Kiwi Burn (Otago) The Dale, South Island, New Zealand
By Tazzie&Lizzie on 01-Feb-04. Waypoint GCHTVM

CaptainVimes and I have crossed the pond to attend the Geo Toroa mega in Dunedin and tour around the South Island for two weeks.Having read previous logs, we brought a preform tube with us and placed the log in it along with a fresh one. Coords were 16m out.Thanks Tazzie&Lizzie and happy caching

Some genius on the city council thought it would be a good idea to build a swing bridge over the river. Apparently, itll revolutionize Ankh-Morporks infrastructure, or so the architect says. What it actually means is that, twice today, Nobbys ended up on the wrong side of the bridge with a cartload of confiscated cabbage, waving madly while the bridge spun the other way.Carrot is fascinated by the whole thingclaims its a marvel of engineering. I told him any bridge that swings like a weather vane isnt a bridge, its an elaborate practical joke. People keep gathering to watch it, trying to guess which side will open next. And then theres Detritus, who accidentally broke the crank on his lunch break, resulting in half the dockside stranded with fish that are nowby all accountsripe enough to walk home by themselves.All in all, the revolutionary bridge is causing more chaos than the old rickety one ever did. If you ask me, a bridge should stay put. But, as usual, no one asks me.

Found by motley Cre

Container missing

Cache 1545 Today was a day for a little time out so why not head to one of my fave places on earth, sadly I havent been in years but today I got a cracker of a day, warm, blue skies, no wind. Cant think of anything better to do than go for a walk and find some geocaches I really only had 1 caches on my must do list today to fill another spot in my D/T grid but I wasnt going to pass up other caches along the way. This cache REQUIRES MAINTENANCE I found rock pile all stacked up tidy exactly where the hint says but the cache container is missing found what was left of old log but it wasnt in good shape, CITOd the area and placed down a fresh log and baggy, hopefully CO can replace container soon T4TC

When the I.Pathfinder.C found it last year I took a reading of the spot S45 20.969 e168 07.516

6 of the club spent night at KiwiBurn hut with pleasant company. We found this on the way out.
In 2012 the club was here and the club director found this and introduced two of the other leaders to cache. He was using his GPS to track it down for us but was searching in wrong place 12 metres away towards the river. Firekitten remembered where it was and soon had it in hand for the two of us who were doing the geocaching honour.
TFTC
JP wrote... we looked in the wrong place with southlandicebergs but then firekitten knew where it was under the stones. Thanks

On a tour with friends from Nelson. great area. Tftc

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are now parked up at Mavora Lakes for a couple of days, exploring in & around the area … we were heading down to to do the Kiwi Burn Loop Track for a bit of a walk this morning … we thought it would be rude not to check out this cache while there … found this with no issues, log completed & cache returned … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,234 for us.

Back on the TA this time greenstone to bluff just over 300km so my last "big" section to complete..have no time restrictions so perfect opportunity to get a load of caches as I walk passed .
As you would expect the scenery is amazing and the track is pretty good..
Decided to continue onto kiwi burn hut starting to feel the long day but no stopping now...except for this one..quick find...hopefully the river stays low and I can cross further down unless I'll be coming back this way in the morning..tftc

On our way to Mavora Lakes for an Easter break, catching up with MrandMrs. The Swing Bridge caused a wee problem with pup.. not happy about crossing. Though with a lot of coercion and to-ing and fro-ing of the both of us she made it. Muggle found while I was circling near GZ. Another crossed off on my list of to-dos tftc

Tftc just logged now

Nice quick find before heading to Kiwiburn hut for the night. Tftc

Found this on our Te Araroa thru-hike. Camped nearby last night and just after we finished setting up our tent it started raining. Probably should have gone to the hut... With all the cloud cover this morning our GPS wasn't working, but with a great hint it was still an almost instant find.

On my way back I spotted the cache after I had searched the complete wrong place when I started.

TFTC M.o.E.

found this just before heading into the hut
TFTC

Today was the day to load up the ole pack horse and trot over the swing bridge, turn left, and keep on following the orange route markers.
But first, lets stop and snaffle this cache.
Found with Annarock and a variety of muggles
Beautiful spot!

One a day trip to Mavora Lakes. Downsouthinv was walking to the Kiwi Burn hunt trail to check for a hike coming up. Found and logged. Nice to come back to see the lakes.
The swing bridge was fun!
Tftc

Auf unserer Reise quer durch Neuseeland haben wir diese Dose entdeckt.

TFTC
Grüße Orientexpress

Tftc

Tftf. Found with our scout group while hiking

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Out today on a geocache adventure with Granville.
Had never been to the start of the kiwi burn track - took some lovely photos as it is a special place to visit.
Hope to get back one day to walk the track up to the kiwi burn hut

tftc and for bringing me to this spot

Finally found after re-reading the clue. Good cache amazing(scary) bridge

I've never been to this part of the country before, a public holiday was the perfect opportunity to explore. Over the wiggly wobbly bridge we went, cache in hand shortly after. TFTC

Re-find by mr
Out for a days caching up to Mavora Lakes with friends SW, TT, & GV
tftc

It's been a while since i was up this way. Didnt hesitate when asked to come up on Anzac day. Never really keen on bridges that are held up by a bit of wire, but thankfully only one person at a time so no disturbance from others. Great clue, great day. Thanks.

