Unnatural (Otago) Paerau, South Island, New Zealand
By erninz on 08-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3AJVD

What a view. TFTC

Found it yay

This is the end of the road for me today. Was visting the nearby power stations for work.

It was awesome find

Fabulous day to be wandering around these parts. Enjoyed a walk around the water feature

Whooo. Ok ok. Where does the water come from???

A few options here.

We took our car over the Old Dunstan Rd - didn’t see the sign that says it’s unsuitable for cars until we got to the Paerau end, but no problem for the AWD anyway. Stopped to look at the fishing pond then found this cache, TFTC

First caching road trip of 2023 with KJR, staying in ranfurly for a couple of nights exploring the back roads and beyond
Bit breezy up here today so much so it blew my hat into the paddock...while I jumped the fence Kjr came up with the cache which I hadn't spotted..tftc

Out and about exploring Ranfurly with BCD. Bit windy up here but great views. I was taking photos and then joined in on the hunt while BCD had to retrieve his hat and I walked straight to it TFTC

I honestly wasn’t expecting to find this one but couldn’t see a reason for it to be muggled so had to at least attempt it. Found within 5 minutes of searching in the third place I looked! Cache in excellent condition after over 18 months without a find.
Thanks for the cache, erninz
#4010

No joy after a long look in

Reached under, down, over, everywhere but dnf.

Found with my partner. Thanks so much. Took at littlr bit but easy enough

Up here on my first time on the Old Dunstan Road. Found cache without too much difficulty with Flamingo4850. Signed the new log paper that feet-first had put in. TFTC.

Found it.

Surprisingly quick find. Put in new log. TFTC

Found on way back from Paerau. Log full. TFTC

Too many gaps between ️

No logs so far this year and only one for 2016 so hopefully it is there. Two of us spent about 10 minutes looking but the dust made it somewhat unpleasant so I didn't stick my hand into all the possible hiding places. Some more recent logs indicated that it can take a bit of time which we didn't have. A find would have been a bonus as our main objectives of the day were Ailsa Craig and Last bus to Logan.

Several pairs of hands spent quite a long time searching for this one in all possible "betweens" without any luck. And it was getting pretty stinking hot by this time of the afternoon - by the time we reached Ranfurly it was 32 degrees!

Now reading past logs it may have moved? A past log says "The hint for this didn't match location" so that's annoying.

Hadn't realised how extensive the flow-on from this power scheme is - the map shows the irrigation canal goes beyond Gimmerburn.

Tftc

Attending a church camp at en hakkore and out to find a cache or two. Also intend to hide a cache up the sowburn track - a long held ambition. Took a bit of time, patience and logical reasoning but our perseverance paid off. TFTC 1800

Nice find!

Lots of possible spots, found eventually. Needs new log and in different vehicle today without my geokit.

Found today with Ralf06 & Bworm08 on a little caching trip from Ranfurly. Log is very full & sorry no replacement log with us TFTC

Found with JuJu54 and Ralph06 today TFTC!

Found with bworm08 and juju54

I stopped here in perfect weather on a drive from Dunedin to Alexandra today via the Old Dunstan Road. There definitely has been a lot of engineering work going on around here! The cache wasn't where I originally thought it would be but I found it after a few minutes' searching. Signed log, TFTC

Impressive piece of pipe.
Needs a new logbook
TFTC

That took some time searching. Just completed the Dunstan Trail in motorhome. Had to take it slow. The hint for this didn't match location. Tftc

Out for a day trip over the Old Dunstan road. Despite the season being Summer, today is misty, cold, windy and at times quite wet. About perfect for geocaching because we don't get the guilt's about what else we should be doing. Thanks for the cache.

GPS slightly off but Mrs Docndi found it. Plus one muggle. TFTC

We're down from Blenheim for the long weekend to visit family and geocaching is the name of the game. This was a really cool cache, particularly for the kids. They rather enjoyed climbing and jumping.
Found with The Rudderpost and FluffyUnicorn02. TFTC

First find of the day with coastalmartinis and fluffy unicorn
The kids looked in all the round holes first

Quick easy find that allowed me and my brothers to play mountain goat a little bit.
Found with coastalmartinis and The Rudderpost. TFTC!

Found after a bit of a scramble. The snow was starting to fall very fast and it was very cold so a quick decision on whether to abandon our plans and get back across the Pigroot was made. TFTC.

The natural snow started to come down as we were here A good idea to head back down I think

They certainly do look out of place

after our adventure on the old dunstan road we stopped here. next day we discovered these cache - T4TC ..punkt on tour with chomo

After driving Old Dunstan Road from Alexandra with a 2WD Apollo Camper we were mentally death.
So we decided to spent the night at this little dam in beautiful landscape.

Thanks and greetings from chomo along the way with ..punkt

The cache placement looks pretty natural. easy find.

Found at 5:22:00 p.m. on 13/02/2015.

Quick stop whilst heading towards tha Maniototo and around the Rock and Pillars to Middlemarch

TFTC erninz

Looks certainly bizarre. Quick find, TFTC

The co-ordinates led us to a quick find here.

?? very hard to find

17.35: On the way to Lake Onslow and back to Alexandra. The search took a while but we got it.

Weather: fine, sun, 16°C;
Wheelchair: no, embankment/slope, within view from the road;
State: all good.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

Good Quick Find TFTC

TFTC

Needed grandson to help find this one

AS I don't intend being in this area in the near future I will place this on my watch list and any further DNFs will signal to me that it has indeed gone at which stage I will archive it.
erninz

Stopped for lunch. Looked around for 10 mins, but not able to locate cache.

Heading off to Poolburn for a fish, thought we would pop up and do this one on the way. TFTC

Found nearly a year after previous geocacher had written their name. Cache in good condition, all is well.

Almost year after we found!

Not sure if cache moved as hint not quite correct, however found after a look a bit further afield, TFTC

Another interesting part of the Taieri's story - certainly unnatural! If the penstocks were painted green or green/ brown they'd blend in better! TFTC.

I remember the pipes being blue last time I saw them. Have they been painted? Or is my memory playing tricks with me again? TFTC.

Water is almost gold in this part of NZ. The dammed and diverted Taieri River turnes over the generators then goes on to irrigate the Maniototo Plains. The penstock sticks out like a sore toe but gives a good head of water for the power station. Good fishing round here !

This sure is unnatural, especially in a place like this. We had no trouble finding this cache. TFTC

bizarre spot for a geo, but nice scenery

Day out on the Dunstan...
Quick find. TFTC. SLB. TNLN.

Found it at 1:28 PM, The coordinates for this one were spot on which made for a quick and easy find.

TFTC, erninz!
Jim

A quick easy find at a superb viewpoint before being enveloped in clouds of dust by a passing truck and trailer unit. TFTC

enjoyed comng up to the top of the river, and seeing this amazing water harvest. valley flooded further up after heaps of rain. thanks

another quick find, not many people around this area... TFTC!!

Found it without using clue

Caching our way home after the Serpentine Safari. Another easy find with bumandworker, Hinemoana and Big Foot 123.
TFTC.

A quick find with Bumandworker, Hinemoana & NgaiHill.
TFTC.

Nice quick grab.-Bitsprayer

Very quiet up the valley here today. Cache quickly found and signed. TFTC

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