Invers Welcome Shelter (Southland) Makarewa, South Island, New Zealand
By southlandicebergs on 21-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4KE8F

a quick find here, not even cobwebs and spiders to deal with, tftc

Nice easy find!

Great wee find awesome way to finish off our first time hunting!

Staying in town for a few days so better get a few caches. Don't come down here very often

Good easy find for the kids

Good find

Up to Lumsden for the night, then back to ChCh tomorrow. Get some in before I go, and hopefully ahead of the rain... See how that pans out. Nice and easy.. Cheers!

Minty Fresh

TFTC with Arky __

Quick grab on our way past.

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Great hide easy found.

Found it TFTC

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Quick park and grab on our way home to Invercargill, tftc

Quick easy find knocking off some of the Makarewa caches on a Sunday morning, TFTC

Quick park n‘ grab. Thanks for the cache.

Straight forward find. Salamat!

A quick easy find and cache in good order. Thanks for the placement.

Heading back to Dunedin after a couple of nights in Invercargill. A rainy start to the day calls for lots of park and grabs. Quick find here. Thanks.

Quick and easy!

Found by Mr 7, while Miss 4 collected rubbish

Nice little afternoon adventure for me! If I read the full title I would have found it faster, and with dry feet, too! TFTC!!

Found with my partners two grandchildren Cody and Zoe. Their first one,

#3 found!

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Easy

TFTC second attempt for this one. lovely day today.

A quick park and grab in the dark tonight. Thanks for the cache.

straight forward. All good. Tx

Quick find with Tokerau

Good find with help of judithrichards.

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

*Another good find.
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!

We enjoyed the drive / walk around!

Took us two stops to find it.hubby done it after a while.

Found it, we raced and I won

Found with Scott

Quick snag and tag here. Cheers.

Monday 2 November. Headed out to Otautau today. Another cool overcast day this morning at 8deg. Toby lets get exploring!

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 126 nice quick park and grab though I did scratch my head for a second at GZ it put me 5m in the wrong place then my brain decided to work LOL I managed to squeeze in an itty bitty rock bug T4TC

Tftc nice park and grab

Easy park and grab tftc

Busy place.

Found. Full log to come. TFTC

Another wet day out caching. Nice quick find

Easy park and grab tftc

Nice quick find here today. Good day for the oyster festival, if you're onto that sort of thing. TFTC

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A quick and easy find. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove around Southland: Winton, Gore and Invercargill, with lovely weather for the day, and lovely Southland countryside.

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

Great find for the kids! Thank you

After finding similar not long ago an easy find, not too busy at the time tftc

Our last one today before going to our bnb. A quick find. TFTC

Wrong date 13/1/19 lovely summers evening

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11.12.18 easy

In Invercargill for the weekend and this was close to where I was staying so a slight detour back again before heading home. Nice quick find TFTC

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Couldn’t find this one

Found with Silvachief, tftc

Neat shelter, tftc!

Glad there were no buses today. Quick find for us here

Tftc!

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Quick park n grab and an easy find. Tftc

Wow always thought theses shelters were cute and practical glad they have another use to good for all weather tftc

Found & signed log while touring around NZ from Australia...TFTC

I saw that place every day for one year, and now I found it !

Had planned on doing a few caches on the way home. As it is now ppoorin with rain I started looking for some that maybe under some shelter. As this said bus shelter I thought I'd give it a go.TFTC

Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the hide I found it without too much trouble despite my compass spinning. Greetings from Australia.

#4836. I have been in Southland for a week on a work trip but all that time was spent in Fiordland. I now have two days off and time to grab as many caches as I can find. Hired a rental car and set off on the adventure in glorious warm, sunny, dry, summer-like weather. Spotted the shelter and parked across the road. Didn't take too long to locate the cache. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the cache southlandicebergs.

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Quick park and grab

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Heading for CANZ , but Google maps took me a different way from that I expected.
So detoured even more and grabbed a few on the way.
Perfect time of day for this one - bus has been and kidz all in school.
Thanks for the smilie.
1841 2 November 2017 09:03

Day three of my long, long weekend in Otago and Southland and I’m loving every moment of it. Woke this morning in my Airbnb in Winton to the sound of rain so I was a little downcast thinking I was back to wet shoes and socks for the day. However, my fears were misjudged as the day was crisp and clear. Left Winton with a good impression and more than I arrived (pre-arrival all I knew that the only woman hanged in New Zealand, Minnie Dean, came from here) and can recommend the Jumbo Takeaways for great value Chinese meals.

Got on the road bright and early to head to Bluff, Invercargill and then through to Dunedin to another Airbnb.

This was my first stop of the day and it would have been a much quicker find it I had got my Norths and Souths right the first time.

Found it thanks (S)

No muggles catching the school bus today! Tftc

a quick find on my way past

Quick stop here. No muggles around, just busy traffic flowing near. TFTC.

No kids here on a Sunday!

Hard to find the cache at first, than find the cache the second time.

Quick find TFTC

First stop on our Southland adventure today. Have seen these same shelters in Northland, so big ups to Totalspan who I presume have sponsored them. A quick find with the good clue. TFTC

For a school bus stop there would've been no chance of grabbing the cache in daylight. Picked the best time was 'now' after tea time and grabbed the box with some feeling around eventually. SL and returned to hide. Some signers haven't logged their visits yet?? tftc

Quick park and grab on our way home. Hadn't done much geocaching for a while but got back into it after Lions v Lambs contacted me after they had found the event bug Mr Potty had sent me from London. Thatcher.

Mr B's turn to jump out to grab this one. found it within seconds. On a 11 day caching trip around the south island. Log signed as b&p.Tftc southlandicebergs. Find # 3890

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Great spot

Found. No buses today!

Another quick find TFTC

First geocache found!! Was a very easy find.

Its always welcoming down here. Another quick visit catching up with family and a few caches found as we head north back home again. TFTC

Fast find TFTC

Well camouflaged very busy road

Another of the list

Heute mit Darmstädter in Winton übernachtet und vormittags das tolle Wetter und den Sonnenschein genossen, mittags wurde es zunehmend windiger.

Unterwegs wollten wir noch ein paar Smileys einsammeln. Schnell gefunden. Danke für den Cache.

Field Log. Ausführliches Log folgt ein paar Wochen später.

Danke für den Cache,
Darmstädter 12:17

Found it and the spider too!!!!

A good cool morning but rain could be coming this arvo so decided to get this one before we do the touresty things around town.SL TFTC.

Tftc been past here many a time before tftc

Boom! Scored a couple of bags of (smelly) horse poo just down the road then a nice wee find here

Nice hide. High traffic. Great day out.