OTD 13 November Aramoana Memorial (Otago) Aramoana, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 13-Nov-20. Waypoint GC93KPX

Pprime, Fangsoki and I were in the area to walk in the wetlands and decided to check this cache.It was a quick find. The reason for the memorial is so sad.TFTC Natalie247

I remember this as a young fella, quite a shock to hear about. Cheers, time for a walk along the mole.

Accio 14:31:17Over the ditch for the Dunedin Mega for my first visit to South Island with Crew 153 and Fangsoki. And already Day three. Today we are driving a big loop west. Still raining, but not as much as yesterday. Once we got out here, it was a quick find at GZ.Thanks Natalie247 for entertaining me at this location. *{Overall find #12825}*

Crew 153, Pprime, and I pulled up for this one next.I was a very tired lad by this point. We arrived at GZ and thankfully found the cache safe and sound. We signed the log and returned it to its home.A great little area out here. I've been to Dunedin several times - but never out here. TFTC Natalie247

MEGA WEEKEND CACHINGJoint find with DownsouthInv, Annielin, Wombats_4, MrandMrsFraggle, MrsHazzar, Abbykitt and KNCN (together the group is known as SRT, Southern Raiders and all logs were signed with that name to save space and save time) busy busy day for the group from the south, but enough time to clean up some more solves/caches T4TC PS sorry for the gereric logs so many caches to do so little time

Fantastic to find this on a gorgeous day hunting for caches. Left a buff for anyone whos keen on geocaching attire. Tftc

Out and about starting in Aramoana today, heading back towards Dunedin and the mega tomorrow. It's a beautifully sunny day and we are enjoying the weather and the wildlife as we go. Tftc!

Up from the South to the Geo Toroa Mega long weekend extravaganza! The Friday a big caching day for our group..the Southern Raiders Team (SRT). With the weather looking ominous for the Saturday BUT good for catching up with friends and fellow cachers met over in Australian Megas for the opening day. So much fun today bumping into likewise happy cachers. Generic logs but behind them a much appreciated thankyou to the COs and peeps involved in the weekend of fun ??

Up early to make the most of a beautiful day..Time to explore and see were we end up .First up some of the D/T series. And now some of the albatross. This was a nice bonus to the trip On our way to Arowmowana Love this one nice quick find Thank to the co This was one of our targets for to day let's goo and have so.e funnn Up for the Dunedin Toroa meg and a whole lot of czching fun, time to explore and meet new friends. With Annielin and Abbykitt and mrshazzer and TDRONSFIELD, wombat4, MrandMrsFraggle. Grab this one on the way past ????????????????????????????Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow , theres no hill to high or valley to low , so let's goooo and have as much fun and adventures as possible tomorrow may never come and we never know what tomorrow may hold for us all just do it ????????????????????????????Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns , lets just go for it .Thanks for the hide ??tftc

In Dunedin for the Geo Toroa Mega Weekend with AbbyKitt,MrsHazzer, MrandMrsFraggle & Downsouthinv. Great day to get out,meet a gazillion of like minded people and see more of our country. Southern Raiders Team or SRT

Out and about enjoying the gems of our country Here enjoying our first ever Mega, in Dunedin. Meeting lots of people, some are familiar, most are not Getting out and discovering new places and putting more smilies on my map with AnnieLin, AbbyKitt, MrsHazzer, DownSouthInv, wombats4, KNCN, and Tdronsfield aka Southern Raiders Team (SRT)

In Dunedin for the mega event for the weekend. Found with annielin, Mrs hazzer, mrs&mrfraggle, wombats, KNCN and downsouthinv as southern raiders term. Tftc

Up for the mega weekend. Signed logs as SRT southern raiders team. TFTLB

Found with annielin, Mrs hazzer, mrs&mrfraggle, wombats, KNCN and downsouthinv as southern raiders term.Tftc

I remember well learning of the shocking news of this event. As a nation, we have had far too many of these occurrences.This was my first ever visit to Aramoana and, unfortunately, it was raining which upset my caching plans. Being able to park close to this cache site, I was able to quickly find the treasure and return to my car to take care of the paperwork. Then it was a quick dash to put it back without me getting too wet.

Easy find while out and about

I spent the day in the Port Chalmers area with my local muggle friend. We also went to Aramoana. A quick find, logbook signed and replaced. Tftc

Decided to drive out to Aramoana and tick off a few caches. Parked under the shade of a large nearby tree and walked to GZ. Easy find. TFTC Natalie.

TFTC! First to find with the new logbook took the little trackable with us back to Northland. Found with DS

Nee container in place. 1.5m to right of rock with plaque as facing plaque standing next to seat

Coordinates changed from:S 45 46.722 E 170 42.478Coordinates changed to:S 45 46.723 E 170 42.482Distance from original: 18.0 feet or 5.5 meters.Cache moved as plants were removed

Due to accident I am unable to get to the location to check on the cache until late October.

Found the shreds but not the logbook. Will log as found but feel free to delete.

