Waimate Silo's ( Sth Canterbury) Waimate, South Island, New Zealand
By drawp on 04-Feb-19. Waypoint GC837WY

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A plan was hatched quite a while ago when the Dunedin Mega was announced to come over to the South Island again.I have only been to New Zealand twice before and I loved the South Island.So a chance to come back for a Mega was a no brainer for me.Everything was booked and I flew in the Saturday before after a bit of a delay.Hopefully the weather improves as Im missing the sunshine that I had earlier on on this trip.So Day 14 of my Mega NZ starts and Im heading off to Timaru to check out that town and Im slowly heading North again.I made it up and over Lindis Pass and are now heading towards Timaru which is my next stop for the night.Called into Waimate to check out all of the part on offer.The 3 images on the silo are brilliant and its well worth the walk around to see all of the sides.sides.I also liked Mrs Chamberlains washing line that is close by.The cache was soon located so now to check out more of the art.Thanks drawp TFTC.

Love the artwork around the town. TFTC

Cycled along here while doing the Ad Lab today, nice quick find, TFTC

A few found around here on a previous visit. Enjoyed the history. Nice hide, cache all good tftc

Fabulous artwork and history here. Thanks for the information and cache tftc

Easy find before a 4x4 expedition

*** draft log for stats tracking, more later ***GC837WY Waimate Silo's ( Sth Canterbury)Traditional Micro2 Jun 2024T12:44:42 NZSTTFTC drawpLove the drawings. Quick find of the cache while gathering the ad lab stage, cool attachment mechanism.

Out with the Grandkids. Another Archie find

See other note

A nice easy find on a early autumn lovely day. Woke up to 3 degrees in our motorhome this morning but the sun has come out and things are getting better. All good here. TFTC.

Couldnt find it, garden needs some love though. Thanks though

Travelling NZ from Auckland to south. Came by flight from Wellington to Christchurch early this morning, decided to stay over night here in nice Waimate. Thanks for this cache!

Im out on a wander round town primarily to get the AL but a few others as well.Love all the street art, biking trails and views from the top of the hill.TFTC

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Clever

Thank you

Quick find

Found it

Tftc nice place and a lot of work with hand wash

Passing through and loved the location so definitely wanted to find the cache to mark the smiley. Nice quick find here. Love the historic buildings. Tftc

Thanks

A lovely town. TFTC

Found it while exploring a new town. Tucked away nicely!

A good place for a cache. Thanks

Out and about for a Sunday drive. Time to head to Waimate for a late lunch and a couple more caches. Nice quick find here and this time looking on the other side of the road TFTC drawp

Nice find on a damp winter day. She was a very busy lady, especially with 13 children too. Thanks for the cache

Timaru to smile.

At last turned sad into smiley

Thats a big mural!

will check out

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 44.195 E 171° 2.607

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 44.182 E 171° 2.595

Distance from original: 94.4 feet or 28.8 meters.

Relocated cache as original location re landscaped.

Cache in position

As stated the area has been regrassed. Not a likely location anymore.

Gz just been landscaped.

Well tucked away where you'd expect it to be. Perseverance works tftc

Found after 6 of us searching here, with campmotherandken & HRH54 TFTC

Whoo found with Juju54 and HRH54- great day out with fellow geocachers - TFTC

Woo Hoo took 6 sets of caching eyes then Juju54 struck gold TFTC

A nice quick find.
Good coordinates and a great view of the art on the Silos.

TFTC

Haven't signed log as we were just on a walk. Tftc

Tftc took a second look but got it

Little tricky as small

TfTC easy find

Great find

We are on our way home to Christchurch after a few days away in Twizel. We stopped for lunch in Waimate, such an interesting place that we've never visited before. These silo murals are great, TFTC!

Have ĺooked twice befòre. Today 2 secoñds and found. Gps took me to a slightly different spot. Tftc

Had us looking like idiotos for a minute but we found it!

It was really hard to find

Found on a nice drive in the area. Staying close by

Not to hard

Very hard to find even with clue spent half hour in flaxbush still couldn't

Not as quick as hoped. Street a bit busy. Tftc

Out and about in a friend's camper van, collecting the occasoinal cache along the way.

Great artwork

TFTC

Great find

A nice find as we continue our caching holiday north. TFTC

What a lovely wee town. May have to come back to get some more caches and look around more. TFTC

Lovely, hadn't seen the silos from this side.

That was a little tricky but found it

We have had a great day caching even if soaking wet and cold. Stopped here to rectify the frown and then call it a day. Had a look where I looked last time and thought oh nope, tried a few other places and went back. Searched again and the cache was in my hand WOW what joy. This is very clever, thanks for the cache drawp.

Found it
Put in another piece of paper.
Tweezers are handy here.

A quick stop while updating the price on Gaspy. TFTC.

Stopping here for the night with Mr & Mrs VDH56, we has lunch on the table nearby, so we had to get this one. Loved the fact the eve07 (friend of both of us from Dunedin) found it only days before us.

Stopping in Waimate for the night, lunch at the park. Sucrose not too get. Thanks for the cache.

Last cache for the day. Awesome paintings on these silos. Worth the stop. Quick find but log sheet is wet. TFTC drawp.

