Greta Canyon (Marlborough) Greta Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 28-Feb-13. Waypoint GC46TWD

A quick stop on our way north.TFTC!

We are travelling to Kaikoura for the night. We're meant to be 4x4 into Clarence but canceled. Accommodation paid for and no refund so decided to cache on way here. Normally in motorhome so nice to stop and get some smiles. Thanks for the cache bumandworker.

A nice quick find here. TFTC.

Found at 3rd spot.Just able to read the old sign above

Thx

GPS being a pain but managed to find it with the hint. TFTC

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

My husband and I are on holidays from Brisbane Australia and today we travelled from Christchurch to kaikaro and found a few smiley's along the way. Thanks for placing this cache here for us to enjoy

A nice quick find here. Tftc

Quick find. Loving the drive along here.

On our way to Kaikoura. TFTC

Nice quick find here today. TFTC

The last leg of our journey on our 2nd tiki tour in NZ heading from Kaikora down to ChCh grabbing a few caches as we went.We stopped off and once parked the cache was quickly found TFTC Tim and Viv - ddm

Found with Nutty Nora. TFTC

Found with Piwaka54 on our way north from a wonderful holiday in the Upper South.

Quick and easy find.

**18,505**
We seem to be dragging this rain around with us as we cache, fortunately this one was a nice quick find so didn't get too wet. TFTC

Found this cache on a great holiday in NZ with *Filser1*.

T4TC

TEMBO! and I visited "Greta Land" today. On our way to Picton we cam along and found some caches.

Thanks to bumandworker for hiding and maintaining the cache.

T4TC Filser1

Tftc and greetings from Czechia.

Hallo, auf einem Road-Trip über die Südinsel Neuseelands auch diesen Cache gut gefunden.
TFTC die Krümelmonsters

On my way north a fast found.
Thanks.

The nearby sign has certainly seen better days! Thanks for the ample off-road parking nearby and TFTC

Quick find TFTC

A quick png with plenty of parking. Cache is fine. Thanks for the placement.

Day 12 of my Spring Holiday and next leg of the journey on my final holiday day is from Kaikoura to Christchurch and what a Stunner of a day it is!
Nice quick find here TFTC

Quick easy find while you our way to Kaikoura - TFTC

Out with Busy paws today. Found with no problem. TFTC!

Gps couldn't decide which post, but an easy find nonetheless.
Thanks for setting this up for us to find

Nice stop, at a place I didn't know existed, TFTC!

Quick road trip after flying south to pick up the new caching mobile. Thanks for a drive by.

Found this quickly, cache all good tftc

Planned West Coast trip put on hold due to atrocious weather. So an alternative route was needed to avoid the rain. Not so! The rest of the south island copped it too..though on a lesser degree. So mainly driving north with the odd random cache finds. Seeing plenty of country less travelled a bonus.

Nice quick find. Tftc.

Nice grab an go.

A nice easy find on my way south. Busy roads this time of year.TFTCP.S Sorry for very late logging.

Quick find tftc

Found with angelic-kiwi - tftc

Handy leg stretch. Thanks.

Found quick and easy thanks Ryder

Off on a road trip to Chch for the weekend. With limited time and raining on and off. We still managed to get in a bit of caching along the way. Down the East cost and back up the West cost was the plan but stormy weather put a stop to that. With no roads open to get home on we stopped in Kaikoura for an unplanned extra night. So thank you for for the caches you placed out there for us to find we had fun and frustration finding them along the way. Looking forward to the next trip to find the ones we missed. Apologies for the cut and paste.

A quick stop to grab this cache, have replaced the log with a new waterproof log, tftc bumandworker

Shot past the Motenau turn off just to get the cache. TFTC

Readily located. Time for a new log. TFTC

Back out on the main road now.

Quick grab

Heading up to Motunau for the Event & "expedition" - I decided to detour and find a cache or 2 along the way.
Thanks for this cache, b&w. I love the "canyon views" along here.

A quick find on the way home from this afternoon's event.

