Katiki Rest ( North Otago) Hillgrove, South Island, New Zealand
By
hill55 on 30-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4F87V
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Logs
Had a Quick Look due to the recent DNFs and some muggles parked nearby. May need checking
Merging my accounts. Found this as "Ambers007" on 22/10/2022. Now tracking together with "Hoterini" and merging the old finds.
Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit
During our roadtrip in New Zealand, we also found this cache. Thanks for hiding!
rahmschnitzel2704 and I could find this cache during our roadtrip through this beautiful country.
Thank you very much for hiding and maintaining this cache!
Thank you very much for hiding and maintaining this cache!
Having a fun day geocaching with busy paws and Geomum007. Nice stop area and cache found no muggles here thankfully. Thanks for the cache hill55.
A couple of vans here when I arrived so headed down the beach to collect another cache before returning. Fortunately all clear, might be tricky to grab if busy
Camped here a couple of nights to scatter Dad's ashes. Decided to see if there are Geo Caches here. Found this one easily as another person gave it's location away.
A couple of muggle cars here but not within view of gz.
We left an alphabet stone - the letter 'O'.
Thanks for putting this here
We left an alphabet stone - the letter 'O'.
Thanks for putting this here
What a beautiful spot to stop at. A few freedom campers also think so. We will move on though. Thanks for bringing us here hill55
What picture perfect spot stopped for a while and enjoyed the ambience many thanks for the placement
It is a tradition of my mother in law to always stop at this beach as a stopover on this road. It is absolutely beautiful here. It was a lovely surprise to find someone had put a cache here. TFTC
Stopped off in here as the wife wanted to listen for a COVID media release (we have a son up in Auckland). I popped over to find the cache. Found after a short search and its good condition. TFTC
After trying to get this cache numerous times in the past and unable to do it due to cars and muggles hanging around Friday was a day to stop and eat some sushi.... A gap then a cache was logged cheers
Cache find 9494... love numbers like that! Good place to pull in and see the coastal scenery and grab a not chosen cache.
Trip log: When cheap flights presented the opportunity to go to NZ with GreyHams, who was keen to get the 5 2000 caches and the web cam I was of course very keen to tag along. I didn't want to miss out on that... Equally as keen for those caches myself and the first chance to get the passport out in a long time and head overseas while we could. Covid Happenings of course did put the trip in doubt and a last minute effort from GreyHams to get the flights changed and it was looking like this might actually happen... until I arrived I truly didn't think it would!
The cache list was quite simple, the 5 2000 caches and the webcams. Of course we did look at others as we travelled, types, DT, not chosen which were in abundunce and caches of quality, if your cache made our list it had a quality we needed. Many thanks for your cache that helped guide us along our way.
Certainly it was a memorable time, barefoot 500 plus metres across a mud estuary of shells and crabs was more fun than it should be. As was pushing through wet thick high flax or tall wet grass across to the caches. But the most memorable would be the fog, the thickest, most relentless fog but it provided some stunning scenery at times and was just crazy.
I loved seeing all the chinese takeaways that did fish and chips, the perfect hedges and a deserved shout out to Indian Zaika for its great food! Certainly with the fog and rain it was an interesting trip and we got quite drenched at times, it hid a lot that NZ has to offer but 'it's a caching trip' after all so it ticked all the right boxes and was very enjoyable regardless. Huge thanks to GreyHams for letting me tag along while he did all the planning, booking, driving and sending in the answers for the caches... as always!
Trip log: When cheap flights presented the opportunity to go to NZ with GreyHams, who was keen to get the 5 2000 caches and the web cam I was of course very keen to tag along. I didn't want to miss out on that... Equally as keen for those caches myself and the first chance to get the passport out in a long time and head overseas while we could. Covid Happenings of course did put the trip in doubt and a last minute effort from GreyHams to get the flights changed and it was looking like this might actually happen... until I arrived I truly didn't think it would!
The cache list was quite simple, the 5 2000 caches and the webcams. Of course we did look at others as we travelled, types, DT, not chosen which were in abundunce and caches of quality, if your cache made our list it had a quality we needed. Many thanks for your cache that helped guide us along our way.
Certainly it was a memorable time, barefoot 500 plus metres across a mud estuary of shells and crabs was more fun than it should be. As was pushing through wet thick high flax or tall wet grass across to the caches. But the most memorable would be the fog, the thickest, most relentless fog but it provided some stunning scenery at times and was just crazy.
