Kaipupu - kareao (Marlborough) Shakespeare Bay, South Island, New Zealand
By Taybee NZ and the Seagnoid on 06-Dec-15. Waypoint GC67H7N

After completely failing to find any caches in town, Owl was looking forward to some 'country' caching. Bad sat loc and limited time didn't help, but surely large and regular caches can't be that hard to find? Think again! With caching unusually spoiling a good walk, and the distraction meaning she was missing sightings of local birdlife before they flew away, Owl's searches became increasingly perfunctory and she ended the day 0 for 10. Worst caching day ever and cements her self-membership of ISAG: proudly DNFing all over the world. (She'll spare you the other 7 DNFs!)

Found it!!

Nice easy find. There was no pen or pencil inside so couldn't put our names down.

Found with the Cruise group on a great day out here

What a great idea...hold an event to gather together some cachers with a similar goal...Kaipupu sanctuary. Having been in Marlborough for 15 or so years this has been a 'to-do' for the family. Unfortunately, due to sickness, the rest of the family couldn't attend. After the short boat ride, we were here.So many thanks to the out of town event CO for arranging this, and taking a few TB away. This was the seventh find for the day for me the anticlockwise group, signing as Kruze or Cruze, depending on who actually signed the log.

#23802. I was towards the back of the anti-clockwise group by this stage of the circuit. By the time we got to GZ the cache had been found (log signed as Kruze, or something similar). TFTC.

After a catchup at the table for nibbles we went to the top and back. then the final walk back to the start with a couple of stops on the way. I had read one cache had water damage so bought a replacement for this one. Its now tucked behind the penguin house. CheersAgazo organised a trip to Kaipupu. Its been years, 2017, since I was last here so yes time to go and get some more smiley faces. Our team of 18 signed as team KRUSE (Agazo, Ms_kr, SJT_NZ, Streetwalkernz, Richardino_nz, Troodles, PaoloB72, TARV2014, Sidewise, Bullertrout,, Isis_nz, Marchwood, Holymu, Hazardus,, Karma Print, Hinemoana, Taybee Dragon and Bullertrouts Bro)

A fun day out exploring Kaipupu and great turnout, thanks to all the cache owners and Agazo for organising the day.

We were in Picton to attend the Event, GCAQHRW Kaipupu Cruise which naturally meant we were visiting this sanctuary, a long held wish.On arrival at the jetty were were greeted by a lone seal basking on the steps.Soon enough we wandered off as a group to begin the hunt for caches, all of which were found and signed as a group with variations of kruze.Thank you taybee nz and the Seagnoid.

We had to wriggle some other commitments to attend this event. The destination had been on the bucket list for a long time and the opportunity to visit with a group of cachers was to much to resist. Somehow I became part of the "clockwise group" but the circular track prevents anybody getting lost and indeed we met about halfway. We didn't want to bush bash after the cache showed to be off track. Not quite sure what to do it was suddenly spotted and KR volunteered to sign the log for us.

Out for a walk after our Kaipupu Cruise to the peninsula. Our group of 18 stretched out with a few taking the opposite direction. The group I was with signed the logs as Kruze for convenience.The caches were all relatively easy to find and in good order. Thanks for placing them so we could enjoy the sanctuary. Took Geocoin

A great day out exploring the Kaipupu Sanctuary. Thanks to the cache owners and to Agazo for organising the trip.

A nice quick find. We have always wanted to get to this place. Pleased we now have. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are off on cruise up to Nelson and Picton. Today we cruised to Kaipupu and had a good walk, then we walked up to Humphries dam. We had a good day, with good company, and fine weather all day.Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Visited as part of the great outing organised by Agazo. An island full of caches and cachers, what could be a better way to spend a beautiful winters day!! TFTC!!

We are heading back round for our pick up from the water taxi after a very social walk around the sanctuary. The track is in great condition and much less up and down than I had anticipated. Thoroughly enjoyed my walk in the beautiful bush in such convivial company. TFTC # 22,281

Found with the Kaipupu cruise group on a mild winters day.The last trad find on the circuit, which had already been found and signed by the time I trundled up. Getting close to the end, what a great way to spend a morning. TFTC.

Eighteen cachers had a great day at Kaipupu finding all the caches and doing some maintenance. With lots of people there never was a shortage of eagle-eyed searchers willing to risk life and limb to find the cache. We signed the log "Cruise" or something like that. TFTC.

