Unmarked roadside picnic area by lake (catlins) Owaka, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 01-Jan-19. Waypoint GC81ZYZ

Found a spot to park that didn't require me to land in a puddle, there are several places that the hint fits but eventually found the right one, tftc

Checked a couple of places first, a bit of rubbish but soon found the hide here, TFTC

12:55FITW ObnoxiousSpaceCatA fairly fast flowing lake today Nice to find a regular sized container.Quick roadside stop before going to the (NZ geocaching) world famous Table Hill.Kia ora! Paldies! Thanks for the cache, Natalie247!#11494

Found with ivss_xx. Took a wee second to spot.

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC81ZYZ Unmarked roadside picnic area by lake (catlins)Traditional Regular26 Oct 2024T12:01:36 NZDTTFTC Natalie247Heading south with Heihei, along with most of New Zealands cachers, for the Dunedin Mega.Today is Heiheis day were off to the Catlins.Heihei is driving and pulled in here so cache time Instant find.

Tftc! Cool Trinkets

Needed a rest, stop and almost pulled right up to the cash

On my knees to find this one! Nice cache!

Nice spot. All dry in the box. TFTC

Found it

found it

Found this one on my cycling trip around the island.TFTC

Quick stop whilst visiting customers in the Catlins for the day. Thanks for the cache!

This took FOREVER and I absolutely never would have found it if it wasnt for the hint!

A quick stop find,tftc.

Public toilet.Tftc.

Trouve ! / Found it ! Sur la route vers Dunedin 4807me cache trouve.Merci Natalie247 pour la cache On the road to Dunedin 4807th cache found.Thank you Natalie247 for the cache

Found it super cool!

Cool

DNF

Had a good look, but no luck with this one.

Didn't want to dig around too much as there was some rubbish around. First dnf for today

Nice find well hid

Great hiding spot

Found it, but think it's with another further up the road. Book was wet, I'm passing back though in a couple of weeks I'll try remember to bring a new bag. Second find ever, and first for 2024.

No luck for us at GZ

Day 5: The CatlinsOur journey today took us down to the Catlins for a whirlwind tour of all the sights we could squeeze into a day trip. Of course, there were geocaches to be had too, plus plenty of photos and sightseeing. Thankfully the weather held up for most parts today, so we could enjoy all the great scenery and the geocaches as well!(end of the cut and paste bit)I am happy to report that the picnic area is now marked with a sign, so we didnt have any trouble trying to find the GZ. The GZ had quite a few hosts and many plants, so it was a struggle getting to the cache. But, thanks for another diversion! TFTC!

Tftc nice place much traffic.

Quick find on the way past. Thanks for the cache!

A quick find here today while travelling around the district finding a few caches. TFTC

The big box was quickly found.

Our second find on our visit to the Catlins today. Another good sized cache, found reasonably quickly thanks to the hint. TFTC Natalie247.

One of 10 caches (not including a local Ad Lab) we located today in driving around The Catlins. Made hard work of finding this one. There seemed to be several hint objects from which to choose. The ones closest to GZ (as per the coords on my iPhone) didn’t yield the cache. After reading through a few logs I searched a little further away and found it fairly quickly. My coords were showing 7m away at that point which, I guess, is possibly within the “margin of error”. #6057. TFTC.

Yay! TFTC! I came all the way from Vancouver BC Canada to find this cache Thanks for being part of the adventure!

Found

Wasn’t too shabby

About 15 meters from GZ

During our short search for this one it started raining heavily, so we got quite wet...

We almost overshot this small unmarked picnic area. Finding it took a while, I followed what appeared to be a geotrail a few steps into the bush and floundered around in there for quite a while. In the end posted a DNF on my GPS. Then one last wander along the mown grass edge before getting back in our car and there it was only partly covered and easily spotted at the edge of the grass. Attempted to cover a little better to keep out of full view. Thanks Natalie247 for this hard earned smiley!

No problems finding this one. In fact it just lay in plain sight as we got up to GZ. We tucked it back in a bit more concealed. Thanks for placing this cache.

In the area doing the Penguin AdLab, and heading down to Invercargill for the night, to go over to Stewart Island to complete the PWGT... thought I'd stop and grab this too, as I think it will help with GC9RQ1G. Had no issues making a find here.

TFTC Natalie247, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 10 find(s) of 14 today, making this find #3763

Nice hunt

Cachendash after a hailstorm.
Nice palindromic date as well.
Tftc

On the way to Papatowai. TFTC

Tftc

TFTC

I'm doing a road trip through Southland. Today's leg is from Dunedin to Invercargill by way of the Catlins and Bluff. Old School Challenge caches are the focus of the trip, but there's a few others to look for along the way as well. This was a nice spot to stop and eat the tasty lunch I brought from the 4 square in Owaka. TFTC

Found with VDH56 on a trip south.

3rd stop for the day, slowly warming up. Found this easy enough with P&Vee. TFTC

Spotted it as we approached, so left it a little more covered. The hint is really good anyway.
We left a pet- a butterfly.
Thanks for putting this here

Quite a nice few along here.

