Low Level Insulation (Lake Mahinerangi) Waipori Falls, South Island, New Zealand
By katie w on 04-Dec-16. Waypoint GC6XTHM

Here in the land of the king white cloud to attend the mega in Dunedin. Many thanks to all those involved in the organisation! Today we targeted some of the DT puzzles plus a few unusual caches as extras. Much better weather and some scary roads . Travelling and caching as a group Qld+1. Cheers

Finishing up Mega (GEO TOROA) weekend with a handful of caches up waipori way, Ive been up here over four times in just over a month with the DT series but there was never enough time to log these caches so today was that day while there was time T4TC

This is day four of my Dunedin Mega trip (and IS the actual date of the mega, despite some previous logs to the contrary), the first time I've ever been here before (never mind geocaching). Obviously with such a plethora of caches to find there's going to be plenty I'll skip but I hope to find my targets.Unfortunately logging is going to be generic, but thank you to all the cache owners and event organisers for the things you do.Doing a loop with barefootguru, CrystalFairy and GreenGecko. Logs signed as BBCG.All good here, and thank you to katie w for the placement of your Traditional Cache.Find #7329 at 27 October 2024 2:59pm

Our second long day of the Mega weekend with geofriends from QLD and one from NSW. We had two more friends join us for a couple of days, so our fun group consisted of Bluewattle, chamad, Wollaston, Willis007, kolour, Ardom, Gcoven, BenM70, and all logs were signed as QLD+1.Although the weather was still rather chilly and overcast at times, we all enjoyed the beautiful scenery everywhere we ventured. The majority of caches found were in great condition, easy to find, and a credit to all the CO's that placed them for the benefit of the geocaching community.Apologies for the generic logs, as I rarely log them whilst travelling around the countryside and tend to do them once back at home.

Day 4 of my 6 day trip to Dunedin to attend the Mega and clean up all the puzzle caches solved over the last few years.Todays journey took us to the Mega to meet up with a few cachers and then hit the BT81 series before heading back to Dunedin.Thanks for all the puzzles, caches, find, frustration and enjoyment.Spent the day with BFG, Bruzie and GreenGecko1. Logged at combinations of BBGC.Co-ords out quite a bit but Bruzie found it.

Day 3 of our Dunedin Mega visit. Teamed up with gonefishing for a most enjoyable weekend. Some logs were signed with our separate names, some were signed 'Team bogo' to save space. Today we're heading to Lake Mahinerangi. Enjoyed being out in the countryside.Thanks to everyone involved for putting on a great Mega Event, and also to all the local Cache Owners for placing and maintaining all their caches.Cheers and TFTC

Outnabout with Chamad, Snickersallan, Ardom & Bluewattle on my first ever trip across the ditch. Log signed as QLD+1 to save some space. After a week of caching around Brisbane and at events last month with other Geo friends, I couldnt pass up the opportunity to hop on board for a NZ Mega adventure. Another great day for caching. TFTC katie w

Down in Dunedin for the Mega. Great to be back for another Mega 12 years after NZ's first Mega here in 2012. Finding a few caches with Boxhill and having a few laughs on the way. Today signing some logs as Team BOGO or our individual names.Thanks to the team for putting on a great Mega weekend, and also to all the COs for placing and maintaining the caches.TFTC katie w

Heading south with Heihei, along with most of New Zealands cachers, for the Dunedin Mega.Out for a day of caching with bruzie, CrystalFairy, & GreenGecko1, logs signed as BBCG.Quick find of the interesting container, thanks katie w

A creative cache! Thanks. #10693

A busy Term break so only one day available for caching. Ive always wanted to visit a wind farm so combing this interest and geocaching made for an exciting day trip from Dunedin. After a coffee and scone at Lawrence it was off up into the hills on a blue sky, crisp winters morning. Luckily we had saved the cache information for this area before departing. Log book dripping wet but waterproof paper means it is still signable and intact. TFTCFind count: 2613

Took some searching but I got it. Log soaked in water but able to be wiped / dried and used.

My lovely SO offered to take me out for a drive somewhere so I said how about over to Lake Mahinerangi, haven't been that way for years - he didn't need to guess my geocaching ulterior motive.
Nice unique cache holder. Cold wind biting so glad for a quick find and back to warm truck. Great view of the lake from here. Tftc.

A quick find. I like the use of the cache holder. Fp given.

Dried the log in the sun, replaced rat chewed container. Good to go now.

Great container. TFTC.

Out for a day of exploration with Flamingo4850 and MrMagoo72. Stopped nearby to search for this cache and soon found it. Loved the container. The log was wet, but managed to sign it OK. TFTC.

