Just Mulling Around (West Coast) Arnold Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By Ariestiger on 21-Dec-14. Waypoint GC5J6V0

Tftc

thank you. Whits End

#22968. Another quick P+G on our way up the Grey valley. TFTC.

I'm sure we have driven past this cache several times in the nearly 9 years it has been in existence. Not sure why we haven't stopped before, maybe traffic has been a problem?
Anyway, good to stop and sign the log book today. The container was a bit cobwebby but luckily no spiders were spotted.
As we drove away, I saw the reasoning behind the cache name . TFTC.

Quick find. TFTC

Spider den be careful

Quickly found. A familiar hide

Lack of ( safe )parking at this one has meant I have driven passed a few times over the last couple of months..but today i made the effort to stop putting on my hi viz before crossing the road to make a quick find...glad to finally get this one ticked off...tftc

Found with Campmotherandken TFTC

Quick easy find with Juju54 - TFTC

Wondered what this one would relate to. Tftc

22 October 2021 17:21. Number 10240. My turn to go and find it. Fortunately not too tricky as my brain was fried! Tftc.

#10,073. Day 3 of the extended Labour Weekend road trip. Had expected to be in Auckland for the Mega Event but after it got postponed due to COVID, Infoferret and I decided a second road trip to the South Island would be a good plan C. [Plan B had been doing the geotour caches in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty but COVID put paid to that idea as well]. Well the geocaching gods must have decided we had suffered enough and delivered a week of excellent warm sunny weather for the trip south with just a couple of short patches of light rain thrown in to remind us it was still spring.

Heading back to Greymouth after our big walk in the hills earlier today. Poor IF was braindead by this stage of the day and I kept forcing park and grab caches onto her. She needed some fresh air so I encouraged her to go for a walk to GZ. The autopilot kicked in and soon she had cache in hand. Signed the logbook and replaced where found. Thanks Ariestiger for the cache.

Found it easy to find

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Quick find. Thanks for the cache

I had planned to do this yesterday, but it was on the other side of the road. Today I was heading in the right direction. TFTC

Thanks Ariestiger for placing this cache

It was a busy road but I sneaked across between trucks and soon had it signed and snug back in place.

Starting to rain so any park and grab is gratefully grabbed. TFTC

A quick and easy find while heading towards Greymouth this afternoon. Signed log, TFTC.

Another nice quick find today thank you for placing a cache here

Tyfc

Nice and easy. TYFTC

Quick park n grab. Thank you

Big spider guarding this one!

An epic day trip with K C N; we decided to do the round trip so are heading back to Chch via the Lewis (eventually).
I had a few target caches on my phone and K C N has the whole S Island on her Montana (wow!) - which was great for these extras.
Thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, Ariestiger.

Kotuku-SI was my driver today so I guess it was only right that I did the search and find - wasn't mulling it around at all. Even ambled to the gz as not much traffic about today. Suppose it was too hot and sunny for everyone.

Found thank you

Second day of caching on the west Coast an in Canterbury, and what a great day it was, around 100 cahes I think, Many thanks to all the cache placers. -Bitsprayer

Another quick find on the way east.

Found at 14:43 - #8204 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Out on both sides of the river today doing abit of a maintenance run. We stopped to do a random check on this while passing. Happy to report everything is nice and dry here. Happy Caching

A good spot for a cache, nice day today

TFTC

Last day of caching in this area before continuing our road trip through New Zealand. tftc!

Thanks!

Nice easy find as I get closer to my destination, Greymouth. Replaced as found, T F T C Ariestiger

