Grovetown Lagoon Short walk (Marlborough) Grovetown, South Island, New Zealand
By Dieseldebbienz on 02-Aug-15. Waypoint GC60QRV

Thanks for the cache, still lots of swaps in it

Double containers effective in keeping log dry; TFTC

Continuing my walk around the lagoon this afternoon, took a moment for the GPS to settle before finding the cache here, cheers

An easy find when approached from the right angle. TFTC, on a warm afternoon walk around the lagoon

Stopped at this cache while visiting **New Zealand**! [^]**My #151st visited Geocaching country!**---This cache was easily found and the logbook was signed.One more smiley face for me in the GEO map.Everything was in good condittion.Thank you for hiding this cache and showing me this place! Visited this cache together with **taybeedragon**---Greetings from ***Riga, Latvia***! [^]**Happy caching!**----------***For a little entertainment, here are 10 Fun Facts about Latvia!*** 1) Latvia is among the worlds greenest countries.2) Its home of the first Christmas tree.3) The Latvian flag is considered by many to be the oldest national flag in the world.4) Country has the widest waterfall in Europe.5) Latvia boasts the finest Art Nouveau architecture in the world.6) Jacob W. Davis, a Latvian tailor, was an inventor of rivets on famous Jean pants.7) The Latvian Song & Dance Festival is recognised by UNESCO as the largest amateur song and dance festival in the world!8) Alexander Laime, a famous Latvian-born explorer. He is most noted for being the first recorded human to reach Angel Falls (highest waterfall on earth), located in Venezuela, by foot.9) Latvians love basketball and Ice Hockey.10) Latvia is famous for being the home country of the inventor of the flavor of Pringles.----------..\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",.\...\ ------- **MATISONS!** ------- \....\*""*.,,.*"",..,*"",..\.....\......\ /// \Paldies/ Aith / Ai / Thanks / Merci / Gracias / Danke / Bedankt / / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon / / / Tak / Kiitos / / / / Ksznet / Grazie / / / Whakawhetai / / Dziki / Obrigado / Mulumiri / C / Hvala / Dky / Teekkrler / Ngiyabon

Good easy find, once we found the right log

#14,680. Another lovely fine sunny Marlborough day. Decided to start with a walk around this oxbow lake. Was not sure which way to access this particular cache so decided to try the forest track route. That got me most of the way there and from my roaming around I could see the cache in the distance. But beware of stinging nettles under the trees. I discovered them the hard way. Soon had the cache in hand and signed. Thanks Dieseldebbienz for hiding this one here.

A beautiful autumn day to do a few geocaches and enjoy the peacefulness of the lagoon and river area. TFTC.

Woohoo my super sleuth man for the find as my reception jumped around my daughter enjoyed the trade

Quick find once in the bushes

Thank you

The EtherClan are invading the mainland!The EtherSprogs have never been out of the North Island or on a large ferry, so the Seagnoid gave them the experiences as a Christmas present.We boarded the Interislander as foot passengers and had a windy but calm sailing - perfect for the kids' first experience. Upon disembarking, we were met by the lovely taybee dragon and welcomed back to her home for the weekend (thanks so much for your hospitality, J!)Today we're in Blenheim and tS wanted to show me where he and TBD have done so much volunteering (and CITO events). I took this to mean he wanted to give me and EtherGirl a guided tour of the lagoon's caches, so who am I to object? We quickly found the hint item on the track but with no cache...We then found the remains of another hint item further off the path, which provided better results.Thank you for being part of our weekend of new experiences

the Seagnoid is leading us around the lagoon that he used to volunteer at. He added plants and removed plants and had lots of stories to tell us in-between cache finds

Great first find.

**20,088**Walking around the lagoon as we complete the Ad Lab here and give the dogs a good walk to wear them out. A slight detour to this cache, and a decent sized cache too. Nice quick find once we found a way in to GZ. TFTC

Took a minute to find the right log, thanks for the cache.

*** draft log ***GC60QRV Grovetown Lagoon Short walk (Marlborough)22 December 2023T10:29:36 NZDTDieseldebbienzPeaceful area. Quick delve into trees & find while fisherman muggle by car probably wondered what I was doing

After the coordinates were out for the last one we found I saw a hint item as we approached this one and went straight to it, disregarding the GPS, but no luck there. Followed the GPS again and tada! Thanks for the cache, lovely area for a walk.

