Kokonga (Central Otago) Kokonga, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 11-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3GRTK

Quick find and had a chat to the owner of the property who was aware and thought it was a great idea

We are slowly winding our way towards Alexandra and enjoying stopping to pick up caches along the way.Lots of room to park here.The church could do with a bit of a tidy up.No problems making the find. Thanks for putting it here

The next leg of rattll and my South Island road trip, whatever number this one is. Today, we're starting in Middlemarch, heading up to Ranfurly, then coming back down the Manuherikia River to Alexandra.After our morning cycle, time to hit the road. We've discovered that one of our indicator lights on the van has stopped working, nowhere to get it fixed before Alex, so no time to dawdle (except for some caches, of course).A quick find at GZ, as per the hint. All good. Signed, and returned as found. Tftc!

Here in the south with FMZ for the Dunedin mega this weekend. We thought wed get some much needed R&R in Queenstown first, but it of course caching along the way. Stopped in front of the church to organise a drink and FMZ saw that there was a cache in the vicinity. But alas, we had no cell reception, so caching instincts were put to good use. TFTC.

Stopped for a break here on our drive towards Queenstown. Then thought there's probably a cache here, so checked. The icon showed up but no details because no coverage. Took a guess at where it might be and found it - sweet! Cute little church. TFTC!

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there we are/were staying near Ranfurly in Central Otago for a couple of days today we decided to drive through to Middlemarch & clean up some caches on the way, with the main focus being the The Sutton Salt Marsh area this cache, on the way to Middlemarch, was easily found, logbook signed & safely/securely replaced in position were pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN:LN:LS this was #6,278 for us!

After the bad weather the cache has survived. Ty

With Easter weekend upon us we decided to take a quick trip to Otago so we could ride the rail trail bike track. This has been on our bucket list for years so we decided last week that we would pack up the campervan and come and do it.Todays plan was to carry along the rail trail to Middlemarch find the caches along the way (and a few others that were nearby).With that challenge achieved we were heading back to Clyde in preparation of the next stage of our adventure.We have been impressed with the beautiful buildings in this area, and this is one of themThanks for placing this cache and thanks for the smiley.

Clever clue! Tftc

Not where I thought it should be. Took just a photo.

A few spots of rain today, couldn't access the area when I was this way 2 year ago due to flooding.

I found the cache but didn't have a pen on me at the time. Tftc

Quick find. TFTC.

A quick find by a lovely old church. A peaceful little spot.

Very quiet place today, I guess it gets busier on Sundays. TFTC

A quick find with 4Clubs on our way to Waipiata for a couple of nights. The hint was very helpful! TFTC

Kia pai to koutou Wiki o Te Reo Māori.
Tino harikoa toku ngakau ki te kitea te wahi rā. I te wā kua timata au ki te ako i Te Reo Māori, i akona tētahi whakatauki: He kokonga whare e kitea, he kokonga ngākau e kore e kitea. No reira i te wā o taku taemaitanga kei Kokonga, he tino hiamo ahau. Naienei, he kokonga, ā, he keteroki, he kokonga, ā, he keteroki.

That is a nice wee village, church grounds still get good care
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

In the area so grabbing a few caches along the way.

Todays drive involves Mosgiel - Kyeburn section, and then heading back home. Made a quick find here along the way.

TFTC drawp, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 5 find(s) of 8 today, making this find #3424

FITW HariSree

We are on a caching trip to Dunedin . Picking up few caches along the way.
It was an easy find here. TFTC

FITW albijos

Heading to Dunedin for some caching. Finding few along the way. TFTC.

I had a quick look on the way up heading north to Naseby but no good as I had interpreted part of the hint, not the other. Had a think after I left and the penny dropped! Redeemed on the journey back home. cache all good and well hidden tftc

The hint helped, and a great spot for a cache

Finally back from riding a loop from here to Waipiata and then Daisybanlk with Mrs KC and the daywalks. I had looked there, but had felt too far in so, fortunately, Mr daywalk found it for me.

TNLN. TFTC.

Several stones to investigate before correct location found and hint made sense. Thanks for bringing us here

Several stones to investigate before the correct location was found and hint! Thanks for bringing us here

Nice old church..cache found in good condition..lots of thistles as guardians signed and returned as foundtftc

Nice spot, TFTC!!

Beautiful little church. Tftc

Found

Beautiful wee church, so took the time to look around the exterior. Two of the windows had clear glass, so was able to peek inside too. I had heard about this place from a friend who used to live in the area. Found with Flamingo4850. TFTC.

Found it.

