ORANGE Palmerston, South Island, New Zealand
By Big smoke on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B321

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 this weekend with McJandals and NZFLOSSY. Signed the log sheet MDF Thanks for the cache.

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 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.

A dnf for me and I did spend quite a bit of time searching

Found after a rummage. Orange is faded, so don't expect anything bright

Last one . Now the final. TFTC

Found after a bit of searching. Tftc

Took us a bit of searching but got there eventually.

Added temp replacement log

Easy find. Be careful of slipping down the bank. Number acquired, now onto the next one...Thanks

Easy find and the first one we found in this series.TFTC

After lunch we went for a drive to find a few more caches around the Palmerston area. Found this one after a bit of a rummage. TFTC, Biggles.

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.

Nice easy find with coconuts3 today. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. We enjoyed the back roads and liked the themed cache containers. TFTC

Always good to know where the dump site is.

Thanks for colourful cache.

Wasn't quite where I expected, and not quite as hinted from memory. TFTC.

Another quick one on our travels. Cute Fawns were the only witnesses to our find today. TCTC. Three colours down in this one visit. Will get the rest on our way home.

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

Found with StreetWalkerNZ en route from Christchurch to Dunedin.
We had DNFed this cache a while ago, so were keen to turn the blue face into a yellow smile. A quick find, not sure how we missed it last time. Perhaps looking in the wrong place? TFTC.

#20600. Quick find today; not sure how we missed it last time. TFTC.

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

Thanks

Clue misleading. Found after a search. TFTC

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.

A quick find for the rainbow series. tftc

Thanks for the cache

Didn’t find it where the hint suggested, but expanded my search a little to make the find. Tftc

Add to the dnf list

There was an obvious niche for the cache that fitted the hint, but there was no cache there. Bugger (not a good start to the "End of the Rainbow" series). Things improved, however, and we found the other 6 contributing caches and managed to guess the value for this cache.

Don't think this is here anymore, despite the recent found it log.

Found today, good day out. TFTC

With all the rain and floods in recent weeks we guess that this cache has gone. Maybe someone can check and maintain this one.

Quickly found and noted the info I needed. Then moved on to the final.

Last one. Now to see if we wrote all the numbers down correctly

This rainbow series looks interesting so lets give it a go. We finally found orange but the info was difficult to read and a bit confusing. But its tagged. Cheers. We kept going with this series but hit a brick wall with one cache missing. A fellow cacher gave us the end cords for the puzzle so we ended up coming back here and replacing the log to keep this series rolling along.

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..

Lots of geotrails to wrong places, but we found the cache. The log was near full and the code is hard to read, written in orange on orange paper. Later we discovered bigger problems with the series, one cache missing, some sodden logs. We got given the final coords, and in payment, reverse engineered the codes and fixed up the caches. so we ended up coming back here and putting in a new log, copying the code over.

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!

Difficult overgrown grass

TFTC

I left Trotters Gorge still wanting a handful more caches, so I thought I'd try out this series. I passed RED and BLUE by as there was inadequate parking on the outbound trip, and started here instead. I found the container and extracted the numbers with no problem. Cheers!

All good

I struggled with this one. Gave the angles a proper going over and then spotted it as I was leaving. Not where I would expect it to be.

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!
Thanks for the smilie Big smoke.
2046 18 January 2018 09:48

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.

Spent the day Geocaching with WGHS activities day, TFTC

TFTC! Discovered with WGHS Geocaching team.

Last rainbow colour in the bag for me. Spied this on the way to where I thought it was going to be - left as found. TFTC # 11,458

Hercubat had no problem finding this. I spied a caching trail as I stopped. There's a specific hint and, it's ORANGE for goodness sake. How hard could it be? I proved that no cache is too easy for me to DNF. Yep. Hate to admit it, but I could not find an orange cache container.

I came up to Palmerston for the morning to do a bit of caching and this was the first of 19 caches that I found. No problems locating the cache. Thanks

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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Did you know that planning has started for a Mega Event in Wellington in 2018? Check out the details on the [WENZ Website](https://sites.google.com/site/wenzgeo2018/home) or visit the event's page on [FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/590545297801072/) and don't forget to log your attendance on the [WENZ Event Page](https://www.geocaching.com/…/GC78NMQ_wenz-event-2018-wellin…)

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A quick find with the Fergclan while attending the Geofest event in Oamaru.
Thanks

Back on track easy find and bonus two numbers.TFTC

Not sure what went wrong here, but I just couldn't spot it.

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.

Done not in correct order. But final will be another day.

Had to wait until a runway horse got caught until we could look for this one.
TFTC

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

Collecting the colours of the Rainbow today to get the bonus numbers. Orange was not hidden quite as the hint would suggest, but was an easy find all the same. 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!

Orange was easy! TFTC

another quick find. TFTC

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

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978, Another easy find Thanks

A quick park and grab to get this one. Only here once as I know about the numbers by now. This one had a replacement log so I did not get the number I needed from the log but the CO was happy to let me know what it was. 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

Another one on our travels. Well we didn't have fun here. read the hint and as headed down to hint object in the long grass didn't see a hole and went for a tumble down and ouch! Then noticed cache wasnt even down at hint object. walking away sore. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b+p. Find # 3701. Thanks for the cache Big smoke

Found on a cold windy day on our way home from Oamaru

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

Got it

Could do with a new log book sorry,

Oh no! TFTC

Logsheet damp - needs replacing.

This one has moved upwards a bit - not in the hide clue, but an obvious place very close to it. Took a few seconds to work out that there were two clues in this one, very cunning. Logsheet damp - needs replacing.

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

Last one in the series for us so quick calculation and then off to the final.
SL 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.
#6128, 2:38PM

Another quick find tf

Thanks for the colourful series!

An easy find, TFTC

Will do the other another day when visiting

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

Bovine audience when I grabbed this one. SL TFTC

Ah, somewhere to pull off the road to search for and sign off the cache safely. Does that ditch fill up with water in s rain storm, I wonder?

Cheers for the cache.

Start the Year with a trip north.TFTC

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.
#4018
Cache number 28 for todays total of 50
Cache 266 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. Hah. Busy road now makes sense....

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.

Easy find but didn't realise till later there were numbers in each cache. Lady who owns this land came to see what we were doing but seemed happy enough with our explanation.

Found on 14/06/2015.

Out for a Sunday afternoon cache whilst the boys are at the pool.
Quick find, watched by a passing ungulant...

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.

Another one in the rainbow series found
TFTC

Love the color series TFTC

Another colour found tftc

TFTC

3 in 5 minutes tftc!

Found with Weka as we wend our way around! TFTC

A quick easy find with JuJu54. TFTC