Be Dammed (North Otago) Kurow, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 22-Dec-12. Waypoint GC435H7

Nice! Doing while also doing the lab.Thanks a lot!

Once stopped, we had to catch the cache as well. Thanks!

TFTC

Armed with jandals and a chilly bin, a couple of Aussies headed across the ditch for a 3-week tiki tour, exploring the beauty of New Zealand.DAY 16: A morning in Oamaru before heading to the hills - Twizel & Mt Cook.A quick stop at the dam for an AdLab waypoint and a quick find too.Thanks for showing us this special place by placing this cache, drawp tn koe~~

Super clever wee cache TFTC nice easy find for our trip from Wanaka to Oamaru

We started our beautiful journey through the South Island in Christchurch. Here we went on a big sightseeing tour and visited lots of caches. We then travelled via Lake Tapeko, Dansey Pass and Moeraki to Dunedin for the MEGA event. In Dunedin we visited the MEGA events and together with many other cachers we found many caches around Dunedin. A few days later, we travelled on through the Catlins to the southernmost part of Bluff. We then visited Te Anau and the tourist town of Queenstown. In Wanaka we went on another sightseeing tour until we reached the west coast via the Haast Pass. We hiked to Fox Glacier and Franz Josef Glacier.We continued along the west coast up to Westport, stopping at various sights along the way. Richmond and Nelson, the sunniest cities, were also on our list.A few days later we reached the east coast again in the wine region of Picton and Blenheim.After a few days, we travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.We visited many geological sites, completed many adventure cahes and found many caches along the way.We travelled almost 3500 km and had so many great experiences.Many thanks to all the ownersTeam sissifalke

A plan was hatched quite a while ago when the Dunedin Mega was announced to come over to the South Island again.I have only been to New Zealand twice before and I loved the South Island.So a chance to come back for a Mega was a no brainer for me.Everything was booked and I flew in on Saturday after a bit of a delay.After a great look around Mount Cook yesterday and an over night stay in Twizel its time to head to Oamaru for tonight.So Day 5 of my Mega NZ trip begins and Im on my own again so lets go find a few more caches along the way.Up early as per usual and after a nice drive around Twizel and my morning coffee it was time to hit the road again.Well I have come to the end of the dams and another great read on the information boards.This clever and sneaky cache was soon located and I added my name to the log.Thanks drawp TFTC.

Enjoyed our subway lunch here on our way to chch. Love the ingenuity of your cache. Tftc.

tak for cachen HC & HAT from Denmark

# 2012 Stopped for the compulsory photo of the dams and a play in the gravel. Oh look there's a cache her too... let's find it nicely hidden too. Couldn't find a pen in the car so took a photo of the log. TFTC drawp.

I can confirm the spider is dead ( it died of natural causes ) and has been shaken out of the cache - its final testing place. There may be other spiders alive and weaving as there were plenty of webs covering the cache. Tfc but not the spider experience!!

Disturbed the spider

We stopped for the view and of course the cache. It was SO windy! The water was being blown over the spillway.A nice find. Thanks drawp.

Disturbed the resident spider but all good here. TFTC

Good spot! Forgot to bring a pen though

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Found on the way to the coast. Vielen Dank fr den Cache - Thanks for the cache - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Gracias por el cach - Gratias pro cache - Dzieki za kesza Ksznm a cache - Agradecimentos para o cache - Tack fr cachen - Dky za kes nbellek iin tesekkrler - Hvala za ke - Tak for cachen - Kiitos ktkst - Paldies par keatminas - Multumesc pentru cache - Hvala za predpomnilnika - Kesh uchun rahmat - Cm n b nh cache - - Dankon pro la kamemoro - Taing airson an tasg Diolch am y cache - Go raibh maith agat as an taisce Wir loggen nicht immer der Reihe nach sondern nutzen auch Lcken in den Logbchern.

So awesome! Mstr 12 loved this find. #6 today.

