Far from home? (West Coast) Greymouth, South Island, New Zealand
By MacPacFamily on 25-Apr-15. Waypoint GC5TB33

29 December 2016 19:26 Oh dear... it looks like this cache has packed up am doing moved on...

Easy find on a trip to Grey for a bit of Xmas shopping. TFTC

Thanks for the Cache. Will drop TB here as i know someone heading overseas. TFTC

Going to Brisbane soon so picked up the travel bug and will take it there.
TFTC we were looking WAY to hard.

Looked for it a while but there were party going in one of the houses nearby. Didn't want to draw too much attention.

This was pretty obvious and simple.

Spent a bit of time early on Sunday morning aware that eyes were watching us. Reread the description and some logs. Ah a cable tie we had noticed that. Must be there. Well I'm not sure it had anything to do with it but we found the container near by. TFTC

After a DNF just over 3 months ago we came back for another look. It still took a bit of searching before Hazedarus found what we were looking for.
Thank you MacPacFamily.

Some unfinished business here with a DNF some time ago. We searched with three pairs of eyes to no avail but a recent find made us decide to have another go. We searched GZ high and low and after rechecking where we looked before the cache showed itself. It should have been an easy find but sometimes it just doesn't happens that way. Thank you MacPacFamily

Could not find.

Found but as previous people wrote capsule isn't attached anymore.

We found a cable tie with a part of something attached but nothing else.

Found a place where a cache could have been. Nothing found

Good start for the day

found it on our journey in New Zealand with Lilli99 and xoxo! / TFTC

Great cache well done

Such a nice idea!
More than 20.000 kilometers away from home.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC

Our very first find!

Lovely wee cache!

A brilliant sunny day for my visit to Greymouth and an enjoyable morning spent looking for caches. A nicely themed hide here.

TFTC

The baggage handlers have been a bit rough with this luggage. Sent away for repairs and gave it some protective wrap to help it survive journeys still to come.

Thank you Samantha from Central Guides and Tiana showing us

Great hiding

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Over in greymouth for the Easter weekend, travelling with injeanious. We stopped in Arthur's pass along the way, although had several dnfs there. So far we have had better luck in greymouth. Cool container for this cache. Thanks for the hide.

On a geocaching Easter holiday on the West Coast with Jess.daphne. After we arrived we decided to grab some caches around Greymouth.

It was dark and we set out with our torchs. Found the cache fairly quickly. Nice to see a different type of container. Tftc.

Cool container.

Geocaching was one of the minor parts in our wonderful and way too short trip to NZ.
We had a brilliant trip through this awesome contry. We were highly impressed by these quick changes in landscape. Thanks a lot to NZs openminded and lovely people, we always had the impression to be welcome.
We hope to be able to come back one day and visit some of the numerous things we couldn't take a look at.
Cheers from Germany guys and thank you soo much

TFTC a quick find along our journey.

On tour in NZ! To safe space and time we logged as cg3 (caching girls 3)!
Tftc and greetings from Austria

Logged as cg3. Thanks for showing.

Loged as cg3 - 3 caching-girlies on NZ-tour, greetings from austria tftc

Far from home ... yes we are. Took a bike ride before dinner to find a few caches around Greymouth. This one soon revealed itself. TFTC!!!

TFTC

Took a while mostly because we were looking in the wrong place.

TTFC

Hidden well. I was looking in the wrong tree most of the time

Enie menie miny mo, to which tree do I go? Cheers

A quick park, stroll, find, sign, replace, stroll and dive off. Thanks.

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.

Nice easy find

T4TC

Nearly 12000 miles travelled, but not just for this cache! Liked the container, thanks for placing

Tftc

Found cool container. Tftc
Another great day in greymouth, managed to not get scorned by the sun.
This is why I love caching we are seeing all these amazing areas that we would never normally get the chance to see.
Thanks for the placement have a lovely new years.

Visit Greymouth on our trip to Queenstown, thank you for that one

How far, 680 km is how far I traveled to day to got this cache. TFTC

Tftc. Had to stop for this cache.

Found just before lunch

On our way home from Nelson Creek though we would do a few. Quick find.

Tftc

On a evening walk through Greymouth we searched for this cache. We had no problems to find it. Thank you for the nice cache!

