Westward Ho! White Gold (North Otago) Danseys Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By erninz on 22-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3XAGK

I'm ditching dad again and heading down south for the Mega in Dunedin. During this trip I managed to do many things and meet many people over the 2 weeks I was away. Thanks to all the cache owners and other cachers for making this trip enjoyable.Day 4 of the trip. Todays adventure is Danseys pass. A great lot of caches but I struck a large hurdle towards the end of the day with not only 1 but 3 punctures. So had to get into dunedin via a 2hr tow truck ride. A nice quick find. TFTCAll logs on this trip were signed by any of the following:Taybee NZ,TBNZ,TNZ,TB/D (When I was out with mother)

Found it

Today we drove the pass and on our way we stopped to search and find this geocache.Thanks for placing it. Greetings from Team Camperfietser

Finally getting a chance to stop for caches through the pass! Lovely day and no one around. TFTC!!

A quick find here and a turnaround to head back for some lunch TFTC

Ben Lewis had the prize

Hey hey its off we go to the next cache. Tftc

Soon be time for lunch. Need a rest now.

Our daughter earns her living out of white gold so nice to find this one after bypassing many. The nearby bull was not thrilled but safely on the other side.
Thanks.

Enjoyed the find TFC even though a kept us company

Found on a night away to danseys pass with family and farmerkeith. Awesome geocaching along this back road. Thank you to all who keep these maintained. Found with a spectacular bellowing from the paddock. Easy find

nice easy P & G. Have nearly finished our long great day along the Dansey.Found with coconuts3. TFTH

Out with busy paws for a long day of caching. Happy to find this P & G after some blue frowns. Thanks for the cache erninz.

Quick easy find - TFTC

Couple minutes to find

Easter family adventures. After a night in Timaru and a morning bike through another section of the A2O we were now heading for Danseys Pass and Naseby for a few nights. With family in tow and needing to get to Naseby there were far too many caches through the pass to get them all - so just stopped at a few. This was one along the way - thanks.

TFTC great spot for a quick park and grab

A nice quick find thanks.

Ms_KR and I decided to have an extended Show Weekend break, so today we headed for Naseby. A lovely day and plenty of little distractions was had by all!

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Found it. Lucky find by Doully not in right spot but is now.
TFTC

Out for a days geocaching with Aussie Pete. Left home at 8am and got back 12 hours later. Travelled through some wonderful back country, esp over the Dansey's pass. If you believe in Murphy's law then he was one step ahead of us all day. We had a wonderful time finding and exploring. This resulted in an unexpected tumble down a hill, a number of scratches and bruises and a few holes in a hand where I grabbed some grass to steady myself only to discover I had grabbed some hidden barbed wire. This is what geocaching is all about. A fun filled day with a good mate. Thanks to all the people who took time to hide the caches.
This one had fallen out of its 'safe place' and was buried in long grass. Only found it by chance. Now resting in its rightful spot.

No luck here in any spot indicated by the hint.

Decided to make a trip to Duntroon over the Dansey Pass. Lots of logs to find and sign and this one was one of them. TFTC

#16868. With a photo muggle nearby, we had to be discreet looking for thos one. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker on a big day, starting in Duntroon at about 8:30am, and finishing in Clyde, via Danseys Pass, nine hours and 62 caches later . A fantastic trip with great views and interesting places.
A man had stopped here and was taking photos near GZ, so we hope there isn't a photo of us finding the cache! TFTC.

We were muggled by the Rural Mail driver. After she had made her deliveries we looked for the cache.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Thanks this should get me Neptune on the planetary pursuit challenge a lots of points to get to Pluto.

Found on our road trip through Central. TFTC!

I'm from Norway, escaping the cold winter and travelling around New Zealand for 7 weeks, using geocaching as my tourguide. Today I drove from Glenavy to Dunedin over Danseys Pass. I really really enjoyed this powertrail, the scenery just got more and more spectacular the further I got!! It was a good place to have a powertrail, there were hardly no cars, and the caches were hidden in spots where it was easy to park the car. All the caches were quickly found with good hints, that's the way I like powertrails to be. I only had dnf on two caches, that's because I didn't allow myself to spend time searching if I didn't find it instantly. I would never have known about this pass if it wasn't for all the caches that showed up on the map, so thank you sooo much for placing and maintaining them. I really enjoyed this drive. I'm adding a couple of favourite-points on the caches I liked the most. Thank you for all the caches!

