Picton Welcome (Marlborough) Picton, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 23-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3D5N8

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

Hi bumandworkerThis 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.RegardsTheCoddiwompler

Is the container still there?

Decided to head up to Picton for some caching. Quick Park and Fail. I’m sure it’s still there but too wet for me to stay long.

On a time schedule not found within 5 mins, out of here.

Bit of bush whacking thanks to summer growth, but obvious once close . TFTC

Nobody is there. TFTC

#12,109. I am on a week of leave and brought our car across on the Cook Strait ferry early this morning. Will spend the morning doing Picton caches and afternoon doing Blenheim caches. Eventually heading south to Christchurch. Lovely sunny summers day. I initially headed off in the wrong direction but soon realised my mistake and entered the trees. I checked a few areas, read the hint and some recent logs. The cache was found soon after. It is now at ground level but well covered. Signed the logbook and returned the cache as found. Thanks b&w for hiding the cache here.

Last cache of the day and probably also on the South Island.
Easy to find, thanks to the log of PaoloB72.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Bumblebee day again. I had been thinking during the week that a loop round Queen Charlotte was due again. It is still a mess after the recent couple of weather events so I knew it would be a stop-start mission. Might as well cache along the way. This was the first find but second stop after a DNF at the farm. I knew this one would still be here and it was, almost underground. I replaced it with a lump of log on top, and with some newer paper.

No luck here, as I just arrived on the South Island. 4 for 7 today...

Not a find fir me today

Heading to the ferry and decided to stop and grab this one. Read previous finders logs to get this one as no longer as hint suggests. Thanks for the cache

Cache in good condition but log papers need some TLC. Thanks for the efforts

Found the stump mentioned in previous log. Had a good look around and found nothing.

Have found thanks to reading Ethness log. Thanks for placing the cache

Read YetiNZ’s log and used a stick to locate this cache. Have added a strip of waterproof paper for a new log sheet. Cache container hidden as per YetiNZ’s comment with a small SPOW on top. TFTC bumandworker.

Since my original plan of being in Auckland this long weekend is not possible, I decided to head South for a couple of days. Took the ferry from Wellington yesterday morning, picked up a cheap rental, and off I went. I was targeting some specific caches for a personal goal as well as some fun mystery solves and some just 'cos. This was one of them.
Found buried in the centre of the remains of the tree stump. Log paper is not in great shape, but all good otherwise. TFTC

Tree has now been removed. May need checking.

Heading on a geo adventure with BCD to the top of the South Island...Picton, Blenheim, Havelock and Nelson.

Day 3
Exploring around Picton some more before heading to Blenheim. After a lovely morning walk up to the lookout and the dam it was back to town for lunch before leaving Picton. Took a bit to locate this one as hint no longer applies so now GL TFTC

Day #3 of our top of the south island road trip with kjr..after out queen Charlotte trip was cancelled
Next stop blenheim grabbing a few along the way this is no longer above ground and was lying on the ground .put back in what is left of a recently cut tree..

Lovely spot and nice quick find thx.

I was in charge of directions and MapleroseNZ was in charge of driving. She stopped at the sign even though I said my phone still had us 200m away. She checked her phone and it agreed. So we carried on down the road to a bigger welcome.
I was feeling generous so I let her bush bash whilst I complained about having cold wet feet (I'm turning into an Aucklander more every day, leaving my Pennine roots behind).

Out and about, mainly keeping out of trouble, with FlossyTeaCake. TFTC

Last cache find in picton our last day of SI rd trip. 17 days. Off to the Ferry north shortly.tftc

Cache 400 yeah

Quick easy Park n Grab, thanks bw

Quick serch to locate this one.

Not quite were I expected but widened search till we found it!
Busy road to cross...

Yes quick grab

Just off the ferry and tried to grab a few caches before the weather turns. Grabbed this one so thanks CO for the cache.

Easy find here today. TFTC

We had a free morning before taking the train to Christchurch so we took another walk to find some geocaches. This was the first and the cash was found after a short search. SL. TFTC.

Found this Cache on our way from Blenheim to Wellington. TFTC

Trouvée facilement ! Mais pas directement au sol ! Un peu plus haut !