I loved seeing all the chinese takeaways that did fish and chips, the perfect hedges and a deserved shout out to Indian Zaika for its great food! Certainly with the fog and rain it was an interesting trip and we got quite drenched at times, it hid a lot that NZ has to offer but 'it's a caching trip' after all so it ticked all the right boxes and was very enjoyable regardless. Huge thanks to GreyHams for letting me tag along while he did all the planning, booking, driving and sending in the answers for the caches... as always!
Nice and easy
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Trip log:
International travel!!...OMG it feels good. Grabbed some cheap flights and anxiously waited for some outbreak to derail the plan, but that amazingly didn't happen. Sure, I had to scramble and reroute our trip via Brisbane & Sydney as we were originally going through the plague pit...aka Melbourne, but we still made it.
Having done most of the North Island, it was good to finally have a crack at the South. 5 year 2000 caches and a webcam, thats a nice little haul. Sure, some of the year 2000 caches involved bush bashing....in the rain/fog/mist...but we got them all. We had lots of other little targets like getting all our types/sizes/DT, NZ in particular has so many 'Not Chosen' size caches, super rare back in Oz, so we made sure to get as many as possible. If you are reading this, its because this cache had a quality we were chasing.
As always, the Earthcaches and the Virtuals took us to some really cool places, the Steampunk HQ and the boulders being birthed at the beach being the highlights. My favourite cache though would have to be the one where we had to walk 500m over a mud flat, dodging shells and crabs with our bare feet.
This trip will be remembered as the 'fog trip' as we saw a lot of it, which meant we saw little else. Oh, that and how every Chinese takeaway also doubles as the fish & chip shop....its a thing!
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Trip log:
International travel!!...OMG it feels good. Grabbed some cheap flights and anxiously waited for some outbreak to derail the plan, but that amazingly didn't happen. Sure, I had to scramble and reroute our trip via Brisbane & Sydney as we were originally going through the plague pit...aka Melbourne, but we still made it.
Having done most of the North Island, it was good to finally have a crack at the South. 5 year 2000 caches and a webcam, thats a nice little haul. Sure, some of the year 2000 caches involved bush bashing....in the rain/fog/mist...but we got them all. We had lots of other little targets like getting all our types/sizes/DT, NZ in particular has so many 'Not Chosen' size caches, super rare back in Oz, so we made sure to get as many as possible. If you are reading this, its because this cache had a quality we were chasing.
As always, the Earthcaches and the Virtuals took us to some really cool places, the Steampunk HQ and the boulders being birthed at the beach being the highlights. My favourite cache though would have to be the one where we had to walk 500m over a mud flat, dodging shells and crabs with our bare feet.
This trip will be remembered as the 'fog trip' as we saw a lot of it, which meant we saw little else. Oh, that and how every Chinese takeaway also doubles as the fish & chip shop....its a thing!
Quick find on a brief stop travelling home from a weekend in Waimate. While showing obvious signs of a hard life, the log is still dry & holding together, thanks to the recent addition of a clothes peg. TFTC
Log book falling apart and wet. Dried out and put together with a clothes pin. Repackaged in a roll so may stay drier. Lovely spot to stop. Took the liberty of ditching some sopping wet papier mache which was unreadable. Thank you for placing this cache!
Flamingo4850 found the screw-top cache first in our group, after a walk along the beautiful beach in drizzly weather. TFTC.
Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a day in and around Moeraki, Shag Point and further south. The day started with a little rain early on, then ended with more, but in between we were lucky to have a dry day 
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Quite a busy spot, with cars coming and going. Cache was not in the first place checked, but it was in the second. TFTC.
.Quite a busy spot, with cars coming and going. Cache was not in the first place checked, but it was in the second
. TFTC.#19210. There were a few other cars in the rest area, but none near GZ and we made a quick find. TFTC.
Tftc. Lovely day for caching. Beautiful spot. Often stop here for a walk on the beach
There were a few muggles in the rest area but some strategic parking meant they couldnt see what I was up to. Nice easy find, thanks for placing hill55
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Great spot to watch the huge waves today and also snow flakes... sure is wild weather. Thankfully a nice easy find. TFTC
On my way down south doing a wee geocaching mission. Stopped here to find some shells on the beach. Grabbed this cache while I was here! A few campers here this morning but they couldn’t see what I was up. TFTC
It's been a great long weekend in Oamaru, visiting friends and extended family after lockdown. Didn't do a lot of caching there... and what caching we did do was very hit and miss.
This was our 4th of 7 on our drive back to Invercargill.
As soon as I heard "cabbage trees", I thought "yeah nah", but wanted a beach photo for my daily Facebook report.
As the driver, and before I had a chance to load the app on my phone, my navigator SW had cache in hand.
This was our 4th of 7 on our drive back to Invercargill.
As soon as I heard "cabbage trees", I thought "yeah nah", but wanted a beach photo for my daily Facebook report.
