Old New River Road (West Coast) Shantytown, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 17-Nov-10. Waypoint GC2JC84

Hi Trigger_Fish

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Time for this one to die the death…

No luck for us either

DNF'd with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

Another DNF here today for NZDi and myself. We saw the previous DNF and were not going to come this far, but there was nowhere else to go so thought WTFN. As it was only one DNF, we gave it a goid 20 minutes, but no luck.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

our day for dnfs - will be back hopefully on a finer day

What an off road to have three caches on. Still who’s complaining?

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Easy find

#17873. Happy to let Troodles get stuck in and find this one. Also happy to turn around here (not much of a "road" from this point, even if you had permission to drive it). TFTC.

This is the last day of StreetWalkerNZ's and my extended Waitangi Day trip to the west coast, and we were pleased to see the day dawn dry and sunny, especially after the patches of rain yesterday.
We parked up by the gate and walked back to GZ, SW armed with some secateurs, just in case. It turned out that they weren't needed as the cache was quickly found without much damage to hands. TFTC.

Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Easy find! Be careful of the stinging needles

For our NZ visit we created a "wishful-thinking-to-do-list" ... knowing we can not do them all but we can at least try. Old caches, earth, virtual and webcam are on the top of our list... but also some traditionals, multi etc...

Today on our way to Harihari and decided to stop for some caches along the road as we calculated that we should not have much time left considering the travel distance for today...

This was one of the selected caches and an easy find.
TFTC

Nice easy find. Tftc. CBZ LIAM

Out on a sunny day visiting Shantytown. Stopped off to find this cache. Nice hide, good sized container. Thanks Moneydork.

I walked up this road while hubby was at the workshop , great find

Found the old cache by a chance a few months ago between our hives that are located a bit further along the road. It was completely destroyed. Luckily thanks to "the roamingreliever" it was replaced and could've sign it today. T4TC

Nothing for me to find either. And what should be a simple too. So I replaced it being I was the third on and that Moneydork isn’t around as much as he was back in the day.

My third DNF for the day. This one is definitely missing.

This one is missing.

Looked where the phone indicated 0 m to go, and then some other possible spots but found nothing.

Easy

Quick find, TFTC

Did a quick detour to find this one..TFTH

First one of the day after a lovely few days in Greymouth with my good friends. TFTC.

Needed to get the kids & dog out and about after all this bad weather! Nice walk up the rd and easy find. Thanks!

today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course also found some caches along the way from Hokitika to murchison.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

Over from Melbourne doing a bit of a tiki tour after visiting family in Nelson. A quick detour to grab this cache after visiting shantytown. Tftc.

Quick PnG
Tftc
291

Christmas trip to Nelson from Christchurch, beautiful day in the coast
TFTC

We got stuck in Greymouth because our car needed a repair. While waiting we decided to visit Shanty Town with a borrowed car. After that we still had more time to kill. So, this is how we ended up here, looking for that cache. Tftc & greetings from Austria

#426. #4 for trip.

Team Northwood headed down to the South Island for two weeks travelling around the top half, and catching up with family. Printed a few caches to look for along the way as time allowed. We struggled for finds with the first few and then had more luck.

Visited a local museum village - well worth it - and popped down this road before moving on further south. Easy find, cache in pretty good condition.

TFTH

Some unfinished business, some long solved puzzles, a bit of a tidy up in town and some off the beaten track today. A simple find on our way to Woods Track. Thank you Moneydork

Out and about today finding some long solved puzzles and others we have been bypassing when on the Coast. A quick find here in very wet weather. Took TB.
Thank you Moneydork.

Spent a lovely day at Shantytown. A great thing to do with the kids in the school holidays. Decided to see if we could find this one on our way back to Westport. Dropped off a trackable.

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

A short detour on our way along this road. Good to find one of the older caches, TFTC

Its Easter & have teamed up with The Seagnoid & Zara, for a magical mystery tour. Bug out Thursday lunchtime picking up the Seagnoid on the way to exploring the amazing West Coast.
My find. Cheers

On a big Easter caching mission with ZaraBus and TaybeeDragon. Lots of crawling through mines, climbing hills, walking through bush. And yet we only covered a tiny bit of the West Coast, between Greymouth and Hokitika.
Zara took us down here easily enough, and a quick find by the Dragon.

Easy find but h watch for the barbed wire!

