Don't Blink (Southland) Waihopai Toetoe Community, South Island, New Zealand
By farmer2some on 11-Jun-11. Waypoint GC2Y6VH

Very deserted area. Quick find one I was on the better side. TFTC!!

Unfortunately had a good look for this one buy came up empty.

While planning our next cache, a local geo helper pulled up and pointed us in the right direction.

Took us ages to find it. Burgess Family

Thanks for placing the cache! Found today, grader was temporarily visiting today too!

Tftc

*Found on a 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!

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

Drove up this road after doing caches at Waituna Wetlands. Never saw a car all the way from Waituna to here on a rainy Tuesday. Turned the corner and what do you know. There is a grader parked literally next to GZ and a driver inside eating his lunch. Thought about it but then a heavy squall of rain arrived. Muggle and rain. Nope. Save it for another day.

A straight forward find with Natalie 24/7 on our way to the nearby lagoon. TFTC

Full log to come

Quick easy park and grab after reading the previous logs. A farmer turned up as I was looking, she had previously found it a year or so ago, left it there thank goodness. I explained geocaching to her and she was happy to finally figure out what the container was all about lol tftc

This one took some hunting. Finally found a hint from other logs this one is closer to S45 25.476 E168 37.461. OK thats better. Left my calling card. Cheers

Friday 6 November. We are off exploring Waituna Lagoon and Seawards Downs today. Its a beautiful sunny day 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.

Cache 124 this took a bit of hunting coordinates are off enough to throw out the search area, if you are stuck there are some suggested coordinates further down in the log entry’s, log nice and dry with a bit of SWAG, Rock bug added to cache T4TC

I found an open phone connection box at gz. Don't go poking around in there. Looks very dodgy.

TFTC

Walked down the co'ods and wheep had to pan out and wander around GZ for several minutes before finally spotted prize, the clue should have dawned on me earlier as I have seen several such similar hides on this caching adventure I'm on. So glad it wasn't in the 'Orrible bush the needle centred on *(yes, my boots did the looking lol)*. Never knew this hall was here, but then again never had to travel on gravel roads to these cross roads in the middle of nowhere before. Wandered around the hall looking for antique bottles to drop ff at the hospice for fund raising. Dday TFTC

Looked for ages couldn't find

TFTC sl and replaced

Bit of a look but found it

Found after a bit of a search

Got it

Found with Silvachief.

Ended up finding this about mid way between the official coordinates and the comment coordinates. Tftc!

Flying out early afternoon so came in with hubby (far too early) this morning. Four hours with the car before head to the airport, so let's go caching!
Checked out the tennis/netball courts first, but didn't stay long there before spotting GZ. The courts are in surprisingly good condition, just a bit of weeding and some lines and I reckon they'd be good to use. They built them to last in the good old days.
As this is the first log for the year I've picked up the trackable, though I suspect its been placed recently without the cache itself being logged.
Thanks for the smilie farmer2some.
2076 1 March 2018 10:23

Visiting Invercargill for Xmas and managed to get some caching in,
Used updated co-ords from previous logs.
#**S46 25.476 E168 37.461**#
Signed log, TFTC.

Didn't blink .so didn't miss finding it on a a sneaky lunch break with downsouthinv!!
Thanks to previous cachers for updated cords.
Dropped a tb.
Thanks for bringing me here. Its been years since I've traveled these roads

A quick stop and grab in my lunchtime with annielin.
We had a bit of fun with the cords but success. Soon had cache in hand sl and returned.
Tftc

I've noted there're heaps of these more or less maintained community halls all around the Southland. Took few photos of this one. Quick find, no muggles or anything else around. TFTC.

The navigator said drive this road, okay honey sure, another gravel road and we came to a cross road with four of them. Looked at old logs and choose the best co'ods that would nail the very brightest cache in a rural hide we've seen lately. SL TNLF tftc

Co ords were a bit off, but previous logs helped. TFTC

Don't get the Don't Blink, but got the Don't Move. Thanks.

First find of a day out caching, cache in good order. TFTC

Heading back to Dunedin after a weekend in Bluff. Decided to take a detour and mark off a few more off the main highway. Thanks to the previous finder for the updated co-ords it was a nice quick find by J. TFTC

Widened previous searches and thanks to previous logs found it. Coords off. Suggest S46 25.476 E168 37.461.
TFTC

Had a look but too cold and windy to hang about

No 4 on our list but third find on our wet afternoon caching. Tftc

Found on our wintry drive with Mumander, Mr Potty & Angela Harding. Third for the afternoon so far.

