Where everyone says hello! (Otago) Balclutha, South Island, New Zealand
By Muzzer on 06-Oct-10. Waypoint GC2GAFE

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.

Info centre has now move and area is no longer open to the public.

Nice easy find. Came to town in Motorhome and very excited that we have lucked in on Xmas parade. So will be staying another night

The info says you don't have to interact with the friendly staff, but having been caught in the act of moving the furniture they had placed in front of the geocache, we had to! Luckily this wasn't a problem, and the cache was quickly found, Debsnz dropped her trackable, and we were on our way to the next one.

Dropping TB

TFTC nice quick find great place to take a stop

Really good

Found it

Ezy

Easy find

Nice warm spot for a find

Open todaý and quivk find. Tftc

Nice easy find
Thank you for the Cache

Cheers

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Day 13 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm 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 woke up this morning having spent the night beside a lovely beach near Heywards Point on the outskirts of Dunedin. Today's plan was to drive from Dunedin down to the Catlins, although I had no real idea of how far I'd get today. I have been so lucky to have dry conditions my whole trip so far, with the sun really putting in an effort to convince me it wasn't winter!

I wanted to ask a bit of advice of the staff here, so it seemed a great excuse to lookfor this cache too. I found the cache with little fuss. There were no issues with the container or log, which was signed before everything was replaced exactly as found before popping into the i-site.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Nice and warm location

Found all safe and secure as you would expect had to tell the lady on the counter about it as she spotted me tftc

Trouvée rapidement ! Merci à la charmante dame pour les informations pour la route et les visites à Dunedin !

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #524.

I actually started my day in Balclutha here but I didn't know there was a cache. With the hint it's a quick find. TFTC

Quick Find. TftC

Found quickly.

TFTC

On a caching weekend to Otago and Southland with Tuolei to pick up old caches, TMGT's, CANZ, solved puzzles and any others that caught our eye along the way. We had a 4 day long weekend planned that would take us around Dunedin on the first day, Tuatapere via Sutton, Balcutha, Mataura and Winton on the second day, Tokanui via Riverton, Invercargill and Bluff on the third day and then back to Dunedin via the Catlins on the last day. Overall we did 1578km and picked up just under 100 caches and managed to knock off most of the caches we had on our list.

Tuolei noticed is was in the info centre so thought it would be great to call in and take a look. Turn out to be useful as we had a chat to them about the road conditions ahead as there had been a lot of flood a couple of days prior to the trip. No problems with the find - all good here, TFTC.

Out and about on day one of Bennett24 and my holiday to the south to look for interesting caches including oldies, solved puzzles, geotour caches, and interesting types. We are heading south from Middlemarch to Tuatapere today - quite a drive - and stopping off to get a few caches on the way to break up the trip. By now we are at Balclutha and grateful for the stop - the info centre was useful for getting an update on the flooding down in the Catlins and at Mataura - very nice folks there too.

Cache was a quick and easy find thanks to the clear hint - no problems and of couse under the circumstances the cache is in perfect condition. Thanks for the cache, all good here.

Waiting for the 2nd van to arrive...very handy place to stop off at! We had a great time hanging out with the helpful and kind staff to fill in a bit of time
TFTC signed off as EPIC camp

Quick find, thanks

In Balclutha for 6 weeks uni placement and thought I'd pop in after work. First time I've found a cache indoors! Tftc

??????It's time for Xmas holidays!??????
At Munich airport I met Jon Snow and Ari and a couple of muggles. Here we started our common holiday tour.
First we went to Singapore by plane, where we stayed one night and strolled through this beautiful city. It was really amazing!
Then we went on to our real destination: New Zealand! ????
Within nearly four weeks we first explored the North Island, followed by the South Island in the second half of our journey. We could discover unique landscapes and great nature, we saw many animals (and no, I'm not talking about sand flies here??), we met nice people and found also some caches. ??
Thanks to all the owners for elaborating, hiding and maintaining their caches! Staying and caching in ???? and ???? was a great experience and real fun!
Sorry for logging so late, but it's not one of my favorite pastimes...
Greetings from "good old Europe"??, H.N.

?????? Vacation at the original locations of the LotR-films! ??????

