Stay in Rakaia Gorge (Canterbury) Mt Hutt, South Island, New Zealand
By ridders76 on 07-Aug-11. Waypoint GC31R15

Very fun cache!

Ez find ty

Found it with quinella today on our way back out of our walk . Tftc. Who took the pen out of the backpack ??

Tftc :^)

Found with Gazania Rigenson our way back from the impressive viewpoint. View from here not too shabby either! We were charmed by some attentive fantails on our way and suddenly GR pointed out a Kereru sitting not 2 metres away from me at head height, totaly unconcerned as I took my time getting a photo or two set up on my phone to sent to my birder nephew in the UK.A memorable walk. TFTC

A quick find on the way back from the viewpoint. Lots of interesting plants here which we only have as garden plants and hedges in Scotland. The fantails were quite active and showing off their fans. TFTC!

Find find on a windy day TFTC

Good find on a very windy day. 100 k/h winds on the top of Mt Hutt.

Ty

After a frosty start to the day it was perfect winter weather to go for a drive and find a few caches. I spotted the hiding place on approach and that's where the cache was. Lots of people on the track today. TFTC, Biggles.

Tftc

What a beautiful hike. Thank you for the Cache.

Found it duri g our vacation. Thanks. Greetings from Germany.

Cant find it the 07/03/2024

Alas. Tried all the rocks and all the ferns but to no avail

Taking a long walk with my daughter in the gorge today. Weather is not great, very windy, but at least dry. We did the whole loop, very beautiful track and views. And of course scored a few caches along the way Quick find as described, tftc! Cannot imagine this place covered in snow btw, must also be beautiful!

Prickly hide. Don't touch the wires

later

Came down from the top lookout and found this cache, TFTC

Found it while going to the lookout point! Cheers from belgium!

First of hopefully many caches in NZ.TFTC kaylina22

Quick find.Tftc Amikolix

Found it! Great motivation for small kids to keep going, thank you!

All good here.

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Walked the whole track and at the lower gorge lookout, I checked if there were any geocaches on the track Andi saw this one. Nice and easy find TFTC

Enjoyed the gorge walk although the signs suggested it was closed. Not much effort to stop people walking it. Quick find which was nice as the last one was a DNF. Cache and log all fine. Thanks for the smiley.

Quick, easy find! TFTC

Really good view

First one in ages. Kids love it.

Tftc

We walked along the Rakaia Gorge Walk and found this caches.
TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho & Gazzelli

Found it, thanks!

Staying nearby and going for a walk. TFTC!

Found on a walk along the Rakaia Gorge track on Canterbury Anniversary Day. There were so many people on the track on the way up that I just scoped out the general location and then stopped for a quick find on the way back. What a great walkway - and great to see so many people also out enjoying it today. We were thinking about staying in Rakaia Gorge overnight and you can see the campsite from GZ. TFTC!

Found it on our Kea Adventurous journey

Thanks for placing this cache to add interest to our gourge wall.

Easy find, cache is in good condition.

Creekdalefarm

Ā nice quick find here. TFTC

Awesome find, thanks

Cool...

Much easier to find than I first expected, very overgrown around gz; tftc

Thankfully no snow today, just drizzle. I think the terrain should have been a 4 tiday with the wet slippery conditions long grass and thistles!! Thanks for the placement ridders76.

Nice prickly passage into locate the cache...thanks to the sharp
co ords.. found with out too much pain...I ask myself if this is a1.5 T I would hate to do one of your 3Ts thanks for setting and maintaining this cache riders76

A trip to Rangiora

Left Zara and toby in the carpark and off for a walk along this track. Lost The Seagnoid along this track somehow. Left our calling card here. Cheers

Day 4 - Thursday 23 December - Ashburton to Amberly taking the inland route to Lake Coleridge. So lets go exploring. Bummer with Toby getting a flat battery today.

The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and I are of on another Geo adventure this time to Mt Cook for 5 days. Met up with Bullertrout and Bro on the way down. Lake Pukaki was fine but Mt Cook was wet and wild with the Hooker Valley being closed due to high winds, so did not stay long. We went exploring Tekapo, Timaru and a round trip to Lake Coleridge. Short trip and very tiring but awesome.

Guessed the cache hide long before we got to GZ. And we were right, too!