Needs to be replaced and probably moved as well

TFTC, what a dreadful event. Beautiful memorial.

The cache area has recently been weedwacked and the container has been shattered.

Log book and container remains are hidden again but will need replacing

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Found after spending the afternoon in the area. I saw lots of fur seals and a few penguins as well! TFTC

Was a bit of a scramble but found it eventually!

Redco5 and i decided to explore the northern coast of the harbour starting at Port Chalmers.

We decided to drive to this one as the carparking was taken up for the 2 puzzles on the way.

Cheers for the cache.

I went to retrieve the Charm Bracelet trackable but it wasn’t in the cache

Found the hint object after a bit of a scramble. Thanks for the info re the Aramoana tragedy. This was a tragic day for NZ and hard to believe in such a beautiful place. RIP. Picked up a TB to continue its travels. TFTC

In the area getting some caches for a challenge. A letterbox was one of my target caches. All good. Thanks

Was out and about with dakotacats and whiskasnz and we stopped off here for dakotacats to unload a couple of TBs she has been holding onto for ages...she only found one in the bottom of her caching bag. At least one has been released back into the wild! TFTC

Out for a drive and stopped off to grab this one and also drop off a TB which has been sitting in the bottom of my bad for far too long. Tftc

Out for the afternoon in the sun after days of rain!! Parked nearby and after finding the cache walked along the beach. Tftc.

Came to pay respects to those that passed on November 13th 1990. Beautiful memorial. Tftc

Thanks for history, with rustynz

With rebel98 on a whirlwind overnight stay in Dunedin

A sad day in history.

Our first visit to this side of the harbour, picked the perfect day to come and explore.

Thanks Natalie247 for the history and the hide.

I picked up the TB for some North Island adventures

Found it as the wind got up on our day out at Aramoana.

Took a wander to the memorial after finding the letterbox. A tragic day in NZ history. I remember being glued to the tv and radio hoping he would be caught. A selfish act. I wish the families well.
Thanks for bringing us here.
#7835

This was the last night Jude_E and I stayed in Dunedin tonight. I dropped off a travel bug here. I remember that crime. At that time I thought only that sort of stuff happened in USA , UK or Europe. Sadly not, what a nice memorial.
Thanks for hiding this cache Natalie247 I appreciate it.

Best thing to do before breakfast is go find the nearest cache.

In this case it was a letterbox!

Much calmer seas out here today than yesterday!

Thanks for the letterbox!

Out on a "Fun Friday" mission with BCD.
Beautiful autumn day and after our yummy fish n chips lunch at Port it was time to head to Aramoana. Quick find here and then off down the Mole. I remember this tragic day well. RIP to the 13 ones taken that day TFTC Natalie247

Fun friday" mission with KJR..after a nice fush and chups lunch we headed down the road to aramoana ..
Time for a wee bit of a wander..great day for it..cache was a quick find..picked up tb

A nice quick find thanks.

Ms_KR and I are on a wee South Island break. A cruise today from Glenavy to Dunedin, with good conditions all day!

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

Never been to Aramoana before, of course know about it due to the incident that happened here and also the protests that happened here in the late 70's. I still have some of the stamps that were issued as part of that somewhere in an album.

After spending a while at the beach for a DNF, called by to pick up a few caches before heading back to Dunedin. This was the first and made a quick find once realising where to look. Dropped a TB that we have had for a while. TFTC.

Thanks Natalie247 for the letterbox cache. Lovely day for a drive out here. There was quite a crowd having a swim nearby and it looked very tempting. Picking up some caches today for the caching licence challenge. So pleased to find this one.

Quick find on the way to paying our respects at the memorial. TFTC!

On a wet & windy day stopped to pay our respects. Everyone old enough remembers where they were when they heard about this horrific event.

I was in a taxi to Nelson after docking in the port.

Tftc

A nice quiet find on a windy, drizzly day. TFTC

Loved the flowers here and had a nice look at the beach.

Thanks for the cache, Natalie247!

Malinkaly and I went out on a hunt today to reach the top of Kilimanjaro, focusing on mystery caches. Our last stop - a bit of a chance to teach Malinkaly a bit about letterbox hybrid caches, at least from my point of view. It didn't take Malinkaly long to track the cache down - in fact, it took me longer to go back to the car and get my letterbox hybrid logsheet. Thanks for this tribute cache. Cheers!

Caching whilst working how lucky.

Peaceful day today. Nice to sit and reflect. TFTC

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A great idea for a cache series. It was rather sobering being out here learning more about what happened on that day.

Out here paying our respects. So haunting!

I have found a couple of caches here in the past and it's always nice to return. A fitting memorial in an idyllic spot.

We’re new to NZ so this was an event that was unknown to us, but a beautiful tribute, and relatively straightforward to find cache

I felt like a little drive before heading back to town for dinner, and since I was already in the right area, it made sense (to me at least) to come out all the way here. It was freezing when I got out of the car and getting dark, so all I did is found this one and the AL, and admired the view from the car until it got completely dark. TFTC!!