TARVG2014 and I hadn't decided on our plans for King's Birthday Weekend, but figured that we would fit in some caching. When we saw the event for a visit to the Kaipp Sanctuary it was a no-brainer. An early start from Tasman to make the RV, but all went according to plan and it was good to see the group assembled. The caches themselves were all fairly straight forward although a bit of scrambling for a couple. The log was signed "KREWZ" or similar for the group. There were a few different spelling options proposed, so there might be some variability. Thanks to everyone who attended for making it such an enjoyable event, and especially to Agazo for organising. Thanks for the cache.

Plenty of kareao here.Thank you the Seagnoid

I had no service at this location and wasnt very optimistic. I looked around the general area and spotted it from the path! Seeing as it was such a big container I decided to leave a trackable I picked up on the Big Island of Hawaii back in June 2023. My father assured me it would also be fine to take the paua that was in there, so I did thank you!! Outer container had water and everything in the inner container was also a bit damp. Tftc!!

Great cache, but some water damage.

Only two hours to do the loop so in a hurry. Previous logs helping as several a bit off track. Log a bit damp on this one.

Easy find.Tftc.

Found together with JaapAndHar while attempting to find all the geocaches on the island. Unfortunately we werent able to find them all and ran out of time to search near the potential GZ with incomplete coordinates. Turns out three hours isnt sufficient.

Had a fun water taxi boat ride out and great walk, but bad luck with the caching. Could only find 1 of the 8 I looked for. This one I spent a bit of time on. Expanded my search radius per previous log too. Still DNF.

Found after a little walk up the hill. Contents all secure and dry. Lovely views to the north from here.
I could see a seal just next to the little island.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are currently parked up at the Waterlea Racecourse in Blenheim … decided we’d go for a bit of a drive through to Picton … so often we’ve just driven through to catch the ferry but this time it was to explore Picton itself … we wanted to visit the Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary as there was a DoC Kiwi Guardian we needed to get … only really looked for the one cache out here as there were a number of DNF’s on most of them … so, easily found & completed … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,277 for us!

Took a while to locate. Log damp. TFTC

Tftc!

Tftc

Last cache we found on the day, we were really not the best, or at least most prepared. We should have taken more time reading cache descriptions, logs before coming. But we had fun, we saw a few birds and that all what counts. This cache was extremely wet, water in both containers. Container look fine, just not waterproof.

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

Almost found them all. I think I have time to loop back and have another hunt for one that eluded me

Yes got it with kaz53

Mrs gonefishing and I are finishing up our holiday in the top of the South, trying to do new things we haven't done before. A wander around Kaipupu ticked all the boxes. Our own boat is back in Wellington this time, so we caught a water taxi. It seems that Arrow Water Taxis closed up shop due to the covid traffic light thing, so options are Beachcomber or Cougar. We chose Beachcomber and got a private hire for $80 for the boat, so $40 each for the two of us. Very helpful and were happy to accommodate our request to delay our pickup by 30 mins to allow completion of the final cache. It took exactly 3 hours to complete all caches, including revisiting 2 at the start because I forgot to collect the codes.

Overall, an excellent day's caching, and very happy to have found everything as they are not all easy. However, I am a bit conflicted about the amount of bush bashing off track to find most of these. Seems at odds with the values of a reserve?

TFTC

Found it with Molly, Raphaelle and Richard.

Like others I climbed way to high to look for this one when is is actually very close to the bottom and the track. Mrs beconaze spotted this one so I came down quickly to complete the formalities

A boat trip over to the ecosanctuary with Arandee. We did the loop but missed a couple of caches on the way. We collected enough information for the puzzle, but ran out of time to look for it. Thanks for the hide.

Not quite as far up as we first thought, found on our way back down, tftc.

After finding "GC6VKC5, Marlborough Rail: Picton" down at the marina I spontaneously decided to get a water taxi here to have a look around. Unfortunately due to a tight schedule, this was the only one I could find around here today. I'll have to return on another occasion. Note to self and others, bring appropriate footwear for scrambling up and down banks.

A lovely day out here today and a quick find - tftc

We spent a great morning exploring the area, came over on a friend's boat. We saw some weta and a penguin in its little hut. This one was no longer located under a hint object but still easily found, Tftc!

Found with claire_see_ess

Tftc! We didn’t find the first one so this was 1/6 for us.

