Gotta Start Somewhere (Southland) Winton, South Island, New Zealand
By kiwipothole on 12-Jul-19. Waypoint GC8AN5T

Found

Mouse ear chickweed flourishing nearby. Pretty but so invasive. Thank you, kiwipothole

A nice quick find. Heading back to Invercargill now. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are off on a cruise around the south of the South. Great to be away. The day was fine, though quite overcast,as we travelled around SouthlandOccassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Thank you

Quick find before moving on. Enjoying the caches

Coords out by about 10m. TFTC

Thought we would grab a couple while out for a Sunday drive. Easy park n grab TFTC

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!

Thanks for placing, GPS a bit out with this one.

Found by gate, but all spread out. Lid, container and log all in different places. Signed log, put back together and in cache location.

Found by gate

Found by gate

Found by gate

TFTC, found with Arky__. Nice place here.

TFTC!!

Easy find but about 10 metres from where my gps said I was at ground zero. It was kind of out in the open and not very well hidden so not sure it it’s really where it’s supposed to be. We put it back where it was and tried to hide it a little better. TFTC

Quick find with The DoolittlesNZ, but was a few m out from where it said it would be. Cache and log very dry which was a bonus after all the other caches we have found today! Tftc

Done

Quick and easy one on a lovely sunny day ️

Finally an opportunity to reduce our solved puzzle list and pick up trades as we went. The rain didn't dampen our spirits and a good day caching was had. TFTC

Out and about grabbing some caches between showers.
All signed with full names, hz + hm, or h+h.
Thank you for placing this cache.

Quick easy find while exploring the area, TFTC

Quick and easy find on a family drive.
TFTC

Quick find on a drive with my family, TFTC

Nice relaxing atmosphere, TFTC!

Found with Silvachief, tftc!

First ever time doing this awesome job took about 6 minutes to find for us newbies

Found at other end of gates also. TFTC

Nice quick find. Cache quite visible as we approached. Contents are all fine. TFTC

Found it. TFTC

tftc easy find sl and replaced

Tried to find cache last week but it was missing so it was replaced when I came today and I found within a minute. Easy find TFTC

Cache missing so new container and logbook placed, happy hunting everyone

Nice little afternoon adventure for me! The GPS took me to a very exposed corner, so I followed my geosense to the correct gz. TFTC!!

Found it

Found after a little search

Quack

Find it

Cache 959 it’s time to climb this months geo challenge mountain Mt Everest, the last in the series of 7 mountains so decided to head to Winton to clean up some solved puzzles and Trads to get me on the way, this was one of those trads Cache was a quick find but GPS cords were bouncing around a bit but just used caching intuition in the end. cache in excellent condition T4TC

On a visit to Winton. A quick find. Tftc

Quick find. iPhone gps has me at the other end of the gates. Cache in good condition. Tftc

Wonderful day to go on the hunt. Nice, easy find.

Tftc

Great cache - great day to be out - many thanks

Tftc

Cruising through Winton. Cheers.

Quick easy find.TFTC.

TFTC wee stroll filling in time … plznt too

container dried out and logbook replaced

Too wet to even try write in it. Sorry didn't come prepared to replace anything. Replace though. Perfect place to start a long weekend of hunting. Tftc.

CJ and Kate found this! Very wet log book, couldn't write in it, had to look under a few things to track it down

Found and pic to prove it but cache totally unusable need mantinence immediately
Soggy wet and slimy paper and items

Its a good thing to do during the week

Found with Scott

Easy enough find at the weekend but now next to a childcare facility , so could be people looking at you Monday to Friday. Just managed to write date in a very water logged log book.

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

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!
Raining here so pleased to get it quickly.
Container and log wet.

Found

#9041. Today it was raining in Southland and that put paid to some of my geocaching plans. So mainly doing park and grabs. This was the last of the cache finds today before heading back to Invercargill. Parked nearby and wandered to GZ using my car as a shield to hopefully prevent nearby muggles in houses from seeing what I was up to. Nice quick find. Signed the logbook and put it all back where found. Thanks kiwipothole for hiding the cache here. Well done on your first cache hide.

