Cook's Quadrant (Nelson/Marlborough) Titirangi, South Island, New Zealand
By Blenheim Bear adopted by Kiwimykl on 17-Feb-13. Waypoint GC464KN

Google translation: After visiting Motuhara Island, we come in the footsteps of Captain Cook and Queen Charlotte . We do not hesitate to look for the caches that lie in our path, even if the internet network is almost non-existent. Thank you to all the installers for the work carried out for our greatest pleasure. Greetings from France. Our Travel Bugs pass through this cache but do not come out of our backpack; they continue the adventure with us. Trip to New Zealand, decided very quickly , but that didn't stop us from preparing a small file of caches to search, as far as possible. The GC46 was, of course, at the top of that list! and there you have it, we visited it during our stay in Wellington. Yesss!! Our program should allow us to discover a large part of this country.Fr : Aprs avoir visit l'le de Motuhara, nous venons sur les traces de Captain Cook et Queen Charlotte .Nous n'hsitons pas chercher les caches qui se trouvent sur notre passage, mme si le rseau internet est presque inexistant. Merci tous les poseurs pour le travail ralis pour notre plus grand plaisir.Salutations de France.Nos Travel Bugs transitent par cette cache mais ne descendent pas de notre sac dos ; ils poursuivent l'aventure avec nous. Voyage en Nouvelle Zlande, dcid trs rapidement , mais cela ne nous a pas empch de prparer un petit fichier de caches chercher, dans la mesure o cela sera possible.La GC46 tait, bien sr, tout en haut de cette liste ! et voil, nous l'avons visit lors de notre sjour Wellington. Yesss !! Notre programme devrait nous permettre de dcouvrir une grande partie de ce pays.Merci pour la dcouverte - Dzikuj za zabaw - Dankie vir die pret - Faleminderit pr argtimin - - Thank you for the fun - ylnc n tkkr edirik - Eskerrik asko dibertigarriagatik - - - Hvala na zabavi - - Salamat sa kalipay - - Hvala vam na zabavi - Dkuji vm za zbavu - Zikomo chifukwa cha zosangalatsa - Tak for det sjove - Dankon pro la amuzo - Tnan teid lbu eest - Salamat sa kasiyahan - Kiitos hauskuudesta - Tankewol foar it wille - Grazas pola diversin - - , - - Na gode da fun - Mahalo ioe no ka hauoli - - Gracias por la diversin - Ua tsaug rau kev lom zem - Daal maka ntrnd - Terima kasih atas kesenangannya - Grazie per a diversione - Msi pou plezi a - Hn ji bo kfxweiy - - Ai u linksm - Merci fir de Spaass - tibi gratias ago pro ludens - Paldies par jautrbu - - - Terima kasih kerana bersenang-senang - Misaotra anao amin'ny fialam-boly - Grazzi gall-pjair - Mauruuru koe mo te ngahau - - - - Bedankt voor het plezier - Danke fr den Spa - Takk for moroa - - - Obrigado pela diverso - - Mulumesc pentru distracie - Faafetai mo le malie - - Ndinokutendai nokuda kwomufaro - akujem vm za zbavu - Hvala za zabavo - Waad ku mahadsantahay madadaalada - Kea le leboha ka monate - Asante kwa furaha - hatur nuhun keur man - - Tapadh leibh airson an dwpiemy- Elence iin teekkr ederim - - Qiziqarli uchun rahmat - Diolch am yr hwyl - Ksznm a szrakozst - Cm n v s vui v - Grazie per il divertimento - Siyabonga ngokuzonwabisa - Siyabonga ngomnandi.

Just look on the wrong side but found

TheLandGirl and I are down from Auckland to complete the Queen Charlotte track over 4 days. Day one was a 17km hike from Ship Cove to Furneaux Lodge. We made a quick visit to Cook's Monument and found this cache while here. A lovely and interesting spot here and beautiful weather to start the day. TFTC!

Great quick find. Thanks very much for this. Looking forward to finding more on the Queen Charlotte track.

A nice little hide in ships cove. Doing a walk today and starting here.

Signed and put back in place. Snagged the TB too! And now back to the hike!

