Hay's Camp (South Canterbury) Ashwick Flat, South Island, New Zealand
By wardsmithfamily on 02-Feb-13. Waypoint GC45AWW

What a lovely spot. Gee the lake levels are low which means it is not as attractive as when I was last caching in the area. The log has recently been signed by campers from Picton - seems an unlikely spot for them to stumble across the cache. TFTC # 20,889

We introduced some local family members to geocaching this afternoon and searched for a few caches around the lake. This one was a quick find in the obvious place. All good with the cache. TFTC wardsmithfamily.

Found

Found on a trip to the area fishing with my 8 year old Hamish. Thanks

Easy find and first cache of our extended weekend at this magnificent place

Thanks

Thanks

A quick find - tftc

Nice quick find thanks.

Easy find

On our way home from camping at tekapo - TFTC

Quick find on a nice drive in the area

We are taking our cat Coco on a motorhome and Geocaching holiday. She looks after our home while we go off in Suzy on GC adventures.
Nice easy find at hint. Thanks for the cache wardsmithfamily.

Nice easy find!

JDSCOUT and I are having a campervan holiday in Fairlie. Jude_E is staying nearby too. The container was beyond repair so we replaced it. Thanks wardsmithfamily for creating this hide. It was find 9789 for me.

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We found the spot where the cache should be but it was clearly past its best. Hope the owner doesn't mind but a replacement has been left at the spot. Thanks. #6731

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Gave it a good look but no luck for me either. Needs checked.

Found old notices but no cache

All obvious signs of a cache location but no cache.

Thanks for this cache !

Logbook wet

Quick easy find. TFTC

TFTC, logipaper was missing

We are on our summer holiday driving around the South Island with no real idea of where we will end up each day. We are often drawn to an area that has the potential to give us a few geocaching smilies and somewhere we have not spent time exploring before. So we spotted this lake and decided that we would come and spend a bit of time looking around.
We enjoyed the stunning scenery as we biked from the dam to the boat launching ramp, there were several boats zooming around having a wonderful time on the lake.
Then we were back in the camper having a look at other areas of the lake.
The long and very dusty grass made getting to this one more of a GK mission than for me as I get dreadful hayfever. So I stayed in the van and watched for muggles, but we were far enough away that no one took any notice of what he was up to.
Thank you for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Found no trouble, log and bags wet, replaced the inner bag and put csche6in a black container to hopefully keep it drier. TFTC.

tftc

Tftc. Totally wet. Needs a container.

Tftc. Totally wet. Needs a container.

12.00: Still exploring Lake Opuha. No difficulties in finding this little one. Wading through the wet grass after the rain was the biggest challenge here[xx(].

Weather: overcast, low clouds, 11°C;
Wheelchair: overgrown, on the road only, close enough to watch;
State: quite good, a bit wet, bring a pen!

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

Drove out to check on camping facilities at Lake Opuha, and whilst at Hay's Camp I had to find this cache of course. Thanks for the placement wardsmithfamily.

Found with our 2 and 5 y.o. T4TC. Thanks! Nice and sunny today so we dried out the cache completely.

Quick find

Quick found! Little bit wet! TFTC!

Umm, this cache needs some work. Only a plastic bag.

Assume it was the cache I found. No logbook just a swap within two plastic ziplock bags. Shame no logbook but that’s assuming I found it

Camped overnight, great to do a cache at a beautiful spot even though it’s raining and we got wet legs in the grass!! Wet bag but dry inside. Thanks for hiding

Off to Opuha Lake for the day and this was a nice quick find before our main mission TFTC

Camping out here for two days so had some time to do a little maintenance. Dried the logbook and everything else and added another zip lock back to try to keep it dryer.
This is a beautiful camping area, especially on a sunny day.
TFTC

gosh i havnt seen a bison tube for a while decided to camp out here for the night after doing a few across the lake. only 2 other campers here and a very warm evening.... cache log is a little wet but still able to sign easily TFTC and showing me where this place is ...

A nice quick find in a busy location today. Tftc

Under a rock

a little hard, but still fun

No log book

Thanks

Easy find on a scorcher of a day. Here camping with Nevada Rebels. TFTC

Camping at Waitangi weekend ... first cache to find with the new geocaching app! Yay! Super hot day, glad this cache not far from our camp site! TFTC

A lovely couple of hours picnicking, fishing and kayaking at the lake. A quick find to round off the afternoon. Thanks to the geocacher who replaced the log, we were the first to sign it and found it nice and dry.

Quick find. Logbook saturated so replaced it TFTC

Cheers for the cache log very wet

Grabbed this one on the way back from a nice wander out, very hot day, but the logs are a tad damp. Cheers.

Very wet. Looks like it needs an oring! TFTC.

A quick stop and sign. Log starting to get a bit damp.

Decided on a weekend away in South Canterbury. Had some amazing weather and the mountains and valleys were superb.

Thanks for the hide.

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Found it

Checked on this today, chain on container broken, changed Hint accordingly

... an easy find on an extremely hot day, there were a few campers around. Cannot recall seeing Lake Opuha so low.

Start of my last days geocaching....very hot and very dry easy find.

Not many around. Lake very low.#1173

Easy find on a lovely drive and picnic on Christmas Day. TFTC

Cool container

Bit of a long drive in for this cache with a ford to test out the campervan. TFTC

Stunning day. Cool night. Tftc

wasn't quite where I expected it to be but worth the find u get a favourite vote for the container alone, need to get some of those for our next hide, didn't have a boat our kayak to get out to the island today summers not far away so I will be back. thanks Phillip and co.

All was good for this one.

Still lots of campers here, great spot. The lake water was way down.

New log damp, dried it and taped around joint

we biked to this. heaps of locals here gearing up for a party.
we were going to log a DNF, but as we were leaving, noticed a tatty plastic bag in the paddock. This contained the cache.
Log book nice and dry though.
So , we returned cache where we think it belongs, minus the bag....maybe that had attracted a bird or animal.
Thanks for the cache.

Log wet replaced left wet one in a bag put more paper in

Our first visit to the lake. Thanks for leading us here. Snow covered mountains look stunning today.

Many Thanks for all the caches found today on a Quick trip around the block.

Bitsprayer

Found admidst the sound of barking dogs from a nearby camper. glad they were not running around!
Thanks
erninz

Found quickly,and decided to Camp over night,in our Caravan.Nice wee spot.TFTC

Found on our tour of the lower South Island. TFTC

Hint was spot on so an easy find for us. We are going to camp here tonight TFTC

Found eventually,but not as per hint,so replaced at the obvious place to fit the hint.A few campers here.We found a spot for lunch.TFTC

Found at 12:34 PM
Cache was found after a search and was replaced according to the hint.should be easier for the next visit

TFTC wardsmithfamily

pipedream

Spyed this cache pop up last evening and to come this way for work today. So took an hour to grab both caches here. This one took a few minutes as the cache had moved about 2m from its hiding place but I found and put back. FTF.

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