Shut or Open II (North Otago) Lindis Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 08-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4V7RR

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there we decided wed move on to the Omarama area & stay somewhere local thought wed go for a drive out to the Lindis Pass this morning & check out some of the local caches I suppose, at times, this can be a lonely roadside stop, but not today, vehicles coming & going, but nobody really interested in what we were doing it was just a case of picking the right times to both retrieve & then return the cache Mrs McMike2012 loved this hide & thought it deserved a Favourite Point, so here it is ended up being quick and easy find, logbook signed & cache returned as found were also pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN except photos:LN:LS this was #6,584 for us!

What a clever hide here. Worth a favourite point. Tftc

Clever hide, quickly saw its handle. Fav point.

Used our noggins here & quickly found this crafty hide. Thanks for placing.

Nice spot but didnt find anything:( we found some red thread that might have been attached to it

Day 9: Across the Lindis PassThe route for today brought us back to close the big loop of our Southern journey by passing through Omarama and the Lindis Pass and back into Cromwell where we stayed the night. This would be my first trip across the Pass and we found many caches along the way, including the highlight of the day at the Bendigo Historic Reserve. Thanks for all of the caches along the route!(End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for the cache:A bit of a tricky stop here for the direction we were heading in, but we managed to pull all the way off the road anyway. Clever little hide here, and I am glad the gates were open. TFTC!

1MinnieMoo and I pulled up for this one next. The long part was the waiting rather than the finding. A good excuse for a stop. TFTC drawp

23/9/2023 Find #6595Day 15 of the Fangsoki/1MinnieMoo New Zealand South Island adventure. We were supposed to head from Queenstown to Haast and Franz Josef today however the pass was closed, so we headed up to Wanaka and then across to Christchurch for the night. To break up the drive a little, we stopped at just a couple of caches on the way. We pulled over and ran back for this one, having to wait out the traffic to make the grab and to replace. Thanks for the cache drawp.

Thanks for cache

Day 3 on our holiday in New Zealand. On the way from Twizel to Te Anau, we also visited this traditional cache, searched the box, found it, and signed the logbook



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to drawp for hiding and maintaining the cache.*** ️

Quick stop on our way to Mt Cook. Tftc

Quick and easy find, tftc

Found with spoonz2. A good hide. TFTC drawp

Out on a caching expedition on another perfect day. Nice hide! Found with Eve07, thanks for placing this.

Hi there drawp - Last days for this trip - and we had to travel to Christchurch from Wanaka.. We found this cache at 1110am after a short search - and the container and log were both in good condition unless noted in the Fieldnotes below. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to drawp for this cache - the 4th of 7 finds for the day.

FieldNotes: The cache and log were both found in good condition.

Very busy road today
Location seems to jump a bit
Tftc

Clever spot cheers

Nice hide, TFTC

Have finally got this one, drove past so many times, usually in a line of traffic. Had a gap in the traffic to myself today so, stopped and retrieved.
Great cache

Had a better look this time, neat spot. Tftc

No luck this time. Extreme flooding in the area.

Best way to get out of traffic queue, stop for a cache.

Holiday caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

Number 599 next one's the 00. Nice placement and easy stopping place for a bigger vehicle.

Stopped here to stretch the legs, aka grab the cache.. Quickly figured where it could be and I wasn't wrong! Thanks for the placement. Now to Omarama to do some work, rather than slacking off geocaching This ended up being the last for the day.

TFTC drawp, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 2 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #3119

Nice hide. TFTC

Heading home after biking the Dunstan trail. TFTC.

On a 3 week South Island road trip, picking up a few caches on the way.
Heading south over the Lindis, thought it would be good to see if I can get the pair of gates.
Nice hide here, thanks.
Now to see if I can find the southern one.

Crafty hide no not an eclipse thanks for the smiley face

Open.. could not find today. Perhaps another day

Found with judithrichards and logging now.

Open. With Tokerau

*Another good find.
Nice day going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
We soon had the container located. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
Thanks for putting this out for us to visit!

We enjoyed the drive / walk around!

