Nelson TB Departure Lounge (Nelson) Stoke, South Island, New Zealand
By BuzzTasman on 25-Jun-05. Waypoint GCPEEQ

Will close down this Travel Lounge so someone can start another

The bad boys have stolen the cache.
Nowhere to be seen.
May need to find a new place for it.

Picked up TB Sarah Lynn as see was keen to seen around Nelson

Called in to drop off CashForCache TB who needs to leave the Country and took Unionport Gold who will be dropped off soon in a local cache. We also happened to discover another TB there.

Dropped off Sarah Lynn travel bug (TBKG2X).

Quick cache while waiting for my bike to get off the plane. Great to get started.
+ union port Gold TB
- jordon TB
Cheers, M@

We had our fish and chips nearby then took a leisurely stroll along the track to the cache. Nice and easy find.

We dropped off Jordan's Travel Bug, this is it's first cache as we only activated it earlier today.

Cheers
pinetree and sunrise, pinecone + bubble and Gran

NOTE: Texas TB #3 wasn't in the cache?

Went to collect TB to take to Aus, but the two showed have gone ( not logged yet) But TB "Larry" was their so grabbed him

Re-visited cache today to drop off World Frog TB, who we had picked up in Blenheim. He wants to go the UK please if anyone is heading that way. TFTC.
Whakatu3

Dropped off Larry Boy TB to continue his travels, picked up Via Novus TB.

Good idea for TB use! Nothing in or out today, but thanks.

Did this one while passing by with a new cacher i met at ZKAFE cache and dropped "Via Novus" TB in who wants to travel the world making miles.TFTC Buzz and a great idea to move TBs on.

Found this after a 5 min walk from the airport. No residents at the hotel at the time so TNLN. We did stop by the WOW exibit before going to the airport. It was an interesting side trip.

Found during a caching holiday in Nelson. Lovely weather. Took TB and left pack of cards

No 23. And last of the day. Left ChCh at 1.30am and is now about 6.30pm. Had lots of fun and lots of History lessons. No swaps. Had to use torch and security guard was walking toward me as I drove off. Hope new security measures dont make TB DL close to airports a problem.

Leaving for the USA on 9 August, so I thought I would help clean out the TBs from the Nelson TB Departure Lounge. I took 5 TBs; 4 will go to the USA and I'll leave one at the Auckland Airport. There are 2 TBs left: 1 wants to get to Wellington (the oldest NZ cache), and the other, Moray Eel, is in a race with Manta Ray TB and wants to get to Bluff and back before Manta Ray gets to the north and back. The Texas TB was not in the cache, although it is supposed to be (maybe someone took it and hasn't logged it yet?).
Looking forward to doing a little geocaching in the USA.
+ Rizer pen
+ camel
TN
EARLY RIZERS

dropped of travel Bug ( Mobdic ) House Calls

The Manta Ray and "Going to New Zealand's First" (Lobster) TB are both trying to get to North Island.

easy find left kiwi-worker TB

TNLN
Exciting hiding spot

TNLN.
Beaut sunny day.

Came back today. I'd forgotten to get a photo of the Racing Manta Ray TB so I snapped a picture of him, then dropped off the Racing Moray Eel TB. Manta Ray is heading North, Moray Eel is heading South. First one to the tip of this country (north or south) and back here wins!

Dropped Off Travel Bug, Couldnt get the poor thing to its destination. (nz post sent the envalope back, Saying it was too heavy)

Easy find. Placed a new TB, the Racing Manta Ray. He is one his way to the North Island and on to Cape Reinga.

Dropping one TB off, picking up another...

Very good cache! I flogged the World Cup Travel Bug. - Will try to get it to germany somehow!

Popped in to drop off Jamie's Creepy Crawlies TB. They want to get to London but are looking forward to adventures all over the place on the way!
All well at the cache.
Whakatu3

Stopped in to drop of a TB that I've had for WAY too long. It needs to get to WELLINGTON as quickly as possible. Last year I was there every week with time to kill this year I've been flat out when I've been there so the wee bug has been back and forth about 10 times. Anyway I'm embarassed at how long I've had it so ..... please get it to its destination ASAP.

Also I was accosted by a young security guard while working on the, who was worried about the head geocaching Lbbeing with me .... LOL.

Dropped off Texas Bug #3 TB who wants to go to Wellington the quickest way possible as he missed his Ferry crossing over.

