North Beach #1 Point Elizabeth, South Island, New Zealand
By nzwildsouth on 26-Mar-17. Waypoint GC72RRE

Found it! Thank you for the clue 3 excited kiddos

Tftc

Easy find all good

No worries finding this one thanks to the hint. TFTC

Evening bike ride with my 9 year old friend. We found it very quickly. Thank you.

I found the right spot and also the box Took out the TB to give it a ride to the other side of the world shortly.TFTC

Found on dusk today! Lovely area to explore - wish we werent just passing by. TB drop

No idea what people thought as I was searching. The seas on the other side were surprisingly settled.

Had to be careful. Weka watching us.

Not covered so easy. Added more camo.

Thank you. Nice easy find for the kids.

Found it

Found it

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..

Back in greymouth for a while working at the Noah's ark backpackers...so a good base to tick off a few more..

Set myself a mission to hit 8000 finds but the end of the year...that's an average of 6 a day ..
First of the day nice easy D3.5 to start the afternoon tftc

Found it!! Took a wee while hunting around but the coords are on point so spotted it after a few mins

TFTC
Charlotte & Jordy

Nice hide. Found with mumandme. A beautiful day to be out exploring! TFTC

A quick find with victoriousone - tftc

I am really pleased with myself at how quickly I found the cache. Not so happy with the bit of tiny driftwood that tried tripping me up but I will get over it

Coords were pretty good so didn’t take too long to find thank goodness! Tftc

Found in the pouring rain was great thanks

Tyfc nice easy find

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)
*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

Day 15 of our Sth Island (substitute for Seattle) trip. Today it's Franz Josef/Greymouth. Another fantastic weather day. Soon found after parking very close. Thanks.
[#1200]

A quick find. Thankyou.

Nice wall. Quick find. Tftc

My first thought at GZ was oh no this will take some searching. Lucky coords were good so it was a quick find. Tftc

Found it.
TFTC
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Lovely spot, not a soul in sight!! TFTC!!

My darling found it.

Quick find TYFTC

Really kool find, tftc ️

Great find with lipnp and Suzy. Thank you for the cache

We bypassed the caches along the road when we came to do the Point Elizabeth walkway a few days ago so are picking up the missed ones now. A reasonably quick find here. TB left tftc

Awesome thanks you! Beautiful spot!

(# 5336). Today is day 3 of my West Coast trip. Weather wise the day was a washout with persistent rain from mid morning. Only managed to get 6 caches today after have high hopes. Ended up being a rather relaxing day. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

We drove past this one yesterday but had time and encouragement to find it today as we were close by.
Thanks.

The SIS team had planned a trip to the coast for a few weeks ago but the weather put the kibosh on that. This was the next weekend that we were all available and for a while it looked like the same thing was going to happen. Then low and behold a bright yellow sun appeared on the maps for tomorrow and today and Sunday looked ok too so we were good to go. This was the first find for me. I love these West Coast beaches. TFTC # 14,534

Beaut arvo for a mtb and gc. Tftc

Great find thank u

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Hello from Perth WA

We found this while on our South Island adventure with the newbies Olive8.

TFTC

Nice area ..even on a wet old day soon found ..thanks NZ wildsouth great placement

Typical west coast weather today but not stopping us from caching. All good here thanks nzwildsouth.

Nice and easy. Great for us beginners. Signed log book AWE CBZ

Found with NZDi on a two day West Coast caching adventure. NZDi asked what the weather forecast was like for the 'Coast' for the weekend early in the week and when I said Friday and Saturday looked good, but Sunday was shite, she promptly booked a night in Greymouth and told me to sort out some caching to do. Taking a look at the geocaching map, I noticed the nice geo-trail of mainly traditional caches along the Point Elizabeth walkway and another geo-trail of mostly puzzle caches (about half solved) along the starting 11 kms of the West Coast Wilderness Trail.

With that as a target, I started researching the caches an solving some puzzles and blagging some puzzle coordinates off fellow cachers. On Thursday night we prepared for an early getaway the following morning and were on the road by 7.00am. The intention was to grab a few strategic caches along the route to Greymouth with a view to eventually turning the road into a path of gold, (well at least yellow). After getting four, all before Inagahua Junction, we abandoned that part of the plan as we would still be caching the route next week.

During the weekend we signed our logs either in full or abridged to KM + ND depending on space and log condition, with whichever one of us who found the cache name first.

After doing the first half of the Point Elizabeth Walkway geo-trail, we decided to do the other half from the Rapahoe end as we intended to do the Coal Creek waterfall caches this afternoon as well. Having bypassed #2 in this small series due to recent DNFs, we arrived here and started to read the cache page. This is one of those caches that can either be a QEF or a frustrating long search. Fortunately for us, I saw something which looked likely and it turned out to be the former.

Dropped Canadian Pride TB

TFTC nzwildsouth

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his cache for details.

TFTC nzwildsouth

A two day trip over to the Coast with Bitsprayer.
Thanks for the placements, a lot of fun.
erninz

Well the triped to the coast started out great, right untill the Flat Tyre, and the wheel nuts that had been tightrn with a rattle gun, that we could not undo, but one call out new trye and 4 hours and $388 we were on our way again, stll manged to get 50 odd caches for the day, many thanks to all the cache placers - Bitsprayer

Thanks for the cache.