Wow what a swing bridge to cross but cool find on the other side TFTC

interesting cross over to the other side but a quick find TFTC

Took a bit of courage to go across the bridge once over found easy tftc

Loved the swing bridge. TFTC

Visiting shooting locations of the Lord of the Rings movie, we travelled this road and stopped at this lovely viewing point ! the bridge was worth coming D quite impressive !
thanks for the cache

Found by our 5 year old at lunch he start of our walk. Tftc

Grabbed this one after a return walk into the hut

A nice day for a road trip and pick up a cach or two have not been in hear for years . Nice to see a pice of nz paradice. Found with Ruru

Came up to the lakes with DSI to check out a possible location for a lightweight camp. Called in here on the way back. Definitely a narrower bridge than further north. Had to toss up whether to look down and get feet placement right, or look ahead and trust my instincts. Think I did both. Thanks DSI for resisting the temptation to rock the bridge. (Funny, had no issues with the first one!) With the hint this was a quick find in the first place I looked.
Thanks for the smilie.
1566 13 October 2017 18:46

Birthday trip to Mavora, sigh hit the big 50. Parked at the gate in the dark and found the bridge. Followed my nose to the spot and after SL the dry log, changed the 200ml over to a cleaner one. Tucked away with the camo and returned via the swing bridge across the rapids. Sure were pumping away. Will try to make it to Mt Peel one day before the [virtual](https://coord.info/GCA4E0) gets archived and unlogable by Zero Gravitas. TFTC

When we left Kingston this morning, we thought we might have to adjust our plans for the day due to the weather but by the time we reached the carpark, the sun was out and it was looking like being a good day. Headed across the swingbridge and had a read of the signs, then found the cache. tftc

Great effort to camouflage it into the terrain...beautiful view from location down onto hut

Found it!

Very cool hiding place! Dogs not keen to cross the bridge!

Turned out GPS put me a few metres away, so after unsuccessful hunt decoded the very useful hint. Nice hiding place.

Super scary swing bridge. Mrs made it a third of the way and decided to do photo duty. Mr made the find got back then realised he'd dropped his sunglasses and had to go back. NINO TFTC

Co'ods were needed to get me across the bridge, which I detest with a passion³ , and I had to cross two of them this trip lol. Thankfully it's only built for one person at a time; that being the case if anyone else was to cross, I would've froze and they would need a crowbar to pry my hands loose. Wheep! I was not letting go. Considering the grade 4 rapids flowing below. The cache on the other hand was an easy find with the hints, it was yielded from the hide with a tug and a pop as it had gone to ground. Cleaned and dried the cache but the seal is perishing after 12years so if someone could replace with a 200ml sistema lid or just the blue ring seal to carry this one over for another year. The owner is well and truly inactive and one by one their caches fail. Including the virtuals I will get around to logging one day.
Chosen's logbook was sound, I changed the ripped bag and took the rusty eclipse tin home - she will have Jimny's replacement. The wee solider was still there and I taped the fireman sticker to the log cover. Added a poly bag to grab the freshened swag, sharpened the pencil and rehid after I found some more rocks nearby. TFTC
Purty sure we're still in Southland Dorothy.

Tftc

Found it with "FrenchSuperTrampNiko" on our hiking Te Araroa trail
TFTC!

First cache that I have found on my own. When in doubt follow the clue and there you are. Was very pleased that clue was there. My phone gps and compass had me all over the place.TFTC

Once the hint was followed to the word cache was in had. Our iPhones had us out 20-30m. Love this bush. I remember this swing bridge as a little tramper back in the 80's. Also went by here as part of Te Araroa Trail. Tftc

Had to have a bit of a search here. GPS way off. The hint was very good thanks. Nice bush tftc

Found by accident on our 2015 CYC Tramping Camp whilst doing the loop around then over to the Whitestone River.

TFTC

[Find #640]

Quick find with Gypsyrose58 on our way home. Quickly found the cache and did some maintenance renewing log. Had an interesting time watching some crazy boys jumping off the bluff above the the swing bridge into the river, totally wouldn't recommend that, as stunning and inviting as the river was. I have original logbook if the owner would like it returned

That was an awesomely scary bridge! Cache is not able to be signed but it's in a great spot! TFTC

Next time I am up here might perform some maintenance as this cache is in desperate need of it. Owner no longer active.

Found after an overnight tramp around the circuit staying in Kiwi Burn Hut. Cache is soaking wet and growing some noxious looking yellow stuff.

An easy find at the start of our camping adventure.

That was one scary bridge but worth the crossing. The river was running very fast today and that added to the excitement of the crossing. TFTC

Easy found, nice spot, scary bridge!
TFTC!

