Little and Large (Otago) Meadowbank, South Island, New Zealand
By jamien on 24-Sep-12. Waypoint GC39ZNN

I've had this on the list for a while but I never seemed to have the time to make that little side step to sign it off. Made the effort today and very pleased for the quick find of the big and little even in the dark. Always get an added thrill when finding an archived cache. Signed what's left of the log. Thanks for the effort put into this cache jamien. TFTC # 15,537

A few months ago a cacher in Blenheim told us about the statistic in Project GC that is about the top archived loggers, since then we have spent considerable time researching and looking for some archived caches. While on our holiday w have only been stopping at a few possible finds, this was the only one we looked for today, and I live it when GK pops up our of the long grass and says 'bingo'. He found this one. While it is a little worse for wear it is obviously one that look a lot of effort to make, so it is a shame that it has been archived. The paper was not much more than a scrap of disintegrating paper, but we managed to scrawl our name onto it.
Thanks for the effort you put into making this cache and thanks for the smiley

Found with Sevren.tftc

Well the cache on the GPS must be well out of date but we searched and found anyway. Container is as stated "The Little" inside a bag that was stated as needing replacing. Not just a bag.

Got lucky here
Didn't actually need anything
to access the log
Container (bag) seriously in need of replacement

Sounds like the original container for this one has gone, so the cache name won't make sense anymore. It's time to say farewell. Thanks to all who found this cache.
Happy caching.

Easy find, thanks ! Signed PEGS for a group of Southlanders on the way to the MEGA !

One of 20 odd found on a day trip. Just a plastic bag with a scrap of paper in it though. Thanks.

Novice still needs practice on the gps log to wet to sign on our way to omakau for the weekend tftc

Heading for home (CHCH) after a lightening fast daytrip to Ranfurly for a family funeral. No time to grab any caches on the way in this morning...trying to grab a couple on the way back.
Quick find and sign in the rain. Cheers.

Quick park and grab thsnks

Quick find. Clever container. Thanks for the cache.

Cheers

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way from Naseby to Ranfurly, Palmerston and Moeraki. We had a beautiful day with a lot of found caches!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Tftc. I'm chuffed that I'd guessed what the cache would be as soon as we got to the GZ! Found quite easily.

Clever

Love the old building

Day 3 of our 5 Day end of year geocaching trip. Today was our biggest day with 75finds and 4DNFs with most of them being park and grabs. A quick fin here - we have one of these caches aswell. Sorry for the late log but Thanks for the cache [purple]Our cache find: #3262[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 34/75[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 101/235[/blue]

Nice hide

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

ah now I understand the name , clever cache,
TFTC

Good one, love the idea behind this cache and it's placement, a bit of fun. TFTC

On our way to Alex for a roadie. Bring on the caches to be found. Loved the theme
#662.
TFTC

Very clever! Took a bit of searching but then we found it! TFTC

Many thanks to big smoke for carrying out some maintenance for me.

Log very wet in fact it disintergrated on us. Put a fresh piece of paper in and put the cache in a plastic bag to try and protect it. Really needs a lid on the top

Quick find on the way to Clyde.

TFTC jamien!



You know It's Not About The Numbers

Hi, Sorry for the damp log. A caching friend who lives nearby has kindly said she will change the log sheet for me a.s.a.p., as I'm no longer in NZ, so can't do it myself.

TFTC VERY VERY COOL

Find #87 on a road-trip from Blenheim to Dunedin, through St Arnauds, Hamner Springs, Aoraki/ Mount Cook, and Christchurch. I had a bit of an idea of what the cache may have been from the title, and I was not wrong in my assumptions. Very clever cache, TFTC. +1 Favourite point.

TO WET NEEDS NEW LOG

TFTC cache to wet to sign

37 of 63 on a days caching with ingidayna. A quick easy find but were unable to sign log as it was far too wet to extract. TFTC

Photo log a mess

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

So many caches done to remember all, but got a kick out of all that we found

Ingenious hide

13323… A quick drive-by, nicely themed, log is full, sorry we didn’t have a replacement with us, TFTC.

Nice one, out and about with Karma Reprint on a weekend down south. Thanks

Found with Kiwi Moose on a big weekend of caching. Wet is the theme for the day, almost time fr a hot coffee and soup in Palmerston. Thanks for the hide.

Was too windy to sign the logbook at GZ, but at least the car was close. TFTC

Log is full. TFTC

A clever use of a local feature- thank you jamien.

2nd one of these containers we have found this weekend, TFTC, found with Granville86a

Found with Chosen1978 on way home. Appropriate container TFTC

Up from Dunedin for the day 12th 4 day #489

I still wouldn't be able to hit it.

Loved this one,have seen a simillar Cache back in Christchurch.TFTC

Quick find. Nice container..
TFTC. SLB. TNLN.

Found with Hinemoana on a trip to find a few caches.
TFTC

Headed for the lagre and found the little - nice one! TFTC

TFTC. Quick Stop on way to central

tftc

Quick nab on the way past.

The neat container didn't have us fooled for long. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

The name made sense once we got to gz, very clever! Nice hide
found with debsnz.

As soon as we got here I knew exactly what to look for. Thanks jamien, for not disappointing me. TFTC

Nice one! TFTC.

Neat little cache! TFTC.

Very cool. The top of the cache is broken. Kia ora for the cache jamien

Found with Us04 and SpyDude13. TFTC.

Found with Us04 and LollipopCat. TFTC.

