Paua Power (Southland) Riverton/Aparima, South Island, New Zealand
By kryshan on 23-Oct-09. Waypoint GC205VR

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Archiving as has gone missing again

Hunted high and low for this, be great to see if someone else can find

After having made the Journey from Dunedin to Monkey Island I needed a few caches to keep me awake for the return journey and this was one of them
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found it

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Great find on a great day!

When I get home, I'm going to have an SD card filled with photos of giant things

This giant paua shell has become a bit of an icon for Riverton and as such attracts quite a few muggles. I had to wait a while before a quick seach revealed the cache location.

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Nice day out, visited Aparima Tavern for last time. Riverton is a cool place and finding cache was a bonus. NLNT and TFTH.

Took some photos of the giant paua before making the find. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

A quick find for us. Found with debsnz

That is the largest Paua shell we have ever seen...
But it is also a nice piecce of art. Had a very good coffee in nearby café, too.

Having great time with gemopal

TFTC found with MrsHazzer

Easy find with the whole family

Found during fozzmiester's South Island adventure. Great fun was had with clever hides and stunning locations encountered along the way. Many thanks to the owners of all the caches found and the enjoyment which you provided.

A quick park and grab at an interesting icon - now off to Bluff for a feed of oysters.TFTC

Nineth find for the day. The largest paua shell I've ever seen!

TFTC , quick sneaky park & grab !

Nice Memories of a wonderful trip

On my trip with paulsjojo from invercargill to te anau. Nice stop. TFTC! Nyx23

It really is paua shell all over! Brambles are taking over on the ground level appproach to the cache, ow.

Easy find while on holiday in the South Island from Whangamata

Was wwoofing in the area, so I was glad I could stop by the grab this cache. Coords seemed a little off, but found it with the clue. TFTC

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
DK

I know this log is very late!!
But on the holliday the internet connection not was very well, so i would have done it when i got home. but i have been so busy!!
So now i am looking at my GPS, and se the caches i missed to log
thanks for this cache

Quick easy find. Had to watch out for local gardeners. TFTC.

A quick stop TFTC

I cant remember what date I found this but it was near the start of the year when I was in Riverton with work, doing some resealing of some streets.

Its a big one is'nt it

A well made piece of touristy stuff

#640 Put all power on that box - TFTC

Tanks for the cache!

Easy to find! Much traffic around there... TFTC!

Thanks for cache. No pen or pencil in it tho.

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My route for the day was from Invercargill to Te Anau and the first time I have been in Riverton.

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Quick easy found on the way back to our campsite TFTC

This place we did not want to miss,
a blue and turquoise colour kiss.
The box was spotted very soon,
it was still some time before noon.

Our # 66 in NZ.

An easy find on our way home from exploring the coast. We left some original made swaps. Enjoy!
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Have driven past this so many times but never stopped so thanks for the cache which made me stop and explore it.

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Swapped. Enjoyed pretending to be tourists when muggles went by! Thanks

interesting monument, cache easily spotted as bushes had been pruned. TFTC

found on a hot day with hill55

Found it during my kiwi traveling around south island. TFTC

This entry was edited by Zivaa.CZ on Friday, 22 February 2013 at 20:56:41 UTC.

Great day for geocaching, we had an awesome day did 27 all up, our best day ever. TFTC.

Stopped for a photo and found the cache. TFTC

#71 Quick drive by. Tftc from Germany

Together with my family on a vacation trip to New Zealand. Starting at Auckland airport on transfer to Christchurch we went for a roundtrip exploring the south island. This was one of many caches we found while visiting so many nice and interesting places thanks to all the caches why I want to send a thank you to all CO for the work spent. TFTC.

quick find noboby around:) stoped here for lunch. TFTC

Awesome cache

Found on our trip to New Zealand crossing the southern island.
Today from Te Anau to Invircargill to visit the Most Southern point
of New Zealand.

TFTC, #1387 team cire-senga

Had to wait whilst some muggles had their photo taken. Quick find on a very windy afternoon.

TFTC. Took photo frame and marble. Left charm, heart button and small scissors. Cache dry. Thanks. Logged at 2:25pm.

Found it well. TFTC

Wow - that's a massive Paua shell - awesome.

Nice quick find once heading out back. Cheers Gav

Swift pick up on the way to Te Anau, took a few travel bugs.

Thanks for another kryshan.

Found this with RexTrex, Sol de Lune, Zsazsa7 and Fitzy on our way up to Te Anau. I love the big shell, and clever name - well done! Thanks kryshan.

