RED Palmerston, South Island, New Zealand
By Big smoke on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B31T

Found today on our way back from the Dunedin mega, quick find.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) Were here for Geo Toroa (Dunedin Mega). Between flight cancellations and re-routing, things could only get better, right? But wait, theres more! Somewhere on our caching escapades, I dropped my wallet (Tuesday) Its still at large, so if anyone finds itOne of us usually drives, the other is the retriever. That works for us. Weve either logged caches with our separate handles, or weve used FANGS to sign the logbook. Using the latter handle is more for mental health and well being. Its tiring having to write 15 + characters on each logbook Weve joined MDF - Our BoP Teammates. Our goal is to put a few more smilies onto our geomap to the north of Dunedin. This was one of the caches we visited and found successfully. Thanks Big smoke. TFTC.

Down in Dunedin for the Mega event. Travelling with Davidsonclan and McJandals. Really fun to be out and about with the team and catching up with other cachers friends from everywhere. Thanks to all the organisers and all the COs for some great caches. It is certainly a lovely area of New Zealand TFTC

Down in Dunedin for the Mega this weekend with McJandals and NZFLOSSY. Signed the log sheet MDF Thanks for the cache.

Down here for the Dunedin Geo Toroa Event from the sunny Bay of Plenty,Tauranga and are with some of Team BoP. Great to get together with our fellow cachers. Signed Logs MDF. (McJandals,Davidson clan & NZ Flossy)I am logging using the Cachly App and using their template option which helps with my memory for logging. I genuinely thank every CO for their time and effort put into these caches. Much appreciated.

No luck for me today

Awesome place, thank you

Found and noted the number. TFTC

Didn't take long to find here. Tftc

Nice little spot. Found quickly.

Quick find on the way North. Wonderful hide.I picked up a trackable.

Love the idea of this series. Unfortunately we didn't have time to look them all up. Maybe on my next visit.

Starting this series with RED...left a red trackable ready for someone else to take and took a lil toy as a swap

Cool little hiding place both for caches and fairy's. Very colourful flowers along bankside too. Thanks.Now off to find the next in the series...

After lunch we went for a drive to find a few more caches around the Palmerston area. I couldn't find this one either...

Another fun series we were excited about. Out with busy paws having fun here. Apologies for the cut and paste logs here but we did really enjoy them. Thanks for the cache Big Smoke.

We amused - and had a chat with the people opposite GZ. Happily put our hands on it! and so off to do the rest. TFTC

Quick find bumming around town.

Nice quick easy find! Thanks for bringing us here. Lovely little spot. Cache dry and in goid nick.

A relatively quick find. Hopefully didn't attract too much attention from the muggles living over the road. Got to the next one and realised I'd forgotten to get the number. TFTC.

Nice quick find, on to the next! TFTC

Quick find, numbers sorted. On to the next. TFTC

Picked up the yellow smilie on a previous visit, decided to complete this series today. Caches all in good order tftc

Easy

Another day doing the caching rounds. Decided to stick a bit closer to where we are staying today and try to clean this area up.

Another quick find for the rainbow series. tftc

Thanks for the cache

Quickly found as it was a little exposed then was startled by the neighbour who working just over the fence and said I was the quickest he had seen find it! Tftc

After an adventure kayaking down the shag river it was time to calm the nerves with a few p and g's ,spending the day in the Palmy area on a bit of a mission

#17657. We caught sight of a flash of colour as we parked, and made a quick find. TFTC.

After a couple of days in Dunedin, StreetWalkerNZ and I are heading north to Kakanui for a couple of nights. Good to have the time for a bit of caching in Palmerston en route.
Spotted the flash of red, nicely tucked away. TFTC.

Found today, good day out. TFTC

Quick find, TFTC

Awesome geocache thanks

I received some advice from a fellow behind the hedge at the top of the bank. All good, nice and dry.

Another easy find. Number 5

This rainbow series looks interesting so lets give it a go. Red was and easy snag and tag. Cheers

Its Anzac Day 25 April and we have an event at Palmerston. So its a day in Palmerston today with a walk up Puketau in the mix.

