The Founding Branch Woodlands, South Island, New Zealand
By kiwistag on 17-Jan-19. Waypoint GC82JYA

Quick easy find! Straight to it TFTC

I ignored the hint and made an easy find today. I never knew this building was here. TFTC

I looked and looked where the hint said, but came up empty every time. I was about to give up when I saw one more place that needed to be checked. TFTC.

Travelling around South Island for 2 weeks while in NZ. Finding caches here and there. Found cache and signed log. TFTC

Today was us travelling from Mosgeil to Invercargill and stopping for a few caches alonh the way. Many thanks to the COs for placing these caches.

Husband found it easy peasy. TFTC.

Cool cache

Easy just under a rock

a quick find found onthe way to a party found with firekitten_001 tftc

Quick park and grab buying time to get to a party. Found with BlazeGJG. Tftc

Quick find.

TFTC. Nice quick stop.

Chicken dinner

Tyftc

Tyftc. Wasn't hidden at all but have hidden it now

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Quick find, tftc

Tftc

An easy find.

17/06/2023

Easy find here goes a pic

Sorry guys, not trackables cute little toys!

Dose konnte gut gefunden werden

Navigation struggled a bit, my phone I think. Cute little logbook. Lots of trackables!

Quick easy find.TFTC

Tftc, nice park and grab

Tftc was easier then stalking a deer

Great spot! On our way through to Invers and successfully found it. Easy ish to find. Would recommend

Found

Quick find on our way North. TFTC!

Kids and I found this on a day out caching.

Taking myself on a caching day trip and happened across this one on the way. TFTC!

Great piece of history attached to this cache, have been meaning to call in and get this one on my way past, and today was the day. TFTC

A quick and easy find on a road which was relatively quiet. A lovely hot and sunny Invers day. Tftc

Evaross

Quick grab on our way back to Dunedin. Dry cache. Thanks.

Driving northwards& this seemed close to SH1 - which it is; somehow I overshot & there was a nearby road - but it was rather a long "block"" to go around - silly me.Anyway, it was good to find this one; thanks for the cache, KiwiStag.

Nice easy park and grab. Cache in good condition.
TFTC

Found it. Nice and dry spot, SL and replaced TFTC

A quick find. I did not know this hall was here. Tftc

With the Event on in Invercargill on Sunday why not make a weekend of it...3 days of caching down South woop woop nice quick find here TFTC

Out this way helping friends with new lifestyle block so had to make a few stops on way.
TFTC

Great find TFTC

Real easy find TFTC

Quick find on a family day out in the sun, TFTC

Quick park and grab on my way to Gore. TFTC

A fairly quick find at these clubrooms. TFTC

TFTC!! Quick easy find

we were staying in Invercargill for a week or so , so i had some time to locate quite a few of the caches around the area and this was one. All was well here and no muggles were seen. thank you for this cache

Found with Cympull tftc

Thanks for your amazing cache.
Found with Fisha1288
What a flash cache

Lovely day for caching, tftc!

Easy find.
Found with Silvachief

Found it on our way home to mataura

On a nice drive to Gore to chase down some caches. Stoped and picked this up on the way.
Tftc

A nice quick park and grab with no one round today. TFTC # 16,388

#19001. Appreciated the good parking at this country cache. TFTC.

StreetWalkerNZ and I were on the road heading north before 8am to try and beat the forecasted rain. It caught up with us as we approached Gore , but luckily it only lasted an hour or so.
Another short detour and a location with good off road parking. A quick find. TFTC.

Got this one snagged and tagged. 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.

Nice park and grab on a sunny spring afternoon with kayekaye30 and my doggo tftc

tftc nice easy find while out on a lovely spring day in inverz

With H3ADZ123. Tftc

Quick detour of the main road to grab this in the way to Invercargill. Easy find here. Tftc

Thanks. Out and about on a sunny spring Day

Found on way to Balclutha. Enjoying the caches

Decided that with overseas trips on hold to spread out my annual leave and take a long weekend away from Dunedin. It was a chance to head to down and see some caching friends and go out caching in an area which is very green on the app map.
As it was a second lovely day with a warm wind and a duck race to attend, I spent the morning going around Queens Gardens and surrounding area for the adventure labs and some of the multis.
Thanks to all of the COs, I smashed out the last 100 points (and more) for the memory lane souvenir collection.

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* 20+ years of geocaching worldwide.
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Cache 38 I was to early for work so I took the extra 30 mins to travel a little further out and take time for a geocache, super quick find. DRY log and tonnes of SWAG. Rock bug added to cache T4TC

Quick find! I am glad I did not get stuck in the amazing amount of gravel with the little rental car! TFTC!!

Love the camouflage! TFTC

Quick find here.

Found on a caching two day journey into Central Otago and Southland with Bitsprayer. Really enjoyed the challenge of the puzzle caches and the many hours spent to unravel the coordinates. Also great to travel along the many roads in the area. Many thanks to the various cache owners for placing and maintaining their caches. TFTC

First cache today as I head over to Jack's Bay to find a cache on an island and hopefully a few others
Quick find - had no idea this hall was here
TFTC

Tftc.