Found with angelic_kiwi. tftc

An easy find in a lovely stroll

Difficult to het log book out of container, but an easy find

TFTC definitely exploring done on this one but worth it! Great one for the kids for swaps.

Metals2. Took a bit of finding after wandering through nettles. Not in the nettles but nearby. Thank you for the cache

did not have pen, pompey chimes tftc.

A small detour on the loop to get this one, nice and easy. Cheers

Tftc more later

What a great walk in the sun -so peaceful with so many different views of the wetlands. Many thanks for the caches you have placed here.Kia ora rawa atu for the cache Dieseldebbienz.

Looked in the obvious place, but nothing there. Area looks very disturbed and roughed up.

Cache is cleaned and restocked

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Quick find but was flooded and needs replacing. TFTC

After putting Marchwood to work on the CITO, I started my walk around the lagoon. It was easy to get to GZ: I just followed the voices of a team who were planting trees here.

The cache was wide open and full of water. The log was TWTS, but I understand the CO is working in fixing the issues, so a double win. TFTC.

Under maintenance

Took a bit of a meandering route to GZ before realising there was a better direct path (which we returned on). At least it was nice and cool in the shade of the trees on a rather warm autumn day.
A great sized container! While doing the paperwork, we were dive bombed by some cheeky wee piwakawakas - darling wee birds. I tried to take photos of them but they wouldn't keep still! TFTC.

#22356. This was a long walk for us today as we found that one a loop walk around the lagoon. Also, when looking for this cache we followed the bush track, only to realise we'd have been better off staying out in the open by the stream. Took a bit of wandering around until I spotted some likely cache-covering objects. After signing the log, we headed back via the grass area next to the stream. TFTC.

In the area checking pest traps and remembered to bring my GPS this time. Quick find.
TFTC.

Nice box box of things

A lot of cool toys in this one, adventurous find

Super easy find!

Thanks for the find. Miss 3 loved it

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are currently parked up at the Waterlea Racecourse in Blenheim for the next couple of days … today we decided to go for a walk around the Grovetown Lagoon, mainly to do the Ad Lab here but also to grab a few caches … the weather was ideal, warm but overcast with the threat of rain … all said & done, an ideal caching day … found this quite easily … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #3,661 for us.

Still there, still dry, has a couple of swaps. Could do with some more.

Wanted to have a look here, despite the two DNFs. Good news, the huge box is still there, and in good condition.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Sadly did not find lots of rubbish dump near here

Must've been a rubbish dump, couldn't find it

One last one before I had to leave to go find Mr P and his bike... lovely place for a walk.

What a huge cache! Lovely and cool in there too. Found with a bunch of us on a 5 day trip here. TFTC

Out for a fabulous walk with busy paws, Jude_E, lytteltonwitch and Arandee. A stunning morning, enjoyed the bird song. An armchair on the way in to this one. Then a lovely big cache with lots of goodies. Thanks for this cache Dieseldebbienz.

Caching trip with busy paws, lytteltonwitch and occasionally others! Lovely and cool in the bush. Supersize cache! Thanks!
#8424

Today I decided to do the Grovetown Lagoon AdLab and a few other caches that got in the way.

Trust your GPS for this one.

Cheers for the cache.

The log has definitely seen better days. Good stash!

Enjoying our walk

This one had been for a swim but had survived and the treasure trove inside is all good. Thank you for putting this cache here

Awesome cache with plenty of swaps, have a fav point.

Great find kids were stoked

Found the "resupply depot" cache easily. We'd started walking from the other end of the ox bow track but as it was flooded, we tried another approach. Tftc

Some good bits to look at.

Nice area - TFTC

I don't seem to get to see many good sized cache containers like I used to so it was good to discover one here. I guessed that the cache owner had placed some containers for finders to use elsewhere and I later saw an earlier log that confirmed this. I did grab a couple that I could use myself. Then I remembered how many containers I already have at home and decided to leave them there for somebody more worthy.

Awesome. We found it good hiding.

A quick find while in the area with SJT_NZ for the CITO and heading off to do the EC, thanks Dieseldebbienz a very interesting mix of bits and pieces in the cache.

