Johnstone Whistle Stop (South Otago) Johnston, South Island, New Zealand
By Onslow Fisherman on 18-May-11. Waypoint GC2WA9Z

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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TheCur8or
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Dropped by to check this one out again, but sadly after a lengthy rummage it was nowhere to be found. Certainly not where I'd found it previously.

Not for trying, unfortunately didn't find.

4 lots of eyes but no luck.

No luck here for me today.

Quick find. A denuded piece of land over the fence. TFTC Onslow Fisherman.

After an early start this morning and then a flight from Auckland we were really looking forward to a weekend of caching in our old stomping ground.
By coincidence we caught up with some caching friends at a cache in Mosgiel so we continue our adventures in convoy.
Took a little bit of searching but finally located TFTC.

FITW FMZ & rosmar
On a road trip around South Island. We started from Christchurch yesterday late evening. After driving through the night we managed to pick some old caches and have a brief stop over at Omaru geofest. We ran into rosmar at some point and now we are heading for another FTF attempt together. Had no trouble in finding this one. tftc.

Down with harisree for a weekend roadtrip to target some old caches and then ran into rosmar, so decided to team up for some more caches and an FTF. Quickish find here. TFTC

Was a good place to park off the road after turning around here earlier after being tail-gated past Poplar stop cache by a yob. Rain shower had just finished but that made the GZ a dripping wet search every time the wind blew through the oaks lol. There were some luvly trees here in the 'row'. Wheep spent a bit of time here as there were a lot of things associated with the hint. Found the wee box after that stop, think, pounce moment and the goods were soon in hand. Seen the remains?? of the goods shed?? in a burnt heap further back or was just maybe a farmer's dump for scrap. Threw in some swag and grabbed the goods in a new poly after SL. TFTC Jim.

Muddy leg stretch, said howdy to the "big fellas" next door. Grabbed Coin, made a swap, SL and scampered back to vehicle.

Muddy car, two wet muddy cachers dressed in ridgelines and khaki. Yep we look like farmers doing important farm stuff in old railway sidings. Except we're looking for the plastic and the little woman found a box worth dropping a TB into. Back to the car and away to the one we missed. Good parking at the balage off the road for this one. TFTC

TFTC. Lovely spot

Very interesting reading the history in the cache description thanks. Adds a lot of meaning to what seems a random place. Hard to imagine it as described. TFTC #9926

Interesting railway history.
TFTC

Wet feet getting this one. A quick park and grab on while on my way home from Cromwell. Left Cromwell early today so I had time to stop and get a few caches that I have been past many time and never had time to stop. So TFTC

Stopped at this cache this visit and quickly located the cache without any of the muggles working close by loading bales etc at a pull over are just around the corner, off the SH.
I am en route to central Otago after flying into Dunedin and picking up daughters car left at the airport for me, to look after grand kiddies for a couple of weeks, which will be a great delight as i dont get to see them very often living so far from us, in the North Island.
Thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

Quick park n grab!!! TFTC!!

Quick find Tftc

Nice quick find. TFTC

Interesting grove of trees great clue

Found It

Love that old rail network that roamed our country once. Would have never known this particular spot if not for caching tftc

Out and about after dinner, great location

Tftc

Nice quick find thanks. Still nice and dry.

Nice avenue of trees. Tftc

Found quickly thanks

Quick find thanks. So interesting thinking that trains used to run along here. TFTC

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way from Milton to Lawrence and Roxburgh.
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Took a few minutes to 'clue' in, but the find was made. TFTC.

Found it

A quick find today while out finding a few. TFTC OF [^]

Found it

Last stop for the day on way back to Dunedin, had plans to be somewhere at 6 as it is we will be late, TFTC nice quick find.

Quick find. took a photo of the trees. TFTC

Enjoy the history at these places. TFTC

Good find on this day of caching with 10grands. TFTC

Under track. Had to go through the long grass. Wet again. Hey Ho that's the joys of geocaching . TFTC

quick find tftc

Tftc

Quick find with Chosen1978 on day trip into OF territory. Interesting spot imagining the train going through here.

Logged find with granville86a, beautiful with the leaves on the ground, thanks OF for bringing us to this beautiful location and the history of this place

That is a sad story. I wonder what happened to his family? http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ODT18740218.2.50&e=-------10--1----0Adam+Johnston+was+Resident+Engineer+of+the+Clutha+railway--

A fine avenue indeed.

From Gore to Dunedin via..... Ettrick. Good parking 100m away. Thanks for the hide.

TFTC

Tftc

Another spot that you would not normaly find. TFTC

Found at 3:09:00 p.m. on 26/02/2013.

A quick park and grab on a hot & sunny afternoon.

