Iced Over ( South Canterbury ) Twizel, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 19-Jun-05. Waypoint GCPC00

This cache showed up on the GPS and we didnt realise it was out of action. All dry today no ice no water and no cache at GZ.

[This entry was edited by drawp on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 11:59:41 PM.]

Cache is wet again, the area is flooded, so have remove it, and wont replace.

Bitsprayer

Try "flooded over" rather than "iced over". The whole area, ie all the tree area was completely underwater, and we're not just talking a wee puddle or two here! Will try for it another time...maybe another season?

Icy & snowy took a little while to find. TFTC

Saw picture so changed container to a smaller screw top, guess the expensive containers aren't water proof.
ernienz

Iced over, iced under, and completely iced through!! Crunched through the fog, snow, and ice to get to this one. New container wasn't waterproof either: it had filled up then frozen solid! See the picture of the cache contents. Very funny!
TFTC,
Cheers,
G.

Cache container and logbook renewed with owners permission as I was traveling by.
ernienz

Many thanks to Ernienz, the cache is all fixed.

Bitsprayer

Auf Grund eines Team Account Splitt logge ich diesen nun mit dem eigenen Account nach.
Die Geschichte zum Log kann bei Cache.Mike nachgelesen werden.

Vielen Dank fürs Verständnis und Grüsse

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Because of a Team account split I'm logging this one with my personal account.
Please read the log of Cache.Mike to get the story about this find.

Thanks for your understanding and greetings

[size=1][font=Impact] .... [orange]JoshThePirate[/orange]

also had to use the emergency logpaper, as the logbook is soaking wet [xx(] tried to cover everything as good as possible.

T4Tc

Didn't find this one. Not sure it is still there based on previous notes about container being broken. Still it was fun trying.

A quick find in the early morning, but the container and everything inside is very wet, because the lid is broken. We left a piece of paper and a dry plastic bag with our log.
Greetings from Germany

Claudia & Willi

What a nice rest area this is. The pond looked very peaceful with all the yellow trees sourrounding it. There was one camper parked, fortunately not too close to GZ, so we could search for the cache without any disturbance.
The cache was filled with water (we hardly managed to sign the log), the lid of the container is broken. We emptied out the water and when re-hiding, tried to cover it as good as possible with the ripped plastic bag.

TNLN, TFTC

Nice wee spot - container is stuffed Im sorry to report.

TFTC

Container needs some attention. See my log of find.

Quick easy find at 0900. No muggles about. Took GC HCO???. Left toy whistle and Nanango Sticker. The container is damaged in one corner and water was in the container and the bag containing the goodies. I have dried out the container and the goodies. The goodies are no loose in the container and the plastic bag is wrapped around the damaged end of the container. TFTC

Found with Imgettingannoyed during our 3 n half week NZ mega cache mission!!

What a beautiful spot!! I'd love to see it iced over! Took some fantastic photo's of the reflective lake.

Awesome spot.
Was very still today which allowed for some awesome pictures to be taken of the lake.

Cache container is broken and whilst still dry it will more than likley get very wet when the rains come

pouring down with rain dropped off horseshoe coin

Easy find. Took TB for travel to another bridge cache. TFTC

Our last one for today!

In: TB Sundial Bridge
Out: TB Mickey Mouse

TFTC
Roland aka tasdevil13

Our last cache on the way to Mt Cook.

Had to sneak past campers in the early morning. Nice spot.

After being thwarted by muggles last time it was good to find this cache this time.
It was nice to drive through the shade on such a beautiful day.
Thanks
ernienz

fabulous area whichwe are enjoying on our holiday in and out coins left TB Mickie

Easy found on the way home. TFTC

Found it together with Koorbresi on our NZ-Tour.

One of 102 on our 4 week holiday in NZ.

Passed some muggles on the way to the cache site but no problems as they were enjoying a cuppa in the shade. Nice spot. TFTC

Found easily, took loads of cool pictures from the road too! TFTC, Spark_ie

Despite a high muggle concentration of people who have set up camps for the night We used walk in a circle subterfuge and found the cache. Good one. TFTC

Quick find along my way to Lake Tekapo. But had to hide from camping muggles.
BTW: there was no ice

Time: 6:30pm.
TNLN, TFTC, Worlddiver from Switzerland

Another find on the way to Christchurch.

A quick and easy driveby find that took less than a minute from the car, to the cache, logging it, rehiding and back to the car again.

Nice rest area. You won't even know there was a pond there. Cache was an easy find.

A quick find after having a look at them spilling lake pukaki. Very cold and windy at the lake but nice and sheltered at the cache. TFTC + 'Nini' macdonalds toy - Ladybug soft toy

Not much ice anymore, but water icy all the same ... but easy find during lunchstop!

10:29 am - Quick find, done on our way to Twizel. tftc
Took: nothing
Left: nothing

No ice today, although it was getting a bit chilly again. No campers around, had the place to myself. TFTC

Quick find, no trade. There were no trackables in the cache. Another team from Germany was here before, we saw in the logbook, and they took the trackable, but they haven't registerd.

Peter & Annemarie (Holland)

Nice dry weather. Our usual trick: Erik made coffee while I look for the cache.

Found it!
Cache found in our second day of holidays in New Zealand.

Very nice place.