Easter weekend 2018 is here and I have a cunning plan. Well, a caching plan, but what's the difference? With mrs and daughter working over the weekend and me with a few days off work there was a chance to convert some of my solved puzzles over on the West Coast into smiley faces. And add to my West Coast caching total. And do the Point Elizabeth walk, and several other appealing strolls. And some other stuff and all the way along gaining extra points for the planetary Challenge thingy to gain some electronic 2D Geo-souvenirs. And so, setting off around 0730 on Easter Sunday with the trusty mountain bike aboard (for the Greymouth beach-side track) I clocked up just under 1000 kms by road, a few extra on 2 wheels and several more on 2 feet, quite the trip. The threatened rain only arrived on the second afternoon in Hokitika (by which time I'd done my walks for the day) and the drive back from Greymouth via Westport was in blazing Autumn sunshine - Beautiful. Fantastic scenery all around and a large number of caches from b&w and gracie7&mum helped the total to just over 180 finds.
An awesome few days which my family wouldn't have enjoyed, but conversely actually would have, for the most part. An FTF in Reefton on the way through on Day 1 was another bonus, and monkey off the back for the monthly streak. A few DNFs which is to be expected with that many looked for, but a lot of good sights and experiences too. Thanks to all the COs for their placements.

Found it. Tftc.

Speedy find on a dodgy corner! Tftc

Nice easy find tftc Ariestiger

#7220

Hitting the road and heading for home in Nelson - finding a few caches along the way. No problems here. Cache found in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

Day 3 Greymouth - Hokitiki
Day 3 Greymouth -Hokitika
After completing the card series, we made our way following a caching trail into town.
I wanted to do the Flintstones since I had done all the puzzles before leaving Australia.
We found Greymouth a great town to drivw around, a good selection of hides & containers found.
Thanks for placing this cache Ariestiger

Thanks for placing this cache Ariestiger

The Seagnoid, Zara Toby and I are off for an expedition to the West Coast for a long weekend. Camped out at Reefton Friday night, with an early start Saturday.
No time to mull around here so its a quick snag and tag. Lots to do and places to visit today so we are on the road again. Cheers

Taybeedragon and decided to have a three day holiday on the West Coast. There are some awesome walks there! Left on Friday night and made it as far as Reefton. This morning we left early, busy day today!
Quick easy find, and the dragon replaced the log back which was in a sad state. And then we took off! No mulling around, lots to do today (well, only one thing actually, but it's going to take all day. Can you guess what it is?)

nice easy find, altho had to reach in quite far.....rather spierwebby. We didnt leave it as deep in

Nice easy find. TFTC.

Quickly found in a popular spot.TFTH

A quick find. TFTC

It was a quick stop today as the road was very busy.
Thanks
erninz

Day 2 of getting from Nelson to Oamaru (via Picton) collecting a few caches along the way. TFTC

On our way from Tasman Bay to Arthurs pass we stopped for this one. Quick and easy! Thanks from Sweden!

A nice quick find.tftc

Tftc
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An easy find. TFTC

A quick find while out for a couple of days caching with The Bum.
Thanks Ariestiger for the cache.

#10066

We were mulling over whether we had time for just one more cache on our trip south today. We did.
Thanks.

It was nearly dark and I said to gk that I just wanted the one cache so we parked the campervan down the road a bit and as we were walking back to the campervan a man stopped to check if we were ok. Love the friendly coast not many places left where that would happen. Especially not to campervaners tftc

A quick park 'n' grab on my way out of Greymouth today, great weather for finding today!

TFTC

First cache of the day. We missed this one on the way south due to car on the tail syndrome but the road was thankfully quieter this morning. No mulling around for us here, in fact a very efficient find. TFTC

Caching with Sidewaze. Having fun caching while on a visit to Hokitika and there and back. TFTC

Nice P & G on my way to the East Coast.
TFTC

I was fortunate enough to be able to squeeze an 11 day holiday out of two leave days!! I headed out west to find some caches, see some sights, and relax before the madness of the semester hits. The weather was unbelievably good, only a bit of a storm over Arthur's Pass on the first day, otherwise hot and sunny. I found a great variety of caches, drive by's, walks, hikes, even a power trail. Thank you to all the CO's for their great hides!!!
Today was to be a big day, and it started early, too. I was out on the road with the break of dawn, aiming to get a few, and a couple more The main plan was to attack the cards, but I managed to get in a good variety today! TFTC!!

Easy find.
Zftc

A quick grab, time to head back down the road to Barrytown. Cheers

A quick park and grab, cheers.

Found on a raid to the Coast with Kiwi Moose. Signed the log KM+KR or KR+KM to save log space.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides.