I am on an adventure cruise and this was our first stop. Before leaving the boat this morning I tried without success to pull up caches but the internet was too slow. I hiked to the waterfall then back to the boat for lunch. I was finally able to pull up the caches before returning to shore for the afternoon but this time our group was heading up the Queen Charlotte Trail. Bummed that I would not be able get back to the cache at the waterfall, I was determined to get back down the mountain in time to log this cache before having to return to the boat. Thankfully, I made it! I found the cache, signed the log, shot a quick video for my geocaching friends back home, and left a travel bug. Thanks to the cacher who hid this and the one who maintains it. Favorite point awarded for the remote and beautiful location.

During a stop of the boattrip found this cache. It was a pitty it was raining. What a beautyful place. TFTC

After a day taking the ferry from the North island and chilling in Picton organising resupply, today I began the South Island portion of my Te Araroa journey. However, having barely walked 50 steps from the jetty, I already had my pack dumped on the ground as myself and other hikers took the opportunity for a swim at the beautiful Ship Cove. Eventually though, I wandered away from the group and made the search for this one. A quick and easy find, all is good. Now on with the hiking!My thanks go to the cache owner kiwimykl for placing one here, the perfect smiley on the geo map to mark my onwards progress just shy of the 1716km mark of my tramp. Cheers.-- This log is trackable ! ---- Feel free to discover ---- Please mention, in which cache you've seen this code: ---- 3TABQX --

Our NEW ZEALAND - TASMANIA - AUSTRALIA TRIP takes us to wonderful places and gives us an incredible number of beautiful moments and experiences. On occasion we also visit a few GeoCaches on our way. Found the can well, the logbook is very WET and needs maintenance!Thank you for laying, nurturing and caring for it snapfish2 from Switzerland

My favourite cache ever! ( will award one!) A quick 10 min stop here enabled us to find and log the cache . Tftc

I initially overshot the mark so back tracked slightly and, using the hint, quickly found the cache. Now to start the hike along the Queen Charlotte, TFTC!

Phone accuracy not good and description not downloaded but cachers nouse found it tftc

Found this one on a morning cruise through the Marlborough sound. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Start of a girls weekend huke. TFTC.

The start of a 1500 km bike ride to Milford Sound. will be trying to average 150 km per day so not too much time for caching. Thanks to the Kennett brothers for bringing us to this special place

End of a two week guiding trip and finishing with a cache!

Arrived in ships cove do spend 4 days walking the track. Abysmal weather today and only just made it out. Cache looks like the weather had moved it into the open. We replaced to closer to the correct position

Time for a QC walk with the family and this was the first one on the list. Nice and easy and quite the historic spot! Cheers

Nice easy find once I had right side of river

Started the Queen Charlotte with a hiss and a roar, marking the start of the South Island stretch of Te Araroa. Waited for the boat passengers to move off before having a quick scrabble around in the dark recesses of GZ to find the cache. Cracker of a day and beautiful spot. TFTC

Yay. First smiley of the day. About to spend 3 days walk part if this lovely track.

After all fellow travelers had left the scene and set off on the Queen Charlotte Trail, I was able to look for the cache in peace. It took me a while to spot the box and find a tool to salvage it. The logging was done under the watchful eyes of a weka.

Dropped off to start queen Charlotte track. Was in a bit of a rush so missed it at first but realising we had heaps of time to spare for the walk Inwent back for another look and found it easily: Great start to my caching walk

Lovely spot for the start of our walk

So here we were at the start of the QC track. A lovely spot and glad there was a cache here as really worth a visit to this historic monument. TFTC

First day of a four day sea kayaking paddle around Queen Charlotte Sound. The water taxi had dropped the group off here and while everyone was getting ready, ducked away for a quick find. Thanks for placing the cache, added an extra component for the weekend.
Cache in good condition.

Great spot

Just back from the waterfall and the area was now deserted so a quick and easy find

I have been messaged by a recent finder to say the cache is in place further under bridge than described.
Re-enabling.

Temporarily disabled until I get the opportunity to check this out.

I have messaged the last finder and she said the cache was not on the ledge, but tucked up in the corner under the bridge, jetty end and upstream side, so the corner closest to the shelter.

Nothing obvious.

