Lake Henry (Te Anau) Te Anau, South Island, New Zealand
By Kiwitonita on 19-Jul-03. Waypoint GCGG0A

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Had this marked before I left the USA and now I see it is offline. Nice walk though.

I had old information from my PDA, didn't fint it maybe later

After a DNF just a few minutes before we wanted to take comfort with this one. The cache seems to be gone, as there is only one possoble hiding place (following the hint).
Anyway - it was a nice walk on a sunny day!

Thanks,
hixxx from Austria

Wish we had read the comments before we tried to find this cache. But we were happy to have made the bike ride and find Lake Henry anyway. TFTC
Early Rizers

Searched thoroughly including using excellent clue.? muggled.

Seems to have gone missing - probably a victim of the heavy handed park maintenance crew who managed to kill the tree in the first place while spraying grass.

Had a good search but couldn't find it. Then using the clue I found a pile of wood chips where I thought the cache should of been.

Searched the area that the CO-ORDS took us to but couldn't find it, used the clue which took us to exactly the same spot, still no luck. Think the cache may not be there now.The only cache we couldn't find on this trip to Te Anau.
Cheers

On our trip through NZ we found this nice cache. Thanks for the fun!

Intersting spot we didnt know existed.
Nice stroll
TNLN

Lovely walk around the lake. Had a small problem with muggles. TNLN SL TFTC. 4.59PM.

Found this cache with very wet feet! It rains alot here [;0]. Dropped off a TB for a new view. Took $1,000,000 note and left helicopter Scoubi keyring.
TFTC.

Easy to find,after a overnightstop in Te Anau.ge0rg
in: pin
out:magnet

Found this on a sunny day in Te Anau with my geofriend - her first time find - popped her geo-cherry! Nice spot, would have never ventured here without the cache. TFTC

No swaps

Lovely walk. Would never have stopped here so its lovely being taken to these wonderful spots we would have just driven past. TNLN
Lattelynn and supporter Rob

We loved this spot and are so grateful you led us here. Our head geocaching labrador (his portrait was left as requested) thought this place was magic - live rabbits leapt out in front of him and there was an entire lake to swim in.
What a visionary Ivon Wilson was, bless him.
We started the second notebook as the original was full. The second one appeared to have been scribbled in by young children, so we removed some of the more detailed pages.

+ Kiwi
- screwdriver

An easy afternoon walk, though on a chilly summer day.
I recall being here 9 years ago when it snowed on New Years Day...
Thanks for taking us on this walk.

A very pleasant walk, once I had found the right track. Well hidden, pity about the original occupier of the site. (Yes it was Christmas day -- we were in Te Anau enjoying a break away from shivery Dunedin).

The logbook is very nearly full, BTW.

TNLN. TFTC

After a lovely walk, we found this cache. Took a voucher for a Muffin at the local bakery - it was very tasty - thanks. Left some hairbands and marbles. TFTC

Great day for a walk from downtown. We're off to Doubtful Sound. TNLN TFTH Scott and Lorry USA

Walked around the bird sanctuary for a bit, and then went in search of the cache.
We were visiting our son Jon in NZ from the USA, and just got back to log all our finds.
Sad about the little tree, but still a beautiful location.
Took: $100 key chain
Left: black pawn.
Thanks for the fun,
Lost Tribe Arizona

Nice walk around the park, enjoy the bird watching as well as the caching.

Quick, easy find. Indeed, not a very nice hide now that the tree has gone!

First find in NZ! (c: Nice little spot. TFTC. TNLN.

Our second Geocanhe in NZ. We took the travelbug and it is now in Spain, where we drop it off as soon as possible.

Vicky y Aldert

In: Our wedding "reminder"
Out: TB

Swapped Travel Bugs.
Great wee cache location.

