Volunteering No Drain (Southland) Pukerau, South Island, New Zealand
By Pukekos from Pukerau on 02-Aug-08. Waypoint GC1ETHW

The cache was swimming in a pool of water, so I moved it a tiny bit to the right so it didn't sail away. TFTC.

Better luck than when we were here a year ago.Thank you, Pukekos from Pukerau

A nice quick find today. We spent a bit of time looking the last time qwe were through here.Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are off on a cruise around the south of the South. Great to be away. The day was fine, though quite overcast, as we travelled toward Dunedin.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Bit soggy to get too

Seems very odd!

Nice one

No luck today. Spent some time looking with no joy.Next time.......

All quiet today. Went in that side, nope. Went in the other side. Nope.

Day 4 on our holiday in New Zealand. On the way from Te Anau to Queenstown over Dunedin, we also visited this traditional cache, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to Pukekos from Pukerau for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Checked out today , and yes still there. A bit wet but waterproof

Quick easy find, cache was a little bit wet inside - dried as best as I could

TFTC

The cache appears to be missing. The area is no covered in rocks.

Could the CO confirm this cache is still there please

Kiwicampnut and I finally managed to coordinate ourselves having been over to the island we have finished my PWGT5 caches and making good progress on hers.
We almost gave up here, then decided to totally ignore the hint.
Found below GL, held in place by a weighty natural object. Rather wet inside. Dried out as best as we could (thank goodness for waterproof paper!) and replaced a few feet along, out of the dip and the water.
Thanks to all volunteers, but particularly those who appear at this location.
Thanks for the cache Pukekos from Pukerau
# 3404 22 October 2022 3:28 pm

Ruru-NZ and I are on Stewart Island doing the Geotour caches as a priority but any others found are a bonus for me.

Took longer than needed. Bit wet but able to write on log

Tha nks for the cache

Easy find TFTC

Today was the day I headed Nor-east out towards the other President locating and signing off a few caches.

I replaced the sodden logbooks with some waterproof paper.

Cheers for the cache.

Found on the way to Dunedin with the family, TFTC

Sorry for the late log, forgot I had done this one. The logbook was unfortunately wet and we had no replacement.

Cache 751 Thought I’d grab this one on my way to Balclutha, I’m not a big fan of ones hidden inside propertys but thought why not as there wasn’t any vehicles here today PHEW Cache was a quick find but unfortunately all the logs inside are absolutely soaking wet, luckily I had my stamp on me cause my pen would have torn the log. Good we spot though T4TC

Quick find once knew where we were headed ! TFTC

Heading to Stewart Island with Natalie247 and grabbing a few caches along the way down. Thought we had found what we were looking for but it wasn't to be. TFTC Pukekos from Pukerau

Cache all good was surprised at where it was located

Good find TFTC

I stopped for this a few years ago but didn't get out of the car because there were too many people about. Today, been the Saturday in the middle of Easter it was a nice quiet day. Coords were out a little. However because I had read and re read previous logs it didn't take very long to find. Thanks or placing.

DEF Not in the brown thing . . . Quick find and sign today. TFTC.

*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!

Easy find, not in pipe.

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

No luck here. If its the plastic brown pipe in the corner - could not budge the lid..

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!

A favourite point from me for sure. TFTC.

Cheers

A nice Saturday afternoon to knock tis one off . Felt weird going to privateb property, but soon had nice dry log book in hand .tftc

After lunch we decided a road trip was in order so where to go ummm arrr what about here not today so what how about here or here so we decided to give this one ago so loaded up the cache mobile and head out east ish .
Yay I timed it right this time and with the right amount of steth managed to sneak in to the gz .
Soon had the goods in hand and sign log and returned to the hide.

Thanks for the hide

tftc

finlaly got this one. all quiet here today

with dsi,annielin,and abbykitt, nice sunny afternooon to sneak about and grab this one.
thanks for the placement

Nearly got my arm stuck. But then if you do you are in the right place

Easy area to find in. Youngest child found it.

not above ground and not visible from 2 m anymore found after a bit of a hunt

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 11 Gore to Dunedin 23 caches found. These guys do such a great job. Once I trusted my GPS I found the place to go to. It felt strange going around the back. Thank you for the placement

Through the wrong gate at the start easy once on the right track

2nd time looking here and it stumped us again.

Looked as best as we could but could not find

Nice explore for the young cacher. Made him think about this one

Quick park and grab! Thanks for volunteering!

Tftc

Tftc. Thanks for letting us in volunteers. You do an amazing job

Out for some fresh air. Got in the end

Tftc - easy find this time

Got wet feet getting this one. GPS was a bit off but found it eventually. TFTC

A little hard

Caching with Bladesedge today. Cache wasn't above ground & couldn't be seen from 2mtrs. Think like a geocacher as hint wasn't really helpful. TFTC

Felt very dodgy hunting for this one

Thanks this took longer than it should have to find.

