Drinks all round (Otago) Douglasvale, South Island, New Zealand
By ajbenn on 02-Mar-10. Waypoint GC24H8G

Got it thanks to the person who replaced looked for it before and couldn’t find nice to finally add a smiley here
Cheers

Thanks to the previous cacher for replacing the cache, easy find when they are there.

*Another good find.
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!

We enjoyed the drive / walk around!
Great spot.

We found the muggled smashed container near the road. Left a temporary one in place until CO can replace.

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

Cash isnt here

GPS lead to spot covered with 3rocks - a very likely place to hide cache, but it was empty
But the sunflowers in full bloom surrounding the memorial were a great photo op

Quite possibly has been muggled. Looked thoroughly around and found spot where it seems like it should be given hint but empty.

Found it!

Found with Denzel 3/12

Cool spot

A nice quick find thanks. I found the cache all open and spread about the place. Put it all togtheragain and all is fine.

Ms_KR and I decided to have an extended Show Weekend break, and today we cruised toward Omarama. A lovely day with plenty of little distractions to find.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Great history and enjoyed the patch of Capsella bursa- pastoris/Shepherd's purse. Tftc

Thank you from
Howard and Kath
Manchester UK

Cache 280 Can’t say I would like a drink out of here but I’ll take a cache, quickly found, signed and put back, Cache is in good shape

Day 2 of my 3 Day Geocaching holiday
On day one my cruisey trip up from Invercargill to Queenstown and I managed 35 caches along the way. Today I’m doing my first attempt at a 24hr challenge seeing how many caches I can get in 24hrs, start time 7am 13/10/20 end time 7am 14/10/20
This cache is cache number 18 At 12:05pm
Rock bug added to cache
T4TC

Easy find on our way to Qtown..Found a trackable that will be coming away on our next road trip TFTC

First day geocaching in a long time but interesting spot of local history and a good place to drop off a travel bug that has been in my possession for far too long.

Found on the way to Cromwell
Interesting history
Thank you for the cache

Found

Last for the day. Interesting history about Robert Lee. Tftc

Drop Ben past this spot 1000 times and never stopped. Thanks CO.

#295 we waited in a cold wind for some muggle to leave.we almost gave up and then we found out, he only wanted to read the info board we were standing at and kept the social distances. TFTC

Found without second half and forgot pen. photo of container attached. TFTC

Found it

Day 16 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm still in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

I was last in Queenstown about 18 months ago when some friends of mine were touring around the South Island and I flew in to join them for a few days. I've been lucky enough to visit a few times now and yet the sight of the Remarkables never ceases to amaze me. My wonderful tour is nearing the end, and today I was planning on having a leisurely drive from Queenstown to Tekapo.

But before I left town, I just wanted to grab a couple of quick caches including this one. So I made my way to the handy parking location and walked the short distance to GZ. This was a quick score here thanks to the helpful Hint, and finding nothing wrong with either the cache itself or the log, I added my scrawl to the log and replaced everything exactly as found before going on my way again,

Thanks for placing this cache.

Tftc snowy mountain views, easy find thanks

An interesting historical spot. Jude_E and I spent last night in Arrowtown and are planning on exploring Queenstown and Arrowtown in the light snow. Thanks ajbenn for creating this hide. It was find 8684 for me.

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On a 7 day caching trip with Nosynel. Sixth day on the road focusing on caches around Queenstown and Arrowtown. Cool trough! Tftc.
#5704

Thank you

Awesome

Nice and quick, wee bit muddy

TFTC ️

I found it on my way to Lake Hayes * Quarantine Escape;) *
Thanks for the cache and be safe!

Easy

!!

found in dark! lucky!

Down in Queenstown and Wanaka for a long weekend that was such a blast! At this point we were on our way back to Queenstown after climbing Roy's Peak and having a quick swim in Lake Wanaka. An interesting piece of history here, and a cunning hide. TFTC

Sur notre route, merci pour la cache

Sweet hiding spot, quick + easy find thanks so much. May need a small plastic bag to protect log book? Thanks again

Travelling home after weekend in Queenstown. Thanks for the hide.

