Waikaka Way Walk; Gore Diamond Peak, South Island, New Zealand
By weeferg on 19-Jan-16. Waypoint GC69Z41

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi weeferg

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
The Coddiwompler

Had a quick look in between dog walkers but no luck.

Couldn’t find it. May have washed away in flooding.

Looked for awhile but no sign of a red pencil!?

Didn't find but saw the red pencil tftc

On a caching day trip with Central Otago Hilton

Found location as per hint and from spoiler pics but just a red pencil present. Will send photo to cache owner.

Quick find. In Gore from Dunedin for the Hokonui fashion awards. Tftc

Thanks

Easy find!

Great location

Lovely spot for a cache in this park and a really nice park. Good for a walk after work, but before it gets too nippy! TFTC!!!

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An unexpected find, that has sparked a new interest on Geocaching

A quick and easy find. A lovely day for an afternoon walk while Ms_KR visited the art gallery. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove around Southland: Winton, Gore and Invercargill, with lovely weather for the day, and lovely Southland countryside.

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

Under rocks

Tftc

A nice quick find as I made my way around the park on a not so nice morning in terms of the weather.

taking the track beside the BMX track you can park lots closer TFTC

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. Thank you for the placement

Good walk quick find TFTC

Tftc

Sorry no pen as I didn't plan to cache on a trip out for a newspaper. I'll sign another day as I live nearby

Found

Really nice park,found cache in plain site,rehid it better.
TFTC

Sweltering hot day making my way back from Cromwell to Invercargill. Puppy and I needed to stretch the legs. Awesome nice wee meander thru trees in some welcoming shade. A few pumping water from the creek tanks may be getting low. Cache all good tftc

Just passing through. Tftc

Out caching in and around Gore today. TFTC

This was our families first experience with geocaching, it definitely won't be our last.

found it

TTC easy find beautiful day walking took mini Smurf forgot to grab something from car to replace it

Good day to walk dog

Great spot by my wee buddy

Easy find

Thanks number 36th find today and I am trying to write something different in each post. I can see why people cut and paste with their logs.
Maybe if I wrote more than Thanks for most of my saved logs it would help. It might teach me to wright a more detailed log at the time of finding.

Get a little exercise with this one

Quick find on a very cold day. TFTC

TFTC

On a road trip with Mrs Hazzer today. Weather has turned so hopefully we will stay dry ish.
A quick find then back to the car coss Country.
A good day to visit - school is back and though it's cold we've had no rain this afternoon.
Thanks for the smilie weeferg.
2242 23 July 2018 13:58

Found on a caching journey into Southland today with Bitsprayer today. All caches found in good condition. Really enjoyed the challenge and the many hours spent on the puzzles caches to unravel the coordinates. Also great to travel along the many roads in the area. Many thanks to the various cache owners for placing and maintaining their caches. TFTC

A nice walk around the park to up a cache or two.
Great to visit and walk this area as I have driven past here so many times and never stop.
Great puzzle.
Tftc

Day trip today with downsouthinv, Abbykitt sunny900 and loveheart900.
Tftc

TFTC easy cache

But chilly out but have had this cache on my to do list for awhile and then I forgot my pen
Industrious workers here today making a bike trail

Nice blue skies after rain. Cache all good

A lovely walk by the river this afternoon. A great cache newly revived.

On a great tour of Southland today. Zigged and Zagged quite a bit.
Thanks
erninz

Nice wee wander, a few dog walkers out and about Thanks Bitsprayer

This is our first cache. We often walk along this walkway,but today we decided to search for the cache. It took us a few minutes to find it and just about gave up. Then at last we spotted it.

Lovely walking track

My 7 year old is loving this!

Trick find in the dark but got it tftc

Our first find!! Great wee walk on a very chilly afternoon.

Late log sorry found with wethreefourdices 28/1/17
TFTC

First find for the weekend, firming a blue face to a smiley face.
Nice walk from the railway tracks to this cache between the tracks
Tftc

A quick find on our way out of Gore today. The weather has improved enough to allow us to go caching again. TFTC

nice easy find and the area could defiñatley handle a CITO in the near future TFTC

Usually we stop at the gardens by the aviary when we're in Gore. But, this is the only cache in Gore we haven't found and it says the parking area is by toilets and picnic tables. So we stopped for lunch, found a table with a windbreak, watched the motorbikes drive past on their way down to the Bert Munro event in Invercargill. Then a spot of caching, and onwards to Balclutha. Yes, finding good picnic spots is one of the benefits of caching!

