Alexandrina (South Canterbury) Lake Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 01-Dec-03. Waypoint GCHA8C

This cache is missing.

Looked long and hard but no luck
ernienz

Great reason to go and check out the view, but no cache.

Worth the walk up the hill for the views though.

Couldn't find cache but found a few likely places it could have been at given coordinates.

A nice side trip to a new area but no cache to be found for me. 4 long dead rabbit skeletons under the object I reckoned it should have been under, but apart from those nada! Cheers.

We went and looked and looked but were unable to find any cache. Beautiful spot though

have been meaning to check this road out for years,so thanks for the excuse

14:00
Very beautiful location! We logged the cache during a nice walk along the lake. TFNC
Carolin & Matthias

We hadn't been here before. Thanks for taking us to such a magical spot. TNLN

Biked in from the main road. Beautiful day. Lovely quiet spot.
TNLN TFTC

I realise after looking at a couple of photos in the gallery that I was looking a little way away. I think my GPS was a little off for this one. There was a group of a dozen or so volunteers cleaning up rubbish and replanting, so it made a thorough look very difficult. Decided to abandon the search and carried on to Mt Cook. Thanks for leading us up a road we would not usually have taken, we found one of natures little secrets.

Didn't even realize there was anything in here let alone a collections of bachs.

Out caching now the rain has stopped. Tidied the paper around the site and it should look better for the next cachers. The local ducks followed us right up to the top of the hill as we carried on for the full view and we were so impressed that we fed them once we were all back down again. It was a long waddle for them...pickings must be lean in the cold temps. Went back to our hotel via Mt John and great coffee with views - highly recommended. Lovely spot and we'll be back in the summer if there is room at the campsite. TFTC.

Beautiful spot. TFTC. Hungry ducks! TNLN.

Thank you for leading us to this spot. Middle of winter and looking very 'broody'.
TNLN, TFTC.

Best scenery of my trip despite it being the middle of the night - amazing stars!!!!!!!

Found it easily, but some muggle apparently had used the place as toilet Luckily I could retrieve the box with clean hands
TFTC

Easy find. Loved the grebes on the lake. Nice place to camp. Put in chocolate shaker. TFTC

Gps showed about 30m to go looked where I thought it could be and decided it was too hot a day for that sort of effort so went for a swim in the lake instead, very nice.
Maybe next time we're here.

Indeed, never knew this lake existed. A popular place for New Year holidays I see.

Beautiful place. Our three year old and dad had a swim.

Hot and dry. Nice place. TFTC

The first cache a friend of us found. Nice view, very windy. In: green ckicker. Out: car.
Thank you, J3 from the Netherlands and Taco, Ellen & Noah from Twizel

Found with rchdlyn TFTC TNLN SL

Lovely spot!!! 280 and chasing 300 this weekend. Taking the loooong was to Dunedin. Buying fresh salmon on the way - no other reason. lol
TFTC TNLN SL will post pix on return home. cheers

Found with rchdlyn TFTC TNLN SL

An easy find in a nice spot (I'd been past this way several times butnever goen to the lake). Was in a University of Canterbury Alumni group visiting Mt John Observatory, so got a good look at the lake in the day, and again at night (at night its total blackness makes it quite visible).

Down here for a 4x4 trip , Stayed the night at the camp ground, Beautiful place , enjoyed watching the fish in the stream. Enjoyed the hunt , we searched for the cache at night, great!.< Cheers. Found 8 pm

Found the cache - mostly intact. The box had become brittle at some stage, and some bits broken away.
Replaced it with a new 1 litre sistema (same size, different shape) added a new log book, as the current one is a little full but still useable, added another pencil.
A lovely spot, a good hiding place.
Cache is all good now, though could do with a little swag.

Cache has new been maintained - Thanks Butterfly_Lady

Easy find. TFTC.

Found the lid and logbook in bag in the open.... placed it under a nearby rock

Refer found entry from Joe Possum.

Found what remained of the cache easily. But that was only the lid, the log book and a few pens and pencils. I placed these in a zip top plastic bag and added a motor cycle. I could not locate any other parts of the cache. Maintenance is needed but it still functions. Great spot. Pity we did not make the time for a spot of fly fishing.

I enjoyed secret view.
Easy found,but...

Cache Container was boroken.
It was lid,logbook,pens...

TFTC NoTrade
yomikaki,JAPAN

I'll second the last logger. Can't imagine a muggle finding this cache, but it does appear there is an animal living in this spot?? Found part of a log, cache lid, and pens strewn about. Gathered them up as best as I could and placed under a sizable rock to keep it in place.

Great spot; had seen the lake on a tramp in the area last month. However, looks like cache has been muggled - found lid of box, what looked like half a log book and a couple of felt-tip pens under the rock but nothing else. Real shame. Look forward to revisiting when re-established! Cheers, Mothy.

Looks good fishing. great views. NINO. Thanks

A nice easy find though a bit prickly with bidibidi,s. Saw a few fish rising and felt that I should have bought my rod
TNLNSL TFTC
Jim

[This entry was edited by Onslow Fisherman on Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:34:10 AM.]

What a beautiful lake this is. The warmth from the sun was battling the cool for the temperature stakes.
In: Cachinoptera Resida TB
Out: Snoopy
Cheers for the cache.

No chance of swimming today - only about 16 degrees. Plenty of campers and caravans near the lake though.

Nice spot, found it easily. Thanks. TNLN.

-HamishM from Australia

Beautiful little lake with quite a few people camping nearby. Looks like a couple of muggle kids have found the cache lately given the comments in the log but the contents do not seem to have been disturbed. TNLN. Thanks

Very hot day here today 33 deg. at 5:30. We went to the lake for a swim to cool off. I visited this one on Oct 30. I forgot to log it so went today to check the log. Cache is in good shape.