Its another awesome geoventure to Dunedin, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack, Jill and William all along for the trip. Had a wonderful 10 days exploring Dunedin. It was great catching up with local cachers at several events we attended. Lots of walking and driving, with the odd cycle and wave ride to jazz things up. Thanks to all the COs that made this trip a wonderful success. Even managed to bag some lab caches along with wherigos, earth caches and events, with the usual mix taking us to some amazing places..

Taybeedragon pointed out the puzzle cache series finals here, and I decided this one looks good - the other being a little too far away for today.

Taybeedragon and I have an eleven day Easter weekend in Dunedin. Although, let's face it, given that we are from Blenheim and Picton that means two of those days was spent in travelling. In that time we grabbed a smidge over three hundred caches. Not bad, considering the amount of time spent way out on the back roads, on bicycles or canoeing on the water. A few virtuals, larges, letterboxes, earths, wherigos, and even ten lab caches in the haul. An awesome weekend!

Easy find

TFTC

I left Trotters Gorge still wanting a handful more caches, so I thought I'd try out this series. No issues with this one except parking, so I ended up parking around the corner and hoofing it to the cache. No problems otherwise - cheers!

I ended up parking around the corner and walking back for this. Quick find.

On way back to Chch after spending the night in Moeraki.
Will hopefully get the wheels series today as my track record with saving numbers is not great!
Spotted the likely hideyhole as I came back down this road.
Thanks for the smilie Big smoke.
2048 18 January 2018 10:04

Decided that the other road would best be done with a caching buddy due to the lack of obvious stopping places.
Numbers stored in 2 places. Here's hoping I do the lose both.

I’m here for a week from Australia doing the great Southern scenic Trail. So far I have spent time in Queenstown, Te Anau, Bluff, Stuart Island Invercargill and Dunedin. Met the lovely locals in Airbnb’s. Today I’m heading to Timaru grabbing some caches along the way. Gorgeous scenery along the drive, thanks for this cache. I’ll try to do the series!

Spent the day Geocaching with WGHS activities day, TFTC

TFTC! Discovered with WGHS Geocaching team.

Spied a flash of red out of its hiding place as I approached. TFTC # 11,456

Caught the train from Dunedin to Palmerston (beautiful scenic trip - highly recommended), hopped on my bicycle and went to find this cache. A great first activity for Palmerston. Thanks to Big Smoke for creating this series (and so may other caches). Loved the variety of containers ... although I managed to DNF on the orange. Thanks so much for a great series. I had too many missing numbers to attempt a final ... but that's the beauty of geocaching: That's just a good excuse for another visit some other time.

Another colourful cache found. Thanks

With the Oamaru Geofest 2017 over, it was time to make my way back to Dunedin for a few more days before flying home to Brisbane.
Still had time to find a few more caches today.
Stopped here for a short break and to find this cache.
Logbook signed and then on my way.
TFTC

The end of the Oamaru Geofest, all packed up last night and now in the downpour my turn to go out and hunt out some caches.

Thank you to you a local CO for putting and maintaining so many which helps draw attendees.

To find out more about Oamaru Geofest [click here](http://oamarugeofest2017.wixsite.com/geocachingevent)

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A quick find with the Fergclan while attending the Geofest event in Oamaru.
We met the CO a couple of nights ago at the trivia night.
Thanks

Thought we'd do the rainbow series,off to a good start.TFTC

I drove up from Dunedin to to Oamaru today on my way to attend the weekend's Geofest Event. I ventured off the main highway a number of times to explore the country byways. There was of course the odd cache to find along the way as well. All in all a very pleasant trip with some interesting places and great views along the way. Cheers and TFTC

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Heading to the Oamaru Geofest so a wee drive around Palmerston to collect a few caches. TFTC

Day-10 Palmerston - Oamaru
A day on the coastal road finding caches as we went.
We found caches in some amazing places & wonderful scenery today.
Thanks for placing this cache Big smoke

It's been three years since I have cached around Palmerston. - Thanks Bitsprayer

TFTC - Geocaching today with NZ Bozzy - quickly found.
Enjoyed this series of caches. And enjoying the area on a beautiful winters day.

Found red. A nice easy series.

Quick park and grab
TFTC

KM personal training and Kate

red

A quick find while cleaning up some unfound caches in the area this afternoon. Signed log, TFTC

When we arrived in Palmerston today we set out to find the Rainbow series of caches. Our first stop was at Red where we quickly spotted the hide. Thanks.

