Lake Wilkie (Catlins, Otago) Tautuku, South Island, New Zealand
By Mcroni on 17-May-05. Waypoint GCNZA2

A lovely walk down to Lake Wilkie and it's very pretty, even in the rain. Thanks for placing a cache here, easily found with the information provided. Nice boardwalk to allow a close view of the lake.

Found with Gazania Rigens as per her logMy 4000th!A beautifully peaceful stroll through this preserved forest and along the lake side, listening to and spotting (some of !) the native birds. The Tuis variations always a pleasure as is the ever-friendly attention of the fantail. TFTC

A beautiful walk which we could do completely undisturbed today. We love hearing the birds and looking at all the interesting plants. Thr cache was an easy find. TFTC!

Tftc, found while on a camp, sl and replaced

**Log about this cache:**A very nice short walk and a little bit of rain.Quick find!**General log:**After years of planning and the canceling of trip due to the corona crisis, the time had finally come: ***"more than 5 weeks in New Zealand"**.* And how beautiful it was! Visited both the north and south islands, many tourist attractions have a cache nearby so I could do some as well. Lots of virtuals and earth caches too and traditionals. But also done a few multi caches here and there also even a mystery and wherigo cache. The trip to New Zealand was great and we saw a lot of nice places. The country has so many different types of landscapes. And the nice thing was that it is winter in the Netherlands but summer in New Zealand Too bad it takes so long to fly and that the flight is so expensive otherwise i can go here next year again. Now you can enjoy it, logging the caches is also part of it. I will try to email the answers for the earthcaches and virtual caches to the relevant co`s as soon as possible. But first log all caches and upload the photos .

There's close, there's very close and there's extremely close. This cache is the last of the three options. Logbook is a tad damp and needs a bit of TLC.TNLN. TFTC.

Day 5: The CatlinsOur journey today took us down to the Catlins for a whirlwind tour of all the sights we could squeeze into a day trip. Of course, there were geocaches to be had too, plus plenty of photos and sightseeing. Thankfully the weather held up for most parts today, so we could enjoy all the great scenery and the geocaches as well!(end of the cut and paste bit)Decided to make the lovely walk to the lake which was quite a nice workout for the partner. I headed in first to make this find, and managed to do so before the rest of the family caught up. Things are not looking too good in the cache, though, it could use some drying up. TFTC!

My gut told me where it might be and I didn't listen first time round, but a short trip. A quiet, lovely spot. Tftc

Very damp - had to be yuck muggles we’re around

A lovely walk to this one. The container was a bit further away from GZ than expected, but the hint worked and it was found after some bending and peering. Good to claim this long standing cache, thanks Mcroni.

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.
Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.

With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signed

We puzzled a lot in advance and the tours were well prepared
So this box was also well found.

now I have another on my personal cache card.

many thanks to [^] **Mcroni** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany

TFTF

**Geistercacher**
#34173

We're currently travelling New Zealand in search of adventures. We're exploring from Papatowai to Seaward Downs.

23 February 2023 10:15 - Cache Number 2756
A quick find here and the cache is in good condition. TFTC

Quick visit of Wilkie Lake. Tftc

A very peaceful place & the lake was like a mirror. It didn't take long to find the cache. Thanks for placing this one & bringing us to this beautiful spot.

Really enjoyed walking around Lake Wilkie and finding this cache. We saw two species of damselflies at the lake. TFTC

enjoyed

Time to escape the madness for a bit well as long as we can and headed out to the east coast for a look and this one has been on my to do list for ever so to day we went on a mission to track it down and soon had the goods in hand and paper work completed and now continue our adventures.
Let's see where we end up .


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

On a tour to get multis or regular for a challenge. 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 the DOC Papatowai campsite for a couple of days, exploring in & around the area … we went for a bit of a drive this morning & thought it would be rude not to check this cache out … had to wait for some ’muggles’ to leave the area … found with no issues, log completed & cache returned … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,169 for us.