No joy here

Pulled over here to confirm where I needed to go. Knew there'd be one here. No problem remaining out of site... 15m of SUV & caravan plenty of cover. TFTC

A quick find as we travel towards Picton and the ferry this morning. TFTC

This is more of a farewell to Picton for us, as we are on our way to catch the ferry back to Wellington. The hint gave us a pretty clear idea where to search and we soon had it.

A short getaway to catch up with family on the Mainland and drive some roads not travelled before.
We spent a few nights in Picton and picked up some caches.
Last cache for the day.
TFTC bumandworker.

Cool hide tftc

On our journey from Picton to Kaikoura this was our first cache for the day. The GZ was where we expected but we soon had the container in hand. TFTC

Found it quickly. That means 4 in a row, the question is - 4 what? TFTC

Found it on our journey! Thanks! Greetings from austria!

Greetings from Austria tftc

After a short searching greetings from Austria

Thankfully this was a under minute cache as we were starting to dice it with the clock and the check-in required for our 'return to reality' great final in our day of Picton Caching

Easy find, tftc out with geeves90

Vacations 2019 - Road trip trough New Zealand
With Geoesposa, this was my 50th anniversary. 16 days, 4200Kms and a few hundreds smilles after, i was sure i saw nothing....

I liked everything, the friendly and civilized people, the way the country works, the roads and especially the natural beauty of New Zealand.
I fell in love....
I decided to go back in 5 years, I easily see myself living my last days somewhere lost in any stunning scenery of this wonderful country.

With the itinerary studied at home, the caches were the ones that were in the chosen places, and a few used to stretch the legs. It was decidedly not the most important on this trip. Of all the visited, only half a dozen did not appear, all being in good health except two or three.

I will use this generic log, not for disrespect of the owners, but due to the amount of caches visited. Here the majority of caches serve to show something beautiful (as it should be), not giving importance to the container.

My thanks to all the ownwers who, allied to the natural beauty of the country, have made this vacation unforgettable.

Nuno Salvador
aka ToKayx (Portugal) (translated by Google)

Quick find on the way out of Picton TFTC!! Cache is damp.
Find 419

Found it nice and easy

Nice easy find on a wet day in town with Stormshadow and here for the night on the way to the Nth Island. TFTH

Parked up to get this cache wasn't where I expected so out with the phone and a quick find after that signed the log and placed the cache back where I found it tftc

A planned geocaching trip with specific targets in mind.
1: The final 2 caches to fill my D/T grid
2: The last 5 caches available (all in the South Island) to meet the NZ Jasmer challenge GC4R9Z6
3: Get as many caches as possible in a day (Solo)
I had no timetable and only a vague route (Christchurch - Dunedin- Invercargill). So after 20 days of sleeping in my tent/car I arrived home having traveled 4500km and visited some interesting places. Met some great people. I had found over 650 caches. That was a lot of park. Jump out out. Find cache sign and return. Then on to the next. All this done by myself. Also attended an event and had 2 FTF
Mission 1 and 2 were achieved and I had a best day of 153 caches. All this done by myself.
Day 3 Picton to Waikari 36 caches found including 1 of the targets. This was the first for the day as I left town. Thank you for the placement.

On a geocaching adventure around the country with myself, my car and my tent. Drove almost 4000km and collected 170 caches over a week of roadtripping, camping and seeing the beautiful sights of New Zealand. Lots of fun and so many great caches were found, as well as a lot of DNF's. Apologies for copy paste post. Thank you to all cache owners. Day ten driving from Waikawa to Hamilton. Thank you for the cache

Found

Daughter found this one

What a wonderfull time. I`'m visiting NZ for 10 weeks and find a lot of beautiful places. Nice views and some pretty caches. With my wife kaari74 we log some of these caches. One of them is this one. Thanks all owners for your job.

a wonderful holiday with findbobi in NZ - we had a great time caching- thanks for all the gret caches you placed for us

Found it quickly. Thanks for the cache!

On our 18th day in New Zealand we travelled from Kaikoura to Picton. It was a short distance and therefore we had ample time for a number of caches along the route. The route itself was very interesting, particularly in the first part where we could still see the damages from the earthquake and the process of making the routes new. Due to that fact certain caches which we wanted to do were still not able to get. Due to the many caches we searched we do more or less one log for all. Thanks to all the cache owners to provide and maintain all these. Those we looked for we could all find well, meaning also that we checked beforehand and those that were not found recently we left out. Some sheep were looking at us searching for the cache and this attracted the farmer. So we had a nice little chat with him. TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

Quick and easy find, once you get in from behind.