TFTC
Greetings from Barcelona

Found it by Guanacos Team
Trobat per Guanacos Team

TFTC!
GPC!

Nice little place within the trees. Took mask, left car.

Thanks, a nice spot we camped round here many years ago when there were plenty of rabbits.

Nice Place For A Rest
TFTC

Tom

on the way to Mt. Cook Village we easily found this cache;
dropped our first! geocoin fom germany here - hopefully it finds a good way home

TFTC

Yet another great spot for a picnic when the lake is too rough for boating - we would not have found this if we were not geocaching:)
TNLN

Well a drive by in a Campervan, well we got quite close. A quick stop but no ice today. thanks for the cache.

17:55 Not quite a drive by but we did try in the motorhome... See what rabbits do to the ground. Not good. Cheers, SL.

Found easily as was exposed so have recovered it better, we hope. Swopped TB's
TFTC

Found at 1:38 pm
Easy find as we spotted the location from 20 mtrs.
Brought back to car to do swaps.
Cold today but not enough for the ice over. It is going to snow here tomorrow we have been told.
T: TB Ram
L: TB SKI VALE and stickers. TFTC SL

Nice spot to stop. Easy Find. Dropped off Travel Bug. Thanks.

A slightly more difficult cache (for us) that had me walking in the wrong direction while the Gps just didn't change (pointer or distance), while Kath walked in the other direction and eventually found the cache. T: panda toy, L: keyring, SL. Thanks to Bitsprayer for the cache.

A very quick find on the way back to Chch from Wanaka. No ice on the pond as yet...
-bubble mixture +chap stick (unopened).

Partly iced over at 5pm

No ice today and neither the rain we had at Mt. Cook some hours before.
Nice restplace, nice cache.
TFTC
puffin-team from Holland.

Very scenic at this time of year - glad we waited to do this cache this morning rather than trying it last night. Fun seeing the ducks paddling around in all the autumn leaves on the pond!!
- geocoin

passbycache, with help

nice stop for lunch on way back to ChCh. TFTC. quick find.

passbycache- with help

Found on our way over to Christchurch. The early morning mists have cleared and there are wonderful views.

What a great rest area, driven past many times but never visited. Nice try putting lettuce outside the rabbit holes!

Can't get over the scenery around here, and the view of Mt Cook was stunning. TNLN

nice easy find
thanks

The typical Mackenzie Country hide. Popular campervan spot.

This place reminded us of forests in Yugoslavia where we had been 15 years ago. Found cache

quickly and enjoyed the short stroll. Thanks!

Took: GC

There was a campervan about 25m from the cache. Had to approach from the right direction, but managed it OK. A nice spot here, thanks.

No ice on the pond today We are on the way to Mt. Cook, so I guess we will see some there.
TFTC

Great spot.
Blown out of airport but lovely day.
TFTC.

Counting kilometers!

Quick find on our tour to Mt. Cook and back. TFTC

Did a round around the lake, great day! Very accurate GPS measurements. Will send our first TB on its way.

#1245 Although I couldn't work out the signifigance of the name the cache was easy to find. TNLN DS8300

Easy find on homeward bound trip.
TNLN TFTC

good excuse for a stop on a long journey tftc, left t.b a bit closer to his destination.

Another nice place just found by looking for some caches.
T4TC.

Took Hayley's Donkey TB

Nice area, had a bit of fun driving around the rest stop to this one.
TNLNSL, TFTC

We stopped at this pretty little rest area with lots of friendly ducks en route to Twizel for morning tea and found the cache with no trouble at all. TFTC

One of a series of very enjoyable caches we found on our 10 day tour of the the South Island. Searching for caches along the way made it far more exciting than it would have been otherwise and took us to all sorts of interesting places we would not of found otherwise.
Took elephant keyring. Left powerball. TFTC

Lovely spot for a break. TFTC.

Good spot for cyclists!

Pick this one up from Mt Cook on our way to Wanaka drop Bike Geocoin

dropped Geocoin

Found with friends on an overcast day.

dropped off Unite for Diabetes TB

Great little spot for a picnic. What a great pile of stones,
TFTC! Came from Australia, just been up Mt Cook, this one popped up on the radar and I had to pull over.

A lovely little picnic spot. Not iced over today sweltering more like it. Found cache easily. TNLN TFTC

Thanx for the Cache! TNLN
teamKollMont xx

No ice on a summers day!! Took Colorado badge, left Eiffel Tower

Nice little rest area. Cache a little too exposed so we covered it a bit better.

Out: geocoin

Thanks,
Chris & Vera

We found this cache together with friends, there first cache! The live in Twizel and knew the place where the pond was ices over. Nice catch.
In: Bikedog Geocoin, pink clicker and pencil brown (Holland). Out: Eye and hairclip (kiwi).
Thank you J3, from the Netherlands and Taco, Ellen and Noah from Twizel.

Still hot on the heels of Comradehunt (7th cache) on way south. Spotted Moriarty TB and took it left Cane top caps.

Found it! left Jim Moriarty tb.

- Geocoin & Bubbles
+ Notepad
TFTC

Found with rchdlyn. MrBoss enjoys these spots as he can get out to stretch his legs and sniff our caches.+ geocoin - radioTFTC SL

282 Hi us again. Cunning hide. TNLN TFTC SL will post pix when home

Found with rchdlyn. Took a toy, left a toy TFTC SL