That Was Close (Timaru) Puhuka, South Island, New Zealand
By RAYZR on 05-Aug-17. Waypoint GC7A3D9

A quick find with angelic_kiwi. It needed a very careful extraction as it was tucked in under a nest. tftc

A nice little area and easy parking, and that's another minute ticked off for several minutes challenges I'm working on! Yay! Thanks so much for placing a cache here for us to find, I enjoyed it.

Found it after a wee bit of walking around the trees

TFTC

TFTC, nice day to get out n about

Well hidden took several paces around the tree to find it

Couldnt find this one today. Lots of new growth and old leaves about so possibly moved

Very over grown and all the vs were filled with new growth

Great spot just off the main road

Instead of going to Christchurch tomorrow we decided to have a relaxing drive as far as Ashburton tonight, giving time grab a few geocaches along the way Boy, what a difference there is in road traffic. Hardly any trucks made for a really pleasant drive. This is a cache that we have driven past numerous times and today it was time to have a look. Great coordinates and clue helped speed up the find. Thanks.

TFTC. Easy park n grab

A quick find to start the day geocaching again.

Heading to Chch for a wedding tomorrow and taking our time to travel up today. Great parking around the corner, well away from the traffic. Nice wee spot. Tftc

A quick find at gz soon had the cache in hand thanks for the cache

Quick stop here .Thanks for the cache

Up early this morning as it going to be a big day .Back on the tools and out to keep the farming community going .A quick stop here to start the day before im back working my fingers to the bones and keeping our country going by keeping the farmers going and food on our tables Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow so let's goooo and have as much fun and adventures as possible tomorrow may never come. Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns Thanks for the hide tftc

Took a bit, but found it, TFTC

I have driven past this cache many times but have always before had the caravan in tow and so loath to stop. Today, no caravan, so I made the stop. and had no problems finding and signing. TFTC RAYZR.

I found the stone wall in an area I did not realise was there and after following my GPS it lead me to the right place to sign off another log. Tftc

Had a look with my granddaughter. Think we found the right tree but getting too wet to hunt further.

Zusammen mit evakronshagen und Freddy als Team PEF haben wir das Logbuch signiert danke fürs legen und pflegen

A quick detour on our way the Chch and to to introduce my boss to the joys of geocaching TFTC

Found after getting hooked. In blackberry that is.

Quick find with Tokerau - out showing the local sights. Tftc

Nice wee cache.

With S.A.G

2nd go and found it yay

Great cache.

Carol &dunc

Dunk

Replaced cache in the V of a cabbage tree about head height

Not found

Not there had a 10minute good look around found nothing

Dunk

Good spot great for anyone

2nd go at this one but a fail

Yay, second attempt with this one, we found it! Thank you

One before lunch spotted by eagle eyed mister 7 tyftc

Thanks RAYZR for placing and maintaining a cache here. Quick find once we pulled off the main highway and wandered down to GZ. On a roadie today with Hal2929. Aiming for 50 caches today. Not so easy for me when all the easy PNG's have been logged long ago.

On a roadie with Kiscardi getting some caches. All good with the cache. Thanks

Found with Gerald

As this cache had moved camp and I was in the area today I decided to make a visit and sign the new log book. Thanks Rayzr

Nice tree

Staying in Timaru for a few days and this was our 1st find We could hear the Traffic on the Hill and it was very loud while we were here..TFTH

In town with Mr14, he had a preseason game of football in Basil Park (washdyke). Wholst they were doing their warmups i ducked out for a couple caches before the game.....
Quick find and sign here. I remember the Wall cache...weird neighbours....

What a cool wee spot, found but unfortunately the other person who last “found” seems to be faking numerous logs around town

F

On a quicky weekend getaway down to the South Island (from Wellington). I flew into Christchurch on Saturday morning, and then drove down to Timaru for the night. Drove back up to Christchurch Sunday afternoon and flew home late Sunday night. My goal was to catch up with a friend in Timaru, and to target a few specific caches that I need, and a few others just 'cos. This is one of them.

