Left Lost For Words (West Coast) Charleston, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 20-Feb-13. Waypoint GC46B71

Tftc done on a wet day still beautiful

An easy find in a picturesque spot, thank you

Beautiful place. TFTC

Nice quick find on Buller Gorge. Tftc

The log was full so put in a replacement write in the rain log. TFTC

Great view. Quick find.

What a lovely spot. Didnt take long to find. Found on our way back to Nelson. Tftc

Cool easy find TFTC

TFTC

Found this one easily and retrieved one TB.

Day 8 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today our tour is going from Punakaiki to Nelson. We also visited this tradi, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to bumandworker for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Beautiful spot.TFTC

Had a short stop here on the way from the Westcoast to Picton. Walked a little bit around, enjoyed the view and found these cache.
Thanks for hidding.

Easy find tftc

Short stop here on our way south. Nice view on the river.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

On the way to Motueka. Cache full of water. I made it dry samehow. Out: TB, TFTC

Nice wee drive by thanks for the cache

Nice easy cash, beautiful view

On a trip with Ruru_NZ to gather the tour caches needed or in my case not done yet. Should be able to knock them off on this trip.

Well that hat more can I say

Day 8 - Labour weekend extended road trip with Kiwicampnut - relocated to stay south of the ditch.
A fine day, so a great view at the start of the gorge. A muggle taking pics but she appeared to take no notice of us.
Thanks for the cache bumandworker
# 3028 22 October 2021 2:11 pm

Absolutely no one around, one ute passed as I was getting back to the car. TFTC!!

Day 13 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Drove from stopover at Mokihinui Beach via Westport to Murchison today, picking up a few caches along the way. First real wet day, especially in the afternoon.

This was one of just three caches we located between Westport and Murchison as the rain started to set in in the afternoon. A quick find. #4158. TFTC.

Short stop to admire the view and the sign.

Old Ghost Road done...boots off...change of clothes...time to head home picking off some Park and Grabs on the way.

It seems *this* sign was never replaced...the DoC one a few metres up won the day.

It's still a nice rock to hide a cache under though.

Thanks
#3417

Heading down the Buller to the West Coast today. I enjoyed the drive, the scenery, and the stops along the way. TFTC

Eaten alive with buggies,, cache found easy enough tho. Tftc

Full log to come

I am being taxi Mum for my son and daughter in law for the Heaphy Track and finding a few geocaches. I am driving from Westport to Motueka today. Thanks bumandworker for creating this hide. It was find 9572 for me.

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Only two options here, GPS solidly pointed to one and it was a quick find. RG took snaps of the river. TFTC B&W.

Located with Ricardinho
Refer to his log
TFTC

Was a drive by on way to greymouth. Tftc

*Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!*
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on the many wet or plastic logs)
Weather was quite bad again with lots of rain

*We soon had another good cache located!*

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

When I travelled from Murchison to Westport this morning I noticed all these caches on the side of the road but the parking areas were too small for the cachemobile and the snail shell so I just had to come back just about as far as Inangahua.

Cheers for the cache.

Found on this cold windy day
Thank you for the cache

TFTC lovely spot great views

Today I started my way in Berlins, went west to the West Coast, south till Greymouth and North again till Reefton. On my way I found a lot of caches, most in good conditions. TFTC

**Found on our February - March tour around the South Island. Logging back home in Auckland in Lockdown isolation**

Yesterday we drove up the coast from Greymouth to Westport, and today we are travelling back via the inland route.
Parked up and soon found the cache, and we were just opening it as another car arrived. "You geocaching?" he asked us. Clearly we weren't being as stealthy as we thought! TFTC

On our way north we made a short stop here to stretch our legs and a small snack. I took the opporunity to quickly grab the cache. TFTC!

It's difficult to drive straight, without stopping every here and there.

A short stop and grab on the way to Reefton. Cheers

Another quick find along that road. TFTC

A few stops along the way, not too many dramas.

Had a great drive around the block today Greymouth, Reefton, Westport plus a few side roads, a bit of rain, many thanks to all the cache placer's. Thanks Bitsprayer

On a west coast road trip with the kids and niece hkbrom94 (over from England ) showing her the best of what nz has to offer .
Day 4 of our trip Westport to hanmer springs .
Nice quick find tftc

Nr.10 today TFTC

Tyftc

TYFC a quik run up the gorge with kerryowl to grab a few smiley faces

Pulled up in the rain, so brought cache to car to sign.
All good here.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Muggle tourists when we arrived but they soon left. Log full so put new one in. Thanks for the cache bumandworker

What an awesome spot...log full..KL replaced thanks BW

Quick find. Thanks!

