PLANE-ING AROUND (Central Otago) Cromwell, South Island, New Zealand
By mcmanis1 on 08-Apr-14. Waypoint GC50ZFB

Very quick find log wet but can still sign tftc

Sodden log but managed to write in front cover. TFTC.

Out and about enjoying the hidden gems of our country. On a cool Central Otago morning, no fog or frost, making the most of the new Matariki holiday. Haven't been along this beach front for years, not since the kids were young. So much has changed. TFTC. Had to be stealthy as there were lots of dogs taking their muggles for walkies

Cool one

Took a nice walk while waiting for our hotel room to be ready. Thanks for the cache.

Our last free day at the end of a 3 month visit to NZ, & a drive out from Kingston, where our son lives, to have a last look around the area before heading home to England. A nice quick find here as our first of the day. Thanks for placing

All quiet at GZ. Much rowdier down the road at the Grand Prix practice. TFTC

Nice quick find and our 400th find

Queenstown to Wanaka today via Cromwell. We grabbed a few caches on the way.A quick find here completed as a C& DTFTCTim and Viv - ddm

Day 10: South Island (Cromwell) and North Island (Mangere)Today was a day in two parts, beginning in the South where we left Cromwell for Queenstown Airport, but not before picking up a few caches on the way before the flight. After landing in a very windy Auckland, the second part of todays journey took me up Mangere Mountain for a little hike and back down to Mangere Bridge to cap the day off. An interesting day indeed, and once again, thanks to the COs on both islands for the multitude of caches of all stripes.(End of the cut and paste bit)This is the specific log for this cache:Last cache here and the cache was found pretty quickly once we found a good parking spot and I dashed to the GZ to make the find. Easy enough here, which is all the better as we had an actual plane to catch over at Queenstown. TFTC!

The airfield is all quiet, and as I approached GZ something took off in the grass! a small fright, but have no idea what it was?As to the cache all good here, thanks mcmanis1 for the hide, and history of the place

We Picked it!

Picked it

Quick detour for a fast find. Cache all good.
Thanks for the cache, mcmanis1
#5282

Too easy

Easy find. Tftc

Mr Kiwi found it. Thanks for the cache. We are loving autumn colours.

G'day from Australia!!!
Stumble Trip had been in NZ for the past 6mths, working on the Milford Track. Stumble's Mate flew in to meet up with her and we spent the next 2wks traveling the beautiful South Island in a camper. Whilst the weather wasn't favourable for the first week, we had an awesome time and travelled some 3,200+kms, seeing some beautiful sites and staying in just as beautiful campsite along the way.
Thanks to all the CO. Unless otherwise stated, all caches were found in good condition.

Found, signed and done

Tftc. Just passing through Cromwell on way back to chch. Didn’t know this airport existed

TFTC

Greetings from the Czech Republic and Thanks For This Cache.
Díky za keš.
19:23
Moje 4643

First time on this road, tftc

Jumped off my bike and into the van. Had time for another couple of caches before heading down to our accommodation in Clyde tonight. Quickly found. Thanks for placing mcmanis1

Could not find it. Not sure if gps location is incorrect?

TFTC

Quick find today. On our way back to Wanaka. Tftc

A nice quick find

Start of another day in warm but windy Cromwell.

Have to come back, a few muggles around

quickly located thanks Today was set aside to do a geo caching day to Cromwell if the weather was unsuitable for skiing which is was , so we set off early at about 8.30 and finally arrived home about 5.30 with approx 41 caches in total including the adventure lab , so we were very pleased. we took a muggle who have been intro' to geocaching briefly on a few days before and so today was a big geo caching experience for her and as i had 2 GPS's with me she was able to use one quite independently by half was thro the day.
we enjoyed spending some time at the historic Cromwell area which none of us had actually explored before and where we had lunch at the Grain cafe.
we only had 2 DNFs and both were of puzzle style caches which we had solved but there was nothing at GZ.
thank you for these caches

No planes. Easy park and grab. Onward with the Cromwell caching trip!

Found whilst on holiday with keylev, laval and NZ Iceman.