Hard to get out hole

ezey find

Couldn't find it, will have to come back with backup I think.

We thought that this was easy when we saw the switch box. We also managed to open it!!! But the contents look very serious and we did not want to touch anything (maybe a note not to touch it might be good). Apart from this obvious object nothing else looked like a cache or a good hiding spot and we had not got an idea. We will be back if it is still there (we have our doubts)

Easy to find as I know the area very well

Hint should have been Just Think. TFTC

Great cache. Co ordinates about 5 m off. Clue was clever

Looked & looked. Finally had cache in hand. Clever hint. TFTC

kept hunting to the left. TFTC. Wasn't too much of a hunt.

kept hunting to the left. TFTC. Wasn't too much of a hunt.

Tried looking, more birds in nests.

Saw a likely spot but no joy today Maybe another time with the GPS!

Stood back ,had a look around and there it was

Geograndad did the honours and came up with the smiley here. Found with Aoraki Sheep.

Co-ords slightly out but widening the search and looking in the 'usual' spot gave us the smiley. Found with debsnz

Had a good hunt around but couldn't find it might come back another day when out this way again!

Don't quite follow the clue? Spoiler
Concrete post

An attempt to find on my birthday afternoon caching. 3/8. The calves were interested in what I was up to.

Found

Took a bit of looking but easy in the end!

TFTC

tftf

#2147 @1005
Found on a pre Mega excursion through the Caitlins, up to Gore and back to Dunedin via Balclutha.
This took a while to find. Searched all around GZ, but just as I was about to give up looked a bit further away and there it was. Took GC that had been here way too long. TFTC.

wasn't showing itself for me...nearly got caught out by a contractor about to plow the paddock, so had to cut short the search

Cache checked today and is exactly where we placed it.

Hunted high but mostly low for this one. Spent a lot of time out here but couldn't find it.

Took a while, coords 10m out for us. TFTC

1347hrs Found quickly on way out to catlins for long weekend of camping left TB Petling geocoin

TFTC cool hall

Sweet hall

Found by the oldest on the way to Dunedin. A quick stop and grab . TFTC.

Wasn't looking in the right place but got there in the end

Didn't have time to blink before the cache was in hand.

This was our second time at finding it and success today. Really it was right there. only had to look a bit harder.

Found it got a flat tyre here . . TFTC

A quick find while out on a country drive today. We used the adjusted co-ords which were pretty accurate. TFTC [^]

Found easily using the coords suggested by Pipedream.TFTC

Grounds look a bit run down, but the hall looked well kepted.-Bitsprayer

It always amazes me as I drive through the countryside and see yet another area like this. Some are ruins but this one is still in use and hopefully the facilities with it. I thought the hint rather clever when the penny dropped!.
Thanks
erninz

GPS out around 7m for us but we still found it eventually. Also couldn't make out the hint and haven't had any inspiration since to drop any pennies. TFTC

We arrived to find Mr and Mrs Onslow Fisherman with the cache in hand. The coordinates were 10 metres out for us, so it was good we didn’t have to look for it. We failed to make sense of either the title or the hint. TFTC

24 hours later – a sudden inspiration which solved the mystery of the hint.

This entry was edited by W.E.K.A. on Sunday, 28 August 2011 at 22:27:30 UTC.

@1420 This one took a bit of finding and, duh, I didn't catch on to the hint. We met up with W.E.K.A. here. It was nice to see them again.
Thanks farmer2some.
Jim

A third find for the night with ingidayna. Picked up Trekker boot TB and will take him further on his journeys. Cheers

Night find with wethreefourdices.
Great cache thankyou,
took TC Thankyou will take further north.
TFTC

I wonder if the coordinates are about 8-10m off for this cache as it had me somewhere else completely. Knowing other caches hidden by the COs and based on the hint, I had an idea of where they would have hidden it .... and then looking a little further afield with the hint in mind I found the cache. Picked up World of Geocaching GC. TFTC

Found with a bit of difficulty,same as Bladesedge about 8m out.
Perhaps S46 25.478 E168 37.463 could be better. TFTC

this is charlies home ground when he was growing up . so thanks for taking us back to the area. took 3 trackables and left 3 others to get travelling .

Need to read other entries as couldn't work out the clue.

Published

FTF YAY!!! 16.40 pm Quick detour on way home from work at Kennington. Retreived Pirate TB. Dropped off Moo TB and Podcachers GC

Quick and easy find TFTC

Dropped off TB's