Moo View (North Otago) Kia Ora, South Island, New Zealand
By hill55 on 15-Mar-13. Waypoint GC47PAQ

another day out caching with agazo, still hunting and still finding the caches, just what the dr ordered, tftc

Nufrat and I took advantage of the excellent weather to collect lots of caches around Oamaru. TFTC.

Nice quick stop and ride cache here, great views, but no moo cows in the field which i though was udderly ridiculous,

Out today Caching while traveling around. Found cache And signed log. TFTC

With a full day in Oamaru while heading to Dunedin we decided to head out into the country for some caching. Thanks so much to the COs for placing and maintaining their caches for us to find.

I didn't realise that there were this number of cows in the area. Thanks

Found this one on our way back down the road. Plenty of room to pull over TFTC

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This one was a nice quick find, made easier as more light available, as the sun rises! TFTC

A nice easy find.

On another 50 quest for the DGSc Challenge. This is number 6.

Nice easy find with coconuts3 on our last full day in this area. Will apologise for the cut and paste on these logs, but we thank you for the caches and placing them for our enjoyment.

Our last day of caching adventure with busy paws, heading home tomorrow. Great cache title, thanks for the cache hill55.

Today was my second day of cyclocaching out from Weston, this time to visit all the caches on the way to the Kakanui River. Found as I returned to Weston. Farmer muggles were treating GZ as a rendezvous point when I rode by earlier in the day. TFTC hill55

Found it

Plenty of animals but no muggles. Tftc

Easter break and it’s time to catch up on the year to date coins. Spotted the”Take Me to the River” series and being a Talking Heads fan I decided this was the series for us today. Drove from Mosgiel, stopping in at Palmerston for a McGregor’s mutton pie we parked at the Round Hill road intersection and set off down Robb’s Crossing Road on foot. Returned to the car and did the rest by park and grab.

TFTC

Find count: 2206

Caching around the back country picking up a few targeted caches plus more. Collecting a few on this road,leaving some as difficulty parking off the road. Easy quick find all good here tftc

Nice quick stop and sign thanks

Holiday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Easy find tftc

Lovely view. TFTC

Enjoying doing these caches along this road and the many finds with wymo, tftc

Fast find TFTC

Found on a nice drive in the area. Enjoying the caches. Haven't been down here before

On a 7 day caching trip with Nosynel. Second day on the road focusing on caches in North Otago. Quick find as we head along the road. Tftc.
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Thank you moo. Jude_E and I stayed in Waimate tonight. The plan is to explore the Oamaru area today. I haven't done this since the Geofest in 2017. Thanks hill55 for creating this hide. It was find 8614 for me.

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#18022. The third in this series we've found this trip. TFTC.

Day 3 and the last day of StreetWalkerNZ and my 3 day weekend in and around Oamaru. The plan is to head out early to find a few caches on the Cormacks Kia Ora Rd then return to base for a coffee then pack up the car.
Yes indeed, lots of moogles around here. Grabbed the TB. TFTC.

TFTC Found while taking a group girls from Waitaki Girls High School geocaching as part of their activities week.

Nice easy find out and about collecting smileys tftc

Out on a beautiful afternoon doing the mystery at the museum challenge. TFTC

Caching today with NZ Bozzy - finding some more smiles after reaching the 500 points for the favourites souvenir.
Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining all the caches we found today
Easy find

Thanks on our way home after two days in Oamaru. Yesterday was the last day for the current challenge where you needed favourite points on the cache. Managed to get all the souvenirs. So today just travelling round to collect a few cache.

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 14 Herbert Forrest to Waitaki 51 caches found today. Missions completed by now so caching my way back up the island. Thank you for the placement.

I had parked my snail shell up iin Oamaru at the A&P Showgrounds so that I can find a few caches to fulfil my personal challenge of having my GC.COM calender a set shade of green. I need to sign off 6 caches today.

This got in the way of the power trail so I just had to sign it off as well.

Cheers for the cache.

Got up early this morning with the plan of knocking the new trail off nearby while up for the long weekend, this was along the way so even better! This was a nice viewpoint along the way. Found with Tuitigger. TFTC

Another quick roadside cache. Great view, love the green rolling hills.

On a quest to test out a smart phone for geocaching. Cache was quickly ocated.

On a quest to complete the Hidden Creatures challenge so again off to Oamaru to find about 80 caches and this was one of them. I have driven past here a million times and today was the day to stop. TFTC

Heading up on a lovely day to Oamaru with Natalie247 to find some caches to collect the Hidden Creatures series. Getting disoriented in the dark. Thank goodness for a great navigator. I'll just keep driving as instructed. TFTC hill55

After starting the hunt for the #hiddencreatures with Eve07 at an event in Dunedin we decided that North Otago, as it held a good number of creatures neither of us had yet discovered. A nice frosty start to our adventure led us around the coast before we headed in land looking for the slightly more elusive mysterious ones.

This cache was found to be in good condition. Thank you for placing and allowing me to get one step closer to the #worldturtle.

Great view tftc

Thanks

I had a goal to get to 2000 finds before the end of the year so a 2 day caching mission to Oamaru was in order. Mission accomplished and time to head home with a few stops along the way of course! A nice quick find. TFTC

Yea I could view a few way in the distance but actually I got what I came for here with or without the view. TFTC # 11,688

Enjoying seeing some of the countryside out of Oamaru. Easy find thanks hill55

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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. What a day this was going to be and a chance to have a good look around the area. It was amazing to wake up after having afull nights sleep and not have that sand in the eyes feeling and sore back from sleeping in the back of a car. Starting the day off working our way along the coast, followed by a spot of inland caching before making it back to Oamaru for a bite to eat followed by a bit more caching.

