N please Bob (South Otago) Ashley Downs, South Island, New Zealand
By Natalie247 on 01-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7GP9W

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Took longer than should have a hidden under vegetation. TFTC

Pine needles made it a bit hard to find but we got it!

Nice place to search

TFTC

No.23

Day two of my road trip through Southland. Today's journey takes me from Invercargill back to Mosgiel. My rather indirect route goes by way of Riverton on to Tuatapere then through Winton, Mataura and Balclutha. With a final detour up to Middlemarch. Old School Challenge caches are the focus of the trip, but there's a few others to look for along the way as well.

I enjoyed doing this series. It certainly helped to give the days total a boost. TFTC

2nd time lucky! Tftc

Quick find while exploring with my family, TFTC

Great to spend a day cruising this beautiful area. Tftc

A nice quick find thanks. I completed all of the series today, 25 please Bob caches. (where is I? Hmmm looking back I found it in 2019!!)


Ms_KR and I are on a wee South Island break. A day spent collecting smileys around and about Balclutha. It rained a wee bit about lunchtime, but it was a glorious day for caching!

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Came from the wrong direction but cache was easily found. All good here.
Thanks for the cache, Natalie247
#3176

Logged TCC , in a fresh logg tuffy put there

After shifting my snail shell to Balclutha, where I have never stayed before in my six years of travelling the country, it is only today that I have managed to get some caching done. To make up for the lack of signed caches I decided to do this series to the South of this burg to get my numbers up. Also it is the start of a new Climb The Peak mountain.

This is another in the series.

Cheers for the cache.

Kia ora for the cache

Nice to finish the series. The log was wet but signable. Tftc

Level 2 - geocaching allowed

As the country enters Level 4 (lockdown), https://covid19.govt.nz

It is strongly recommend that whilst we go for a walk for exercise, we need to take care on shared surfaces and geocaching should not be done at this time; https://wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/New+Zealand

To remove temptation, I am disabling this cache and ask kindly that you do not find this cache during lockdown.

Remember there is more than physically finding a cache, there are plenty of puzzle caches you can do at home. Or if you live near a multi you can walk the trail and save the find for another day. For more info or connect with wider community see Geocaching New Zealand on Facebook.

Stay home, stay safe and save lives.

Must check how I am doing with this alphabet. Nice.

Cache 757 heading to Balclutha for a couple of days it was time to pick up some caches on the way so why not add some Letters to my list so I will have an N please Bob cache nice quick park and grab easy find in good condition T4TC

Another one in the Bob series. Thanks to P&Vee. TFTC

Now this one was the real bonus
Where we parked some branches had been cut off the pine trees so no looking for the cache we started collecting pine cones.
After awhile I said I will go and look for the cache and yes this one was the hardest to find. Finally I found it and returned to find the boot of the geocar loaded with all my shopping bags full of cones to the point that the lunch bag now sat between our legs. So a fav from me for the warmth we are going to get and a well hidden cache

*Found on a nice day going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
We soon had the container located. SL: **tm/ww NZ**
Thanks for putting this out for us to visit!

Very nice series of caches and main target of today.
Appreciate your work, Natalie247

On a three week trip to the lower South Island with tmann421 hunting caches.
Enjoyed the trip around and the challenge of the finds.
Signed logs tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Off on a weekend travelling up to and around Balclutha grabbing caches here and there plus hunting up the new Challenge Wonders Souvenirs. This was no.4 *Great Barrier Reef* of the 7 Naturals. I had left a fair amount of the A-Z series, glad I did! Picking up what's needed an extra thanks for the series Natalie

Now to walk back to this one. Im parked at the corner. All good here. Cheers.

Friday 13. Balcultha to Gore and back. Another long day with Gore on the agenda. But got sidetracked with back to basics with the ABC series. So lets hit the road!

Toby, Zara and I are on a 3 week geo adventure of Cromwell, Southland, Catlins, Balclutha with a day in Dunedin and quick stop in Timaru. With Lenny, my trusty navigator and TBD my companion/mascot. we managed to visit lots of green boxes, now happy faces with the odd sad one. Did some LABs , earth caches, virtuals and wherigos, all chucked into the mix to rack up 500 odd caches. Lots of kilometers, lots of exploring and lots of fun. Thanks to all COs for our wonderful experience.

Picked up a few in the Blockbuster A-Z series with @peadub while on our way to Balclutha. Fairly easy find. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC.

Nice quick find. tftc

Found on way to Balclutha. Enjoying the caches. Slowly making my way home

For information on Geocaching during Covid19 in New Zealand please visit www.wiki.groundspeak.com/display/GEO/New+Zealand .

Note: geocaching is not allowed under Level 3 or 4.

Please note, not everyone logs as they go, so please approach this cache as if it has just been found, take care and keep up good social distancing and hand hygiene.

As the country enters a 4 week lockdown, it is strongly recommend that whilst we go for a walk for exercise, we need to take care on shared surfaces by avoiding them (this includes cache containers).... to remove temptation, I am disabling this cache. Remember there is more than physically finding a cache, there are plenty of puzzle caches you can do at home. For more info or connect with wider community see Geocaching New Zealand on Facebook.
Stay home, stay safe and save lives.

Easy find on the way to Dunedin, TFTC

Quick find on the way to Dunedin with the family, TFTC

During our vacation in New Zealand we did some geocaching. We saw a lots of amazing places and say thank you to everyone who shared his geocache with us.
Greetings from Germany!
Rote Teufel

TFTC

Nice one, Thanks

Container , logbook ... Going next...