Dropped our new TB in here for a quick visit before flying north.

Easy find and a nice place for a departure lounge

awesome fun close to home yeah. ty /thank u
Now off to set two of my own.

Dropped of TB "Soccer History", who urgently needs to get to Germany for the World Cup final!

Stopped off on the way to the airport for our flight back home.

Picked up McMurff TB as we saw that he wanted to visit England.

Quick cache and dash while dropping Thornproof off at the airport on their way back to the UK.
TNLN
TFTC
Whakatu3

On our way out of the country tomorrow so came to drop off Aloha Surf-Bug which had travelled here from the UK with us. Will pick up anything which wants to travel overseas.

Dropped off Aloha Surf Bug and Strippes TB
Picked up Gee Ooo TB and Punch TB

TNLN

Picked up stripes the tb. This is my first travel bug! He looks so cute! taking him to visit the racetrack before I send him on.

Dropped off McMurff TB hoping to travel to England and to visit any interesting places on the way.

Dropped of
TB --- Gee Ooo
TB --- Punch
Please take to diffrent places or at least diffrent Caches

took ms piggy on a trip south to the garden city and the home of satchmo cat

Easy find soon after arrival. Dropping off Jeep TB. Found Grumpy Man.

called in to drop off a travel bug and pick one up -the hulk + Piggy

Dropped off Grumpy Guy & The Hulk

On our way out of the country tomorrow so came to drop off Aloha Surf-Bug which had travelled here from the UK with us. Will pick up anything which wants to travel overseas.

Dropped off Aloha Surf Bug and Strippes TB
Picked up Geeoo TB and Punch TB

Found Ok All's well

Picked up Millie Beagle TB.

A quick visit to drop off Millie Beagle TB, who is keen to travel to Scotland and meet up with her brother Bentley.
Out - Hairy little dwarf's hitchiker's disc.
Missed the first parking spot, and ended up having to park at a meter - but money well spent.

Quick stop to find on way west to do the Heaphy Track
No TB's

grabed "BadAndy"

dropped off TB "Bad Andy"

Picked up Sam TB to meet Samy! junior.

dropped off Kiwi Cricketer and Grover the Rover

Visited to place travel bug CONNA who hopes to go for a long walk to England. Can you help take her from place to place?

Dropped off Sam TB and took Oxford Stretch TB

hi, found it with the intention of placing CONNA travel bug, who is heading to Barnstable, Devon in the United Kingdom! Have brought conna home to do an information tag. Will hopefully go again tomorrow!

forgot to note down the tracking number yesturday so returned and dropped in Oxford stretch to join Gravel rash

Called in to drop off Gravelrash

This was only a kilometre or so away from where I was staying so a spare 30 minutes had me wandering with the arrow pointing straight at it. Took bee and left a citroen. Hatas

Stopped by to drop off Katie TB who has just flown in from Auckland.
There is another travel but in the lounge thats not logged in.

Nice quick find. Good spot for a TB hotel close to the airport but relatively secluded. TNLNSL. Thanks

A fun find while waiting for the plane to call by!

Nelson and the whole district just takes the cake!

Biking past and checked cache for bugs, grabbed ET, hopefully will drop it off near Picton on friday

Last cache of the day, and an easy find before heading home. I biked up to GZ from the previous two caches, and discovered it in the second spot I looked. No exchange made. Cheers Gav [761]

Returned here to drop off ET the TB.
Sorry I was in a hurry and didn't have time to fill in the notebook.

Dropped off a Travel Bug (Jetsons Elroy)
Some young guys had found the cache and written their weird comments but fortunately they replaced it without any harm.

Dropped off TB (Lil Ducky). TNLN.

Found it with Michael on his first GC trip. Funny enough, we got muggled by the Airport Security guy speeding up to us in his car...! And just because somebody close by was sleeping with a backpack lying around.
Took TB 'Happy Ness' and gonna take him across the beloved Pacific water to San Francisco.

[This entry was edited by Wolgalongse on Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 1:04:27 PM.]

Happy Ness needs to find Papa Ness

Dropped Bruno the Bear TB in here for a rest.

Stopped in at 0430 to pick up Larry the Library Lizard TB, the new cache is HUGE and was visible from a fair way off- perhaps the smaller one was better?

Easy find.

