Tuamarina Community Hall (Marlborough) Tuamarina, South Island, New Zealand
By capperz on 04-Jan-16. Waypoint GC695P2

#15,531. Park, walk and grab in Tuamarina. The GZ was fortunately all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.*Thanks for the geocache placement, and for bringing us to this site, and **.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.**.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.*---### LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!! ###On **May 3rd, 2025**, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in **Rotorua, New Zealand** with a special **Block Party** event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the ["25 Years of Geocaching NZ! (GCAKR25)" event page]( https://coord.info/GCAKR25) and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz) for more details, join the [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your ["Will Attend" log]( https://www.geocaching.com/live/geocache/GCAKR25/log) onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.**Happy caching and we will see you in 2025!**---

A place well deserving of a cache, parked here, quick find before setting out on foot to grab a coupe more nearby, TFTC

I'm sure you're still busy

Found. Kerr family

Found it while out on our scooters for the afternoon. Tftc

Driven up from Christchurch with an empty car and empty trailer, to fill said car and trailer with possessions and children/grandchildren to move them to Christchurch. Made good time up the island so a few geocaches needed to be found.A quick find once I was looking in the right place. Thanks for the cache.

Random

Great spot!! Mind the spiders

Tftc

Another quick find TFTC. Found with Elliot13

Found it thanks for the cache. Found with aals_01 on a weekend in Whites Bay

TFTC. Great hide

An early evening find. The river was flowing just so.

I had some time before the event, so I came to this area to grab a few caches. TFTC.

**19,966**A nice quick find here and even took the opportunity to let the dogs out for walk and some water. Great year 1966 LOL TFTC

So pleased I have added gloves to my TOTT .

Easy with the hint

GPS had us looking on fence

Tftc more later

In the hole and up

Out in Marshlands for a walk along the Wairau diversion. Now driving back and collecting some park and grabs. No problems finding this in the dark. Cache all fine. Thanks for the smiley

Lest we forget

Day 10 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today we are in the area and surrounding area of Nelson, and then we go to Wellington. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to capperz for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Nice and easy to pull over and park. Walked round as you do then found the clever wee hide. All good here. Thanks for this cache capperz.

Because I'm an idiot I parked over by what once may have been the trainstation saw a cache that was "just there" and couldn't help myself.
Crossing over the road one way was much easier than the other given I timed myself with the whacky races off the ferry.
There is parking here for those who are smarter than I LOL

Cool hide, TFTC!!

First find in awhile! Great to be back out caching again!

Co-rods are a bit out. Without the hint I’d be lost. Great spot otherwise. Thanks

Nice hide. I'm still not used to putting my hands in places like that. Too many horror movies I have watch lol.

Found it easy spot

Nice find not to easy but not to hard

Yay

Came back, after reading the comments & found it this time TFTC

Dnf

We're new to this and this was our first. Thanks..good fun..

Nice little find

Cache in good condition. Easy park and grab. Good to find this one as we started the day with a couple of DNFs on our way north.

Nearly at the summit one cache to go. TFTC

TFTC!! GPS had me looking on the neighbors fence, had a feeling it wasn't right and found it in the 2nd likely spot

Cute little country hall. Tftc

Chur

One for the courageous and fearlessly optimistic:). Beautiful day with low mist among the vines/ranges waiting to be burned off. Birdsong, cool & crisp. Perfect geocaching weather! Log snug. TFTC .

At first we could not see it but then we used a torch and then saw it.

I only get one day off this week, and given the perfect autumn weather today (pretty much everyday here in Marlborough!), I thought I'd take the motorbike for a short ride to Picton and see what Geocaches I can pick up along the way.
It's often a hassle caching on a bike, as each time you stop you need to find a level surface to park the bike so it doesn't fall over, remove your gloves and helmet, by which stage you're sweating in the insulated black jacket so off it comes too! However, awkward highway roadside caches are often made easier, as parking a slim motorbike can be much easier than trying to park the car! And some little trails are able to be ridden along, rather than parking and walking. So there are pros and cons, but the bike is so much cheaper, not to mention fun!

I always get the willies reaching into funny places, as I grew up in Aussie where you just don't do this! Ended up getting my mobile's camera out and taking a series of photos inside the hole, and just managed to spot one corner of the container well within reach.
TFTC

18 April 2021 15:03. On the way back to catch the ferry, but made time to stop for this little treasure. Tftc.

Nice quick stop on our way to Picton.
The Last time I was at this hall was 50 years ago, doing
the Marlborough Walk.

Easy find here thanks.
Good hint.
Enjoying caching in a new place with heaps of choices!

It fall down but managed to put it back

I have found many a cache at a Wairarapa Community Hall, but it took me two tries to find this one. This second try didn't take me too long and I'm really wondering why I didn't find it the first time.
Thank you for the cache.

Stopped by the school and walked to the cache. Many thanks CO for the cache.

Gps was funny but found easily enough. Tftc

Found with @peadub while travelling home to Wellington after a stay at the beautiful Cape Campbell Lighthouse. Nice hidey-hole. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC

(# 6245). Last day of my South Island odyssey and it is very windy around Blenheim. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Good hint easy find.

TFTC

1st stop on my CAPPERZ Cache hunt today with a quick find. Cheers

Today Im on a Capperz Cache Hunt before these all disappear. Enjoyed wandering around Blenheim, caching with Lenny my new (techy) caching partner.

Having done one, nearly two, of these type of hides I was prepared with gloves so it was a 10 second grab. Signed and returned, all good.

I'm not a fan of placing my hands somewhere I can't see but this was quickly found. Yippee.