On our thirteenth day in New Zealand we drove from Franz Josef up to Greymouth in grey sky and rain. That meant then that the shopping stop in Hokitika got extended )
Found one part of the cache immediately and also the other could not hide for long. We tried to fix it back to one but in the end hided it again as found.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

I was wandering around Greymouth today
Collecting caches and exploring the places they took me [^]
Here was a bit of home !! [:o]

The cache was an easy find on me riverside stroll,
but the container reminded me I was far from home
The cache container, used to contain some delicious snacks made by a company based in me home towne of Adelaide, Oz

So here I was far from home,
opening a cache container that came far from home
Pity there were no tasty snacks left inside
I made do with savouring the cache find instead [^]

TFTC

Over the past few years I have really racked up the kms since I took up caching and it's taken me to some awesome places. TFTC

#4170

Our first geocache

I've travelled around 18.000km to get to this one.. far enough for ya? =) (well, ok, for this one and a couple of hundred others.. and a handful of events..).

The cache was a quick find. Fitting with the theme..
I picked up a TB here.

Found at 11:24 AM - #5775

TFTC

This entry was edited by renelm on Sunday, 08 November 2015 at 08:37:21 UTC.

Found before we left on return to Christchurch. A very interesting container. Tftc.

26 October 2015 1212came to Greymouth via the trans alpine train today. An amazing trip astounding scenery. A magnificent sunny warm day here on the west coast. Walked along the beach of the Tasman sea. Along the great cycle walkway on the floodbanks of the mighty Grey river past the junction of the river and the sea AND did Some caches as well. This could be paradise

Found by one member of the Team during a 3 weeks holiday trip to NZ.

TFTC

Found this cache while i had a nice walk along the beach, back to town.

This one was about 18431km away from home

NT - TFTC

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

SL TFTC

In Greymouth for the weekend so time to pick up some caches. Much better weather here than we left behind in chch.

After a few cidars was time to head back to the motel. Had just signed the log of a cache we found last night (but forgot the pen)and happened to be driving past this one and got the boss to stop and let me grab it. Bugger me he beat me to it again.....hmmm i wonder if he is a secret closet cacher. Lol maybe I've converted him from muggle to cacher. Eithr way cute wee container. Cheers for the cache.

Took longer than needed. Nice container, thanks.

Found in the end. GPS was going everywhere. Good hide. TFTC

Tftc!

Found. Tftc

Easy find even in the rain

Nice hide . Over here by train for a brief overnight stay. Thanks

Found with quinella today. The first of a series around here as we catch the train back home this afternoon . Tftc

Nice quick find in a good wee spot. Tftc!

home was a few meters away as log was signed
cheers

arrived at GZ and it wasn't long before the cache was in our hands
good one
thank you for the cache and hide

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

Found on a morning walk while geowife was enjoying a swim in the nearby aquatic centre

TFTC

A plan was hatched during the week for a raid on the West Coast on some of the various caches placed over this way. In scope were the pack of cards power trail (gracie7 = mum), some Greymouth ones in town, a Wherigo, Earthcache, missing D/T combo at Blackball, some pre solved puzzle caches and anything else that took our eye on the way past. Setting off with co pilot the seagnoid (I drive, he directs) we left Blenheim at 0600 (should have left at 0500 because we were driving some of it in daylight, and not caching, a waste of daylight!) All up another epic day; just under a hundred finds, 3 or 4 F T Fs, over 700 kms on the speedo, 15 hours driving and some new scenery seen (should that be saw-ery). We saw Wekas (well I did anyway, t S saw a goat on a goat house and lots of coal, but then what do you expect!) The weather was kind, the sun shone a bit and the temp hit 18 degrees at one point, thanks West Coast,
Thanks to all the C Os whose caches we found today, some logs were signed C T S to save some log book space, others a scrawl and the date 2/5.
A nice container in use here, and a good hide out of sight, 2 T F too
T F T C M P F

[green] An awesome day trip with Capperz. FTFs, earthcache, wherigo, a cache deep in a mine, a F T F on a cache yet to be published and a 52 cache power trail. 98 caches in all, we were caching in the dark and too tired to bother with trying to get to 100 (and I have done 100 in a day before). But it also involved a 3.5 hour drive from Blenheim to Greymouth, and another 3.5 hour drive back. Plus weka and goats (I'm claiming the goat, but alas, can only claim one weka. Capperz trumps me easily with a full house: three weka and a pair of weka). And rats and possums...
F T Fs are done, heading off to the beach for the cycle trail. What a cute container here! Hope it survives - there are quite a few lounge windows looking out on this cache.

[blue]FTF @ 4:08pm[/blue]
[purple]Far from home? To find a cache yes we usually are, but not this time
A pleasant surprise left behind after our CITO last weekend, and all within theme
Happy to be FTF and equally so that we converted the COs to collecting Kan Tabs for Kidney Kids for us and there was even one waiting in the box Thanks heaps for the find that was closer than 100k from home!

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