Blacksmith or Goldsmith? (Canterbury) Staveley, South Island, New Zealand
By geogeek2 on 03-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2KZPB

Archived due to muggling

look at the photo.. we dit not log

HC & HAT from Denmark

Cache content is swimming in water so some maintenance would be good.

Together with my family on a vacation trip to New Zealand. Starting at Auckland airport on transfer to Christchurch we went for a roundtrip exploring the south island. This was one of many caches we found while visiting so many nice and interesting places thanks to all the caches why I want to send a thank you to all CO for the work spent.
Wet, wet inside. TFTC.

Closed for maintenance and re-think. The muggles are revolting!

Needs new container

Needs a new film cannister- found the logbook on the ground and replaced it in position with the half of the broken film cannister that I could find

ZH & Blondie invade NZ 2012!

Our 37th find in NZ, 8th of day 4

Nice coffee and a bowl of soup for afternoon tea, then a quick find!!

TFTC

Long drive today from Timaru to Blenheim so only stopping for a few caches. Thanks for this one!!

Taking in all the great sites of NZ in a short time is impossible. This right after the NZ mega. Can't ask for much more....
TFTC Happy Cachin!!!!

Day 16 of Angel's and my tour of New Zealand. This is our last day in this beautiful country. Today we drove from Omarama to Christchurch and caught our plane. We saw lots of beautiful sights and had a great time.

Thanks geogeek2 for hiding this cache.

A great day for an icecream. If you look in the shrubbery there is a stake that is at the exact site of the blacksmiths shop, owned by Mr Goldsmith. Interesting history in the area

#4271. Nice location for a cache. Were tempted by the lure of an ice cream, but we were running a bit short of time, so carried on. TFTC.

An interesting place to visit. Fortunately, no-one else had stopped so we were able to quickly find, log then continue on our journey.
TFTC.

NZ12. There were plenty of people at the nearby shop, but no one out in the park. I headed over and had a good look round and soon pulled this cache out. Thanks.

8702.123 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2011 Compass Rose Midnight Sun A#210

Albida

Lots of local history to read on the info boards nearby, an interesting little corner of the plains.

SL, TFTC

During our 22 day trip in new zealnd we have found a daily bunch of caches

We have done all of them with the four belgians - fieldi, team cabdriver, fonduvork and me.

Thanks for all the great places we have been visiting during this caching trip!

Bospad

Vandaag een cachetoer richting Twizel
Vanuit Hokitika een lange rit met op de weg een reeks mooie caches
TFTC
Fieldi

Our Cab drove by ....


A fantasic trip among friends !
We are on our way to the MEGA in Dunedin.

Thank you & HAPPY caching !

Koen - Team Cabdriver
Hasselt - Belgium

stopped here for a quick bite....

Thanks!

Thanks

Quick find. Lovely spot. Log a bit damp. #325

449 - What a cool place for a cache. I loved the history and the sculpture nearby. I had been out caching with Pokernet and MacPacMum and after completing the Thompson's Track run, we extended out stay to enjoy some of the local caches on our way to Methven. Cache was full of water but log was writable. TFTC, Pix to follow

needed gumboots today

It was a little gloomy about here today. A quick find. Thanks

TFTF

4th cache of the day found TFTC

found it yay

Nice easy find. TFTC

Had to wait and eat lunch while muggles got out of the trees. Quick find on way home. TFTC

Nice easy find today. TFTC

Easy find on an Easter weekend of caching in the Methven area. TFTC

A nice find while geocaching through the south island. SL TFTC

Nice easy find, log very wet and just starting to rain, interesting history, TFTH

Found at 11.15am after coffee at the nearby store.
Nice coffee - not sure if they like tourists too much though.

A quick find, logbook soaked.
Thanks
K&M

L+K cz Thanks

A straight forward drive-by, thanks.

An interesting combination of name and occupation. The cache was quickly found. The cache was in a pool of water, so we added another log sheet, and replaced it on the stones mentioned in wardsmithfamily’s log, although in this position it is more visible than desirable. TFTC

easy find, a few muggles at store but no prob. Someone had put some stones beneath cache to keep it out of moisture, also new paper added, so all good.
TFTC

Logroll completely wet and full.
We did some new paper in it and logged there.cache needs to be refreshed for all the logs before us are almost hard to read! Quick find .( Holland ) very Nice spot

Urgent neef for maintenance!

TFTC

Cache was floating in water. I dried the outside off, but the inside is completely dry. Good container! I placed the cache further up in the niche that appears to be it's original hide. TFTC SL

Cool cache visited while we were visiting NZ from the USA. Happy caching!

Nice sculpture

Quick find on a drive-by. We didn't try the coffee cafe nearby but may do so tomorrow. TFTC

Coordinates were spot on. Log strip is a bit wet.
TFTC

Found it on the ground. Put it to coordinates. TFTC.

