Memorial Garden ( South Canterbury ) Lyalldale, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 12-Sep-10. Waypoint GC2F3XY

No luck here

Done it's dash. - Bitsprayer

Had a good look around but couldnt find this time.

Unfortunately I couldn't find this one. I would have replaced it but it could well still be there under the leaves.

Cache full of water. Emptied out and signed wp log. Tftc

Thanks for the caches Bitsprayer. Cruising around the area today with Hal2929 picking up new and not so new caches. Visiting places previously unheard of.
Had quite a wander around this place and was amazed.

On a roadie with Kiscardi. Interesting place. Thanks

Lovely spot! And a good size cache, too! TFTC!!

Found on a nice drive on the back roads getting caches

I'm glad I had my boots on. An interesting spot. I planned a ski trip with hubby and friends. Then I had a couple of biopsies dine on my arm. So no skiing for me so I decided to cache instead. Thank you Bitsprayer for this cache.

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*Another good find going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
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Thanks for putting this out for us to visit, we enjoyed the drive / walk around!

Great drive around these back roads.
Container and log WET

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

I am back in Waimate with my snail shell and it is time to sign off the rest of the caches that were published at the end of last year. It was nice to travel over all sorts of roads and by owning a Holden I was able to go through all those Fords.

Cheers for the cache.

Prepare for sheep and burrs, this one is an adventure to find! Lovely cache in a place I didn't know existed

Quick easy find

#18246. Good to see an old school building that is still in good shape. I thought my feet might get soaked in the long, wet grass in the garden area, but I managed to find my way to GZ was out too much moisture ingress. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day one of a 4 day trip down south to Oamaru, a consolation holiday for us, as in a COVID-19 free world, we would currently be in Seattle .
My GPSr was playing up, so just had to follow SW to the garden. He found the cache too. An interesting piece of history, thanks.

Found

Tftc

Lovely afternoon to find a few caches on my way home. Nice sunny spot for the old school. Cache in good nick. Thanks for the hide.
#4151

Full log to come

I love coleslaw
The skiwi team

What a nice place. It's great for old buildings like this to be remembered tftc

Up this way for work and had some time to kill, interesting spot.TFTC

With Kiwitien. Could only see the Memorial Garden from the gate as it was closed/tied together with chain and rope. Decided to leave the peacefully grazing sheep undisturbed in the school grounds.

Thanks

Magic spot, interesting garden. TFTC

Out for a ride easy find

Lovely day for a ride cool find thank you

I love doing these caches that take you away from the hustle and bustle to a serene spot to look at history TFTC

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... another interesting place to visit. Again thank you Bitsprayer for all the caches you have placed for our entertainment!

Great day

With Sal and Dan

Found on a day's outing to Mt Nimrod. TFTC.

What a great walk gorgeous wee school

Thoroughly enjoying today's caching trip. We are so lucky to have so many great spots preserved for all to enjoy. But of a weed bash to get to cache at present

Visited this old church that is showing its age. Followed the instructions and found myself confronted by a cabbage tree plantation. Maybe I should check them out.

Another awesome spot...thanks for showing.

Great gardens for these old school grounds, well done to the community for doing this.

Added as a favourite

there are a lot of vegetables in this garden cheers

why is it always the last place you look?

We enjoyed the day caching in this area

Tftfun

So many caches done to remember all, but got a kick out of all that we found (0ver 600 in 8 days)

Nice cache hiding. Took a toy bird and left a pet rock. If you take the rock and need to know how to look after him then contact us on https://www.facebook.com/AdoptARock and we can email you the instructions

Great find

Great find

Early morning. Parked up and climbed fence as it was not going to open. Had sheep guarding land and the neighbor was up early across the road too. Felt strange going onto the land even though its public right?

Quick find after jumping the fence tftc nice old school, still in good condition

nice bit of history & garden. wonder what the old school gets used for now. tftc.

Interesting place. Heafudd M did a bit of weeding while we walked through garden. TFTC

Wasn't keen to get too close to the stinging nettle at gz so sent mum in to make the retrieval and back to replace cache. Found with debsnz

The school wasn't open for long. Watch for stinging nettle near gz. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

TFTC! Found with purdiepurdie on a caching expedition.

TFTC. What a neat garden to wander around in. Great effort by the locals for planting here.
flobberworm! and purdidepurdie out for a few days caching play.

GPS batteries decided to give up lot of those particular trees took awhile. TFTC

An old school building that has lasted well. Thanks for the stop.

A nice stretch out of the car. The school was only open for 20 yrs. TFTC SL Retrieved tb, -fish hook, +bird.

2nd gate guarded by a very noisey peacock! TFTC

Good guard dogs, those peacocks...

Enjoying exploring all the back roads and hidden treasures TFTC.

Easy find, nice little area

Dropped off A Dragon

Interesting spot to visit. So much history tucked away from the highway. TFTC.

Found it. TFTC!

Easy find in a place few but locals would know about.

Great wee spot, love these sort of caches. Thanks.

Found at 14:46 on 12/11/2011.

Found during a tour of South Canterbury and North Otago whilst on an Orienteering weekend.

TFTC Bitsprayer!

Another closed school. At least something interesting is happening here.

Would be good if all these buildings could be used. Just wondered why this school was only in action for such a short period of time. TFTC

Another delightful spot, one does wonder why the school closed - was there a rural down-turn all those decades ago? TFTC.

3557. We enjoyed going to this spot. The school was certainly closes early on - not in the latest round of closures! There was interesting information on the board about the early settlers. We narrowly moved being squashed between a grader and farm machinery as they passed each other on the road. As we were leaving a peacock appeared out of the bushes and was there in front of us for some time.
We took the truck TB with us.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Found, took a bit of hunting. Dropped the bug off as a truck passed while we were hunting for it. TFtC

5545 Lots of Brassica’s in season at the Memorial Gardens, quick read of the info panels before heading off, TFTC

The garden is a little forlorn at the moment - but interesting notice board.

Quick Grab
TFTH Happy Cachin!!!

Took a trip from Canada to New Zealand to visit my brother and nephew over Christmas. Did some caching and was taken to some pretty amazing places. Thanks for the cache!

Took a while without the clue. TFTC

found on an afternoon caching with the kids

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nice easy find for my young friend - took the Hippo travel bug

A quick easy find in a pleasant memorial garden by an nice old school. TFTC (The Green Jeep TB was not in the cache)

+ Hippo TB

Found with moneydork and rediguna

Interesting old school. The sheep were most inquisitive! Cheers Gav [6420]

Interesting old school yard. The sheep were quite intrigues by our presence.

Good to see the building is still used by the community. It is also good to see the locals showing some pride in the area with places like this.
Thanks
erninz

Nice quick dash in and out. Interesting spot indeed. Not sure if this one the one where I dropped off the TB - if not apologies

Interesting site and a fitting memorial garden to the early settlers to this location. TFTC

FTF nice spot... TNLN thanks!!

Got it in the end. Short-lived school this one.

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