On the 4th day of Christmas Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
By us04 on 21-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5HGPT

What a peaceful corner of Signal hill to explore. Away from the MTB yobs throwing themselves off the mountain or the cachettes arriving at the monument for driving practice; this forgotten area drowns out the noise of the bubbly giggling from the carparks. Just stand still and listen to the birds. A wee way to go off the track weaving through the Manukas and got greeted by a wery woody Huhu grub sitting on a dry green cache found at the GZ place wrapped in an old bag keeping the cache dry and clean. A clean 1B5 notebook in better condition than the majority of banged caches was signed and popped in a new baggy. The swag was recycled to spread around other caches. Had a search around for some way points for a [puzzle](https://coord.info/GC367DQ) bucket but only one black filmcan was found containing the putty remains of one of the cryptic clues and hadn't chanced upon the 5Lt [cache](https://coord.info/GC17997) further away somewhere. The new plantings had really taken off swimmingly. Returned the cache as found and picked up a couple of ABC's for fundraising at the Hospice. A suspicious growing area in the Manukas further away with chicken netting was empty of it's 'plants'. Exited at the SHR gate and walked back down the road. *RTP 425pt* TFTC

Funny I didn't notice that this was archived until Iwent on the computer and didn't see on the search screen and it turns out it was archived. Oh well cache took a while to get to GZ but quick find there I like the huhu grub on it. nice Peaceful little bush walk.TFTC

Series has done its time.

Nice walk in the bush for me and 4

First time in Dunedin to see All Blacks vs. Wallabies and for few caches the next day. Greetings from Finland. TFTC.

Second attempt at this. First time I tried there was not a lot of light left in the day. Early evening tonight grabbed this. Pretty dark in the trees though.

In the area doing some maintenance and happened to be in the vicinity of this cache - be rude not to stop! Quick find and nice to see a regular sized cache. TFTC!
Cheers,
G.
-0, + spinning top, fridge magnet (sig item)

(Found with Don Cristobal)

We had a little "detour" to find the cache - on our way back to the carpark we hit the easy path
Thanks for hiding says CachingTIA

Came here on a walk from Ravensbourne to the top of Signal Hill and back. No problems with the find, and I followed my nose for the access and got here quite quickly with no issues. Nicely themed container, all in good condition. Signed log, TFTC

While we were up on Signal Hill we decided to go and find the 4th day of Christmas. Walked to "GZ" - our GPS was not liking the tree cover and overcast weather and gave us quite a large area to hunt in. Searched for a while before finding the cache. Thanks.

During our holiday in New Zealand we also visited Dunedin and the Catlins. Dunedin is the Mekka for Geocachers. What a lot of caches are here. Our main goal are some caches from 2000 we found tree of them. The Catlins is beautifull we enjoyed it very much. Our next stop is Invercargill the last stop before Te Aanau.




us04 hartelijk dank voor het leggen en onderhouden van deze cache.

Groetjes,
Team Geo Meijer
(We loggen vaak met TGM)

Dit was onze: 6455 gevonden cache

Nice little walk with the dog. Shame she couldn't go off lead with the poison baits nearby, she does love the bush rambles. Quick find once I found the way in. Tftc

Not kitted out for a night time hunt in the bush but made the most of the torch on the back of my phone. Was not meant to be up here this long. Oh well a quick find with Sirbennis and off to the next one. TFTC

Nice wee hide, off the beaten track. TFTC

Tftc what a neat find for the kids! Love it. Trackable is missing

A fun find with 2 families in tow...TFTC!

Quite a few scratches from the trees/bush to get in! Found it, TY!

Been all around this geocache at least 3 times not realising it was there (off doing other geocaches) finally got to it, TFTC

Nice sunny day for some caching.TFTC!

#2208. I came up to the Centennial Memorial to do the old virtual cache. But was pleased to see there were several other caches in the vicinity. Wandered up the slope to find this one. Was a bit further back into the bush than I was expecting. Checked some rocks near the fenceline before spying a likely spot a bit further back. Sure enough there was the cache. Its about 10-15m from the fence. Signed the dry logbook and replaced the cache as found. Left a trackable behind as this place doesn't look like it will see too many muggles. Thanks for the hide and thanks for the cache.

Mmm..a mega Prionoplus. Nice.... Tnln. HOTA

A nice easy find compared to the last one I just done, TFTC

Found it with wurftaube. TFTC!

when we visited the monument on the hill we also looked for some caches. this was a quick found. thanks for showing and greetings from germany.

Another great spot I've never wandered in to before. Guessing at my rate of finding the Christmas series it will be closed to 12 years than 12 days by the time I finish

A quick find tonight. A beautiful night to do a few caches. TFTC.

Greetings from Czech republic, I found this cache when walking from Signal Hill, Thanks.

I wonder why more people don't retrieve this cache when at signal hill. Thanks

Disturbed a sleeping backpacker (I assume) on the way to the cache! A lovely wee walk after a Signal Hill adventure.

TFTC!

TFTC!!!! Never knew that wee place existed!!!

Found it.

Wandered over from the memorial for this cache. Wasn't sure if there was a better way but if there was we didn't see one. All good. TFTC #7543

Got there in the end.

Had our eyes open for rocks but had to expand where we were looking once we didn't find it straight off. Didn't have to go too far..

As the wind had died down I thought after getting the nearby view one for my recent milestone I would come for a wonder through the bush to grab this cache. The GPS is having a funny turn at the minute and whilst it led me to the area I couldn't get the description or hint to show..... so I took a punt and went where would I hide it and yep there was the cache on my second search spot

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 up Signal Hill for a few caches and stopped by for a quick find. Found an old WP from some puzzle. CITOed it out.