Thanks for encouraging us to visit TFTC.


This entry was edited by rosmar on Monday, 09 January 2012 at 10:47:51 UTC.

Tried early morning in the rain but no luck. Returned a bit later with more light for a easy find!

Loving the history of this area, so much went on. Wonderful hide

Found with Holden _Chick
Cache a little after recent rain. Was our last day caching on our trip home to the north island. Tftc

Thanks for a cool cache! The cache owner is especially cool. Nice info panel as well, TFTC!

Nice quick find on a drive by. TFTC.

On our way for a wander to a water fall... but had to stop for this. Nice hide, not too open.
Quick find.

Thanks erninz for the replacement. Nice quick find before reading the interesting information panel. TFTC #2859

Easy find.

Nice wee cache on a great day. TFTC

A really hot day so it was good to have an excuse to stop and stretch in a shady area. Pulled up and walked towards GZ hidden from the muggles some distance away. Found parts of the canister on the ground and the cache note caught on a lower limb. I have replaced the container complete with a log and the cache note but no plastic bag!. After this I made a walk to the adjoing premises for something cool.
Thanks
erninz

A local one for us, Saturday night grab.

Had to look a few places as the iPhone isn't as accurate as the GPS. PB got it eventually. Interesting wee historic spot. TFTC

Sausage roll, ice cream and a cache. Great.

Very quiet on a Monday morning so quick easy find.

This entry was edited by jb666 on Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 01:48:43 UTC.

It was lovely to stand and read the information and see the buildings it described. Nobody else around. TFTC

Nice not having to grovel. Remember bringing my family here to skate 30 plus years ago. Thank you.

I've been further up this side road for a cache in the past but first time to actually stop at this spot. Cache quickly found. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick find - cache is damp - thanks!

nice statue

Great find.

TFTC. Nice hide a little away from the main focus of the area. The local community has done a great job here. Well worth the stop.

Great hide and very interesting story. Thanks geogeek2 for the cache.

A nice easy find on a caching trip. TFTC. Cheers Bo

read the bord so understand cache name.

Very easy find, suggests don't look at hint unless absolutely necessary...

Great cup of coffee nearby

Nice hide. My uncle is a blacksmith

Busy place this Easter Sunday afternoon with travellers stopping off for a break at the nearby Cafe, well placed bush provided cover for searching cachers, TFTC.

We stopped for icecreams, photos (of the feaure) and a cache. Three out of three and the sun was shining as well. Thanks

Really interesting history tied up with this location. Quick to find once the coords had locked in.

Nice drive bye area. Great sculpture, TFTC

lovely spot to stop

Thanks for the placement, wasn't too sure that Cafe clientele were going to spot me hanging around GZ. SL TFTC

Quick stop on way back to Christchurch from Mt Somers. Discovered small cache and turned my back while others still searched. Good fun

After Tramping and Caching up Mt Somers,with a team of six from ChCh,we stopped by here on the way back home.Found quickly.TFTC

It was only after a chance meeting with geogeek2 at the Woolshed Creek Hut that I really became aware of this cache's existance. It didn't show on my printed map of active and previously found caches as it's position was neatly overwritten with the name of the earlier cache that I had found here. Very competitive find by those of the Mt Somers assault party (La Vista, Rediguana, Womble-T, Smoothhound, Grandalf and BaldEd) who hadn't already found it. Thanks for the cache.

The two vehicles screeched to a halt, and cachers ran to GZ (Well, as much as they could run after climbing Mt Somers that same day).
Cache was very quickly found, signed and replaced. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1913)

1500hrs Quick stop. The Italian Job was here......! Our blog www.motorhominginxs.blogspot.com

Easy find. Nice roadside picnic area.

Nice quick find for a film cannister compared to the 10 min search for the much larger cache previous to this. Nice wee rest area but luckily no one around this morning. Maybe to early on a Friday luckily. TFTC

After the cache was found I went to the local general store to try their "Famous Sausage Rolls" I was nice too. Great place to stop. TFTC

3495. A quick find with no-one around. Muggles arrived at the information board just as we were leaving.
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

After 2 Days walking in the rain around MT Somers i found this lil' Cache on my way back to Chch, tftc

Couldn't miss this one, a quick find. Hopped into the local shop for an icecream too. SL. TFTC.

A nice quick find out of the view of all the muggles outside the local shop.TFTC

Nice quick find and no trouble with muggles in the dark. Cheers Gav [7089]

A quick night time find, TFTC

Getting well on in the day now.

Found during a brief stop on the way to Christchurch. Made things difficult for myself by following the GPSr which took me to a nearby location with vast numbers of possible hiding places. Was just about to give up when I realised that there was another spot close by with only one possible hiding-place, and sure enough it was there. Signed log, TFTC!

Last cache of the day, after a day trip to the West Coast.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Late night find with Bitsprayer on the way home. TFTC