St Michael's ( South Canterbury ) Waihao Forks, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 12-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F1DC

Hard. Well done

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Nearly gave up on this but a log said it was a easy find. So gave it a whirl Cheryl. Thanks

Out and about for a Sunday drive. Nice quick find here TFTC Bitsprayer

We are on our way to Twizel on a road we haven'ttraveledonbefore. We walked into the cemetery and made a beeline for a likely host. No need to grovel. Cache is all good. Thanks for the placement bitsprayer

Another small historic cemetery.. after parting the leaves and branches all was revealed thanks Bitsprayer

I was on hands and knees in the middle of bushes for much of the hunt. Maybe another time. The grounds were nice though which helped to make up for the blue face.

Never saw a church. Nice spot though. Lucky to go straight to it for a quick find. TFTC.

Interesting spot never noticed before. Took a bit of looking to locate cache. Thank you

Dunlea Boys
Bit of a hunt for this one

I did not chose the best access initially. Lovely spot, TFTC!!

You are right - would never know this was here.Really tucked away. TFTC

On a weekend to danseys pass with farmerkeith and family. Awesome caches in the area. Thanks for the cache owners for maintaining these. Nice spot cached tucked away safe and sound

Enjoyed the find on a nice day TFTC

Out driving the back roads of Waimate seeking smilies. Had a sense of deja vu here - I must have DNF'd it years ago. No problem with the find today. [^] TFTC Bitsprayer

I found this a while ago and thought I had logged it. We met a relation of the descendants of the church yard mowing the lawns so had a good chat about the area, surprisingly we new a lot of the same people. TFTC

Well kept grounds even though the building has gone. I appreciated the etching on the plaque to show me what it used to look like. TFTC # 17,801

Quick find, tiny little graveyard, no longer a church there, but the plaque etching on the brick wall provided a picture. TFTC!

An early start on a big day geocaching. Ummm what church? I searched and came up with nothing Luckily the cache was an easier find, though I did approach from the wrong side at first! tftc

Cool find took a bit.

Our first of the day exploring area before heading home.
What a beautiful church it was glad we got to stop here.
Thanks for the cache Britspayer.

Reasonably quick find. TFTC.

The church is long gone but the graveyard remains. A quiet spot these days. Cache in great order. I called by to rescue the TB.

found on my second attempt but oh well you get that.. just dropping a TB off the I have had a while TFTC Mr BITSPRAYER

I had parked my snail shell up in Waimate and was at a bit of a loose end so decided to locate and sign a few caches hereabouts.

I hate magpies.

Cheers for the cache.

Found with StreetWalker on day 2 of our Queens Birthday weekend, on a most enjoyable Waimate - Kurow - Waimate round trip. It turned out to be a good choice to head inland as the weather was fine (though cold!) until we reached the coast on the last stage of our journey.
We didn't see the church so think it's gone - maybe the cache should be re-named "Stolen St Michaels" ?
GZ looked a bit daunting but luckily the cache was a quick find. TFTC.

#15673. Lots of parking (partly because of the removal of the church) and a quick find. Looks like the cemetery is having some work done to allow it to accept more guests in the future. TFTC.

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

FITW ivss_xx

Well, the church no longer stands but the cache is still there!

FTFT - First To Find Today. Considering how many geocachers were around it was cool to note down if we were the first geocaches to find it today!

12:58
FITW GreenGoblinNZ

This cache is at a country church that you hardly notice as you drive past at a 100km, maybe mostly not because of your driving speed but because of the fact that the church is flattened down to a pile of rubble.

FTFT - we thought this is worth noting down - First To Find Today - an achievement, knowing, how many geocachers are in this area today.

#5368

I wonder why they did this to the church. Tftc

Shame to see the history in rubble. Cache still accessible if one is fence nimble. Tftc

Was probably a nice spot but the church is gone!! Had to sneak over a fence. Tftc

Sad to see the church has gone but tftc.

Found on way to Geraldine for the night.

On a mission from Rolleston to Tekapo, Twizel, Omarama, Kurow, Waimate and home again. Found over 100 caches, which was the goal for the day. A bit drizzly for a start but beautiful sunshine through the Mackenzie. Thanks to all the CO's and apologies for the cut and paste.

Warm drive through area today. Almost got sprung by a local who stopped for a chat. Thank goodness I had already signed the log and was just walking out. TFTC

Can't believe I never noticed this church here before. As a previous local that's a tad embarrassing! Tftc. All in good order.

Wow

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Easy find

Stopped here on a day drive to explore the region and find a few caches. Nice old church, although there was a fair stench of animal effluent around it while I was there. The cache was a quick find with good accurate coordinates. Signed log, TFTC.

the passing cars must have wondered why someone was hanging in the bushes... no luck

Well hidden. Believe the GPS!

Found with not too much difficulty

TFTC

FOUND AGES AGO BUT LOG DID NOT STICK

No joy here

This is what I like about geocaching, finding places that you wouldn't normally notice

Took a couple of minutes longer than expected to find. But very obvious after cache in hand. Tftc

.. sped past this Church many times without noticing it! TFTC

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

After a walk at Gunns Bush. BBear44 and I had lunch in Waimate and wondered over to the gardens. Then we completed an interesting multi and went on a bike ride. Now it's time to hit the road. There was plenty of room for the camper van to turn around and park.

