Naish Park ( Oatgo ) Balclutha, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 26-Jan-10. Waypoint GC23BY7

I did not find

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No luck here today but what a gem of a spot, loved the gardens and the bird aviary that I never knew was even here. Thanks for taking me to this spot, shame there was no cache to get a smilie

probably too many trees for my GPS

15:40
Nothing found here!
C&M

No luck

nice park

Quick find. Came at it from probably the wrong direction and didn't see any ducks. Could hear them though. TFTC

Found, nice place to visit. TFTC

I enjoyed the short wander through this lovely park to find the cache. TFTC #4715

cool place to visit and feed the ducks

TFTC

Couldn't write in book as it was wet.

Nice and easy find on our trip back North.

TFTC + Greetings from Hamburg / Germany
Ragnar

Camping only 500ft away so this had to be the first find of the day. Nice park.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Has new log

Gosh the park has been wet. Cache all dry though. Peacock in full squawk, ducklings alridy eyeing up humans for a feed. Cheers

Completely missed the road in to this one. Made a dash to GZ with SolDelune across some pretty muddy parkland.

Lovely area though. Thanks for another Bitsprayer.

The biggest challenge here was finding our way in, with those in the first car insisting on going around through the truck depot and having to jump a fence. Why not walk in off the main car park? Thanks Bitsprayer.

After a couple of days in Dunedin it was time for the team to head to Invercargil. This was one of the many stops along the way. Another neat little find for us.

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.

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.

We arrived at this cache from the wrong direction - i.e. through the middle of a trucking company yard. Half the team hopped the fence and started the search while the other half negotiated our vehicle out through the trucks and into the front gate of the park to meet up with them. Nice wee park, thanks Bitsprayer.

5573 + 591 = 6164. Day 4 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 Dunedin down to Invercargill caching along the way. After struggling initially to find the way in we made the breakthrough and the find. Thanks Bitsprayer !

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers....

1630, GAFF3, Found by Geoson and I after the NZ Mega on our way to Balclutha.

A wet walk through the park to GZ, we eventually located the hide.

TFTC Bitsprayer

Impressed with the tidiness of these parks. TFTC

Nice park a bit wet under foot in places at the moment, but managed to find it without any major dramas. TFTC

#2170 @1535
Found in the pouring rain while on a pre Mega excursion through the Caitlins, up to Gore and back to Dunedin via Balclutha. TFTC.

Nice park. Darby aka Ted really liked the bird aviaries here and had a good look. Quick find. SL. TFTC.

18/10/12 6:38 PM Find #1973
Day 6 of our trip around the south island for the NZ mega with Kinkell1
Camped at nearby motor camp and walked to find the cache.
Thanks for the cache, Highrod - Ballarat, Vic, Australia

Found with highrod on our way to the Mega.
Greetings from Oz!
TFTC

The first cache of the day, less than 100m from where stayed ! Lovely area to walk to when it's not raining.

There were absolutely noone but ducks around today. Due to the rain we didn't go and take pictures of the pretty birds, The cache was a quick find

Found at 15:29 - #2854 - with Alexesmann

TFTC

Found with renelm. TFTC

Stopped for lunch on a caching road trip. The aviary is an added bonus with the peacock keen to show us his tail feathers. Thanks for bringing us here. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

This is a popular spot at lunch time! Great park with the aviary, playground and pond. Enjoyed our stop here. Found with debsnz

TFTC.

Signed the temporary logbook. TFTC.

This entry was edited by harbr526 on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 07:53:54 UTC.

Parked up nearby and after looking at the avairies homed in on the cache site. Sadly it was saturated and the log was very difficult to sign.

Sadly this cache site is suffering from water intrusion and the log is very, very soggy.

A good cache in a very nice park, quite easy to find. TFTC

This entry was edited by Franzi Fa on Monday, 09 July 2012 at 08:04:12 UTC.

I originally found this as part of the dakotacats team but I have my own username now so am re-logging as whiskasnz. thanks.

16 June 2012 : Never knew this park was here, it's lovely. Had a quick look at the birds, there are some lovely ones here. Cache log was wet so used the notepad JimanPam had left behind yesterday. TFTC

The weather has gotten to it. JimanPam have added a temporary log book.