Nice drive to here. Very easy to locate cache, but it's still hidden quite good

Found at 03:38 PM - #5762

TFTC

Was searching wrong location should trust gps

Found on our way to Greymouth.tftc

Rather an out of the way area and naturally a good place for a cache. Found after brief search after starting in the wrong area and only moving once the gps seemed to settle down. TFTC

Nice little easy roadside cache just as it says - "park and grab" ie no need to go past the closed gate

Quick park and grab tftc

First cache for today and a good decent sized one too - they seem to be few and far between these days. TFTC #5944

Always good to be taken off the beaten track on the West Coast. TFTC.

A pleasant wee side trip down here for a looksie, cache still doing well. Cheers

A quick find on a very quick road. Found on a weekend trip to the Coast with Kiwi Moose. Thanks for the hide.

cache found in good condition. thanks

Heading to Greymouth with TheWanglers on a caching weekend. In the area so we figured "why not". Quick find and sign at "road end".....cheers.

Team_Gaters and I have planned a this trip over the last few months. We finally got to the business end of things and kicked off out West Coast raid. We had two days and a lot of boxes to tick. We started at 5am on Saturday morning and it took over 12 hours to get to Greymouth. We drove a lot, walked a lot and had a lot of laughs. We experienced 4 seasons and even contemplated aborting the mission as we were standing in icy cold weather freezing as the rain came pelting down in Arthurs Pass. We encountered matigouri, rosehips, blackberries, brambles, spainairds, baby gorse and old man gorse!!! Still finding parts of prickles in my skin! We also saw kea, weka, cave weta, tree weta, giant slugs, giant spiders in caves, west coasters, fat wood pidgeons, tui and a giant dragon fly. Had wet feet for nearly two days. Three FTFs and on of them was unpublished (first for me).
Sign at end of road say you can go further at your own risk as the council doesn't maintain it anymore. The cache was quickly found and I pulled it out of some barbed wire, great another thing that bit me on this trip
Awesome weekend. TG and I joked that going back to work would be a bit of a let down, so to combat that we would keep one foot in a bucket of water and the other one on top of a pin cusion, that should ignite the memories.

Thanks for the cache.
53 of 104
#1799

first and last cache for the day. tftc

found straight away, it took long the extract the cache
good one
thank you for the cache

Prickly little blighter to extract. 2WD car decided not to go further. Bring your own pen.

Took a couple of minutes to find it but no real problem.

Nice track. Amazingly maintained by council for some reason. Would be interesting to go further in a 4wd. Quick find. Thanks

nice road. It took me a while but I got it at the end.
TFTC Kongo1506

Took me a while to locate this cache, don't know why? stoaked to find it, my 600th find woo hoo. Great day for caching, no muggles around as it was a pretty damp day. TFTC.

Quick find at the end of the maintained road.

Quick trip down the gravel road. Soon found the cache. SL TFTC

A small deviation while involved on a nugget recovery expedition

Found under some west coast drizzle,TFTC

A quickish find for PB today while we were on an guided tour of some of our remaining local caches!! TFTC

Popped in and had a quick find. Stopped and had a quick snack for lunch as well. Cheers Gav [9534]

Pleased it wasn't further down this road, it looks a bit bumpy beyond the cache.
TFTC

Obstacle acrosss road near GZ. Van too big to turn around so had reverse for about 400m to turn. TFTC

This cache is just down the road from mum and dads

We had to pull up short with a small obstruction blocking our way through. Cache quickly found and 10 point turn completed. Thanks.

Nature conspired to raise the terrain rating. After negotiating the nearby fallen trees, it was a quick walk to GZ for a quick find too. Looks like the road goes a lot further on paper than it does on land. TFTC, Biggles.

First one for 2011 with all my helpers in attendance quiet spot to get the caching blood pumping again. TFTC

An interesting drive through where the other half live.
Thanks
erninz

Nice and easy find on a road we had never been down before. TFTC

picked up a Tb here, though it had not been logged into the cache. Dropped a Tb and a coin. TFTC

Couldve reached out the open car door right wear Mum parked. Left a TB. TFTC

Quick find. Certainly been up this road, and beyond before. TFTC.

Think I have been up here before.

Bitsprayer

FTF.
Have driven past that road before and always wondered what was up there and now I know - a cache!
TFTC TNLN

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