A cache ripe for Picking (Central Otago) Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 06-Mar-21. Waypoint GC975RJ

I have done a few if this type bur that never makes it easier. Found this one in reasonable time. Thank you for placing your cache for me to find.

Traveling around South Island And today doing caches between Invercargill And Cromwell. Arrived at GZ And fpund cache. TFTC

Travelling today from Invercargill to Cromwell and stopping for caches and ALs along the way. Many thanks to the COs for placing the caches for us to find.

Stopped for a coffee across the road and took the opportunity to find this cache. I was lucky enough to find the cache pretty quickly as I know these hides can be difficult.Thanks for the cache

A lovely quick stealth find. Great sculpture and good spot for stop on a road trip from Invercargill to Lake Tekapo. A quick find and back to my car to fill in log. Then had to wait a bit to replace as a very high traffic area. TFTC!

Heading through to Alexandra and paused in Roxburgh for a comfort stop. As I walked past the sculpture, I recalled that there should be a cache here. Quickly located and signed. Tftc.

Easy

TFTC! Quick park and grab while we were passing through.

Thanks

Couldnt find it

2/6/24. Found reasonably quick. Good place.

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Cute find - very clever

Quick and easy - suggest you change difficulty level so everyone can see it on the app. Forgot my pen but can send photo proof if you need it Off on a bike ride

Found it! Nicely disguised cache TFTC

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Nice location.Tftc.

Very nifty, hidden in plain sight, worth a favourite from us, tftc

Nicely hidden on a apple

Found it

A great hide! Took me awhile as I had to hunt between toileters. Must have had my hand within cms of it a bunch of times before finally nudging it. TFTC!

On a shuttle bus. a coffee stop here at Roxburgh. Thrilled to see a cache so close. A queue at the toilets but it was a quick discreet grab, thanks to the perfect hint. Thanks CO for your recent maintenance, a favourite added.

I saw this one during the day a while ago so returned late at night to do this time. Had to wait u til some people used the local amenities then cache grabbed, signed and replaced. Tftc

Great hiding place

On a roadie for the weekend and plucked this clever cache under the watchful eye of the CO. TFTC Natalie247

Was very pleased to find I was the first to sign this new log, although the ink immediately splodged when I tried to roll it back up. A classic wee spot that I have come to many times in my life. Tftc!

New log in place

Day 4: The Road to Balclutha Todays agenda was to get down to Balclutha where we are staying on the way to the Catlins. The route on the beautiful day took us through the beautiful Central Otago and Teviot regions, where we took in the landscapes and found quite a few caches along the way. It was a long drive but we really enjoyed the little highlights along the way thanks to the ALs and caches placed by everyone. (End of the cut and paste bit)Heres the specific log for this cache: A very nice cache here, and props for coming up with the clever name. I had figured out what to do here soon enough, and impressed my family by plucking the cache from its hide. There were all very amused indeed. Thanks for showing us this sculpture and the mural around the corner. It was yet another gem on our journey. TFTC!

Great hint. Tftf.

Devious, but cute. All in the name.JOH,T,NMichigan, Massachusetts USU

TFTC!! Brilliant! Thanks

MrMagoo72 and I have looked for this one a number of times on our way through, but always left disappointed. It is impossible to look when the cafe across the road is open, as there are too many muggles' eyes about. But this evening we were passing by quite late in the day, and cones had been placed closing off this side of the road to traffic, so it was the ideal time to look. After a careful read of the hint, we finally came up with the cache this time. Very happy to have a smiley face of this one at last. TFTC.

I'm sure MacBayMeri and I will be stopped here again in the future, but we no longer have to look for this cache, as we finally found it last! TFTC.

Great hide in a quaint little town.

Stopped in Roxburgh enroute from Invercargill to Alex. Enjoyed the brief walk around and and particularly enjoyed this cache. Plenty muggles using the nearby conveniences but they didn't hinder my cache retrieving and logging. The sculpture is very cool. Thanks for the cache. A FP.