5663 + 591 = 6254. Day 6 of my week long visit to the New Zealand South Island for the NZ Mega 2012 event along with Sol de Lune, Zsazsa7, Winglen and RexTrex.

Today we drove from Invercargill to Te Anau - a stunning drive firstly along the coast and then up through some beautiful country until we arrived at the gateway to Milford Sound. Just about into Riverton we stopped for this one and - yep - thats a big one alright ! And like some previous finders - now I know how its pronounced !!

Thanks again kryshan !

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers....

A shared find with my Aussie caching mates Winglen, Zsazsa7, Sol de Lune and Fitzy-1965 as a part of the NZMEGA2012 experience and our subsequent tour.

Great to come past this iconic shellfish - whether it be called paua, abalone or ormer. Well done to the locals for creating an industry based on jewellery manufacture from the shells and to kryshan for bringing us here.

Today we were off to Te Anau, grabbing a few more caches in Invercargill before leaving. This was a quick stop and grab befoe moving onto the next. Cool looking shell, certainly glad we stopped.

The cache was found after a quick search, no problems with it.

Found with ZsaZsa7, Winglen, fitzy_1965 and Rextrex (local NZer) on our trip around the South Is after attending the New Zealand Mega. We managed to grab a few caches on travels and this was just one of them.

Thanks for the cache and the chance to see more of the South island.

1220, GAFF3, Found by Geoson and I on our way through from Invercargill to Ti Anau.

A bit of a prickly hiding spot.

TFTC kryshan

So that's how Paua is pronounced Found the Paua and the cache. It's certainly not part of a paua trail Left 2 TB's. TFTC kryshan.

I'm with kotukuSI on this one. TFTC #4072

In Dunedin from Whangarei with flowernz for the MEGA having a great time finding some of the south caches. Really enjoying the locations the caches are taking us to. Have never been to Riverton before but Mr flowernz taught here in the past so was able to point out all the interesting spots. Big paua !! he was sure it wasn't here before. A good spot for a cache and flowernz soon had it in hand. TFTC

Guess no trip to Riverton would be complete without a visit here - mr flowernz can remember a huge pile of paua somewhere about here [back in the 70s we're talking!!]
Cache soon in hand and all good...
Down south with tikitour for the MEGA event + a few caches of course!! This was our 'trip to Riverton' day - mr flowernz taught there for a few years back in the 70s so he was taking us down memory lane with him...
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Another great find on the Emvy_Us / Waiiti20 mega tour of the Southern South Island. TFTC

Found with Emvy_us on our southern tiki tour while attending the Dunedin Mega. TFTC

Found on our way to the NZ Mega Event. This southern part of the coast was one of the more memorable sections of our trip. Yes, we too discovered (or confirmed) the pronunciation of "Paua". Bit of a prickly find.
Cheers from Browngang

I don't remember this from my childhood visits!
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Found it

Prickles!! Great cache

Nice quick find, just watch the prickle bush.TFTC

We missed out on this one last time but this time we found it easily. Our last for the day as it is just on dark.

just down road , easy find

TFTC!

Chili-mad bloodhound (aka my son) did his work and earned a treat!!! Out on our cache hunt with amatheson and matheson.clan left a marble behind to remind me where I lost it?!

This entry was edited by Chili-Mad on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 08:28:44 UTC.

Easy find , though a prickly ouchie one while dropping my Darling at work . TFTC

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Nice town entrance for Riverton. TFTC

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Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through, on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.

Thanks for setting this up.

TFTC

Mud & Kim

Nearly 2 decades ago me and a mate where sitting around drinking near Tuatapere and another mate who had been paua diving stopped by and gave us a full roasting dish of raw paua. The two of us spent the following two days eating our way through the pile of paua (yep breakfast, lunch, dinner and super). All we would do is wrap the paua in a teatowel and then smack it with the back of the axe to tenderise before frying in some butter, serve on a bit of bread, yum.

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Didn't take too long for our first ever cache.

Almost as impressive as the surfer a few km west... TFTC

Our third day of Guzzi Ride to the Riviera of the south. Was amazed that the large shell is actually covered in hundreds of pieces of Paua shell. A local came out of his shell to come and talk to us about our motor bike. Love that about small towns.

Nice spot easy find.

The cache revealsed us a great spot in Riverton. We bought some paua shell products in ther local shop. TFTC

Found during our 2012 trip to New Zealand. TFTC
A quick find after a delicious lunch at Riverton, onward to Invercargill for tonight's stop.