Circle the Wagons (Southland) Mokotua, South Island, New Zealand
By granville86a on 18-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4K58F

Quick find.Tftc

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 56 - Dunedin, Otago - Invercargill, Southland, South Island, Nov Zland (260 km) Rno jsem vstala do slunenho dne, dobalila, uklidila domek a vyrazila na cestu oblast Catlins dl na jih ostrova. Vybrala jsem si Southern Scenic Road, kter je sice del a klikat, ale vede kolem pobe a vech monch zajmavost. Cel dopoledne bylo krsn, tak jsem v poklidu jela a zastavovala u keek a taky velijakch atrakc. Cesta je fakt moc pkn a myslm, e ped i tu slavnou australskou Great Ocean Road. Pobe je divok, vlny velk, vtr stl, obas njak osada i mal msteko a farmy a samozejm ovce. Krajina je neuviteln zvlnn, tak vlastn furt jede do kopce nebo z kopce. Odpoledne, bohuel, pily pehky a vechny vychzky jsem mla trochu vlhk. I tak jsem si to uila. la jsem na ostroh tesu ke krsnmu majku, taky detnm lesem k malmu vodopdu a nakonec probhla i krtk prochzka po pli ke zkamenlm stromm. Prost krsn den a odlovila jsem i pknch 20 keek. Zejmna ta posledn u v Invercargill byla zatm nejhez z celho Zlandu. Njak kaer si ji udlal pro radost a m ji na dvorku ped domem. Byla jsem jak myka, tak jsem ownera nevidla, ale keku mu pochvlm. Na motel jsem dojela se setmnm v 8 veer a dost hotov. Toho vtru bylo na m dnes moc, tak m i trochu bol hlava. Tepl polvka, aj a spnek to sprav a ztra budu zase upr na dal krsnou cestu.Today I drove from Dunedin to Invercargill and chose the Southern Scenic Road. And I did well. Beautiful landscape and lots of attractions around. The morning was beautiful, then showers and strong winds came, but I still went on three shorter walks to the lighthouse, to the waterfall and on the beach to the petrified trees. I found 20 caches on the way and I really enjoyed the day. Thanks to everyone for their caches and greetings from the Czech Republic.

Quick find, thanks

The three of us together found this on our way to Purakanui Falls. Just a little time later a helpful driver helped us changing a tyre of our rental car close by the bridge across Waikawa River. -- TFTC

but found very tall grass

Well hidden but quick park and grab.

Found this one while out with my family, TFTC

Nice park and grab. Took a wee bit of searching on a very hot day. TFTC

Found on the way to the beach with my family, TFTC

Circle the Wagons (Southland) was transferred from granville86a to user wombats_4

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A bit overgrown so takes some searching to find

I'm doing a road trip through Southland. Today's leg is from Dunedin to Invercargill by way of the Catlins and Bluff. Old School Challenge caches are the focus of the trip, but there's a few others to look for along the way as well. Man its windy here. I could hardly get the car door open. cache was a quick find

Taking the long way home. Had stunning views in stunning weather as I made my way up the coast. I had two target caches for the day, both of which I found. Everything else was gravy.

Nice we park and grab. The hint is accurate and like other there was some camouflage to work through but soon had cache in hand. Note for CO - log is very damp, container is intact.

#20737. Was puzzled at first about where the hint object would be; turned out if was in an overgrown location. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ as we travel from Dunedin to Invercargill.
Wasn't sure where the cache would be as I approached, then spotted a route to a caching cliche and there was the cache. Cool old wagons. TFTC.

Found with Nutty Nora after some searching

After I had beaten off the local outlaws (gorse) and fought my way through the badlands the cache was duly located. TFTC

Nosynel and I are having a caching trip now after our taxi service for Routeburn drop off and collect became unnecessary due to illness.
A quick find, thanks.
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I like the signage. I found this cache during a Mum Taxi service.