As the driver, and before I had a chance to load the app on my phone, my navigator SW had cache in hand.
A quick stop this morning. There was a freedom camping van almost immediately beside the cache so stealth was very necessary today.
I'm catching up on my logging which seemed to have stalled even though we have been in lockdown, my excuse is that I have been working throughout.
Found on our homeward leg. Heading for Ashburton so not stopping very often.
This started out as a Geocaching road trip to Invercargill to drop off some stuff for the niece and collect some other stuff for Mrs banian. It turned into a bit of a race back to Wellington to beat the Covid-19 lockdown.
We were able to rebook our Ashburton accommodation and ferry ticket to earlier in the week. When we arrived in Picton the vehicle queue was almost a kilometre long, and got longer behind us. Fortunately, as we had tickets we were still able to get on our sailing and made it back before "Level 4" kicked in.
Be nice and keep safe! TFTC hill55.
Found on our homeward leg. Heading for Ashburton so not stopping very often.
This started out as a Geocaching road trip to Invercargill to drop off some stuff for the niece and collect some other stuff for Mrs banian. It turned into a bit of a race back to Wellington to beat the Covid-19 lockdown.
We were able to rebook our Ashburton accommodation and ferry ticket to earlier in the week. When we arrived in Picton the vehicle queue was almost a kilometre long, and got longer behind us. Fortunately, as we had tickets we were still able to get on our sailing and made it back before "Level 4" kicked in.
Be nice and keep safe! TFTC hill55.
After visiting the Moeraki Boulders in the afternoon we continued just a few kilometers onwards to this nice freedom camping spot to spend the night, since I wanted to go back to see the boulders at sunrise. After dinner I used a quiet moment to look for this cache, which I found after some searching, since my GPS insisted on a different place. TFTC!
Down from Auckland to claim the last 2 Geotour caches and to pick up a heap of others for a challenge I’m working on. Not only that, I’m working towards my 8000th cache, oh where will it land I wonder??
it's getting quite chilly now in the late afternoon, I'm trying to leave my 99th Geotour cache at Karitane to the last minute, I'm getting hungry for wine, and cheese and ham sandwiches for dinner, but that has to wait - geocaching first. Took me a couple of goes looking for the right cabbage, but got there in the end.
it's getting quite chilly now in the late afternoon, I'm trying to leave my 99th Geotour cache at Karitane to the last minute, I'm getting hungry for wine, and cheese and ham sandwiches for dinner, but that has to wait - geocaching first. Took me a couple of goes looking for the right cabbage, but got there in the end.
Unsere Reise an's schönste, für uns andere, Ende der Welt nach Neuseeland, haben wir lange geplant und die Vorfreude war groß. Wir haben einen wunderschönen Urlaub erlebt, kamen hier vorbei und konnten uns im Logbuch eintragen. Danke für diesen Cache und herzliche Grüße
Our journey to the most beatiful, for us others, end of the world to New Zealand we have long planned and the anticipation was great. We had a wonderful holiday, came here and could log in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and best regards.
Our journey to the most beatiful, for us others, end of the world to New Zealand we have long planned and the anticipation was great. We had a wonderful holiday, came here and could log in the logbook. Thanks for the cache and best regards.
No muggles today - late afternoon, chilly wind.
Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, hill55.
Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, hill55.
Found on our day off - cracker day at the beach with beautiful gemstones and even a few hag stones to be gifted from the sea. A real place for treasures. Log book a bit damp but still able to be written on. Cheers.
In our way to Lake Tekapo we stopped here for the cache. The muggle family over there was busy to hold all their stuff - the wind is the cacher's friend. Easy find. Thanks.
#17001 11:57
During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!
Today we have found the cache "Katiki Rest ( North Otago)". We first spotted a seal resting under the trees. Love it!
hill55, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!
Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers
During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!
Today we have found the cache "Katiki Rest ( North Otago)". We first spotted a seal resting under the trees. Love it!
hill55, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!
Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers
Unsere große Neuseelandrundreise haben wir natürlich auch zum Anlass genommen einige Caches zu suchen.
Oft entdeckten wir so interessante Orte. Danke für das Herlocken an diesen Ort und den Cache.
Grüße aus Germany
Oft entdeckten wir so interessante Orte. Danke für das Herlocken an diesen Ort und den Cache.
Grüße aus Germany
GPS had us going around in circles around all the hint items, but finally this was found.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm
We haven’t a clue what the hint means, but cache quickly found anyway where we stopped for lunch. TB dropped. Tftc.
Find with Celyn18 on 04.22.2018 during our travel in New Zealand, a beautiful country. Tftc
