Entrance to Millenium Track (Otago) Beaumont, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 28-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6R1E4

Cache removed due to upcoming roadworks.

On our first bike trail Gathering a few caches on the way. Clutha gold is certainly priceless.

Heading southeast from Roxburgh in my cachemobile locating caches that I wouldn't be able to stop at with my snail shell on behind.

Camoflaged with cobwebs.

Cheers for the cache.

Wahoo the new bridge is coming https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/work-beaumont-bridge-start-end-year

Now based on the area of work in and around the area I know the area this cache has been placed will be impacted by the works - so I am going to remove this cache this weekend.

Had avoided this one a few times for different reasons one being I would need more height to get to it. Today pleasantly surprised that I could reach (with my small step). tftc Nat

TFTC had to download and use the hint good hide

Found it

Quick find on a day trip to Lawrence. TFTC!

Can't access info but still managed to find with accurate GPS

found. In the area to do the Clutha Gold Cycle trail. Awesome area of NZ.

Speedy find on our way back to Dunedin. Tftc!

Second time lucky well camouflaged eagle eyed mum found it

Will return when I go downloaded as no coverage at the spot

Quick find during a morning tea stop. No one around today- usually see heaps of cars when passing here

Returned to find this, after failing a few weeks ago. Finally found the well-camoflaged cache but could not reach it, so had to ask a taller person to help - returned it to a slightly lower position, where I think it may have been originally. TFTC.

Second time lucky. Stoked we found it . Tftc

There is multiple birds nests so we didn’t go too close

4th time for this one finally....................

On our way back from a trip to Alexandra decided to see if we could find this elusive cache with P&Vee and Gd Juliet. Claimed her as our good luck charm.
4th time lucky. TFTC

Wish I'd brought my glasses for this wee one.

Quick find. TFTC.

Placed to blend in - funny! TFTC.

For information on Geocaching during Covid19 in New Zealand please visit www.wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/New+Zealand .

Note: geocaching is not allowed under Level 3 or 4.

Please note, not everyone logs as they go, so please approach this cache as if it has just been found, take care and keep up good social distancing and hand hygiene.

As the country enters a 4 week lockdown, it is strongly recommend that whilst we go for a walk for exercise, we need to take care on shared surfaces by avoiding them (this includes cache containers).... to remove temptation, I am disabling this cache. Remember there is more than physically finding a cache, there are plenty of puzzle caches you can do at home. For more info or connect with wider community see Geocaching New Zealand on Facebook.
Stay home, stay safe and save lives.

Found one here a few years back. Nice easy find.

Took me a while to spot but it shouldn't have!

TFTC

Quick find while waiting for friends to arrive on the Clutha Gold Trail.

Found with Adrift

With Malinki, while waiting for bikes

Apologies for the late logging and cut 'n' paste but now Mr & Mrs Castoff are back in the UK at the same time we're catching up on the Geocaching adventures. We took hundreds of photographs but were too busy looking at stunning scenery across NSW and New Zealand to make copious notes. SL. TFTC.

Found with nomunomad. TFTC

Happy to find there was a cache here as we all needed a car stop on our way to Queenstown. A little apprehensive with the amount of evidence of creepy crawlers but using the hint and some common sense meant we could quickly locate the cache and some welcome distraction. TFTC

Easy find while reading the information board. Thanks

Tiny but fun to find!!! Look hard

Headed out today to pick off a bunch of caches alongside the mighty Clutha, as part of a last-minute effort to grab the final souvenir for the Museum challenge. Just as I found the cache, a pair of muggles with rather loud speakers in their car apparently decided to swing by and have a rest stop. I wasn't too bothered, I took the cache aside and signed it out of sight, then waited until they'd gone to stop pretending to be a tourist and put the cache away. Cheers!

Found with RowenaD on a mystery at the museum series jaunt. Looking very wet around here today. Tftc

On a caching day trip with Central Otago Hilton

On the way home from Queenstown.
Quick find. Tftc

On the way back to Roxburgh from Lawrence, we stopped here for another look. A fresh set of eyes saw what others did not. Log signed, cache returned as found. tftc

Having ridden our e-bikes from here to Miller's Flat and back on an overcast Autumn day, the sun came out just as we arrived back at the car park so I grabbed this one while Mrs KC went back a little to get some pix of the river in the sunshine. (So much better than the earlier ones).