+ hairy little dwarf ( hitch hiker )
- digifish ( too long out of water )

Dropped Kahu the Cautious Kiwi TB in here for a quick view of Nelson before he goes exploring.

Time to move Kahu the Kiwi TB on. It was too busy here at the airport for a kiwi anyway. Maybe he'd prefer the West coast.

We upgraded the size of the cache to allow more chunkier TB's in there. The traceable Digifish is still there, it is tiny so can be overlooked. Someone please take it for a swim somewhere.

Spend a lot of time around, & trying to climb a completely different gerr. It turns out that the waypoint in my GPS was about 70m out. That's wierd! It was only as we passed that we checked just in case. I've never had that happen before. The coords normally come directly from GPX files.
Were they different at one stage?
I guess it's possible that I did some fiddling with them as I edited the coords for ZK-AFE...
-McNasty, +Larry the Library Lizard, who's visiting libraries, and heading off to see some old mates in the NI.
Thanks.

Dropped off two travel bugs:
McSheik of McCache who has spent some time in the Nelson region and needs a lift out of town.
Geo~Smurf who has just arrived from Aussie and wants to tour NZ

Found at 0700 hours on a nice clear but a little frosty morning. A good easy find - thanks.
TN
+ Aussie Penny.

Stopped by whilst walking the perimeter loop and introducing a friend to geocaching.

All was well - left a green star stone.

Collected the Traudel and Happy Herbert TB's for a trip to Aussie.
Dropped off a trackable Digifish

Started Happy Herbert TB journey in here.

Just popped in to Drop off the Traudel travel bug. She is looking to get back to Germany and is a long way off coiurse. I attached an elnglish translation of her mission just to make it a bit easier for her to find her way.

A quick visit at 6:30am in the morning as I am off to Christchurch for a meeting.
picked up Maude the crab and Wheres george

This is a busy place, walkers everywhere. Found easily as there were limited places to hide a cache.
- Sheik McCache Travel bug
+ Claude the crab Travel Bug

Picked up Mrs Pengie and Very Small Ninja TB's for a trip north

very easy to find(hope it never gets muggled)
+George
-TB

Dropping off geocoing (finally!)

This is a really handy site and a good idea. Well done. I have dropped Mrs Pengie there after taking here to London and back and not being able to drop her off because off all the security activities over there. Can someone please find a new home for her. She is very well behaved.

Picked up 4x TBs, plus my Geocoin.
Dropped off two TBs that I had picked up in varous caches yesterday.

Am back down to Hokitika tonight, then up to off to Auckland during the week, so will hopefully get a chance to drop some of the TBs off or help them with their missions.

Arrgg Came back to get Geocoins number to find it gone. It looks like Moneydork? may have taken it. I need the number please to move it from the cache I got it from first!

Easy find and I dropped of a geocoin, but forgot to record its number, will have to go look again and come back!
Great idea, and good to know its handy.
Cheers

Dropped back at the Departure Lounge after failing to help out... Took south with me but other things intervened with geocaching so didn't get chance to place. Sorry for the pointless diversion!

My very first cache! Now with the bit between my teeth and my trusty Garmin 12 I hope to find many more. Thanks to Buzz Tasman for establishing something for me to find.
Bird of Passage.

dropped off Girls Scout around the World T.B, who wants to race to North Carolina USA.

Hope flight leaves soon as 'departure lounge' is full !!

Found cache. Bit tricky with large trees in immediate vicinity. No swaps.

This is the best TB Hotel we have seen yet. So close to the airport and handy for travellers. We were also impressed with the way it is set up and documented.
+ TB Powder Bug - wants to go to Colorado
- TB rugby
Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Left the TB - Powder Bug

We just stopped into here to drop off a couple of travel bugs that need to get out of Nelson. Cold a windy day but the head cacher loved the walk. Dropped off the all black rugby ball and a new TB kiwi in Australia.

Maple.Hill

Dropped by to swap some bugs, KiwiBlack Bear and Awaroa Endeavour to go to Scotland and Ireland respectively. Was going to pick up Hiker Smurf but it seems it got taken out a few days ago! Left a green star stone too.

Sorry, all my TB's are used up, away travelling. Cheers from Grandalf.

Biking from Brightwater to Nelson with the boys. They were very taken by the Smurf travel Bug so we will transport it to Picton to catch the ferry to Wellington in the hope of getting to a bigger airport to jump off to the states.