Far Tax (Nelson/Marlborough) Canvastown, South Island, New Zealand
By SoBad on 25-Jan-09. Waypoint GC1M2WP

Called past today to confirm that neither the cache nor the sign that inspired it were there. So archiving.

Should be easy so needs a check.

Found cap and mobile phone (with sim card!) - no cache

TFTC

Quick find, though no sign of the cow cockies humorous sign! Thanks for the cache.

Found on a short detour on our way home. TFTC.

A quick detour from the main road for a smiley. Cheers.

ANZAC weekend, time for a wee road trip. Saturday to Nelson.

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

Qef on a day when the tides not right for fushing.. Tftc.
Ps log is damp.

Thanks for this cache found on our way to Blenheim today.It is a lovely spot.

Tftc

Very tricky.

Found this pretty straightforward - thanks!

Soon after catching the geocaching bug, NZDi and I came out to Pelorus Bridge to see how we could go in the bush environment. We discovered geocaching took a lot longer than in the open and didn't get a chance to finish off the area. We also logged our first DNF out here and today was the day we decided we needed to clear up some unfinished business. As we have a few more caches under our belts now, we didn't expect this exercise to take too long so we planned to collect a few more caches along the road between Pelorus Bridge and Havelock, then do some caching around Havelock before heading home. In the end we got 32 caches and managed to swap the three trackables that have been in our possession for a while for three new ones.

After caching out the Pelorus Bridge Scenic Reserve earlier this morning, it was now time to head back to Havelock and do a few around there. Of course there are a few caches that will make the trip take a little longer and this was the second. From previous logs, I see the sign has been removed. I remember when this piece of legislation was first proposed and the derision it received from all but the Green Brigade.

The remnants of the sign were still visible but I was amused to discover the cache was not near them. A QEF PnG anyway.

TFTC SoBad

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to ohis log for details.

TFTC SoBad

TFTC

Found this cache on our 4 week trip through New Zealand, on the way from Marahau to Momoragi Bay.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC

NZ-Cache # 135

T4TC

Quick easy find we were in canvastown and thought we could find it

I think the sign is gone but the cache is fine. Thank you for the cache. Best regards from Germany. Family Holleradhiho

Nice quick find but to wet to sign. TFTC

Another quick find

Found at 09:34 AM - #5989

TFTC

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

Enjoyed the peaceful countryside here, and also interested to see the Te Araroa walkway pass by here. Thanks for this one SoBad.

QEF just off the main road. Very quiet spot today. Replacement log still nice and dry.
TFTC SoBad

Nice easy find. And my son learned a lesson about electric fences! TFTC

Off to the Blenheim branch office today, so a chance for some caching on the way.

Needing a make up a little time now, I fast-forwarded through Rai and Pelorus but this cache, with its amusing back story deserved a visit.

I guess the Tax in question has been repealed now (or perhaps it was just a lot of hot air!) as there was no sign of the sign, I think, but the cache remains waiting to be found.

Thanks SoBads

#793

Replaced log in a plastic bag... Owner needs to dry out cache. An easy wee find on way to nelson. Tftc!

Got this one on the way to Blenheim. The logbook was very wet, so logged our visit on a piece of scrap paper, which we wrapped in "glad wrap".

This entry was edited by clandhe on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 at 22:18:03 UTC.

Quick Found

Greeting
Die Trossinos

Pick up local Cacher call The Seagnoid
Sign log and cache in good order See taybee Log as we did it at the same Time
TFTC log by Gsak

This entry was edited by taybee nz on Monday, 23 March 2015 at 03:07:58 UTC.

Caching with The Seagnoid last for the day easy found by the Seagnoid here
Sign log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

[green] Got invited to a road trip with Taybee and TaybeeNZ, and Taybee had cleverly worked out a route neither of us had been on - 40 caches worth! Picton, Queen Charlotte Drive and Pelorus. Long day.
Last cache of the day, and none found with hints. Yay!!

I put 50cents in the container to get it to America

Found this cache during our NZ holiday in 2015.
Thanks for hiding the cache and showing us the place.

[blue]TFTC MAsterpaar[/blue]

Actually found by accident which started us geocaching!!!!

we didn't see the sign mentioned, but did get the cache. very nice area. TFTC!

Beautiful country! TFTC.

Just a real quick grab on a sunny nice nice day!

For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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12/10/2014 10:22:00 AM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Almost every single log we signed as 'Team Polak' to avoid needing to write out both usernames taking up space on logsheet - as well as precious caching time!! Haha.

Consec caching day # 707

TFTC!!

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We had already seen the sign last Easter when we were here while the cache was disabled due to it being missing, so we were glad to finally pick up this smilie. There was abit of water in the container but the log is safe and dry. Thanks for the cache
[purple]Our cache find: #2826[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 34/37[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 71/224[/blue]

Thanks to StokesNZ and KrisnKen for the maintenance.
We will check this out on our next visit to the area. With the sign gone it may be archived.