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Full log to come. **[S](https://www.geocaching.com/souvenir/?guid=302f3059-de0f-4fe2-a7e7-709037d8fbf2)ouvenir** nailed eventually after 4th July GCHQ hangover finished. ***4th** Wheel challenge July **Streak** star **2nd** trad **28** days*. tftc

Finally got this one, not many muggles around today.
Nice sunny day, but a chilly breeze coming off the snow on top of the hills. Good cache

Harvest time ! TFTC

A comfort stop and a cache!

Band Road Trip to Haast with AlpiSteve. Time to head home and of course we had the usual toilet stop here. No Jimmy's pie today though. Quick find here and took longer to get the log back in as is the norm with these ones! TFTC Natalie247

Great sculpture. Grabbed cache then sat in our car and ate Jimmy's pies as recommended by a fellow cacher.

Amazing hide, at first struggled but with a bit of help and logical thinking from my mum we found it.
Thanks for the amazing cache

Great to see tourist buses & tourists having coffee at cafes. Little busy around but decided to be bold & just went for it. Mr muggle hubby looked like he was in the bathroom queue so everyone was looking at him. Cache quickly found. Love this sculpture TFTC

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Fab hide. Greetings from Scotland. Tftc

Great place for cache. Silly me was looking for a title on the exhibition but granandme had it sussed. Straight to it on our coach lunch stop. Travelling on to Dunedin for a couple of nights and then to christchurch for a night before going on to Bali for 3 nights and home to scotland. Fav point Tftc

Pleased to have a find after the previous cache was a DNF. Excellent sculpture. TFTC

Thanks

Very good!
Orange seat was wet though.
Thanks

Sneaky sneaky. Love it

Passing through on my tiki tour around the mainland. Found while in the district to ride the Dunstan bike trail. Took a bit of thinking and eureka there it was. A fav from me. Thanks for hiding Natalie247

Clever little hide that was quick and easy to complete on my up to central for a holiday. First of the new year as well so happy new year! TFTC

I stopped by here a couple of days ago without realizing that I was within a couple or so metres of a cache. Meanwhile I checked to see what there was available for my return trip and made sure this time to grab it. Well hidden but spotted when I looked from a different angle.

TFTC

Found while on a afternoon trip from Alex . Signed T4E

Found on the way back to Queenstown.Greetings from the Czech Republic and Thanks For This Cache.
Díky za keš.
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We are on holiday from California, mostly traveling by campervan on the South Island. Today we are on our way from an overnight stay near Alexandra at a winery to Dunedin. Had a nice walk around town and then stopped here. First tried to make this one even more difficult — read the info!! Once I did, Mrs. WERDAVE went right to the spot. Thanks for the fun.

A surprisingly quick easy find at an interesting feature at a convenient location. TFTC

A quick find after reading the hint. We were lucky it’s a quiet Thursday in Roxburgh. We were out doing the Wherigo that took us by the medical centre so decided to get our covid boosters and so we are taking our time around town getting caches etc. Thanks for the placement.

Visiting from Canada. This was a rest stop for our bus. I was glad to see that I could grab a cache at the same time. A little tricky to find but follow the clue. Merci TFTC

An awesome cache! And the toilets are so fancy!

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Bloody good

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Cache Dad found it straight away... of course. I'd looked several times before!

We also found the cache at the ruined bridge on the bike trail up to the dam.

A lull in people traffic. Hooray

Too many strange looks to continue

Back on the mainland after an awesome 3 weeks tramping around Stewart island ..
Heading home with a few stops along the way...
Been a bit of a long day working up to this milestone...only had 20 to get but when your heads not in the game it makes for slow going....I had eyes this one up the last time I went through and thought I knew where it would be but after a thorough fruitless search I came up empty handed...determined to find it I eliminated more places until bingo...very well deserving of a fav..for the milestone and the cache..#7000...managed to scratch my name on the log with a pen that didnt want to cooperate..tftc

Well named cache, tricky little fellow. TFTC

Had a lovely meal at the tavern and were making our way back to the motel when this little beauty turned up invitingly. Looked in the obvious places and then again after reading some of the logs. I swear it wasn’t there the first or second time I looked but then in the third attempt there it was! This can not be explained by science but a find is a find. TFTC on such an interesting piece of art.