Thanks for the cache.

On holiday staying in Wanaka and decided to check out a town we haven't visited on previous trips and today it was Cromwell. Had a good time exploring the town including the museum which is near the cafes in the town centre area and then some caching - a perfect day really!

At around 3pm I was eyeing up the series as we had finished exploring the town. 'How long can I cache for then?' 'Until you get a DNF was the response' Well if that was not motivation to find them all I don't know what was! Woohoo local caches and series here we come!!

Another quick find and we were on our way.

Thanks for the cache.

Found whilst on family holiday with keylev, cragger and NZIceman.

Thanks for the cache.

Got the cache and picked up some pine cones as a bonus!

Found it!

Easy find with mollyadennison
TFTC

*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

Foind with Cympull

Found with Fisha1288

#500 for us today

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Found TFTC

We are out and about in the area finding some caches and enjoying exploring and revisiting other areas again.
We were in the area hunting out our daily ration of fresh fruit and grabbed this cache on the way past.
Thank you mcmanis1.

We're hunting Tour caches and anything that's not slowing down our objective to much. We scored 3x nights at Rotary Glen with max occupancy of 10 vans. The plan was just staying 2 nights but it's just to nice here. We never explored Cromwell, just raced through so we're going to make the most of it. The wind is already picking up and growing into a decent storm as the day progresses. We were doing the fruit caches but muggles spoiled it for a bit. So a hop and a skip till the coast was clear. Thank you mcmanis1

Tftc,they busy building two new hangers

After a pretty big Day 2 of our South Island Honeymoon (and Day 3 of our marriage) enjoying a tour of the Cardrona Distillery, checking out the view from above with a Heliview Hellicopter Ride (an awesome wedding present from some of my new in-laws) and successfully hunting down some cherries at a local orchard - we thought we had better grab some caches in the area while we were here... it would have been rude not to right?!We were actually down this way earlier this afternoon for our Heliview ride - so not sure how we missed this guy earlier - I guess we had other things on our mind!A nice quick find today, and we were off to hunt down another smiley to add to the collection Found with Loz47

After a pretty big Day 2 of our South Island Honeymoon (and Day 3 of our marriage) enjoying a tour of the Cardrona Distillery, checking out the view from above with a Heliview Hellicopter Ride (an awesome wedding present from some of my new in-laws) and successfully hunting down some cherries at a local orchard - we thought we had better grab some caches in the area while we were here... it would have been rude not to right?!

We were actually down this way earlier this afternoon for our Heliview ride - so not sure how we missed this guy earlier - I guess we had other things on our mind!

A nice quick find today, and we were off to hunt down another smiley to add to the collection

A quick find tftc

1. cache today before probably last trip to Glenorchy (visit my boyfriend living there, but moving). Easy, all good.

Thank you from
Howard and Kath
Manchester UK

Easy find

Found on a cool day down here. Meant to be overseas now so tripping the south island.

A quick find today while we had some time to kill in Cromwell. TFTC

TFTC!

Grabbed while in Cromwell today. TFTC.

Found with grandchildren on warm windy day. TFTC.

An interesting find in a great place!

Found. Full log to come. TFTC

Just where it said it would be!!! TFTC

That’s our fifth cache of the morning. I think it’s warm enough now to go out walking!

Nice dry box mate. Thanks for the cache.

A quick easy find by the airport. TFTC

A quick find after sneaking away from our Friends at the Cromwell Country Music Festival.TFTC

Quick park and grab in the fading light of day tftc

The fourth day of my work trip and we're well on the way to Queenstown from Dunners.

With CXL150 meeting a friend at Frankton half an hour ago, time was of the essence now but time enough for a quick side stop.

I was able to pull up more-or-less along side for a jump out and grab.

All quiet hereabouts today.

