Some like it rough (West Coast) Greymouth, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 28-Apr-11. Waypoint GC2V5GK

Bye bye geocache

No luck today

No luck today

Area is trashed and muddy, could do with a lot of cleanup.

So ugly place! I din't evolve much effort and left it alone.

Lots of rubbish but was a nice little find

Is that the geocach?

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..

Back in greymouth for a while working at the Noah's ark backpackers...so a good base to tick off a few more..

Set myself a mission to hit 8000 finds by the end of the year...that's an average of 6 a day ..
Search around all 4 railway irons and amongst the rubbish but came up empty handed..

Gz is a complete "dump" not a nice place to search..

I find a rock with some writing on is that it

found it ! Very Genius

Slipped down bank

Found out in open, put back a bit more hidden. Log too wet to write on. TFtC.

Given it was found today I though it would be an easy find but after about 20 mins I gave up. So much rubbish in this area, it's sad to see.

Possibly moved due to weather? Couldn’t find! Spent about 15 mins rummaging, no luck

Overin Greymouth on train trip. Had to nab some caches. Tftc

Quick find. TFTC.

TFTC Pretty walk by the creek

1/2/21 Added our note and added something colourful for the next finder.

Very hard took about 20 mins to find

Second cache I couldn’t find.

Reasonably quick find

Tks.
TFTC
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Found with StreetWalkerNZ on our last day of our Queens Birthday weekend in Greymouth. This morning was not as chilly as yesterday, so after an early morning's walk up Kings track, we walked to the waterfall at Coal Creek in Runanga, then returned to Greymouth for a few more caches and lunch.
We were surprised that we hadn't looked for this cache previously, maybe we didn't know where to access the walk way. Overshot GZ initially and had to back track. Cache was laying on the ground, amongst rubbish so after doing the paperwork, we replaced by one of the hint objects where it should be safer. TFTC.

#18220. We overshot GZ, and after a quick backtrack I spotted the cache lying in the open. After doing the paperwork, I placed it in a bit of a hollow next to a hint object. TFTC.

No.2

Looked for ages couldnt find

It is messy and s bit of rubbish but found easy and was quite dry

A surprising little walkway but unfortunately there was a lot of litter at GZ and log book wet.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

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

Found

22179 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we went from Farnz Jozef Glacier to Greymouth and we had all day, so we made many stops. Allong the road we found many caches, but we also visited Ross, Hokitika and Shanty town. There caches brought us to special remarkable places.

After checkin, Greymouth around the hotel was visited.

Most caches were found quite quickly. Realy rough here.

Moneydork TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

One week of the school holidays are already gone and we have a few days off looking after grandson. He's not adverse to caching but the weather wasn't that great and a new game for the Xbox had priority. We read the previous logs so came prepared with some paper and a ziplock bag. The GPS didn't cooperate but the hint was good. We didn't realise that further along the track is another cache and we would walk past here later once more. Thank you Moneydork

For too long there have been 'odds and sods' of unfound icons on my Greymouth area map so today we set out to rectify a few of them.
We spent a few minutes looking round the 'rubbish dump' before Hazedarus found the cache where I had approached earlier but aborted when the distance on my GPS started climbing rapidly. It showed 17m at GZ.
Having read the previous logs we grabbed a wee snaplock and tore a couple of pages from a small notebook to leave as a replacement log.
Thank you Moneydork.

Found it but log to wet to sign and didn’t have a replacement with me.

Nice little forest-y area, but logbook was mush. tftc!

Found after a bit of a search, log has dried out enough to sign, sorry no dry replacement with us. Continuing on with the walk. TFTC

Too wet for signing And after earlier photo from another in greymouth I didn't take one...

Took awhile to find. Need to look past the first railway iron thing ! Needs attention book very soggy!

Found after quite a search at least 30ft off GpS reading. Just a soggy mess inside. Needs attention. TFTC and greetings from the UK

Cache in urgent need of attention. Well soggy inside. Wad of sog inside

Found it

Found after a few min. Quite disappointed with the amount of rubbish intentionally dumped here. Rather disgusting.

Still a lot of rubbish in the area. Cache was found pretty quickly in an obvious place near the shorter hint item. Coordinates had me 33m away. TFTC

Tis quite sad to see what the Locals do to their lovely Walkways..Took a wee while to track down but persistence paid off and Little Horrible's sharp eyes spotted the Hidey Hole.TFTH

The rubbish here was disgusting. You could probably fill a trailer. TFTC.

Some might like it rough but some must like it dirty as well, an awful amount of rubbish has been dumped and spread around GZ. GK still managed to find the cache though. Thanks Moneydork for the cache

Injeanious and I travelled over to greymouth for Easter weekend. We had fun picking up lots of different caches, and had a few dnfs as well. We didn't enjoy this one so much with the rubbish and the sandflies so didn't stick around too long, would have liked to have the smilie though. Tftc!

We got to gz and began searching around. Three of us looked for about 15 minutes, but between the trash, mosquitoes, and the broad hint (quite a few rail irons and lots of places within 2 m of each) we decided to call it a day.

Yay finally found it. Had 2 go back as didn't find it 1st time

A lot of rubbish in the place which ruins it but we still found it

Took about 5 minutes to find. But a rubbish that needs to be cleaned up thought.

Took a while but finally located in it.

A lot of rubbish but I found it

Stopped by on a visit. Took us a few minutes, nicely hidden.