After searching a couple of likely spot something moved...ah got ya you little minute magnetic tormentor great hide Natalie247..well done and thanks

This sculpture sure was begging for a cache! I looked in the logical place but not well enough. After unsuccessfully looking elsewhere macwatt reached in and found it. Oops. Thanks for the placement natalie247.

Popping thru to Queenstown for the weekend and stopped for a break in Roxburgh. Was within 30m of this cache so thought I’d better have a look. Didn’t take too long to track down this well hidden cache. Favourite point from me.
Thanks for the cache, Natalie247
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Perfect spot for a cache as one of us needed the adjacent facilities. Cache located after a couple of minutes and referring to the cache title. TFTC

Quick stop on the way to Stewart island. Tftc

Lucky no one was about and a reasonable straight forward find. Tftc

Was a quick find climbing to the peak while driving around the peaks... Thanks for the cache

On a day trip with MMC78, this was Conveniently placed right beside the little boys room I needed to visit.
Quick picking this one, up the road a bit further we got some fresh pickings, wonder how many will make it home alive...

13. Got in just before a rush for the toilets.

I guess this is found as intended.
On the way to Queenstown we stopped here for a quick break and stretch. Naturally I started up my GPS to see if I could get in a sneaky cache. And voila, a very sneaky one just two meters next to where I was standing! Spotting was easy, retrieving, signing and replacing though... Stealth was the tricky bit in this operation! But I got there!

Thanks for the fun cache, Natalie247!

A busy day just got a whole lot busier when I got the call to run up to Fruitlands with a tractor
But I have got this and this , that to do , but when the big boss asks as the customer has had a break down . I checked over the replacement and loaded up , and a drop or too of fuel won't go a miss , we'll ot will stop a lot of pushing on the way home .
And we'll we needed to stop here so why not pick this one .



Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Found with downsouthinv
Passenger with the delivery boy. Thankfully there was a rest room near by!!

Located with Ricardinho

Back on the mainland & we are on the downhill stretch of our South Island roadie. On the agenda today was travelling from Invers to Gore, then on to Alexandra for the night. We made a small detour to Edendale, so I could see the fields of flowering Tulips ⚘ A highlight for me An adventure lab in the beautiful Queens Park & a delicious lunch at the Rustic Cafe & Restaurant in Gore were also highlights of our travels today.

A quick find here for us & there is some great street art close by that I had to snap a pic of

TFTC

Second last find of the day. We had a brief stop here and wouldn’t you know it, there is a cache 5 metres from where we parked. A quick find here. I could actually see it (just) so have replaced a little more inconspicuously. TFTC Natalie247.

Returning home from Alexandra, I said this is a level 4 so should take awhile, Due th there being 4 of us we have a time limit of 5 minutes, but didn't need anything like it as i soon have the cache in hand. Clevername and hide,

Very easy cache to find. Thanks to P&vee another great find.
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Found with injeanious on our way through Roxborough, we found a break in the muggles and quickly had the cage in hand. Tftc!

I had to pick my time to get this one.

Cheers for the cache.

We stopped to use the loo and didn’t realise there was a cache until we got back in the car. Back across we went and I quickly figured out where it was because of the cache name. A nice little hide. Tftc.

Picked up early this morning before heading around to ride the lake Dunstan trail. No one around so a quick find. I had been here before but the place was full of people . Lovely to be able to visit alone.
Thanks Natalie247 for placing and maintaining

Made a stop here on our way home from a quick one night trip to Queenstown. Muggles came and went but I managed to make the find and replace it quickly in between quiet times. Tftc

Thank you

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Checked and all good

Quick find. Didn't need tweezers. Signed with initials. TFTC

Had a spare minute or two to have a look after sending a social weekend at AnnieLin and DownSouthInv place.
Got the tasty morsel in hand with time to spare and not too many muggles alerted.
Definitely a Fav from me
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I found this one on the way home after a big 36 hours of cache finding in the lower South Island! It was handy to have the CO on hand, although she just stood back and watched! TFTC