Thanks!

Auf unserem langen Weg vom Fox Glacier zum Abel Tasman Nationalpark haben wir (daisygirl71 und ich) einen kurzen Stopp bei diesem Cache eingelegt und konnten ihn schnell finden.

Danke an den Owner für die Bereicherung der langen Fahrt.

During our long way from the Fox Glacier to the Abel Tasman National Park Riedenberger and I stopped here.

We found the cache very quickly because of the good coordinates and there are not plenty of possibilities.

Thanks a lot for this break of our long drive with the car.

On our way home from a short break in Westport. Just got time for a couple of park and grabs. This cache was a quick find. TFTC.

TFTC enjoyed a quick grab, dashed from our camper van in the rain
Beautiful scenery

TYFTC

Tftc, at our lunchplace today, nice weather

12:33 , Kia ora Aotearoa .
Urlaub und cachen unter der langen weißen Wolke .
Das intensive Grün der Farne , Wälder und Wiesen , das klare Blau des Himmels und das freundliche Türkis des Meeres .
Die Delfine , Seehunde und Pinguine die wir in ihrem natürlichen oder geschützten Lebensraum beobachten konnten .
Die unendlichen vielen verschiedenen Strand- und Küstenformationen .
Die kleinen Kunstwerke vor den Privathäusern , in den Gärten , Cafes , Parks oder an den Straßen .
Das Alles macht Neuseeland so einzigartig und hat uns entspannt und freudestrahlend über die Insel getragen .
Gefreut haben wir uns auch über diesen Cache am Wegesrand .
Kleiner Stop für eine Fotopause und einer Suche nach dem Cache .
Vielen Dank für das Abenteuer vor Ort .
Gruß sulu .

Sorry for the late log entry, but the memory is still there .

22199 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we went from Greymouth to Nelson, via Punkaiki and we had all day, so we made many stops. Allong the road we found many caches, but we also visited the Pancaces and Windholes. The caches brought us to many special remarkable places.

Most caches were found quite quickly. A few took more time. Muggles did not watch what we were doing.

bumandworker TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

TFTC. Took a few selfies with river as background

Quick find. TFTC

Easy find tftc

Another stunning day . Easy find. Sandflies.

Quick stop and the sun came out!

A quick easy find. The replacement words seem to be lasting ok. TFTC

Found during our New Zealand Holidys driving along the West Coast

Found with my hubby Stretch0 on a short trip way to the West Coast - grabbing some roadside caches on the way - thanks for the cache

Cruising along the river grabbing the caches as we can TFTC

Found with VikingNav today while exploring the area during our drive from Westport to Nelson. The wall speaks again. There is a new sign on the rock wall. Thanks for the fun cache! >^..^

Taking a leisurely drive to Nelson, while finding a few caches along the way. Enjoyed the drive, the sights and the caches. TFTC

A nice spot.

Found driving from Westport to Murchison.

Back in NZ after a break of four years and grabbing a few caches along the way.

T4tC bumandworker

Civv'nr & MissTreadlightly (UK)

#5282. The family are on holiday in the South Island. After driving up from Lake Brunner yesterday we spent the night in Westport. Today we head to Nelson. But first we are planning to visit Cape Foulwind, Tauranga Bay and the Seal Colony. Of course I have a list of geocaches to tick off before we arrive in Nelson. Heading off now towards Nelson. This was on the main highway and at a lovely spot to view the Buller River. A nice quick park and grab once the GPS turned me in the right direction. Signed and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here b&w.

It's good to arrive at a view point with an actual view, and a pretty nice one at that! Too often the view is obscured by bushes and gorse, but this one could leave you lost for words. The bonus is a cache here too. tftc

Found it on our way to nelson
Tftc

Also lured here on our New Zealand trip. Thank you for showing me

On my way to Christchurch and grabbing as many as I can. I have a few that are on my "must get" list, generally due to their age.

What a view! Thanks for enriching this place with a cache. First I found an bottle opener, but the container was not far away.
Best wishes from Germany.

