Tunfisk's Mega Menagerie (Otago) Woodhaugh, South Island, New Zealand
By tunfisk on 10-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YDQH

Our last cache of the day on way to our home base. Found cache thanks tunfisk.

Camped up at the NZMCA park just along the road from here. All evening to wander around caching. Snagged and tagged this on my way past. Cheers.Day 4 - Waimate - Dunedin with a few Geo stops along the way. And an event to end the evening.Zara, Toby and I are on an adventure, heading to the Dunedin Mega with some extra days along the way. Caught up with TaybeeNZ on 22 Oct for a day caching around Christchurch. Then made my way down to Waimati for the night. Arrived in Dunedin Thursday afternoon. Beautiful day Friday to cache around Port Chalmers. Mega Day was cold, wet and miserable and Sunday not much better. Sophia arrived on Sunday for a few days. Teamed up with TaybeeNZ for next three days touring the Catlains Monday, Stewart Island Tuesday and Milford Wednesday, then started making my way home, arriving Friday Morning.

The original logbook is full and many many small pieces of paper have been added to the baggie. Like confetti. Needs a new logbook.

I had just set up camp in Dunedin ready to attend the Mega Event this coming weekend so I looked around to set what caches I could find nearby.If I had bought a powerful torch I am sure that I would have found it quicker. The cache could do with a bit of attention. As the original log is full, many many small bits of paper have been added. Replacement with a fresh good sized logbook would be an improvement.

Easy one to grab

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Bit of a reach for me TFTc.

Finally got this one. Very cozy geocache, logbook a bit scattered but my names on there somewhere. I like this elephant

TFTC

Quick easy find after heading to GZ. TFTC! Log super damp so have photo proof for CO in case.

great hiding spot. Great walk for the kids

Second time trying to find it. Quick and easy

Found this gigantic cash $$ thanks to my big ears

Nice find

Nice quick find at GZ. Added some extra log paper to the cache for future finders. TFTC

Took a while but got there,needs more paper

Took a while

Found it after a while thanks to snoop dog (other half ) Needs new paper

Wandered up the path and then the GPS lead me part way back to the exact right tree. Quick find and made note of the mega hint.

Second unsuccessful attempt of the day , low light probably didnt help

Not too bad an afternoon for caching. Quick find. TFTC

Not far away from the road. It needs a new log book.

Tftc

Quick find TFTC

15043.

Second time looking, quick find today. Thanks for updating. TFTC

Looks as if you have to clamber on to private land, got to 6m

A quick find on the way to the supermarket this morning. A lovely day and of yo bike some of the harbour ride. The cache was found in good condition. TFTH

Coordinates changed from:S 45 51.288 E 170 30.489Coordinates changed to:S 45 51.291 E 170 30.499Distance from original: 46.1 feet or 14.1 meters.Moved to more accurate position to stop wandering onto private property. It's on the left - going up!!

The big mission of today day was to break my record of most finds in 1 day. I started in the morning from Larnach Castle, after spending the night there. Unfortunately, the weather was really bad for part of the day but I persisted nonetheless, going on a geocaching hunt through the wind and rain, on my bike! After going down Highcliff Road into the city, I spent a lot of time in the city centre, ticking off all adventure labs there. Then through the botanical gardens and onto the steepest street in the world, which I managed to ride all the way up in 3 'stints' . To finish off I grabbed some more tradies at the waterfront and just before midnight I called it a night. I'm not sure if I broke the record yet, since I'm only logging all finds at the moment .Btw, sorry to all CO's, I did not manage to actually sign all logs, since my fingers were sometimes so cold, I had no strength to open some tight containers. Rest assured, I actually found all containers and enjoyed the full day hunt a lot! Also sorry for this generic log for all caches, making it a little bit easier for myself, since I found so many. All finds were relatively easy, mostly because of the hints, thanks for that. All DNF's were either taking too much time so I had to move on, or were very probably missing.Many thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining! FP's rewarded for the ones I especially enjoyed!

Cache is still there!

Had a good scratch around but couldn't come up with anything

Finally found despite coords

Tftc bro

Not the first time I haven't found it

Had given up but gave one more look and hey!!! Running out of space in log...

DNF

Closer to the road that thought. Fun to hunt. Never knew this track existed. The Sabres

2nd

A bit tricky, but happy to find it!

Without knowing what we were looking for or having any hint we weren't sure where to start looking but there was only a few places we thought it could be so we had a look around and it didn't take us long to spot. TFTC

Tftc

Trunk like animal, in a trunk ironic.

Hard

Need a hint

TFTC

[Found the manky logbook in pieces swimming in cache bags. Chucked the rubbish and popped in temp ritr logslip. No one is coming back to fix this one. Some dirt got knocked out of the lid and popped out seal for a wipe down. Funny eh, there's more water in the logbook bag than there is in cache. Returned cache to the stick pile]. Dumbo clue still in lid.