As expected easy find TFTC

Found on our trip to New Zealand crossing the southern island.
After staying at some locals for a few days (and not be able to cache!!!)
Today further from Patearoa to Akaroa (480 km!)

TFTC , #1413 team cire-senga

Love these containers Jamien! The school group relished the opportunity to complete the challenge also. Thanks heaps!

Found with WGHS caching activity - TFTC

As soon as we arrived, we knew what to look for, and the cache was quickly found. TFTC

Getting a few I've passed by before on the way home from a caching trip in Canterbury.
Bit of a detour but worth it for the themed container and the laugh it gave me.
TFTC

Night time run for a few caches.-Bitsprayer

I had a laugh at this one. My brother is the groundsman at the golf-course. TFTC.

Was in Dunedin to attended the first ever Mega in New Zealand. Managed to work it out so that I was able to team up with -gonefishing-, fozzmiester and agcnz on an 8 day caching trip around the South Island, this was day 6 of the road trip. Today we were leaving Dunedin region and making our way to Oamaru for the night and picking up a few caches on our way.

After finding GC319GX - Meadowbank Station (Otago), this was the next cache that was on our list that we wanted to find today. We decided that we would take a small detour via SH85 and go inland and take a different route towards Oamaru.

Making our way along SH85 Palmerston - Dunback Road. We neared GZ and we managed to find a parking spot not too far away from the cache and from there we made our way to the cache. It was very obvious where this cache was going to be, a quick and easy retrieval, signed and replaced the cache back as found.

Thanks jamien for placing this cache here and for bringing us to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (5165). Definitely a very quick P&G cache.

A quick find. Thanks for the cache jamien.

Found as part of an epic NZ Mega Event trip. Day 6 - Dunedin to Oamaru via Ranfurly and Dansey's Pass with agcnz, -gonefishing- and Yeetrees. Thanks to the owners of the 500 + caches which I had the pleasure to find along the way and which contributed to a very fun trip.

Found on the great post-Mega roadtrip with agcnz, fozzmiester and yeetrees. A great trip from Otago to Wellington, taking in many backroads and some fantastic scenery along to way to over 400 caches. Thanks to all the cache owners for the great caches we found on the way.

Thanks for the cache, jamien.

A quick find that matched its surroundings well. TFTC

Came here with fozzmiester, -gonefishing- and Yeetrees on a day trip from Dunedin via the Maniototo and Dansey's Pass and back to Oamaru. The cache was a quick find and it took only a moment to extract the logsheet. Signed log, TFTC!

Nice easy find on the way into town for a late lunch. Cheers Gav

Approached the Tee mindful of a hazard nearby. Soon found the cache hiding in the ruff.
Produced a suitable tool from my geo cart and made the log extraction with the skill any dentist would be proud of. Nice one Jamien

Located on my trip home to the north after the MEGA - although many detours to the east, west and at times south!

SL TFTC

#2251 @1608
Found during NZ Mega while on a caching expedition to Naseby (for the South Island Orienteering champs) and back to Dunedin via Palmerston. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Found at 9:24:00 a.m. on 20/10/2012.

Quick find on the way to Naseby. Didn't get the title for a while... looked around and, DOH!!

TFTC jamien

Reperio at 1445.

Stopped by with Roostaman today on the way to Dunedin for the mega event, and were tossing up why item was going to be the subject of the title of the cache. We soon found out, and the cache quickly located.

Gratias jamien.

The NZ Mega starts tonight, so I decided to spend the day travelling around this lovely area as I awaited a couple of Aussie teams who were also here for the event...

Grabbed this cache whilst travelling & taking in the fantastic views around the area... What an absolutely beautiful country to explore & photograph...

Thanks For The Cache jamien (Nice little camo too)...
- Peter (Melbourne, Australia)

Find # 4456 and a total of 113 today with Marcus Vitruvius on the 3rd day of our NZ Mega trip, on the way south from Timaru to Dunedin. Another nice cache and hide and a quick find then on the way again. TNLNSL TFTC jamien,
Roostaman.

Quick find with Emvy_us on our southern tiki tour. TFTC

A small diversion on our way south to the Mega event. TFTC

Another great find on the Emvy_Us / Waiiti20 mega tour of the Southern South Island. We must thank Skindo for helping with the find. TFTC

Certainly not hard to see the large as I drove up the road and the numbers were counting down. Stopped at GZ and after a wee walk, mindfull of the obstacle made the find.
Thanks
erninz

Quick find TFTC jamien

A good find on a good day's caching as I slowly work my way down to Dunedin for the MEGA. Seen a few such hides in the last month or so.

Many thanks for the hide.

Nice one.
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I visited your cache as part of a week-long self indulgent Geocaching trip from Nelson to Bluff and back again. I apologise for not leaving a completely personalised log, but I do want to thank you for the time, money and effort you put into placing your caches. Without people like you who place caches, there would be nothing for the rest of us to come and find. You are fantastic

This cache was found as part of the New Zealand MEGA 2012 Event trip.

The large one was much easier to find. Nice camo. TFTC

As soon as I came round the corner I knew what I would be looking for! Good to see the CO alerting cachers to the ditch. It is pretty hidden by the long grass and could easily break a leg. Some COs I can think of wouldn't have added a warning to the page. Thank you jamien for being a responsible geocacher. TFTC.

As soon as we pulled up we knew what we were looking for. My GPS had me in the paddock, just as well Miss 10 found it before I climbed the fence! We've already done the challenge, but this one would of been ideal. TFTC

let the girls get this one yesterday

tftc

Good one

Published

yipee FTF at 9 pm nice and close too home thanks jamien