Part of a big trip with Taybeedragon to explore Mt Cook. We explored a little of it but there was gale winds, lots of cloud and rain. Some of the tracks had been closed and others were right dodgy given that we did not have our foul weather tramping kit. We had booked to stay for two nights but left the same day. More time to explore parts of Canterbury! So now I have been to Mt Cook . Still yet to see Aorangi.

We wouldn't stay here for the night, but the view is nice. Replaced logbook, as the previous one was dry but in pieces. The container was in good condition. We enjoyed our walk up here, thanks for placing and maintaining this cache!

Easy find once you brave the prickles. Awesome views down the river. TFTC

No pen so photo for evidence.

Log is mush in bag so couldn't sign. Sorry no spare log paper with us.

Quick find on a beautifully day out

#0329
A day trip to the hidden gem in mid-canterbury. A small detour to the cache on the way down hill. The magnificent view is worth the four hours hiking.

Cache's all good, some muggles were resting around GZ but they left in a few minutes. The log book was all wet and shattered into pieces. It would be great someone come with a replacement on the next visit.

Beware of some of the guardians have sharp edges and they cut deep.

TFTC!

Found but log no good to sign

Found but log no Good to sign

I often wondered what this cache was about, and now I know, very clever

Sadly the log is pulp and not writable.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Love walk to find this..the log was wet and shredded though so couldn't write in it

TFTC

Went for a nice walk along the track here, deciding to get here then work my way back. I decided not to stay in Rakaia, but I did go caching

TFTC ridders76, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 4 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #2711

Found easily with Lytteltonwitch today while we walked part of this track. Great fantails and bellbird song on our way. Cache all safe and dry. TFTH

A fairly quick find on our walk to find a couple of caches

Quick find thanks

Great hiding place!

Found it thanks

Blowing hard, but warm and dry. Thanks.

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

Quick find. TFTC

Easy find on this walk we have been past many times without stopping . Great place! Thanks

Lors de la rando le long des gorges, on en profite pour dénicher les quelques caches à proximité et s'octroyer une petite pause !
Merci pour la cache

Zowaar! Great walk beside the river, with good views on surrounding countryside. Cache easily found. Thx for the hide! Simone

During our roadtrip through New Zealand I DNF this cache "Stay in Rakaia Gorge (Canterbury)" from ridders76 on 25 februari 2020.

Most likely I overlooked.

Groetjes/Greetings and TFTC from a Dutchman (a long way from home, but home is here the heart is, on the bus).

Tftc. A bit overgrown right now.

Lovely views, windy day!

A few raindrops couldn’t keep us from the gorge walk. Lovely views and a couple caches made it a perfect hike.

Took the sprogs for a wander to get these, a race to the GZ and found by the older kid. Nice view, great track, it's imrpvoed quite a bit in the last 15 years. Cheers

Tricky

Lovely find on first day of spring. Tftc

Easy find!

No probs with this one, TFTC!

Found after managing to beat the wind to get to the cache. Sl. Tftc

Well I assume a nice view

Nice view here ! Thanks !

Riley and James set about finding this with enthusiasm. Took a while but we persisted in the logical spot which soon paid off.

Tftc

Great views from the track. Visited the old mine entrances and found few caches on our way back to the parking. Today is was not snowing, but around +20C degrees instead. TFTC.

Doing the walk WE enjoyed the views and doing some caching on the way.
TFTC

Greetings from Belgium
Nice place

Yay!

Logtime: 12:05 #6754
Heute: 6. Cache von total 8 Caches.

Auf der Wanderung fanden wir diesen Cache.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

Found while on a club trip cycling and walking around Christchurch for a couple of days and then to mid Canterbury for several more. We walked the gorge track as far as the coal mine (unable to find that cache) on a very hot day. Spectacular views of the gorge. TFTC

TFTC- time for a walk after eating to much on Xmas day with two daughters and 6 grandchildren
Had a wonderful day and now a quite walk and another dot day completed

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Took a few minutes to find but wasn't to hard. Lovely views along the whole trek. TFTC

A beautifull day to do the Rakaia Gorge walk. Stunning views. TFTC,

Found

I was so busy absorbing the beautiful scenery I walked well past this cache on the way in, but nabbed it on the way back. A beautiful day to out on this track. TFTC!

We made today this trail and searched also a few caches. This one we could find quickly.
TFTC and greetings from Germany.

Nice find on a pleasant day. Many thanks. The log was full so I replaced it.