Really hot day, few muggles around, neat to check out the camping ground.
TN
+ Dinosaur keyring

We visited both ends of the lake, doing our usual first-likely-road method of following the gps. Lots of small muggles mucking about in boats on a hot day.
+dart game, - glass star

We are visitors from Holland and enjoy our stay in NZ. Even more due to the geocaching spots. At this one we had a good lunch. Nice spot for it. An easy find. A great sunny day with a great view. Thanks NI/NO.

Hopefully got really good Panographic shot that I may upload later. Wonderful view, looks like a great camping spot.
Thanks

A wonderful detour to a lovely area of the country that I couild have easily overlooked. TNLN.

We were here for dawn today, a very picturesque spot for it. I don't think there had been a cloud in the sky for 24 hours before so it was also extremely cold! Found easily enough, but the cache lid seemed to be just resting on top of the box. Everything was however dry, so we made our trade, signed the log and sealed it back up again.

The log book is full! If you are planning a visit, might be great to take a new one with you

- candle
+ green star stone

TFTC, beautiful spot

Drove in to the lake late afternoon on a bleak day - nobody else in sight, houses all boarded up it seems. Wintry views drew the eye (but not the body) to snowbound slopes inland. The hiding-place was obvious as I approached - and I can report that at least in winter the smell has gone. The cache box had been wrapped in a plastic bag that has since torn wide open, but otherwise all is fine. No swaps, cheers, Grandalf.

Hadn't been out this way since 2001 when I went up to the observatory on a uni field trip. I'd never driven this far down the road, and so it was nice to see this new lake. It was very pretty today with the autumn trees about. Found the cache easily, it appears that some other animal caches there too. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [505]

An easy find in the logical spot - but a beautiful place to visit. The smell is still there! Took badge, left white knight chess piece. Filled in bottom part of last page in notebook.

One for Sam this time. Beautiful day.
+ Doll
- Swiss Candle
Sam & Jan

An easy find between small decaying bodies

Should be called "Dead thing rock!"
When I found the cache, I had to move a carcass of it before retrieving it from the spot.
Signed the log and enjoyed the view.
+ Bubble mix
- Toy wok

Replaced the cache (without the extra camoflage)!!!

Thanks for showing us a great spot - one which we will be back to with the small buckoboys. We will be camping here next year.

Lots of little bunnies around! Found it ok, no swaps. Cheers!

Beautiful spot, but had to fill in the logbook quickly, as my botty was burning, sitting on the hot rocks!
It looks like this is a dumping spot for dead rabbits, but at least being so dry, they have all mummified nicely.
TNLN - thanks for the pleasant excursion on the way home from a week of hanggliding.

Nice spot
+ Smiley Stamp
- 50C

We are French & Swiss. We visite Tekapo Lake today and it's the third cache. Beautiful place. Very easy to find so we hire the box better.
Thank you.
Out : -
In : Little Swiss candel
Berthe

First cache we've looked or and found. good spot. Like the skulls. Took blow up alien and left a watch. You've inspired me to hide a couple of caches around Tekapo.

This was my fourth cache find for the day. Lovely spot on a cool but sunny afternoon. Left Bird Brain travel bug here. Hope he finds the ducks before duckshooting starts in a few days. Took screw driver and left childs game.

Beautiful spot Wayne & Sheryl. Lovely calm day, managed about 6 casts of the rod for trout, but no luck. + pavement chalk, -birdbrain travel bug.

Well this would have to be " Spot Of The Day " what a nice small lake sun just starting to set, a few fisherman in the lake...

+ fridge Magnet
- Hot Lock


Many thanks moneydork for this very nice spot..Bitsprayer

This has always been one of our favourite spots so we were glad to find a cache here and give us a reason to come in again. The sun came out quite hot as we were walking around and the water was sparkling.
The water in Lake Tekapo was a brilliant turquoise as we were driving in - this was really spectacular.
+ Hot Lock (from Jeff's Choice)
- London Bus Keyring (Rodney will probably keep this in his collection - thanks Swanny)
Thanks Moneydork for another great cache
Iris & Rodney

Not hard to sit for a while and enjoy the surroundings.
Took small glass duck
Left screwdriver
Thanks

9am. Lovely day, even at this early hour. Seem to be following Walter & Katherine. They beat me to a cache yesterday too. No exchange. Thank you Moneydork for leading me to this quiet place.

Oops. It appears that I'd forgotten to log this cache (it's 18-2-4 now). Left the London bus keyring from a cache in Regents Park (can't remeber the name just now).

Nice spot to stop on the way back from Lake Benmore. I'm sure people were looking at the boat thinking "You can't bring that thing here" (Lake Alexandrina is strictly people power only)

Found it without any worries. Took picture of view and took potato peeler. Left commemorative Australian 50c piece. Was a nice day, but no time to fish/swim today - onwards to Christchurch.

Had a break from 4WDing at Twizel, but main reason for coming here was to uive GeoCoin 10614 a nice place to rest after the debris at Dog Kennel Mackenzie. (Also thought the cahcce careas would be caring) (Mind you the outlook is great but the skeleteonised rabbits are interesting) It was overcast but not raining (raining at Twizel) The site information ('no clue') was an excellent clue, and I found the right place after a couple of near misses. The outlook is great ( will post a photo if I can ever recover it from our new camera).

left Groundspeak geocoin 10614,( looking for a new carrier) and paradise duck
took baby oil out

Thanks Moneydork and support team.

Gus the Geomonkey and Surf Seeking Rubber Duck travel bugs were with us when we st this cache.