We had a really good look around, but were unsuccesful finding anything. TFTC

I was the finder who messaged Kiwimykl to say that the cache was still there and in great condition.
Super cool location for a cache!

No sign of anything in the given location.

No sign of anything in the given location.

I've never managed to kayak out this far, unfortunately the wind puts a stop to each planned trip. This weekend was supposed to be a circumnavigation of D'urville Island but once again the wind has stopped that so instead I got the water taxi here to walk the track. When we got here I was wishing I did have my kayak but a couple of hours later and the rest of the trip I was glad to be on land. I had to wait for what felt like forever for the muggles to either get back on the boat or start their trip. I had to think back to my white water course for the hint but still couldn't find it, started trying the other locations then spotted it from the other side it was back to far out of my short arms reach so used my walking stick to move it over. Thanks for placing the cache Kiwimykl

#10934

Cache # 4,999 - first find for CelloJoss and I properly on the QC Track. This one took a while, as we waited for the surge of muggles going through, then had to jealously guard the cache container from the inquisitive wekas nearby. All good here. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Did with The Wandering Dragons today shortly after getting off the boat. A brisk wind made this the coldest spot on the entire Queen Charlotte Track. Happy to be moving after this. Thanks!

After miss-reading the clue and leading everyone with me on a bit of a hunt.
Eventually after ignoring my story about how the Mississippi runs uphill my buddies had success... then watched someone else go even further off track than I was LOL

After being put in the wrong track by the others I'm out with, it felt like a lost cause. A wee bit later and some food had me hunting again and this time with success.

Tftc took a while to find this one!
Took a group of girl guides from wellington out.

We're spending a few days in the Sounds to continue our summer holidays. We had three magic days with no cloud and no wind. Even our hosts said they don't remember such good weather here!

On our first afternoon we walked from Ship Cove to Resolution Bay. We found this before we got underway. Nice and straight forward find thanks to the hint. TFTC.

Day one of our walk along the QCT. Off the boat, waived goodbye to our bags...see you at Miners Camp.

A quick snack and drink before we set off. With some helpful guidance from one quarter of the Sullisauruses I found the correct side of the GZ.

All good and off we go.

Thanks
#3147

Grabbed by my seven year old son. Top spot. Special place. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 2402

Walking the QC track. Definitely worth stopping in this area to take in its history.
TFTC

After fishing out this way yesterday we decided to chevk this place out today. Cool place. Tftc. Nabbed a geocoin.

We are doing a family trip around the south island. This was our first stop and the start of few days on this track. TFTC

After I knocked off the north island and 1700 km down we crossed te straight and head for the start of the south island leg of the Te Araroa and it feels great to be walking on the south island again.
My first trip this far north on the south island and to see the sounds in all there spender on a perfect day.
Today we make a start on the Queen Charlotte track and looking forward to it .
No wind and a clear skies.


Finally I am back on the main land , feels good to back in the south island.
Living life one foot steep at a time as i walk from cape reinga to bluff and caching my way home as I walk the
Te Araroa and discover the hidden treasures new Zealand has to offer.
From the beachs of the north to the forest and lakes and the odd bump of the south
Blùff here i come
Thanks for the hide

tftc

Great spot! On a Beachcomber Trip...TFTC.

When the CO heard I was heading out this way for a friends 50th celebration he provided a new replacement container/RIR log.... Now replaced according to hint.
Happy hunting in this cool part of the country!!

One of the best locations I ever visited. Thanks for this great cache! Unfortunately, the log book is super wet. Did not have spare cache or log with me. Maybe one of the next loggers could replace? TFTC!!!

Thanks to 'luckyfour' who have replaced the cache with a temporary log, I am able to enable this cache again. I will endeavour (pun intended) to get to GZ with a permanent replacement before the end of March 2020.

When I was hiking the track I was looking for this cache. I saw, that the box in not there anymore. I left a paper as logbook wrapped in plastic, that it doesn't get wet and informed the owner. I hope this is okay!
luckyfour from Switzerland

Looks like this one has gone missing again. Never mind, it give me an excuse to take the jetski for a blat. It might be a while as I will probably not get out there until my Christmas break.

Ricardinhonz and I both had a look for this one and we are pretty sure it is not there.