Unfortunately they had to abandon their trip an a few hours into the walk due to sickness.
Two of my children are walking the Routeburne. So I offered my services for drop off at the Glenorchy end and am picking them up at the TeAnau end. I invited Jude_E along for company, so we'll be taking a few detours along the way.
Thanks for hiding this cache granville86a I appreciate it.

25 October 2021 5:05 pm got muggled by the cowboy on his motorised horse. Yeehaa TFTC granville86a

It Took two times to find it. I don’t live in invercargill so I had to come down here to find it

Found it. It Was Hard to find but I just had to dig. We found it on our second go

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About 6m out for me today. A brief stop on the way to the PWGT cache, TFTC.

Another emotional stop on Team Guwapo and friends trip around Southland for the Rima geotour. Although not part of the tour this is another of the family's quest to find all of Uncle Granville's caches. Brother and nephew were searching for a while before the hitchhikers in the car pointed us to the correct post! Still missing you bro! Salamat!

A nice quick park and grab as I make my way for a dinner date with an old school friend. TFTC # 16,718

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

*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

Natalie24/7 and I certainly circled the wagon a number of times before we thought about the hint a little more and only then did we make the find. Thanks granville86a for this cache

Full log to come

Left my calling card here. Cheers.

Tuesday 27 October. Checking out Invercargill again today. Lets go Toby!

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.

Quite overgrown so has to dig in the grass. Book is wet but managed to log. Thanks

Be very careful of holes. Got my foot stuck in quite a deep one and had to remove my foot to retrieve me shoe

A nice easy find thanks granville86a

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Going from Invercargill to Dunedin on our south trip going to do the Catlins heritage scenic route - heading that way we came across this cache - a short hunt and cache was in hand- log signed - thanks for the cache

Heading on on our 2 week south island tour and as usual on tour we like to leave a tell tale trace of our passing on our maps so do a few caches leaving a breadcrumb trail Found this one and the Log was damp . managed to sign ok and we enjoyed the feature Thanks for the Cache.

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Tftc. Found on our covid stopped overseas trip so exploring nz instead.

TFTC more of our great south trip done

Cache 122 quick easy park and grab, there are a few hidden holes under the long grass so watch your footing so you don’t break an ankle, what an awesome sign as an entrance to a farm Rock bug added to cache T4TC

Found it, watch the hole in the ground TFTC

Quick Find . TftC

Quickly found.

TFTC

On an awesome adventure with KGS in the Catlins today! It involved a 36km detour in each direction, but we had a great time and found lots of caches in spite of suboptimal coffee supply. Quick find on the way back! TFTC!!

Had a great day caching with Hinemoana! Great fun. RIP Granville86a - miss you, and think about you whenever there is a tree to climb or an adventure to be had.

Stopped to try and this cache many moons ago, I remember looking high and low all over the wagon and couldn't stop any likely caches.
This time I read the clue and headed off in the right direction. Avoided the previously mentioned hole and thought that could be dangerous in the dark.
Quick find this time.
TFTC Granville86A and another smile

Missed it the first time, looked closer the second time and found it. TFTC.

Heading out to explore again. Easy find but a but exposed. Farm owner waved at me.

Tftc easy find sl and replaced

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A quick find, and the last of the night for me. Took it back to the car to sign the log and then when I went back to rehide it, I stepped into a hole that went past my knee. No harm done luckily, could have been bad. TFTC!!!

Impressive wagon. Luckily still wearing gum boots from this morning Tftc

A quick and easy find. Last for the day. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove from Dunedin to Invercargill with lovely weather most of the day till we reached the south coast.

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

On holiday in motorhome with our cat Coco. Want to explore the Catlins and saw this on the way. Happy we could park here while I went and looked for the cache. All good signed the log. Thanks for this cache granville86a.

Quick find here on our way to Invercargill. All dry here.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Quick find once gps settled

Found first thing in morning on way from Invercargill to Balclutha via Catlins. Wanted to be quick before a milk tanker turned up. TFTC

On our way to Dunedin by Catlins. Soon found stamped and returned. TFTC

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

Nice find thanks for smilie tftc

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Thanks for the cache.