I found the cache while in town with Norwegian Jewel.
Thank you for the cache and many greetings from germany.

Den haben wir schnell gefunden.
TFTC

Easy find tftc, weekend out with geeves90 and hayzz

Again i was off on a tangent - good think i had caching buddies with me who not only kept me close to the track, found the cache
Great day out with Hayzz and Kimmy+co

After a bit of a hunt.. out with Kimmy+co and Geeves90

This was the highlight of my stay in Picton. Went by boat to Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary and so enjoyed the loop walk around the island. Scenery was superb, saw a little penguin and enjoyed looking for caches. The volunteer with us was great and we learnt a lot about the recovery of the fauna and flora on the island. TFTC (great location)

Found this one a wee while back but turns out I didn’t log it SMH. Thanks heaps for another thing to look out for while on this mainland sanctuary.
Tftc

Visiting Picton over Easter for a family reunion. We came to Kaipupu on a boat trip and really enjoyed our walk around the loop track today. It was a bonus to find a few caches along the walk with TipsyTrout. Went a bit far in looking for this one but found as heading back to track. Tftc!

Short trip here so only got this one. Beautiful place; would love to spend more time here. Kudos to all the volunteers and the many hours they spend working in this special place! TFTC!

Good find TFTC

First cache on Kaipupu. Off to find some more TFTC

Beautiful walk. Off the beaten track but good size camouflage container thanks so much

Thanks for the cache

Well back in Denmark again after my fourth visit to New Zealand. Luckily I also had time to go geocaching down under, and now it is time to long all my finds.
Cache found and logbook signed.
TFTC

The main event for me today was to find as many of the cache in the Kaipupu Wildlife Sanctuary as I could. I took a water taxi from Picton and gave myself plenty of time to walk around, look for caches and explore the tracks and trails. Apart from the caches, spotting a pair of penguins was a real bonus. Last cache find for me in the Sanctuary today and another one that gave me issues. Took ages to find it. Relieved when I did. Surprised to see some cachers had already found this one today, we must have crossed paths at some point... TFTC, Biggles.

Lots of muggles but quickly found! Retrieved TB

Found with maikenkids

Finally made it to Kaipupu with Annacons after a series of unfortunate events leading to cancelled trips - third time lucky. On this rainy afternoon we felt quite smug when we boarded our huge, largely empty boat, then watched a group of 40 file onto that boat from Kaipupu, leaving us with the place almost too ourselves.
This was our first find on Kaipupu, good start to the walk.

I wish I had read the bit about needing 3 to 4 hours to do the circuit if you are geocaching. I have just 2 hours and if they are all as hard as this I am not going to finish. Scrambled around for my alloted search time but failed

Great cruise to NZ and a great find thanks to Mr MR

This was the first of the day after being muggled out at the wharf.

Nice to see a good sized container. I dropped a TB.

Thanks Taybee NZ and the Seagnoid.

First found on our walk around the sanctuary after a dingy ride around. Tftc

Find number one on the island after quite the dingy adventure getting here. Tftc

Spent a very enjoyable morning rambling around this reserve. This was the first cache found and it took far longer than it should have. The GPSr refused to settle and was leading me all over the place below the track. When it did eventually settle after 15 minutes or so, then it didn't take too long to locate the cache. Lots of bellbird song around here, with quite a few wood pigeons as well. Signed log, TFTC.

On a 10-day Marlborough holiday from Rotorua with sveppi. We landed with the ferry last night, and today we are targetting the nearby multi to help fill our D/T grid. But since we are here and have paid for the water taxi, we might as well enjoy the reserve and the walk.
I know supplejack very well. I own a confluence cache near Rotorua and, being in the middle of nowhere with no track in sight, there is substantial fights with the said plant to be had getting there!
Nothing too strenous here though, my GPS was pointing in the middle of the supplejack patch, but the hint told us to look elsewhere, and the cache was found from that. TFTC

Find 1/7 while completing this track. An intersting reserve and we are enjoying the shade. TFTC

Found it! Kids were stoked thanks!

Really enjoyed wandering around the Sanctuary, kayaked over from Picton. Found all the caches except the first one, but that was sufficient to find the mystery one Thanks for the big containers, easy to search today - only one other person on the island.