Found accidentally by the girl geocache hunter of the family whilst there on a Scouts walk. We had thought it not possible in a group to be stealthy but managed it just fine . Tftc

Can't understand how you would 'accidentally' find this cache.

Find number 1452

found two caches.

Clear box last signed 7 April 18
Grey Box last signed Feb19
Signed both

Amazing historical place - loved it! thanks for placing cache.

TFTC

Never thought that I will visit this historical place. Read a lot books about Cpt. Cooks journeys and ship cove.
Today we came with a boat and i found the cache easily.
TFTC and best regards
MTKEus

in: fav Point.

#16864 9:33

During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!

Today we have found the cache "Cook's Quadrant (Nelson/Marlborough)".

Kiwimykl, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

What a wonderfull time. I`'m visiting NZ for 10 weeks and find a lot of beautiful places. Nice views and some pretty caches. With my wife kaari74 we log some of these caches. One of them is this one. Thanks all owners for your job.
great place

Tftc

First cache on Te Araroa trail in South Island! Lets continue journey! Thank you for nice cache here

Good start for the QC-Track ... we searched and found this one at the beginning of our 4 day walk. Really nice place here and a wonderful location for a cache!
Many thanks for hiding and greetings from Germany !
#566

My school was doing its annual activity week and this time I was visiting to the Queen Charlotte Sound and like the absurd geocacher I am, if we stopped near any geocaches I was definitely going to be trying to finding them.

This morning we caught the water taxi to Ship Cove and where my group stopped for a bit to read the signs and explore the area. While they did that I attempted to find this geocache trying to look as unsuspicious as I possible since I had people that knew me walking about. After looking for about ten minutes and making various random excuses to why I was looking around the bridge. I was approached by a friend of mine asking what I was doing and I was just so desperate to find it, I asked them to help me. With both of us on the job, we began searching, I quickly went under the bridge hoping no one else would see me and ask what I was doing. I couldn't find anything but I spotted something on the other side that made me immediately suspicious after checking it out I found that it was hiding the geocache. I got it out and signed it while my friend looked on at me weirdly. TFTC, I have always wanted to find geocaches while travelling so this made my day!!

Found after a slippery walk from Resolution Bay. Beautiful cove to have lunch. Thanks for inspiring us to walk here!

Cache check carried out after a recent replacement. ricardinho.nz certainly did a great job building the rock wall to protect the cache. Future finders please replace as found, there is abundant evidence that this cache can be submerged from time to time.

Logged with permission of CO.
Arrived here and despite an exhaustive search we could not find this cache. Subsequent correspondence with the CO indicated we were in the right spot, but just no luck. Decision time, and I thought since it's a long way out here to not find a cache, I would plant a replacement.
This was done just after I placed one up at the nearby waterfall. On return from that we found the the boat was beached by at least another boat length, so suffered the indignity of rocking it along the sand back to the water, all in the presence of a launch full of tourists, a descending helicopter, and a couple of jet-skiers (who took pity and helped the last couple of metres). It's always busy when you look like an idiot.. And in the haste of all this I forgot to sign the new log. Oh well....TFTC KM.

Our day went something like this. Jo and I arrived at Picton at 0800 hours for a rendezvous with mates Andy and Russell. The plan was a trip to Blumine Island for a bit of photography and caching interspersed around a barbeque lunch on the beach.
All went to plan early on. The water was like glass and the wind absent - something that continued right through the day - and we made good time. On arrival we ran a line to shore while Andy and I headed out to drop the anchor, necessary as the tide was going out. Things went a bit pear-shaped here. The anchor dropped and the line immediately disintegrated. Fortunately enough of the rope was floating on the surface that we could retrieve the anchor, but as we tension tested the rope on shore, and it split regularly, we could see we had a problem. So a quick discussion, and plan B was implemented. Motuara Island then, for the bird life. Then Ship Cove for lunch, and a few bays on the way home along along the northern coast for a few caches and a walk. All up a great day. No further issues, good company and chat and plans hatched for future trips, TFTC to all COs.

