Stop the Flood (Southland) Richmond, South Island, New Zealand
By Ashsal on 20-Feb-10. Waypoint GC245V8

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi Ashsal

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Lost

Definitely not there

It’s been geonapped

Looked around where I thought it should be but no luck

No luck and I’m pretty sure I was in the right area

Could not locate on environmental sign?

A good wee find, thanks...needing a new log tho in it.

Found it awhile back with the fam.

Had a day in town and had the chance to have a good walk around collecting some caches on the way. TFTH

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Thanks

Log is nearly full. I had difficulty attaching it. Cheers

Thanks ,

We have just spent 4 days at Stewart Island but having finished all we wanted to do there we managed to change our flights to get back to the mainland a bit earlier and spend a couple of hours wandering around Invercargill and finding a few caches at the same time.
We spotted this one on approach but with an approaching muggle I took advantage of the wall to sit down. The muggle immediately stopped for a friendly chat and in the ensuing conversation recommended somewhere to get dinner, a recommendation we were happy to prove correct.
Thank you Ashsal.

We spent 4 days at Stewart Island and had some time to kill after arriving back on the mainland. It didn't take long to plot a small route through town to keep us occupied till dinner. A quick find here but we had to wait out an approaching muggle. So we sat down on the low wall, then got talking with this delightful lady. Her dinner recommendation was spot on. Thank you for the cache

Very nicely hidden and quite dry despite being open

Top’s missing and couldn’t get log out! I’ll prepared on our part

In invers for the night so this was nearly on our way to
Found on the ground and no top but replaced it as best as we could

Arrived in Invercargill for a few days to visit family. Expected it to be wet and cold but it’s a nice day to be out and about caching. Enjoyed following the stream and collecting some caches. Nice bit of history. Thanks for the smiley.

Log may need replacing soon as getting quite full! TFTC

Interesting Environmental award where all benefit.

Yes with Tokerau

*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!

*Another good find.*

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

Down here with my Mum & brother for a week travelling around the bottom of the South Island. We are heading around and across to the Milford Sound.

Quick park and grab here this morning. Interesting glass work happening across the road. TFTC

In Invercargill for a week of work. But what to do in the evenings? Grab a few caches of course. A quick grab and sign. Thanks for the cache.

Tricky to get out and read but great fun for the kids to find

In Invercargill for a few days and getting out to find a few of the local caches and om my way out of town to visit a friend from many years ago. stopped to locate a few more caches so i past this cache on my way this is quite an interesting sculpture and it was a quick and easy find once i found the right approach. and i took a photo. Thank you for this cache .

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I were down in Invercargill for a 60th Birthday party & an 87th Birthday celebration ... we had parked up & decided to go for a walk ... can remember numerous times the 'puni' used to flood & this a piece of great engineering designed to solve the problem .. pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally ... TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #1,943 for us.

Nice and quiet here this evening. Tftc

Interesting monument/environmental award. Nice for the engineers to be recognized. TFTC

23 January 2021 20:13 Number 9135. Ethness was feeling pretty flat after all the driving today, so I dropped her at the backpackers and headed over to the supermarket to get dinner, and fill up the car. I noticed this cache was nearby, so diverted to find it. The hardest part was extracting the log and replacing it afterwards! Signed as Infoferret, Tftc

Was hard to find great spot

It had fallen down and seems to be taped up?

Really surprised that there aren't more people around today. Guess they are either working or away on holiday, although many shops are still shut too. tftc

Found cache but did not have a pen with us. Looked at it and returned it

A wee bit hard but found it

TFTC

Great wee find

Travelling home from a wonderful trip to Fiordland & Stewart Island, we managed to get over from the Island...but only just... all further ferry trips were cancelled for the day and also our plane flight from Invercargill. So we had an extra day to explore Invercargill once the wind had died down, which was a great bonus. Decided to walk around the green areas near our hotel and end up at the huge park which was a great surprise. What an awesome and varied park.
Unfortunately I forgot to take a pen but I did take photos of those caches we found that didn't have a pencil supplied. Found this one just where expected. Tftc.

Nice little hide

Parked right next to it, had lunch around the block and just realised there was a cache right next to it. Nice and easily found, not magnetic anymore, but cool camo nonetheless. TFTC, greetings from Auckland

QEF here. Cheers.

Sunday 25 October. Checking out Invercargill today.

Toby, Zara and I are on a 3 week geo adventure of Cromwell, Southland, Catlins, Balclutha with a day in Dunedin and quick stop in Timaru. With Lenny, my trusty navigator and TBD my companion/mascot. we managed to visit lots of green boxes, now happy faces with the odd sad one. Did some LABs , earth caches, virtuals and wherigos, all chucked into the mix to rack up 500 odd caches. Lots of kilometers, lots of exploring and lots of fun. Thanks to all COs for our wonderful experience.