Found at 13:26 - #7936 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Heading off for our annual fishing tip to the Tongariro TFTC

Lovely long weekend in picton with a spot of caching where I was able, thanks for the placement, we were lucky with good weather which meant I had no use of the gummies I brought down with me

Dnf

We were heading towards Blenheim today, this was our first stop along the way. We were surprised at the speed of the cars zooming along the road - we had parked and had to cross the road - this took a bit of careful timing. We headed over to what we thought was GZ (by the name) but nope time to look at the phone and head towards GZ. GK made an instant find once we were in the correct place. Thanks for placing this cache and for our latest smilie

The sun is trying to shine (unsuccessfully) but undergrowth very wet. Thanks for the placement bumandworker

All good here thanks for the cache

I'ive started my beautiful trip of the South Island in Christchurch, I've visited many beautiful locations. I've travelled via Lake Tapeko, from Dunedin to the most southern part of Bluff. I've then continued with a cruise in Milford Sound and then back to Queenstown.
From there on I've visited Wanaka and the Haast pass to the Franz Josef glacier. I went all the way up to the Abel Tasman NP. Richmond und Nelson as the sonnierst cities were on my list as well.
I've soon reached the east coast in Picton and Blenheim.
After a couple of days, I've then travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.
I've spent a couple of days in Christchurch and it's surroundings.
I've visited many geological sites and have found many caches along the way.
I've travelled 3500km and have experienced so much.
Thank you to all the owners
Team sissifalke

just came over on the ferry and grabbing a few caches before we drive south. TFTC

Auf unser Rundreise durch Neuseeland wurden wir auch an diesen Schönen Ort geführt und konnten die Dose finden. Unser letzter Tag auf der Südinsel.
Thanks for this hide at this place
Greet from both hamburgers.

Visiting from Hamburg, Germany. This ist very beautiful Place. Thanks for the cache.

A great hide! TFTC

#840

Geocaching instagram: geocacher1698

Found with Maryfairy, on a short walk around Picton town

Nice quick find, thank you.

Soon found this one, thank you.

Quick find. Tftc

#479. Nice easy park and grab en route to Christchurch, after a nice smooth Cook Strait crossing on the Kaitaki. Thanks bumandworker.

CZECH
odloveno těsně před půlnocí před odplutím na severní ostrov

Its nice to be welcomed twice. We must have been Pictons VIPs.

Cheers

Thanks

Thanks

Quick find, TFTC.

TFTC

Found it although a little bird was trying to make me go the other way TFTC

07:42. TFTC. Managed to find a spot to add my signature.

Nice spot:-) log is full.

Last cache for the day......a fun 2 days geocaching in Picton/Blenheim area, but still plenty more to pick up next trip. Tftc

Our 15th and final cache find on our way to the Picton ferry terminal this morning. We have travelled this route many times, but never had any/much spare time for the caches between Picton and Blenheim. It was great to tick a few off today. Tftc

Found it while out biking

by by Picton ....


*thanks for all your cahes bumandworker *


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... from Germany on tour around the world

Tftc!!! Logbook is almost full though.

Found quickly on route to Blenheim tftc

Fast find on way to ferry.

As our ferry was scheduled for 9.45am we had some time left to find a few caches in Picton this morning. We found the Welcome cache when we were ready to leave: Goodbye Picton! TFTC!

today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course also found some caches along the way in Picton.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

Quick find this morning with eltee291! Signed the log and replaced as found. Took a day trip up to Picton from Blenheim. Visiting from BC, Canada! Thanks for the cache!

Quick find with hingis20 today. Headed out to find some caches in the Picton area. Wasn't sure if we would be going after a weather bomb came through Blenheim last night. Visiting NZ from Victoria, BC, Canada. TFTC

Easy find. thanks

My last cache on the South Island and i'm a bit sad, that i have to leave again. I had a great time here on my vacation, driving down to Invercargill on the west coast and then back up via Christchurch. I experienced and saw many things and these are good and nice memories. But all good things must come to an end, and who knows, whats waiting for me in the north...
The cache was found quickly and the log had my name in it now.
Thank you very much for placing and maintaining this small treasure

***No muggles were harmed while searching, finding and logging this cache...***