Found it. Great find.

Excellent title for this one. Unfortunately it was completely full of water and although I attempted to dry it out, my signature is barely there. Needs some TLC.

This was submerged and could probably do with some attention. Difficult to write on.

Found it

Must have been spotted signing the last one. Nice of the CO to walk over for a chat. Thought it was a familiar face walking towards me. TFTC

This is certainly a unique cache container. TFTC.

On a New Years round trip with my No1 who finally had a few days off Caching today in an area out of the way around the lake. Parked up and headed to GZ, found the cache nicely tucked away, yup cool container. tftc

#10,434. I did a bit of a diversion on my way to Invercargill from Dunedin. Yes its the road less travelled to reach that wondrous southern centre of hospitality and sophistication. The lure of some challenge caches and a virtual or 2 pulled me away from the mainstream. Its extremely windy up here today but very warm and sunny. I am from Wellington and even by our standards this wind is up there in the blasting stakes. Hold on to your hats!! Parked close by and made sure the door was not ripped off its hinges. Quick search and yep there is some low level insulation. Signed the logbook and replaced the container where found. Thanks katie w for hiding it here.

Nice day to explore the lake and find some caches.

TFTC in the strong winds

TFTC - heading home from Naseby via Lake Mirhingerangi with NZ Bozzy for some caching fun. Found most of the caches that we wanted today. Thanks for bringing us to this area. Was on my 'bucket' list as I had not been over this way before

Thanks I did like the container. I good reuse of the item. Found with Kiscardi on an afternoon geocatching.

Quickly found at GZ. Tftc

Nicely done. I have some of these in my garage that I Cito-ed from near Wyndham a few years. They even survived the Lockdown cleanout.

After a hectic week we joined up with friends in a batch at Lake Mahinerangi and just had a much needed, weekend. Nicely done here! TF5

Quick grab

Stunning vista from here today. Sun catching remnants of snow on the hills

A long weekend and a crazy week at work with Covid 19 meant a perfect reason to take some time out with Frame Family. Following a quick stop at McArthurs for a fresh berry ice creams we headed towards Mahinerangi.

Took a couple of minutes to locate this one. Great container. Tftc

Needing to get outside for some fresh air, we joined Kerynz et al for a jaunt up to Lake Mahingarangi. Cool “container”. TFTC.

day out with raylnz, first time in this area for about 40 years. tftc.

Grabbed with gbkja easy find on a great day out. Tftc

I decided to visit Lake Mahinerangi and its environs todays and signing off the odd cache or three.

I did get a charge from finding the cache, though.

Cheers for the cache.

This was the only cache in this immediate area we grabbed today, we will leave the others for another day. Quickly found and well created! TFTC [^]

A quick find with dakotacats, cool container too. TFTC

A quick find and a fun container to find as well. TFTC

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.
The route to Dunedin was easily chosen as there was a series of caches to find in this direction. I stayed in the car, being the driver, while SW hopped out to make the find. TFTC.

#17087. Quick find of an outer container in keeping with the cache name. TFTC.

.We are finally at Lake Mahinerangi but its dark so its night cacheing from here on. Thankfully a quick snag and tag here. Cheers

Its Wednesday 24 April and we are off exploring Milburn, Lawrence and Lake Mahinerangi today. Awesome!!

Its another awesome geoventure to Dunedin, with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby, Jack, Jill and William all along for the trip. Had a wonderful 10 days exploring Dunedin. It was great catching up with local cachers at several events we attended. Lots of walking and driving, with the odd cycle and wave ride to jazz things up. Thanks to all the COs that made this trip a wonderful success. Even managed to bag some lab caches along with wherigos, earth caches and events, with the usual mix taking us to some amazing places..

Nice container!

Taybeedragon and I have an eleven day Easter weekend in Dunedin. Although, let's face it, given that we are from Blenheim and Picton that means two of those days was spent in travelling. In that time we grabbed a smidge over three hundred caches. Not bad, considering the amount of time spent way out on the back roads, on bicycles or canoeing on the water. A few virtuals, larges, letterboxes, earths, wherigos, and even ten lab caches in the haul. An awesome weekend!

A quick and easy find. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove from Dunedin to Invercargill with lovely weather most of the day till we reached the south coast.

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

Nice! Tftc

Really liked this one.

A quick find. Great cache. A lovely day for a road trip today. TFTC katie w.

Full log to come

I've only been to Lake Mahinerangi once in my geocaching days, nearly 5 years ago - I remeber it was fairly cold (6/2014). Today I realised the inaccuracy of my fuel gauge and was somewhat anxious about running out before I got home - so decided to go via Highway 87 to Outram - not sure if that way was quicker or not ! This was my last cache of an otherwise enjoyable day.
Thanks for this and your other caches which I have enjoped, katie w.