Thank you. All cleaned up and dried out.

Today we went on a mission to avoid cabin fever- another foggy rainy day- and Aramoana was the target. The memorial there is always poignant, I too remember that night well, and see that many have added contributions to the original memorial now. Thanks for placing this.

Quick find. Resorted to hint to save the plants from my elephant feet.

I found the hint object and there was the cache on its side with the contents spilling out. Log book was still in its bag with no scribbling in it. Replaced everything I saw back into the container and tucked it down into the ivy where it isn't very visible. There is quite an obvious track to the hint object.

No issues with finding this one. Enjoyed a walk out to almost the end of the mole (blocked by sea lion near the end) and along the beach. Dropped TB. Tftc

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Another good cache found with woolwood9.
We soon had the container located. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
*Thanks for putting this cache out for us to visit*

Nice location to come back to, thanks for the reason Natalie247.

TfTC nice hide so much hystory here

A day out exploring around Aramoana and paid a visit to this memorial nearby. Then had a quick look for this cache and soon had it in hand. Found with Flamingo4850. TFTC.

Biked out from town to make the most of the warm summer day. Explored a path that we'd never had time to explore before, watched the surfers enjoying the break, picnic lunch at the arboretum, exchanged books at the Lilliput library. Had planned to find one cache towards that 4 each calendar day challenge by Troodles, so this was it. An appropriate choice of hiding place (a 1 litre size). Have vivid memories of that day. If only the gun laws had been changed after that...

A quick easy find with JuJu54 by the memorial for this tragedy which we remember well. TFTC

Remember this day well, so sad for everyone involved and a shock to the whole community. Nice to remember it with a cache. Found with WEKA today TFTC

25 January 2021 12:57. Number 9154. I wasn't in New Zealand when this happened, but I remember hearing about it off and on over the years. Paused for a moment to reflect on so much potential lost that day. Tftc

I remember this shooting - feeling horrified and sad for the victims and their families. I also remember seeing the smoke/tear gas on television during the live recording of the siege.

Having a short trip from Invercargill to Christchurch with Infoferret finding lots of caches, in particular the TMGT caches for me.
The cache may be signed with our individual names or ‘IE’.
Many TFTC.

Went away for a camping trip / tiki tour of the lower South Island with our 6 week old boy, and 4yo daughter.
Was planning on mainly doing the Kiwi Guardians adventures for the 4yo, but obviously there were a few caches about too, so found those where they were around!
TFTC!!

Quick found during nice Sunday walk with my muggle partner David.

Out with P&vee grabbing the new caches since I was here last. Great day to walk around. All good here. TFTC Natalie247

Last for the day for me before a walk along the Mole.

Great little find. TFTC

All quiet here this morning, all good at GZ. TFTC

Kia ora for the cache.

Quite surreal!! Just watched the movie “Out of the Blue” before visiting! Thoughts and prayers to all who were affected by this tragedy!!

Having a good day out with the grandkids. Thanks.

I decided on a late-ish afternoon drive to Aramoana - pleasant enough weather and no big wind; lots of people on the mole, however.
Quick find at this letterbox, thank you Natalie247.

Quite a few cars parked and a couple of groups heading in to the memorial. I just sat and waited it out reflecting on that terrible event - especially the children. Looked in the wrong place first and then I spotted another likely place and there was the cache. TFTC # 16,443

A lovely place to visit with sad memories.
Thanks
erninx

Quick grab. - Bitsprayer

Came down for this yesterday with Napoleon_Solo. Unfortunately, the twisting road didn't agree with him. When we arrived we noticed a camper van literally within a few metres of GZ with occupants aboard. We decided to go and sit on a seat on the other side of the road and have morning tea, in the hope that the camper would move on. No sooner did morning tea hit NS' tummy than the road had its revenge. Had to get his top off and then get him back to the car to remove his shorts and shoes. I won't go into details about why. To the little trooper's credit, he still wanted to look for the cache. I had to explain that caching in your underwear is not really the done thing. Back today by myself on the bike and the camper is still there. I approached the occupants to explain what I was doing and they already knew the cache was there. So quickly in hand. TFTC.

A day I'll never forget. Thanks for the cache Natalie247

2nd visitor here today a lot of people around. Just signed before a couple returned to their motorhome for lunch. TFTC

Not first to find but first to stamp. Book just big enough for Pengis favourite. Love this place. Especially penguins on the beach if you know where to look

Published

FTF @ 21:15 13th December.
Didn’t know about this new cache until a friend called to see if we had heard about it.
Easily found in fading light, late evening.
Found with Ice Diva
TftC

Didn’t have my new cache notification set to this kind of cache so didn’t know to look for it when we came out earlier for the other one at Te Ngaru. A friend called us to ask why we found one but not the other. Since it was so close to home, we jumped in the car for another quick find! Found with Conbat....TFTC!