Day 10 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

Having slept parked up in Kaikoura overnight, I awoke to a very fresh but otherwise beautiful morning. Today's plan was to drive from Kaikoura back to Christchurch to catch up with an old friend there before heading further south after that.

Whilst I would simply not be able to stop at every cache I was near on my tour (otherwise I'd be taking 2 years instead of just 2 weeks) I was happy to randomly stop at caches in locations that caught my eye occasionally to break up the journey, such as this one. That way I hoped to be able to add a few more Minutes to my quest to fulfil a Challenge Cache back home.

Once I had parked up and walked towards GZ, I had the place to myself to be able to search uninterrupted, and it wasn't long before I had located the cache. The log entries are all over the place, with virtually no room anywhere to sign in any kind of sequence. I found a small space under ROSMAR's log from 2014.No issues with this cache, which was signed and replaced as found.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Today I am travelling from Kaikoura to Christchurch. Finding a few caches along the way. The weather has packed it in and was cold, wet and drizzling most of the way so I tried to go for caches that looked like they would be fairly easy to find. Parked across the road and made my way carefully to the cache. A bit muddy here today but no problems with the find. TFTC, Biggles.

Found with Orth21

Found with orth71. Nice sign post.
TFTC

Quick find SL TFTC

Completed n my last NZ trip

Lucky for us a quick search at the GZ to locate this hide as it was rather chilly. TFTC

We stopped here on our roadtrip through new zealand
Thanks for the cache

Quick find. TFTC!!
Find 406

We left Feilding n.z nearly two weeks ago and went from picton to reefton over Arthur's pass which we really enjoyed then Christchurch for a couple of days to get a trail done and of course some other caches along the way so far we have managed to get over 300 caches a great effort we thought we would try and average 20 a day.
Now we are getting this cache a nice area to discover a cache stamped the log and placed it back where we found it thank you for placing a cache here and bringing us to this location. Cache is all good here tftc

Hello from Perth WA

We found this while on our South Island adventure.

TFTC

Heading up to Kaikoura for the weekend and collecting a few caches along the way in between showers. Thanks to all the COs for placing these caches.

In unseren Flitterwochen in Neuseeland sieht und erlebt man ja wirklich einiges. Die Südinsel war eine wunderbare Erfahrung in Begleitung von unserem Campervan.Der eine oder andere Cache darf auch hier natürlich nicht fehlen. Leider heute am letzten Tag auf der Südinsel angelangt. Mit etwas Melancholie auf die suche gemacht aber immerhin klappte das einwandfrei
Der Cache war da wo er sein sollte, alles bestens.
Danke fürs verstecken!

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache after a few minutes search, thanks.

Tour New Zealand and on our way we cached away..and the sheep run away from Swiss guy !

Found on 24/01/2019.

I was up at the top of the South Island competing in the South Island Orienteering Champs. This gave me some time to grab some caches on the way there and back. It was great fun to explore a new part of the coutntry.

TFTC bumandworker

A quick find on the way home. Thanks.

Found after a short search, logging in field, TFTC.

After spending the night in Christchurch we were heading north after staying in Waimate for the week for personal reasons, it was time for us to leave Christchurch and make our way to Blenheim for the night. As usual I decided that as I was going to be passing a few Geo caches along the way if the chance allowed I would stop and pick up one or two.

After finding GCTBDY - Festival Church (Canterbury), it was time to continue making our way north, as we were heading north I decided to take another small break and this was the next cache that we had on my list to find today, saw this cache when I was making our way South so I knew exactly where I needed to pull over. As we neared GZ, it was time to pull out of the line of traffic and I drove down the farm track that was not too far from the main road and I soon found a safe parking spot that was close to GZ.

The walk over to GZ which was just under 20 metres and it was a very easy walk to GZ, once I got to GZ, I managed to spot the hint object very quickly and then it was just a matter of finding the cache.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and replaced the cache back where I found it. Thanks bumandworker for placing this cache here and for bringing us to this spot TFTC TNLNSL (13885). Just after replacing the cache the farmer from across the road arrived to inspect his crop, but didnt pay any attention as to what I was doing.

