G.M.B.T # 21 - S Bend Orari Bridge, South Island, New Zealand
By BrownscacheDiversBCD on 23-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6P0HT

On holiday for 2 weeks in caravan, stopped at Geraldine for couple nights and thought we would go find some caches. TFTC

Nice quick find hereThanks for the placement and the smiley

Parked at the road bridge and cached/cycled until it was time to back to Geraldine for a pre-dinner drink.

Great ride along this part the trail! Nice and sunny albeit a bit muggy. I found all along this sections, although I was certainly overthinking it at times... The containers could do with some maintenance as most logs were quite damp or even too damp to write on. Good fun, I look forward to returning for another section at some point. TFTC!!Every single tree seemed to have an S shape around here...South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - MEGA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!

The heavy container was found easily. Ooh maybe there is a travel bug in it. But no it was a stone. LOL There was a fantail floating around us chirping happily.

Glad to have a little shade on this hot day.

Should have trusted my gut initially. Haha easy when you know. Tftc

Found with Kiwimykl. Refer to his log for details.

TFTC BrownscacheDiversBCD

Found with NZDi. This morning we walked the Orari River Cycle Track from the bridge to Taylor Road. We logged all our finds as well as our DNFs. The DNFs may not mean they are missing, just that we did not find them. This cache was our sixth find of the day and all I can remember about it was that it was at the end of the S-bend as perceived from the way we were heading.

It is Easter weekend and it is time to cross off one of the things on our bucket list, which is to visit the Peel Forest area. We headed south from Blenheim on Thursday and overnighted in Rangiora in order to break up the trip. That was an uninspiring place to cache with a miserable strike rate. We then travelled to the Peel Forest DOC camp on Friday and did the Kahikatea Walk and Fern Tracks. Saturday's mission was to walk the Orari River Cycle Track from Burdon Road to the Orari River Bridge and today we are completing the track from the bridge to Taylor Road, having done from the other end to Taylor Road last October while visiting Geraldine.

Our logs are in full where space allows, but when an abridged version is required we shorten it to KM + ND for Kiwimykl and NZDi.

TFTC BCD

Off to a good start, sun shining and lots of finds. TFTC!

Back for another go at this trail and caches. Rode our bikes to this one to start our geocaching for the day. Pretty bumpy on the MTBs and a bit warm for our geomutts. TFTC.

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

This one took a fair bit of wandering around as I couldn't find anything close to where the gps indicated, but finally tracked it down when I widened the search area.
Thanks for setting this up

Was walking the Orari Riverside track between Orari Bridge and Burdon's Road collecting caches along the way however finished that section early so made a move downstream. This was a quick find; TFTC

That was a quick find and I still have my fantail guides

Walked around in circles for a while..finally notice what I was looking for the high tide marks and high debris trail had me thinking that it may have been washed away..but no there it was I had it about 13mts outThanks BCD

The weather is gloomy and accentuated here in the trees but at least its not raining - yet. Thanks for the placement BCD

Nearly finished TFTC

Doing a maintenance stroll along the track...a ground level cache that action survived and dry to.!!!

Another quick find here with Campmotherandken and off home we go as the rain begins again ️ TFTC

Last one for the day have had a great day with Juju54 - TFTC

Heading part-way back to Christchurch today from Lake Tekapo and stopped for a couple of hours’ stroll along this track. I walked at least 2.5 kms before turning around and turning back, finding 10 caches all up and bombing out on one. The cache container had moved out of position a little and was thus a quick find. I returned it to where the hint indicated it should be. #3496. TFTC.

Nice

A great cache for the kids

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 #472.

Out for a morning ride and hopefully finish off this river track power trail. We have done bits and pieces over the last week and have enjoyed greatly. Our thanks especially to the CO who has done a excellent job and seems to be right on top of any maintenance issues.

Sorry about the cut and paste but all were easily found and will be noted if otherwise

TFTC BrownscacheDiversBCD

It’s stayed dry this Christmas Day and we’ve had great fun with these caches. Only a few more and then some bubbly. Find #22

Straightforward one here - we are making progress towards our Xmas bubbly now! TFTC

Easy find. Tftc

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No 32

Quick find. Log dry. TFTC

Adults bamboozled. Kids all over it.

#16709. I found the last cache before Troodles arrived; she reciprocated here. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on our weekend trip to Geraldine. We had been eyeing up these bike trail caches for a while and finally we have brought our bikes with us. The weather was perfect (maybe a little too hot at times) and we biked the Vance Rd to the Orari Bridge section of the trail. A few DNFs, and a few not looked for, but overall a successful day.
I was first to arrive here (as SW had been left to re-hide the last cache) so I found this one. All nice and dry inside. TFTC.

Found

Today's adventure on the G.M.B.T. is the section is from Bennet Rd east to where I left off yesterday and then up to the Orari River Bridge.

There's a good S bend on the other side of the track.

Cheers for the cache.

Was initially planning a trip to Geraldine tomorrow (Sunday) to bike the river trails but forecast rain made me come today (Saturday). Frosty morning but a lovely sunny day. Bit late leaving home but all good. Will see how many I can find!

Duh! I was seeing too many S-bends around me. After checking the wrong spot (it seemed so obvious) I had to S-bend myself as I found a wasps nest in what looked like a rabbit hole at first, yikes! Run!

Samen met Kakariki, een fijne wandeling. TFTC

**#6578**

See the log for Hangmans Row for full details. The logbook was dry.

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A bit further and another find
Thanks
erninz

Great day out caching in the area, lot of neat caches, and interesting spots, needed 43 more caches to hit the 10000 finds mark think I got 62 for the day trip. Many Thanks Bitsprayer.