Thanks mcmanis1
#2519

*Winter time dots are thin on the ground for August soon to be rectified with a push over the border ploughing new fields of Central Otago of it's green dots turning dozens of dates from one singular shade of green to a multiple darker green on the 'finds' table*. A new challenge erupted to log a seven day streak straight after the MATM so double wow wee dot and 3rd day streak cache. Found the tuppaware in good dry hide and box was full of swag and in good condition. Had to remove one bulky item just so the lid would close! No planes this morning. Thanks for leaving a box here mcmanis1. **Seven day streak #3**

We’re based at Arrowtown for a couple of days and headed over Cromwell way today to find a few caches and do some short walks in the process. This was the first of 24 caches we located. Once the coords settled down this was a reasonably quick find. #2680. TFTC.

Tftc

Took us a while as the gps was pointing elsewhere. Got it tho!

GPS slightly out. Tftc

Not quite in plane sight but in hand once on the right side

Found with StreetWalker on day #4 of our extended Easter break. Today we are travelling from Clyde to Cromwell then onto the old gold fields of Logantown, then back to Clyde.
Our stomachs were rumbling as it was after 1pm and we hadn't yet had lunch, but this cache was just a wee detour en route back to Cromwell to look for food. As it was raining, I was pleased to make a quick find. Tried to leave it a bit better covered. TFTC.

#16962. Troodles did the honours here. TFTC.

On our South Island adventure from Perth WA. A nice easy find with Spuddycakes in tow. TFTC

Visiting from the US. Caching from Wanaka to Queenstown. Very cool airfield. Thanks for pointing this out. Tftf SL

A quick park and find thks

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 2 caches today. I won't grumble if I find one or two more. Today I decided to go for a look at the old part of town and then for a bit of a drive.

No choppers here at the moment.

Cheers for the cache.

On a geocaching adventure around the country with myself, my car and my tent. Drove almost 4000km and collected 170 caches over a week of roadtripping, camping and seeing the beautiful sights of New Zealand. Lots of fun and so many great caches were found, as well as a lot of DNF's. Apologies for copy paste post. Thank you to all cache owners. Day five driving from Lake Hawea to Te Anau. Thank you for the cache

#1203 - On the way back to call it a night and took an alternative route to grab some more caches. Last cache of the day .

Tftc

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Thx

Nice one TFTC

Quick stop and grab :3

Quick grab as we near the final destination of Queenstown before heading home to Melbourne.

Today we had our second day in Cromwell and again made a trip in and around the city, thus visiting many sightseeing highlights again. On this trip we searched, found and logged many caches, too. The weather was beautiful, sunny, very warm, no little bit cloudy, and only sometimes there was some wind.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had better things to do than observing two geocachers.

Thanks to mcmanis1 for showing us this location and for the fun we had at PLANE-ING AROUND (Central Otago). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 15. Oktober 2018 @ 10:37 Uhr @ [#11984](https://coord.info/GC50ZFB)

Quite easy, and fun

Lots of slugs

The youngest of the EU crew was involved in a hockey tournament for 3 days, so some great caching had between games. Quite windy today so no-one flying. TFTC

Away for a school holiday escape in Cromwell, caching along the way on a crisp winter morning. TFTC 1743

A quick park and grab on our Cromwell caching adventures
We are on a winter road trip to track down all of the hidden creatures and find the elusive world turtle and one more step closer to my 1000 th cache.
Road trip with annielin and Abbykitt. Day three let's go !!!!!!!
more caches and more fun
Thanks to all the cache owners.
Tftc

On the way home after finding the elusive creatures in Central Otago.
Quick park and grab
Tftc

School holiday fun. Found it with annielin and downsouthinv.

Tftc

Easy to find!

Found it

Container was leaky, hubby switched it for something a little less likely to hold water. TFTC

As Natalie said, i found a key first. Then a wet Glad container with broken lid, these aren't good caching containers. Had a spare systema in car, so swapped over.

Found contents very wet ..replaced soggy log with a waterproof one thanks for bringing me here

Thus cache needs a bit of tlc. The lid is broken and letting water in. Log book is mush and paper put in is also wet. Put in water proof log. Thanks for the placement

Headed up from Dunedin ahead of working in Queenstown Monday to Tuesday and decided to come early to grab some geocaches on the way.
Had collected some fruit when up this way last time so thought be good to get some more.

Opps first spot searched was someone's spare key.