Pivot #7 Rangitata Rangitata, South Island, New Zealand
By BrownscacheDiversBCD on 13-Dec-15. Waypoint GC683EH

tmann421 and I are heading back to Christchurch after attending the MEGA finding caches along the way.We enjoyed all the caches found and thank the cache owners for their efforts in maintaining these for us to findLog signed tm/ww NZTFTC

woolwood9 & I enjoyed the drive / walk around the area today! *Thanks for the fun cache, soon found.* Heading to Christchurch today to fly home.SL *tm/ww NZ*

Great little cache! Needs a new plastic bag.

On pur NZ trip. Greetings from Finland and TFTC

Found on this beautiful day Great hide Thank you for the cache

I was on a roadtrip across the country and this one is located on the route we took. A quick easy find for me on a relatively quiet road, the only vehicle to go past while parked up was a road grader. TFTC.

GPS had Mrs back and forward until SoBad spotted something out of place. We had driven past the cache we had intended to do in Geraldine so this was the replacement.Thanks.

We were heading over to Fairlie to visit family this week, so took the opportunity to get a few more caches in the bag for the solstice souvenir. This one was a quick find as it was exposed at GZ, we left it better covered. There was no pivot here today. TFTC BrownscacheDiversBCD.

Enjoying a sunny Saturday afternoon out caching. Quick find TFTC

Found on route to Ashburton

We found this one on our way from Christchurch to Twizel.

Quick find on our way to walk the dog!

A good hide. Found on the way to Hooker Valley hike.

A nice quick find once we arrived. Another in the series ticked off. TFTC

Just happened to approach this from the right direction and spotted one thing not lying quite right.

Good cache near retail outlet

Thanks for hiding this one when we got there I thought it was going to be obvious but not as quick as I thought. Had a nice time in the tin shed nearby.

One of just two caches I located today when travelling from Christchurch to Geraldine. This was a reasonably quick find although not quite where I thought it might be! #4790. TFTC.

No pivot but got the cache

Quick find. Thanks for giving us a reason to stop.

We finally managed to get away for a week’s holiday after months of lock downs and cancellations to various trips and flights. After landing in Christchurch we headed to Mount Cook to spend a few days exploring the area, doing a few walks and enjoying the dark sky star gazing, as well as exploring lakes and small towns of the Mackenzie country. We also found lots of geocaches which we enjoyed finding. Thank you to all the CO’s for taking the time to place and maintain these caches.
This was our first cache of the trip, after grabbing lunch at Couplands in Ashburton (the cream buns bring back childhood memories!) we stopped here and after a short search found the cache, unfortunately MrNZT lost his glasses, so we spent more time looking for the glasses than the actual cache, luckily we found them and then were on our way. TFTC!

A quick find on my way home

On our way down south in the camper thought we'd stop & check our bikes - TFTC

Cool find

Shon and call easy find

Nice quick grab thanks

Thanks BrownscacheDiversBCD for this drive-by. Irrigation is certainly a big part of the scenery around here. They were fully working in spite of light drizzle this morning.

Nice view

Got tired of following the traffic officer at 90km so remembered there was this cache that I hadn't found one other time I looked. An easy find so how I missed it previously beggars belief! Tftc.
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Pretended i was just stretching my legs while a muggle drove past then quickly grabbed and signed it. On my way to Orari Campsite for the first night of "roughing it" on a south island road trip. Thanks for placing it BrownscacheDiversBCD

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A quiet one b4 lunch TFTC

TFTC on way to Geraldine

Finally got one

A relatively quick find after a couple dnfs, so that was nice ️️ Tftc

I tried to find this years ago, today Mrs S.t. was onto it straight away.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Day 17, the penultimate day of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm still in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

Yesterday I had finished up in Tekapo, only to discover that Freedom Camping was so frowned upon (even if you are in a certified self-contained camper) that there is a blanket ban in place across the main township. That forced me to think outside the box, and I ended up parked up on a nearby rural road with a fantastic view of the stars above me. Suffice to say that my rest was fantastic and so I set off on my last full day of touring with a spring in my step, expecting to be back in Chch this evening.

I love driving the roads around here, especially right now as they are generally free of tourists, and so I was happy to break up my journey by pulling over every so often to try for a cache, such as this one.

There was virtually no-one around on a Sunday so I was able to park up close by to GZ and then conduct my search in relative peace. I had no trouble finding the cache, and there were no issues with it so the log was duly signed and the whole lot replaced as found before returning to the campervan and carrying on.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Found on way to Christchurch for a few nights. Enjoying the caches

Another pivot cache. A quick find here but cache needed some tlc. We dried things out and replaced the mouldy log with a new sheet and plastic bag. tftc

I had stopped here once before, looked at the options, and decided it really wasn't worth looking. But it didn't end up being quite as bad as it looked, and was actually relatively obvious. TFTC.

Quick find. TFTC

Quick park and grab on our way back to Christchurch TFTC

First find of the day as I drove from Christchurch to Wanaka. I had been waiting to get off of state highway 1 before starting the search for caches. Had the area to myself for the find and was pleased to be back in this area after being away for half a decade. Cheers for the hide!