Our first walk for the day and a really nice little one at that. As we walked down the track we took in the view at the lookout point and admired what a nice little lake this is. Didn't take to long to figure out where the cache was, all good here. TFTC.

Found while on a weekend away with Hevic as we explored the coastal Catlins. With the weather playing nice, we decided to drop in here and check out the lake. The walk around the lake area was very pleasant, especially when we came across an entire swarm of dragonflies. Interesting bit of learning near GZ, and the cache was easily found. Cheers!

#20722. Really enjoyed the walk down to this wee lake. Thanks for bringing us here.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ as we travel from Dunedin to Invercargill.
There was no other car in the large carpark when we arrived so we enjoyed the solitude of this lovely lake. SW found the cache (multi? what multi??) while I dawdled on the way down. By the time we returned to the carpark, several other cars were there. TFTC.

Out & about in The Catlins between Niagra Falls and Papatowai trying to locate the remaining caches that I want to sign off.

The wind was up a tad so no mirror-like photos today.

Cheers for the cache.

Located with Ricardinho

Day 8 of our South Island roadtrip & our last day in the Catlins. Today our travels took us to Waikawa, Curio Bay, Slope point & the Waipapa Point lighthouse before backtracking to Papatowai for dinner at the Perkes foodtruck & a few spots in between. We had the most awesome brunch at the Cafe in Niagara & enjoyed beautiful sunny weather & many stunning views!

The walk to Lake Wilkie is a lovely easy stroll

TFTC

Cache was a bit further back from where I first looked, but was spotted once I had a peak underneath. All good here, TFTC Mcroni.

The 8th day of a South Island road trip for myself and RG1972 and our last day in the Catlins. Today we went to Waikawa, Curio Bay, Slope point and the Waipapa lighthouse before backtracking to our base via Papatowai and a few spots in between. We found a couple of great food options, some more golden sand beaches that we didn’t know the area was known for, and struck some nice weather again. All that and plenty of history and views, thanks all COs for highlighting and adding that extra special reason to visit these sites.

23 October 2021 12:06 nice reflection today but cache a bit further back than we first attempted. TFTC Mcroni

Cache 695 ️ nice chilly walk down to the lake this afternoon doesn’t look like the area has thawed out much today after this mornings mighty frost when I got to the lake it was half frozen and the boardwalk was totally white with frost, I stopped here as I didnt feel like slipping into the water just to do the full walk. Cache on the other hand was a nice quick find in excellent condition T4TC ️

Interesting reading about the 'bog lake' and its origins. Nice wee walk and cache all in order. Thanks

great block of forest. loved the walk . easy find as described. took tb.tftc

We were hoping for a swim in the lake but once we saw the colour, we decided not to jump in... But we took some nice photos of the reflection and I also found the nice sized cache here. Saw a TB in there as well.

Another multi that looked doable. Finally found this one after a good hunt around. Cheers. Great walk. Fav from me

Sunday 8 November. Left Zara resting at Niagara. Toby and I are off exploring again. Today its the Niagara - Fortrose loop, then off to Florence Hill to end the day. Lots of unpaved roads mostly in great condition just to keep Toby entertained. So lets go!!

Toby, Zara and I are on a 3 week geo adventure of Cromwell, Southland, Catlins, Balclutha with a day in Dunedin and quick stop in Timaru. With Lenny, my trusty navigator and TBD my companion/mascot. we managed to visit lots of green boxes, now happy faces with the odd sad one. Did some LABs , earth caches, virtuals and wherigos, all chucked into the mix to rack up 500 odd caches. Lots of kilometers, lots of exploring and lots of fun. Thanks to all COs for our wonderful experience.

A beautiful stroll through podacarp forest on a gorgeous spring day. The lake looking idyllic. Did the boardwalk loop before quickly finding the cache & marking another log.