Took a while to find this one. But we were sure it was there so keep looking but it was in the obvious place all the time.
Heading down to Middlemarch then Lake Mirhingerangi on the way home. Enjoyed a long weekend at Naseby. Lovely to find out some more history from this area.
TFTC

Thanks for this cache, drawp. I've had a quick sortie to the Maniototo while on a short break in Dunedin... lots of driving !
When I was a High School in Dunedin, one of my classmates spent weekends up at/near Kokonga on her family's farm; she caught the Railcar up every Friday - we didn't really understand it all at the time ! A lovely spot.

Found it

TFTC nice hide tryed to dry it still signable

All I managed to find was an electric fence and where the cache probably used to be.

Spent some time but dnf

Big walk from the lodge, forget the pen though, pic taken
Thanks!

Full log to come

Took a little longer than it should but soon had the goods in hand. Tftc

Seems to be hiding. I’ll be back

Enjoying this region. Stayed at Waipiata domain in motorhome last night b

diane found. nice church

Spent the day as part of support crew for Frame Family’s husband and friends. In between rest spots we were able to geocache. Hoping for a number of finds.

Took a bit of a hunt here but got there in the end. Tftc

Caching on the road near the rail trail with Kerynz and being support crew while the boys are doing the whole track in one day! Shouldn’t have taken us as long as it did! TFTC.

good quick find, brilliant day today. tftc

A fast spotted cache. TFTC

Second attempt. Months apart but found it this time. A wet log book

Heading to omakau for the weekend with Jessflett made a detour via macraes to show Jess the hole in the ground .
Perfect opportunity to grab a couple of pngs along a different route.
Took a while as no coverage and couldn't read the hint ,cache had migrated slightly and was buried in long grass. Put back where (no I have coverage ) the hint suggested.. Tftc

Out for a ride today from Ranfurly to Middlemarch with half the team finishing at Hyde which worked well for the transport. Short side trip to this and found quickly. Signed and we were on our way to catch the others. Weather is threatening but holding off at this stage.

TFTC drawp

We were moving that fast this morning there was no way I could stop for a cache, we did Ranfurly to here in 50 minutes, the guides say 2 hours! We were due to pick up another couple of riders to our group here, and with the early arrival was able to get this cache.

TFTC

On our way to middlemarch, this was a quick cache N dash. Took a couple of photos of the church.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

On another trip to Central for a family event. I love coming here and getting a few caches is a bonus. Thanks.
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Staying in Middlemarch for a couple of days and todays plan was to head to Swinburn caching all the way. Nice quick find and later realised I had written the wrong year in a couple of logs - this being one of them oooops!!! 18 should be 19 TFTC

For my personal challenge of working towards getting my calendar on GC.COM to be at least the same shade of green or darker I need to sign off at least 6 caches today. I won't grumble if I find one or two more. I had shifted my snail shell inland to Ranfurly the other day.

A nice old church.

Cheers for the cache
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Out and about on an other caching trip to get to 3000 finds before the end of the year. This one seemed to have been under water with the flooding that happened a week ago. The log was a bit wet but all good This was an easy park and grab and on to the next one. TFTC

No luck this time around

Stopped here on the way south to Dunedin this afternoon. Found the cache after a short search, I missed it on the first pass and picked it up on the second. Not sure what has become of the old church, it now looks rather abandoned and there are no signs of any sort to indicate what it once was. Signed log, TFTC.

Found on our road trip through Central. TFTC

Bit harder to find now as no cell coverage, so no hints or descriptions not available. Relying on GPS

Nice church. A quick stop on our way to tackling Danseys pass
Thanks

The girls got out for a stretch and found this one.TFTC

Taking the long way home from the Geofest. Through Danseys Pass and down SH 87 to Mosgiel for the night, before my flight home tomorrow morning. What a great drive, some of the scenery was just amazing. Cheers and TFTC

Beautiful church. TFTC with heyhaynz

Heading to the Oamaru Geofest with a group of like minded people, and collecting a few caches along the way....

Travelling with NZTravellers, UncleSamNZ, and KeyLev we signed in as 'SEAC17' to save logbook space.

Thank you to all the CO's for placing caches along the route.

TFTC.

Greetings form an Auckland Cacher. In the area for the “Almost Mega” event.

Started off at Dunedin Airport. Enjoyed our drive.

Sorry for the generic logs. Thanks for taking the time to place this cache.

All logs signed as “Team SEAC”

In the area driving to Geofest Oamaru....

Nice quick find.

Thanks for the cache.

