Mata Kopae (Canterbury) Spotswood, South Island, New Zealand
By BruceAndLisa on 08-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2RTFF

Found on a beautiful spring day, during our stop here for lunch. First geocache find for the biggest of my littles Thanks for placing this here

Nice place to stop off.Thanks for bringing us here.

We were supposed to do a whale watching trip today, but it got cancelled as the whales were outside the area. Instead we set off to find a few caches. Glad we made a quick find as it was very cold and windy here today. Tftc

Thank you I love this place

Tftc

Found It!Lovely spot on the lake for a walk aroundStopped on our way past from North Island on way to Otago+1 tb (fit perfectly)TFTCCharlotteAndJordy

A great little detour on route to Christchurch. TFTC

Thx

Trouve ! / Found it ! 5217me cache trouve.Merci BruceAndLisa pour la cache 5217th cache found.Thank you BruceAndLisa for the cache

#3008Found by the Tontako Team.Thanks for the cache

#2393 (Tontako Team) Kia Ora from Spain! We found this cache during our New Zealand / Aotearoa holidays.TFTC

Found after a stop at the lagoon to check out the birds.

Stopped for lunch on the way to Blenheim and there is Geocache 75m away.Good cache

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

Found with Dali87 within our famous trip around New Zealand. Thanks for nice cache ....................................................................... TB Koumesovo geopivo DDEV7M

Found by Matt coming home from my 45th birthday weekend in Kaikoura

This cache was a nice, quick find at a lovely rest stop I wouldn't have otherwise found. TFTC!

Found after having a picnic lunch by the lake. Tftc

Qiuck easy cache tftc (lest favourite point)

A quick find under an impressive tree. Contents of cache nice and dry. TFTC

Very nice, thanks

Gehschei left highway #1 for visiting the lagoon. TftC.

Lovey spot and quick find

Found during our picnic lunch as we relocated from Kirikiriroa to tautahi. A quick easy find! Ground pretty boggy! TFTC!

Easy peasy...cool location

That was a awsome hunt great location and hiding

Found during the way from Waipara to Kaikoura. Beautiful place to have a rest. TFTC

Beautiful place to stop, thank you for cache

Cool easy Find, under the watchful swan eyes

Yay! TFTC! I came all the way from Vancouver BC Canada to find this cache Thanks for being part of the adventure!

A pretty lagoon embroidered with magnificent trees. TFTC

Thank you for a great cache!

A small detour on the way back from a family gettogether nearby, not sure if the cache container is going to survive very long, thanks for replacing and TFTC.

Tftc and greetings from Czechia.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

On our way back from Kaikoura, we were looking for picnic spot. As usual I opened my geocaching app. This place looked like a good candidate and it was. There were no cars when we arrived. We found a picnic table by the lake. Lots of ducks and swans. Then off to the cache. Easy find once my muggle dad understood how to use the GPS and took us in the right direction. Mr8 was busy climbing, so I found a logbook. Reading the logs, I realised that might not be the cache, but there was nothing else around to sign. This needs some maintenance as the container is missing.

Was going to drop off a trackable duck
But seems cache not there, although throwdown log and bag are

Pulled in to visit the area, a peaceful spot

Wandered down to GZ for a search, and after a bit of a explore decided the cache must be missing.

I have left a bag/waterproof paper, and tucked it along the trunk of the lying down tree.

If the next finder has a pill bottle? a bit of TLC

Thanks BruceAndLisa for the hide, and for bringing me here. I hope the replacement is OK?

Spent quite a bit of time searching for the cache, but no luck ;(

Lovely place. Looked all around but could not locate

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No luck today

TFTC. Found it on a rainy day on the way back dropping family of at the airport.

We found it

A beautiful little area to stop for a coffee break.
There were a couple of muggles around, but not near gz.
I left a pet rock - a dog.
Thanks for putting this here for us to find

Quick find in this very peaceful place, thanks for bringing me here. TFTC!

Quick find.

Lovely spot on our outing to explore Cheviot. chose this spot for lunch today. Thanks for the cache BruceandLisa.

Good hiding spot beautiful place though from zeze and Chantal

Lovely peaceful spot. Thank you.