Thanks for the cache.
#3957
Cache number 82 for todays total of 115
Cache 205 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.
In the area late this afternoon to make a quick find and sign. Cheers.

Wandered over for this after finding the two other caches. No problems with tourists here. Now to go back down the long steep road and have the stuff in the camper cupboards rearranged again. TFTC us04.

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

TFTC. Quick find.

Wow I made that much tougher then it should have been thick undergrowth and me being tall and I think I choose the hardest way possible to get to cache. anyway once I got to location quick find and another track out. TFTC

Found on a caching day out with Jaycie, CJ-Curry and Hevic. Nice short trek down a natural alleyway, tftc!

Found in the company of Hevic, Silvachief and Jaycie on a much-needed day out. A slightly trickier walk to GZ than anticipated, but we got there unharmed and Silvachief found the cache with ease. Completely forgot to log the number though - looks like I'm going back one day. Cheers!

Found after a wee bush bash - nicely.
Dropped track able

A nice winters day for a walk up the hill with a friend. She was the one who spotted the cache first. All nice and dryinside.

A nice short adventure for today. I was already close, well, halfway, actually in town, so I thought why not? Anything but great views today, at least I had the tops all to myself. Nice ramble to gz, definitely my favourite location of the lot! Now only two to go and the final to wrap up the series! TFTC!!

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Luckily we found it today - as was snow on the hill the next day. Thanks

BUSH BASH

Neat spot! Cant see it getting muggled any time soon! TFTC!

Wondered where my gps was taking me at first but soon spotted a trail, after a bit of tree bashing I found the cache. All nice and dry. They have planted some new trees so be careful when walking to gz. TFTC

A bit of wondering where this could be before I spotted the geotrail. Thanks.

EASY find on our last days in Dunedin. TFTC!

We went for our 600th cache today. This was number 599. Put in a TB and our stamp TB in the logbook.

TFTC Team Klijnschatje
The Netherlands

Cool cache, thanks! Looking forward to finding the rest in the series.

Brought the whole family into the woods! :=)

T4TC!

//T@bibito, visiting from Sweden.

This is the first time that I have been to the look out without any wind. Great to find the cache as well enjoy the views

A pleasant day to be up on the hill, and go for a short walk. Cache quickly found in the scrub, TB dropped off. Thanks us04.

Found it easily enough. Loved the grub. Thanks

Fantastic hike! TFTC

After getting a couple of lumps of coal thsi afternoon - schoolchildren in a bus shelter, then a woman in a car parked to observe another GZ - felt it was time for a Xmas gift. Had to work for it, biking from harbourside up to the monument without stopping, but such bliss to go caching in the manuka unobserved. Lovely bit of whittling at the final!

Cool TFTC

Beautiful grub. Tftc

Just been to the memorial so went and grabbed this one too TFTC

Took a small detour (and short walk) on the way home to grab this one. Slowly ticking the Christmas series off. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

Didn't know this track existed, thanks for the series. Found with debsnz

A quick walk from the carpark. then a little bit of a bash to the cache.

Found on a trip to Dunedin.

Thanks for the hide.

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Found after an awesome thunderstorm

Tftc have had a long break from caching and this was my first back at it, nice sunny day for it

Found with Harrowang on our New Zealand trip 2015

Best do this one while we were at the Lookout on Signal Hill. When Beavar and Harrowang got close to GZ, we put the GPS away and put on our caching eyes. Once again Renee from Beavar made the find and we SL at 9.52am Did not have any swaps with us so TNLN. TFTC us04 #2670

A quick find after a short walk, and a bit of a struggle through the dense trees. TFTC

TFTC. Another place I haven't been before

I probably stepped on this one...but my mobile phone GPS doesn't work so well so I was never sure I was that close. After 20 minutes of searching (and a GPS signal that said "you are here! Wait, no you're not", I called it quits.

Found at 7:24:00 a.m. on 8/01/2015.

A nice quick morning grab...

TFTC us04

Guided into the NZ forest by team greenbird. Everyone was not equally excited but here the 6-year old took the lead and found the box! Very nice piece of work, we took some photos of this one as a memory. Greetings from Sweden!

Fun hunt through the bush with Swedish friends. TFTC

Certainly a larger grub than what I was expecting!
Thanks
erninz

First time on a Road Trip caching in about 8 Months, have a great day out this was one of abour 60 odd caches found. Many thanks Bitsprayer

Great bush walk. Lovely view from the car park

On a lovely summers evening!

TFTC

Found while on a trip south

I can recall doing a cache in this vicinity way back when I first started caching. Nice to re-visit. TFTC.

Did a few of these out Mosgiel way this morning, thought it only polite to collect those in town too!

FTF #1. Found @ 12:25. The morning rain had passed so it's off for a quick cache hunt. The car park was almost empty with any attention towards the view over the city. Now how to approach GZ without getting soaked in the now very wet long grass. Soon found the obvious & it was off on the short walk to my goal. Wet trees overhead soon meant GPSr was set aside for a good old hunt for likely places. Soon found myself looking at an empty logbook for the first time! Thanks for the cache us04.

Slow Sunday, jobs all jobbed, other Woodies doing their own thing another trip out and about sounds right.
Fogged in at CP with a fine drizzle but all good under cover and the Co-Ords were spot on.
A bit 'grubby' at GZ.
TFTC

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