A 2 O Moo Lands (North Otago) Windsor, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 05-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5A9C2

out and about with agazo for another day of caching, all good here for a quick find, tftc

This was nufrat and my second full day of caching around Oamaru. We really enjoyed the many trails that got our numbers up. TFTC.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Long grass and hidden holes caused a issue. Thanks

On a mission today heading out to do some caching on the A2O to help reach my goal of 6000 finds by the end of the year.Lots of cows today TFTC drawp

No moo's today but signed and returned. Tftc

Quick find with the local dogs congratulating me for my find

Found the cache after walking through the long grass. Watch the hole.

#21656. Another quick find en route to our first big walk of the day on the A2O. TFTC.

More long wet grass to contend with but an easy find. TFTC.

A diversion down a back road to find a few caches and return to Oamaru. So much dairy!

On another 50 quest for the DGSc Challenge. This is number 30.

No moos visible from this spot today, but plenty around the corner. TFTC!!

After a rather long cycle yesterday we started out fresh and ready to do some caching. t4tc

Found

Found it TFTC

Easter break and it’s time to catch up on the year to date coins. Got some out west and headed into Oamaru for lunch. Then back to Weston.
TFTC

Find count: 2227

Quick and easy find TFTC

I had moved my snail shell down the Waitaki Valley to Awamoko for a few days. Today I needed at least 6 caches for my personal challenge of having all the days on my calendar at the same shade of green or darker.

I decided I would drive to todays planned caches instead of biking to them as I might have got a bit damp.

Cheers for the cache.

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.

Heading up on a lovely day to Oamaru with Natalie247 to find some caches to collect the Hidden Creatures series. All the farm animals gathered to watch. Really cute. TFTC drawp

Caching as a group, calling ourselves trans tasman team TTT, having heaps of fun and grabbing plenty of caches. Tftc

I brought my bike down with me on the trip to Omamaru to do some of the bike trails and today I did lots of them parking the car and then biking back and forward so made a big day but very enjoyable saw lots of neat stuff too.

thanks for the placement, we have been loved travelling and visiting the roads of oamaru and the many caches each CO has taken the time to place, thank you for taking the time to place and maintain them.

Having a fine caching time while attending the Oamaru Geofest.
Found a section of A2O puzzle caches so now time for a few park and grabs.
TFTC

When MacPacMum and I found it the log was mush so we replaced the log and new bag as it would be very busy weekend out here and hopefully saved any needs maintenance logs for you drawp. Thanks for another smilie.

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 Five: Oamaru Geofest

The afternoon was dedicated to walking sections of the A2O trail. We found it more effective to park strategically and walk between finds. We got to see a lot more of the countryside in this way, and we met some colourful characters too... The majority of caches were quick finds and in good condition... TFTC.

DAY 5
Another day with a variety of caches to be found, attended and answered.
Thanks to all the CO'S for their caches and the arrangement of the Oamaru Geofest. SLTFTC

Headed out for a Mad Mission with Team_Gaters and 8ManAfter we signed our logs today 'T8T' cos were dynatmite! I grabbed 8Man at 5.30 am and we grabbed TG just before 6am and we were on the road before 6am with the bikes on the back. The plan was to drive to Oamaru and then attend the events and thrash the caches hard. We wanted to do as much of the A2O as we could and as many PnGs that we could manage. We stopped by the event first and then we had to stop an grab breakfast at 10am. We grabbed some lunch and headed for the hills. Had a great time and worked our way back to town for the CITO at 6pm. Scored a delicous dinner in town and headed home. Got home just after 12am knocking out 620km and 115 caches. Good times!
Quick park n grab.

Cache 55 of 115 for this crazy day!
Thanks for the cache drawp.
#5141

A long days caching (Mad Mission?) with TheWanglers and 8ManAfter..revelin a bit of the Geofest Event in Oamaru. We signed our logs 'T8T' cos were dynamite...and 'in a hurry'...LOL! Picked up by TW & 8man at 6am...and we had our bikes loaded for a bit of A2O action during the day. The plan was to drive to Oamaru and then attend the events and thrash the caches hard. We stopped by the event first and then we stopped to town to grab some breakfast and a packed lunch and then headed out to hit some trails. Had a great time and worked our way back to town for the CITO at 6pm. Grabbed some tea in town then headed for home. Got home just on 12am knocking out 620km and just over 100 cache finds for each of us. A great day with great company!
Certainly a lot of cows around and a few chooks over the way...cheers.

