BLUE Palmerston, South Island, New Zealand
By Big smoke on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B32M

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 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. Thanks to the guy nearby four yelling the clue to us as it was missing Lol 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.

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 . Neighbours yelled out blue 4

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

I was smuggled by the residents across the road who just waved so maybe they are aware of the hidden gem ?

From Joshtaits hint managed to work it out so claiming a find. Thanks for the series.

Wrote email and pm to Falcon0wl explaining what this is and offering that the cache location can be removed from being published.Will find a solution and post here again when sorted.

So Im very confused as to whats going on here. I am the owner of the property where the new fence has been erected, so I apologise for any inconvenience to the tracking of this cache. Ive noticed a bit of odd activity going on around that area lately then today when I went to approach the person they boosted but I have since found the cache but its not really what the website is promoting, did you guys used to hide it in the prickly hedge we had out front? That wouldve been a nightmare to find. I am currently in possession of aforementioned cache, Im bewildered, does it have a tracker in it? Can I reposition it in a more suitable location in the same area?

Found the hint location, but unfortunately there is a nee fence blocking cachers from looking around the pole.

DNF - unfortunately a fence has been erected blocking access to this cache, AND according to the description by Natalie247 on cache GC7DZDZ the owner of THIS cache and series (big smoke) has passed away. I will do some digging by messaging previous finders to try and find the code from this missing cache and then see if I can adopt this cache to get it fixedFeel free to message me if you can help or have any questions

Jerry rigged a temporary cache about 2m away from the original location, and the number is written on the ELOP. Just in case the cache gets muggled/disturbed, here's a reverse sentence to get the required digit for the series "eerht sunim neves"*Managed to finish the series without this, then worked out the missing number. Hopefully, you will also be able to finish the series*.

Cache is MIA as per the last couple of logs.

Ditto previous log, there is a fence between the road and the hint object.

After lunch we went for a drive to find a few more caches around the Palmerston area. There is a new fence between the road and the hint object making it inaccessible. I think this cache has gone, making the series impossible to complete and the bonus harder to work out.

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

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.

Thought was damp but ok. Just outer a bit wet.

Signed with my blue pen!

Another quick find. Got a bit spiked IIRC. TFTC.

I’m Blue daba dee. TFTC

Quick find, number 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

Good

Quick easy find. 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.

Another quick find for the rainbow series. tftc

Thanks for the cache

Log soaked but was able to get the number. Signed newer paper in seperate bag. 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
Log was a big ball of mush so could sign or get the number ...shame

#17656. We were wondering whether we'd get enough info to get to the final (after DNFing Orange), but a quick find here had us back on track. 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.
After not finding Orange, we were relieved to find Blue. TFTC.

Found today, good day out. TFTC

Quick find TFTC. But with the passing of the CO it is very unlikely that we can finish the series as numbers are not readable.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Logbook is totally saturated

Awesome geocache thanks

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

Almost there. Second last one for us

This rainbow series looks interesting so lets give it a go. Quick easy find for blue. 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..

Nice easy find for this one.

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. It took me a minute to work out what this container was, but I dug and scraped through the grass a little and found it. Certainly not what I was expecting from this series, given what I'd started with. Cheers!

i searched and searched for the number and then decided to see if recent previous finders had a comment and then I noticed that the CO had placed a note with it. I wrote it on the log book.

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!
Like others I didn't find any numbers in the logbook (new late 2017 and already damp), but refreshed logs and saw mote from CO. Thanks.
Thanks for the smilie Big smoke.
2047 18 January 2018 09:59

Blue=3

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, Log book was replaced but no Number but TFTC

TFTC! Discovered with WGHS Geocaching team.

Note - the log book must've been replaced, because I couldn't locate any number for the multi.

No problems with the cache but like the previous finders I couldn't find a number either. Enjoing the drive round these back roads on a beautiful afternoon though. TFTC # 11,457

Blue was looking pretty wet and I couldn't spot any number. At least I could find the cache - although I may have put 24/11/17 incorrectly into the log book.

I've never seen a cache container like this. Interesting. There was no number on the logbook but in the end it didn't matter because I came up with some likely looking coordinates. 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.
A quick find, logbook signed and returned.
I think with recent logbook update, clue has not been added to logbook.
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.
However we couldn't find the number on the logbook
Thanks
No number

No problem with finding the cache but oops couldn't locate the necessary number.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. No number in this one but spoke to the CO at an event the following Sunday. 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.
We replaced the log book here.
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.

Very wet. Have photo could not sign log or read number hopefully will still be able to find final.

Found it easy enough but couldn't find the number because the cache is very wet . Should it have a lid? It doesn't have one at the moment.
TFTC

KM personal training and Kate

One more for the day

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

Hunting down the colours of the Rainbow on our way through Palmerston today. Made a quick find at Blue. 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!

A few minutes later and here we are at Blue! TFTC

Quick find on first geocaching expedition of 2017. TFTC

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

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978, A nice day in Palmerston picking up all the colours.

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

And blue it is. spotted from the car. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b+p. Find # 3700. Thanks for the cache Big smoke

Found on our way home from Oamaru. We replaced the bag.

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

Watch for prickles!

Thanks

The log book is now quiet damp but cool container.

Missed out on this one. I was on the wrong side of the car. TFTC

Aha, wonder what this container was before it became a geocache? Logsheet is damp, not soaking yet but if you're passing it could do with TLC.

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.
#6127, 2:36PM

Nice drive by - tftc

Nice drive by - tftc

Quick find tf

An 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

Cool cache, not had one of these before. SL TFTC

Ah, somewhere to pull off the road to search for and sign off the cache safely.

Cheers for the cache.

Start the Year with a trip north.TFTC

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.
#4019
Cache number 29 for todays total of 50
Cache 267 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 & took note of the number. 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.

Just started out and found this one thanks

Easy find but didn't realise till later there were numbers in each cache. Log book soggy and barely signable as it is not a real container.

Found on 14/06/2015.

Out for a Sunday afternoon cache whilst the boys are at the pool.
Found quickly and then propped back up in its hiding place.

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.