Shining like Stars in the ... (Central Otago) Lawrence, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 26-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MYBT

Not a quick find for me but a find nevertheless

Great spot! Were enjoying exploring this historical region. Were third to sign the nice new log. Thank you.

An interesting piece of history, and well worth stopped to read .....(and find a cache)

I visited Gabriels gully a number of years ago just after I moved to Nz and before I started caching. I thought it was a gravel road and I dont remember seeing this memorial. Caching made me see it this time. Soon had the cache in hand. Logbook was getting close to full so I replaced it with a new slip of paper. I have the old log if the CO wants it. Thanks for the cache, drawp#6172 ** Make your way to Dunedin for New Zealands next Mega Event. GCA7ZHD Geo Toroa will be held on NZs Labour Day long weekend 26-27th October 2024 **

Out caching on Fathers Day and the first day of Spring

TFTC just thinking that caching really pales in significance to what these guys would have gone through looking for their treasure!

Lovely little spot! Easy to find

Headed up to Gabriel's Gully today. This was a simple find, and a nice place to stop. Tftc!

Found while exploring the Lawrence area, TFTC

Found while exploring with my family, TFTC

Good hiding spot, thanks

Log is full

Found it. Neat little spot. Thanks

Found after a short search with HRH54 TFTC

First find on the way in to Gabriels Gullywith Juju54 TFTC

With a few hours to wait before the shuttle arrived we had a ride up to Gabriels Gully and a look around the town. The mining really interesting, pretty in the gardens with spring flowers. Well worth a stop. TFTC

Found on the way to Gabriel's Gully, perfect spring day

Cool thanks

My daughter, grandfather and I had fun searching for this

Found it! Wahoo!

Tftc

Quick find, didn't spend much time here as it was snowing and freezing cold, tftc

Interesting spot - tftc and a quick find

After completing the Gabriel’s Gully walk and picking up a bunch of caches, we were heading away and stopped for this one. It was a quick find. Enjoying the history of the area. #6085. TFTC.

Drive by again. This time we stopped. A bit wet today. Tftc

In Dunedin for a wee Easter school holiday adventure. Rather wet so not sure what we'll be doing for the few days that we are down here! Today the aim was to visit Lawrence and Gabriels Gully as MrsTGs ancesters mined the area....patchy rain so we'll see how the day goes!
Heading for Gabriel's Gully and the walk aroundd the area...bit of drizzle but hay, we have raincoats and umbrella's....boys not so thrilled. A quick find here, Spooked the yearlings over the fence....

A quick find on the way back to Laurence today. TFTC

Awesome place

Tftc stopped by to see the horses too. Cool gold mining relic area!!! Off to the Gully now for a good walk

TFTC Waitangi Day, 2023… very significant historical spot… with Clubrose.,

Quick easy find with vz1pp. Thanks for bringing us to this historic place. All of my ancestors were goldminers arriving from the Bendigo ( Australia) mines to Waipori. I might've been an Ozzie otherwise, rather than a kiwi . Tftc

Nice quick find with a bit of history tftc

Enjoyed reading about the history of the place. TFTC

Heading into the gulley to explore…
Found with Ice Diva
TftC

First find of our Central Otago caravan trip….found with Conbat. TFTC!

Great location! TFTC

Neat find on trip from UK, lost our pen

Neat place

Neat spot, quick find. Tftc

Kia pai tou koutou Wiki o Te Reo Māori . Kua haere mai māua ki te hotēra, ā, akuanei, ka timata te hikoi, i mua i te tonga o te rā.

A nice quick find. Put in a new waterproof sheet so hopefully should be good to go. Thanks for placing your cache.

Time for another road trip for Ms_KR and KR, so we headed south toward Otago. We cruised through from Ranfurly to Lawrence today, With some biking and some walking too. Another glorious day.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Tftc!
Log slip wet.

We stopped here on the way out. A cool memorial and worthy of a cache. Us Bay of Plenty people have a different interpretation of "post" so after no luck there we looked in other likely spots to locate the nicely blended in cache. Thanks for the cache drawp

It was tricky trying to get a good fix on the co ords..so used geo sense not sure I would call that a post..its a ____ tah all day long vool spot worthy of a cache thanks

Day two caching and seeing the sights of Otago and a bit of Southland with raylnz (big Sis from CH-Ch.) Brilliant day in Lawrence. Good to be out and about before our next self-imposed home detention. tftc

Took ages but got there in the end. Log wet but still able to sign. Tftc

Very wet log. Out the second day sightseeing and caching with gdkja. Tftc

This took me longer that it should have due to the nice camo. Tftc

Found on my 6 weeks long holiday.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are now parked up in Lawerence for a couple days … some biking on the Clutha Goldfields Trail & walking into Gabriels Gully are on the agenda … decided we would do the loop track around Gabriels Gully today … be rude not to grab a few caches … found with no issues, log completed & successfully returned … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,044 for us.

Found!

Found it 26/10/21

What a lovely place for a cache. Thanks to the VDH56's for suggesting we come here.

Great find. Lovely and calm for reflection .
Tftc

Checked and all good

Another find heading back to Dunedin.

Good to finally stop and look at this monument. Wondered which tree the smaller plaque referred to. Flamingo4850 found this one first; container blends in well. TFTC.

Quick find on my way back from a nosy at what’s left of the Bluespur Township. TFTC!