Found x

WhTs not to love about a caching trip combined with downsouthinv having to deliver parts for work.
Any excuse is a good one, and time to head off the main road into the wilderness to find us some caches.
Had to resort to help (the CO saw us fumbling around),to locate it.
Great to meet you KatieW

TFTC

At last, a free weekend before the onset of chaos. An early morning phone call...'are you able to take xyz up north to a customer?''
There was no excuse not to, quickly chucked clothes on dragged her outta bed raced into work,got parts, and on the road before 8am.
As we drove, the voice from the passenger seat, piped up and said ' look at all these,aren't we going near here?'
Oooh Goody!! Now it's a fun work trip,might be a long day!!!
A quick park and grab on a beautiful afternoon with annielin
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Meet the co and have a chat.
tftc

Out for a Sunday drive to a spot that has been on the explore list for some time. Nice quick find - cool container! TFTC

A quick park and grab on while out about grabbing a few caches to clean out an area of caches. I have never been up here before so it good to say I have been here now. TFTC

Found it with the Chosens and pjjob on our weekend relaxing at lake mahinarangi.

Parked and grabbed for another find on our weekend at Mahinerangi
Looked here and there, and Granville went here it is, again
Tftc

A quick find while exploring the local area, TFTC all in good order

Found with TregearP on a visit back up through the Waipori Gorge. We mountain biked through here in one of the Gold Fields Classic events in the early 2000's.

A little less arduous in a car this time - but very hot in the current heat wave.

All in good order. Signed log and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache.

Very clever! I like finding something out of the ordinary.
Thanks
erninz

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

And the cache is well insulated. TFTC

An interesting container but one that fits the title so well. Log is good and we rehid as found. Found with AorakiSheep

Like jrb5050 we had an audience of cows watching closely what we were doing but unlike jrb5050 we found the log easily. Found with debsnz

I thought I had found the cache container, but couldn't spot a logbook. I'll send a photo to the CO to check that I was in the right spot. Funniest thing was that I was so busy trying to work out whether a log book had been inserted, could be inserted.... that I didn't notice until I looked up that quite a large audience had turned up to watch what I was doing. Funny!

After an early start this morning and then a flight from Auckland we were really looking forward to a weekend of caching in our old stomping ground.
Great views from GZ, coords were out a bit for us and unfortunately we had difficulty accessing the log as it had been jammed in the wrong way, got there with help from some TOTT, TFTC.

Took a short search to find the aptly named cache holder. TFTC

Quick find, with an interesting cache container which fitted in well with the cache name Thanks for the cache katie w Pipedream

From the name I had a pretty good idea of what I would be looking for. I didn't realise that they were as large as that though.

Yep, I've worked out whats causing the noises - there is a bull about 5 meters away in the paddock. please don't decide to run at me... I don't think the fence will stop you...
I'm on a 5 day caching trip in the south island. Have a few aims - right now its to up a few specific caches that I need to complete my grid for a challenge - and find some interesting caches on the way 1800km later I can say I've accomplished my aim!

I was walking towards the GZ when a car towing a boat arrived and stopped, a woman hopped out and walked towards me. Turned out she was going to open the gate beside me... oh, do you know...? Yes, turned out she was visiting. So I explained what I was doing and, after checking all sides of some knee-level insulation, eventually found and signed off the goods. Then who should arrive but the CO, a trifle flustered after being stalked by a local hunk of bull...? Quite a lively place, Mahinerangi!

A quick and easy Park 'n' Grab. Thanks.

Clever! Found with Conbat. TFTC!

Park n grab found with Ice Diva
TftC

Oh now I get it - very good thanks. Nice views out across the dam / lake to the wind farm. TFTC #9935

quick find then on to have a look at the windfarm

Haha, very good. TFTC.

TFTC, found with Us04 and Spydude13

TFTC, found with Us04 and Lollipopcat

Kia ora for the cache. Found with Lollipopcat and Spydude13.

Great ride out via George King Memorial Drive (so I could do some maintenance on one of my own caches) and then over to Mahinerangi. Utterly gorgeous morning. I had a fair idea what I was looking for but at GZ there one or two "live" examples of these things on the fence. Could be a trap for young players! Found what I was looking for but no log! Soon found that the log and pencil had fallen out and were still in the hiding place. All good. TFTC.

A quick easy FTF at 9.35 a.m. A fun cache hidden in a container we have never previously encountered. A favourite from us. TFTC

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