Oamaru
Visiting for the geofest, we cached with Happy Feet 1 during our time here.
We found caches in some amazing places & wonderful scenery today.
Thanks for placing this cache drawp

The Trans Tasman Team is having a wonderful day, caching all over the place! Thanks to the organizers of the Geofest for bringing us here, and all of the cache owners for putting out so many !!!

Found by Trans Tasman Team and logged as TTT during our Oamaru Geofest roadtrip. A quick find Tftc

Really enjoying exploring the country roads of North Otago. Unfortunately the log here was too mushy to sign. TFTC.

Did spot a few of those mooing creatures way off in the distance but all quiet here at the moment. TFTC # 11,116

#2,992: Binge Smiley!
What an adventure we had today! TheWanglers, Team_Gaters, and I headed out at dawn from Christchurch with four goals in mind: 1) Find Many Caches, 2) Get TG to 7,000 finds, 3) get me to 3,000 finds, and 4) Have Fun! Needless to say, all were accomplished in spades. It was only my second 100+ day ever, and had us driving, walking, running, biking, and even crawling to make the finds. We were also able to find at least 7 different cache types, and attend two events, in order to catch up with old friends. Thanks to all the hiders, but most of all, thanks to my partners in crime! We signed all logs as "T8T", sung to the tune of AC/DC "TNT".
SL/TFTC!!

Out grabbing some caches with Di Morgan while here at the Oamaru Geofest. A quick find.
Thanks for placing the cache for us to find.
6089

The second day of the Oamaru leg of our "Road to 6000" Challenge - and back on the bikes to pick up some caches along the Alps to Ocean bike trail.

A quick find.

#5990

Found while enjoying a sunny day in North Otago caching with Miss EU and drawp. Great cycle trails, made for some fun caching. TFTC

A nice quick find, thanks. Drive by on the "old" part of the A2O trail.

Bother the weather. Showers off and on all day, gumboots a must! Had a great couple of days caching too, though slightly wet at times.

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

Found on the way to the CITO with my wife and her friend.

Quick find at least I could hide the car behind the hedge for a bit of stealth quick find tftc

Another quick stop on the way to the CITO. Thanks for the cache

The second find of many, I hope. This weekend JDScout, Bbear44, and I were off to a CITO. We took a wrong turn and were trying to find our way back. I marked this geocache as a good place to turn.

Found it whilst having spot of lunch on a20. Nearly did ankle finding it!!!!TFTC

Found while riding the A2O with friends. A long 85km ride today from Kurow to Oamaru, but enjoying the scenery very much. Good to pick up quick grabs like this one, thanks drawp.

Riding more of the A 2 O Cycle Trail seeking out caches. Today, being the second of three planned days on the trail. Today's ride is from Peaks Road to Weston. The day started by driving up to Peaks Rd via Tunnel Road and signing off the Off The Track Tunnel series. This was the 34th of 52 caches found. My thanks to the CO's for placing all the caches.

After cycling two sections of the A2O, we finished the day with this relaxing drive by section. A quick easy find. TFTC

Headed down south with C&D and 11HPG11 for the CHCH Mega as part of the HOAC team, and decided that a Mega road trip/Mega Mission was the right thing to do. After a great day caching from Dunedin to Omarama we manged to get a few hours sleep before the big day 2 started.

Day 2 was the start of a ambitious plan to try and find as many caches as possible in one day! To maximise our chances of a big number we decided a 24 hour caching day was the only way to go. What an epic day, and some great moments too. The rough idea was to cache from Omarama to Oamaru, and then head north towards Christchurch. A huge thanks to everyone for the cache placments, and I apologise for the copy and past logs.

Find #149 for the day.

This was the start of a MEGA caching weekend in the company of good caching friends. In the company of both HKCB & 11HPG11 this was going to be another memorable caching road trip for many reasons.

This is the mission that we had set ourselves up for several months back. It was HKCB's idea, I was just dumb enough to think it was a challenge and I'd be up for it, 11HPG11 was silly enough to come along for the ride once we confirmed a spare seat (Nova Lightening pulled out for family reasons).

We were going to try to beat the NZ one day record in New Zealand (it would have been easier with 4 people), so after 2.5hrs sleep after a good feed at Omarama we were ready to go. This was the one hundred and fiftith on what was to be an epic day with what amounted to 401 caches collected for the day and about 38 DNF's. We managed this with 10minutes to spare but by this time we were done for and still had to drive back to Kaiapoi. All in all an epic days caching with good friends and something I don't think any of us will repeat in a hurry.

All in all it was going to be a big day with a number of challenges, great sceanery, and of course great company. Fantastic driving along and up here as the landscape was so different from what we are used to back in the Waikato. One good thing about backroads being that we could continue our neferious activites without being disturbed by muggles.