Tregearp and I were in the area for the nearby CITO and decided to have a bit of a walk and see if we could pick up some other caches. Sadly that plan quickly faded as we plowed through puddles with our gumboots getting deeper and deeper until Tregearp's went under . None of that applied to this cache however. A quick find in excellent condition. Tregearp and I both immediately commented that we should drop some TBs that we've been carrying too long - only to realise that we'd left them at home. Thanks Dieseldebbienz for the cache.

I wasn't sure about this one when we headed it. But coordinates did bring us to a log and a large cache. So nice to see. I got very distracted by the huge cache of mint tins and other typical cache containers. However the real log was also large and overlooked by some it would seem. Thanks for bringing us here dieseldebbienz.

Now thats one stash of mint tins...signed the real log and replaced as found nice tidy cache..many thanks Dieseldebbienz

What a cool spot and even cooler cache!! TFTC

Took ages to find and the terrain rating needs to be a bit higher

A nice quick find thanks. Watchout for the patch of chest high stinging nettle close to GZ.

Ms_KR and I are back from our wee tour of the North Island. A quiet day around the Blenheim area today. The trip across the ditch was fairly uneventful, and the weather fine, sunny and warm.

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

Enjoying our walk around the lagoon - a highlight of our holiday in Picton. Good to find such a generous sized container. Lots of evidence of flooding here and the container may have shifted a little. Returned it to its likely location which is more secure but still easy to see. The contents are ok. Thanks CO.

The trees have certainly grown since I was last here. I have cleaned and dried the cache, added some more toys and heaps of containers that people can take to create their own caches.

Found it on a nice walk around the Lagoon. TFTC

Found by littlies

Cool cache thanks!

A wander around the lagoon today grabbing a few caches. Thanks for the cache.

Nice

Despite size of cache, that was hard work due to my GPS struggling in the bush. Fell down a rotten tree base and went for a wander in Rosemary's nettle area before I found it . Hard to miss if you enter at the right angle. TFTC

Nice large contaner. Thanks.

Easy find in here thanks...
Sure is massive.

Wow a huge amount a swaps in this one. 3rd for the day

Great find, love fhese types.

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to visit!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on wet or plastic logs)
*Another good cache located - now onto the next one!*

Area quiet as pretty early in the morning.

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Great hide. Tftc

That was very hard.

That was an impressive size! Lots of whitebaiters around today

Love that size cache.

Volunteers out today. May have to watch out.

Nice spot full of trinkets

Been in the South Island visiting the grown up kids who are on Uni holidays. Travelling home but mechanical problems means an extended stay in Blenheim. Well more time to cache. Enjoyed a picnic at Maori island followed by the circular walk. Lots of bird life which was great to see. Managed to find all but one of the caches. Cache all fine. Thanks

Found tftc

Awesome little bush wracking adventure. Good for our first geocache

Visiting from Dunedin. Doing a walk around the lagoon collecting as many caches as possible. Beautiful, sunny, still day in Blenheim - perfect for caching. This was a quick find find, and probably the third largest cache I've found! TFTC dieseldebbienz

Dad was impressed by the size of this cache.
#12 on day 7 of our March Madness.

TFTC Dieseldebbienz!

# 590

I hate going off the track, afraid of tramping where I shouldn’t. I gave up on this one, came back, asked the volunteer who was clearing out some flora if she knew about caching, indeed she did, and she insisted on leading us through the bush to the quite large box filled with heaps of goodies. She explained it has grown up quite a bit around the cache since it was first placed. She also made sure I was aware of the other caches in the area. Kiwis are simply the nicest people ever. This cache is not found frequently, right? Greetings from Minnesota, USA.

Last cache for this trip, with the grandkids PDH_NZ, bit of a bush bash to to get to it. They enjoyed a good look through the goodies. Left TB. SL. TFTC.

Out with NanaAuckland, aka Darby&Joan for the last cache of her trip. Bit of a bush bash to get through, but found it eventually. Lots of goodies. SL. TFTC.

What a wonderful find love the little treasures in the box

After checking the movement of rain clouds, we packed up and decided to head north for a few days' adventure! I had all active geocaches I have not found yet in the South Island loaded on the GPS, but not particular plan as we only decided that morning. We ended up finding quite a few cool caches and had heaps of fun! Great walk around the lagoon, pity we did not have a kayak!! TFTC!!

All ok. I added more toys.

Tftc

Finally Mum found one before me haha! Nice one, thank you!
-Caleb, Mum and Dad