Second cache of the day, probably my least favourite in awhile just because of the area, so gross and filled with rubbish. Definitely not kid friendly. Appreciate the effort of leaving the cache though, thank you!

yeeew

Finally found it! We had a look last time we were over. After a very exhaustive search we gave up. Also having a number of DNFs to it we did not hold out much hope. This time after looking at previous post, noticed it had been found yesterday or day before (depending on server time). Had another look and found within a few minutes. Tfth.

Found it. Haven't been around this park in years. Shame it's looking pretty rough, but bought back memories none the less. TFTC

DNF tooo many hiding places, slippery when wet...

TFTH

Was so happy to find this one after all the DNF......I was going to near give up when I realised there was more than one railway track bit.

Lots of rubbish and mud but couldn't find any cache

Another attempt to find this shit cache. Just about caught HIV.

Ick, Once upon a time this walk was beautiful. Hate the scum bags who turned it into a dump. Literally after tiptoeing among the trash we just decided to stop before we caught tetanus. The rubbish was just depressing us and the dead rat topped it off.

Would be great to get a neighbourhood volunteer group to restore it back to healthy bush again.

What a lot of rubbish strewn all over right from where we parked to the cache. One of those ones where it is so obvious once you find the right spot. TFTC #5989

100% pure.. We first found something that looked like a cache, but it was more for some other pleasure. Not quite sure what that smoking stuff was, did not smell like cigarettes. Found cache eventually without too much trouble. TFTC

Went for a search for this the other day. Didn't find it but honestly the location is pretty poor and there is rubbish scattered about. Not really sure why someone would want to attract geocachers to this area to search around in the muck.

A rough stop indeed. Tftc

Nice wander round Greymouth tftc

Hmm, been around here before I think. Looks like the tent etc have been here a long time. I can think of better places to set up camp! Cheers

22/03/2014 6:59:00 PM
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I had been wanting to come over caching to Greymouth for a while, since I had never yet been caching further than the West Coast CANZ cache!!
Spur of the moment, a trip was planned, and I decided to head off on Friday after work. However realised we had monthly after work drinks! Ah, stayed for that then, and then left.

Saturday ended up being a numbers day. My second top caching day in history, and I wasn't even aiming that high!!
This was one of the many caches I got therefore

Finally actually getting some caches in greymouth after touring around everywhere else first!!

When reading the title, wasn't sure as to whether it was refering to the quality of the bush, or what someone had obviously been doing there by what they had left behind... stopped thinking at that point... haha.

Cache took a while to locate as I kept on discovering more of the hint!!
But finally finally I found it, almost as I was about to leave.

Consec caching day # 503

TFTC!!

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A great day on the coast, as always.

TFTC

Easy find, so many mozzies though, well hidden quick find with sisters
-TrigNix

I found it but I nearly misstated it for rubbish sad how people left it there

it was rough, people who are dumping rubbish there should be ashamed of themselves
searched around but it wasn't long before the cache was in our hands
thank you for the cache

Was a bit rough here and someone has used this place for getting rid of their rubbish.
Quite a few people out walking their dogs too.
TFTC

Looks like someone left their rubbish behind . It must have been a job getting it all to that place.TFTC

Yay we found it!

Yay!

Bit of a mission to find but got there in the end tftc

Not to hard

Took a couple of minutes to find it.

Cache size changed.

We found the cache bag and geocaching instructions on the ground at GZ but there was no sign of a logbook or cache container.
Replaced the log and left a new container for the next visitor TFTC.

Container size will need to be changed to small as we left a black taped nurofen pot as a cache.

We're still here in NZ although our trips end is drawing closer. Day 19 and we headed from Greymouth to Akaroa via Rangiora.

Wow with all the rain in the last week, this bank surely was slippery. Looks like alot of rubbish has been washed down the bank nearby too, making it all the more difficult to search.

It didn't bother the birds that were chirping away merrily above us though.

TFTC Moneydork

Good search and great spot. Not too hard but a bit of the challenge for the kids.

Only about a mile from our hotel, loved the walk, hunt and find. TFTH. First one in Graymouth.

Wildrice2

NZ12. The rain had made all the ground very sloppy and the GPS was all over the place. I eventually located the items in the clue and started looking. It was very well hidden and it took a bit of finding. Thanks.

8670.91 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Equator A#19

Albida

SLIP, slide, but in the end it was Mrs. Flipper that spied the way in & Mrs. Skippy. to find it
Day 6 of our Kiwi Adventure to the NZ Mega with Skippy. & SEMIK
TFTC
[red]Gayle & Mark[/red]

Found along with SEMIK and Flippers on our 5th day in New Zealand
This leg was from Kaikura to Hokiatika via Lewis Pass

Couldn't come to the south island without finding a Moneydork cache. After all, you've found all (or most) of ours! We walked right past GZ because of the satlock, but Mrs. Flipper spotted the item in the hint and it was a brief search after that. Thanks and glad we're here!!

A reasonably quick find after narrowing down which of the items in the hint to start looking at. TFTC

15/7/12 @ 12pm - Nice walk to an easy find SLTFTC

Park and slosh today, wee creek raging. And that ground water was very cold in jandels ! Maybe we should have done short walk option ! Thanks

Still looking. Muggles abound, so wondering if still there. Not giving up - will try again another day

Uh oh! Searched but didn't find during my regulation 10 mins.

First find of the day around 7-00am. A little search required but hint got me there. SL TFTC

Cache has been replaced - thanks Annie & PB

Ccahe replaced.