CZECH
zastávka cestou k Nelson Lakes

Walksabit and I are continuing our tour of the South Island by travelling north along the west coast. Today we are going from Punakaiki rocks to Tapawera and grabbing photo ops and caches along the way. I'm so glad we stopped for this cache as the view was great. Thanks for the hide.
Greetings from Ottawa, Canada

Found on our way back to Mot. TFTC.

Quick find.

Found with NZDi. We had been intending to do a trip to the Coast after a workmate and fellow geocacher came back from a Christmas camping holiday and dropped a map of walks around Westport on my desk. On comparing the walk and geocaching maps, it was apparent to see there was plenty of scope for a geocaching holiday or three to the coast. The only thing we needed to ensure was that the weather played the game, unlike when my workmate had her Christmas break there. Knowing that we had the weekend free this weekend I kept an eye on the forecast for the coast and it was looking pretty good, so a motel was booked and a rudimentary and flexible geocaching plan was hatched.

The idea was to head to the Coast early on Friday morning picking up no more than half a dozen caches along the way. We limited ourselves to this as we know from previous experience that it can take over six hours to do an hour and a quarter trip if you are geocaching as well.. Once we got to the coast, we were going to do the Cape Foulwind walk, then cache as much as we could from there back to town. We then intended to do as much of the K.R.T caches before retiring for the night and in the morning do the Charming Creek Walk before heading back home again picking up the odd cache along the way. In the end it was mission achieved with 71 finds over two days and only one DNF along the way.

We came across from Blenheim yesterday getting a few caches along the way. On arrival on the Coast we first headed out to the Cape Foulwind walking track and did that both ways. Then we found most of the other caches on the west side of the river. After that we headed over to the east side of river and did the K.R.T series and accompanying caches. Today's mission is to do the Charming Creek Walkway, then head home.

The 20 caches that we did on the Charming Creek walkway took us around five hours to do on foot and was an amazing walk, but no it is time to head home so I've made a selection of caches that I think are on the right (left) side of the road and which have reasonable parking to get on the way home. I've also given myself a two minute limit to find the cache, if I haven't found it by then, it is on to the next.

This was the first of nine found on the trip back home and like the other ten was a QEF PnG.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

out with Red Roaming as we tour the world but spending the most time in New Zealand.Logs signed DD & RR or with our full caching names. having spent a lovely night in Westport backpackers we are on our way to another backpackers near Hope. The weather is much better today although we might get the odd shower.
apologies for the cut and paste logs. Cache soon found. TFTC

Cache soon found having left our excellent backpackers Hostel this morning and at the start of another day of driving and caching to our next hostel. Apologies for the cut-and paste logs but Internet poor at time of logging. Many thanks

Favourite point - for the cache name which most of my friends would agree doesn't describe me, though actually doesn't describe here now!

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

A straight forward drive-by, neatly hidden. Too bad about the plaque though. Enjoying our drive through the scenic Buller Gorge on a sunny, warm day. Thanks b&w.

Couldn't get much closer. Soon found an returned. Greetings from the UK. TFTC #7179

Des isch Easy xi drum bin i do xi. Bin auf Tour mit meiner Liebesmuggelin zum 60ger in NZ um nebenbei diese tollen Dosen zu erhaschen. Geocaching isch so Gsund do wirsch nümma rund! TFTC ! Danke fürs legen und pflegen dieser genialen Dosen..

We love this nature. what a great river!thank you for stopping here. It makes us bressless.

During our round trip of the South Island, we found this nice little cache on our way north. Thanks for leading us here!

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.

On the way to westport nice quick find TFTC

Good quick find on the way home.
TFTF

Another quick find. Mother getting slightly bored with the stopping so one more stop and that will be it for the day T4 another good cache B&W.

Great place for a stop. Nice new sign in place close by. Out trackable.

Easy find during a break in the rain. Cleaned cache and dried inside container and all items. Replaced plastic bag and absorbent sachet for you. Signed log and left a fabulous trackable as it wants to visit conservation areas. Grab and move this one. You'll love it. Brought it back from Canada. Tftc

We saw where it had to be as we pulled in so the GPS was left in the car. Added a few words to the log. Another enjoyable cache title from the CO. Limiting caches to park n grabs as it was rather wet today. Hey maybe the words washed away.
Thanks.

Went on a big adventure with Wafflekitties and geo pups, had a blast thanks for the memories! TFTC.