Found alongside Hevic on the way back from our Fiordland trip. We were a bit apprehensive about this one, but I've always been of the mind that if challenged honesty is the best policy and I had the description to back me up. It was remarkably quiet and we had the cache in hand fairly quickly. Cheers!

I'm on a south island tour on my recumbent bike and stayed at the Gore Motor Camp. Going to Balclutha or Milton today. TFTC.

Found it

Tftc finally found it cheers

Read through the logs after this cache had only been discovered recently and had suffered a severe cache creep. Since then it has been moved back to it's original spot the logs have resumed with no more problems befalling the cache. We found it nice and dry and signed the dry logbook. The cache has good protection. TFTC

*Placed back in the spot with a flat rock on top at GL after finding it a wee bit wet in the swimming pool wheep!! Replaced the logbook and changed the bags.The cache owner has been inactive for quite awhile and cache has fallen to others to maintain. Old logbook is dried out and will be return one day.*___Found 20 Aug 16 Had searched unsuccessfully for this one before Xmas eve '15 with all the DNF's racking up and was about to throw the book in. Snow1983 was a logger from 2010. It was found a lot more further away on one last go and found the little 110ml lock'n'lock tucked away at Ground Level wery well hidden and the ground let go with a POP lol. Cache contents were good and the last finder to sign the log was back in January 2015 ! That's a longgg time ago without any real visits for a main-trunk-road cache. The relatively new engineering outfit next door looks wery productive and the GZ could be mugglishous during business hours, let alone any activity erupting unexpectedly from the immediate premises near the GZ seeing as that you need to enter the property at the gateway. At least it's placed with permission. Dday TFTC

Found it!

Found last night on road trip north. Didn't know what gate to open, therefore didn't know what fence we weren't allowed to climb. About to give up, but found it in the last place we looked lol. Tipped out water, but log dry. Thanks. Hope the volunteers have a quiet season.

Took a while, our coordinates weren't accurate on this one .TFTC

Found on our way down South to Bluff for the weekend. This one had us going around all over the place and after searching the most obvious places and coming up empty handed decided to check previous logs. Thanks to Lion.v. Lambs cache was soon in hand with much relief. Certainly a lot of activity in nearby buildings and felt quite exposed. Picked up TB. TFTC

Found it today on a nice Sunday drive

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Had a hunt around but think it has disappeared

This one is out of action

Bit of searching

Oké in the rain found. Tftc

Found this caches on our way from beautiful Milford sounds via Nugget point to Dunedin! We had so much fun travelling on this New zealand part, weather was nice so we had a lot of stops beacause taking pictures and finding caches Thanks a lot to all owners for making those caches and taking such a good care of them Greetings from czech republic

Tftc

Thanks for the geocache!

Found at gl.
Tflc

Very challenging but managed TFTC

Found with Indiana Jees. TFTC

Nice town, thanks for the history & the cache

Nice town, great day - TFTC

This one isn't really a DNF (did not find) - more if a DNL (did not look) as a young man had his head under the hood of his car across the road from GZ and he looked like he was going to be there a while so we didn't get out out of the car. Will leave for next time.

A quiet Sunday morning so hopped the fence and made a quick find.
TFTC

This one was too clever for us today. Looked for ages, up, down, around, behind, inside, outside etc. did find a nest with four blue eggs in though. In the end we had to carry on with our journey north. Thanks anyway. Rodney and Iris.

After attempting from wrong side last time in the area, come to the right side this time and cache quickly in hand, TFTC

Another quick find for today

Quick find TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Brave find

Saw another hare

Quck find - nice tidy site. tftc

NZ road trip with Schlitz13. On our tour we had the time to look for some caches. We found them, and some special places of interest or great views.

TFTC!

For the first time during our visit to New Zealand the weather was getting really worse. We headed north-east for our next destination: Dunedin. But first we visited the very small Te Anau Wildlife Center. The whole day was very cold and we only looked for geocaches and tried to get further on to Dundin. Finally we arrived at the Royal Albatross Center just in time for taking a private tour, that was even in german as the tour guide Sabine and all visitors are german.

Just arrived at the GZ coordinate I reminded me the tilte and I know where to go, but beyond the fence ? Ok, the owner wrote about permission is granted, so I found the box finally.

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additional information: I will change my geocaching alias name from 'Schlitz13' to 'Megalodon'

How much do I hate going through gates or over fences? It always makes me feel like I'm doing something dodgy. Especially when I go the wrong way.

TFTH, Was put back where found

Thought we may have to take a bath.

Tftc

nice hide

TFTC

No sign of cache, left with nothing but a cut finger from the cutty grass