Together with Jon Snow and H_Nelson and some friends-of-mine-muggles we went to New Zealand for almost four weeks, collecting many great impressions of both islands, their awesome landscapes, their clinging (and indeed very annoying!) muggles and bushes, their fascinating wildlife (especially the sandflies were very clinging, too??), their various locations of my favorite movies ?? (although the guided tours were very overpriced!) and last but not least their nice geocaches!
I fell especially in love with New Zealand's bushes because most of the caches are hidden deep inside. And the good thing is: there are definitely no muggles there??!!!
It was a very nice vacation with many great impressions and experiences!

Found it quickly on our way to Dunedin. It was my very first cache in the new year!

TFTC and greetings from Bavaria, Ari

Quick easy find. Tftc

Tramyard and I headed down to Christchurch and the lower part of the South Island to find the last remaining caches needed on the geotour. This turned into a bigger adventure than we anticipated when we bumped into a cacher from Christchurch in Timaru who told us that not much earlier SH1 was closed between Timaru and Christchurch due to flooding. Subsequently, the last route northbound was also closed due to flooding. We were thus trapped. It was two days before the roads opened again and we joined the thousands of vehicles trying to get through the only route back to Christchurch, which just so happened to feature a one-lane bridge.

Stopped by here due to the high favs on this cache. Thankfully the open hours worked with the time we were passing by. As tramyard signed the log, I was listening to the update about the road closures from the staff.

Found it while in the area with Aiden29 doing NZ GeoTour caches on South Island.
TFTC

TB dropped

Stop off on day trip. Thanks for the fun.

We are on a trip with friends so lovely to do with friends

Cool cache dropped a TB TFTC!!
Find 453

Vacations 2019 - Road trip trough New Zealand
With Geoesposa, this was my 50th anniversary. 16 days, 4200Kms and a few hundreds smilles after, i was sure i saw nothing....

I liked everything, the friendly and civilized people, the way the country works, the roads and especially the natural beauty of New Zealand.
I fell in love....
I decided to go back in 5 years, I easily see myself living my last days somewhere lost in any stunning scenery of this wonderful country.

With the itinerary studied at home, the caches were the ones that were in the chosen places, and a few used to stretch the legs. It was decidedly not the most important on this trip. Of all the visited, only half a dozen did not appear, all being in good health except two or three.

I will use this generic log, not for disrespect of the owners, but due to the amount of caches visited. Here the majority of caches serve to show something beautiful (as it should be), not giving importance to the container.

My thanks to all the ownwers who, allied to the natural beauty of the country, have made this vacation unforgettable.

Nuno Salvador
aka ToKayx (Portugal) (translated by Google)

Krysta and yay found it

Today together with TochtisKrasserHerde searched and found at our New Zealand Travel TftC from Germany

Im bewährten Team mit den Teschtfahrern auf unserer Neuseelandtour gefunden.
TFTC

A great place to shelter from the rain!

TFTC - good quick find

TFTC

TFTC- Easy find

Nice and easy for a first find

Had a good laugh with the girl in the i- site. Crawling on the floor for a good look. Do you want a clue she kept asking. Found it in the end.

Left a tb.

Passing through on the way to Dunedin. Stopped for a toilet break and quickly grabbed this one.
Tftc

Sneaked away early from work on a quick road trip. Second week of school holidays required a change of scenery for us all .
Tracking down the last pieces of the Mystery at the Musuem puzzle, hoping to be able to crack the case.
Found with Downsouthinv, Abbykitt, sunny900 and loveheart900.
Tftc

Today on a road trip after the second week of the holidays . We were trying to find as many clues for the Mystery of the Museum.
Found with downsouthinv, annielin, sunny 900 & loveheart900.
Tftc

A day off work for the last day of the school holidays so a road trip to the east cost.
So we loaded up Abbykitt and sunny900 and squeeze lovehart900 in some as well I think !? Is very quiet back there.
So we loaded up the cache mobile and headed east . On route we managed to out run the rain and as we approached the cost the sun greeted us .
So where to start ?? so the voice from the directors seat let's try this one and then that one .
So left here and right there ,left ,right, and right again. .
We soon got to where we need to be and the surch started .
A holiday road trip with annielin and Abbykitt and sunny900 an lovehart900.
With the I'm hungry in the back now feed and this time we got the time right we pick up this one and made our get away .
Thanks for the hide

tftc

Found with abbykitt, annielin, loveheart900 and downsouthinv. Geocashing for downsouths B-Day TFTC

Headed down this way with a muggle friend and pulled in to sign this cache (not that she knew). My mission now done... now it was her turn. TFTC

Out on a day trip with Granville86a to log a few caches in and around Balclutha. I had not previously logged any so plenty to choose from! Granville on the other hand had a need to hunt up a few newly published ones so the emphasis was on those. Nice wee hide, -TB tftc

Easy find. TFTC.