Now it is time to continue on our travel North to Blenheim.

Disclaimer: The above log may be based on true or actual events

A quick find on my road trip with Busypaws

Found with NZDi on our way home to Blenheim after an overnight trip to Christchurch. NZDi and I had been in Christchurch looking for furniture and décor items to fill our new house which we shift into next month. Having scored a FTF on the way down to Christchurch yesterday, and only one other while in the big city, we decided to grab a few on the way home. As we wanted to get home at a reasonable time, we picked a dozen or so PnGs close to the State Highway. As expected we didn't find all of them and ended up with a tally of ten for the day.

I was looking for the Canyon as we approached and thought we were in the wrong place until I read the cache page properly. Pulled up at GZ and looked at one hinted item... no luck there. Looked at the second hinted item and discovered the cache in a typical B&W hide. Log was slightly damp but writable. there is only space for about three more logs in the log book.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Shot slightly past this travelling south. Fortunately not much traffic so parked up and walked back. TFTC

Heading South for a break and a bit of Geocaching. Grabbing a few on the way to Christchurch..
Quick find at GZ
Signed log, TFTC bumandworker.

Quick find thanks bumandworker

Quick find for Jo on the trip back to Blenheim today. All good here, plenty of room to move off the road, nice view. TFTC B&W

You guys must be a wealth of knowledge about the history of top of the South Island....you can be in my quiz team ....looks like this has been found in a while but still all good thanks B&W for the cache

Sounded interesting so we stopped here. Couldn't see a canyon except for the sign but.. Thanks for the placement

Great little find

22:42
FITW GreenMenace
Not much vision over the paddocks as it was quite dark outside. But I managed to find the cache without even a light source!

TFTC!
#5751

20 January 2018 14:42. I believe the sign, and the easy parking is much appreciated, TFTC

Auf der Fahrt nach Christchurch haben wir während eines Stopps die Dose gefunden.
TFTC!

Nice red plums here. TFTC.

Quick find on this really hot day. Was hoping for a big cache as got travel bugs to drop but no luck here. Off to Nelson now via Kaikoura. TFTC

Found together with Mel180 on our way to Kaikoura ! Thanks for the Cache !

Found with Dirtyhelmut on the way to Kaikoura. TFTC

Quick and easy. TFTC

TFTC

Kaikoura
What an experience it has been caching in Kaikoura, every way you turned it was either mountain or sea scenery. We learnt so much abour the earthquake you had here last year,
Thanks for placing this cache bumandworker

Found it

A nice wee stop to break up the journey. It's certainly quieter out here now that SH1 isn't as well used. Tftc.

Quick easy find. TFTC.

I have been eyeing up Cheviot for a while. With the end of daylight savings looming I decided that today was the day. Unfortunately I started my day with a dnf. Phew. My first find. Wouldn't you know it as soon as I wanted to slow down there was traffic. There was plenty of room to pull over though.
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Thanks. bumandworker for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4690 for me.

Sadly the end of our holiday was coming closer - only ten days left - and we were heading north again.
Our 5000th cache wasn't far away either, it would be in the South Island, but were exactly?
We would know soon. In the meantime we stopped as often as possible without making too many detours.
Many thanks to all the owners for all the great caches we could find!

A nice quick one. TFTC

Another great find on my holiday.

Thanks to co out on day caching with Creek Rd girls and salvation army on way to kiakora

Nice quick and easy find.
Wonder if man made erosion caused the gorge?
TFTC

Second stop on my cruisey way home from a weekend meeting in Chch. Easy find in the rain, managed to retrieve and replace in between passing traffic. Decided I'd just collect PNGs that I could safely get off the road to get - not in a torrential downpour and without anyone riding my tailpipe in their desperate attempt to get somewhere at 120km/h. Apologies for the late logging of this one (02/10). TFTC

quick and easy drive in. nice sheepherd across the road. took some pics. thanks for the box

TFTC

Quick find. Tftc

I dropped by on my way north this morning. I think it was around 2c when I pulled up. I'm glad it didn't take to long to find it.