Driving to kurow for the night collecting a few caches along the way. Enjoying the nice sunny day eith my buddy Nosynel. Cheers for the cache.

I like looking at these old churches and it is sad that this one with its once lovely little gardens and tombstones etc. is no longer functioning... It seem to be following behind popmac. Also from Palmerton north. Who is a caching companion. He was here in April. thank you for these caches and another smiley face.

I could not find this the first time I visited, but it was getting dark.... turns out I punched the wrong coords into the gps. ... got the right place this time.

First day of two days trip from Christchurch to Invercargill via Cromwell. Cache 17 of 72 today. This is part of my challenge to find as many 'minutes' for a 400-minute challenge cache, with most caches being straightforward finds. Thanks for the cache.

A hidden gem, thanks for showing it to us.
Found with DebsNZ and Aoraki.
TFTC

Stopped for the Sunday service but no one about so we made a quick find instead. Found with Aoraki Sheep and Woody104

Looks like we might have been a bit late for the church today but that didn't stop us from making the find. Found with debsnz and Woody104

Time for a short prayer.

A nice spot on a great day. TFTC

Thanks

Thank you for the cache. We were with my wife on long trip around south east Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The caches showed us so many nice places.

A nice fast find. This went alot faster than I thought it was going to take initially. We only saw once we were leaving that there are Authorised access only signs up. Thanks for the cache
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last of the day hopped the fence, took a little longer than it should have but finally got it tftc

Found TFTC

Had to fossick for sometime for this one tftc

Nice church, cache found quickly.
TFTC

14/12/2013 12:55:00 PM
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Headed out for a weekend of crazy caching with sharkiefan - it was all about numbers this weekend!
For me personally, I needed the numbers so that I could get enough caches to bring my average a day back up to 4 caches at least for this year, as on a streak it's not really possible to find heaps of caches in your home hood!

This was cache number 10 out of the 116 we found over the two days. And a huge thank you to all the cachers who put out all these caches! Loved the fun time we had - though weekend could have ended better!
Sorry for not writing cooler logs, but heading overseas in a couple days, and I don't exactly want to be behind in my logging then!! Haha.

Consec caching day # 405

TFTC!!

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Nice old church. Found with Sonia on our great roadtrip south. Tftc

Found thes road side cache on the way home.

TFTC from Germany

Koppa-s

The geo-nana gets the credit for finding this one, she wasn't afraid to poke around and have a good look!! TFTC Bitsprayer.

We paid our respects to this local church and after a bit of fossicking about we uncovered the sneaky hide.

3.05pm. Nice garden. Wonder whether the church is still used. Cache took a few peeks and pokes to locate.
TNLNSL
TFTC
M&P.

Not so easy to get to but that's why Bo is my Manly Jack.

Great to see the sun and a cache yay. Lets hope the weather holds we are in for a long days caching tftc

Did a lot of searching in the wrong hint, before coming to my senses. Glad the church was empty! TFTC SL

TFTC! Found with purdiepurdie on a caching expedition.

TFTC. I love church caches - this one had a several graves in the grounds. Most appropriate location for a cache of this type. There were masses of bumble bees feasting off the neighbouring kowai tree, but they had no interest in my activities.
Found while flobberworm! and purdiepurdie visit down south for a short caching break.

Nice day, doing well, we had a good wander round, worth the stop. thanks

Indeed it would be easy to drive past and miss it - found with Emvy_us on day six of our southern tiki tour while attending the Dunedin Mega. TFTC.

Another great find on the Emvy_Us / Waiiti20 mega tour of the Southern South Island. TFTC

A quick find on a big caching day from Christchurch with Kiwi Moose. Took a bit of hunting but got there in the end. Thanks for the hide.

Bit of a scramble here. TFTC

TFTC.SLB.TNLN. Nice spot..

Found it at 4:02 PM, Beautiful Church

TFTC, Bitsprayer!
Jim

birthday bash

Once near GZ hint was perfect.
Thank you for placing this cache.

Another good find while travelling around hunting caches. SL TFTC

Got it eventually... thanks!

No church service today so I had the place to myself. But I decided I would need a better hint if I was to find this cache.

Staying with sister in Waimate. We have placed some NW merchandice in some of the boxes please feel free to take them with you there are "Pin bages, Cards and Key rings"

We are on our way to Queenstown for a few days, so have picked off one or two caches along the way.

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TFTC TNLN SL

A lovely church and now enough daylight to enjoy it. No trouble with finding these ones just look for a _______. TFTC.

Thought I'd been here before. Nice quick find nonetheless. Good spot.

Easy find. Nice place.

Nice location.

Quick find TFTC

Stopped by at 8pm and had the place to ourselves (funnily enough). A short hunt soon had the cache in hand then a quick look at the graveyard too to see if any familiar names popped up. TNLN thanks