Phase two of the cycle leg of the caching trip to South Canterbury. Parked at the end of Bennett Rd, up the east bank to the big bridge and back now the west bank. Lovely day and really nice place to spend it - lots of cool caches too. Thanks.

In Geraldine ca(t)ching up with BCD. A beautiful day to cycle part of the G.M.B.T with the added bonus of the CO joining me
Wasn't the S Bend I had in mind but still very much so. TFTC

Found

Day 9 - of our (The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara, & myself) epic adventure leaving Oamaru for Geraldine and the cycle trail today. Tobys at SH1 , and Zara at Main North Road. We are on Jack and Jill, with pedal power to the fore.
Another quick snag and tag along our way. Cheers

Taybeedragon and I are cycling the trail and enjoying every minute of it. The weather gods turned on a nice day - an excellent day off from the rigours of heading home after a week's geofesting in Oamaru.

Quick find, TFTC

thanks

Out on our bikes enoying finding these caches TFTC

out on my bike exploring the tracks and grabbing a few caches on the way

My gps was about 5 m off. Found tftc

GPS had me well off course in this one until I spotted the obvious reference in the title. Up from Mosgiel on a caching binge in Geraldine. Nice easy find. Beautiful weather and a beautiful spot. TFTC

Had quite a chat to a local cyclist about our vintage. He was coming towards us and it doesn't bode well. He tells of water across the track further on. Found the correct spot and it did stand out. Thanks.

Having stayed in Geraldine overnight. (Geraldine Motels and village inn excellent for accommodation and food). we took the dog for a bike ride along the MTB tracks. Nice riding and good caches, though some logs were a bit wet. (sorry, we've lost the bit of paper which recorded which needed maintenance). all went well till Jo and Beck (the dog) mislaid Joe, or vice versa on the loop. Luckily we both eventually arrived back at the car. Many thanks, we'll be back for more on our way south.

found all safe and secure No problem here 5/5

A full log at https://coord.info/GC6PGTB - TFTC.

Another quick find on the trail, Cheers

A leave pass from Ms KR and Ms KM. Where do we go? Packed up bikes and bike >40k on the GMBT. Slightly stuffed at the end, but found most that we looked for, and a had a great day.

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

The leave passes for Karma Reprint and myself matched up, so onto our bikes to attempt to clean up the series in one day. 42km and 12ish hours later it's mostly done. Second leg is down from the bridge, nice track! Cheers

Nice spot

Will come back and do the others at a later date

A quick easy find on a longer ride around the middle section of G.M.B.T. although the cache is not a pill bottle. TFTC

Found it. Tftc

I think this was the one with different colours.
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Nice hide

Nice easy find on a great day out. TFTH

Great day for a bike ride and a new track and a good Number of finds . Perfect. TFTC

Good spot

5. day of our 3 month bicycle tour of NZ, and since we are staying a few days in Geraldine, naturally we had to log some caches . Tftc!

Here for the weekend with my wife. This side of the river was much smoother that the other side.

JDScout and I spent a night in Geraldine in our camper van. We put the bikes on the back. I made a pocket query, mostly of this series. Day 2 was just as fun. Thankfully there was lots of shade on this very hot day.
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Thanks for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. 4478

Pleasant walk along mountain bike trail today. TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Nice spot when it's a hot day. TFTC

A quick find while out on the bikes with Kakariki

Shady spot for a sandwich. With cardiffkiwi. TFTC

Sunday morning maintenance ride container replaced cache all good to go

With today dawning fine it was time to get on my MTB and cyclocache my way along some of the various Geraldine MTB trails. Parked at the Western Seaward Road and first headed north up to and over (make that under) SH79 to seek 3 caches north of the SH before heading back to the cachemobile for a spot of morning tea. Once fed and watered it was time to seek out the caches south of Seaward Rd. I didn't quite make it all the way to Vance Rd as boredom and frustration with the poor poor physical state of many of the cache logs set in.

I won't be logging Needs Maintenance logs but will just mention something, where required, of the state of each cache.

Found easily. Retrieved TB 'Riders Tag'. Container was upside down as it has no screw top. Needs maintenance.

On our way to Dunedin.
The plan was to cycle the entire trail but the continuous drizzle and the long wet grass curtailed that.
We did about ten and then went to the Geraldine camping ground to dry out and hunker down for the rest of the day.

Took us a while. GPS very bouncy.
TFTC

Went for an afternoon bike ride along this bank of the river - started at the Bennett Rd access point, rode north to the highway and back, then south to #36 and back, taking the various loops, to find as many of the caches along here as I could. An enjoyable ride with an interesting variety of cache hides, one or two river crossings up to knee depth, and plenty of mud in a few places after the recent rain. Initially the weather was sunny and warm but there were peals of thunder from the hills and later on it rained quite heavily. However I had plenty of wet weather gear so was warm and dry where it mattered. It didn't take long to spot this one. Signed log, TFTC.

A challenging series of caches today with wet grass and a number flooded sections of track to negotiate.
Most of the finds we made today took some time to nail down as our GPS gz seemed to be a way out from where we located many of the caches. The hints were helpful. TFTC

So off I set with the intention of doing both sides of the river today on my bike, the first time I have ridden it since February, paying for that now as I log. Nice track with not many people around, (I think I saw three others in the whole time I were there). Only managed to get up to the bridge and back before having to head home and I were a bit wrecked anyway. Enjoyed my day out all in all with some easy hides along with some more challenging ones. Sorry about the cut and paste. TFTC.

FTF found on a family bike ride. TFTC

Did not find. Time to leave. It's dark and cold

dropped in tb

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