Dublin-Suburb Shortcut (Otago) Kelvin Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand
By KiwiAoraki on 26-Sep-17. Waypoint GC7CWC1

Day twenty of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Staying in Queenstown, with a better weather forecast we took the bike ride, and was ferried up to Arrowtown. A great ride back down, and just a few caches done.Took a bit longer than we thought, but got there eventually.Thanks, Robmc.

Day 20 of our Enzed adventures with Robmc and today we hired e-bikes and rode from Arrowtown to Queenstown in beautiful sunshine still fairly chilly though. The scenery was amazing and the locals were all really friendly. The fellas went out for some groceries and came back with a couple of caches. They found this one nearer to metal post behind corrugated iron.Thanks for contributing to our amazing holiday

Tftc

Found it after reading the hint

Eventually found it! Once you start feeling low, itll show up!

No luck here

thanks for the find

Fruitless search this evening.pretty sure I was looking in the correct location

I am on holiday visiting. It is a wet day. Both local ski mountains have just closed, the Shotover Jet and Dart River jet are closed. The view from our lakeside room is just lake and cloud. Time to go Geocaching.This one took me longer to find than it should. I must be out of practice. As ever, where once fence ends another starts - sort of a metaphor for life generally. TFTC

Grounded it. Thanks. All good.

We didn't find it. I think it fell to the other side of the fence.

Looked everywhere could not find:-( dont think its there

Found in the first spot I looked. Logbook is full

We are down in Queenstown for a couple range showings. One happened to be nearby and on the way to where we were staying for the night we made a wee detour to see if we could find it. After a bit of searching around I came across the hide. Glad to have made a find after the DNFs logged! Thanks for placing KiwiAoraki. Our first find in Queenstown!

DNF... Looks like the Ivy have been cut off and removed... No traces of the cache.....

This was a frustrating one. Climbed up the hill to GZ and started looking. After searching, it was very unclear if the cache had been moved somewhere else or if the cache was in the ivy at GZ. Thanks anyway

26/4/24First cache in NZ on holiday from Australia. Quick find at GZ with help from hint.Logbook is full but managed to squeeze in signature as FTG.TFTC from FTG!

Tough find

Tftc

TFTC

All in excellent condition. TFTC

Visiting from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Nice shortcut to the lake. would not have walked here without the cache location. Great hide, left a couple of Canadian pins. TFTC 18D & L6671

Staying close by. Just dropped out on a lovely afternoon to find this while the others in our group were having an afternoon sleep. Log full wrote on the back.

it had been moved from its spot was put back

TFTC

Had to visit this one -Greetings from Dublin, Ireland Logbook is full We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Day 13 of our roadtrip around the south island with Blue Jay. Today we drove from Queenstown to Omarama taking in Clyde and Cromwell along the way. Beautiful scenery and some nice caches.Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining. TFTC. Toffee Man.

It is our last cache on Queenstown. Tomorrow we are leabinh fot Christchurch. TFTC

Together with our cacher friends oldclemi and maduro10 we are on tour through New Zealand. Yesterday we arrived Queenstows. Today we took a nice walk through the city and the surrounding area and looked for and found many beautiful caches. This cache was one of them, we found in this nice town.To save space, we entered the logbook together with OLDIMA.Many thanks to the owner for this cache and greetings from Germany.

Together with our cacher friends oldclemi and dilkos we are on tour through New Zealand. We log with our sign OLDIMA to save some space on the logbook.Today we visited this cache and signed the logbook. Many thanks to the Owner for creating and maintaining this cache and greetings from Germany.TFTCmaduro10

Gemeinsam im Team oldima (oldclemi ,dilkos, maduro10) gefunden und geloggt. Danke und Gre aus Deutschland.

Been coming here for 15 years and never knew about this sneaky little shortcut. Stunning day for a stroll so thought we'd find a few GZ along the way. TFTC

Could not access due to construction

Not much ivy any more! TFTC

TB OutGeloggt mit c:geo als Chrolimasi oder meist mit CHR ,wenn mglich immer mit Datum oder wie bei wie Nano's/ Platzgrnden/hnliches/ irgendwo dazwischen/ganz hinten im Logbuch.Natrlich spendieren wir gerne ein neues Doserl oder Logzetterl falls zur Hand!Es knnen auch schon mal Einheitslogs vorkommen, wie bei groen Ruden/vielen Dosen oder vielleicht wenn mal nichts erwhnenswertes dabei war.Bitte seid uns deswegen nicht bse!Jeden Owner/in/innen zollen wir natrlich Respekt fr deren Arbeit,auslegen und warten der Caches ,jede einzelne gefundene Dose zaubert uns immer wieder ein neues ins Gesicht und einen auf die Karte!Egal wo auf der Welt,Servus ,Ciao,Hello,Hola .... aus !Und wie immer!TFTC!

