Pioneer Roadbuilders (Canterbury) Lake Sumner National Park, South Island, New Zealand
By
TheWanglers on 24-Jan-16. Waypoint GC6AK17
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Logs
What an interesting spot to stop and read about the road - and look back up the valleys we had just walked out of. Cheers, love me a cache with a bit of history to it.
#23769. Interesting memorial; well worth a cache placement. Quick find here. Good to find another TW cache (been a while since we last found one). TFTC.
Found with StreetWalkerNZ and BaldEd (who had found this on a previous occasion) on an enjoyable days outing to Lake Taylor. What an out of the way memorial! Didn't even see on the trip to the lake, so well spotted. SW hopped out to look for the cache and soon had it in hand. TFTC.
On a multi-day Mission on Heidi the Himalayan motorcycle, got to grab a few caches along the way !
I have parked my snail shell up at an old camp ground on Lake Sumner Rd. I then jumped into the cachemobile to locate and sign off a few caches on the way to Lake Taylor.An interesting memorial.Cheers for the cache, TheWanglers.
This cache is my 4535th cache. I found this in memory of my sister, Big Smoke. She had found this many caches when she sadly passed away. For Big Smoke and Mikey. TFTC.
I saw the list of new B&B caches come out a few days ago. Then Mrs R mentioned she was keen to head out somewhere for a walk this weekend. "How about a picnic at Lake Taylor, and a walk around the lake" may have been mentioned. I *did* admit my ulterior motive at the time, but still received a positive response.
This was our third stop, third find, and one of the 3 finds and one DNF we got in addition to the FTFs.
With no hint I was worried this would take a bit of finding. I needn't have worried, the spot was obvious when seen and it turned out to be a quick find. All good with this cache.
TFTC TheWanglers
Find number 5110
(Logs signed Rincewind3 or R3 if saving space. Occasionally signed BRN if caching as a team with *B*o&bronnie, *R*incewind3 and *N*otManlyJack)
This was our third stop, third find, and one of the 3 finds and one DNF we got in addition to the FTFs.
With no hint I was worried this would take a bit of finding. I needn't have worried, the spot was obvious when seen and it turned out to be a quick find. All good with this cache.
TFTC TheWanglers
Find number 5110
(Logs signed Rincewind3 or R3 if saving space. Occasionally signed BRN if caching as a team with *B*o&bronnie, *R*incewind3 and *N*otManlyJack)
Found it!
Cache nice and dry. Fun information about old road
We are down from the north island for a few weeks and stayed last night at Loch Katrine. Had the dog out in the lake but too cold for us to have a swim!
TFTC
C&J
Cache nice and dry. Fun information about old road
We are down from the north island for a few weeks and stayed last night at Loch Katrine. Had the dog out in the lake but too cold for us to have a swim!
TFTC
C&J
Looked for a while before stepping back and seeing the obvious. Here I am by the fire in Hanmer Kākāpõ Lodge, just struggled thru reading the road construction sign that I took a picture of, only to see it displayed clearly in the cache notes, doh! Thanks for putting the cache here.
This one took some time to find due to not seeing GZ. Walked a bit further then that d'oh moment 
Thanks for the hide.
Ms_KR and I are off on a wee road trip to Nelson. We had a beaut day today driving to Hanmer via Lake Taylor, a new place we had not yet visited.
Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.
Thanks for the hide.Ms_KR and I are off on a wee road trip to Nelson. We had a beaut day today driving to Hanmer via Lake Taylor, a new place we had not yet visited.
Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.
Saw some caches up towards Lake Taylor, so I decided to wander up and check the area out.
All good here
Quick read of the plaqua and then headed off.
TFTC TheWanglers, the cache was found in good order
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 3 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #3093
All good here
Quick read of the plaqua and then headed off.TFTC TheWanglers, the cache was found in good order
Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 3 find(s) of 7 today, making this find #3093FITW Albijos
Heading to Lake Taylor for a day trip picking up few caches along the way. What an interesting piece of history here which we wouldn't have noticed if not for this cache. Cache is all good here. TFTC
Heading to Lake Taylor for a day trip picking up few caches along the way. What an interesting piece of history here which we wouldn't have noticed if not for this cache. Cache is all good here. TFTC
FITW Harisree
On a trip with Harisree to Lake Taylor. Decided to grab a few caches along the trip.
Cache all good here
TFTC
On a trip with Harisree to Lake Taylor. Decided to grab a few caches along the trip.
Cache all good here
TFTC
Found by chance on a drive to Lake Taylor when stopping to read the plaque. Cold drizzly day. TFTC
Hey thanks for the cache, we did the same, saw the plaque and thought.... there must be a cache around here somewhere...put on our cache sniffing noses and boom...
A nice quick find while on the way into one of my favourite places for the weekend. Always nice to come back. TFTC.
Had a 4x4 trip into Lake Mason and had decided to look for some Caches on the way home from Lake Taylor. Loaded a list before leaving home , happy to get a smiley here. Enjoyed the info on this road being built. Thanks for this cache TheWanglers.
Was camping at Harwarden for the weekend and after noting that Lake Taylor was sorta just up the road I decided to picnic at the Lake and grab those caches nearest to the road as I passed. This was a very interesting memorial - full of information about the road construction. Amazing to learn that this route was so heavily travelled back in 1865 - imagine 400 persons a month passing by this spot on their way to/from the West Coast. Thanks for the cache TW.
Out & about on a geocaching jaunt with Jayjewel to Lake Taylor, an area we haven't visited for a while. Strong nor west wind!Interesting history lesson, TFTC
Day 10 of an upper South Island holiday from Rotorua with sveppi. Picked up on the way back from completing the overnight Jollie Brook circuit. We didn't bother trying to find other caches along this road after this becaus it was getting a bit late and it started to rain more heavily. After 2 days in the wind and getting wet feet the 2nd day, we were just glad to stay warm and dry in the car!
On the way out from completing the Jollie Brook circuit. Awesome walk and my feet are very wet. TFTC
A quick one - thanks to TheWanglers for making me stop here! There is some great history on some of these back-country roads. #3 on the way out from Loch Katrine. TFTC
Wasn't expecting to get a FTF on this trip. When I looked at the logs on the GPS I saw nothing and was hoping for a blank log and yes it was. Was going to stay at lake Taylor but decided not to when we saw at least 100 people camping there already and not much room for another tent.
