A20 Rock On (North Otago) Ohau, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 12-Mar-16. Waypoint GC6D6RZ

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I live full-time in our caravan travelling around NZ, visiting the places we want to visit & doing the things we want to do and fitting in a bit of Geocaching here & there we decided wed drive in the Lake Ohau area & check out some of the local, to here, caches we had decided that we wanted to bike some of the A2O Bike Trail, so we parked up at the car-park at Lake Ohau intending to ride back along the trail to the weir & lake outlet the day was sunny & the wind light, so all-in-all a perfect day for riding all the caches ended up being quick and easy finds, the logbooks were signed & caches returned as found were also pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally TFTC ... TN except photos:LN:LS this was #6,559 for us!

Thank you

Found it

Found whole walking in the area. Enjoyed the lake, the walk and the cache. The thorns not as much.

I enjoyed biking here with my wife.

What a massive rock almost completely covered by vegetation. I pulled the matagouri back so that JD could reach in uninjured. It looked like others had sign the book while bleeding .

Great views along here. Didn't take long to find. As per hint. Tftc

Wandered down with the dog & found after trying a couple of spots.

I have found the caches at each end of this trail in the past so this afternoon I am out filling in the gaps with the hope of turning the green blots on the map into lovely yellow smiling faces. All good here - spotted a marble on the ground and then a pen - both tell-tale signs I was very close. TFTC # 20,871

Trouve

Found as per the hint. Magnificent views along here today TFTC

Found with UK Rob @hartlovap

Bit scratchy but qef tftc

Found with gPetone while cycling the A2O. TFTC

With Patandjohn, thank you . Day 2 of A2O.
Tf6

Day 3 riding the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail from Twizel to Omarama (38km) on a stunning Summers day. This was a nice quick stop to find the cache and take some photos before getting back on our bikes and heading down the trail. TFTC

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC drawp

Found with NZDi. Full log to follow.

TFTC Drawp

The grab on this one is a bit menacing. I definitely recommend long sleeves.

Found, but looks as if its been thrown into the prickly bushes. Took photo. Tftc

Found on ride back TFTC

We decided to walk the track rather than MTB to give our geomutts some relief on their paws, so our adventure took twice as long. Only saw one other walker. A good number of cyclists here and there. Great trail. Luckily we didn't see any producers of the sheep poo.

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

Darn prickles!!

A nice walk out to here. Mostly sheltered on a windy day. tftc

1,099. Another great spot and hiding palace

Sounds like rock& roll, music I enjoy

We parked at the start of this bit of trail
so riding to the weir and back thanks for the hide

Another find on A2O. TFTC

Today cycling the alps to ocean rail trail an awesome experience. With a few caches to provide the cherry on top. TFC

Leaving Lake Ohau today and decided on a morning ride along to the weir and back. Weir had a bit of water running across it. We were not game enough to cross to get the cache on the other side. Saw one person cross with their bike we were having a break.

Missed this one on the way there so grabbed on the way back. Squeezed thru the bushes to get access to the rock.

TFTC

Found on A2O/TA no pen so have attached photo

Spotted this but needed to reach past the Matagouri! Signed then replaced with rock on top. Thanks

On the A2O trail ride. Finding some caches was a bonus. Thanks for hiding drawp.

Another nice cache on this trail. Tftc

Day 1 of our A2O odyssey. Twizel to Omarama.
Love this area. A great track to cycle on.
Spotted the rock. Snuck through between the matagouri and passed the container out to Ms M to do the honours.
TFTC

Yay. Found my last one for the day. I've walked and cycled to get my geos... TFTC

Enjoyed this section of the track. No one else about today

Thorns to the left of me thorns to the right TFTC

Cycling the trails so only stopping to grab a few caches on the way. TFTC!!!

Today we biked along the bottom of Lake Ohau around to the weir.
Great bike ride on a lovely day. Caches were mostly easy to find .
sorry for all the copy and paste but need to get these finds logged.

TFTC and making this ride even more interesting with caches placed often enough for a break from riding. And a chance to take some photos of some amazing views.

Guarded by the matagouri but managed to coax it out. TFTC

Tftc found on our bike ride

Ah, lovely smooth flat offroad scenic. And an obvious object. Perfect stop and grab for two getting-a-bit-weary-now bikers.