Nice and easy find while driving through New Zealand. Thanks very much.

Easy find, I had to circle my own wagon as I nearly drove past it =)

Found at 19:45 - #8035 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Neat sign, tftc!

A quick find. TFTC

Tftc nice easy find

Cool wagon

Find it on a damp day. Tftc

quick park and find on a damp day! Thanks for bringing me here

Todays trip went from Clifden down south and ended at Curio Bay.
We found some special caches on the way and it made our trip a real sightseeing trip.
The good old times are still here.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

CZECH
zastávka cestou do Invercargillu... staré věci já mám rád

Out and about on the southern part of the mainland on a mission to complete our Jasmer grid.
We’ve see so many wagons today, would love to have one in the garden but a little heavy for hand luggage! Wet and windy today so luckily a quick find TFTC.

Catching upmon some of our missed found logs from our fabulous trip to Southland. Great time had with good friends. This run alongvthe road provided a few more smikeys for us on what ended up being a very long and productive caching day. Thanks granville86a for the wet feet this one gave us

Despite the hint item being obvious and the co-ordinates being good I couldn't seem to spot this one. The Haywood Hornet appeared and put his hand straight on it

This cache took us some time to find but I finally found it where Herts Skip had already looked!

A good place for a cache, with plenty of parking. Found with debsnz

A good area to pull into and we didn't need the GPS, just headed to the most likely place and . . . . found with AorakiSheep

Quick stop here. Nice wagons but getting rusty. TFTC.

Found with Ruru_nz and some other Guide Leaders the day we checked out a campsite in the Caitlins

Heading to Tautuku for a site visit before a Girl Guide camp next month. We are meeting with another leader from Dunedin and set out early so DownSOuthInv, Saethwr and myself could log some caches on the way. I'm logging late (as I recover from the successful camp), and it seem that the 4th leader in our car is a closet cacher as ycXXXX found the same caches as we did today.
GPS was a bit out for me today, and I spotted this from a distance as I circled the wagons to triangulate.

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Great find on my way to tautku to have a look around for up and coming camp tftc

#4134. Day 6 of the southern adventure. After attending a conference in Te Anau over Queens Birthday weekend, we headed south and stayed overnight in Invercargill. A very heavy frost on the ground this morning. Setting off early to visit the Catlins. This was an interesting old relic on the road side. The cache was soon located and signed. Replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here granville86a.

A quick find on my way to the Catlin's. All in order. TFTC

Visiting family nearby. Quick grab on way to Ultra-Scan conference thanks

Down from Northland visiting. Made a trip east today to see the sights and look for some caches. A really neat old wagon here. A quick find with the good clue. TFTC

Passed the spot a few times and there are a few 'Timpany's' signs going up along the road. A pity they couldn't do some maintenance on their feature at the gate. I picked up some fresh rubbish at the park while waiting for some muggle to leave the vicinity. I hope the 'visitors' to the city are not emptying their vans where they stop. Cache found in hide, was there grass here? It's been sprayed and died right back with whatever they've used. I came up with a rash. SL tftc

An easy find with the hint. Many thanks
Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

On a trip across the globe, with Red Roaming, to celebrate my early retirement but I have to return to work though. We are here in NZ for 6 more weeks. yippee. Log signed with our full caching names or our initials. The cache was soon found by RR at GZ. TFTC

(Found with Don Cristobal)

Short stop with taking some pictures.
TFTC says CachingTIA

Some nice old equipment. Wheel spoke are not looking all that healthy. Quick find.

This was a not a beautiful, sunny day ... no sunny minutes I strolled over to ground zero and searched for a short time and found the container. The coords are right on the mark.
The cache is in good condition and the log paper is nice and dry. I took nothing, left nothing, and signed the log paper.
I carefully replaced the cache right back where we found it.

*thanks to granville86a for your cache*


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... from Germany on tour around the world

Have driven past here many times before I became addicted to this hobby. Thanks Granville for drive around the country side on winning day.