Quickly located, a great piece of innovation and we loved the concept of drinks for all! Tftc

I started my great and unique round trip over the South Island in Christchurch.
My first major stopover was at Lake Tapeko - here I hiked up to Observation Mountain.
I then planned two days in Mount Cook NP with some unforgettable hikes. My big goal was the Mueller Hut - on a super strenuous hike I reached it.
I continued my journey over the lonely Danseys Pass to Dunedin.
Afterwards I drove along the Southern Scienic Route via Invercargill to Manapouri for some days. On this route I visited many sights and enjoyed the beautiful nature again and again.
I already booked a tour to the Doubtful Sound in advance - another highlight on my tour.
Afterwards I drove on to Queensown and Wanaka. From there I continued over the Haast Pass to the lonely Jackson Bay with storm and heavy rain. Afterwards I drove along the west coast always in pouring rain.
The rain stopped the whole west coast, but I had good rainwear with me. Only high up in Nelson the sun shone again.
Soon I reached the east coast again in Picton and Blenheim and the sun was shining again.
After a few days I travelled back to Christchurch via the beautiful town of Kaikoura.
At the end of my round trip I spent a few more days in Christchurch and its surroundings.
I visited many geological sites and found many caches on my round trip. In Rangiora I visited an event.
I travelled 3418 km and take home a lot of positive experiences.
Thanks to many beautiful caches I was also shown unique locations, historical sites and geological features.
I am overwhelmed by the fantastic and ever changing nature on the South Island of New Zealand - I will definitely come back.

Many thanks to all owners
Team sissifalke

Located this one during a cache raid of the Mainland. No problem with the find TFTC.

It was great

TFTC

Coulda done with a cold brew. Thanks for the cache!

Quick find. Very water logged

Water logged

Found today on our drive to Arrowtown. TFTC.

Wet

Found. Full log to come. TFTC

The new logbook is wet. Probably due to the massive amount of water the region had earlier this month

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Found!

Interesting spot and easy find.
Was actually uncovered with lid off. Returned properly but log is wet. Thanks

TFTC. I’ve driven this road a few times while on holiday and never had the chance to stop. Thanks for the history of the area.

Good design.
Greetings from Wales
TFTC

Great hiding spot

Owner visited Friday 25th. Cache tidied up. New log . Ggod to go forall long weekend cachers.

Visited cache site. Tidied up cache and left new log book plus pencils.

Great spot

Found it

A quick fun cache with a good dry log. Swapped the Tb. It was a creative cache.
Tftc

Found today while out for a walk with the kids. Tftc!

Fun

Great cache
Had to double check the hint
Tftc

TFTC found while on holiday with nzref

Quick park and grab with claireyc tftc

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Quick find but cache is unwriteable container in container log & bag on ground above photo to follow when get home. New notebook & plastic bag left. tftc

Found it but very wet and no log.

Easy to find, log book wet and soggy so couldn't sign.

Cool ider

Couldn’t sign bottle full of water

Tiki tour continues, Queenstown East, had time to visit Arrowtown, so this was on the way. Weirdly, though the bag was wet, the logbook was dry. Did our best to dry the bag and put it all back.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

TFTC

Got it! tftc

Tftc

Well back in Denmark again after my fourth visit to New Zealand. Luckily I also had time to go geocaching down under, and now it is time to long all my finds.
Cache found and logbook signed.
TFTC

Found while on holidays, great hide.
T4TC

Found, no pen and log is damp. Needs maintenance.

Found this one a while ago, forgot to log.

TFTC. Lovely day for a cycle and some caches.

On our geocaching journey to Arrowtown we stopped off to locate this little cache. A helpful hint. TFTC

An interesting monument and a nice quick find today. Thanks ajbenn, greetings from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

TFTC

TFTC

tftc!

Nice easy find. Interesting monument. Tftc

Almost as good a hide as the hide'n'the grass caches our local cacher captain specialises in. Cache found on a wery hot day, pity the well was dry and no TB's present for more than 2 years. TFTC

22098 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we visited Qeenstown itself, but due to parking problems we ended up only caching in the Garden. With a nice 30 minutes walk we visited all 4 caches.

Then we drove over the scenic road to wanaka and stopped a few times on the road.

Many monuments in this country

ajbenn TFTC Theo

Found it easy

Nice

My first find of the day even though its bucketing down outside. TFTC

Found on sunny but windy day with Mr Chillipips, ML and MW. TFTC Easy find

Today we made a walk around the lake Hayes und searched and found some caches too.
This was the first one of the day, an easy found.
TFTC and Greetings from Germany!

Find #2452
With no touristy plans for the afternoon, we decided on a caching drive (funny that!), and the Crown Range Road looked a good place to start. Initially we thought we'd nail a 1500m elevation cache but sadly it wasn't to be.... who would have thought the highest sealed road in NZ is only 1000m ASL?
We parked 90m away in a sideroad after GPS misinterpretation, when we could have parked right a GZ, but the walk was fine. The kids marvelled at the electric fence nearby. A quick find of a sneaky hide at GZ and we were off.... TFTC ajbenn

Found with my Dad and little brother on our Queenstown holiday....

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Awesome memorial! Great hiding spot!

The mountains sure look good today. Easy find, all in order but the attachment device may need some work. TFTC.