TFTC Onslow Fisherman

It's a busy stretch of road but we found a safe place to pull over and made a quick find. Found with debsnz

On the way home and always good to stretch the legs and grab a smiley. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

We are currently on holiday in Southland, visiting from Auckland, together with HOLE-IN-ONE2, who is visiting from the UK. Today we decided to tackle a challenge we have been meaning to do for a while and with a big drive planned today thought it would be a good chance to complete it, 50 caches in one day, each cache at least 1km apart from all the others! This was indeed a whistle stop as the cache was quickly in hand. TFTC

We are currently on holiday in Southland, visiting from Auckland, together with HOLE-IN-ONE2, who is visiting from the UK. Today we decided to tackle a challenge we have been meaning to do for a while and with a big drive planned today thought it would be a good chance to complete it, 50 caches in one day, each cache at least 1km apart from all the others! This was indeed a whistle stop as the cache was quickly in hand. TFTC

Visiting phasevisitor from the UK PV doing 50 cache at least 1km apart challenge today.Quick stop and grab TFTC

Away To Wanaka today and looking forward to caching on the way. Third for the day. TFTC #248

TFTC

Nice easy find. TFTC

Found with Us04 and SpuDude13. TFTC

Found with Us04 and Lollipopcat. TFTC

On the way to Cromwell TFTC

Today we visited this nice Cache on our way from Dunedin to Alexandra TFTC

This entry was edited by Oertraesk on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 05:05:06 UTC.

This nice made cache we have found on our today's trip from Dunedin to Alexandra. It was a nice place to stop for geocaching!

TFTC!

nice took a bit of thinking made it harder than I should have cheers

Park up, stroll and grab. Another tick for the series.
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.

A quick walk in to grab this one, and the cache was found in good condition

TFTC Onslow Fisherman

Gaz'n'Kab

quick find on a sunny morning - and a small rabbit watching about 1m from cahce, pretending to not be there

found it in between rain showers on the way back from the dunedin mega event. i suspect we weren't the only ones that day as there was a good freshly worn path to the cache tftc!

Found with Emvy_us on day five of our southern tiki tour while attending the Dunedin Mega. TFTC

Another great find on the Emvy_Us / Waiiti20 mega tour of the Southern South Island. TFTC

Followed geotrail right to the goods
TFTC

Quick and easy find this morning. Thanks for the hunt Onslow Fisherman

Another OF special. TFTCC

So this was Day Three of my NZ trip on route to the Mega Event.

We had a very slow start to the day, taking in breakfast at a local bakery
before collecting a few Caches in some very interesting locations around Alexandra.

Now on route to Dunedin we pulled off the main road to look at a few specific caches.

We chose this one as it was on our route and did not pose too much difficulty on arrival.
fair bit of rubbish and debris around, but did not interfere with finding the cache.

Cheers for bringing us here,

After arriving quite late into Alexandra last night and then being up until 2am logging and chatting it was a much slower start for the West Australians today.

Heading now towards Dunedin for the Mega.

An interesting, if not terrifying drive for us today. With the temperature getting down to 4degrees and being in a very windy stretch of road during 20minutes of hail it is a day we won't be forgetting in a hurry.

The road has been very busy today and we have missed a few caches that we thought we might stop at as there has been nowhere to pull over. No such problems here.

Another quick grab as we make our dash into Dunedin. Running late now.

TFTC

Found on the trip to the NZ mega with Sam walkers. Got to this one and can say not much room to pull off. I would pull off on the side road and then walk down. Not like us. As we got beeped by someone while trying to find the cache. Made a quick find using the hint TFTC

No sign of any engines today. Cache number #12 in the South Island while on my way to the Mega event. Kept on track by a bit of a geotrail. TFTCSL

recycling in action spied near the cache. Great to see old rail relics getting new life, in a supporting role!

TFTC. warning for others : learn from my mistake. THE FENCE IS ELECTRIC! haha got a BIG fright lol

Quick find while heading up to the mountains for some more caches. TFTC

TFTC

I've driven past this area so many times but never knew just how pretty the area was. The avenue of trees was just lovely. Thanks Onslow Fisherman for this series of rail caches, we have been enjoying them all.

Autumn leaves lay thick on the ground where once train engines huffed and puffed. It was an easy find but it made us make time to reflect on the past and how it was here long ago.

The local farmer seems to be making good use of the level area here.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Nice little park and grab, and a lovely tree-filled paddock. Cheers Gav [11864]

An easy find on our way to dunedin

Found eventually... HOTA

Good series of caches. SL TFTC

Another quick one, until little one wanted a to stretch her logs on the silage... cheers

Road trip home after Mama's duathalon in Queenstown. Another nice quick find by Papa - who is finding all this railway information very interesting. Sadly Guwapo - our resident railway expert - was sound asleep in the CacheMobile. Salamat!

Got wet feet getting to cache. Tftc

Another quick find. Tftc

found with the kids on a day out.TFTC

TFTC

A Quick find on way to Queeenstown, TFTC

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tftc

No whistles sounding

Last of the train series for the day, a great theme and I thoroughly enjoyed them all, each with their own little snippet of what was once a much bigger picture of an important link in the lives of the earlier pioneers in the district.

Many thanks for all the placements Onslow Fishermman [^]