As mentioned in previous logs log book waaay to wet to sign CO attention needed nice wee spot though TFTC

Everything was wet and couldn't write anything. On the left hand of track

Found a few metres away from the point on the map on an absolute Dunner stunner. Logbook too wet to write in - needs attention. Tftc

Time for a road trip but to where so let's head east and trace our Scottish heritage we soon ended up in Dunedin for a night or two so , a plan was hatched and we set of in surch of hidden treasures , ok who am I kidding more like plastic box hidden in a bush or under a rock .
But we had a but of a mission to get a Monopoly pice and pick up this one .
A quick search soon had the goods in hand and paper work completed and cache returned
Nice bit of fun
Found with Annielin and Abbykitt
Answers sent to co

Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow so let's goooo

Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns
Thanks for the hide
tftc

with annielin and dsi. nice to be exploring the area that i've not been in before. tftc

Excursion with downsouthinv to the big smoke and beyond. Thanks for bringing us here.

Contents soaked inside. Thanks

Was at the opposite side it said

on the left

This was a remarkably quick find here, BUT I put it down to having read all of the logs before I started, and when I got to where GZ might be I used instinct and checked where I would hide something. Found the cache in the first place I looked.

Took us a wee bit but soon found out we were on the wrong side

Took us a bit, but then we looked at the activity to figure out it was on the other side. Tftc fridges and goodgeo334

Tftc!!

Visiting from Wellington for a son's graduation. Out for an evening caching walk. Challenging looking for this in the evening and not sure we were in the right spot. Previous logs were a bit of a help but still needed a second hunt with the phone torch to spot the cache. TFTC

Awesome location!

Gps was off found it by checking through activity log

Nice hide. Elephant

Found it

Found it

Churrr

Found it using clues from the activity log

In dunnas for a while caching up with KJR..
"Ticking along tuesday" another day doing some solo caching while k has to work...
Wrong side of the track to start with but found eventually tftc

All good

Found with the kids
Had to check comments to find as it was not quite marked in the right spot

Quick easy find

Log book random as but got my name in there somewhere. Tftc. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh ️️️️

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Decided to do a hike today. Started off in Leith valley, headed up to Flagstaff then Swampi Transmitter and finally Jubilee hut in the Silver peaks. All up took us 8 hours. Had time to collect 7 caches but sadly had to walk pass many because of time. This was the first cache found while we waited for the bus to take us to the start of Pineapple track. Initially followed the geotrail but then crossed the path to find the cache. Thanks for the smiley.

Found. TFTC

Yes co-ordinates were about 10m off, so while I was searching around what I thought was a geotrail, geohubby was looking on the other side of the track and came up trumps. "Is this what you're looking for?" he asked with a big smile . Nice spot for the cache, all nice and dry. Found a random space to sign in the logbook and returned cache just as we found it. Another path I had no idea existed. Many thanks for bringing us here.

Felt the need to avenge myself after being defeated by the cache up the road. Found this one without too much trouble. Tftc

Log book is pretty full and could do with replacing. Best done by CO rather than a benevolent stranger to maintain the menagerie challenge

Stopped here and poked around for awhile in all the wrong places. About to move on and thought why not try the other side of the track and yah there was a nice dry cache.
Thanks for placing and maintaining.

Found it!!

Easy find and close to road.

Quicker find than expected as was in front of where it looks like it should be. Thanks.

Took a while to find but got there in the end

Kid needed toilet

Took some time to find it.

Found on our first day geocaching. Will have to find rest of series

Had my eye on the Mega menagerie caches for an opportune visit to Dunnas but not really followed the trials and tribulations of all the archived caches that required changing the caches for the final. A walk down from Maori hill seen a noice path traversed whilst picking up an abandoned 2Lt for an archived cache smilie, there have been quite a few. Impressed more by the large rock cliffs of Dunnas showing it's bones under the canopy of the town belt, how the Edinburgh planners hadn't envisioned soo many steep hills when they plotted the Dunnas streets meant quite a few pedestrian accesses were laid in lieu of roads ending in dead ends and sheer drops ha ha. The cache was an easy find not hidden behind the fortress. The micro mega logbook was dry and bagged but while getting quite full with peeps using both book ends making pages loose and tatty, some room was found at the back for signing. Some swag got chucked in and code animal recorded although noobs had added spoilers previously. Cache returned more hidden once a larger piece was found further away. TFTC *Parícutin Volcano* Natural **Wonder** (5/7) stamped.

Found with Cympull

Found with Fisha1288
TFTC

Easy cache TFTC

Very well hidden

well hidden in tree, but found it after a while

bit rough but not too bad

Nice spot, thank you!

Nice walk while visiting Dunedin tftc

After a visit to Dunedin Hospital thought I would get my first cache in Dunedin tftc

No luck today.

I didnt find it