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Tenth day of a two week motorhome excursion, heading via the Coast to the lower South Island, picking up a few caches along the way – 14 today. Meandering through the Catlins today and seeing the sights along the way. Made hard work of finding this one. Spent several minutes searching close to the sign which is where our coords initially seemed to be indicating. After reading the description properly we concentrated on the area closer to the start of the boardwalk and, at that point, didn’t take long to come up with the goods. #3376. TFTC.

A fairly old cache I was wanting to get on my travels. An empty carpark was a bonus, so we strolled down to the lake and while the kids played around I made the find. Beauty spot, cheers

I normally wouldn’t stop here but thanks for this stop peas full little lake

Another good find with woolwood9 today.
Thanks for the reason to visit the area.
SL tm/ww NZ

In the area hunting caches with tmann421
Nice hide
TFTC

A nice quick walk around a pretty cool looking lake. Easily found, thanks for this cache Mcroni.

Found this with 4Clubs while enjoying a days caching in the Catlins. This was a lake I hadn't visited before, and it really is quite pretty. We quickly found the cache and dropped off a TB to continue its journey. TFTC

Easy to spot this one on my tour round the lake.

TFTC M.o.E.

We spent the nice afternoon in the Catlins visiting some waterfalls and lakes, so we also took the little walk to Lake Wilkie. It was not too far to go and we found the "multi" very quickly.

Thank you for the cache!

#22 of 366 (goal for 2020)

With Cami211996

Nice easy find with smiley568 despite having 0 signal! Tfth #22 of 2020

When walking to the Wilkie Lake we found this cache quickly. Thx for the cache.
#3437

Why is this a multi?
Anyway T4tc
migrue Switzerland

This is a real neat area. Love the bird calls but could not see them.

T4TC

Together with TEMBO! I had a really interesting geocaching-trip today. We could find some geocaches, met some locals and had a great talk to them.
Concerning this geocache I want to say thanks because we had much fun in searching and finding this geocache! The cache made our trip even more interesting!
TFTC!

We are in New Zealand for 10 Weeks, enjoying our parental time together with our little daughter.
We are already in the 7th week and our trip is slowly going to its end. At the moment we are in the nice, wild and untouched area of the Catlins.

The lake is a nice and quiet little place, but unfortunately the storm was too strong so that had waves on the water and no mirroring on it.

Found it together with Sinlkid

TFTC Bodo on Tour

Pleasant stroll and quickly found.
Greetings from Wales
TFTC

Beautiful little area. TFTC.

Heading down the coast through the Catlins to Invercargill to spend a few days with Ruru_NZ but we need to find a few caches that I haven't cleaned up on the first trip I did down here. Won't get all of them but will do as many as possible.

How wonderful to be in the bush again. What how do we get round that puddle - go through of course and try to keep feet as dry as possible. Bit of wind on the lake meant no reflections. Had to wait for a group of muggles to move away again as we doubled back to recheck the gz - it's out as previously mentioned by other cachers by about 18m.

Met up with KCN in Dunedin, and making our way back to Invercargill over the next few days. Mostly picking up gaps in her finds here in the Caitlins leaving others for me to get another day. Like the way that the boardwalk takes you through the stages of forest growth.
Like others, we searched for a while before expanding, then needed to get off the boardwalk to retrieve. 13 was my count if that helps others. Tree is very close and cache should now be able to be retrieved without leaving walk now. A bit damp inside, but logbook OK.
Thanks for the smilie Mcroni.
2614 15 October 2019 11:19

Nice quick find in my mission to colour this corner of NZ in yellow. No 6 today

Like the previous had to wait for muggles taking photos. The lake was still and the reflections superb. Had a good look but no joy. Expanded search and found it 20m from gz.

Tagging along on a Catlin's road trip with kjr for the weekend. Happy Star wars day.!!!
Nice straightforward multi with a quick find tftc

Ten days off in a row for the price of two leave days, how fabulous! Packed up the whanau for an adventure and headed south. Our original plans were slightly thwarted by water, but we made the trip into an adventure tikitour with a few caches along the way. Signing the logs as Team Polak or TP for brevity. Great fun, thanks to all the CO’s for the entertainment!!
Very nice little walk, TFTC!!

