Tohora Tahuhu (Otago) Circle Hill, South Island, New Zealand
By G_G_G on 15-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2YQTC

It has come to my attention that the CO is no longer active on Geocaching.com and is not maintaining existing caches. As such I am archiving this cache to ensure geocachers activities are not impeded. If the CO wishes for this cache to be unarchived then they may contact us and, assuming it meets the guidelines, we will be happy to unarchive it.

Up the gravel roads we went. We came up for the earth cache and as a bonus realised there was a traditional one hear also. There was a muggle worker on a break so had to collect the earth cache info first in the hope he would move on so we could search. We completed the earth cache info and took in the view before looking for the traditional nearby in the hope the muggle would soon leave. An interesting and history plus a great view. TFTEC



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Day 4 of our NZ-Roadtrip took us from Dunedin down to Invercargill.
Like in the 3 days before, we visited a lot of Caches beside the Road.
Unfortunately, the hours were running away. So we couldn't do all the Caches we wanted.
Thanks again to all the Owners, who brought us to so beautiful Places.

MfG
Coint8208.02.2014 / 09:40

Stopped by here on the way south. Lots of interesting info and a great view over the plains, although a bit obscured today by the foul weather. TFTC

Good to return here again. Found with SpyDude13 and Lollipopcat. Kia ora for the cache G G G.

Found with SpyDude13 and Us04. TFTC.

Found with Lollipopcat and Us04. TFTC.

Answers sent to CO.

Been here yonks ago for the trad, nice to come back and read all the signage again.

during my trip around NZ, I have found this cache.
I would like to thank all the owners for the awesome Caches.
greetings
Navigator111

TFTC, good to do another earthcache. Just emailed the answers. A very interesting place

We had visited this location some time ago for a traditional cache. Great to have another excuse to came back here for. TFTC

This place is well worth a stop. Heaps of information and great views as well. Thanks for bringing us here. Found with debsnz

Have emailed the required info. Would not know this place was here without geocaching. Interesting information and history. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

It was a sunny day. What for a amaizing landscape. Thanks for showing us this place.

Greetings from Germany

TFTC

A whale here? Ok
Thank you for the cache.

Auf unserer Campertour durch das schöne Neuseeland sind wir (claudischen, llamingo, thundercatcher und ich) an diesem Cache vorbeigekommen und haben ihn gefunden.

Viele Grüsse aus Deutschland!

TFTC
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On our campertour through the beautiful New Zealand we (claudischen, llamingo, thundercatcher and I) got past this cache and found it.

Greetings from Germany!

TFTC

Together with Thundercatcher, Bommelstation and Claudischen we make a trip trough New Zealand.
I love this country! It' so beautiful! .

On our tour there are a lot of caching places. This is one of it and we found it
Thank you for showing us this place
And greetings from Germany!

In the area for the other one nearby so gathered the information. Then completely forgot to log it for about 8 months! Brain must be getting as fossilised as the exhibits.
TFTC

A worthwhile stop on the trip from Dunedin to Invercargill. TFTC [^]

tftc

#3498

Today's trip from Invercargill to Dunedin was primarily to find Table Hill but there is plenty more to see. This earthcache took me off the main road but was well worth the visit. Recommemded.

TFTC

ds8300

Have been here before, but not having this one was eating at me. Raabie.

Stopped here for a picnic lunch between dunedin and cromwell. Beautiful day, have driven past on main road many times and great to finally get up here.

will email answers tonight. great spot

On our last day we arrived en-masse and enjoyed the exhibition and the views.

Answers not and sent to CO by ghostgums on behalf of all of us.


Day 6 and our final day of our caching trip to Dunedin for the NZ MEGA 2012 event with Gunnie69, Ozibags, ghostgumsand MrMeccano. We made our from Saint Clair, down to Waldronville and the along the coast (Brighton Road) to Taieri, and then over to Milton, before heading north to the airport for our journey home.

Sorry about the late log - this is the last of over 250 during our vist.

thanks for the earthcache G G G

We arrived and were able to collect all the necessary information which we sent to the cache owner!

Nice view of the lake here!

Day 6 and our final day of our caching trip to Dunedin for the NZ MEGA 2012 event with Gunnie69, Ozibags, fourbees and MrMeccano. We made our from Saint Clair, down to Waldronville and the along the coast (Brighton Road) to Taieri, and then over to Milton, before heading north to the airport for our journey home.

TFTC G_G_G

Wow, you have to wonder how a Whale got this far inland but I guess that long ago, the landscape would have been a whole lot different to now...

An interesting EC and a great place to stop. Somewhere you would never find without being brought here for some reason either... What a shame...

The group of us listed the answers to the questions and snapped the obligatory pics at GZ. Ghostgums has volunteered to play EC master and forward the answers which will be inbound if you do not have them already...

Cheers G G G.

The cache was researched with fellow Queensland hunters OziBags, TheFourBees, Ghostgums and Mr Meccano.