Another stop on my way into town. Parked further up the hill than I needed to, but an easy walk down to where the cache was quickly discovered. All good here. TFTC.

#3,946 - Saturday - 12/02/2022
traditional cache - small - 2.0/1.5

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://geooh-go.com)*

Nice park and grab

Found on a nice drive down this way. Enjoying the caches

Replacement log book

Went the long way around. Very wet. Needs fixing.

Logbook wet. Needs replacing and in a bag would help.

A quick find with Agent86. Was an easy find. Log book was very wet. Still could sign it tho TFTC

Nice easy find with gadget169, logbook wet.

TFTC found with nzref while staying with family up the road.

Quick park and grab with claireyc tftc
Log is very wet

First time on the hunt, wasn’t too hard to find

Samantha got muddy

Found it lol

Took a wee while

Searched around for a bit and finally found it. No pen with me but I have photo to prove the find. Log book rather wet

Easy find

Found it

Really fun got to do a bit of a dig when you find it a joy

Thanks. Good hiding place

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 going from cache to cache with woolwood9.*
SL: **tm/ww NZ**
Thanks for putting this out for us to visit, we enjoyed the drive / walk around!

Loved finding this one, would be a nice place to sit with a book in the little reserve there! tftc

Tftc,amazing still there amongst all the litter

I was out and about around Waimate and Timaru looking for some PWGT caches along with the new Natural Wonders of the World.

This was one with a Natural Wonder.

Cheers for the cache.

Easy find great parking

Nice and easy find. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC.

nice and easy

Easy find

Work has sent me from Palmerston North to Timaru to get a new southern-most found cache!
Ok, they actually sent me to help relocate our branch office to a new location, but what they don’t know can’t hurt them right?

I'm driving a load of equipment to the new office and needed to stretch the legs. 4.5km is a long drive! Hahaha

I searched all of the hint items before finding the container on the ground. With the logbook formalities completed, I returned the cache to what I felt was the most likely host.

Thanks for the new addition to my Stats!

Book is a bit damp

(# 6055). Day 5 of my South Island odyssey. Today is getting caches around Timaru as well as having a good look around. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Morning geocaching with moko before leaving town. Sadly, lots of rubbish around... I think I was writing 6/6 for some reason!! TFTC!!

Day 11 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

By now the weather was really putting an effort into trying to convince me it wasn't winter! I have been so lucky to have dry conditions my whole trip so far. Today's plan was to drive from Christchurch to Timaru, following the coast but with plenty of side trips to get caches targeted as per above, and any others I felt inclined to stop at including this one.

Effectively this was a park n grab for me today. There was only passing traffic as I parked up and walked over to GZ. The cache itself was a quick find, and finding no issues with the cache or log I did the expected caching field admin before replacing everything back exactly as found.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Thx the compass function helped a lot

TFTC quick park and grab on the way through Timaru

TFTC . While waiting for new motor for motorhome to arrive

11/10

Kim 19-7

Found with the kiddos. Quick easy find. Thanks

Jude_E had already found this one. She pulled over and I popped out. Out for a massive week away with Jude_E. We're heading to Waimate tonight.Thanks RAYZR for creating this hide. It was find 8575 for me.

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Nice quick find on a miserable rainy day. Passing thru' from Oamaru to home. TFTC

with the level 3 restrictions lifted on COVID-19 it is now deemed safe to find caches again. keep safe and follow the guidelines as set out by our government.

i would prefer that my caches are not the ones spreading the virus keep safe

Not there

It was a little hard but I found it little wet

Found it on the ground, but it’s back where it’s meant to be

Nice cache place, however cache log is damp

Super quick find on our way through Timaru on a trip from Christchurch from Dunedin. Trackable wasn’t there today though. Thanks for the cache!

Heading South, picking up Caches as we go

TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 21.909 E 171° 14.586

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 21.868 E 171° 14.571

Distance from original: 257.8 feet or 78.6 meters.

A neighbour has claimed the brick wall as their own. So no use me trying to argue so i shifted it

Not found Kim 29-11-19

Unfortunately we could not find this one every body said how easy! But we looked in every hole.