Tftc. Quick park and grab while driving through town on way back to chch

With the dogs for a walk about and found the cache. Tftc love the silo art.

Cache 881 The silo has some stunning art, thanks for bringing me here to see it, went for this cache in the dark and felt a bit dodgy poking in the bushes hunting but then luckily my Geo senses kicked in and it then became an easy find, cache was a bit wet inside but the paper was perfectly fine to write on T4TC

After doing the adventure labhere i did this. Nice quick find. TFTC

I had a quick look/feel around, but the main road was quite busy and I didn't want to attract attention, so will leave this one for another day.

Day #5 of my Geotour.
Dunedin to Geraldine with a bit of a diversion to the back of beyond.
This eventually quick find was a bit of a challenge as I wandered from one side of the road to the other. The GPS zeroed out on the solo side of halfway initially but once I stood at GZ it read zero again. Go figure. Can’t miss the silo art. Rather good.
TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 44° 44.191 E 171° 2.607

Coordinates changed to:
S 44° 44.195 E 171° 2.607

Distance from original: 24.1 feet or 7.3 meters.

Fine tuning coords

Thanks for the hide

Our family had immigrated from the UK to Waimate. Settling in 1923 at Arno.

With Dad as the only surviving child of the original settlers at a recent wedding a suggestion was made to have a family reunion in Waimate.

Arriving in Queenstown we made our way to Waimate and spent the weekend going around familiar places including the original farm and pub at Arno (through the gorge)

Having a couple of spare hours in the afternoon before dinner I had a quick wander around town. The silos were a prominent feature so headed here and with a cache so close decided to attempt this.

Note to self ALWAYS treat your initial gut feeling as the first place I looked I had overlooked the cache. Then got myself more confused by reading previous logs.

Eventually ended up at the first spot again and THERE IT WAS!!!!

Then when I went to replace the cache I carefully hid my pen there and started walking away with the cache container until I realised my mistake and went and swapped them.

Thanks for this cache.

The coordinates had us out on the road so were a bit unsure of which side of the road to search first. As luck would have it we chose the wrong side first. After exhausting all feasible options we went to the other side of the road.
We searched the two obvious places first but did not find it. We expanded the search and still we did not find it.
I went back to the first place we had looked and I relooked and than wondered hoe we had not found it on the first pass. Still it doesn't matter at least it was found in the end.
The art on the silo's is amazing, I went for a walk around and took some photos before heading out of town to continue with our search for the PWGT caches.
Thanks for placing this cache and thanks for the smiley

No luck for us here today

We couldn't find this one today.

No luck for us here, both spent along time looking as couldn't believe we couldn't find it. Obviously have to try again like others.

Silly us we should have found it the first time we looked. TFTC

#19370. Been meaning to look for this one for a while; this was our first chance since publication. TFTC.

It's Waitangi Day, and StreetWalkerNZ and I are heading home to Christchurch after a couple of days spent exploring the upper Waitaki area. We're taking the scenic route, of course, via Meyers Pass Rd and Waimate.
Having just completed the ad lab and bonus on Bill's work, it was fitting that we looked for this cache too. SW made a quick find. TFTC.

Out caching with Tufty (Grandad). Great hiding spot. Thanks.

I was finally back in Waimate and Redco5 and I walked from the Caravan Park to it and located it easily.

I'm sure it wasn't there before. Yeah! right!.

Cheers for the cache.

When I was last in Waimate (just before Christmas) I DNF'd this cache. But after reaching home a few days later I got an email confirming that cache was still in place and a little nudge as to where to seek it - my gps had the cache out in the road! Back in town again today, I quickly found the cache (east of the road) and signed the log.

Approaching GZ, coordinates looked odd, out on the road ??? Nah, can't be there. Just somewhere near.

I am back in Waimate to sign off a few more caches.

This is one that I DNFed a year or two ago and had to do it again this time. DANG!

Cache is still in place. I added a sheet of waterproof log as well.

I was out on an evening stroll doing the Adventure Lab and had previously noted that this cache would likely be on my route. But when I got to GZ (middle of the road!) I was unsure of which side of the road to search first. Both sides were littered with rubbish. I read the previous logs and noted that some very experienced cachers had filed DNFs recently. That was good enough for me - I was out of there.

Quick find. Added a new piece of paper for log

Didn't find this one today

Looked over 2 days but could not find it. Will try again next time we are this way.

Found cache. Weirdly it was empty (no log). Scrawled name on nearby wrapper and left that.

Stopped of in Waimate for the LAB cache. Just had to do the Silos while Im so close. Replaced full log with Temp RITR log. Cheers

Thursday 22 October. Left home early this morning heading southwards to Oamaru 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.

Thanks for this cache, drawp - in Waimate for a bit of today, enjoying the local sights and caches.
It has been a fun afternoon.

A nice quick find thanks. The silos are very distinctive.

Found on a sunny trip to South Canterbury. The waether is supposed to go down hill tomorrow. We shall see!

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

With Karma Reprint. Wasn't sure why we couldn't remember seeing these before but that's because they weren't here when we last drove by! These sepia works are my favourite of the local murals; great colors and detail. Really enjoyed reading about the building of the silos back in the 1920s. Tftc

Checked today and all Good.

This is my second attempt at this one. Will have to come back another time