One of 15 caches found in Greymouth and further north this afternoon, having travelled to the Coast on the TranzAlpine train this morning. Dull and drizzly at times, but no deterrent to locating a few caches! Fortunately we managed to find this one within a minute or so! #2067. TFTC.

Probably the easiest 3.5 I've ever found as I spotted it straight away. 15 for 16 today...

Found on a great weekend down the coast.

Quick park and grab.
Been here before but never seen anything this time straight to itTftc
#347

Kids were asleep in the car so was able to spend some additional time scouring ground zero. Took a few minutes but soon had the cache in hand. As far as rock walls go, not so bad, TFTC

Got lucky and found quickly. You never know with these rock wall caches. Thanks nzwildsouth

#7669

Easy one have been told bys someone to "leave that stones alone"... T4TC

A quick find on our way back from Pt. Elizabeth walk.

Found on a day exploring the West coast. tftc!

All good here.

Q E F here and grabbed the trackable and replaced as found. T F T C nzwildsouth

Onto the next part of the day now and the weather is still holding nicely - not too hot, nor cold, and nice and dry too. Not sure of the timings from track end to end though I reckon I was all about 3 and a half hours return, with some extensive searching for the eventual DNFs.

Day 2 of the trip and with daylight saving starting/ending yesterday I found myself up nice and early and in McDs having breakfast at around 0615. The bike had been loaded into the car for the cycle along the beach to grab the Survivor series remainder (though one DNF would prevent a clean sweep!). It took around 1 hour 40 minutes from #3 (DNF last time) to the end of the line #33, and only 30 minutes cycling on the way back, quite a few caches found on this trip and nearly all were puzzles too. After that was done it was drop the bike in the apartment and head along from Cobden to Point Elizabeth all the way to Rapahoe beach end, then all the way back to the car and finally off to Hokitika, along the back roads, before the rain came down too heavily. As it was the rain got heavier and heavier and caching was stopped for the evening at around 1800, stuck on just over 90 finds. A great days caching and apologies in advance for the cut n paste logs, will comment specifically where I remember any variation.

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 this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

About 40feet from coordinates sneaky!! But then it is a 3.5 difficulty..TFTC and greetings from Scotland

Nice easy find at sunset. Took a few minutes to lock on to it ut all good here. TFTH

Thanks to Karma Reprint for his log - it made it much quicker. TFTC

My gps had the hide 10m from where GZ was. A quick find once I started walking around.. Cheers.

Time for some town caching and on the North Shore too, after lunch Thanks to all the CO's for their caches. Cheers.

A quick find and a nice spot to drop a trackable. Tftc

#14846. We sometimes struggle with rock wall caches, but this one was a quick find. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a long weekend jaunt to Greymouth.
Another cache found after dinner while waiting for darkness to descend. The rock wall and the difficulty rating had us thinking we'd be here a while, but it didn't take long to track down. TFTC.

heading down to do the walk and grabbed a couple of caches on the way

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 nzwildsouth

Thanks for placing this cache nzwildsouth

Moved a few rocks but soon found it. TFTC

The Seagnoid, Zara Toby and I are off for an expedition to the West Coast for a long weekend. Enjoyed a great walk along Pt Elizabeth Walkway. Now time to go pick up Toby.
Rock wall climbing. Always a bit of a hunt but too long today. Snagged and tagged. Cheers

NEVER PUT THE PENCIL IN THE BAG!!!

Ruddy hell. Removed the pencil. Taybeedragon replaced the log bag with a bag that does not have a pencil sized hole in it. Put the pencil back in the cache, VERY CAREFULLY making sure it didn't go inside the bag. (Actually it's not that hard)

Hitting Greymouth for a days whistle-stop caching adventure. Forecast rain threatened but it ended up being a hot sunny day! Had the bicycle jammed in the back to ride parts of the trail.
Nice one. Had to outwait a runner going past and a couple walking tourists...but all good. Rugged ol' beach this! Cheers.

Whew, quick find.
Thanks

A quick find. Caching with Sidewaze, TFTC

Gradually getting to know my way around Greymouth and its environs. . . . enjoying the sights and sounds of the water. It must be kind of different living where you can always hear the sea. Didn't take too long to track down the cache. Thanks for hiding it .

This is our first visit to the area since these caches were placed. We had a lot of options here and it took a wee bit of time to find the elusive cache, eventually found by Hazedarus.
Thank you nzwildsouth.

We overshot GZ by a couple of meters then worked our way North. Had we worked our way South it would have been an ultra quick find. A good opportunity for grandson to burn some energy and for us to enjoy the environment. Thank you nzwildsouth

Quick find with a beautiful view.

Found it. Tftc

GPS must have been a bit out on way up the road but got very quickly on way back when GPS more accurate.

Published

FTF @ 4:26pm
What a rare treat to get caches placed so close to home!! We havent been here in awhile infact last time we came down here there were somekind of roadworks happening (or maybe something to do with the powerpoles?) Anyway this new featured wall is perfect for concealing caches. We pulled up and parked right beside the cache!! so it was a super quick find and sign. Mum and I both agreed that the difficulty would be no more than a 2 but its up to you. Thanks so much for the cache