Lovely day. Yay, got you this time. TFTF

Quick find . TFTC
On a road trip to see my grandchildren and join one grandson for his 4th birthday tomorrow.

All good ..nosey cows tftc

All irrigation rec far away today Should have been an easy find but I made it difficult. Thanks for the cache

Eine Meine Moe. A immense irrigation unit was gradually creeping along towards here. TFTC

#16763. The 85th and final cache of our weekend trip to Geraldine. Appropriately it was a BCD cache (as were most of the caches we found). Good to get to a nice round 40 for the day. TFTC.

This was the last cache find of our weekend in and around Geraldine. We had found 39 caches today, so this brought the tally to a nice round 40. The pivot was doing its thing today - we parked right by it.
Cache was quickly spotted by SW. Now back home to Christchurch. TFTC.

Making my way south for an extended weekend TFTC!!

Heading to Ashburton after a bit of a bike ride that resulted in wet feet. This was a quick find and the last for the day.

Found with Ice Diva and nephews
TftC

Nearly gave up and the nephew found it! Found with Conbat and rileylowe11 (RL11). TFTC!

On our 12th day in New Zealand we travelled on from Tekapo to Christchurch. We woke up on a bright, sunny and warm morning. But on the other side of the lake we could already see fog rolling over the hills into the valleys. Up to the first cache for this day it was all sunny but then we drove into the fog and later on even rain. This was also a short stop and a quick find.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

Mit apaspa starten wir früh am Morgen bei blauem Himmel Richtung Christchurch. Bald wurde es aber düster und feucht. Die GZs waren fast alle problemlos gefunden. TFTC

I am off today to locate and sign off at least 5 caches for my personal challenge. I have parked my snail shell up at Ealing for a few days to allow me to discover this area's caches.

Have to find the others in the series sometime.

Cheers for the cache.

We found a number of caches on this trip - thanks to all the hiders for there hides. Trying to get these all logged.

TFTC

Weekend trip to Oamaru and Dunedin for the Pink Concert so doing some caching on the way. TFTH.

Thought this one might take a bit of time, but no, Busy paws had in hand pretty quick. TFTC.

A quick smiley to be found here. Out with Geomum007 for the day. TFTH

I've started my beautiful trip of the South Island in Christchurch, I've visited many beautiful locations. I've travelled via Lake Tapeko, from Dunedin to the most southern part of Bluff. I've then continued with a cruise in Milford Sound and then back to Queenstown.
From there on I've visited Wanaka and the Haast pass to the Franz Josef glacier. I went all the way up to the Abel Tasman NP. Richmond und Nelson as the sonnierst cities were on my list as well.
I've soon reached the east coast in Picton and Blenheim.
After a couple of days, I've then travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.
I've spent a couple of days in Christchurch and it's surroundings.
I've visited many geological sites and have found many caches along the way.
I've travelled 3500km and have experienced so much.
Thank you to all the owners
Team sissifalke

Quick find.

Heading to Christchurch so a wee detour off here to get this one. Nice quick find. TFTC

Seeing quite a few pivots in my travels today! Cheers

Another pivot, another cache.

took a while for the GPS to settle but once it did it was a quick hide TFTC

Great day out caching in the area, lot of neat caches, and lots of walking. Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Dnf'd this cache last time looking. But not today. Pivots are changing the landscape

A quick find in the cold rain

Did take a bit longer, but managed to find eventually. Getting closer to find them all. TFTC

Busy spot while the cows watch

Last weekend of the School holidays so decided to spend a couple nights in Geraldine. Heading for home. Surprised with all the DNFs to make this a quick find and sign! Cheers.

Nah. Must be blind!

sigh..

Couldn't see it... Was not to be found today Guess I had to have one of these today...

Good find on a great day caching with Geomum007 and Geojessie, TFTC, tucked away safe and dry.

Quick park and grab.
Paper a bit wet but could still write on it

Bit of scratching around finally reveled a well hidden cache. Cheers.

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A quick find heading towards Geraldine this afternoon. Signed log, TFTC

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Great to see all the irrigation works in the area. TFTC

Spotted this one while waiting for a gap in the traffic. TFTC.

south island trip today. 800km in one day. thanks for all the caches and the fun

On way to event would be rude not to grab cache dropped bug in

Nice find. TFTC

Nice find. TFTC.

Found with rotors on our way back to Christchurch. TFTC

A nice quick find. Always good to have ones like this. TFTC.

Found on a bit of an excursion to get a couple of ftf caches that have popped up with team_macdonald TFTC

A quick find on a nice wee wander on a glorious winters day. TFTC

Such an obvious spot!!! We love these. A beautiful day to out and about in Geraldine. Thanks.

Quick park and grab tftc

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Woohoo found it!

Slightly overshot GZ as I was aiming for the wrong Pivot. Never mind, a quick find in the end. Cheers

West Coast or Geraldine for the weekend? No chains for the car so Geraldine it is.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

A quick detour up this Road and found the Log Book mildewy and damp,but ok to sign our name..TFTH

Quickest find yet! Nice one for the young ones

First stop.

JDScout and I are off to Mt Cook for a break. We are meeting up with his brother who is over from Scotland. This was our first cache stop on the way. Easy parking for our campervan.