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---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
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Today we went with the boat from Picton to Ship Cove. Made the geocache there, and then walked along Queen Charlotte Track to Endevour Inlet for another cache. Back to Furneaux Lodge for the boat back to Picton. Tftcp

Nice quick find in a very cool spot. Such history here! Dropped a TB

What a great place for a cache, the start of an awesome walk and a place in history. We were only doing a little bit of the walk and were delighted to find a cache in this fantastic cove. A fav for taking the trouble to put on in this location. TFTC

Very Nice place in our tour in New Zealand

Came to Picton (from South Australia) on a mission to walk some of the Queen Charlotte Track.

Managed to pick a break in the weather and walked from Ship Cove to Ferneaux Lodge. Quite a nice hike.

Whilst at the cove, I found the cache and read up on JC's exploits.

Thanks for the cache, Kiwimykl

Our first find when starting the QC Track - cache back in place! TFTC

Replacement cache now in place after recent flood. We tried to put this in a place less vulnerable to the next flood but in keeping with the hint and at same GZ. Replacement done in liaison with CO. Nice little TB placed in cache.

I think it's AWOL... lots of flood debris under the bridge; I came by kayak and was alone (for 15 minutes before two boatloads full of people arrived!) so had a good search under the bridge.

We planed our trip to New Zealand for a long time and had four weeks for both islands. We enjoyed every minute of this journey and had great adventures. Of course we also found some caches on the way. For some more details please read the log of LSOEVE.
Thank you for all the caches and greetings from Austria
Wiesy

We spent 3 weeks in NZL for our holiday and visited both islands. I can't tell which spot was the most beautiful. The hole country was amazing and we had a really great time. Of course we had some time to look for some caches. After a boat tour through the sound we had some time to search this box and found it after quite a while. TFTC

A spontaneous stop and shipcove. Sadly was a DNF, we were unable to see anything under the beams but there has been a lot of rain and evident the creek has been high. Fingers crossed we just had a poor look and it hasn't been washed away. Will be back in summer for another look

Beautiful spot. Very soggy. Needs a new log I'll bring one out if I'm back in a month or so.

Day 1 of our girls tramp, beautiful day to be out. TFTC

Day 1 of biking the Queen Charlotte Track. A beautiful day at Ship Cove and a very quick find of the cache after thinking about the hint. Tftc Edited log to correct date.

Day one of walking the Queen Charlotte track - what a fun time. A busy place but great to see so many people out enjoying nature. Thanks to MuzzaL53 for a working GPS so I was able to complete. A fav coz it's such a neat place.
TFTC.

Walking the Queen Charlotte. TFTC

Lovely spot. Yes need to think rights vs lefts TFTC.

The cache was good to find for me. I came here with beachcombers to start a day long walk to funeaux logde. Was a good Start with the cache. Tftc

From Melbourne and doing a tiki tour of the South Island after visiting family in Nelson. Grabbing a few caches on our travels.
Cache wasn't in correct spot. Relocated it as per the hint.
TFTC.

Nice to see this important place for NZ. I came from camp bay and return. I´´m proud

Found it lying on the ground but close to where I expected it to be, once I worked on my left and rights! Left it where I expected it would have been. Thanks kiwimykl

Tftc great location. CRUSADER Hugh left his shield.

My first T5!

Yes, a boat is a convenient way to get here... but it is by no means required. I walked the Queen Charlotte Track from south to north, starting in Anakiwa and finishing here. I reached Ship Cove with an hour to spare, giving me time to visit this cache and the nearby waterfall before catching a water taxi back south.

There is water in the container. The log is dry for now, but the zip-lock bag and it is only a matter of time until moisture creeps in. Unfortunately, I had neither a spare zip-lock bag nor anything to dry the container with on me .

TFTC

Great trip out with beachcomber ferry . What better way to start the walk than a nice quick grab while everyone else is reading the signs. Tftc

Doing a day walk from Endeavour Inlet. A quick find. Now for the return walk.

Found this one with Gine on our stop over to our lodge at 10.45u. It is on it place in good condition.

TFTC

Found easy with Boris.

TFTC

Back for a second bite of the cherry after missing out last year. But wait, what? Still no luck today. Must be completely blind or else someone stole the 'cooky' from the 'cooky' jar.

Having fun riding the QCW

Walking the track!
Thanks for the T5!