The spoiler is not correct, the cache's place has changed a bit. Logbook is full, please provide a new one.

Nice steep climb to the shortcut, with beautiful views. Spoiler is not correct, but if you look around a bit, it's an easy find.Log is full.TFTC!

I am with Muggle on a three and half week trip to NZ. Nothing serious, just the well trodden track every NZ tourist does who is coming from the other side of the world and has not the chance to come here more often. North Island is done, Auckland Coromandel, Rotorua and Wellington touched. Even the South Island is almost done. We arrived in Queenstown yesterday after Motueka, Punakaiki and FJ. Only more stop in Te Anau. But before that we enjoy three nights in this place who has everything to comb the money out of your pocket. Muggle was still sleeping while I indulged myself in the best and cheapest occupation ever. After finding the link between the two streets the box was located without any further complication. The COs were apparently too good Thx for hiding.

Found the geocache, after a couple minutes of picking my own crevices I found it in another one.

Found!! No ivy, cache dry, log full. Quite a hike up the hills, many hills. TFTC.

Thank u it was a Beautiful walk along water front

10:20 odloveno. TFTC!!!

My first cache in New Zealand To all the following geocachers: There's no ivy anymore.

Day 3: QueenstownThe agenda for today for to fly down from Auckland to Queenstown, and cache around the area before heading off to the next stop. This is my second time in Queenstown, and this time, I wanted to visit (and revisit) some of the nicer places in the region, and pick up the new ALs that have sprung up. The weather was pretty good for the most parts, which was a welcome change from Auckland, so things went smoothly despite an early hiccup with the rental car at the airport.(End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for this cache:The road closures meant that we had to go the long way around to get to the cache. But, we got some good views out of it. I searched the wrong patch of ivy at the GZ, but after getting down and dirty for no reason - I changed tack and found the cache. The ivy has all died there, but the cache is still covered. TFTC!

Trouvaille effectue durant notre voyage en Nouvelle-Zlande. Nous avons sjourn dans les villes suivantes: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown et Lake Tekapo. Nous avons crois des gens sympathiques et trs serviables. La nature est formidable. Nous avons observ des paysages magnifiques. Nous en garderons un merveilleux souvenir.La trouvaille de cette cache a agrment notre parcours. Merci **KiwiAoraki** d'avoir plac cette cache. Salutations de la Ville de Qubec, Qubec, Canada.=====================Find made during our trip to New Zealand. We stayed in the following cities: Auckland, National Park, Wellington, Upper Moutere, Greymouth, Franz Joseph, Wanaka, Te Anau, Queenstown and Lake Tekapo. We met friendly and very helpful people. Nature is wonderful. We observed magnificent landscapes. We will keep wonderful memories of it.The find of this cache enhanced our journey. Thank you **KiwiAoraki** for placing this cache.Greetings from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.Archimde & Eureka!12500

Diky

TFTCLog book full btw!

TFTC found within a minute. It was in good condition but needs a new log book which I might replace it thats ok with the CO.

not much ivy

Not much ivy there anymore. First find on this morning’s jog around Queenstown. All good with the hide. Cheers.

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In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.

Very misleading hint but overall a fun cache I would reccomend not listening to the ivy part but fun. TFTC

Ivy misleading but a quick find after a small adjustment. TFTC!

Good find

Logging for 28.03.2023

First one, thanks for the Geocache

I love the smell of fruit

Lots of work to get here with the geography and the construction. As noted by others, the cache is not in ivy and is pretty conventional for the location. If you hurry there might still be some pears in the tree overhanging the trail.

After buying some stuffs from town, decided to walk to this one. Dinner is burned off lol. Anyways, I had to look behind every other ivy to just read one of the previous logs saying there is no ivy where the cache is. Voila!! Cache in hand. Log is pretty full so had to write somwhere I found place. TFTC.

Out and about enjoying the hidden gems of our country.
Out enjoying a beautiful sunny Easter weekend. Neither MrF nor I have work for next 4 days.

