White's Fish Smoker (Otago) Lake Hayes Estate, South Island, New Zealand
By Wilbywarrior on 31-Dec-21. Waypoint GC9KV2R

Quick find on a busy road. Tftc

Quick and easy. Good history lesson!

I have often past this stone structure as we travel along here when staying in queenstown each year and now i know what its purpose was. Great ingenuity by Mr. White and probably more lucrative that looking for gold. We parked at the sports building and walked back along the grass only to find we needed to be on the road side of the fence. this was quickly rectified and the cache was soon found . We took nothing and left nothing . Thank you for pointing this structure and its purpose out to me . I took a photo of the smoke house .

Parked in the car park nearby and walked back along the road. Could have parked right beside it. Fascinating history. Thanks

This is one of my favorite lakes

Thank you

Tyftc So many fences

Tyftc beautiful day though it was on other side of the road and I thought it was on other side of the wall too.

Saw the cache from a mile out, making it an easy find. TFTC!

Found, many thanks

Quick find now back to the car for some more

Nice easy cash for the kids to find. Tftc

Lovely hkoi to get some caches

We had always wondered what this structure was and now we know. Thanks for the history lesson.+ a marble, - nothing.

Simple find

Slowly making our way from Queenstown to Wanaka today, and this was a nice easy find along the way, and helpfully out of the way of the busy road. TFTC!

Aprs notre priple en Australie, on dcouvre la nouvelle Zlande. Journe Queenstown. On logue en team Mado. Merci pour la cache et cette belle balade autour du lac Hayes. Trouve sans problme.

Nous poursuivons notre road trip en NZ. Queenstown pour 2 jours, nous ferons le tour du lac et jaunirons ce point. TFTC logue en team Mado.

Very interesting info about the chimney, we are staying nearby and I was wondering what it was forTrust a geocache to give you the info! Found with SallyRM and the geobaby on the last day of our NZ trip

Flying home today after a wonderful week in New Zealand. Grabbed this cache across the road from our accommodation

Found it great easy fun find.

Tftc. Great spot, thanks for the insight in some local history, my dad's lived here 20 odd years and never knew it was a fish smoker.

We were on the wrong side of the fence but had no problem retrieving the cache. Thanks!

Found as we trawled the map looking to make our 13,000th find! TFTC!

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: The first cache of the day was picked up as we left towards Cromwell. We stopped by Lake Hayes to drink in the scenery and I made a dash for this cache in the corner. I was wondering about this precise structure yesterday, so thanks for the insight. TFTC!

My little sister went bush walking for this one. But was pleased to learn the history of the smoker. TFTC

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Today we are traveling home to Brisbane from Queenstown after a fabulous 15 days in the land of the long white cloud.With a few hours to kill before our flight, it was decided a spot of geocaching was in order. Took a few minutes longer than it should have to find this one. TFTC. TNLN. SL.Find # 1668.

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Very interesting history of the White family and Trout smoking. Parked in a nearby carpark and walked up to GZ as the road was extremely busy. Came across a chook on the edge of the road that was freaking out about us approaching. It decided to cross the busy road and we were worried we’d witness chook vs car carnage. Amazingly it made a dash half way across at the right time, then patiently waited on the middle white line until it was safe to cross to safety on the other side. Smart chook - has obviously done this before… so we’ve discovered the answer to the life long riddle…
Why did the chook cross the road?
Because it saw 2 cachers coming

Tftc. Couldn’t open the container so we photo logged this one. Thanks for the info about trout smoking.

TFTC.

Trouvée

I xas here, on the wrong site

Day 5 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we explored Queenstown, and the surrounding area. We also visited this traditional cache, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to Wilbywarrior for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Today I drove from Kingston to Wanaka. To make the drive more exciting, I took a cacher break every now and then. I was able to find and log this one quickly. Thank you.

How wonderful to find out the background of this structure which I've passed on so very many occasions. Thanks so much for this cache. A nice quick find on my way home after dropping folk off at the airport. Good to have decent parking nearby as well.

Thanks for showing and telling us! Favourite point from us for that! TFTC

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A quick find , saw this structure on my way into Queenstown and wandered what it was tftc.

On a nice trip up this away to get some caches.
Quick find at gz.
Found with annielin, mrsandmrfragle and downsouthinv.
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To day was the day to finely spot here .
It funny how I have been here so many time over the years with ap show and events but to day I stop .
And yes I to have wondered what the stone structure was . So thank you I now know what the stone structure was .
I to love the way our earlier settlers use what they could find to make from the very basic material. And the fact that they are still standing.



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

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
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Driving passed this morning, and yup time to stop!
Found with downsouthinv and Abbykitt and MrandMrsFraggle
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Today we visited Queenstown and are sleeping in Lake Hayes. I went for an evening run and found this cache.