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Tftc,not sure about an eclipse container but good

Travelling back down south after a mammoth 3 day roadie, picked this one up. Twas a sneaky but great hide! tftc

Open today so found the cache and continue on to the top of the pass. TFTC

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 2 of our geocaching trip down south. Today we are travelling from Twizel to Te Anau, the day started with clear blue skies (but rather chilly) and ended in rain as we neared our destination.
It pays to come prepared as I started looking for a systema under a rock, before we realised we needed to look for something smaller and SW made the find. Good hide. TFTC.

#18793. Good parking and a nice hide. TFTC.

A quick park n grab thanks drawp

#10166

A quick find today while travelling home from Twizel. TFTC

Kim 3-10-20

#308 nice hide. Tftc

Day 16 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm still in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

I was last in Queenstown about 18 months ago when some friends of mine were touring around the South Island and I flew in to join them for a few days. I've been lucky enough to visit a few times now and yet the sight of the Remarkables never ceases to amaze me. My wonderful tour is nearing the end, and today I was planning on having a leisurely drive from Queenstown to Tekapo.

The road from Queenstown through the Lindis Pass to Tekapo is one of my favourite drives. I love the juxtaposition of the drama of the rugged ranges and the flat calmness of the vineyards. This is not a drive to be rushed, so I was happy to pull over every so often to try for a cache.

I was able to park safely just off the highway and then walk back towards GZ. The cache itself was a quick find for me today, in the very first place I looked. There were no issues with it, so the log was duly signed and the whole lot replaced as found before returning to the campervan and getting on my way again.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Quick find here, RG liked this hide. TFTC drawp.

Second full day of a 10 day road trip for RG1972 and I to get to Te Anau, attempt a half marathon, and get safely back to Nelson/Marlborough. Today was Chch to Wanaka, so we hand picked a few park and grabs in between food and shopping stops. 20 plus for the day and all in good shape. Thanks all COs and sorry for the cut and paste bit.

I this part of the country. Cool cache placement

Fast find and great containers.
TFTC

Everything looks lovely and new. No cell coverage so couldn’t get any information but found it. A quick easy grab. Tftc

Found two caches at the site so signed both.

We had a very nice holiday in New Zealand. Almost every day beautiful weather. We traveled with the camper home from the north to the south island. we have found a lot of very nice caches. Thanks for showing the nice places where we found the caches.
Greetings from the Netherlands

Great hide. Quickly found between the vehicles going passed. Fav from me.
On my way from Arrowtown to Kurow to pick up my niece and nephew for the holidays.
Tftc

Replaced all good again

Would hate to get here and see shut.

T4TC

Together with TEMBO! I had a really interesting geocaching-trip today. We could find some geocaches, met some locals and had a great talk to them.
Concerning this geocache I want to say thanks because we had much fun in searching and finding this geocache! The cache made our trip even more interesting!
TFTC!

We found the cache laying out in the open on the ground. It has lost its magnet so we replaced it on the ground by the post with a rock on top. It needs maintenance.

See log

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found it

Nice one. Fortunately, I have never arrived to find these gates shut. Not a busy enough day on the road for anyone to pass while I made the find and signed the log. Cheers drawp for the cache!

TFTC drawp
Quickly found on my way home from 4 year old grandson's birthday celebration.

Container and log replaced.

For my personal challenge of working towards getting my calendar on GC.COM to be at least the same shade of green or darker I need to sign off at least 12 caches today. I won't grumble if I find one or two more. Today I decided to go for a drive through the Lindis Pass to locate and sign off the required caches.

This one was very hard to get out as the container was deformed.

Cheers for the cache.

Parked nearby, open today. Couldn't remove the container but could open it to access the logbook.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Day 3 of a 4 day road trip. My mission on this trip was to travel South and West and then East and North. This road trip was all about the numbers but not quite in the usual way. In fact it was hours and hours spent on the road in search of minutes (and caches). I'm filling in gaps in my 'minutes' found across New Zealand in order to complete the 400 minutes challenge for the cache GC7YQZ8 - at the start of this trip I had a 52 minute gap to fill. I insisted in checking a few wrong spots before I checked the right spot. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick find on a day when it can safely stay open, TFTC!!

Title and hint made it easy. Today is much traffic because of an accident on this road.