Nice find while out for a walk on the alps 2 ocean track

Great find

Saw some fine weather for Twizel for this week and managed to find accommodation for the time we wanted. Drove to the weir at the end of the canal and e-biked around to Lake Ohau Lodge and a bit on the next leg to Omarama.

Fossicked around a bit and then saw the telltale.

TNLN TFTC.

Level 4, day 11...but who's counting?!

Found this cache on our TA thru-hike. Lake is beautiful here, but it is SO WINDY!

An enjoyable weekend enjoying the scenic McKenzie area, and finding some great caches along the way. TFTC

After two DNFs earlier this morning, it was nice to make a find on a cache again. Fortunately, I don't really care about the numbers. The caches along the A2O were a bonus -- the cycling was the main aim of our trip, and what a wonderful experience the whole ride from Alps to the coast at Oamaru was.

This was a quick find and a hurried signing of the log. The others wanted to get going and have some lunch (as did I), so not much time to dally.

Day 3 A2O

A little helping Wood has done
t4tc migrue Switzerland

Happy to found this cache on an evening walk in beautiful scenery. Thanks for the cache!

Awesome

A few of these big beasts around. Along with the requisite matagouri. Thanks for the placement drawp

Continuing on the A2O trail ...the dreaded matagouri was present ...managed to sign with out too much damage to the body tftc draws

Cache checked and all good.

Not A2O for me but Cape Reinga to Bluff! Walking Te Araroa trail. TFTC

The second one on our walk along the lakeshore. The weather was really beautiful today and no one there, so we had enough time for caching !
Many thanks for hiding and greetings from Germany !
#590

I’m definitely coming back to do more of this trail. The lake was wild today, but beautiful. Met some through walkers who were enjoying the scenery.

Quick find.

Easy find on our way to ftf?...

Tftc drawp!
#4281

Tasha and her Dad lol

I met up with my brother, BaldEd, today in Omarama to do a few caches in the Waitaki Valley.

We started off on our bikes for the few newish ones around Lake Ohau.

Cheers for the cache.

Went for a bike ride with brother Tufty seeking out caches that had been placed after our initial ride a couple of years ago. Nice quick find. This was No.2 of 4. Thanks for the cache drawp.

Lovely bike ride.

TFTC

We rocked on down this track picking up today’s caches. Easy find. TFTC

In two minds whether to go for the next two caches. But probably won’t.

Supporting a bike group doing the A2O. Sent them on their way and caching my way back out to the state highway. Tftc, nice to walk a tiny bit of the trail

There were plenty of rocks around here but only one obvious one - thank goodness.
+ a marble, - nothing.

William 7 Dominic 5

found while cycling from Twizel to Lake Middleton. My arms are a bit short but I managed. Dropped off a TB.

We had forgotten the full name of the cache until we got within a few metres. Then we remembered the name as we quickly found the cache. We were so lucky with the weather today. Cool when we left Tekapo and a cool wind getting to here, but sun shining on most of the Lake and many of the mountains. Great views. As we were on foot, we turned and walked back to the car. No time to do a 7km walk at this time.
Thanks for the reason to do 1km of the walk.

Found it, forgot to take pen sorry, why don't people put tiny pencils in. #BelieveAndAchieve

Found with Illwah.

A woman with a child asked le, whether I ' m geocaching and took advantage.

Cycling from Twizel to Lake Ohau, naturally we had to log this one - tftc!

Easy find, TFTC

A pleasant evening ride, on a windy day. A very quick find. TFTC.

In Twizel for the long weekend for a get together with friends. Time for a bit of a drive/bike around the place to find a few smileys.

Back to the A2O trail for the last caches today. #7 and last for today. Cheers
Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Out on the track on a very windy afternoon. Nice quick find. This was our last one along here today as the kids had had enough. Even though we had only just started. Will have to get the other two from the other end another day. TFTC.

TFTC

Out on the Quad Bike doing track inspection. - Thanks Bitsprayer

A mid-winter ride down the A2O.

TFTC, a quick find once we had located the correct rock. First I led Polargirl on a big detour to a few other rocks further off the path.

We took a slight detour into the bushes while looking for this cache - this is not recommended! Lots of prickly bushes! TFTC

Quick find while riding A2O. TFTC.

Head8ng to outlet and back good friday. Tftc

Found today heading to outlet and back

FTF, yeah! Nice trail and location, tftc

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