0702 20/10/99 (South Otago) Waipahi, South Island, New Zealand
By U.N.C.L.E. on 07-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5R0F0

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Cache 752 travelling through to Balclutha decided to grab a few caches on the way, so decided to knock this nice easy park and grab off my list, cache is in great shape T4TC

Kids enjoyed finding this over lock down

Off on a weekend travelling up to and around Balclutha grabbing caches here and there plus hunting up the new Challenge Wonders Souvenirs. This was no.2 *Guanabara Bay* of the 7 Naturals. tftc

Out on a roadie with Guwapo dakotacats, Natalie247 to a celebration event in west Otago. 5th for the day. TFTC U.N.C.L.E.

Out on a roadie with dakotacats, Natalie247, and Eve07. Quick find! Salamat!

Tftc ,not much on this side road

#19031. Nice to get off the main road for a bit. Thanks for the historical info in the cache page. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ as we slowly make our way north from Invercargill. We encountered a bit of rain in Gore, but luckily it cleared up and we were able to carry on caching .
Sounds like an horrific crash, and I am surprised I have no recollection of this event. A wee detour to find this cache. TFTC.

Another quick snag and tag. Cheers.

Friday 13. Balcultha to Gore and back. Another long day with Gore on the agenda. But got sidetracked with back to basics with the ABC series. So lets hit the road!

Toby, Zara and I are on a 3 week geo adventure of Cromwell, Southland, Catlins, Balclutha with a day in Dunedin and quick stop in Timaru. With Lenny, my trusty navigator and TBD my companion/mascot. we managed to visit lots of green boxes, now happy faces with the odd sad one. Did some LABs , earth caches, virtuals and wherigos, all chucked into the mix to rack up 500 odd caches. Lots of kilometers, lots of exploring and lots of fun. Thanks to all COs for our wonderful experience.

Found on way to Balclutha. Enjoying the caches. Slowly making my way home

The comment about the logbook is noted. I will get to the cache as soon as possible. In the meantime, feel free to pop a piece of paper in or take a photo.

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #535, logbook is soaked, photo proof available.

Thank you UNCLE for the very detailed information provided with this cache. It's nice to learn something new whilst geocaching. A very tragic accident which I hadn't been aware of until now. Removed the huge plastic bag which had been added to the container which was prevented it from closing properly. TFTC

I learnt a lot from the cache information, thank you UNCLE. Just as we were leaving two maintenance trucks came along the tracks and stopped here. TFTC

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1603 September 10, 2019 18:23

A trip from Dunedin to Te Anau for friends’ birthday celebrations. First time using a pocket query. A quick find. A sad spot. Tftc

A sombre cache.

Good find

must be starting to think like a geocacher, stopped the car and guessed where it would be TFTC

I was interested in the story behind this cache - thanks for the detailed history, U.N.C.L.E.
I stopped for the other nearby cache & cruised on around to this one. On a bit of a road trip & may go as far as the event in Invercargill this evening.

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 11 Gore to Dunedin 23 caches found. Quick find. Thank you for the placement

Found

Thanks for the cache

An interesting cache. Very sad. I remember it happening . Tftc

An interesting cache. Very sad. I remember it happening . Tftc

Out for some fresh air

A quick search so had cache in hand .
After A early morning drop off of the younger geo Kids at a camp.
A road trip was in order .
So off we go let,s see where we end up . Annielin in the navigators seat calling the shots with a let's go this way and then let's go that. No trains spotted to day my be next time
tftc
All in good order

After dropping geokids off at a camp...lets go caching!!!!
Ahhh bliss.... adult time!!!
Sitting in the navigator's seat, telling downsouthinv where to go, what more could a girl ask for!!

Hunting hidden creatures on the way north

Heading North trying to grab hidden creatures! No trains today!

Very interesting story! No today

Heading to Dunedin, quick park and grab.
Signed log, TFTC U.N.C.L.E..

A week away down south and a chance for some caching. Was a nice and easy find this with the hopes of lots more. TFTC

An easy find on my way to Dunedin. Thanks.

Found

I was not aware of this crash and it was interesting to read about it when it first came out.
Today I had the opportunity to visit the site.
Thanks for the placement
erninz

Great day out caching in the area, lot of neat caches, and interesting spots. many thanks the cache - Bitsprayer

It was interesting reading about the crash. I do recall a crash down south about that time so that must have been it. I was pleased to see the area for loading the logs onto trains. The fewer logging trucks on the road the better.

This cache has been on the to do list for some time great to finally get down here to sign the log. TFTC

Surprised more haven't found this recently. Tftc.

Quick find. Tftc

Tyfc. Logging now we had no reception when found

Thanks on the way to TeAnua to run the Kepler finding a few cache on the way.

Quick find on our way to Dunedin Airport after a great weekend in the south. Interesting local history, thanks for sharing TFTC.

Quick find in an out of the way place. Container top damaged

Nice quick find for our first time junior cache

I added a bit of geocaching to make my trip from Dunedin to Bluff a bit more interesting. Thanks.

On my way back to reality I just had to stop for this one tftc

Nice quick find.

A quick find while cruising around Southland today. An interesting piece of history. All in order. TFTC

Quick find, enjoyed learning about the history of this spot. TFTC

Quick easy find. It was a very interesting read about what happened here. TFTC

Found it

Tftc

The little box was soon in hand and I SL. No trains today. TFTC

Found!