Found on our way back into Invercargil. Jude-E and I are on a geocaching trip to the deep south. Instead of driving down from Christchurch we decided to get a cheap flight down. Thanks kiwistag for placing this geocache 8001 find for me.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Day 2 of a 3 day caching venture with Nosynel. We have a few goals in mind, especially the TMGT caches and Bluff Hill. We have done all we hoped to do today. Everything else, such as this cache, is a bonus. Thanks for the hide.
#5072

A quick find. TFTC

Another wet day out caching. Nice quick find

Found it. Tftc

Couldn't locate this one today

Easy find all ok. Love the springy gravel

Quick grab, just on dark, now the long drive back to Oamaru. - Thanks Bitsprayer

Easy find, cache all good tftc

Last find for the night. Easy find with H3ADZ123. Took a necklace left a couple stickers and a magnet. Tftc

Followed the elephant trail up and over the gravel chip mountain ha ha mate big dry box full of swag found and signed. Thanks for placing a cache here awesome!

Easy find TFTC with liltuhoe took necklace left magnet and 2 stickers

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

A quick find today while out for a drive. Nice to find a good sized cache near the city. TFTC [^]

Still tracking down Celebration Souvenirs...
A quick stop here and despite the reducing piles of gravel it was also a quick find.
Thanks for the smilie kiwistag.
2465 9 April 2019 15:44

A quick easy find out on a wee mission with ingidayna. TFTC

Quick easy find with wethreefourdices TFTC

Ooh a new cache published near one of the farms my muggle used to work on. I am wery familiar with these gravel roads and how they criss-cross the countryside, often coming past where MrsChosen has her Cairn cache (I have one of those too) and cut across the main road to home. I never paid much attention to this building. I thought it was some scout hall involved with the Longbush school and never blinked an eyelid at it. Long have I heard stories of pilots Hannibal Hayes and Nelson Thompson involved with the live deer recovery from pens in the hills from my muggle. Admittedly the logbook was signed shortly after the commotion of the FTF furore had calmed down and I hadn't been back to pop any TB's in the P&G cache so I would have missed the weed spraying and cache drift. It had been a bit slippery going crossing the carpark over the gravel store remains and once looking past the co'ods, a clear hint produced the red and cream coloured cache clearing some duff away and after signing the hard-covered logbook that wasn't bagged and one swap left in cache; I threw in a freshener and pencil with a decent accompaniment of swag grabbed in a white PVC baggy, it's quite full now for a 1Lt. While the CO had just the one hide that was banged over the mega year, the last cache attempted recently is still missing pending replacement by either the Farmer or his Son. Now I'm curious to see where the cache has been shifted to. I have dredged buried caches from gravel before, such fun! finding caches after they have been archived. But no one is laughing when I break a nail, so I'll try not to get too covered in blue dye. Thanks for a fresh new swag cache Kiwistag, if we don't see you at any of the open community gatherings this year, I look forward to more of your caches. DDay **Carnival 3pt**

*Cache is hidden where it was last found months ago, dry, ok and full of swag. Chucked in a couple of pens since the kiddyboos broke the pencil SL. No sign of dye so it must have washed away. CITO*

Had come out once before. Not sure how I missed it the first time. TFTC

Quick and easy find, had to try and find this one since its near my old kindy. TFTC

Good to knock this one off the closest to home list, stopped by and signed the log on the way home from town. TFTC

Last cache today after spending a scorching day at Kaka Point. Found with Tuitigger. There's a number of large piles of gravel at GZ, it appears some roadworks in the immediate area are imminent. That being said it might pay to keep an eye on this cache so it doesn't get covered or go walkies. Tuitigger made a joke about losing my keys in the gravel, nice one mate, if you lose mine in that gravel you'll be going in headfirst to find them lol. TFTC

Grabbed the INGRID TB while driving to the air port. Heading to the North Island and I see that it hasn't seen that Island.

Coming back from town thought grab this one on the way home. TFTC

Quick png.Tftc. + TB.

TFTC #1011

There we were Friday evening; had met up with TT and GV. Can’t remember why, oh that’s right - after a hot day at work it seemed like a good idea. Pizza and salad, in cool environment; followed by a Red Box visit for 5 cent notebooks (must be a few caches coming up). Hadn’t quite got to checkout when TT said there was a new cache alert, Alert, ALERT!!
Quickly, let’s go.
Tried to scan the notebooks, but “Oh - we have to scan them one by one”. Come on...
In the car, combine rides, mrandmrs had the advantage (the doors automatically lock once up to speed).
And mrs had us travelling at speed (FTF on the table?)
Arrived at site, hint in hand, cache in hand.
BOOM!!! that’s how you FTF while shopping in town.
In all the excitement, someone left something behind....
The alternative story is we liked it so much we went back to watch for 2nd to finders lol