I enjoyed the walk to this cache site where I encountered some muggles who were taking photos and in apparently in no hurry to move along. I waited and waited and then, when the opportunity finally arose, moved into where I thought the cache would be. It wasn't and I was rather embarrassed to soon discover I could have easily gotten to the cache in the first place without the muggles having any influence.

A lovely walk and wow the reflections on the lake are as good as Lake Matheson. What a beautiful place. Took photos untill family went past then when clear we looked for the cache. Found and signed log. Thanks for this Mcroni.

Nice wee hide found after avoiding a few muggles, -TB tftc

#3953 We went on this short walk with children, we liked the lake and interesting information boards. Thanks for the cache, greetings from Czech Republic.

Thanks son is very tired fourth day of cacheing. He’s had enough.
We have had a wonderful trip both up and down the Catlins. Lots of cache found and photos taken. But still could come back for more.
Spent time with Kiscardi today. Nice to geocatch with my sister.

Thanks Quick find today while down in the Catlins with NZ Bozzy and my nephew Logan. Checked out the Cathedral Caves at low tide and grabbed a few other caches as well
TFTC

Beautiful lake. It took a bit as my coors were 20m off, but the hint helped.
TFTC

A really nice walk and the bush kept us reasonably dry too. Tftc

A quick find with chermione on a lovely little walk. Thanks.

On a Catlins wander with Granville at the wheel. Quickly found, in good condition
Well maintained
Lovely walk and we haven’t even made it to the lake
I hear mrs brought a canoe down here in the past.
Lake was lovely too, with dualling dragonflies of various ages
Tftc

This cache was quickly discovert. Than we enjoied the view. The lakes were much mor reflective than the Mirror Lakes (which we visited on a windy day)
Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache!

Since we were too early for the Cathedral Caves we continued to Lake Wilkie.

We really enjoyed this little walk. The lake was more reflective than the Mirror Lakes near Milford Sound (where it was very windy when we visited).

Feeeeeee discovered the hiding place very quickly.

Thanks for this Cache!

# 2221

Another great short walk on our trip. Due to the hint we could immediately locate ground zero but had to wait for a muggle-free opportunity to grab it.

We had to wait for a muggle free slot, but while waiting we could locate the cache and finally log it. Thanks for showing us this nice lake! Greetings from Germany, GolmarKlonk

Amazing trees

Damp day, such a lovely quiet calming place none the less. Easy find. TFTC

Not the best of days to be out doing it. On a mission to reach 1000 by 2 year caching anniversary, which i should easily reach after todays effort. Love the places of that geocaching takes you to. Have driven past many times, and never dropped in. Thanks for bring me here.

Beautiful vista over this lovely lake, very tranquil, with flitting swallows, darting over the lake, hunting. Ambience occasionally interrupted by loud tourists, as we took some time to locate the cache. Coords off by about 15m, but the description combined with hint got us there in the end. We enjoyed the extra time, and no need to get your feet wet, or damp at all. TFTC

We had a nice walk to the lake. We enjoyed the interesting information boards.
At the time we have been here there was no muggle around so we had no problems to find the box quickly.
Thanks for showing. Tftc

Found this one during our trip in New Zealand.

Quick find.

TFTC

Managed to grab the last available place in the carpark. Luckily I passed almost everyone on their way back so there was only two people down at the lake when I arrived. They were well out of sight and preoccupied looking intently at the harakeke. Found the cache in the first place I checked which is always a bonus in such a busy spot. TFTC and ensuring I visited this lovely little lake. # 11,986

Don't get wet

Kerstin.nds and I walked the little loop track this morning. Luckily l, we were alone at the GZ do we could search for the cache.
After a few minutes we found it. But we don't get it why this one has to be a multi.