Was a bit of a mission to get to this spot but a lovely view and beautiful homes in the area
The log needs to be replaced. I didn't have any that fitted.
TFTC

Nice and simple find. Log needs replacing. Tftc!

Trouvée Easy one if you don’t loose your time looking behind every ivy, as there is no ivy where the cache is ^^

We did really nice walk with Marylou. It took us some time to find it but eventually her dedication was bigger than my lameness. And she found it. And we celebrate. Yay.

This one took me several minutes, but I didn't give up!

A very scenic little shortcut
Second cache my partner has been on and she’s got a keen eye
TFTC

The complete month march I am travelling on both Islands. Christchurch heading south, next the westcoast.
AbelTasman-Wellington-Rotorua-Hahei and finally Auckland.
This was one of the caches I found; thanks for showing me the area.

The logbooklet is 95% full. Action required.

T F T C

This is my southern – most find!

The log is almost full, and should be replaced. Thanks for the hide on a nice quiet sidewalk

TFTC searched for a long time in the wrong side with lots of ivy nearly gave up but turned around and found the cache. Please can KiwiAoraki please update the fact that the ivy is long gone, thanks.

Also, there is 10 cents for the next finder and the traceable is no longer there

TFTC searched for ages on the wrong side. Ivy long gone right near pinpoint, left 10 cents.

No traceable anylonger.

Found by phone torchlight after widening our search, and after a puff up the hill, with MacBayMeri. TFTC.

Nice cache. Greetings from Scotland Tftc
4947#

Easy find after climbing up a steep hill from our hotel. No tb in this as listed Tftc

Had an unexpected overnight trip to Queenstown to take daughter-in-law and grandchildren to their flight. Once everyone was settled for the night before flight, I looked at my map and saw that this cache was just a short walk from where we were staying, so MrMagoo72 and I headed out into the night in search. Although we lived not too far from here for many years, neither of us knew of this shortcut. Headed in through but inexplicably I decided to search the wrong side. Eventually stood back and decided to try something else and there is was. TFTC.

Last cache for the day. A wee grunt up from our accommodation. The logbook is now full. Thanks for helping me work off the fish and chips!
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I am helping out my kids who are doing the Routeburn Track. So I am caching when I can from Christchurch to Queenstown to Glenorchy to Te Anau and then back to Christchurch.
We've had our dinner and went for a stroll afterwards.

Trouve

An easy find for Mr Bb caching solo this morning, on his way up to Queenstown Hill.
The vil has been cut back so the hide is rather exposed but only obvious to a cacher
Signed the log and carefully replaced the cache as found.
TFTC.

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Need a new paper book

TFTC

Fun!

found

Found it tftc

Greetings from FinlandTFTC

Thanks for the cache!Found by Jessie and Alex

Made a slight detour coming down the hill over to this little shortcut.
Initially overshot the mark and rummaged around in the ivy a while, then stepped back and recalled something i'd noticed nearby. Had a look and what do you know, a geocache!
Must a had my geoglasses on to spot the likely hide juust before arriving to play with the ivy.

Thanks KiwiAoraki for showing me this little laneway with a geocache.

Found it! Right near pin location! TFTF

Greetings from the Czech Republic and thanks for the cache.
Díky za keš.
15:01
Moje 4430

So great for a tourist to discover small shortcuts like this one. The cache was not really hidden so I moved the rock a bit to make it less obvious.
Also it shows 2 TBs but only one was inside. I took it although I would have preferred the other one :p
TFTC

Easy. Opposite hint TFTC from Canada Dwamisie. Left some jewels and a couple of TBs.

In Queenstown for a wedding. I ditched muggle husband (no enthusiasm for geocaching), walked up the hill and found the general area.

Hint no longer applies but I found thanks to reading a couple of previous logs.

Thanks for the cache

On my last day in Queenstown, I decided to pick up one last cache before I left. After a steep uphill climb, I made the quick find. Thanks! Some nice views from here.

What a steep parking spot. I hope my handbrake holds. H zoned in for a quick find. Thanks

A nice quick find. Ivy is long gone on this side of the path but a geocaching eye should spot a regularly used camo item. TFTC.

Ok

This was outside our accommodation. Seemed rude not to find it. Couldn't find it first but reading the logs it was soon found.
TFTCKiwiAoraki

Found it the second time, not recommend at night haha

Looked at wrong fence but got there eventually. TFTC