#7793. Day 3 of my short holiday in Marlborough. I have a work meeting this week in Blenheim so I flew down early and rented a car to allow me to find the Marlborough TMGT caches and few other caches in the back of beyond. Today the mission was to do some caches in the Blenheim and Picton areas. I headed off down to the Wairau Bar first up to get the TMGT cache. Its a lovely fine sunny day. Breezy but stinking hot. The car reached 34 degrees in the afternoon.

Heading north now and stopped at Tuamarina. Nice to visit the community hall. Another quick find here in the first place checked. Signed the logbook and returned the cache where found. Thanks capperz for setting this one up.

Day 2 of our southern excursion and the town of Tuamarina was finally starting to falter in its cache offerings. Luckily it still had a hall and associated cache to allay our restlessness before we headed out to the coast. TFTC

A short getaway to catch up with family on the Mainland and drive some roads not travelled before.
Quick find by redants.
TFTC capperz

Find #38 for MnAJ - child navigators parked us at Wairau Affray, but a short walk back got us to the right place, and logbook was soon in hand. Dropped a wee 3D geocaching logo keyring that Dad printed. Tftc.

Another easy find .
K&R️

Found ... not many places to look
K&R

Let P feel around for this one. TFTC

Clever spot. Thanks.

Scary stuff

Gave us Heebeejeebiiz

Nice easy find.
TFTC

Paddle chick, Sir Belac and I stopped to get this quick park and grab. Thanks for this cache capperz

Couldn’t see it, 1m left but in direction of someone’s property. Didn’t want to cross their boundary.

A great 2 weeks of travelling the south island it's been amazing great weather only 1 half day if wind and rain nearly 500 caches found over the time incredible views tftc a quick find here I thought I had it sorted by the hint prior to approaching and yes I did but then it was an ahha moment tftc great place and area to explore hope to visit again the Sourh Island soon. No muggles around only traffic zooming by none caring what I was up to tftc signed the log and placed it back exactly where I found it. Nicely presented hall no muggles in the area

Tftc. A year after first looking for it. It was an easy find ..

Quick find the hall is having work done so hope it will not get trapped

Quite find

On day 3 of a geocaching mission through the Molesworth and back to Chch via the Lewis with Nosynel. Having done all the Awatere valley and Redwood Pass it was time to find a few out Tuamarina and Rarangi way. First up, the hall. I was a little nervous here as travelling here there were cops galore and one followed me right from Grovetown to here. I had forgotten my licence in Christchurch! It was a quick find. Even with eating an icecream and having to find the cache one handed! I think there is another in Marlborough very similar.

The big Molesworth circuit is in progress. Today is day three of Jude _E and my geotour. Thanks to her kind son we have use of a Toyota Hilux, extremely helpful indeed. We stayed a night at Blenheim with some of Jude's friends and are staying another night. Therefore our focus has been Blenheim based.
We wanted to finish the Awatere Road geocaches via Redwood Pass first.
Next on our list was a puzzle, virtual and wherigo. Anything else was a bonus.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Found

Found

Quick find this morning with eltee291, crman1 and coastal martinis! Interesting hiding spot. Nothing attacked us from within though so all good! Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache, capperz!

Found today with hingis20, crman1, and coastalmartinis. Have come frome Victoria, BC, Canada to visit with my daughter and her family in Blenheim and, of course take in some of the great geocaching here. Really great to be enjoying summer in January. TFTC

Found with eltee291, Hingis20 and crman1. Lovely day for it! TFTC

Found on our return journey north to Papamoa. Missed it on first check then inly after a perimeter check did we find it where we first looked TFTC.

Quick find, Thanks

Only in NZ is it a natural thing to be placed on your back, with an arm shoulder deep into a pubic building.. well ok, it could be normal in other places too, but I haven't tried it anywahere else
Quick find.

Found at 16:41 - #7953 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Time for a geocache tiki tour as we haven't been out and about for some time. Nice, easy find. TFTC.

A quick and dusty grab in here and then I watched some Yak flew overhead. Awesome. Cheers

Quick stop on our way to Picton to catch the Interislander. Thanks capperz for the cache.

made hubby grab this one, he was not impressed these types of hints make us both delay the find, but hubby grabbed and cache is all in good order, thanks for the placement

We were wondering what we were going to do to qualify for the latest hidden creatures challenge. We have been streaking for a couple of years so our supply of caches around Nelson are starting to thin out. We decided to come over to Marlborough for the weekend to make up the numbers we needed. We had noticed there were many park and grab type caches in this area so this is where we decided to target.
We leapt out of the car and ended up walking around the building because I had not given the phone time to catch up with where I was heading.
We soon found the right GZ and man was I pleased GK was with me - I really do not like putting my hand anywhere I cannot see, so given what and where this was I gladly let GK do the honours with this one. It was really dusty but did not have any livestock attached to it (which is what I hate). So a quick sign and moved onto the next one.
Thanks for placing this cache and thanks for the smilie

Thanks we are rushing for our points to Pluto
Love the container

Good hint made this a quick find on our way to the ferry. Thanks for the placement Caperz

Nice hide and nice easy find thanks capperz ..cache all good

Found with my granddaughter. Neatly hidden, thanks capperz.

Just a short drive today from Blenheim to Picton and picking up a few caches along the way.

Visiting NZ after a break of four years and grabbing a few caches as we go.

T4tC capperz

Civv'nr & MissTreadlightly (UK)

Quick easy find tftc

A nice quick find, Cheers.

Today was a day spent cruising around Blenheim, waiting for the late ferry to leave. I was so hot today, >30 degrees. The aircon in the car was working overtime.

Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Had to come back as the parking lot was full the first time. Happy to have found it TFTC

Finally took a moment to stop here on our return from Event in Blenheim. Grandson helped me reach for this one. SL. TFTC.

Quick find, TFTC.