I was very impressed by the imposing dam buildings that I came across as I drove NW. Sadly the viewpoint is on the other side from them, but it's still a fascinating structure from any angle. Tricky hide was a little awkward to spot but I managed to sign and return before three carloads of tourists pulled in. Tftc!

Quick p&g. Tftc

Nice Power stadion and riverview. Windy day. On our trip from Aoraki village to Oamaru. Greetings from Finland. TFTC

Quick find, TFTC!

Nice and easy park and grab. Thanks

Found as we drove from Timaru to meet friends in Alexandra. Nice hide but no problem as we had a suspicion when we approached GZ. Thaanks

Fun cache!

Here doing the ad lab. A clever hide here. Tftc

Couldn't find it so read some previous logs & had a proper look & saw something obvious. Clever hide. Fav point for this. Grabbed while doing the Ad lab. Thought I got a cache here quite a few years ago.

TFTC

Found on a stop at the dam. Nice place. TFTC diddi_

Needed the clue butttt found! Love the little hiding spotLove stopping here for the view when we drive past

Such a cool outlook spot and very clever hide. Nice stop for a rest break too. Thanks

Fab day at the dam, thanks for placing lots of information about the dam.

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

GPS never actually loaded any info about this but gave us the rough location and that was enough thanks!

Out on a road trip with my aussie kids. First pick up for a while. Tftc

Found on a bike ride with my wife.

Quick stop.Nice views.TFTC

Quick stop in a beautiful spotTFTC

Thanks for hiding this cache drawp I appreciate it. I liked this hide. It needs to be clever due to the amount of traffic that stops for the view. It's the weekend before Christmas So JDScout and I are spending three nights in Kurow We stayed in Kurow last night..

After coming down the Denseys pass stopped here. Good to see the generation of hydropower.Greetings from team Camperfietser

Day 7: Up the WaitakiThe next bit of our journey brings us up the Waitaki on another fine but sometimes blustery day. We started the morning off wandering around Oamaru, and then drove up to visit the reservoirs and towns along the Waitaki. This proved to be yet another productive day of exploring and caching, so thanks for all the fun caches in lovely locations along the way. (End of the cut and paste bit) Heres the specific log for this cache: Another one of the many dams we have encountered on our trip and this one was made a tad difficult for me for reasons I too cannot fathom in hindsight. I hopped the fence here for a cache that really didnt require such a stunt. Silly me, but at least the cache was found. TFTC!

Lots of spiderwebs

Good hint! Nice stop

Stopped by here today on our trip and visited this cache.

Interesting place! Thanks to the explicit hint, found immediately.

Stopped by the Dam for lunch. Had to check the area for a cache! TFTC

We parked here with our campervan to see this dam.I quickly grab the easy cache, thanks for that.

Found

Yeah found one today

Good hiding spot! Quickly found during a short rest on our way to Twizel.TFTC,bahaMAfive

A nice easy find and a great spot to stop and take in the view. Tftc

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TFTC! Nice quicky!

12:30h. Nice piece of infrastructure! Thanks for showing!

Found it

Stopped to check out the dam and grab the cache at the same time

Located several caches whilst ‘exploring’ the Kurow-Aviemore area today. Walked down to the wrong level initially. Back on the correct level it was a quick find. #6292. TFTC.

We were damned! TFTC!

Thanks for the cache.

Quick and easy in this gorgeous spot. TFTC

Thanks easy find 20/4/23

TFTC. Glad I wasn’t around in 1930s, as I might have been on the business end of a pick and shovel

When i was young our family used to do annual trips from timaru round the lakes and dams being built. Doing a nostalgic trip round here on a brilliant sunny day. Tftc

Found it during our vacation. Thank you.

Find #7092
Found on March 14, 2023

We are from Abilene, Texas, USA and have come to New Zealand to visit with a friend. We plan on going after different Cache Types while here. We will also find geocaches while going sight seeing.

Thank you, drawp for placing this cache for all to find. We sign log sheets either as Love Cachers or LCers.

