Get Puffed! (Southland) Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By Gyargh, Mum & Muggle-ish Mark on 28-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1XW5C

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi GYARGH

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Needs archiving?

Need archiving apparently

After a dinner with my work colleagues, and since it was still light at 9:30pm, and since I am literally staying across the road, I thought I'd come take a look. The garden at the coords looks very new and the recent logs pretty dismal, so after a bit of a look, I reckon it's gone.

Have a look little but everywhere. But not find. Still good to see this tower.

I've found 38 Gyargh caches according to GSAK, but none since 2010, so it would have been good to find this one. Sadly, after a decent search, it was time to move on.

While doing the Queens Park Adventure lab, we stopped to look for this cache, excited that it was an unfound Gyargh cache! But sadly no luck for us and we had to abandon the search and look for shelter when the rain came pouring down.

Quick find, tftc

No luck

Cache 74 quick easy find on the way to work, garden must have been redone since this was originally put out as the hint is no longer relevant, log is dry. Just enough space for a Little Rock big to be added to cache T4TC

Quick walk from the town centre to get some fresh air. Tftc with jakesrage

Nice quick find on our stop in invercargill. Was nice to see the tower from the main street after visiting Hayes and sons. Tftc with isistibisi

Lovely tower. Cheers.

Staying 100m across the road so we had to pop across and make a quick find of this cache. What a beautiful building!

What a shame we can't climb the tower anymore. Such a beautiful building to be condemned. This is my furthest south cache ever today. Tftc

Out and about caching before darkness sets in. TFTFun

We are continuing our caching journey with AF-Bee, GeoWench78 and 6ftzp&1/2zip. After settling to our hotel across the street we thought we would go out and grab a few caches. It was still light after all and we would be leaving for Queenstown early in the morning. Cache was a little off cords for us, so took a bit of hunting. Thanks Gyargh,Mum & Muggle-ish Mark for the cache.

Found with AF BEE, 6ftzpr&1/2zip, and ondago while on a geocaching vacation. Thanks for placing this cache.

Out walking/caching with ondago after dinner and before sunset...this one took a few minutes to hone in on...thanks for sharing some info about this local landmark!

Found at gl, not under low lying tree but under something against the wall.
TFTC

Found. Full log to come. TFTC.

Tftc log getting full

Dunedin, Timaru, Invercargill caching trip for 3 days with rustynz and Rebel98. This trip involves a very long mission to obtain as many as we can of the new Tuia Mātauranga GeoTour series. We started in Auckland some time ago and intend to finish the series sometime this year. Only 100 caches to get for the souvenir… lol. We do have other caches on the horizon and we’re trying to get as many of those caches as well.

We were attracted by the awesome large, old building when we came here. We parked up and started a search, we soon realised the hint means nothing anymore due to the changes in the area. nevertheless I found the cache up against the block wall for those who are still interested in finding this, the C.O has not cached for 8 years, so obviously long gone and has no interest in maintaining this.

On a caching adventure with some Westies (rustynz, rebel98 and gorby) to Otago and Southland, on a long weekend of caching fun

We spotted this building on the way to our accommodation, and decided we should park and have a closer look.

Now the building looks impressive up close, and sadly now an earthquake risk, so visitors are no longer able to climb to the top.

So here we are making a circuit of the building, as the GPS is really struggling. Then when we got to the gardens, we could see how the area had been modified. It was gorby who found the cache, I think he used satellite view, and with a little bit of digging he found the cache. It had nothing to do with the light, a bit of a red herring me thinks.

Anyhow happy to be signing the log, thanks for bringing us here Gyargh, Mum & Muggle-ish Mark

Log later

Amazing how thw gps bounced. Call building. Found by gorby. With rustynz

Got it! It's probably easier to find now that the trees are gone

Found in about five minutes with duderino64 and gaoliya. Despite the last person's log, we found it right at GZ, not near any spotlight. Cache was still hidden pretty well, still at ground level. Log was in good condition. Tftc! Aloha from Oahu.

It seems like this one has been moving around a bit since the area around it has been remodeled, but it should now be back closer to its original location as moyifei said. Was able to find it in the dark. Tftc!

Found very lucky because the trees that guarded it were cut down. The cache was half buried in a place with no reference point. To the owner's attention: I placed it near the nearest spotlight, near the power cords. Thanks for the cache. Greetings from Portugal.

Este geocacher reportou que existe um problema com esta geocache.

28/08/2019 11:08 - currently some works in the area where cache supposed to be.

TFTC

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Love the water tower. Pity closed now due to scared council. I'd risk it

Bit of a search. Tftc. Left a peg

Very quick and easy find. Not sure why there is a diff and terr of 3 as it was very simple.
TFTC

I had spotted this feature earlier so wasn't at all surprised to discover it was the theme of a geocache. I had no difficulty working out where this wee treasure was hidden.

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from Austria  
Die_Asseln

Tftc nice park and grab.