We were down in Invercargill for a week then travelled around a bit and we passed quite a few caches and i was able to stop and locate some and then made our way through to Dunedin for a reunion . this was an interesting monument as we went up to the gabriel's Gully site. and i took some photos which i will post later.
Thank you for these caches

Quick find in a beautiful spot

Very well hidden, great spot.

Good place to wrap up my trip here where it all started 100 years before I was born.

A quick find. Time was limited, wanted to grab all at Gabriels Gully, but we'll have to come back and stay a bit longer next time.

A lovely day for a spot of caching today. Log was sopping wet and unsignable so we replaced the log. TFTC

Nice, thanks ,quick find

Adventuring in Gabriel’s Gully, kids on tour!

Co-ords spot on for us here. Replaced the full and wet log.

TFTC - stumbled upon while having an ice cream stop

Log paper a bit wet and nearly full

It is my opinion that it is good that caches such as these exist, for they aid with keeping connected with stories from the past. After all, it is the past that created today.
Thank you for the cache.

Great memorial to our day!

Quick find while looking at a potential block of forestry to buy. A quick find and splash around in the ditch for me and the geopups.
Tftc

Nice quick find, though it's not quite screwed in no matter how you wiggle it. TFTC

Found it

Nice spot to stop & find a cache

.Its mid afternoon and the sun is shining - not stars thankfully. We are heading to the rim walkway. But had to stop here on the way. Quick snag and tag. Cheers. Thanks for the info on Gabriel on the cache page.

Its Wednesday 24 April and we are off exploring Milburn, Lawrence and Lake Mahinarangi today. Awesome!!

Its another awesome geoventure to Dunedin, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack, Jill and William all along for the trip. Had a wonderful 10 days exploring Dunedin. It was great catching up with local cachers at several events we attended. Lots of walking and driving, with the odd cycle and wave ride to jazz things up. Thanks to all the COs that made this trip a wonderful success. Even managed to bag some lab caches along with wherigos, earth caches and events, with the usual mix taking us to some amazing places..

Now I remember why we came this way! I am writing up this cache two weeks after the find (we found 300 caches over Easter, it takes a while to write the logs). Oh, yes. I love mining caches. Well, I love historical caches, and gold mining is certainly historical. Like the history on the cache page. If the cache was bigger it would have been a favourite.

Taybeedragon and I have an eleven day Easter weekend in Dunedin. Although, let's face it, given that we are from Blenheim and Picton that means two of those days was spent in travelling. In that time we grabbed a smidge over three hundred caches. Not bad, considering the amount of time spent way out on the back roads, on bicycles or canoeing on the water. A few virtuals, larges, letterboxes, earths, wherigos, and even ten lab caches in the haul. An awesome weekend!

Pop used to trade around the Lawrence district and Gabriel Read's name was brought up in conversations occasionally around the tea tables at the rellies. I had never been to Gabriel's gully before and got some surprises when I drove round the corners towards the end. Stopped by to check out the monument and pick up the wee con at it's place and SL initials and returned. TFTC Drawp.

Heading back to Dunedin after our holiday and in no rush today so able to stop several times along the way! Geohusband has never been up here so was nice for him to see this and for me to get another smiley. TFTC!

Mia mum and auntie Angie

Perfect spot for a cache.

WhTs not to love about a caching trip combined with downsouthinv having to deliver parts for work.
Any excuse is a good one, and time to head off the main road into the wilderness to find us some caches.

TFTC

At last, a free weekend before the onset of chaos. An early morning phone call...'are you able to take xyz up north to a customer?''
There was no excuse not to, quickly chucked clothes on dragged her outta bed raced into work,got parts, and on the road before 8am.
As we drove, the voice from the passenger seat, piped up and said ' look at all these,aren't we going near here?'
Oooh Goody!! Now it's a fun work trip,might be a long day!!!

A quick park and grab on an beautiful day.
tftc

A Muggle was standing right beside it. But when Mum called it went up the hill and out of sight. Love lambing time lol. TFTC

Thanks

Heading South for a break and a bit of Geocaching. Grabbing a few on our way from Lawrence to Invercargill.
Signed log, TFTC drawp.

Many thanks to all the COs who helped make our geocaching holiday a great success
We left home early April and returned 21 May 2018. We toured from our home base up to a wedding in North Taranaki then carried on heading south right down through wellington and on down the west coast and back up via the eastern side of the alps some times going around in circles. Our aim was to get as many smiley faces on the puzzle caches that we had solved but of course stopping for many traditionals, multies and others as we went. some time we biked the bike trails or walked but mostly by campervan. we enjoyed the quite back country roads, many of them were metal but we just travelled along slowly going from cache to cache. Most caches were in good condition and I will remark if we thought it needs maintence etc.

Thanks for bringing us to read the cairn. Quick grab. TFTC!!!

That was a nice, easy, painless find. Thanks

No problems at all. Walked straight up to it.

Just one of a few GC checks in the area on a day off.

Tftc
On a holiday trip in New Zealand was looking for a few geocaches places were beautiful and great thanks

Great, tiny cache.

Found quick wee find tftc

Nice wee cache. Have really enjoyed the hunt around Gabriel’s Gully. Tftc

Found after a bit of thinking!

Not to hard. You need to know history for the clue to make sense.

Hard to spot

First for the day. Quick park and grab. TFTC

A quick park and grab. The first for the day. It was an esay find. TFTC