache soooo easy!

tftc

A quick find with the geocaching group.

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It is nice to see the improvements being made to the foreshore area in Friendly Bay. Those old buildings are sure in find shape and with good documentation of the historical event that happened here. Glad there were no muggles around to prevent my signing of another document.

very interesting place! SL T4TC!! Nik from PT13!

lots of muggles

TFTC

easy find

On our back to North Oamaru, we made a quick but lovely stop here. Merci pour la cache

Nice easy find at the end of a business day in Oamaru, visiting from CHCH. TFTC

Fluffyduck38 was in charge of this one, he did well! We left a penguin TB (it seemed the perfect place) and took a badger one. TFTC

A quick dash between passing muggles and back to the car to log our visit. A TB swap here seemed appropriate.

found on my round today

good weather and all

merci

Quick find on a morning walk along the harbour. TFTC

Dropped TB Badger

Found it after a little while.

TFTC

TFTC JDW

Good quick cache find. SL TFTC

Nice easy find on a warm day, quite a few muggles about had to pick the right time to grab it.

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through, on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.
Thanks for setting this up.
TFTC
Mud & Kim

thx, easy cache

tftc

Quick find in between muggles TFTC

great spot and great history. found without any trouble. Took Penguin Travel Bug to be relocated soon.

Lots of birds. Wow!! Tftc. Gla we got in before some sort of race.

Love all the birds. So many!!

A quick easy find at these interesting old buildings. TFTC

+ "Starfisch´s" TB

A nice spot, didnt see any penguins. The old jetty looks pretty dodgy. TFTC from N.Ireland

FOUND THIS CACHE REALLY EASY ON OUR WAY TO SEE THE PENGUINS COME ASHORE

TRAVELLING AROUND BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH ISLAND FROM THE UK

TFTC

WE HID IT AGAIN MORE THOROUGHLY

Found easily by Mrs RocketRon but thank you.
TNLN except log in and out my Help for Heroes geocoin.
TFTC

TFTC. Enjoying exploring Oamaru.

Nice place.
In: coin
TFTC

Tftc great spot... Moving coin on...

Quick find. TFTC

TFTC

TFTC Two officers and two seamen rowed ashore from the Terra Nova, which anchored off the harbour and got a coded telegram thru to London to announce the demise of Scott and Party. On the way back to the cutter they were chased by reporters who knew something was up but didn't spill the beans. By the time the ship got to Lyttleton half the english speaking world was in mourning.

This entry was edited by MATUKITUKI on Monday, 23 January 2012 at 23:09:10 UTC.

As the reason we came to NZ was to celebrate Clare's Birthday we were being taken out for a meal (and a very good one it was) so came a little early and did a little caching.

Now this is where we ate up this end of town and we loved it here. We started to look in the wrong place but soon had it sussed.


2012 Mega Event in the North West:
Cartmel Racecourse, South Lakeland, Cumbria: Saturday 11th August 2012. See www.mega2012.org.uk for the latest!

TFTC TNLN SL

Quick find, TFTC

Wow! What a historic spot, thanks for sharing. We also found another message closeby (see photo) TFTC.

This entry was edited by rosmar on Thursday, 05 January 2012 at 08:38:10 UTC.

Dropped off Yellow feet.

This entry was edited by karenhippo on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 at 22:17:49 UTC.

Found this one while out with the family, managed too see a blue penguin hiding in the rocks good find.
TFTC

Easy

Found it:)

Found fairly easy while Caching in my old home Town (back for Chrisy with family)Didn't see the trackable.

TFTC

Found during first day on a caching raid with Nofs. TFTC

found it

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