Found

Nice hide tftc

Great find.

What a fun game.nice and fun

Yay. An informative find

We certainly did. Had a chat to the helpful lady here. Got some photos of the lovely bridge. Not many like this left. TFTC

Tftc

Thanks for the cache. Easy find. Took a party popper and left a little sticker

Found at night photo to show will wright log if return at day

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from Austria  
Die_Asseln

On holiday down south so out for the day exploring Balclutha. What a friendly place and we got a Hello. Then found the cache, took a gorgeous trackable so will put in a new location. Really loved it and wanted to take back home to a cache but the info said to keep in the area. Thanks for this cache Muzzer.

Left a TB here.

Easy find and also very helpful staff. But that's what you expect in an I site!!

Mean

Small place. Big box. Easy find. Thanks to CO.

Very friendly staff as we looked round and we chatted to one of them that has a son who is interested in geocaching. Picked up some brochures for my next trip south as well as the cache. Location could be interesting in winter so just a heads up on that Muzzer.

Very nice quick find here, and (not surprisingly) cache all in good order.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Heute folgt mit Heckenstürmer der zweite Transfertag von Dunedin nach Te Anau. Eine Recht grosse Strecke, bei der wir uns beim abwechselten. Aber dennoch konnten ein paar Dosen eingesammelt werden.

Day 3 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Dunedin to Te Anau.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of interesting places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

Nice n easy one.
Thanks

On our trip thru NZ we visit a lot of places and see many spectacular locations.
This cache was one of our stopps thanks a lot to the owner.
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

1x TB in

Kewl find while stopping for lunch

Informative stop.
TFTC

Nice easy find during our tour of Balclutha. TFTC.

#803. Stopped for picnic lunch with the family, and thought I had better get at least one cache at Balclutha. Took longer than it should have, as I didn’t read the description, but patently obvious where to look when I did! Left a Hot Wheel for the next junior cacher.

Tftc Muzzer.

A nice easy dry find (it was pouring all day today) and handy to get some more info on dunedin where we are heading. Tftc

A quick find with chermione en route to Dunedin on a very wet day. Thanks.

Thanks

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Easy find.

We visiting New Zealand and it is great, found with Team Morr
TFTC Team Tellus Sweden

I'm visiting New Zealand and it is great, found with Team Tellus, TFTC

Great spot! Helpful staff if you ask them.

TFTC sl and replaced it was way easier when you read the description!

Picked up some infor for our next stay, at Dunedin. Tftc

Great way to get people to stop and have a look around! :3

Toasty warm

Today we made a trip from Dunedin via Milton, Baclactha, and the Catlins to finally Invercargill, visiting some new sightseeing locations and looking for old caches. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches, too. The weather was warm in the morning and in the afternoon, but no rain at all.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to Muzzer for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Where everyone says hello! (Otago). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 9. Oktober 2018 @ 10:06 Uhr @ [#11866](https://coord.info/GC2GAFE)

TFTC!

#11,408
Hello.....
Stopped in Balclutha for a morning cuppa and checked the map and spotted a couple of close caches, jogged over to the I center while the tea was brewing and after a quick read of the description the cache was soon in hand.
No one to say hello to but I like it like that....

Thanks for pirates gold! Treasures left. No traceable found

Tftc

Found while chauffeuring Ruru_nz and getting some driving practice.

On a road trip, chauffeured by Saethwr as she gets some more driving experience. This is a good run to get further on my quest to find the world turtle.
Updated the app and the hint updated itself - that was after talking to the staff, as it is rude not to when they talk to you.
Thanks for the smilie Muzzer.
2203 17 July 2018 15:24