Heading south from Oamaru to Dunedin or rather from cache to cache. The touristy thing of the day were the Moeraki Boulders (and their four caches, of course), touristy but amazing anyway. We even managed to take a lot of photos without any human beings visible. Then we had an absolutely delicious meal at Fleurs Place in Moeraki - thanks to the campground manager in Oamaru for the great advice!
We found 21 caches today, a pretty good score given the time we spent at the beach and at the restaurant
Many thanks to all the owners for their caches and the surprising things and places they showed us!

We made a little detour to collect the coulours of the rainbow. Luckily we could find them all, even the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A very nice series. TFTC!

Couldn't find this one.

Walking with the family (Keryn). Easy find. Off to find Blue. TFTC

First find for 2017!! Thanks

Found with Granville86a on a lovely weekend for a caching trip to Palmerston. Thanks for your cache placement

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978. Got the required number.

A quick park and grab to get this one. Only here once as I know about the numbers by now. Still got very wet I will have to start carrying a jacket in the car just in case it does rain. So anyway signed the log and off to the next one. TFTC ? B&T

Red it is and yum..... On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b+p. Find # 3699. Thanks for the cache Big smoke

Got on or way home from Oamaru

Heading home to Christchurch after a weekend in Dunedin for the marathon, collecting some smiley faces along the way.

Lovely day in Palmerston. Was once a rather big tree!

Thanks

First one of the series hoping to find the final.

My side of the car! My turn for this one! TFTC

Everything very red

Turned the corner into a new road for us. Nice hide! All good and dry.

Enjoying a great trip with tmann421 collecting caches along the way and getting to see some remote locations.

Another good find for us here. TFTC

On a geocaching holiday with Just-Lookin.
Enjoyed the drive around the area and finding the good caches.

Soon located this one and signed log. TFTC

The last time we visited New Zealand in 1998, we missed the Milford Sound because of lack of time.
Now, as W is working in Sydney and C is visiting him, it was very close by.
So we decided to turn her visit into a small New Zealand vacation.
And off course this can't be done without a few geocaches.
A few turned into about 150 of them.
We started in Queenstown, but this time no bungy jumping anymore.
At the airport we switched the gsm-card to a NZ one, with internet access.
That way we would be able to check for recent logs and spoiler photos.
After we got our rental car we started the gps.
We're not used to driving on the left side of the road, but that was no problem with all the road signs.
During our last visit it was summer, now it was autumn.
The weather looked more like home, but we had our umbrella and raincoat with us, which we used a lot.
At the Milford Sound the rain was an advantage, as the rainfalls were huge.
On our way to the boulders we took the scenic road and there was time to look for some caches.
This was one of them.
We took a small detour in Palmerston, to visit three of the serie.
Thanks for the cache.
#6126, 2:35PM

Quick find TFTC

On a caching expedition to waimate - tftc

easy find, TFTC

No worries finding any of these; other than were to leave the car each time. Maybe I should have used a bike

No red face today. SL. TFTC

Parked on the road to sign this one off. No traffic so was ok.

Nice one cheers

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
We were heading back to Chch and stopped by on a few before Oamaru. Quick find


Thanks for the cache.
#4017
Cache number 27 for todays total of 50
Cache 265 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.
Sunday morning and heading back to CHCH...spied this series so decided to give it a bash. Quick find and sign. Cheers.

A quick find, required number collected. Thanks.

Canterbury show weekend and time for our annual road trip to some place with plenty of boxes to find. One player short this year as PurdiePurdie got a better offer over the Tasman, (no not another MEGA).

TheWanglers, Team Gaters and I took off at 4:45am for Dunedin for a weekend of fun frivolity and finds. The plan was to get as many as we could, while still having a good old time, which we managed in abundance. Logs were generally signed kaTT, which actually should read ka pai, but I can not seem to get pi as a symbol.

A great time was had by all.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides.

Good find road a bit narrow for parking

Easy find but didn't realise till later there were numbers in each cache.

Found on 14/06/2015.

Out for a Sunday afternoon cache whilst the boys are at the pool.
Quick find.

TFTC Big smoke

Indeed it is. 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.

A man was working in field opposite so had to come back to this one after a lunch break at the station cafe.
TFTC

Nice. Nearly stumped
TFTF