This was fun. Team leader likes me to have a challenge ..like driving through mud and water filled ruts and swinging on swing bridges. All good today and a nice hide.

Quick find AFTER reading the hint.
TNLNSL TFTC #1026
Te Araroa day 101

Found this one while on holiday from home at Whangamata we stayed
here for 3 days camping and the weather was great a magic place to
come to TFTC The clue said it all you do not need your GPS

GPS was 27m out here, as is quite common under the Beech canopy.
Fortunatly Mrs S.t. had more faith in her caching instinct than the GPS an was onto it quick enough.
Cheers and thanks for placing a cache in such a great spot.
S.t.

Lovely day at mavora today. SL TFTC.

Found on our way for a camping trip at North Mavora Lake - a lovely little stop along the way - and always a fun bridge to cross.

Found the sign of our friend from the other half of the world!!

We have found it only after stopping usage of our gps and using our instinct instead.

Quick find on our way out from the lakes before the weather packed up.

Start of the day. Wet!!

Found it during a walk around the Kiwi Burn Loop track, a great day out!

The other one of us had it found before I ventured over bridge. The things you do for geo caching.

Found after an overnight trip with 6 kids to kiwiburn hut. Thanks for the clue, as described previously my gps was taking me completely in the opposite direction with all the trees. I stopped and looked and yes it was obvious were it was. Had to carry the dogs over the swingbridge!, great to have a DOC walk where dogs are welcome. tftc

Easy find thanks to the hint. Doesn't need any maintenance. Cache is in perfect condition.

Found by relying on the hint more than on my GPS - it was going all over the place. The hint item is obvious once you scout around a bit - don't bother looking at your GPS once you get into the bush. Thanks Tazzie and Lizzie - replaced the pen as both the pen and pencil in the bag were stuffed.

Found at 9:42:00 a.m. on 20/12/2012.

A quick find for the boys on the way out from a couple of days in the Kiwi Burn

TFTC Tazzie&Lizzie

Amazing forest. Don't like the idea of the monorail through here... it's so wild here now. picked up the geocoin. We're on our way to NZ MEGA 2012 in Dunedin. See you there!

Funny hint. Good hide.

Thanks!

A wonderful walk in, managed to do on under an hour which surprised me. Great view of the kiwi burn from the hut, wish I had a geocoin to put in as it is certainly a special location

Followed clue and there it was , quick and easy cache

Great cache thanks.

Good clues. Box a bit wet but book all ok. On way to the hut. TFTC

Great little spot. Enjoyed the swing bridge. Boromir the TB asked for a lift, we abliged but he couldn't stop talking about all the beaut scenery. Dropped him off somewhere just as nice

had to ask partner to do this one for me as wasnt game to walk over the swing bridge . lovely area i just like solid ground . He found it without a problem bought the log book over for me to sign then took it back left a tb to travel on his special journey requested by his owner.

Great river to paddle down! TFTC

Found it with Jitka. Interesting how old are the other logs in the log book.

Easy find on a great day, took GC

Found it 1/2/11. Enjoyed this one,although had to resort to the clue and made the given coords to be about 18m out.Some hopeful fishermen trying their luck.Great little river and swingbridge.The logbook was found outside of the container and totally water logged and unusable,but fortunately I had a spare book back in the car,so signed that and managed to stuff it into the container,but possibly the container is not watertight. TFTC

This entry was edited by jimnycricket on Saturday, 05 February 2011 at 01:07:59.

The logbook is no longer a book, but paper pulp!
We took it out of the Cache, because there was no other way to dry it inside with this wet thing in it.
Somebody else brought a single sheet of paper. It needs a new log book!

We camped at the southern end of Lower Mavora Lake Campground, one of my favourite DOC Camps.
The Cache was 20m off the coords.
TFTC

We camped at the southern end of Lower Mavora Lake Campground, one of my favourite DOC Camps.
The Cache was 20m off the coords.
TFTC

Staying at Mavora Lakes, Great cache in a majic area. TFTC

Found after a bit of a search around. Lovely day in Mavora today. Watched by a muggle South Island robin.
TFTC.

I love this area but haven't been out this way for a while. I used to go kayaking here when I was at high school many moons ago. It's unfortunate that didymo has taken a hold though - the down-stream swimming hole doesn't look as attractive as it used to be! TFTC.

TFTC

The log book was very wet. Tried to dry everything off, but I think the container leaks.

Found with Teppich.

Cache was not easy to find, but we managed. TFTC

Yep, cache is VERY wet, everything inside. Anyways - worth a stop on the way to Mavora Lakes. TFTC

Found easily. Mararoa very full when crossing the swingbridge. I really think Mavora is one of my most favourite places in the whole of NZ it's just magic.

Found it after a 4WD trip up to the Mavaroa lakes up to the Boundary hut. TFTC.

We were here today and book needs replacing as very wet. Great place though.

Our first cache of our Southland cycle tour! Took us a while to find with all the tree cover, but the clue was great. Thanks Tazzie&Lizzie. TNLN.