Easy find here....
Would be a great place for a CITO.
Sorry didn't have a rubbish bag on me as on holiday and on foot.
Love the Water Tower....took heaps of photos!

We were going round and round and just about to give when bingo, got it. Tftc

Took longer than it should have
Looking in wrong place

Quick find on my tour of the Southland. TFTC

Quick easy find on a busy day tftc

Had an evening free, so revisited this awesome feature that I didn't realise there was a cache because my phone battery was very low during my last visit. Easily found with the help of good coordinates. Intially walked into the thick of the trees, only to realise it wasn't really necessary. TFTC, greetings from Auckland.

A lovely evening walk

Walked right past it twice but got there in the end tftc

This cache was very close to our accommodation so a quick find between the showers. TFTC

We found this geocache while travelling in this wonderful country. We left the Catlins today and drove to Riverton. I wanted to do two quick stops: one at the end of the SH1 and one on Bluff Hill for this cache and the view. I was happy to catch another old one. After Bluff Hill our roadtrip went on to Invercargill. Overthere we spotted the water tower and took the stash. Thanks for both caches!

A real landmark.
Nicely hidden.
TFTC

A quick find this afternoon, good coordinates. Not sure about the extra bit as door was closed. Tftc

After approaching from the rear of the Water Tower the GPS helped us narrow down the GZ. The cache was discovered in the first place we looked. TFTC

Went for a walk with the missus after dinner to find a few geocaches. Lovely park to visit. Alas the tower was not open. TFTC.

Easiest T3 I've found in a very long time Nice building though.

Found at 11:15 - #8045 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Great views from the top, legs are burning from the climb.

nice easy find after my GPS settled down I remember climbing up to the top and looking for a red flashing light I had placed in my window at home in Margaret st before the days of caching TFTC

Tftf

Nice tricky one

Could do with a new log running out of room

It was a beautiful morning on this day to go caching....but then the rain came back...
But we stayed strong an could find the box.
tftc

Thanks

Cool cache Tftc

my sister and i found with mum before rest of family tftc

good cache great day out with family TFTC

My brother and i had fun looking for this found quickly tftc

Nice walk around base quick find with the kids Tftc

Very clever hide. TFTC

Been past this iconic landmark many times, quick find on a quiet Sunday morning

Thanks for bringing me here.

A quick one thanks TFTC

Good spot! TFTC

TFTC! Found it on out way to the southest cache we’ve ever found!

TFTC! Found during our short stay at Invercargill

Coords spot on, making this an easy find. Thank you. What a neat old building.

With drizzle beginning in the evening after waiting for the GPS to settle finally located the cache well tucked away. Tftc

Tftc my daughter's first find

Just happened to be parked right beside the cache and checked the app while admiring the tower. Thank you from a couple of Aussies.

down low

@13:25, TFTC

A quick visit to Invercargill for family but we can't come all this way and not find a cache. Found with AorakiSheep

Found with MaryFairy after visiting the lovely Queen's Park

Found with Rapidkhan on a walk around Queens Gardens and the town belt.
Thanks

#790

Geocaching Instagram: geocacher1698

Lovely building, feels like being back in the past

ReCached and I liked the impressive architecture of the building a lot, wr felt like living in the past for a brief moment. We then headed over to GZ and quickly found the cache. TFTC Gyargh, Mum & Muggle-ish Mark!

January 13, 2018 @ 20:23
Cache #2192

Found during our holiday in NZ

Found it

Nice and easy. Beautiful building this close up... Found with Greg. Cheers

I had walked to the top of the tower on several occasions as a child. Thankfully I didn't have to today! TFTC.

After a half day of travelling and a visit to Bluff we had enough time for a nice walk through the city. We let the geocaches lead us. Ending with 11 founds.

All CO's thanks for giving us a nice afternoon and a lot of information about what we have seen.

TFTC

A really impressive water tower- nice! Unfortunately it was closed today - maybe we can come back tomorrow afternoon.
Looking for the cache the GPS first sent us to an ‚entrance‘ that seemed to be used as dump-place, no fun to search. But then we found it, on the outside, on a clean place
Thanks for the cache and best wishes from Germany

We stayed one day in this nice City. Well done. Greetings from Germany.

Easy to find. TFTC

We found it together with Blue HD Rider. TFTC

Today we had a great trip from Te Anau to Invercargill and on the way we manage to find some caches. This one was easy to find. Many greetings from Germany and TFTC

@ 11.35

Drive through Invercargill without seeing the watertower is a a shame. So I visited it after shopping some food.

Thanks for the cache says

eggepfuedi from Switzerland

Interesting location, thanks for bringing me here.
TFTC

After a few days of very intense work activities, I had one last full day free in Invercargill before I head back home to Nelson tomorrow. I headed off early for a full day out caching to see how many caches I could find. The weather was threatening but apart from a cold wind and occasional drizzle it really wasn't too bad. I made hard work of this one. Overshot GZ by a few metres and that put me off. Once I'd given up searching all the wrong spots I spotted the right spot. TFTC, Biggles.

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