The Big Bad Troll (Southland) Southland District, South Island, New Zealand
By valleysend on 28-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8BAXT

Found it on our way to Invercargill. Thank you!

Tftc!

Day Fifteen of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Traveled from Invercargill to Te Anau.Sunny and blue skies for our trip giving great views of the snow tipped mountains.We were in Te Anau by lunchtime, and did the Glow-worm tour in the afternoon.No cattle to be seen in the paddock today, but we did locate a cute troll.Thanks, Robmc.

Day 15 of our Enzed adventures with Robmc and after an overnight in Invercargill so the fellas can visit the motorcycle museums we headed off to Te Anua.A day that started off cloudy but brightened into a beautiful sunny day. Someone with a sense of humour put the photo spot here.Thanks for contributing to the fun

Found, log is very wet and hard to write on

Quick stop on the way to Te Anau. TFTC!!

Quick found, TFTC

Nice

Didnt think this one through .. grass high & wet. Cache found quickly. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Day 10 of our roadtrip around the south island with Blue Jay. Today we drove from Te Anau to Queenstown in cold & windy weather but still managed to pick up several caches along the way. This was one of them.TFTC. Toffee Man.

TftcDe Brokkenmakers (NL)

We are on a trip in New Zealand. A wonderful country with a lot of (old ) There are too many caches so we limit ourselves to the (old) gems or where we happen to make a stop. We found and signed this cache in good condition. valleysend, thank you for this cache, regards xizat-NL. Take care, this hobby can develop to an addiction.

Found within our famous trip around New Zealand. Thanks for nice cache ....................................................................... TB Koumesovo geopivo DDEV7M

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Thank you

On the way to Te Anau. It was a great view:-)TFTC

A quick find on my drive home to Christchurch. I am not stopping for many caches on the way as I dont have time

The three of us together ?? found this on our way to Te Anau. On the opposite side of the road, it was our first time we've seen such a brown grass field. -- TFTC

TFTC!! It was quite exposed, so made it a bit more hidden - but still obvious to a cacher! Somethings out of place!

22 november 2023 14:27 665Tftc

quick found, TFTC, team bycycle

We stopped off here after spending a couple of days in Te Anau on our way to Queenstown. Thanks to the precise hint the cache was quickly spotted. Admin performed and replaced as found. TFTC

I found this geocache today and signed the logbook. Thanks for this cache and it's maintaining.

Gehschei made a short stop with a quick find. TftC.

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Well, 2 days ago, it was under a ton of snow!!! Nice easy find and not a cow in sight!

TFTC grabbed on way out of te anau

Quick find after some muggles nearby moved on. Thanks!

Great place to stop. Signed KT as pen didn't like the paper. Thanks.

Je ne pensais pas faire une geocach ici. Ça me permet de me remettre de mes 2 derniers échecs. Et de voir des champignons rouges!!
Mplc.

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our third stop after Los Angeles and Hawaii is New Zealand.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we were on the way to Te Anau and while that time we were searching for the Traditional **The Big Bad Troll (Southland)**.

Thank to the Hints and the good coordinates the little box was found quickly!
After signing the logbook there is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank **valleysend** for creating and maintaining this Traditional.

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
**Wild_Bee_**

P.S. To save space in the logbooks, we not only enter in sequence, but also in empty spaces between.

P.P.S. [If you like, you can follow our Pinguine Pete on Instagram](https://instagram.com/pinguin_pete_?r=nametag)
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za pamięć podręczną - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

Fun find with rustynz thanks

With rebel98, I am finding a few caches he found a few years ago when he came this way with a group of westies 15/2/20

It's my time to catch up.

This was a new one and it was a bit tricky walking over the grass, but with the good hint was soon at the cache. Happy to find thanks

Out and about enjoying the hidden gems of our country.
Going for a day trip with MrF while he is working a Saturday. Not got a lot of time to look so doing the quick PnG.
Tony Troll was a little elusive, but once I consulted map soon had the little man in hand didn't hold up MrF too long.
Cache all good and dry
Tftc

During our roadtrip in New Zealand, we also found this cache. Thanks for hiding!

rahmschnitzel2704 and I could find this cache during our roadtrip through this beautiful country.
Thank you very much for hiding and maintaining this cache!

Day 3 on our holiday in New Zealand. On the way from Twizel to Te Anau, we also visited this traditional cache, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to valleysend for hiding and maintaining the cache.*** ️

Found it during our vacation. Thank you.

Today I drove from Te Anau to Kingston. To shorten the drive a bit (or to delay hours) I took the opportunity to pick up some caches. Thank you.