The signs tell me that I am now on the school bus route. Very pleased that I'm outside of those times so shouldn't encounter any today because it would spoil the drive playing cat and mouse with one along here. TFTC # 11,517

Geofest Oamaru is over but our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara & I) epic adventure continues - Day 4 Danseys Pass - another 'must do'. The weather is drizzly, so its raincoats and gummies for the day.
Another quick snag and tag on our way past. Cheers

A enjoyable days drive through Danseys Pass and down State Highway 87 to Mosgiel. Lots to stop and look at along the way. Not to mention a few to stop and look for as well. Cheers and TFTC

The Geofest ended yesterday, but Taybeedragon and I are still going strong. It's raining - just light rain, and so rather than walk or cycle somewhere, we are driving Dansey's Pass, the slow way.

With a small amount of drizzle we were able to still visit many caches and see areas we have not yet visited, thanks for the placement we have enjoyed each cache and where is has brought us.

The (major road trip was about to begin) that was for the Oamaru Geofest trip in the company of HKCB and iammrwalker for a bit of a road trip across to the west coast, through Haast and in a roundabout way to Oamaru.

My trip stats were as follows: 617 caches (214 Puzzles), 3300kms, 500 litres of Petrol, 21 hours sleep, 100+hours caching time. THe weather was wonderful and apart from about a 6hour period on the sunday we had fine weather all the way and feel that we made a bit of a hole in the region.

Firstly thanks to all the CO's that put in the effort to to set up these caches and to all the CO's whose caches we did not find this trip, well we are already planning our next trip.
We worked hard at getting specific caches (especially the Geo Art around christchurch and hence our concentration on this area for the preliminary 24 hours. So after a couple of running repairs to the rental vehicle (fuses not working) we were off knowing that all ports could be charged and that sleep was for the weak.

Sorry about the copy and paste logs but that is what tends to happen with a number run of this size. Last came through here a couple of years ago as we worked towards starting a 24 hour run to secure the NZ 1day/24hour record. Nice to finally get to finish this trail through here before heading back and up to Oamaru

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Signed as TIE. Tftc.

14:32 tftc from team TIE, number 4933

A quick find. Signed as TIE. TFTC

Came down this way from the North for the Oamaru Geofest, and decided to add a few more days to the weekend trip and turn it into a bit of a Mega mission, starting 5pm on Wednesday 18th and finishing 3pm Monday 23rd! Teaming up with Cats&Dragons for the first 24 hours then with Iammrwalker joining the team for the remainder.
Just a few of the stats for the trip were:
- 700 caches found, including 270+ puzzles (thanks to the Christchurch Geoart)
- 3300 km's driven, using over 500L of fuel $$$
- Just over 20 hours of sleep (about 4 per day on average), and about 100 hours of caching time.
Certainly a Mega Trip!

Day 4: With the lack of sleep starting to take a toll we finished Day 3 off early and got a few hours sleep before getting back to finding about 2am this morning. Todays mission was to find caches around Tekapo before heading South through the Mackenzine Country via Hakataramea Pass, and onto Dansey's pass before coming out on the coast and heading to Oamaru for the Geofest and caching around the area.

Sorry about the cut and past logs, but that seems to happen with cache runs of this size!

I found this Geocache on a Geocaching mega mission along with Cats&Dragons and HKCB. With only just over three and half thousand Geocache finds I was very much the over achiever in training. We were in the South Island to support the Oamaru Geofest event, hunt down some Jasmar and D/T harder to find Geocaches, lonely caches (those not found in more than 6 months), virtuals and try and meet some milestone numbers. We signed the logs HIC, an abbreviation of our respective Geocaching names, (H)KCB, (I)ammrwalker and (C)ats&dragons. A huge thanks to all the CO’s who placed and maintain the Geocaches we found.