TFTC
# 1445 August 8, 2019 13:10

Headed down south a beautiful still autumn afternoon south which was new territory for me with CO to help with her maintenance run while convalescing in the car. Great way to find caches and check they are all okay. This one took a while. TFTC Natalie247

All good

Tftc

Heading to Gore for 3 days of cycling. Found on the way.

out with kids, no5 in series

Another quick grab tonight, this one was a bit easier than the last. Only one more in this series to go! TFTC [^]

I decided to tackle this series today - having decided a couple of weeks ago I was rather annoyed when I suffered an accident yesterday which hampered my efforts a little. Nevertheless, I managed all twenty-six today!

Another tricky one - thankfully I got all the tricky ones out of the way early. Once I got to the right hint object I was well rewarded. Cheers!

A quick park and grab while out about grabbing a few caches down this way. A nice and easy find and on to the next one. TFTC

Parked at the intersection and left the keys in the car then realised while looking for the cache I couldn’t see the car and there was other traffic on the road. Also I could have parked right at the cache site. But a quick find and no one notices. Off to find my next cache. Thanks

A quick park and grab home from Alexandria picking up a cache or two.
After A early morning start to pick up the younger geo Kids at a camp.
A road trip was in order .
So off we go let,s see where we end up . Annielin in the navigators seat calling the shots with a let's go this way and then let's go that.
A in order nice and dry
tftc

On the way back home to collect geokids from a camp... it's been great! .. adult time!!!
Sitting in the navigator's seat, telling downsouthinv where to go, what more could a girl ask for!!

Hunting hidden creatures on the way north

Heading North trying to grab hidden creatures!

Nice and quick TFTC

Found while chauffeuring Ruru_nz and getting some driving practice.

On a road trip, chauffeured by Saethwr as she gets some more driving experience. This is a good run to get further on my quest to find the world turtle.
Initially looked at the base of the wrong one, but soo had it in hand.
Thanks for the smilie Natalie247.
2187 17 July 2018 12:13

Having a day out and picnic in the clutha area. Enjoying the winter sunshine. Again going to places never visited before. Thanks to all cache owners.

Found it. Tftc

Dakotacats and I decided to make a full day of caching in the area and one of our main targets was this A - Z series. We found all caches in this series and enjoyed the different roads and scenery along the way. TFTC

4Clubs and I spent an enjoyable day caching in the area. We found all 26 of the Blockbuster series, and we travelled on roads we have never travelled on before. Thanks for putting this series out Natalie, we had fun.

Quick dash and cache. tftc

Nice easy find. Tftc

Fast find this arvo with Gabby59

Out for a frosty day of caching #5

The cows in the paddock started coming over until they were all arriving!

TFTC Natalie - enjoyed this series of caches and tripping down some previously untraveled roads
All easily found

Down South for a geocaching day trip with the main intention being A - Z please Bob. Started this series with A but then all order was lost! A fun series which was very much enjoyed. TFTC Natalie247 and the time and effort for this series which many of us feature in

Haven't been on a caching "dawn raid" for ages! Set off before sun-up to clean up the Blockbuster A-Z series. Early on Easter Monday proved an excellent time to do so as, away from SH1, there was just nobody around. On way home the traffic was heavy heading south out of Dunedin. Apparently some second-rate musician had done a few concerts over the weekend in town, which generated a few visitors. All 26 A-Z caches found, plus another at Kaihiku Falls. All the side-roads were pretty much new to me so that was a bonus. Apologies to the CO for the generic cut and paste logs for most of the series but when you're "speed-caching" the whole thing becomes a bit of a blur. Thoroughly enjoyable outing. TFTC.

Racing the rain. Tftc

Full log to come.
Wet outer con, baggy ok.

Coming home from being on business. Thought be a great chance to get these new caches, TFTC.

A few options here

Got a call from # 2 son here - had a nice chat with him then drove off. Whoops then I remembered the cache so had a bit of a backtrack. TFTC # 12,018

I went to high school with people from this area. Some of the roads are named after their ancestors. A quick find.

Another stop, another satisfying find, really enjoying being passenger and taking in the countryside.
Thanks
erninz

Great day out caching in the area, lot of neat caches, and interesting spots. many thanks the cache - Bitsprayer

On another road for another Bob cache. TFTC

A quick easy find as we trundled our way through this slightly different series, and some pine cones to collect. TFTC

Thanks for the cache

Cache found with good friends as we made our way up the river, thanks for the series!

Found it with the Chosens and Tuitigger and Searchwisely on our blockbuster tour. Thanks Nat for the series.

A group of us traveled around the area in search of the new series. Thanks for the great day, it was heaps of fun

Found with Mrs Hazzer. Quick find. Tftc

Nice and easy find. Thanks Natalie

Out with Bladesedge on a Blockbuster cruise. TFTC

Published

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Off again around the district to get some more caches and add to my first to find haul for the year! I am certainly luck the wife and kids are away on holiday for the christmas / New Year period or I’m pretty sure i would have been grounded by now! This was another nice cruse around the area south of home, a part i don’t really spend much time in but should rectify that from here on in. All of the caches are spot on with the coordinates and are very close to safe parking. I will have to sit down soon and start thinking about the questions swell. Thanks as always for the cache, The Roaming Haywards.