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

This was a straightforward earthcache but an interesting spot nonetheless. Answers sent to CO.

Thanks G_G_G for the cache.

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

Another interesting EarthCache and a good display. The answers weren't too much trouble and we spent some time admiring the fossil and the information on hand. TFTC!

Our 6477th overall find.

Found on the "Gangsters" NZ Mega 2012 trip with steeba, The Rats and Farmer Frentzen. What a great example of a fossil, it's a shame that some people would never see this. We gathered the required information and an email has been sent.

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

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

This was an interesting diversion off the main highway. Not only was there an earthcache and a traditional, but there was an interesting quarry and some great views from up here.
Seeing the fossils in the rocks really makes you reflect on the history of our land.
Thanks

10003... Email sent.

The weather forecast looked reasonably promising so we decided to head to Southland for a day of caching, we have visited Tohora Tahuhu on our previous trip, was keen to return to complete this fascinating and educational earthcache, many thanks for setting this one up.

A surprisingly informative site in the middle of nowhere, and with both history and a beautiful view to boot. Yet another example of why I love geocaching, for taking me places I'd certainly never have known about, and letting me discover cool stuff like this. TFTC, G_G_G! =^.^=

Decided to take a side trip from the main road for this one and glad I did. La Kedi was like a little kid as it had brought back memories of when we used to take her and her sisters to museums all over the place. I think La Kedi is sending through the photos ind info for you. A very interesting and informative stop. Thank you.

A very interesting detour off the main road south. Great display with some interesting information about the area.

TFTC

Have retrieved all of the info and taken a photo and will email these through when I return home. Thanks for the history.

Great place, great views. Emailed answers.

3rd cache on a trip South. Will be out of order and wrong date (if only the stoopid app would allow date selection!!).

TFTEC - nice to bring the kids up here, very thin breeze tho so didn't linger long.

Great piece of history here. weather was ugly. TFTC

Did this one on the way home from Dunedin,Answers have been e mailed.TFTC

We travel around both island in one month. Now we take the time to log the nice places we visited during our New Zealand trip. Thanks for showing this realy nice place.
FTACH

Logged after sending email to CO. Didn't plan to do this cache today, but plans can be changed! Awesome area.

TFTC

What a nice place up here. We stayed in our campervan nex to the cache.

Thanks for the Cache. Greetings from Switzerland.

(The mail with the answers and the image will follow back home end of february)

Last cache on a late night run. Cold but great views at night. Photo attached, answers to be emailed.


TFTC!



You know It's Not About The Numbers

nice view

We visited here and loved the views from up the top at the display.
A fantastic information shelter that we didn't really expect to find.
The views over the lake were spectacular too.
It must be really cool to find some fossils as a quarry worker.
Thanks G_G_G for the great Earth_Cache.

Found at 6:58 AM on 7/01/2012.

Great spot with lots of info and a good view.
I'll send the answers soon...

TFTC G_G_G

We've been here before to find a traditional, so it was nice to pay a visit again and get the answers for this. Email sent, TFTC

Second time here as we found a traditional cache here many years ago. Great views, history, photos and information.

Enjoyed doing this cache and reading about the history of this area. Nice view from here toward Lake Waihola. T4TC

2:45:00 PM2 A second visit to this site. The first time we came looking for a traditional. This is a great viewpoint although there was a very cold and strong wind blowing today. Lake Waihola is still a very muddy colour.
The prescribed email has been sent and a photo will be attached to this log.
Thanks G_G_G
Jim

What lovely views even though it was cold and raining on and off. Answers been e-mailed. TFTC.

Vary interesting

Some interesting information to take in here, along with a pretty good view. TFTC

Answers to questions emailed to cache owner.We visited here on a wet and windy day,which detracted from the experience somewhat.There was a traditional cache very close to here,which we found some years ago.TFTC

Nice views, have also logged the cache that was here previously (will forward answers shortly)

Certainly been here on caching business before.

Quick drive by on our way back home from Milton.

I was on the local community board when we decided to put this display in - it took a lot of work and volunteer commitment to put this display in place.

Fascinating history and local area here.

TFTC

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wow, I did not know the North Island had an Otago!!

Interesting.

Cool

What a cool EC. Love'em like that. I was with TreMichlan at the time, and he send the answers for both of us. Only just got back to a PC after some time on Stewart Island. Thanks for the EC dude.

I really enjoyed this site and could have happily lingered here for a lot longer than we did. The views over Lake Waihola were stunning and the interpretation at the site is first class.

I went to Otago University in the early 1990s and though I knew of the whale fossil sites to the North was completely unaware of the significance of this site. I like the way the history of lime mining and the explanation of fossils has been integrated.

TFTC

great view from up here with sun just setting on surrounding
hills, but bitterly cold TFTC

Quick stop on the way to work, very muddy and raining, but good to read up on the "fossil" again.
TFTC

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