I arrived in Christchurch late Thursday evening having left straight from work and was picked up by my intrepid companions in our four wheel drive rental to find they had already grabbed about 270 finds in the previous twenty four hours. I wonder if the rental company would have still let us have it had they known we would travel 3300km in it before returning it four days later? Our trip took us to Greymouth via Arthurs pass, Ngahere, down the west coast to Haast across to Hawea, Cromwell, Twizel, Aoraki Mt Cook, Tekapo, onto the east coast up to Oamaru and back up to Christchurch via Akaroa and countless diversions and small towns along the way. We slept in the car for the first two nights, grabbing some shut eye between cache finds, taking turns to drive. We rented a small place in Oamaru for the other two nights and appreciated a bed to sleep in and a hot shower. It was an amazing trip, in which I discovered the South Island has some of the most incredible scenery in the world.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… Our journey to the bottom of the South Island has been almost two years in the planning. We were determined to make it to Oamaru Geofest. We decided to also factor in completing a couple of missions (JASMER and Virtual challenges), and the wheels started turning...

Day Four: Naseby-Danseys Pass-Oamaru

Our plan for today was to be in Oamaru by evening. We wanted to be ready for the opening of Geofest tomorrow. We began stirring early this morning... A long haul to the top of the Danseys will also require a trip down the other side... Just when we thought we were over the worst of the road, the other side was more of the same... Another quick find here (Apologies for cut and paste logging). TFTC.

DAY 4
After a good cafe breakfast at Naesby our mission was to complete the other side of Danseys Pass. Some caches were wet and damp and a couple of DNF'S. SLTFTC

Have messaged the CO with answers, now logging to keep th order.

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.

Well not sure just which white gold you are referring to but these ones are definitely different shades of white/black but the contents they deliver could be classed as white gold to some.

Greetings from 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.

Enjoyed the views on an awesome day through here....also liked the safe parking at each cache location!

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.

Day 3 of my Oamaru GeoFest week. Naseby to Oamaru today.
Expecting dust, dust and more dust.
Found in the 2nd place looked as GPS changed its mind as I moved.
Attracted the interest of the local bovines - they mooved away and then kept watch.
Thanks for the smilie.
1619 20 October 2017 16:11

Drove down from Wanaka. Mainly because of the virtual. And then went over the pass. Nice little trail here. I didn't have to much energy, so a didn't search for to long on some caches, that's why some didn't got logged today. Thank you for all the caches. And sorry for the copy and paste logs.

tftc

Checked today and log changed.

The second weekend of planned caching trips for Chelzea and I. This one started caching near Temuka and then on down to Timaru, Oamaru over Danseys Pass and then back to ChCh from Palmerston the next day. Long and winding trip in places but managed a good number of caches with only a few DNF's. Too many to remember in detail so sorry for the cut and paste logs but thanks to all the owners it was a great two days of searching new places for a good variety of caches.

Very wet replaced log and bag.

Found on our way to Danseys Pass.tftc

I'm currently hitchhiking my way around the world and geocaching everywhere I go. My first stop was in Ireland where I spent a couple weeks touring the country. I then flew to London and spent a couple weeks touring the United Kingdom. From there I made my way through the tunnel and up to Amsterdam and then back down to Belgium. After that I headed for France. Then from there I headed to Portugal for a mega event that was happening. After that I headed for Denmark to attend another Mega event. I then made my way North into Sweden and then even further North to Norway. After that I proceeded to work my way back down South through Finland and then ferry hopped my way through a few of the islands to arrive back in Sweden. Next I made my way to Germany for another Mega event and then back to the Netherlands for still another mega event before heading for Luxembourg. After that the next stop along my journey was Switzerland. I then made a quick detour up to Belgium to grab a July 2000 geocache I had overlooked before making my way to Croatia passing through Austria and Slovenia along the way. After that my route took me East to Serbia and then through Romania into Moldova. I then couldn't resist going North and crossing into the Ukraine. After that I began heading South passing through Romania once again. I then passed through Bulgaria as I raced for Turkey in order to catch a flight to Australia timing it so that I could attend a mega event happening there. After that I made an extensive 2 month tour through all 8 states of Australia before flying over to the North Island of New Zealand. I then gradually worked my way south to Wellington and took the ferry over to the South Island. I then continued hitchhiking my way around the South Island via Blenheim, Murchison, Spring Junction, Leithfield Beach, the bypass around Christchurch to Ashburton, Dunedin, Brighton, Bluff, Queenstown, Danseys Pass, and then Christchurch airport.