Signed as SEAC 17 (South East Auckland Crew)

We arrived in Dunedin today and traveled to Oamaru for the 2017 Geofest through Ranfurly, Nasbey and Danseys Pass. We attempted many caches throughout the long hot day and as it was the Geofest we bumped into fellow geocachers as well as a few muggles along the way. We were travelling with Keylev, UncleSam, Stik-a-Crane so to save log paper signed as Team SEAC 17.

Thanks to all the COs for the caches along the route.

Found while heading to the Monkey. TFTC

A quick easy find

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Cache checked and all good.

Lovely little church and the sun is shining tftc

Day 3 on the trail. Rain just setting in. Lovely little church, shame you can't take a look inside. Thanks for the cache.

I'm down in Otago to cycle the Otago Rail Trail over a relaxed 5 day period and took the opportunity to find a few geocaches along the way. Day 4 was from Ranfurly to Hyde and I took a bit of a detour from the trail to take a look for this cache, which was quickly found at GZ. TFTC!

Thanks from Canada

Decided to head off to the St Bathans market day so now on way home caching as we go. Take care where you step, there were people "deposits" close to the cache hide. TFTC

Lovely old church. TFTC.

Lovely little churh nearby, stunning quiet spot ttfc

We stopped by this lovely church and had look for this cache,easy found out there!

Thanks for the hide and the maintain.

Greetings from the Steipilzbrätler from Switzerland

A straightforward find while cycling the Otago Central Rail Trail. Collected Claudine and Amorine's travel bug R4NMW3 which is quite wet and has been languishing in this cache for a month or so and will send it on its way
Thank you drawp for this cache.

Tftc dropped a trackable

A quick find on our way past today after coming up through Middlemarch to Ranfurly. Remember this area well! We used to camp here as a family many years ago. TFTC

Nice cache thanks

Nice cache thanks

Good hide found while travelling to Ranfurly TFTC

This one took me far too long...wandering gps signal..or interference from above:) HOTA

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

Headed down south with C&D and 11HPG11 for the CHCH Mega as part of the HOAC team, and decided that a Mega road trip/Mega Mission was the right thing to do. We landed in CHCH late Friday night and after picking up the rental car we bee-lined it straight to Dunedin to grab a few hours sleep before the mission truly started.

The goal for today was to locate a certain few geocaches which help for certain challenges that we are all currently working on, and to explore some pretty cool country, before getting to tomorrows starting point in Omarama. We thoroughly enjoyed this day of the mission and saw some pretty awesome places, and managed to achieve most of what we wanted. A big thanks to everyone for placing all the caches, and I apologize in advance for the copy and past logs!

After wandering around Sutton Salt lake we headed North to Naseby. We had some great scenery as we drove along and was able to stop in a few places to grab any nearby caches which were near.

Another neat looking church, spotted the tell tale signs of a hide after qucikly checking a few places. Thanks for the hide.

This was the start of a MEGA caching weekend in the company of good caching friends. In the company of both HKCB & 11HPG11 this was going to be another memorable caching road trip for many reasons.

After driving down from Christchurch last night, sleeping in the car in Dunedin , and getting a good early start this is the practice day for the planned mission for tomorrow , thats not to say we are not taking the day seriously, but there were roads to travel, views to see (so unlike what we were used to in the Waikato) and of course caches to grab.

All in all it was going to be a big day with a number of challenges, great sceanery, and of course great company. Fantastic driving along and up here as the landscape was so different from what we are used to back in the Waikato. One good thing about backroads being that we could continue our neferious activites without being disturbed by muggles.
Having just left Sutton Salt Lake we were continuing our journey, with plenty of banter and discussions between caches of solving societies problems, Yeah Right. More like and endless stream of B*llSh1t

Nice quick find here without any issues .

thanks for the placement , thanks for the cache

What a Mega Mission for a group of Hamilton Over Achievers! A great trip, a long time in the planning. I teamed up with Cats&Dragons and HKCB to grab a couple of caches while in Christchurch and surrounding areas for the 2015 Mega Event. We flew out from Auckland on Friday night and traveled to Dunedin in the dark of the night. Stopped for a few hours sleep before setting off to grab caches in the Otago area on Saturday before attempting a few more on Sunday and then arriving at the Mega on the Monday. An amazing, yet crazy road trip

While grabbing this cache I did wonder what Kokonga meant, and glad to read the description now and it all makes sense. Nice little spot.

Another great find while slowly heading to the Christchurch Mega.
Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this trip.

SL TFTC

Log was rather wet so I left a scrap of paper that may last for the next few visits.

One of 20 odd found on a day trip. Thanks.

A lovely wee church here. The day seemed to be improving, at least the drizzle had stopped and the fog was burning off. It all came back later though. Typical!
TFTC

Inside of box wet but cache dry.

Nice cache. Great spot.