First one track then further into the trees a rougher one obviously for mountain bikes and then another track, presumably the walkway, and then the cache.

Found

Found with Uncle Caleb on a sunny summer afternoon. Was all open and visable from the track so have hidden it properly again.

Great searching by the kids

Found it

We probably didn't pick the best day for this today.... it was Kids Day Out at the nearby park and we were the dodgy looking couple with no kids wandering round lol. Cache was visible from the track, signed and covered up properly. TFTC

Busy place today with Kids Day on and a game of cricket in the distance. GZ was a nice setting beside a gentle flowing stream with ducklings swimming. Walked back over the mini train track towards car. As the engineers were working on Thomas... the Fat Conductor told us off for being in the middle of track. Thanks for another smiley.

Starting to get our eye in

Our apologies for the delay in posting our log. Things have got a little out of hand recently & the backlog has become rather more of a "log jam".

Our thanks to weeferg for placing this cache for us to find (or occasionally not) on 30/10/2017. Further details (for earthcaches & the like) will be supplied to the CO once the jam has cleared.

Great spot!!! Thanks for helping me Riley, Ashleigh and Brock

Very windy day for Out and abouting TFTC

Found it

Second stop on my local tour, nice short walk followed by a quick find and left a wee friend for the next person. TFTC

Clearly visible from path so buried a bit more!! Still in exact same spot . Log book is damp. Tftc

Got it after have a birthday party for family good find

The rain had turned the path quite muddy. The cache was plain visible from the path, now camoed with some stones. TFTC.

Tftc

Drove up close to the GZ trailhead and walked it down, found the cache at ok hide and SL. Added a sharpener that was too big from a previous cache. TFTC

Found on a beautifully hot Southland summers day. (One of very few this year) With master 3 in tow on a treasure hunt. Easily found TFTC

These are amazingly huge fields and reserves. Obviously a popular dog walking route. Just entered the trees off the track when I spied a glimpse of familiar blue. I'm sure I played hockey either on these fields or close by many moons ago. TFTC #9966

GPS was a bit bouncy, but found it eventually. TFTC!

A quick easy find out caching with ingidayna on a day trip. A nice spot. TFTC

Found it together with pijotre.
TFTC

After a short search, we get the box easily. TFTC

Nice easy find. Worth the walk in this park

Found it

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

Quick easy find, really enjoyed doing this walkway. Knew it was here but never done before. TFTC

Quick easy find. Thanks for bringing us to this walkway.

A quick find today while travelling through Gore. A brisk walk across Hamilton Park and through the long grass quickly had this one in hand. TFTC

Ha ha I'm not at rugby

Found on our way down South to Bluff for the weekend. We took the direct approach and apart from getting wet feet it was a quick, easy find and back to the car in less than 20 minutes. TFTC

Found with Indiana Jeez . TFTC

An easy find - thanks!

Quick find between muggles and their dogs. Gorgeous frosty day. TFTC

Log is loose page mess with no bag, no staple, and getting wetter. With a broken clip. The box does not lock wery well.
The correct name for this cache should be Waikaka Way Walk, Gore as stated in your link on local walks.
As with all the other TB's looted in Gore at Anzac weekend, two TB's have already been marked as missing by Cache Owners.
This TB also needs marked as missing.

3.30pm. Approached across the expansive park and then through the trees. Once at the walkway easily found as hide stands out. The trees were most attractive in their autumn colours. Left a signature pathtag.
Tftc.
M&P.

Found at an exact place I had previously investigated before. The log is not holding up well with no bag and is in loose page mess with no cover or staple. The TB has not been logged as grabbed yet. Mine just visiting.

Up in town watching bowls so a wander through the park and the cache soon found and log signed. Cache container wet through so dried out and rehidden.

Nice wet day TFTH

Lunch at Howl At The Moon. Then a walk around this huge park. Didn't use the track but managed to walk straight through trees to cache. TFTC

Found a trackable to. Wahoo