Staying at Danseys Pass Holiday Park as a guest of the owner and figured I'd walk along the road and grab a bunch of geocaches before hitchhiking back.

Thank you so much for placing this geocache!

TheLoneBaker

Found it

Time to knock off a few more over the pass while heading to omakau for the weekend
Quick find luckily feeling quite exposed with all the letter boxes around tftc

Interesting trip through Dansey's Pass, good find.

Sunroller, my caching partner for the day, and I decided to go over the Dansey Pass collecting caches on the way.

Cheers for the cache and the series.

No luck

No luck

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

SL TFTC and the series erninz

Down in this part of the world for Queens Birthday weekend, finding a few caches

TFTC

Quick find

Found with Granville86a on a lovely day driving over our second alpine pass, TFTC

Found with Chosen1978. Great to get down off the pass. Weather improving the closer we get to the coast.

YAY i found it 3 rd attempt, new co ords make a huge difference was looking under the wrong hint object last 2 times. its not at the mail boxes. cheers

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 58.453 E 170° 29.905

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 58.452 E 170° 29.894

Distance from original: 47.9 feet or 14.6 meters.
Relocated - no need to go near the mailboxes

All good, I have altered the co ords slightly

Updated the coordinates so there is no need to go near the mailboxes

This one needs better coords I think. I zeroed at the letterboxes, which are 10m or so (and 2 clue objects) away.

Will check the co ords for this

Took ages to find, as I think the coords are out. Even resorted to looking in someone's letterbox, which is where I zeroed. Found it 10m or so away. TFTC.

2nd attempt at this one, still did not find it.....

We just couldn't find this one.

Working at Danseys pass, getting caches on the side.

Whose big smoke????

We did already some of caches from Oamaru, today we came from Ranfurly to complete the series. We managed to find nearly all -just one without any luck and we spent quite some time there. But considering that some coordinates were out by about 20m we should have widened our search even more. Most caches well done, but the hints were sometimes more confusing and not helpful. We are glad that we completed the drive - but have to come back for one. But this is just an excuse for another great drive over the pass. Thanks for placing all the caches.

one more ticked off of this series
TFTC

We spent awhile here looking and couldnt find anything. We didnt get the clue.

Quick find after meeting the owner and turning around as it had been moved. Lol. TFTC.

TFTC

Many different types of gold to be found

Went back to this one with the owner as we hadn't been able to find it Were using old clue though

Another one found. Great day out with TwoSharpe. We are heading back to Christchurch from Nasby... taking our time!

Glad to finally find this one after a DNF last year.

This was missing when I came through six months ago. No problems today. TFTC.

Replaced today

Looks like this one is gone.

Couldn't find this one

No luck for me here.

Don't remember looking for this but our notebook has DNF next to the name.

Like others, we had no joy here.

no luck today :O(

DNF… any White Gold

Spent a while on this one with no luck, looks like another clean up has gone on and some newish fencing. Better luck next time eh? Thanks

No luck today. Gave a good look over but, Next time.......

#3431 @0935
Heading for Naseby via Dansey's Pass, for some mountain bike orienteering. Stayed the night on SH1 (just south of the Waitaki River) in the back of the van. Woke early and headed here to pick up some earth caches for an Auckland Challenge cache, before heading over the pass concentrating on the Westward Ho trail. Spent a good 5-10 minutes searching for this one with no luck.

Was unaware of the shift.

Noticed this had been disturbed by a recent clean up so relocated and have changed the hint

Looks like another we did not find

Found it laying in the open under the hint item, signed and replaced in a less conspicuous spot.
Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki Sheep.
TFTC