+ TB

Great Spot was a good one to teach our folks about Geocaching. East find

Found this on our way south to do a cruise on Doubtful Sound. Nice location, not too hard to find, actually found by Mrs OldGimmer (her first solo find). Left Pinky and Perky TB and White Piece-Hall Traveller TB (I wonder how long it will take to get back to Yorkshire)

Found this on our drive from Dunedin to Te Anau. Found the track and enjoyed the walk to the cache. It was sheltered somewhat from the heavy winds.
Thanks from some San Diego, CA cachers

This is a wonderful place for the birds so the vision of Ivon Henry is now a reality. Long may this be...but the park in places is a little neglected and the the cache tree has been removed. But still a wonderful place.
TFTC.

nice short walk from Te Anau,beatifull weather and easy to find.TFTC
TNLN

First find of the day. Took a bit longer than normal as didn't have the GPS set properly .

Only 2km from home. Been to the lake before but never walked this part of the track or suspected there was hidden treasure. The tree has been cut down which makes it a little easier to locate the cache. The hiding place appears to be OK and with the spring grass growth should be more secure. Unless there is weed spaying in the future there should be no need to shift it. Took Geo50chevy TB and left Dont cross me TB.

Only 2km from home. Been to the lake before but never walked this part of the track or suspected there was hidden treasure. The tree has been cut down which makes it a little easier to locate the cache. The hiding place appears to be OK and with the spring grass growth should be more secure. Unless there is weed spaying in the future there should be no need to shift it. Took Geo50chevy TB and left Dont cross me TB.

Our first cache in New Zealand. On our way to Milford Sound. It was a beautiful day. Brought 3 TB's from the US to NZ. Logged all three but only left the Geo50chevy TB in this cache. Bormomir of Gondor and Super Grover will travel with us to see some other sites in New Zealand.

A beaut spot, great for a walk, on our travels around the South Island.

Nice easy find for our first attempt at geocaching. Many thanks.

Found this on our way baack from Milford Sound. Magnificent views and scenery. Many thanks Kiwitonita.

C.O.D Gosford Australia

Rated: for Overall Experience

As a group of HENRY'S traveling in NZ we couldn't pass this one up.

Long, long drive from Queenstown to Te Anau. The walk around the lake was a nice break.

TN, left Razorback sticker.

Nice Spot for a walk. I didn't realise this park was here.
The cache was were it should be but the tree has been cut down. There is a note in the log to say DOC knew of the cache and have left it there. I think this spot is still worthy of a cache and another hiding spot is available very close to the original one.

Great location, never new the lake was there. Cheers

A beautiful walk, lovely view. Good hide. TNLN TFTC

My first cache - cool

20.06.2006 15:30 h #319 24 of 65 in NZ
Coming back from a great trip to Milford Sound and before touring to the glowworm cave we made a nice walk around the lake. Wonderful end summer day with great sunshine but you could already smell autumn in the air.
OUT: TB Police woman and TB Donald
Thanks Kiwitonita for guiding us to this lake which we would not have noticed without the cache.
Albatross1901 and Florian

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Neat cache, great mushrooms on the track to the cache! (poisonous)Left 2 TBs ans a new California Quarter.

Very first cache!! Yeh! Lived here many years and never knew it existed. Will keep an eye on the tree, dosent look too good but it may survive. Dyezy

It was a very nice walk from Te Anau centre, and I enjoyed the reserve and the lake. I did get a bit confused for a moment on my compass directions, but the cache was soon located. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf.

The only trouble with this one was were to park. This is such a nice place Thank you very much TNLNSL

Found this cache at about 9.30pm tonight, while visiting from Australia. Good spot for a cache, away from the main areas full of thousands of tourists (like myself). Te Anua certainly has no shortage of tourists, though more caches would be welcome.

Unlike most walks around lakes, this one doesn't seem to offer views of the lake, except in a couple of places. How odd

Thanks for the cache. TNLN.

Amazing, no muggles around on this beautiful day. Nice place for a cache. Thanks.