Hi there Wilbywarrior - a Merry Christmas to you. Circumstances required a trip in to Queenstown (airport) from Wanaka today to pick up my present - my wife arriving from Perth . I found this cache at 1040am after a short search - and the container and log were both in good condition unless noted in the Fieldnotes below. TN, LN, SL. Thanks to Wilbywarrior for this cache - the 1st of 1 finds for the day.

FieldNotes: The cache and log were both found in good condition.

Merry Christmas! And that means time for caching

A beautiful day it is here at Lake Hayes. TFTC

Meri Kirihimete, great wee location on a walk to run off the food consumed today!

Interesting info for this one. It didn't take long to discover the cache here. Thanks for placing this one.

Out and about enjoying the hidden gems of our country.

After being away for a 10 day break in Australia with family and a night in Kingston with sister for birthday catchup doing a caching trip home.
Nice easy locate and sign. All good
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Quick easy find.TFTC

Picked up today while having a relaxing day in Arrowtown. Grabbed my bike to come down and pick this new cache up and circled around to come back down the river track and pick up the new adventure labs.
Thanks Wilbywarrier for bringing me back down here

Some interesting history, hidden away, and a quick easy find. TFTC

Greetings from the Czech Republic and thanks for the cache.
Díky za keš.
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Heading home after a conference in Queenstown. Took a a couple of detours as we had some time to play with. Thanks for the cache and the history lesson.

Roadside but reachable from inside.

#2125. Day 7 of of our week in Queenstown. GB Leader and I are celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary! AUGUST was the big day.

Today, a road trip to Wanaka and Cromwell. Slow start after our lovely dinner last night at the Bavarian Restaurant.

First stop, here, but the cache eluded me as I was on the wrong side of the fence! Tripped to Wanaka & Cromwell, then stopped here again on the way back to Frankton. 2nd time lucky! In fact, I probably could have reached through on the first visit!

Tftc Wilbywarrior.

Found with Geo-Goober
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Found with Skweak easy grab TFTC

After an awesome time on the Milford track and a few days exploring the Milford road it's time to head home..grabbing a few along the way...after staying overnight at the camp ground...its time to hit the road again.
Nice quick find tftc

Good one to start the day. Autumn colours are stunning

Since we were last in the area there have been quite a few new caches put in and this is one of them and our first find of the day. A nice easy find with some interesting history. Great views in this iconically beautiful place.

Travelling from Cromwell to Queenstown today as part of our Central Otago excursion. Stopped in the pavilion carpark to photograph Lake Hayes and the surrounding autumn colours, and to pick up this cache. It was a little distance away but was a quick find. #4913. TFTC.

1602. 11:50 am. We stopped and checked out the A&P grounds and their historical plaques at the same time. Found with eKitten, GRAkiWi, Li0npaw and Jenryellea. Signed kanoe+GeLj. TFT(smokin')C.

After 2 uturns we found the right spot to stop the car and walk along to cache. Tftc

Interesting feature. - Thanks Bitsprayer

Interesting find. Cheers.

On our way home today we stopped & mr muggle found his readers He managed to loose 2 pair this weekend so was very happy to have these ones back.

Quick easy find today. Not much traffic around. My muggle hubby may have dropped his readers there. Oh dear. TFTC

Quick easy park n grab on a wet day through to Cromwell. TFTC

First stop on our way to Wanaka. Lake Hayes was looking pretty this morning. Oh a nice new cache. Thanks.

Its been a long time in the planning but finally the week long trip to the South Island to complete the Routeburn Track is here. Day #7 of the trip and its our last chance to explore before flying home. After enjoying brunch at the Millbrook Resort we headed for some caching and shopping on the way to the airport.

Parked up across the road, followed the hint and soon had the cache in hand.

Thanks for the cache.

This was another quick park and grab. TFTC

Well if it wasn't for this cache I would have driven on by without even noticing this special feature. Thank you so much for pointing it out Wilbywarrior. TFTC # 18,004

Early morning find here, I was doing a drivetest to Wanaka, then today the plan was to do a few between Omarama and Oamaru, then Kurow to Waimate. Last night the boss was looking for some equipment, and it was in Queenstown after a VF site upgrade so I offered to grab it and take it back, given I was close enough. That in my posession I headed over to Omarama, but not before grabbing this. Nice! Interesting read, thanks for that.
TFTC Wilbywarrior, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #3118

parked at lake Hayes car park and walked across to cache.
bit of a stretch back through fence to reach cache container.
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250th find journey to 1000 within 2 years is easily possible TFTC nice spot signed as IB

FTF! Awesome! Quickly found early this morning as humanity drove past just beside us. Easily accessed from the safe side of the fence. Thanks for the history lesson here. TFTC and a fav point from us.

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Published

indiboo was with me when cache was placed. She has signed the logbook but FTF is still available.