Ashwick ( South Canterbury ) Ashwick Flat, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 22-Jun-08. Waypoint GC1DVB2

Great day exploring with friends easy hustory good

Lovely spot didnt know about this historic site. Thanks for the cache with geo friends and geo dogs.

We introduced some local family members to geocaching this afternoon and searched for a few caches around the lake. This one was spotted quickly by our muggle niece. Thanks for bringing us to this interesting historical spot. All good with the cache. TFTC Bitsprayer.

Quick find quiet spot!

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A miserable day and a trip to Fairlie for the mid-winter fete led us to find a few in places we've only been to when there are lots of muggles around. A lovely tranquil spot with history. Tftc

Found on a nice drive in the area

We are taking our cat Coco on a motorhome and Geocaching holiday. She looks after our home while we go off in Suzy on GC adventures.
Todays adventure round Lake Opuha, surprised to find old School here.
Thanks for the cache Bitsprayer.

JDSCOUT and I are having a campervan holiday in Fairlie. Jude_E is staying nearby too. Jude's battery got flat so we had to take the car for a run. It was too windy to do our original plan. Thanks Bitsprayer for creating this hide. It was find 9788 for me.

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An unexpected surprise to find this was the site of an old school. Thanks for the hide.
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What a great location! And how much tall wet grass! I should have worn gumboots... TFTC!!

Log later

A quick find today with injeanious and friends, a great spot for a cache. I left an inactivated track able for someone to pickup. Tftc!

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on an afternoon drive to Lake Opuha.
Worth a detour to see this piece of history. The pine trees surrounding the old school site threw shade on GZ, and boy it was cold here out of the sun. A quick find, the read the nearby plaque. TFTC.

#18495. Interesting bit of history. TFTC.

16/1/2020

Cool site. Nice old plaque. Tftc

Interesting there had been a school here

Really cool history - had no idea there was a school there! Thanks for getting me out in my own backyard!

Found

Quick find. Interesting history. TFTC

We are on our summer holiday driving around the South Island with no real idea of where we will end up each day. We are often drawn to an area that has the potential to give us a few geocaching smilies and somewhere we have not spent time exploring before. So we spotted this lake and decided that we would come and spend a bit of time looking around.
We enjoyed the stunning scenery as we biked from the dam to the boat launching ramp, there were several boats zooming around having a wonderful time on the lake.
Then we were back in the camper having a look at other areas of the lake.
I love finding little areas like this with some interesting history.
With the amount of new houses in the nearby subdivisions they might need to rebuild the wee school??
We were surprised by the roads around the nearby memorial, so I took a photo for us to look back on
Thank you for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Quick find in the rain. TFTC!

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Found with our 2 and 5 y.o. T4TC. Thanks!

Quick find

Quick find! TFTC!!

Container completely trashed broken and soaked contents. Needs replacing

cache was found lid off and full of water luckily I had a waterproof pen needs some serious attention.

Found it

This container is soaked and found it

great idea at the old school

Under a fallen tree cache is smashed and soaked

Unfortunately a tree has fallen over where the cache is and smashed container so contents are very wet. No supplies to fix it, sorry
Great location tho

Stunning day for a snow cache!! Unfortunately cache was full of water. No spare supplies on us but we did clean it up as best we could. Tftc

A bit wet needs replace

Cheers for the cache. Great wee spot. Container has hole in lid everything is still dry

Cheers for this one, nice area.

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Many trading items made the kids very happy !
Thanks a lot

Found it

Wow lovely historic spot

.. another quick easy find, beautiful sunny day. Interesting place. TFTC

Unbelievable that there was a school here once. TFTC

TFTC #1171

Easy find on a lovely drive and picnic on Christmas Day. TFTC

quick find ,time to head home tftc

Nice historical site thanks for bringing us here.Cheers

TFTC

Nice pläce

Interesting detour enroute to the lake. TFTC!

TFTC. Nice day for an expedition before winter

We wouldn't know this old School used to be here,but for Caching.TFTC

Nice bit of local history.Got wet feet in the long grass.TFTC

Found at 11:56 AM
The Jubliee memorial tree has survived well at this old school site.

TFTC Bitsprayer

pipedream

Another good find with a bit of history of area to boot

Found

Before cheep buses and smooth roads schools were everywhere.

Got wet feet here but it was worth it. Spotted the jubilee tree as well - the only thing remaining from when the area must have had enough families to keep a school open. Sad really. Thanks for showing us this site and for the cache.

Bit of a late log as I just realised I had some catching up to do.
We done an overnight camping trip in the Van to Fairlie just to do some caching and walking.
On our way to the Lake to camp the night.
TFTC.

very interesting location. Thanks for showing it to me. TFTC #2982

Another of those locations that you wouldn't know anything about if it wasn't for Caching.
Cheers

A nicely fenced area with an historic tree! Thanks for the stop.

Nice spot I'd not have seen bar for caching. Someone should mow the plot, and put a picnic table there! TFTC TNLN SL

What a wonderful old site... didn't even know it was here. TFTC.

Hard to believe a school was on this site once (with anniecrosses)

Nice sit and quick find.

Nice quick cache, easy find. Stunning weather today, even a bit of snow still around.

Easy find on a lovely day! TFTC

Checking out the area for future mtbiking excursions so doing some caches as well - lovely area so will be back
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A hot windy day here and it's only 10am! Despite the dry, the trees are doing well. TNLN Thanks

Another school closed down a while ago. So many

Co-ordinates took us right to the spot. I wonder if anyone would plant a tree for the king or queen these days? TNLN TFTC

Quick find. The tree has done well. Tftc

Quick and easy stop while exploring the area. TFTC

Easy find. My great grandfather planted the tree! tftc

Interesting place to visit. I wonder why they chose that type of tree to commemorate the King?
Cheers,
S.t.

actually had dodgy coordinates which put me 500m off, but flucked it. Camped by the lake later.

A quick easy find. Nothing left of the school now. TFTC

Nice quiet spot in the country, interesting to think how many small community's have long since disappeared.
TFTC

Another quiet spot at an old disused school site. TFTC

Found at 15:48 on a bit of a detour on my trip from Twizle to Methven. It was certainly an interesting little spot. TFTC. Took the TB and left a koala.

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Found with MadieCacher

Found this cache with my personal travel bug Ice Age Scrat along our 3 moths trip around the whole New Zealand,
17:50
Quick evening drive-by cache, TFTC

Found it!

out working in the area so grabbed it on my way past

A nice easy find - as promised! Thanks.

Quick and easy find on a very hot day. TNLN, TFTC.

It is always amazing to find these areas preserved by the locals, thanks for taking me here.
Ernienz

In Fairlie for the pipe band contest and we were exploring the countryside. Visiting from Canada so enjoying the gorgeous weather and scenery. TFTC

I expected the school ... loved Geo. V's tree. Thanks - geofran

This was the second historic school location visited today. Had to wait for the grader driver to finish his lunch at the enterence before I could safely complete the cache. TFTC

found straight away in a very peaceful spot. TNLN

Quick find, and had a little respite from the rain, but it was getting colder. Cheers Gav [2606]

Did this one with Moneydork.