Apologies for the delay in logging: just set up own account. Did this one with GSVNoFixedAbode TFTC!
Tardis Chick.

A nice little walk around a rather well-hidden Gardens area. Sunny, but still rather cold and windy. Strange thing: last time I was here (6.5 yrs ago) it was mid-winter and not much colder!! Not quite the sunshine and warmth of a summer holiday we'd planned. But at least there were caches! [^].
Cheers,
G.
- keyring
+ Bubble mix with stick [edit] <-- fixed typo

[This entry was edited by GSVNoFixedAbode on Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 1:04:10 PM.]

Nice little evening walk, THX.
Left Keyring, Took TB Shark
Greetings, Thomas & Birgit (Germany)

Nice stroll with Elena and Andre. cache was very exposed but all in order. Left TB Sharky, but as I've logged this in a retrograde manner, someone has moved the TB already. We lay about for a while in the sun.

left this TB

Found this one quite easily (which makes a change!!). Took a hanky and a toy car. Left a tin box keyring and some other bits and bobs. Can't quite remember as just got back from our tour of NZ and it seems a long time ago!

Nice walk around the lake.
The sun was shining today.
Oh, that fence.
TNLN
Placed a SuMo Cyclist logo sticker on the inside of the cache lid.

Found on a nice walk early in the evening after spending the day kayaking the fiords. Took nothing, left an Australian cub scout badge. Wish we'd bought our cameras!

could not find this one, think one of us did a poor job decrypting clue! also had a nosy muggle, still was a beautiful day for a walk.

Caching our way through NZ and stopped off to grab this one. Will be loggin gin and out TB's. Visiting from Utah, USA. Thanks for the beautiful area! Bean Stompers

First for the day. We will look for others on the Milford Road. TNLN

We are visitors from Holland and enjoy our stay in NZ. Even more due to the geocaching spots. On a early sunny saturday morning we found this one rather easy. In: Kam (Dutch for hairdressing equipment). Out: TB. Thanks.

Nice easy walk from Hotel room, enjoyed the walk around the lake

Nice evening for a walk. Should have walked faster as we almost got lost in the dark on the walk back!! Top Spot!!

Just a quick stop to drop off TB MR Pukeko.

A late evening walk around the lake led us to find this one. We took the TB to get it on the way. Thanks.

Nice find and a nice walk from our hotel... Saw our first possum on our early morning walk... Took Trutto and left 50pence english coin... left Mummo TB and took Kiwi TB (for return to UK)TFTC

This was the only wet day of my holiday, though in a dry moment managed to find this one. I took a look at the birds in the sanctuary too, which is just across the road and worth a visit.

TNLNSL

This cache was found during my three week end-of-2005 visit to New Zealand plus a short stopover in Melbourne. Had a great time checking out this awesome country plus meeting a few rellies which are new on the scene. Time ran out on me unfortunately but hope to come back to this awesome country soon…

Thanks for the cache

Richster

Thanks for the find. Te Anau is a favourite spot of ours and we thought that any international traveller who wants to see beautiful New Zealand... so we left one in there!

Just a quick stopover to grab TB Surf the World +Cable Ties

Just to confirm, Surf the World TB was left in this cache on my visit on the 2nd. Sorry for the confusion!

Was going to drop the Blue Duck TB in here, but read in the log she had already visited! Think I dropped the surf the world TB in instead, will check soon. TFTC!

My first attempt at Geocaching, found cache no problems, left something took nothing. Am hooked on this caper, will start my own sites in the near future. Thanks for this site being close to home, great fun. Cheers weasel7

Awsome Park,the Cache site was easy to find,it took a little while to find the Cache itself.Well done! +Tiki,TN.

Checking my Milford Road caches and delighted to find they are all dry and in good order. Thanks everyone. Took the 2 travel bugs for a ride down Milford. Horse to Deer Flat, Te Anau Bob to Lake Gunn.