Couldnt open

Cache 49 Quick easy find, clever little container hardest part was trying to get the log out. (I recommend tweezers if you are hunting this cache) all I had was the end of my pen took a good 5 mins to finally get it out. T4TC

Found it

Nice cache...thanks from germany

My first international find! Nice cache.

Jude-E and I are on a geocaching trip to the deep south. Instead of driving down from Christchurch we decided to get a cheap flight down. Thanks Ashsal for placing this geocache 7972 find for me.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

On a 3 day caching venture with Nosynel. We have a few goals in mind, especially the TMGT caches and Bluff Hill. Post dinner caching to take advantage of the long daylight here. Tftc.
#5043

A quick found greetings from Austria tftc

It is so much fun, when it is not raining! Thanks

Very interesting. Well done for Invercargill. Greetings from Austria

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Dunedin, Timaru, Invercargill caching trip for 3 days with rustynz and Rebel98. This trip involves a very long mission to obtain as many as we can of the new Tuia Mātauranga GeoTour series. We started in Auckland some time ago and intend to finish the series sometime this year. Only 100 caches to get for the souvenir… lol. We do have other caches on the horizon and we’re trying to get as many of those caches as well.

It's dark, rusty is navigating and we come here at night after a very long day with only 3 hours sleep or so, I imaging this is a lovely area in the daytime, I thought the cache was going to be 'there' byu rusty said no after a search, after a few minutes I recheck and found it 'there', all good, we sign in and move on.

On a caching adventure with some Westies (rustynz, rebel98 and gorby) to Otago and Southland, on a long weekend of caching fun

Being here at night, no problems with muggles or parking. Now I missed it, gorby found it, and rebel is tucked up in bed

Thanks for the hide Ashsal and for bringing us here

Log later

*Hohum my replacement cache has RITR logslip inside. Just unscrew the bolt. Corrected the drift. Not many signers on logslip.* Remember your **tweezers.**
02 Oct 15 Found Yep log chock full. left initials in faded part, them's the brakes with nanos *(the ones found that is lol)* TFTC

Great little geocache to mark our quick visit to Invercargill, thank you .

A quick find on our one day in Invercargill. On holidays from Melbourne. Log was a little hard to write on, but in good condition.

Hard to imagine this in flood today.
Thanks
erninz

Hard to get log

Tftc finally found it didn't take paper out have taken photo as proof of find

Tftc didn't get paper out so have taken photo

Nice quick find on my way to work this morning. Took longer to get the log out than to make the find. Good urban hide. TFTC!!!

3rd find on 45th Wedding Anniversary trip to old home town. TFTC

Not what I thought it would be.

Found, small

Took a while but found it with H3ADZ123. couldn't get log book out so photo of proof of H3ADZ123 page

After a long look I found it TFTC with liltuhoe and co

Going to log this as okay, based on the latest logs, will double check next time I am down this way. Thanks, Ashsal

Nice one! I achieved to extract the log, this was very hard btw but forgot my pen... Proof with photo ️

Cool cache. I met 4 other geocachers at the same time and helped them. A bit of a struggle getting the log out.
TFTC

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Sneaky

Visited with two trackables. TFTC

Last day in Invercargill.....The rest of the group were in shops and cafes....
But I shot off and found two or three caches!
This took longer than it should have...
Very good hide thanks Ashal!

Found a bit of gentle tapping and the paper came out

Had a quick look around but dnf

Great fun find, couldnt get log out either so photo attached. Tftc

Found it but couldn't get the log out

found all safe and secure after a rather tiring camping trip with the grand kids nice to pick up a cache on such an awesome day TFTC

Couldn’t extract log so photo taken as proof tftc

Thanks for the story of this monument. Happily I had a tool with me. Greetings from Holland

A bit tricky but easy enough

Took a bit of work without the necessary tool but got it in the end. Tftc

Interesting cache. Had to nut this one out !. Tftc. MattyH from Tassie

Bewdy day for it in Invers for a spot of caching. Managed to get it out without tweezers... But jeeez. Cheers for the hide.

Found- Quick & Easy!!

Thanks

Found it. Thanks clever

5pm walking through Invercargill city, nice piece of history, beautiful day for a walk aloneside the Otapuni gardens.

Definately need tweezers! Noah and jules (nana)

Nice ingenuity

Sneaky place, cool find, definitely needed tweasers!

On a walk from our hotel. Not many muggles around late in the day. TFTC

Mum was in Invercargill for work and had a wee bit of time up her sleeve in the afternoon; so she combined a walk and caching. She met a tourist looking for directions close to the cache, but managed to shake her to search.
It didn't take Mum long to locate the cache, sign the log and replace! I think this will now be our most southern cache!