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Not much of a view this morning, but a quick find. 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 5: With a good nights sleep for the first time this trip, we were up early and out the door for another full days caching. The goal for today was to cache our way down to the Moeraki Boulders and then see where the next cache lead us. One thing we were looking out for today was caches which hadn't been found in a long time.

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.

Didn't know that what should be in the view went Moo - thought that they went Baa. At least they did today. Must be on rotation with the Moo's

Day 5 of my Oamaru GeoFest week. Moving OK after a day of cycling yesterday. Out with KCN and DSI today.
Generic log for now, will update online in a while.
A find after 2 dnfs
Thanks for the smilie.
1776 22 October 2017 17:11

Day 2 of Oamaru geofest time to have some more fun and get more smiles
A quick stop and grab on my way past with Ruru and Kcn
tftc

Purrrrfect

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. With the more challenging section of roadway behind us, we were now on the outskirts of our destination. From our observations of the geomap, this area is best described as being cache saturated... Although the numbers are appreciated, many placements are just links in a very long trail...

As we drew closer to our destination, our focus changed slightly... We decided to target solved puzzles and any traditional caches that were on some of these routes. 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

Quick stop here, plenty of moo’s to say hi to. Tftc

More room to park here and quick find. Tftc

Nice P & G, lots moos around here.
TFTC

We're hooked

my last evening in oamaru while working near maheno so just have to get back out and grab a few more before heading back to Geraldine tomorrow .

last find of the night and a nice quick find

Awesome day to spend a bit of time outside on such a beautiful day, much better than somewhere inside, right? TFTC!!

Forgot to log this one the other day, TFTC

The plan was hatched a few years ago now and it has been a standing weekend away with a few of us mad keen cachers. This trip was made up of Karma Reprint, Team_Gaters and me (TheWanglers). We couldn't use a previous anagram to sign the logs as one member was in Aussie. So we had to come up with another... Hmm, KiTT? We decided on KiTT but after signing the first few logs something KR mentioned took a while for me to sink in and I didn't really take on board until the next time I signed the log. "Hey, the double 'TT' looks like Pi!". Oh, that's what KR said! So we signed the log this trip as KaTT pronounced 'Kapai'! And the trip was kapai!!! We had an epic weekend starting with a detour to Peel Forrest for a few FTFs, stopped in Omaru, thrashed Dunedin and detoured to Port Charmers for a FTF and then back to Pleasant Point and Peel Forrest to finish off the weekend with more FTFs. We got home to our families at a respectable hour after clocking up just over 1100km!
We had a few milestones we really wanted to crack. My 4000th, TG's 5000th and KR's 10,000th. We cracked my and KR's goal and got really close for TG. It really is about the numbers. This trip was awesome as it has given me some ideas
After lunch the plan was to head inland from here and grab a few A20 and other caches then head to Dunners to find our home and get dinner sorted. Quick find on the trail.

Thanks for the cache.
#3859
Cache number 107 for todays total of 123
Cache 107 of my total of 288 for this epic trip!

Show weekend and a Road Trip to Dunedin with 'The Boys'....Karma Reprint & TheWanglers. Initially came up with the acronym KiTT but on seeing the TT looked like a Pi symbol we quickly changed to Ka(Pi) (ie. Kapai)....and a fantastic weekend it was. 3 days, 1100km, a heap of caches and great fun.
Quick find and sign. Cheers.

Another great find while slowly heading to the Christchurch Mega, although I seem to be heading further away on this league of my journey!
Thanks for adding to the fun of my trip, although pouring with rain today.

SL TFTC

Very green surrounds but sad for the river...stinky and brown. Great swaps

- j s & a

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Found with Jxcxcx and Amber c

Nice view here today.

TFTC

Looks like a bit of sunshine had bought out the farmers as several were busy feeding out. An easy park and grab. TNX hill55

nice view

Nice wee spot, good view of the mountains when your waiting for a muggle to go past tftc

Nice view Tftc

TFTC. End of a day in the country

Much easier to park here than at the last cache and a quick find was made. TFTC.

Quick find while out in the area. TFTC

We enjoyed the day caching today in this area

Tftc

Found as part of a great day in and around Oamaru. Still reckon this is the best caching area I have ever encountered. Original standard set by Bitsprayer, but now a few others adding to the story. Many thanks to all!

Another quick easy find with baas, and moos visible only in the far distance. TFTC

First of the day while a quick run about the Oamaru area. Got to get a few before brunch.
TFTC

Quick find, no moo view. TFTC

Easy find

Disappointed. Absolutely no cows to be seen. Cruising around Oamaru on Queens Birthday. Thanks for the hide.

Good parking at GZ but no moo's in sight. Found with debsnz

A bit windy at GZ so stayed only long enough to sign the log. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

Easy find. Thanks.

We've had much disscusion this week about how this area and the one Annie grew up in have all gone over to dairying. The consensus is that it's not a great idea to have so much of the land tied up in one kind of thing, but sadly it only seems to increase more & more each year.
TFTC

A quick easy find after a little detour and another calendar day ticked off too! TFTC.

Quick drive by, thanks

What a coup! No moos to view as we begin anew. After signing the log, we bid adieu.

Out for a morning drive after the welcomed weekend rain. TFTC

None about today. TFTC.

Not a moo anywhere

Another smiley gained as we worked out way through the newly-listed caches. TFTC!

This view has certainly changed, once it was brown and barren!
Thanks
erninz

Not many moo's to see still dark, but got a FTF. - Cheers Bitsprayer

Moo indeed. We'll take the bronze. TFTC

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