Nice quick find here without any issues .
thanks for the placement , thanks for the cache

What a Mega Mission for a group of Hamilton Over Achievers! A great trip, a long time in the planning. I teamed up with Cats&Dragons and HKCB to grab a couple of caches while in Christchurch and surrounding areas for the 2015 Mega Event. We flew out from Auckland on Friday night and traveled to Dunedin in the dark of the night. Stopped for a few hours sleep before setting off to grab caches in the Otago area on Saturday before attempting a few more on Sunday and then arriving at the Mega on the Monday. An amazing, yet crazy road trip

When C&D mentioned a day with over 400 caches I should have turned and ran... instead I said yes, and here we are. 401 caches in 23 hours and 50 minutes. All done on about 2.5hr of sleep. It was hard work with only 3 of us and there were times that were hard and tiring but I still had a blast! An amazing experience that one has to be slightly crazy to even consider

Fab little series, had fun collecting these. Thanks for the caches. I was wondering about this road name!

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

SL TFTC

Easy find. TFTC

A lovely area to cache in, beautiful views and some lovely houses going up in the area. TFTC

There are cows everywhere around here, and it was milking time so they were all over the roads as well. TFTC

Down in this part of the world for Queens Birthday weekend, finding a few caches

TFTC

Grass verge roped off. Found with Moneydork on a road trip during his visit to NZ TFTC

This cache was one of 350 found on a short trip back to New Zealand, which was principally organised so that I could attend my Great Grandmother's 100th birthday.
I have a great time and enjoyed a great variety of caches, most of which were new (ie published in the past couple of years ).
Thanks for all the great caches.

Bike ride from Elephant Rocks to Oamaru - 51 km. It's a bit of a shock to see the dairy conversions with the "downstream" problems for everyone else. Parkas on again here folks...

Cycling with others from Elephant Rocks to Oamaru. Luckily the clouds are not delivering as much as earlier on in the day.

Thought we might take large Geomutt for a walk and then it rained (and not equipped) so quick cache and away. TFTC

we ex moo farmers

Had a spark of inspiration at where this one might be.

TFTC

Not so nice wet grass

TFTC. A day out and some Geocaching

Found while down this way for the weekend caching, TFTC. Cheers Bo

Thought we forgot to load this one onto the ol' phone, so found this one blind, knowing that it was out here somewhere! A goofy Mr Rex wearing flip flops turned the terrain into a 7.5 - mind the ditch! TFTC drawp!

A big weekend of caching with Rincewind3 (hubby), NZGecko (daughter) and our friend, Bo&bronnie. I'll let Rincewind3's logs do the talking
TFTC

Stayed with friends in Windsor for the weekend but still plenty of time for caching
This was the 4th of 33 finds for the day (and 2 DNFs) and 59 for the weekend.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Rincewind3 on Monday, 24 November 2014 at 07:56:33 UTC.

Spent the morning running around the trails and countryside as a brief aside on our trip to Dunedin. Parking a problem in places and grabbed two caches at a time in many places from one parking spot. Most caches easy finds. Thanks for the trails and side caches and please excuse the cut paste log.

Found with Sevren. See his log tftc

A20 odyssey #96

Decided to hunt for some more on our way to Oamaru - not on the bike. Enjoyed the hunt, but not the way the landscape is changing to dairy. TFTC

Here's a hypothetical scenario: tomorrow medical researchers announce that they have proven beyond any doubt that consuming dairy products causes cancer. Worldwide consumption of dairy products slumps. What then of the 'rockstar' economy built on a single commodity? Foot and mouth? Botulism? This country is economically living on borrowed time. TFTC.

Some lovely cows around here. TFTC.

TFTC

Moos everywhere these days

Can't get away from them in this area

Another P & G.
TFTC

A quick find and on the road again. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104

Spotted a few lambs around but many more calves around. Found with Woody104 and debnsz

Lots of calves around wondering where mum is. Back to the milking shed.
Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki Sheep.
TFTC

Cows every where, they are well on their way to out number sheep in NZ. This valley has more than its share.

A productive day completing a couple of new series in behind Oamaru. Thanks for placing these.

Cows everywhere!. Shed lights to keep me company this morning.
Thanks
erninz

This entry was edited by erninz on Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 03:25:39 UTC.

Nice wee drive after lunch, still a few gaps
Thanks Bitsprayer.

So many new houses out this way. this one left me feeling quite exposed. Glad the house wasn't finished yet. No.4 FTF on the daylight raid.

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