INDIGO Bushey, South Island, New Zealand
By Big smoke on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B32X

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 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.

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

It's an DNF for me

Not there but guessed the number when we had the others.

Didn't take long to find here. Tftc

Ticking off a few more of these. Thanks to previous finder that unearthed it.

Cough

Lil hint (replaced writing with # on it)

Had a good look around and was about to give up when I saw something stick out that looked like something someone had thrown out, but after looking closely... Lo and behold... It was the cache! Yay!All colours now found. Thanks

Dug around for this one for a while, but no luck.

After lunch we went for a drive to find a few more caches around the Palmerston area. It might be there but I couldn't find it today.

Found after being spiked by thorny bushes

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

Took some searching this one as got buried.

The last one finally. Now to head back for the final. TFTC.

Another find on our return journey to complete the set. TFTC

Wee walk up a hill for this one. TFTC

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

Indigo it is (close)
TFTC

Took longer than should have. 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.

This one was a bit harder to find. tftc

Last one! Now to sort out the numbers to get the final. All good here. Tftc

#17661. After a DNF at Orange, it was a relief to get through the other trads in the series with no further DNFs. It was easy to guess the Orange digit. and then it was off to the final. 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.
Parking was pretty minimal at GZ so dropped SW off and carried on to find a spot to turn around. By the time I got back, he had found the cache and more importantly, the number. Now to work out the final's location, though with not finding Orange, will have to do some guesswork. TFTC.

Had a bit of trouble finding this one, but came back to it, saw a trail in the grass, and sure enough, there it was! My coordinates S 45 30.168 E 170 43.829. Up the bank, behind hawthorn.

First of the series. TFTC

This rainbow series looks interesting so lets give it a go. We gave up on this series earlier in the day with a missing cache and mouldy logs. But met up with a fellow cacher from Puketapu Picnic, who shared with us the final for the puzzle. So with those retails we reversed engineered this to find the code. So we are back to replace this cache - sorry we did not have anything Indigo but new RITR log has the code. Helps keeps 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..

Found the final before we found this cache. But that allowed Taybeedragon and I to reverse engineer the code and so we were able to put in a new cache here, with new waterproof florist's paper log, and a shiny new code.

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!

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

DNF. Nowhere in sight, and I was exhausted from my hike so I didn't expand my search beyond the obvious. Might be worth a check, just to be sure.

Today is grabbing some caches to reach my 2500 which I plan to do at the top of Palmerston Hill so with that in mind I needed to grab 12 today before facing the hill and this was one of them. Thanks for bringing us on a different road in giving us a different view of the section of the network. The Muggle friend I had is used to getting request for truck for permits on these roads and could see what they look like, so win-win. Now onto the next one.

Got it this time but still took a few minutes. - Bitsprayer

Heading to Middlemarch for a caching weekend and had the morning to fill in before meeting BCD at Palmerston. A previous DNF for this one but this time a quick find! Not sure how that was missed but all good and off to find the final. TFTC

I meant tidy up

Will today up soon

I found this reasonably easily (but could see by the geotrails where previous geocachers had been looking at a nearby hint-object-lookalike). However the logbook is full so a maintence visit would be a good idea. I signed sideways in a wee spot I found.

Will check it out soon indigo = 4 for any that may wish to find the end of the rainbow

This was the only rainbow cache that I couldn't find today. I looked in the obvious place that was slightly off the given coordinates. Nope. I looked in the place I was being told to go but that doesn't make sense with the terrain rating and it's also quite prickly!

No luck with this one today

Things really went sour here this was the first rainbow color we didn't find the cache.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. This was the only one in the series we didn't find. Had a quick look around but then a farmer pulled up and went into the paddock so had to carry on. Spoke to the CO a couple of days later at an event.

No luck with this one. - Bitsprayer

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

Last of the series except the final. Thanks for placing a series.