Today was the day for the much talked about paddle across to Kaipupu. It has been a discussion at work for a few months now, and while we had mulled over motorised transport as an option, Andy was keen to get the canoes out. Joining us today was another workmate, Russell. It was a brisk start to the day (temperature-wise), but the lack of wind and clear skies promised a great winter day. So it proved. We got to Picton marina at about 8.30am ish and put the canoes in - myself and Russ in the double, and Andy had his single Scimitar. After a few missteps regarding stroke timing and rudders, we were on our way and just able to squeeze in front of the ferry departing to our left - sorry port. Not much further on, Andy saw some activity of interest and headed off in pursuit toward Mabel Island. According to him it was a school of dolphins and what must have been a whale, with spouts 2 metres tall. I'll take his word for it, and he didn't even get close. We were hugging the shore and turning toward the jetty and lost sight of him in the glare off the water. When we reconvened at the jetty, it was time for the walk.
The guys were keen on spotting wildlife, and we were not disappointed. I will decide not to mention here (but will tell the CO when I next see him) how cool that was. For me though, it was also about caches, and I am grateful for the patience of the other two who allowed me to indulge in this. No success with the multi at the jetty, and I missed another trad not much further up due to my self imposed time limit for searching. Success with the rest though, except the final, of course, which will require a few more numbers. So 6 from 9 on a tight schedule I am happy with, and the sanctuary is all I thought it would be. A fantastic spot, so more than happy to have another reason to come back.
After a lap around the sanctuary, we then prepared to head home. By this stage another workmate had joined us - Dave and his wife, who are regular canoeists, had been on their own adventure and were waiting at the jetty for us. The trip home was even better. The water was so glass-like we detoured around Mabel Island, then drifted through a foaming mass of jellyfish on the way to the shore by Bob's Bay. The water was crystal clear. We could see the bottom of water that is 10-15 metres deep, with Andy commenting that he had never seen it that clear. We beached just before the next incoming ferry, then time for a quick chat, a spot of lunch from the Picton Bakery, and our morning/early afternoon here was done. All up a pretty magical day, thanks for all the caches out here Taybee and the Seagnoid, it's a great spot and I will be back.
This cache was a pretty quick find, and no problems here. Except I took forever fluffing around in my bag for a pen and paper for the clue number. Thanks guys.

Our first attempt at the caches on Kaipupu Pt. We made good progress - 6 of the trads and, the first stage of the multi but we will have to return to complete. We ventured out today in search of Kiwi but to no avail. We did meet a lovely Little Blue Penguin though. A great run for the kids and caching with cachers Leo, Maea and Marlo who were very helpful. A wonderful day but might revisit in Summer! A quick find here first of all. TFTC

I have been wanting to come to this Island for a while. My birthday was coming up, so I thought- the kids will do what I want to do, so I investigated possible ways of getting there. The kayak hire place will only hire to/for people over 16yrs, so that ruled that out (and it would probably take too long with kids) The water taxi was going to be $80 for 1 adult or 4 adults, so I put a post on FB to see if any friends had a boat and would like to take us, or if someone would like to join us to share the cost. To my amazement, a friend messaged saying she would be happy to take us- YAY! This couple (and small child) had not geocached before, and one was a pure natural and found most of the caches!
It was a beautiful day, flat for the boat ride and sunny.
I am using my GPS, I have figured out how to use the compass, and I think I am using it in a better way now, but still like the cell phone. Unfortunately my cell phone has no track marking here though.
Damien was straight up to this one. He really got the hang of it! Was that the last of the coordinates I needed to get the puzzle?? Back to the table to work it out. We had left Waikawa at 8:30 and it was now 10:40am. I didn't notice the time we got to the wharf. We went right at the loop track.
TFTC.

We haven't seen many birds, only about three. A fantail followed us part of the way. TFTC

Found whilst checking the traps. TFTC

My first cache on Kaipupu Point. Took me some time to search it and finally spot it! With this experience, the following caches are easily spotted. Greetings from Hong Kong and TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Tftc

Finished work at 4am set alarm for 8 am raced down town to book a seat on the water taxi sat read all the logs had a spare battery for the GPS took traveling bugs just in case ... and the quoted time came and on the taxi I go a quick 5 minute cruise and I was there on my own with 8 possibly 9 caches to find .... Had a quick look for the multi as I knew it must be a tuff one ...I immediately got a feel for what I was looking for with the first one so off o went .... TFTC Obviously a lot of thought and work put into this series ...