Nice quick find on way to blueberry picking.so hot and it's only 11.00

Nice placement for your first one, thank you

Found

It was alot of fun

Quick grab

We wanted to find a cache before we left and this was a nice little spot to find a cache!

TFTC

#18940. We toyed with the idea of walking across the park to get to this one, but decided we'd done enough walking (just as well, as it turned out there was no access). Quick find. TFTC.

Today, StreetWalkerNZ and I are heading north to Winton, to find some caches in the big W. It was an extremely windy day, and after a wet and thundery start to the day, the rain held off which was a bonus.
Thanks for the great start! TFTC.

It was time to go Southeastwards from Lumsden today to sign off a few caches.

This is a good start for you.

Cheers for the cache.

Appropriate colour given the facility across the road.

It was easy

A quick easy find of a nicely hidden cache, although for us it was a few metres north of the coordinates. TFTC

Quick snag and tag here. Cheers.

Thursday 5 November. Wintons wherigo is on the radar today also visited Foresthill. Time to go exploring Toby!

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.

Quick find. Managed not to lose the log in the strong wind.

Tftc

Easy park and grab tftc

Tftc nice park and grab on a sunny afternoon in winton

Found it easily!

So fun

In spot

Nice n easy. Thanks.

We are having so much fun with this durin GB covid19 lockdown

Visting parents tonight in Winton so grabbed a couple of caches while in the area. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC

Found it. Tftc

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

Had a great drive around Central Otago and Southland today, a wee bit of rainat the start, then a hot day many thanks to all the cache placer's. Thanks Bitsprayer

Quick find today while out and about nearby. TFTC

The Sh!t Southland Summer continues, its not ideal caching weather.
Not really ideal watching the Black Caps collapse in the Boxing day test in Melbourne either.
We had a New World voucher to use, so decided to drive out to Winton because "its not a world away" and because we can't buy booze in supermarkets in Invercargill.
A quick find, look forward to many more KPH.

Nice find during a Christmas Day walk! Thanks for the cache.

In Winton for a quick day trip and had to find a cache or two. Quick find for us here.

A nice easy one.

Pleased I came out before the weather turned. Quick easy find. TFTC

Tftc... Was a bit out of reach so was fun to get

Yep you gotta start somewhere! Keep on placing those caches quick park and grab tftc

Easy find

TFTC bit chilly for a walk today but thanks for bringing me out here
Quickly found

What came first? the tree or the fence? Good place to hide your first box mate. TFTC

This weekend is my last chance to access the vault for the Mystery at the Museum. Heading in for the event so hopefully thd last few on the way.
There are a few who have signed this log, but not yet done the online log.
The TB dropped yesterday is not here, and no logs since - unless he who accompanied the logged finder picked it up. The only "-TB" is from a finder who has not logged online and who signed the book with a date a week before publication date.
That aside, all is well with the cache, lots of swag and a sheltered spot that should stay dry.
Wondering what the new building is to the south...
Thanks for the smilie kiwipothole.
2556 11 August 2019 15:30

*Winter time dots are thin on the ground for August soon to be rectified picking up some local green dots turning dozens of dates from one singular shade of green to a multiple darker green on the 'finds' table since the MATM challenge has been done with spades*. I luv Winton, only 20min away from home and has the best community maintained gardens. The Rotary trail encircling the town has been walked a few times while exciting new caches started filling up the spots devoid of caches as 2nd generation cacheri had their caches archived leaving only one solely-owned cache at the cemetery. Now interest in the Big W geoart will get to attract swathes of visitors. The suburbs are literally bursting at the seams right up to the farm boundaries here. A wee walk to the end of the no exit road soon had me 22ft away from where the cache was hidden, noice job on the camo paint for a P&G. No bag for the swag and after SL, grabbed the loose log pages with a paperclip until the CO can staple the logbook. Popped in some more swag and grabbed the goods in a big baggy. Snaffling the coin for the next roadie now that it's time in the South draws to a close. TFTC