Never knew this park was here, it's lovely. Had a quick look at the birds, there are some lovely ones here. Cache log was wet so used the notepad JimanPam had left behind yesterday. TFTC

Fixed up as best I could

Found it, but the lid was off the container, and it was full of water. Log book soaked and stuck together and pen didn't work.
I'll pop back tomorrow and fix up as best I can, I have some sticky pads for a log bok and I'll pop in a pencil + sharpener.

Cheers

8th of 24 finds for the day, found with ingidayna. TFTC

Have spent many hours in this park especially when the children were younger.
A quick park and grab with we threefourdices on our finish Balclutha mish on a very cold windy day. 4/12
TFTC

Nice park,but didn't linger today.TFTC

Thanks Bitsprayer.
Nice park in my home town
Cheers

We did feed the ducks, the seemed very hungry.
TFTC

Thanks for bringing me here. There was a lot more to this park than I was expecting.

Having stopped off at the nearby campsite overnight this one was a must.
Also good to log a cache owned by Bitsprayer whom we met at a cache on Rabbit Island during our trip in 2006.
Quickly found after a pleasant stroll along the waterside.
Left Shark Finger Puppet.
Logged through Birthday geocoin, Blue Sphere TB and Lighthouse geocoin.
TFTC

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tftc

Lovely park complete with 5 baby peacocks cute

1600hrs 12/16 a nice wee park TFTC!

Quick find tftc

TFTC

A quiet sheltered spot for a treasure hunt. Thanks

A lovely quiet park and therefore an easy grab.
TFTC

Been in this beautiful park before. Great to have another opportunity to visit it. Cache well placed away from muggles. Easy find.

A quick find and my first in Balclutha for the day. Picked up TB - I recognise these from work. TFTC

Nice wee walk with the dog on a work visit to Clutha First during lunch. TFTC

VERY quiet this afternoon, not even the ducks even though I did have some bread just in case... great wee hide, TFTC!!

Stopover on the way from Invercargill to Dunedin. TFTC

A quick find while travelling through Balclutha today. Droppped of TB. TFTC [^]

Found while out riding

Hubby found this one but i wasn't far behind him. Really nice little park.

Quick find, TFTC

Easy find though lawn was a bit squelchy on the approach. TFTC

TFTC SL easy find lovely park never new this was here lovely day also we had fun loved the birds

Quick easy find, Grass was wet underfoot but cache nice and dry.
T4TC

Got this from the river bank walk. TFTC

Came in the back way. TFTC

Must have just missed Marchwood. TFTC.

Stopped to have lunch here on our way to Dunedin.
TFTC

Only 120m from where I camped the night, wandered over to sign the logbook whilst waiting for my morning cuppa to brew.
TFTC

5894 Nice location, remember visiting the park for another cache on our previous trip, TFTC

Quick find on way home to invercargill after bowls nationals. Had seen this park before when bowling at Balclutha Bowling Club over fence.

Could not see any ducks, but a plastic container. So we had the bread for ourselves. TFTC

And so for the second night running we find ourselves parked up in the camper less than 300ft from a cache - many thanks Bitsprayer! Took a little stroll in the park after finding it. SL. TFTC.

Was staying at the camp last night, was up early so went looking for this one. A tourist had pitched his tent 25m from the cache so I had to tread quietly so not to wake him up! Cache had no toys in it so left a plane and a pinball game. TFTC

A popular spot in the afternoon, a heap of teens about the place enjoying themselves. TNLN Thanks

Lovely gardens, thanks

TFTC

@1445 Lovely spot and a good hide.
TNLN TFTC

Found with moneydork and rediguna

Heh it was funny watching the frisky teens at this park - spring was definitely in the air! Moneydork made his 8000th find here! Congratulations! Cheers Gav [6793]

Yippee, my 8000th cache fine - at last!!!

Cached here a couple of times before. Thanks.

Easy find, nice park, changed a bit since I was here last. TFTC

Found with Johnnygoescaching group. TFTC.

9 of 18 today

Found with jonnygoescahcing - TFTC

9/18 today, TFTC.

One of 18 for our extended traditional Tues afternoon trip. TFTC.

Cool place, TFTC

Found while waiting for kids' competition to start. TFTC

Quick easy find, forgot the bread.....poor ducks. TFTC

Easy find after waiting on muggle on bike and his dog to pass by.
Imagine this park would be a great spot in the summertime. TFTC.

A straightforward find at the back of the park. TFTC