Driving over 50 miles to have...
Rusty barbed wire ripping through your clothes...
Curious rattlesnakes that come out of nowhere...
Itchy mosquito bites on every inch of your body...
A 40 mph wind gust blowing sand into your ears, nose and mouth...
Cactus needles getting stuck deep in your hands, arms and legs...
Thorny Mesquite trees scratching you up from head to toe...
Some or all of these things on a hike through 101° heat...
To sign your name or trade a toy...
SOUND LIKE FUN TO YOU?

It does to us, we're geocachers in West Texas! - {Taken from a Greater Abilene Association geocoin.}

This was a very interesting stop. We enjoyed reading the boards about the history of Waitaki Dam. The cache was quickly found.T4TC

On our way to the next location TEMBO! and I found the "Bei Dammed" and made spontainious a break. Impressive how high the water level was.

Thanks to drawp for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Found on the trip to Dunedin. TFTC

Thanks, sweetpitti

Day 6 on the A20 Ocean to Alps cycle trail from Otematata to Kurow (45km). A dam good find here and we were back on our bikes along the trail. TFTC

Nice quick find. uk

During our holiday in NZ we, together with geosnuf, also look for a geocache here and there, like this one.We enjoy the beautiful nature, the pleasant encounters and the nice caches.Cache owner thank you for bringing us here and for placing and maintaining.

That is a very nice road to the Mt. Cook.
Thanks.

Passing through on a tiki tour around the mainland. An easy find, thanks to the hint. Thanks for hiding drawp.

Danke für den Hint, so war es ein schneller Fund. Am Waitaki River entlang haben wir hier angehalten. Danke für den Cache und Grüße aus Deutschland.

Thanks for the hint, so it was a quick find. Along the Waitaki River we stopped here. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Tftc!

A fantastic view. Logbook full so added an extra piece of paper. TFTC

Found it easy

Stopped here on the way to Omarama for an OTMC meet. Easy find, so logbook was signed and the container tucked away to await the next geocacher.

TNLN. TFTC.

Out on bike quick stop... Easy find ....TFTC

Cache logged in nice sunshine. Tftc. Greetings from Finland.

In side pipe

Tftc!! Good one!

Great view of the dam

#367 - Took a minute as I looked in the OTHER obvious place at first, but soon had cache in hand. Signed and replaced, loved reading about the history of this dam! TFTC

Geo-Roadtrip in the South Island with TrinityNZ and JustlookingOO to collect some PWGT's and as many other caches as we can.
We stopped to look at the dam and checked if there was a cache here, and of course there was. We let TrinityNZ do the honours with this one. SUPER windy! Nearly lost the cache, log, and our phones!
TFTC

What a very windy day to come to this spot! LL113 and JustLookingOO and I are on a road trip and decided to stop here to look at the view and look for this cache. After waiting a few minutes for muggles to depart, I honed in on the location. It did take me a few minutes to locate the cache, and the others gave me some suggestions on where to look. All good with the cache, once found. Thanks for bringing us here

Neat hide, cool spot. Tftc

Sneaky spot, TFTC

On our way to Mount Cook we stopped here and found the cache.
TFTC!
Greetings from Germany Felsmaus.

We stopped in here to check out the information and view of the dam and finding this cache was a nice bonus. TFTC!

Grabbing a few caches here and there, depending on my bossy family
TFTC, Clever hide

That’s a massive structure! Found the cache no problem

Unfortunately we couldn't find. We found the spot where it was supposed to be. Just didn't see it.

Quick stop on a windy day to admire the dam. TFTC

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … as our rig is so big, there aren’t many places that we can pull over to do ‘park’n’grab caches’ … so we were lucky with this spot … found this with no issues, log completed & cache returned … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,301 for us.

Having grown up with my father working at Mangahao Power Station stopping her to view this was great.

Took a load of photos read all the info boards, and totally enjoyed this stop. Especially watching all the swirling water and all the eddies.

Thanks so much for putting this cache here.

Quick stop by the dam to have a look at the turbine. Clever hide. Both container and logbook are in good condition, even if the paper starts to tear in places, it is dry.