Greetings from Germany and
TFTC El_Mue

Found it. Smart hide
TFTC

On a days geocaching with Kiwi Heather and Aussie Pete.
Cache all good

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. In some cases we are revisiting placed that we have been before but liked so much we are going there again.
We decided we would head to Cromwell to see an old friend, so here we are stopping along the way.
The cache was a quick find, but we had to open it in place, signed the log and returned it as we found it.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

### **14152** ###
During our road trip in New Zealand south Island. At thé program : sightseeing, gastronomy and, of course, Geocaching!
So, we took the time to visit a few Caches, to remove some green, orange or blue dots on our map.
We will distribute favorite points according to our mood and caches met.
Thank you to all Owners for the installation of these boxes and for their maintenance.
A nice place for a box!
Greetings from France!
***M*** auruuru ***K*** oe ***T*** e ***K*** eteroki
***T*** hank ***F*** or ***T*** he ***C*** ache
***M*** erci ***P*** our ***L*** a ***C*** ache

On our 7th day in New Zealand we continued from Wanaka to Twizel. We took the road over Lindis Pass and were looking for some caches along the route. We found some but not all of them. The weather was rain in the morning and clearing up around noon. This one was another short stop along the route. TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

Gemeinsam mit apaspa auf grosser NZL-Tour. TFTC

Over from the UK on a 4 week road trip of the South Island. No problems here. TFTC.

Driving the Lindis pass we tried to get one or two caches. A quick find. Thanks for giving me the chance to do some caching along the way.

Found on sunny but windy day with Mr Chillipips, ML and MW.

Found with nissan 65. Flew in from sydney for a short holiday. Hoping to see as much as i can on the south island and pick up caches along the way . Thanku for the cache.

Day 4 of our trip in New Zealand with cullum68 thanks for the cache

On a fishing trip to Twizel, fishing wasn't that great, thought go cache some caches. TFTC

Magnet too strong to extract. Has been pushed up too far.

Needs minor maintenance. See my note.

Found easily but unable to get down from the niche to sign log as it was pushed too far in and the magnet is VERY strong! But TFTC

Nach kurzer Suche war die Dose geloggt.
TFTC!

TFTC quick stop this one

In Omarama for a caching/tramping weekend with BCD. After a change in plans due to the weather it meant another day exploring the area and lots more caching! Headed up the Lindis Pass for a look all be it was raining and overcast and not very good views. Was definitely open today! TFTC

last full day before flying home, we have managed over 2000kms and not quite 500 caches but a great week away, thanks to all the COs who have placed these caches and taken the time to look after them.

FITW FMZ
On a road trip around South Island. We started from Christchurch 20th late evening. After driving through the night we managed to pick some old caches and have a brief stop over at Omaru geofest. We decided to drive all the way to Bluff and head back to CHC via ZQN. Had no trouble in finding this one. tftc.

Headed down south for a roadtrip weekend with harisree, targeting some old caches. Quick stop and find here. TFTC

Very late logging ... Found with Mporokosa. TFTC.

On a long weekend trip down to Wanaka. Grabbing a few caches along the way. We chose to stop for this one as we were over half the way on our journey. Quickly found. TFTC.

Isn't it strange that at least 9 people didn't appear to have signed the log book before I did today. Wonder how many times this has happened to CO's. I'm sure you really do appreciate the hard work that goes into placing caches and the CO's always appreciate the feedback in the form of the log online. Oh and its Open today.

Easy find once we stopped over thinking it

Quick find - cheers

On our way back north from Invercargill, so stopped off to look for this one. Cache was a quick find with the good clue. TFTC

Another dnf converted to a smiley! Quickly spotted and recovered during a break in the traffic. Cheers.

Day one of our Easter holiday to Invercargill. Tekapo to Cromwell.

Thanks to all of the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Found on our trip from Queenstown to Lake Tekapo. TFTC

Quite a bit of traffic today so stealth needed. Luckily we had the dog as a reason we were stopping. Nice cache hide
TFTC

Found while staying nearby at Omarama. A quick find with dakotacats and friskasnz. Thanks

Easy find with dakotacats and whiskasnz on a short drive to check out the lupins in the area. TFTC

Having found the previous cache here we thought we had better find this one too. Sneaky spot for the container, I like it. TFTC