Invercargill Church Tour Bonus Cache Windsor, South Island, New Zealand
By Sonya and Deane on 27-Jun-23. Waypoint GCAAJYQ

in town doing caches of all types, adding this one to my found list, tftc

Been doing some of the Ad Labs around the place, and had the final coords for this one so headed over in between the rain while running some errands today. A nice quick find here, TFTC

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 last Saturday after a bit of a delay.So now in Invercargill for a couple of days and today so going to be a few caches and Ad Labs.So Day 12 started off with a bit of rain and a bitterly cold wind but a walk through the gardens will hopefully warm me up.After finishing off the gardens its time to spread out a bit and finish off some AdLabs and other ones as well.Well they seems to be plenty of churches and places of worship in town as I did a couple of Labs on them and I still seemed to drive past some more.Thanks Sonya and Deane TFTLBC.

A nice quick find after lunch. A fav point for the adlab and the bonus. 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.

Seems like plenty of churches in this town.Thank you, Sonya and Deane

Quick find here in between showers after the adlab.Thanks for the placement and the smiley

Thank you for the adventure lab. Found by J. TFTC

A thought to pick this one up after the previous was a DNF ...missing cache. Easy find today tft adlab

New location in place

Really enjoyed the ad lab yesterday, so was pleased to hear that the final was available. Quick find before leaving town for now. TFTC!!

Reviewer; can you please look at the new final co-ordinates and confirm whether this location would work. I assumed that since the geocaching site let me list the last location, it was ok. If this location doesn't work for you of the programme, I'll archive as I'm losing patience trying to work around all of the parameters, especially when the site says its ok and the reviewers are saying no.Thanks.

As stated to the CO via email on 13 March, the new final location is too close to another cache so this cache will need to be moved.As there has been no response so far, I am disabling this cache as it is not compliant with the guidelines.

Waited for a mystery dot day. Thanks for the replacement folks. All good.

Cache replaced and relocated.

Cache location has been changed and Adventure Lab updated. Enjoy and please hide final cache well after finding.

After reviewing the location for this hide, we have decided to move it. We will replace the cache over the weekend and adjust the co-ordinates on the AL as well.

It has been two months now. When will it be replaced?

Seems to be missing

It looks like this cache has gone walkabout, we will look to reinstate it shortly.

Found this after completing the adlab.
Must admit to not having set foot inside any of those chirches.
Nice find here, and no droplets of TT blood to be found

After enjoying the history of Invercargills churchs we got the needed numbers to the final of this cache and a quick find after work and no blood from the previous finder .
Did take more care as not to suffer from any blood loss.
Only been inside one of the churchs and that was for a camp before a ANZAC service.
Thanks for the smiley ️


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

Attempt 2 on this bonus tonight after getting coords mixed up. Found very quickly tonight. Even though attempted at save time as last night, there was more daylight tonight.
No blood drawn tonight, but back to day 1 of a streak... I'm on roll, no stopping me now lol!
Thanks Deane for the Ad Lab, and the bonus.

Don't think this streak series is for me, with a DNF on Saturday in Riverton, and no time left in the day to search for another.
The Sunday event took me back to square 1... back to day 1.
When working dark to dark, and with minimal trads and solved puzzles around, it makes it tricky.
As I slowly got the coords for the final, I slowly edited my final waypoint... but obviously not correctly.
Looked for 10 minutes under phone torch light, before I drew blood with an eye level branch stuck out, thankfully missing eye by about an inch. Filled my hanky with blood, and off home I went to examine the lump.
Realized my C coord was wrong, which put me out significantly.
Fingers crossed, I'll atleast achieve the 2 day streak this week, without more blood!

Completed the ad lab during the week. Got what I needed to find the final. Quick easy find.
TFTP & Ad Lab

Obviously completed the AL to get the numbers for this Bonus. Almost parked on top of it...except for the wood barrier. I needed assistance with one of the churches and the CO was happy to oblige. Getting a cache a day while at home, aiming for GOLD on this challenge, so a stop and grab was needed for today.
TFTBC

With the last few days of weather it has been great to have this AdLab to fall back on, to keep a ‘Streak’ challenge alive. Should achieve the second souvenir once this log gets posted. Nice unassuming bonus hide, exactly where you’d expect it, yet completely hidden. Well done Sonya, Dean, & Alex

Brrrr cold today. Warmer in Svalbard where I am going tomorrow.

First {ftf} in a while at 10:03am.

Published

Ho Hum. Did the lab cache during the week and was hoping bonus would come out Sunday when I need a couple of caches. Only enough petrol in the car for one return trip to town and as prices just gone up waiting until end of August after my trip to fill up. Never mind.