My last find at the sanctuary for the day. I will be back for the multi and final. Even though I didn't have the final coordinates I did walk up to the summit. I loved the whole walk. Thanks for placing the caches

#4496

Found this after a short search; my GPSr was bouncing a bit. Still have a couple more to find before I look for the FINAL. TFTC

Found with the Team RNZAF geocaching crew plus two (B&W, capperz, GH6710, Kiwimykl, Nightowl19, Raisin Pig and tS), refer to their logs for details.

TFTC tS

A great trip out on the water with the regular work caching crew, and a couple of other familiar faces. Having cached out most of the outer Queen Charlotte sound, it was back here for these recently added caches in the Kaipupu reserve area. A water taxi load of cruise ship passengers was also visiting the area but went the other way.
Our last traditional cache out here, tracked down fairly quickly. T F T C tS

A beautiful day out in the QC sound with a great bunch of other geocachers.
After grabbing a few in various bays and islands - we ended up here to circumnavigate this wonderful sanctuary. It was decided to go anticlockwise - as there was a small group of passengers off the nearby cruise ship here having a look round.
This is the last before heading back near the start for the multi... was now my turn to clamber up the hill to the cache and sign... another large kid friendly cache.
TFTC the seagnoid

Today is one of the regular Adventure sports club (including Geocaching as a sport) day ot by boat in the Marlborough Sounds. Launching out of Picton Harbour at 0700, or thereabouts, we set sail for a few cache sites. Headed off and grabbed a grand total of six T5 caches, visited Motuara Island for the fantastic wildlife that abounds there and had a great day in some really good company. Team cachers were GH6710, Kiwimykl, Raisinpig, Nightowl19, bumandworker, nzdi and of course the Seagnoid. We signed some or most logs as Team RNZAF plus 2 or similar. Really hot today and got to see some really cool things; Hector's dolphins, saddlebacks, robins, penguins, fish, Spirit of New Zealand sailing ship and so much more!
Headed here after a successful trip to the outer Sounds to grab the caches before the afternoon swells change the landscape (seascape) out there. Docked up and headed onto the tracks for a couple of hours of caching in this great weather. Surprisingly little birdlife evident today, just a coupe of bellbirds and fantails.
Heading round the track and taking it in turns to hunt/find and record the required final numbers.
T F T C t S

The RNZAF Base Woodbourne Adventure Sports Club holds regular trips into the Marlborough Sounds mainly to cater for members who wish to tramp/walk/run the many tracks and walks available. However since geocaching has been included under the 'Adventure Sports' umbrella, these trips have become more popular. Today three boats headed out at 'Zero Dark Early' for a day on the sounds, one full of walkers and runners and two full of geocachers and their families and friends.

Today we collected a variety of caches, some on the mainland and others on various outlying islands mainly requiring boat access only, the caches on this 'mainland island' were the major attraction today and we were surprised at how many other boats turned up while we were there. There has certainly been a lot of work done to get this sanctuary predator free however the birdlife is yet to reestablish itself to the same level as Motuara Island which we visited earlier in the day, but I'm sure it won't be long before it does.

Thinking we only had the 'Start' multi-cache left to do we almost over-ran this one but the CO (who was with us) said 'Oops I forgot about this one'. After a quick search another decent size camo'd cache was found.

TFTC tS

Out with the airforce group on water patrol. I was very lucky to be included, acting as ballast.
Had an awesome day, great views in good company.
Missed this one last time, got it no problems today.
Thanks Seagnoid for the cache.

Another nice sized cache that we found, added paracord keychain swag.
Thanks for taking the time to place these caches.

Lured on by a previous log of quick easy find we spent ages here but unfortunately we didn't find it.

Cool

Another DNF! The walk around Kaipupu was not beginning well. Decided to carry on regardless

[FTF] [Blue]taybee[/Blue] is caching again without [Blue]taybee nz [/Blue] as he is at school today
get the Published of the Caches on Kaipupu at 7:55am it the only free day I got So load the gps by 8.05 out the door by 8.08 and on the water tax by 8.30pm easy walk to Ground zero had to back track on this one quick and easy find pick up tag
Days total is six FTF's One DNF one Not Published [|)] and one Not Done [?] missing same numbers for the final and water taxi coming back to pick me up
All in good order, sign log book as[Blue] taybee [/Blue] TFTC Log by Gsak

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