Lovely peaceful area in here! Have driven past many times but never called in until there was a cache here. Thanks for placing this one

Nice easy find in the most beautiful spot. Thanks so much FTC

I have traveled this road many time but was never able to find somewhere to park my truck close so today was the day as im heading to aucklamd to see my mum. Cache found in ok condition my baggies selection nit not fit the purpose for a replacement but log is still signable. Took TB TFTC

A lovely place to stop and we wouldn't have done so if it wasn't for the cache. A nice quick find and we swapped tb's, taking the jeep and leaving a laminated TB to carry on moving. tftc

Quick detour off the highway to check out the lagoon. Dropped TB
Malinkaly and I planned a road trip to go to the MEGA but Covid has postponed the event again. We decided to continue on with our planned journey making adjustments as we go with the ever-changing travel restrictions. On the home leg now back to Dunners!
Thanks for the cache, CacheSenseNZ
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This is a beautiful area! Lovely!
The cache was quickly found. I took the liberty of liberating smelly and moldy trading cards and a packet of ketchup.... The log is also wet and a bit moldy as the zip lock bag is ripped. But was still able to sign easy enough.

TFTC CacheSenseNZ

*** Out on our MEGA Roadtrip with Wilbywarrior. Who says this can only happen when the MEGA is actually held?! Greetings from Dunedin, caching friends
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Mr 7 found it in less than 30 seconds!!! Bit damp.

Cool spot! TFTC, log book quite damp

Found it

Off on a road trip to Chch for the weekend. With limited time and raining on and off. We still managed to get in a bit of caching along the way. Down the East cost and back up the West cost was the plan but stormy weather put a stop to that. With no roads open to get home on we stopped in Kaikoura for an unplanned extra night. So thank you for for the caches you placed out there for us to find we had fun and frustration finding them along the way. Looking forward to the next trip to find the ones we missed. Apologies for the cut and paste.

Found

Always so peaceful here beside the humming highway. Great hint and coords led to a quick find. Tftc.

First Find, nicely hidden in a lovely location

1149 found on a trip to Hamner with T1. TFTC

Beautiful quiet lake

My first one!

Woot another one found! TFTF

Super easy find on a stunning Autumn day. Great place to pull over for a chocolate fish

Took a while to find, great hide

Nice big cache in good condition. Thought we better not let the dogs out, so didn’t stick around for the lovely lake. Tftc

Quick walk to find it on a hot day

Thanks for taking us out here for a wander

Nice little walk here.

Nice area to stop at on the way north. TFTC

A quick find whilst stopped for a break in our journey - tftc

Found it tftc

Ok

Found tftc nice spot

A great spot for a lunch break. TFTC

Nice easy find while trying to waste some time in between road closures.

Decided this morning that a day trip north was in order so after a quick stop in Cheviot we stopped here to make the find. Thanks for the cache

Cache number 4178

And the roots stood out. Tftc AND for sending us to St Anne Lake.

An easy find with @peadub while on our way to the Picton Ferry and home. Exactly where described. Thanks for placing a cache at St Anne's Lagoon. We probably wouldn't have stopped here if there wasn't a cache. What a little gem! Saw some ducklings too. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC.

Awesome break in driving on the way to chch. Happy muggle photographers enjoying the area also.

Hoped that someone would have left a cache here, and happy we were right. Kia ora for the cache.

(# 6009). Day 3 of my South Island odyssey. Today is getting caches from Kaikoura to Christchurch. Woke up to a fine frosty morning with views of the snow capped ranges. An uneventful trip down. I like these spots. So picturesque. No problems with muggles as I was the only person in the reserve. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Found with judithrichards yesterday

Outstanding tree. With Crickethawea

Found near a nice shaded spot by the lake

Such a great spot I've never managed to properly explore despite coming to Cheviot and Gore Bay all my life thanks for bringing me here! Will definitely have to return when I've got a picnic packed

Beautiful location. TFTC!

Day 2 of our Sth Island (substitute for Seattle) trip - Kaikoura/Christchurch. This was a nice place to take a short break. Thanks.
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Beautiful park, must be amazing in summer! TFTC!

Great stop on my travels. Don't go beyond the circular track, muddy enough to put my Rav in a tail spin! TFTC

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

Wonderful spot. Tftc.

What a beautiful place! Autumn makes it even more beautiful with the falling orange leaves waw! TFTC

Good night on the way home

Beautiful pit stop on a local road trip. TFTC. Found with our small human SB

Great location and views. Cache is hidden in a perfect wee spot. Cache container is dry and big enough to put collectables. Thanks for the cache