Found with KrisnKen.....a wet soggy logsheet so decided to hijack whole cache and take "home" to dry out in front of fireplace. Returned the next day (dried and cleaned) as we did another afternoon of geocaching. Further maintenance may be required if weather continues to be wet!!

Found with StokesNZ. Returned to position next day.

Isnt funny how FAR you will go out of your way for a cache and other times the ones that require a very SHORT detour get ignored. I dont know how many times I've driven along the main road and thought "I must get that one" but I never have ... until today and as promised it was a very each cache. Thank you

#1946

Missed this last year. Pleased to find today. TFTC #488

Easy drive in find on 1st day on South Island. TFTC

Dark by the time I made it here. Another find without a GPS.

Thanks a lot.

Found this one during our month long campervan/"Road trip" vacation in New Zealand. It was a wonderful experience driving around this beaurtiful country.

This one was found on a day driving from Anakiwa to Marahau Beach camp

Thanks to SoBad.

Our find # 11855

Found with JennyWrenNZ while on holiday. TFTC

Isis 58 said this cache very funny. Great theme but would be funnier with the sign.

Left in a more southern place with cows for company

could hardly be easier. Found on way to Nelson TFTC

What a pity that the sign is AWOL. Easy cache find, though and hint still works. NINO TFTC

Thanks for cache. I found it during Sundays geotrip around Pelourus Bridge.

This had been our first trip to New Zealand. We spent three weeks here in this amazing country, which is unfortunately quite a short time. We saw a lot of gorgeous places, met very friendly people, could see the different landscapes like deserts, rain forests, glaciers and oceans. And of course animals like Kiwis (never thought that they are so big), dolphins, seals, glow worms, penguins (I love the blue ones). It was hard to say good bye and go back to the winter in Europe.
We hope to come back one time...Greetings from Germany / Switzerland.

A nice drive-in, thank you!

Thank you for maintaining the cache.

# 1070

Thanks for the cache

#619
On our way from the Picton Ferry Terminal to Blenheim we decided to have a little 'cache break' here. So we did and found that one. TFTC!

Easy find though no interesting signs today
TFTC

Very quick find, Thanks

Joint find with SAFCman and Osteoboss. Windy on the bridge today but well worth it for the views up and down the river. TFTC!!

First one for our day out at Pelorus. TFTC

TFTC

First cache back in NZ for ages. Quick stop off between Blenheim and Nelson. TFTC

Makka pakka 2 went out to day to see what he could see and there it was just for me

Quick find fun with mum

thanks for a fun cache

Back in action. Nice little detour. TFTC

Back in action.

We will definitely be replacing this cache within the month. Sorry for the delay, but we have not been in the area recently.

[green]Day 3 of our 5 day Easter caching roadtrip. Today we are heading from Blenheim to Nelson.[/green]
We knew is was disabled but come for the humor anyway. While we were here we couldnt resist and can confirm that the cache is missing. Thanks anyway

Should be easy so two DNF sound suspicious. Disabling until we can check.

Either too good for us or it has gone.

Thanks anyway SoBad

Didn't have a lot of time to look but not anywhere obvious

TFTC. Merle Lutz comes from Germany and it was necessary for a brief political explanation to take place, then it was great entertainment as we read the public notice.
Great humor and a favorite vote from me.

What a giggle . Good cache, worth a favorite point. Thank you

Hah. Amusing spot. Had to take a photo
Cheers Gav

A favourite point for finding that sign and bringing it to our attention! well done. Easy to find cache, thanks. TFTC

Stayed nearby with a local last night who knew of the location of this cache so didn't even need my GPS.
TFTC

Quickest find ever, been here before, before I got into geocaching.

A new day in New Zealand on the way from Kaikoura to Marahau and some caching... enjoyed the absolute lovely weather today...

TFTC dunestar

Knew this one was there but always seem to drive past on main road, this time we found it on way further out. TFTC. Nearly got wet from irrigator retrieving.

Clever name, made us laugh! TFTC

Good one. Gave us a laugh. TFTC

Oh, that's funny! Took a photo, which will be going on Facebook, and appreciated the sense of humour. I don't think the copulating snails I disturbed on the cache saw the funny side, though . TFTC, SoBad. =^.^=

Found during our 25 day holiday trip to NZ. In these days we both visited North and South island picked up some caches along the route of course.

TFTC!

Easy find on way back to Nelson. Replaced zip lock bag. Picked up TB. TFTC

funny sign. tftc

Found that one on our road trip throughout NZ. TFTC!

Found that one on our road trip throughout NZ. TFTC!

Easy find and quite a giggle.

Was glad the cache enticed me to drive over this bridge for the first time. Enjoyed the humour [^] ,cache was found and signed without difficulty.

A nice quick stop and a quick laugh. TFTC

Ha! Love it, nice quiet spot too. TFTC

This was a funny cache. COuld smell the country smell as soon as the door was opened. Really enjoyed this cache on a mission with friends. THanks

Quick find. Great sign.

Quick find tftc