Left a TB here, please grab it and bring it to another beautiful spot.
Tftc

Strange understanding of the cache type "multi"... and as the coords seemed to be a fair bit off the description it took us some time - but we finally found it

Not sure to which guidelines the chosen cache type should comply to these days and it took ReCached and me quite a while to spot the container. Felt like it was rather around 10-15 metres away from the posted coordinates. It's a nice little walk and definitely worth the visit. TFTC Mcroni!

January 11, 2018 @ 15:35
Cache #2173

Lake Wilkie is a good place to stop. It lies peacefully between its trees, many Ratas were already blooming in bright red. It was well worth to go down, not only because of the cache.
We were the only ones here, so I didn’t need to use stealth when searching. Which helped a lot with the search.
Thanks for the cache at this nice szop and best wishes from Germany.

Out for a days Ingress and exploring the Catlins again, decided to go for a walk as the sun came out, found easy enough and in good order.

Thanks for the hint! TFTC

On our way to the Nugget Point we made several stops to take a view at very interesting sites ! This was one of them, thank you for the Cache !

Found with Dirtyhelmut on the way to the Nugget Point. Nice Lake. TFTC

CZECH
pěkné malé jezírko... procházka trvala sotva 15 minut, k výhledu na jezero asi 2 minuty
nechápu, proč jsou tam 2 logbooky

What a beautiful, peaceful place. My kind of multi, not too many calculations . TFTC .

My turn to find the off-set multi and the box was quickly in hand at the hint place. Clean and dry in here and I grabbed the TB in stock. My first time to the lake and while it was still a stunner of a day, the weather bomb caught up with us logging the [fifth cache](https://coord.info/GC1NT86) at Matai falls. TFTC

Out with Red Roaming on a trip around New Zealand. what a lovely place. thanks for bringing us here. peaceful. MTFTC

Cache soon found using the where would I site a cache here logic! Lovely walk down to this peaceful lake which we wouldn't have known about if it weren't for geocaching! It has also helped us qualifying for a challenge cache later in our travels requiring multi caches found on 10 consecutive days, this being Day 8! Many thanks
Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

On a trip across the globe, with Red Roaming, to celebrate my early retirement but I have to return to work though. We are here in NZ for 6 more weeks. yippee. Log signed with our full caching names or our initials. The cache was soon found by RR at GZ. TFTC

Nach einer ewig langen Anreise machen wir jetzt für die nächsten 5 Wochen Neuseeland unsicher und suchen hier nach Dosen und Abenteuern. Zuerst auf der Südinsel und danach noch auf der Nordinsel. Und da wir einmal hier unten sind, gibt es auch noch nen Abstecher nach Fiji.

Heutige Etappe: in den Catlines

Zur Dose:
Ein interessanter Multi mit nur dem Final, das wir aber problemlos und unbeobachtet gefunden haben.

Danke für's Legen und Herführen sagt Bison1.0.

Nach einer ewig langen Anreise machen wir jetzt für die nächsten 5 Wochen Neuseeland unsicher und suchen hier nach Dosen und Abenteuern. Zuerst auf der Südinsel und danach noch auf der Nordinsel. Und da wir einmal hier unten sind, gibt es auch noch nen Abstecher nach Fiji.

Heutige Etappe: in den Catlines

Zur Dose:
Ein interessanter Multi mit nur dem Final, das wir aber problemlos und unbeobachtet gefunden haben.

Danke für's Legen und Herführen sagt Bison1.0.

Cache # 3,655 - another cache done with Pufura. A nice walk, a lovely view. A number of talkative muggles made this one take longer than it should have, but all well in the end. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Tftc

On a rainy day we first had a coffee at the Frog Cafe. Afterwards we went here for a little walk to loose the calories of the awesome brownie we had. Tftc

Quick find. My favourite place in Catlins so far...

TFTC, Zynikus