Turn around and head back home. TFTC

Nice area

Quick easy find and cache nice and dry. Cords on the phone were a bit out but that could be the phone. TFTC

Signed this between showers. Tftc

#20715. Another quick drive by. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ as we travel from Dunedin to Invercargill.
The closest picnic table looked a bit worse for wear, didn't look at the other one so hopefully it was in better repair. A quickish find of another good sized cache. TFTC.

A nice place for a picnic

A great place for a late picnic lunch.
This cache was found on our second summer campervan trip. JDScout and I plan to do three this summer. This trip is from Christchurch to Bannockburn to the Catlins and back.

Thanks for hiding this cache Natalie247 I appreciate it. It has helped add an extra layer of fun in our holiday.

Nice cache at the nice rest area! That was an easy find - just what our kids were after
Thanks for the cache!

#10,374. Carrying on in my exploration of the Catlins. Overshot this picnic area so had to back track. There are several objects here that match with the hint. I checked out two others before finding the cache in the third spot. All nice and secure. Rescued a trackable. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks Natalie247 for pointing out this not roadside rest stop.

Out & about to the East of the Great NZ Niagara Falls NZMCA Park.

No plants there anymore.

In: TB..

Cheers for the cache.

Cunning. Tftc.

Quick find thanks

22 October 2021 4:22 pm quick find o the way to the Whistling Frog. Tftc Natalie247

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Cache 712 more ducks at this stop than the birdwatching stop maybe cause there is more shelter here today, super quick park and grab in excellent condition T4TC

I'm sure I've stopped here before but always nice to stop for another smiley, especially when it's a quick find

Late log, found during Easter adventure in Catlins, with Grandson. TFTC

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TFTC

Day 12 of SI roadtrip, quick park and grab. TFTC.

Mrs Hazzer and I went on a roadie to collect some souvenirs, seeing as we can't travel to these places in real life currently we made the most of our own backyard instead. After a few cuts and scratches and just as we were about to flag it, Mrs Hazzer came across it. TFTC

Looked in the first likely place then moved in a bit further but back to original area. Leant on a rotten branch which broke & Lo & behold what did I spy. How did we miss that the first time around??? TFTC

After scratching around for a bit I finally located the container all good signed and replaced as found thanks

A convenient spot to pull over for something to eat as Owaka didn't have anything. Thanks for the cache natalie247

A low-terrain Waitangi weekend excursion to the Catlins. Took a while to find this one - the GPS led us into the trees which is an area used for drinking and toileting... yuk... Then sticking to the roadside, a bit away from GZ, checked what fitted the hint, under trimmed branches and rotten logs. Then felt we couldn't leave the rubbish so cleaned up what bottles we could find and took them away.

Great spot

Tftc! Found with josh

TFTC quick find great views

Quick snag and tag here on the way past. Cheers.

Tuesday 10 November. We are camped out in Owaka. Its exploring Nugget Point, Kaka Point and up towards Balclutha today. Then Moving Zara along to Balclutha later today. Lets move!

Toby, Zara and I are on a 3 week geo adventure of Cromwell, Southland, Catlins, Balclutha with a day in Dunedin and quick stop in Timaru. With Lenny, my trusty navigator and TBD my companion/mascot. we managed to visit lots of green boxes, now happy faces with the odd sad one. Did some LABs , earth caches, virtuals and wherigos, all chucked into the mix to rack up 500 odd caches. Lots of kilometers, lots of exploring and lots of fun. Thanks to all COs for our wonderful experience.

Took a while. Tree trimming taken place and made cache harder to reach. TFTC

Found it. Tftc

On an adventure around kaka point. Catching some friends and caches on the way. Thanks to all the cache keepers.

Day 14 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

I haven't been this far south since my very first visit to NZ back in 1988, and have never visited the Catlins before but had heard so many good things about it that decided I would put that right this trip. Having spent last night near Ahuriri Flat, today's plan was to meander my way through loads of sightseeing (and caching) opportunities to end up in Invercargill by nightfall. For the first time on my whole trip, I wasn't to get brilliant sunshine all day long but considering the time of year I was still being very fortunate.

It was still early(ish) when I pulled up at this cache. This was effectively a quick park n grab for me and I was happy to see that there was no-one else around to bother me as I conducted my search. I found the cache with little fuss. There were no issues with the container or log, which was signed before everything was replaced exactly as found and I was back on my way towards some waterfalls

Thanks for placing this cache.

A weekend down the Catlins with KJR to find a few caches in the area this was one of the ones we got ?? TFTC

Nice quick park and grab here as I make my way through the beautiful Catlins today. TFTC # 15,453

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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.

A quick easy find in this picnic area. No sign at it, but there was a 400m warning sign. TFTC

Found it TFTC

Took TB

Found with dakotacats while caching in the area. TFTC

Check on the way down to the event. All in good condition.

Found with 4Clubs under the NOT DEAD AFTERALL tree! A quick find and dropped off a TB to continue its journey. TFTC

Finally found after first discovering I lost car keys, after frantic search found under seat.

On an awesome adventure with KGS in the Catlins today! It involved a 36km detour in each direction, but we had a great time and found lots of caches in spite of suboptimal coffee supply. Great spot, TFTC!!

Great day caching with Hinemoana! This day was one of our least crazy !

On our way home from the falls, quick stop and sign. Mama spotted this one first!! Salamat!