Quick easy find on a day trip to Te Anau, TFTC

Quick easy find on a family drive to Te Anau TFTC

Quick find on a nice day trip to Te Anau with my family, TFTC

Trouvée

Cute one, loooove it

The little geotrail led us in & then Mr Curzzz went one way, I went the other. Mr Curzzz was soon in the right place. Another cute little cache. Thanks.

Not sure why anyone would want to take photos here - view not that spectacular. Easy to find the cache - hard to extract but used fence wire and then rolled tighter to make it easier for next person. So pleased to finally have time to find this wee fulla who was missing last time I tried!

TFTC. Take spare pants if the grass is wet!

Tyftc signed and dated ️️

Found during a tour of New Zealand. TFTC.

Odloveno cestou kolem . Díky za kešku .

Found on the way back to Queenstown Greetings from the Czech Republic and thanks for the cache.
Díky za keš.
15:03
Moje 4445

We are on holiday from California, primarily traveling by camper van on the South Island. Today we are on our way from Queenstown to Te Anau. Took a short break here and saw there was a cache! Device wanted me out in the field, but I resisted crawling over the fence and instead just followed the “signs.” Thanks.

Yay. Brand new logsheet. Nice break from monotonous driving. TFTC and greetings from Singapore

New log. Cache hidden at base so less visable.

Found her! Tftc

Great poem and lovely spot. Thanks very much.

The log is getting very full.

Log a bit wet. On our way from Wanaka to Te Anau. Just had a significant birthday and the gift was a day out caching and a cruise at Doubtful Sound. Tftc.

tftc (:

Tftc

Log is wet and full great little spot between the trees

Easy but wet

After an awesome time on the Milford track and a few days exploring the Milford road it's time to head home..grabbing a few along the way..phone is playing up so this is going to be a long day.
Quick find...grass is nice and wet!!!

A quick stop!

Followed the well worn track of other finders to the wee spot.

Pengi is always willing to pose for a photo.

Road trip from Rotorua North. Another South island cache found. No beef stakes around. A quick grab, sign and flee.
TFTC

Found with the grandies while on our way home from Manapouri tftc

Visiting the area for a few more cycle trails. . With a few caches to provide the cherry on top. TFC

Gumboots on, but didn’t really need them. The grass was wet but it was not waterlogged ground. We had a wee chat and took a photo, then wondered what else to photograph at this spot. TFTC

Cache in good condition on this sunny day. TFTC

On way to homer tunnel ,stopping along the way .stalking caches not deer.TFTC

A quick search, and there it was. TFTC

Another great find on our way home from TeAnau.

TFTC!

Found this wee troll with reydudes on the way to Gore. TFTC!

Found it. Tftc

Out getting a few caches. Last one for the day. Tftc

Tftc

Day #5 of my Summer Holiday and after 4 days exploring around the Catlins it's time to head to Te Anau for New Years. Carefully made my way to GZ and a nice quick find here. Boy oh boy is it windy so was hard opening the car door! TFTC

Quick find on our way to Te Anau for New Years, tftc

Making our way south and enjoying the quiet roads, weather has been amazing, thanks for the placement.

Create day drive thanks for find

It took longer to get the slippery logbook out than it did to find it.
Thanks for the fun series along this stretch of road.
I found this cache during a Mum Taxi service.

Unfortunately they had to abandon their trip an a few hours into the walk due to sickness.
Two of my children are walking the Routeburne. So I offered my services for drop off at the Glenorchy end and am picking them up at the TeAnau end. I invited Jude_E along for company, so we'll be taking a few detours along the way.
Thanks for hiding this cache valleysend I appreciate it.

Nosynel and I are having a caching trip now after our taxi service for Routeburn drop off and collect became unnecessary due to one of the trampers becoming ill and them leaving the track.
Log was slippery with moisture and I was too lazy to go back and get tweezers. Got there in the end. Signed as JE NN. Good track leading to it! Thanks.
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Followed the trail right to it. Thanks.

TFTC

5 June 2021 8:29 AM. Wasn't careful enough and got wet feet! TFTC,

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A find thanks. The first place I checked and didn't see it, then eventually came back to the first spot and found it. Must look harder.

Ms_KR and I are on the road to Southland to finish off the Southern PW GeoTour. Today was a fine sunny day, though there was some rain over night. Off to Te Anau.

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

Quick easy find. Out hunting with lynette13 and lulu

Another troll found! Loving it! TFTC!

Tftc. Great wee hiding place

Clever hide. Fun clue. Easy find!!

Doing bit of a road trip around the bottom of the South Island. A good opportunity to nab some of the old school caches down this way and pick up a few of the PWGT ones along the way. Plenty of good views and empty roads along the way.

TFTC

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

*Another good find.
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!

We enjoyed the drive / walk around!
Raining here so pleased to get it quickly.

Nice troll. With Tokerau

First you must find a path to the steak.