Hate these nanos -- difficult to get the log out, even more difficult to replace log, but I guess that nothing else will work in a place like this.

TNLN. TFTC.

Empty the geo dogs and gained a geocache all in one spot

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 8 of our extended Easter break, today we are travelling from Clyde to Dunedin via Lake Mahinerangi on a beautiful Anzac day.
We pulled into the parking area and had an Anzac biscuit for morning tea, then strolled over to GZ. Nicely timed, as found the cache in Mrs Daywalk's hands, so quick find . Good to catch up before continuing on our journey. TFTC.

#17065. Paper work was quickly done, as daywalk had cache in hand when we arrived. Good to catch uo for a chat before we headed off in opposite directions. TFTC.

Found on a sunny ANZAC day cruise.

At last! We unpacked the bikes, scurried over, ther it is! An instant find! And then a call from across the car park, have you found it yet? Troodles and Streetwalker just in time to share the signing and a short chat. Then they left to go to the OPQ Battery and we biked off to do some cache maintenance at the Teviot Woolshed.

Over here today for a quick bike ride to Lawrence- had previously looked and not found so pretty determined today.
TFTC Natalie and a quick find

New one in place in bottom corner of roof. Please put back as found.
Passing by this cache as I headed to Alex to go to some maintenance on discovering gold, then the plan was to go back home via clydevale to check on some of those caches on the trail.

Was just about to fly past this cache site when i suddenly demanded to try this one for the third time as the caches have been missing. So glad to tick this one off finally today and the second blue face resoled today also. TFTC Natalie247

Wow tiny container! Found with Conbat. TFTC!

Guarded by a family of nesting blackbirds
Found with Ice Diva
TftC

Tftc

Quick pick and grab!

Poked and prodded with HarrisGang5 but no find for us.

Found this with dakotacats whilst in the area caching for the day. TFTC

This one we did not find on a cycle ride down the Clutha Gold Trail Roxburgh to Lawrence. A lovely ride with vistas of the Clutha River, the soft spring green growth on the willows and snow on the tops TFTC

Quick find, by this stage we are just doing left hand side PnGs only, so all good here. TFTC Natalie247.

Day three of a week on the road, Wanaka to Dunedin.
As we had a late arrival into Wanaka the previous night, it would be a shame to leave this town without checking out the views. So a cool morning and a walk around the waterfront to get some caches and photo ops, then after that a visit to Puzzle World, where Jo has never been.
After that, our targets were pretty loose - three caches around Roxburgh (one DNF), and a couple of others on the way there. Then, once we had made contact with the family and had rendezvous details for Dunedin we grabbed some PnGs on the way - just ones our side of the road worked well as a plan and got us to Dunners on time.
Got into our excellent digs, settled in with a walk round the neighbourhood and caught up on gossip. TFTC to all COs of the caches we found on the way.

T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C
---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
-- AR9ZB7

Gosh tiny as...nearly gave up, but satisfaction. Good hide

A quick park and grab home from Alexandria picking up a cache or two.
After A early morning start to pick up the younger geo Kids at a camp.
A road trip was in order .
So off we go let,s see where we end up . Annielin in the navigators seat calling the shots with a let's go this way and then let's go that.
A in order nice and dry
tftc

On the way back home to collect geokids from a camp... it's been great! .. adult time!!!
Sitting in the navigator's seat, telling downsouthinv where to go, what more could a girl ask for!!

Thank you to dakotacats for dropping of a new container for me.

Replaced missing container for the CO and signed the log as I did so.

Will check on it soon.

Sorry Natalie but after you giving me the location and 5 of us looking I really think the cache is missing.

Had a really decent look for this one and we are certain it ain't there. It may be way up high but it certainly isn't where it should be.

Many thanks to all the COs who helped make our geocaching holiday a great success
We left home early April and returned 21 May 2018. We toured from our home base up to a wedding in North Taranaki then carried on heading south right down through wellington and on down the west coast and back up via the eastern side of the alps some times going around in circles. Our aim was to get as many smiley faces on the puzzle caches that we had solved but of course stopping for many traditionals, multies and others as we went. some time we biked the bike trails or walked but mostly by campervan. we enjoyed the quite back country roads, many of them were metal but we just travelled along slowly going from cache to cache. Most caches were in good condition and I will remark if we thought it needs maintence etc.

Mr D kindly allowed Mrs D one last try at this one on our way back home. Result: very dirty fingers from poking them right down into the gaps, but no cache.