Found on way south to go over Arthurs Pass

TFTC

Easy fine on our way bk to camp

Another quick one had to watch the cars going by.

Finally found it. I can't believe I missed it.

Saw a DNF on this one so we checked this after our very close FTF tonight. Still there waiting to be found.

I live right by this one and I looked all over the place and couldn't find it.

Please just one more hint.

Another great find touring around the South Island while making my way to the Mega. Thanks for adding to the enjoyment of this trip.

SL TFTC

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

Sorry for the late log.

TFTC Ariestiger

It's the final day of NZDi's and my Blenheim - Christchurch - Greymouth - Blenheim triangular caching trip. The plan for the day was to pick up souvenir pack of cards from the coast, by the Wet Coast weather is living up to its name and if it keeps up like this I think we will be heading straight home. The weather report for the Nelson region looks a bit better with no rain, so I have loaded some caches along that route into my mobile just incase we decide to go that way home. Our logs were annotated Kiwimykl and NZDi, KM & ND or variations there of.

A QEF PnG on the road-trip between Greymouth and Blenheim.

TFTC Ariestiger

nice easy find on our way to the Coast
good one
thank you for the cache

Drove over from Christchurch yesterday, staying in Greymouth for a couple of nights. Today I got up to Ikamatua along the state highway, then the return trip via the back roads on the other side of the river, caching all the way. After finding most of the BtG series yesterday I was well prepared for this cache! TFTC (2128)

Easy PnG on our way to Greymouth for an extended caching weekend.

Quick and easy. Thanks for the cache!

Found it. Logged in book as Chris / Stu (CBZ)

Out on an Easter Cache hunt where it was all about the numbers.
Day 1. Just finished the Playing Cards and heading into Greymouth.
Fairly quiet here today to make a quick park and grab.
TFTC

Quite hard to look casual and just mulling around with all the traffic - especially the many trucks roaring past. TFTC #6635

On an epic caching mission with Shannonp1 through Reefton to Greymouth over the Lewis Pass, cacheing in Greymouth then returning to Rangiora via Arthurs Pass over two days. Final count for the weekend was over 200 caches. A quick easy find on our way past.

On an epic caching mission with Surveybase to North canterbury, Waipara, Culverdon, Springs Junction, Reefton, Greymouth, Arthurs Pass and back to Rangiora over two days. Final count for the weekend was Saturday 124 caches, Sunday 80 caches. not a bad weekends work. sorry for the cut and paste but it would take forever to log them all.

Quick easy find. Mrs TwoSharpe got caught in the rain while finding the cache. The bad weather caught up with us.

Found on our way back to ChCh with Sevren.

Nice easy find on our way back from the Hold'em trail. Seen plenty of these on our way from Chch to greymouth so no problem. Tftc

No problems finding one. Thanks for the brief rest from pushing the bicycle pedals.

Another bridge, another smiley, thanks Ariestiger.

A nice young cache. Thanks

Heading In to greymouth for the days caching with geodoggies Coco and Milo and Nosynel too. Had to stop and grab this one. Cheers.

Left it heading south, easier to park heading north a week or so later. Think our log may be dated a year ago......oops !
Thanks for the cache.

2TF with Hazedarus on an evening drive after a day of over-indulgence. Two new caches published near to where we were (sort of) was just the excuse we needed. Thank you Ariestiger and Merry Xmas to all.

By the time we extracted ourselves from the over indulgence of food and drink the FTF had been claimed. We expected nothing less We still managed seven finds including a FTF on the first day of our annual Xmas pilgrimage to the Coast. Thank you Ariestiger for placing this cache.

[purple] FTF around 1:45pm [/purple] [blue] 2nd day of our 10day streak needed for the MGSc Challenge http://coord.info/GC2J6AY [/blue]
An FTF for Xmas, what an awesome present. We already had a close cache nearby lined up but when these 2 new ones were published this morning we both agreed to head out after lunch. Old cacher Ribsc and my brother 'dubbed' Raymondo from another cacher we met in Auckland came with us for the drive. A nice quick PnG and we will leave the other one for another day. Thanks for the awesome Xmas pressie. [purple]Our cache find: #3158[/purple]

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