VIOLET Bushey, South Island, New Zealand
By Big smoke on 17-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5B332

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. 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

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

Container has succumbed to the effects of UV rays and really needs replacing

Found and noted the number. TFTC

Very cool spot! Happened to see it straight awayNeeds a new container as it's becoming brittle, when new container arrives will also need new zip lock and bag. Will try replace this myself in future

Cool hiding spot. Now on to the last one... INDIGOThanks

Clever hide TFTC

Clever. Didn't take long.

Hint helped for a quick find.

A quick find. All good. Thanks

After lunch we went for a drive to find a few more caches around the Palmerston area. Not quite where I expected the cache to be but found it OK. Container is getting a bit fragile but still OK for now. TFTC, Biggles.

Found after checking hint, we were a little off track before this

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

Number not legible, a bit feint.

A nice different hide. Was glad of the ebike, as there are a few hills. TFTC.

A nice find, 1 to go! TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

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

Great hint, TFTC

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

Nearly got them. Another quick find here. Cache all good. Tftc

#17660. Making good progress through the series. 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.
SW thought we had come to the end of the rainbow, but nope, one more to go. TFTC.

Found today, good day out. TFTC

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

Nice little hide. Number 2

This rainbow series looks interesting so lets give it a go. Violet was missing. So we gave up here and went back to Palmerston to recheck out the church multi. Met up with a fellow cacher who shared with us the final for the puzzle. So with those retails we reversed engineered this to find the code. Revisited later in the day to replace this with new log including CODE. Alls good now to keep this one ticking 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..

My notebook says we reworked the code for here, but not why. Was it a sodden mess? I don't think so. Was it a replaced log but missing the code? Ah - yes, it was a nano log, and we could not even find the code on it. All replaced with something better. With a 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!

I left Trotters Gorge still wanting a handful more caches, so I thought I'd try out this series. Now this was a cute one, and definitely not what - or where - I expected. It took me a good couple of minutes before the eureka moment. Nonetheless, signed and sealed and put back in its hideyhole. Cheers!

Full log to come

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.

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.

Off chasing a rainbow - first one since indigo is disabled at the moment. TFTC # 11,453

I think I might have dated the logbook with 24th but it was definitely Sat 25 Nov that I spent chasing rainbows in Palmerston. This was a quick find for me, but the number in the logbook proved elusive. I'd decided it must be the number on the container, but re-reading the description now, it seems that Violet is already given. Thanks for doing this series.

This stood out like a sore thumb. Something of that colour, in plain sight tends to do that . Thanks

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

Found the cache here again but couldn't see a number again things have taken a turn for the worse.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.
The roads were too narrow for our camper, so decided to give the others a miss.
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.

Looked at where it was a couple of times then kiscardi had a look and there it was

Found quickly.
TFTC

KM personal training and Kate

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

Pleased that it was not raining as we had to cross a ditch to reach GZ for Violet. 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!

Thank you for this cache

Thank you for this cache.

Nice wee hide. TFTC

Walked right passes and had to back track with Kerynz. TFTC

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

Found with MrandMrsChosen1978, Easy find thanks.

A quick park and grab and back to it again to get the number I missed. Have to start reading cache description before I rush out and sign logs. This was one of a few I had to come back to and collect the number. TFTC ? BH&TM

Mrs p did the honours as Mr b is still quite sore. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b+p. Find # 3702. Thanks for the cache Big smoke

The hint made the find all that much easier than what it would have been.

Quick find had to wait for muggles to pass tftc

Lovely series and containers.

Haha I'm just that bit cleverer! TFTC

New container in place

1st of the rainbow series

Container broken and logsheet soaked.

Looked where everybody else has - then found it! Managed to unfold logsheet carefully and guess the number (correctly, as it turned out) but log was far too wet to sign. Have photo if needed.

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

Container broken and needs replacing.
Could still read bonus cache number
SL TFTC

Thanks for this colourful series!
Desperately needs maintenance.

Found. 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.
#4022
Cache number 32 for todays total of 50
Cache 270 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.

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

Got it and number.

Found on 14/06/2015.

Out for a Sunday afternoon cache whilst the boys are at the pool.
Maybe not violent enough...

TFTC Big smoke

Tftc

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.

Nearly there just one to go! tftc

Second in the rainbow series, quick find.
TFTC

Super fast find TFTC wish We could catch them all!

Quickest find yet today. Tftc

Another easy find and off we go again...

A quick easy find with JuJu54. TFTC

Luckily the ditch was dry today.

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

Another fav colour
Tflc

Tftc. Container about to give in.

31/12/2014 6:31:00 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! I found this randomly thrown in the grass, but then returned to a likely spot near hint. - Appears last person found it thrown in grass too - so may be some animals or half-nice-enough-to-not-steal muggles??

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 this time so now off to final

Will have another look on way home

Found well trodden in long grass - returned to where hint makes sense.

Aoraki Sheep spotted this one from the vehicle so left me to grab, unfortunately it wasn't till I looked elsewhere before I stopped to listen to where he was telling me to look. Found with Aoraki Sheep.