[8]
3 Swedes and 1 Norwegian travelling NZ. Lovely country but hard caches. This one though, was easy. Left a Sweden and a Norway-flag. 16:th found in 21 days, probably more than 16 missed.
Bjorn (tati),Ewa,Petra,Gitte

We were all really impressed by the scenery at Lake Te Anau.
So we decided to release our first ever travel bug to commemorate our visit - "Te Anau Bob" ! - we'll be back one day. Thanks for the cache, we took nothing and left TB.
The cache is quite full now.

Nice drive in cache... - TB blue duck + Elma the Carousel horse.

Dropped in with the family to put the Blue Duck Tb back into circulation. Have not got the photo's back yet.

Greetings from Saudi Arabia. A pleasant cache in a super setting. Thank you.

A straightforward bag. TB And Here’s My Handle in and TB Hot Stuff out.

Nice cache, no problems. Took TB "And Here's My Handle".

Nice walk into the cache. Picked up Bear, Bear, White Sheep who we will take back to Australia.
Thanks
Greg and Bev

Well the weather was a wee bit wet!! Walked in with my niece, dropped off "hot Stuff" travel bug key ring, and left all of a 10 minute walk. back at car total change of clothes (Yes I had a jacket!)but it did not help. (Don't bump the branches)
I learnt something today, pens don't work to well with wet hands touching the paper!

Thanks

Our first overseas cache find, left koala bear and took travel bug, sorry about delay logging find. Nice walk in a great location

Found cache and dropped off the sheep that has to go to Aussie, unfortunately being a sheep he was very slow to get to Te Anau and he missed his ride. Apparently Blatto or something similiar was there earlier today. Never mind someone will come along soon I am sure.

The cache is getting pretty full, someone needs to take away some of the larger items.

Beautiful place, we had the park to ourselves on a lovely sunny sunday afternoon. Very well hidden.

TNLN

Thanks for a good cache

A very nice walk from town Te Anau. Then around the lake. We found the cache on a very nice spot viewing the lake.
Left TB Xmas race bug (to return to Holland)

On a nice evening on the day of arrival. Really nice views from here. The park is not as nice as I'm used by now. You have such neat parks. The cache was well hidden, I touched it before I saw it. Thanks!

A pleasant walk on a beautiful, sunny afternoon. The pen was broken so Rodney ran back in and left 2 pencils.
+car and stretchy - tape measure
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Found this on the 1st or 2nd.

Took me a while to find, but found it in the end, well hidden spot and I had overlooked the cache twice before eventually finding. Removed 2 feathers as they were starting to grow mould and rot. Pen was ruined at the time, and looks like it might have been for a while as a few other people had difficulty writing in the log book. I didn't have a pen on me, or in car to replace in cache. Nice walk! Cheers.

Catching up on my cache logs. This was a nice way to start the day. A little exercise before the drive to Queenstown. Had to search a bit and finally used the clue to find the cache.

Found this on a cold, cloudy morning on our way out of Te Anu. Needed the clue as our gps was pointing us in another direction. TNLN.

A pleasant Christmas afternoon walk - and not very far, since we were staying in the holiday park next door. Surprisingly difficult to find even when we knew exactly where it must be; the bees were keen to guard it, too.

(Some water had got in - the pen was no longer working and the logbook was soggy; probably worth putting a pencil in there rather than a pen. We wrote a message in the log, but it might need writing over again with something that works!)

TNLN

hi

i found the seat and i also found the tree. but i couldnt find the cache. i dont know why. i tried to search everything but i wasnt lucky.

nice lake and walk though. thanx.

jamba

Nice One! Nice evening walk from where we were staying. Finding the cache was the climax to a great day at Milford Sounds and National Park. Took Florida key chain(our user name will tell you why), left coin. Many thanks

Just popped in here on our way to Dock Bay to grab Spike the TB and take him for a cruise upto Milford