Mrs D was driving, so we parked here 'just for a quick look'... poked fingers in every corner... oh, the frustration!

Still looking under the Green Umbrella!

No luck today despite 4 lot of eyes looking.

This was a good one.. Havnt seen one this small before.

Tftc
On a holiday trip in New Zealand was looking for a few geocaches places were beautiful and great thanks

What a relief to finally get a find today!

Stopped to change drivers - can we have a fast look for this cache? We did a quick once-over of usual spots, collected lots of spiderwebs but no cache today.

A bit of a search, but it was found and then some fun was had as we extracted it. A New log roll was added (nice one TT) as it was needed for our group to be able to sign log
Tftc - nanos are a .... in the .... lol

This one had us scratching our heads. We did the standard once over... then back over... then a more thorough search ensued. We hoisted others up to get a better view point, poked fingers into nooks and crannies a little deeper, and checked out another nearby feature. I'd just finished saying "nope, let's move on" when the cache was found.

This one had us literally scratching our heads for about 15 minutes. Too many spiders around for my liking, poking fingers into hidey holes. About to give up, and i heard something, and voila cache in hand. Log book was full... luckily i had a spare in the wallet, hope the CO doesn't mind that i swapped it.

Smallest one yet! TFTC

Needed to boost up one of the chicks but his young eyes spotted this! Log appears to be full so need a new one

Waited for a muggle family to move on (fancy using the picnic tables) then Bitsprayer made the find, admist my groaning about nanos being the bain of my life, he had it out and undone.
Thanks
erninz

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

Not for me today.

Neither "umbrella" is green, so I checked both. The brown one I could just reach the corners, but the cream one was way beyond my reach. Depending which structure (maybe even for the lower one), a large number of people will need something to stand on to reach. Not 1.5 star terrain.

Tftc

Took a lovely weekend drive up through Heriot and Beaumont, before following the Clutha river down to Clydevale and heading home. We enjoyed all the caches we did on the way, thanks for the hide

Quick easy find. Remember finding another cache in this area. TFTC

Quick find while waiting for the lights to change.

A quick park and grab.
TFTC

Yep, missed it completely. Note to self - let your fingers do the walking and don't try the hardest places first. Relieved to finally find the little one. *5 spaces left on the logstrip*. Thanks for bringing us here for the cache.
The road to Awesome is closed until further notice. Another excuse to come back.

I was keen to locate this cache after not finding last time completely my fault as I had the totally wrong hint fixed in my head and searched the wrong place... this time with a hint correctly in my head it was a quick find and so it was quickly signed and replaced. I took nothing and left nothing. Thank you for this cache and another face.

I believe this cache is ok following heavy rainfall over last 48 hrs, however roads in the area have been affected. A state of Emergency is still in place - for upto date info on roads go to www.dunedin.govt.nz/road-conditions
A large portion of my caches have been in affected area and I am currently through work/voluenteering have to focus on other post flooding activities.
As I expect it will be at least 1 week until I can do effective maintenance runs to check and replace caches I apologise now if you were hoping to claim this for a dot day/Mary Hyde gold and it is not in its expected state.
I would be grateful for any comments on what needs to be done and help empty water and provide dry logs.

Lots of spider webs. I don't like spiders.

The strange sounding hint became obvious when we arrived, and the cache was a quick easy find, with some interesting history to read. TFTC

Ooops red light and parked behind a cop. Think we will come back for this one another day. Thanks for placing them, when we can grab them that is. Next time.

Staying at Miller's Flat Campground. Now the weather has cleared we decided to do a drive down the Millennium Track road to Beaumont , drive along the main highway to Miller's Flat & collect a few caches along the way to add to our holiday talley. Thanks to the cache owners for placing caches along the way. The Clutha is certainly "awesome "

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. Signed G8 on the log TFTC

Found while cycling the Clutha Gold trail from Roxburgh to Beaumont. One of the cycling guides got keen on helping me find geocaches today and together we found it, thanks.

Out for a day catching up on some finds . TFTC

All quiet here at the moment, only one other car in the carpark.

The carpark was full when we arrived today. But it turned out a couple of the vehicles were the support crew/baggage carrier for a group of bikers. Some arrived at the same time as us looking for their lunch but luckily decided to bike over the bridge to have a look at Beaumont while waiting for others to arrive. Quite a tricky one to spot. TFTC #9956