Nice quick find on a couple of days zipping around Southland.

After a fun southern family holiday in the Catlins and Invercargill it's time to start heading for home (CHCH).....staying the night in the Waitaki just to break the drive...allowed one or two caches along the way (so it doesn't take toooooo long getting there)! Cool piece of history. Cheers.

We started geocaching on 01 January 2016 and we are on a trip, going back where it all started, planning on 500 caches for the year.

Interesting recent history at this spot.
TFTC

Road trip today. First cache of the day. TFTC

At World’s End – New Zealand – One of our dream become true.

Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.

At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.

Greetings from Germany – Luco235

A quick grab on our way through. didn't have time to read the story lol. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc U.N.C.L.E.. Find # 3810

Interesting story.

Quick detour off the main highway on our way down South to Bluff. Found by R. TFTC

Wheep I spelt description wrong in journal and took a step back to see I wasn't looking for a padlock lol. Much better to find the cache in good hide. TFTC Train passed by.

We initally missed the turn off so a quick turn around and back track. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

A lot of interesting history thanks UNCLE. Found with debsnz

A quick easy find on way to visit ingidayna TFTC

Found it. Tftc

A sad story.
As an ex train driver I've seen the results of a fair few Train Vs Train or even worse Train Vs People accidents, the results are never pretty.
Thanks for the history
TFTC

found on 03/22/2016 at 3:02:00 PM
A good history of this tragic event.
Thanks for the cache U.N.C.L.E.
Pipedream

A quick easy find, and some detailed history. TFTC

Tftc sad story

The people mat be sleepy but a K9 chased me down the road after I left the cache all the way to the main drag.

Cheers for the cache.

Easy find. TFTC.

Sad episode in rail history, tftc

Awesome day out - TFTC

TFTC

Easy to find, sad story though. Thanks for the little history.

Easy to find, sad story though. Thanks for the little history.

Tftc - just been visiting relatives with grand daughter kc

Quick find on way North TFTC

Great find. Tftc.

Late update, TFTC

Great back story, TFTC

Found with Chosen1978 and Gypsy Rose 58 on way to Sutton Salt Lake event. Quick find on a misty morning. TFTC

Off on a road trip to Middlemarch with Granville86a and Gypsy Rose 58 cleaning up a few that we hadn't found along the way, interesting history. Thanks for the cache UNCLE

Thanks for the cache found on the way to the Sutton Lake event

The chickens scratching on the side of the road and the lack of activity belies the story told in the cache page. Thanks for the detailed description. Thanks for another interesting rail connected cache. TFTC #7209

On our trip to invercargill

On our way to Dunedin and coming to the end of our southern holiday. Really enjoyed reading the history of this place something i hadnt heard about before or cant remember. Found the cache very fast and also got a TB didnt get many down south so stoked to get some today. Thanks for the cache was a little bit of a nicer day weather wise today so made the most of it and got a few caches.

This is our sort of cache. We were travelling through to Dunedin today and decided to make the short detour to make this find this cache. Some of the guys that Deane was working with at the time responded from Dunedin with the Fire Service to assist with the extrication of the injured driver and to co-ordinate the hazardous substances clean up as a result of the accident.
A very quiet lonely spot today with only the adjacent horses there, no train traffic either as we had seen a DC and DX loco go past us heading south at Pukerau earlier on.
A really good cache and history lesson that so many people would have no idea about, TFTC, a fav point from us too and we dropped off a TB that we got from the Czech Republic. [^]

Out on a caching date with HM for a day. The weather did not look ideal, but it worked out to be perfect for caching since all the 'normal' people stayed inside, leaving us to our enjoyment.
SLB. TNLN. TFTC.

Out on a caching date with AT for a day. The weather did not look ideal, but it worked out to be perfect for caching since all the 'normal' people stayed inside, leaving us to our enjoyment. A big thank you to all the CO' for giving us hours of entertainment!!!

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TFTC, really interesting history that we would never otherwise have known!

I had fed in several caches between Invercargill and Dunedin, as part of a 400 minute challenge. While checking before I left Christchurch, I spotted this cache and added it to my list.
Yes, I can remember this day well. My brother was an engine driver based in Dunedin, and he travelled this line regularly. When I phoned that night, it was a great relief when he answered the phone. I understand that he was on the next train scheduled to go through, but had to stop and wait at Clinton for several hours, eventually returning to Dunedin by car. Sadly, his last time driving the rails was on this line on 07.07.2007.
Thanks U.N.C.L.E. for the history of this train accident, and for placing a cache nearby.

2nd to find. Thanks for the history lesson . Tftc

The FTF (stegan) snapped a photo of a northbound freight passing the cache site as he found the cache. The photo is in a log he posted below (8/4/15). Quite by chance, the locomotive heading the train is DXB5448, one of the three locos involved in the crash. The cache owner spotted 5448 heading south at Clarenden on the evening of the day the cache was hidden. It was probably heading to Invercargill. Stegan snapped it the next day as it headed back north. A nice coincidence made all the more surprising by the fact that in early February '15 DXB5448 was temporarily transferred to the North Island to help cover a loco shortage caused by unscheduled repairs to several EF electric locos. The CO wasn't even aware that it was back in the South Island. The second loco in the photo (behind 5448) is a DC class locomotive, the same as DC4202 which was heading Train 938 when the crash occurred and which was written off and cut up for scrap at Waipahi after the crash. Stegan has been admitted as an honorary trainspotter.

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