Looked where we thought it should be but no luck

Oops, forgot to log this back in January with Grapea. TFTC

KM personal Training and Kate

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

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!

Puffing and panting by the time we completed the ROYGBIV series. TFTC

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

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978, A quick find and now to put the numbers together and off to find the end of the rainbow.

Was a lucky find this one but what I did not see was the number in the log book and I had to come back to get the number for this one and a few of the others to. Oh well got there in the end. TFTC ? BH&TM

Mr b made the find for this one. no parking here and nothing of interest so not sure why this spot was chosen? Anyway another smiley. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b+p. Find # 3703. Thanks for the cache Big smoke

Doing some of the caches surrounding Palmerston. I'll have to finish the series another day though.

And the last one down but missing 2 numbers we will have to return for the final.

A great series. I loved this one. TFTC Will be back thou!

A busy road

A detour on our way to Naseby (since the house we were going to had to be cleaned after the Brass Monkey people, we were only able to use it from 3pm). It's against his principles, but Mr D allowed Mrs D to do this series of P&Gs. just this once. Starting from the Goodwood end - nice container! All good with the cache.

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.
Collected number TFTC

Thanks for this colourful series!
My fav one!

Clever cache TFTC

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

Parked on the road to sign this one off. Not the safest of actions.

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.
#4023
Cache number 33 for todays total of 50
Cache 271 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. Grabbed the final number in the series and calculated our final....sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

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.

Signed log as PEGS - a group from Southland going to the Mega. TFTC

Found this while doing the rainbow multi and forgot to log it

Found on 14/06/2015.

Out for a Sunday afternoon cache whilst the boys are at the pool.
Indeed... In we go...

TFTC Big smoke

Gps?? 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.

yay last one! Will be back soon for the final tftc

While in Palmerston decided to do the 'rainbow' series starting with Indigo. GPS all over the place today.
TFTC

Easy fast find thanks

Epic day of can Hong. Thanks Palmerston!

Quickly found today TFTC

A quick easy find with JuJu54. TFTC

This was our last colour, now to work out the final.

Quite a few caches in Palmerston these days, another good find in passing through.

TFTC

A nice find on our way to Lake Tekapo.

TFTC

My favorite colour
Tflc

Found by Master Toby. Be careful here with kids on this blind corner. TFTC

31/12/2014 6:36:00 PM
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Spending Christmas this year with my family, and of course, lots of caching in the mix that means!!

It was New Years Eve, and I realised that I needed another about 8 caches to make 2014 my best caching year ever - beating my previous best of 2012!! (I had earlier in the year thought I would be lucky to beat 2013! )

And mum realised that she needed another 10 caches to make it to 4000 cache finds!!!

So she mentioned that there was a whole bunch of new caches in Palmy since we were last here to clear it out a long time back - and off we went!!

This series was a great help! This one seemed to take ages, but then it was in quite a clear spot!

Consec caching day # 787

TFTC!!

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After we finished logging to get up to date with sonia26642, we realised that she could still realistically beat her best year so far, and I was sooo close to 4000! This situation warranted a quick caching adventure while the dinner was in the oven, supervised by the boys.
Great series to follow that fitted the needed numbers perfectly! TFTC!!

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Found on way south to Dunedin

Today was Palmerston and environs day. Another successful endeavour - even if rather warm! Thanks.

Grabbed another in the series today while driving the back roads,will be back again to finish off. Good things take time. TFTC #1134

This one wasn't obvious to me, but luckily it was for Aoraki Sheep who found it in the first place she looked. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

After watching debsnz walk around in circles for a few minutes, I took pity on her and went straight to the most obvious place and there it was. Found with debsnz

Quick find on the way back from Te Anau long weekend..
TFTC. SLB. TNLN.

TFTC

6240. The final colour in the series. Now off to the bonus cache. We reckon we know where it will be! Thanks. Iris and Rodney.

Easy find.
TFTC

I love doing these series. TFTC.