Willow (West Coast) Matai, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 15-Jul-07. Waypoint GC14D76

Its missing.

As per the last few cachers we did not find this one. Think a muggle may have got to it.

Had a look to see if the previous did not finds were credible. The maglite and much peeping and peering still could not turn up the cache

We reckon it aint there no more! I had a 4m extendable pole but the hole goes forever. The Italian Job was here......! Our blog www.motorhominginxs.blogspot.com

No luck here for us today. That's one very hollow tree.
Weather was a bit crap so didn't stay too long and didn't mess with the prickles much either.
TFTC.

Not sure if still there looked in all the obvious places

Found this one on our way home from Greymouth. Quickly spotted, more difficult to retrieve. TFTC, Biggles.

A great wee cache in a funny spot. TFTC. Cheers Bo

#1 for today. Spent a few minutes looking as there were a multitude of perfect little spots for a cache finally spotted just as I was about to give up. TN left $2 coin for next to find. TFTC!

You need long arms for this cache! [Quick and easy find in the middle of nowwhere.]

Found easily on our way back from spending a wonderful weekend on the coast.

Hard cache for little shorties with short arms like us Took us awhile to get the cache out as it had fallen to the back. We were determined and managed to get the container out to sign. we put a bit of rotting branch behind the cache so hopfully the next person wont have as much trouble as we did. TFTC

Found with Mongyspeed and Houza TFTC

Took us a while to get this one. Was waaayyyyyyyyyy down in the hole and required a stick to get at, then the longest person in our group to reach it. (mr mongyspeed). As this is suppose to be an easy drive-by, we have put cache in a more suitable place. Cheers

Quick find on way home.It took a long reach to get it.Was going to put it in a easier spot but fell down to same place left geocoin

quick find thanks

Beautiful blue day but we were there early enough that there was still frost on the ground in the shadow of the willow.
Many thanks

Had no trouble finding GZ but trouble with reach until an alternative was found. TNLN TFTC

An easy drive by cache indeed. Needed quite a long reach to grab the box though.

This was a great quick and easy one in quite the crafty wee spot

Great spot for a cache!

Quick easy cache. Thanks for taking us down this road.

had to do u turn and wait for car to go past

Quick find, though we had to keep moving out of the way of a tractor...
TFTC

Nice Find. Thanks

Great nice clean cache. Good find although [none of us wanted to put our hand in the *** to retrieve the cache]
Cheers. Actionman4lyf.

WOW Nice Cache Really Enjoyed It And Nice Tree Left All Black Jones TB Here As I Have Had Him For Ages Nice To Move Him On

Thanks Alot

Jake The Muss.

Very easy

Opps - almost missed logging this one - just checked back on our recent trip and saw we hadn't logged this great drive by cache. One step from the car and the cache was in hand - must be one of our fastest cache's ever - good hiding place. TFTC.

Now that's a drive by!. Good wee hidey hole though.
TFTC

This would be the driest cache I have ever seen TFTC NINO

2105. This was a quick find as we could see where to go immediately. We felt a bit obvious stopping alongside but the farmer seemed more interested in his work than in us.

The pencil needed sharpening so we left a new one.

- memo holder + lizard & keyring

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

The obvious location of the hide is visible from 400m away. Really nice area. Beautiful farmland. +dice clip -red lizard TFTC

Neat tree. No problem finding the cache here while Mr turned the car around. TNLN TFTC

It must be a worry what the locals think of all these "townies" in cars come down this very narrow lane - stop for five minutes and then move on. Strange people townies arn't they.
TFTC

You're right! Nice easy drive-by! Thanks for the smiley.

good stop.

A nice quite find on the way to Nelson. Cheers Gav [1924]

Nice easy drive by thanks

A quick one on the way back down the coast. TNLN Thanks.

Nice drive by. Cheers.

Easy find. Now I know what a willow looks like.

One of a series of very enjoyable caches we found on our 10 day tour of the the South Island. Searching for caches along the way made it far more exciting than it would have been otherwise and took us to all sorts of interesting places we would not of found otherwise.
This is the first hide of this kind we found in New Zealand - it is common in the UK - so it was nice to see!
TNLNSL. TFTC

Nice wee spot, for a quick drive by.

Thanks Bitsprayer

Picked this one up on our way back from Reefton - missed turning off on the way up! Doh!
Nice stop - we got to enjoy a lovely pastoral New Zealand scene in the beautiful early evening light.

Long way from Oz. good to see some New Zealand farming land. A big greener than we're used to.
TNLN.
Cheers, DazEm

Interesting drive and cache. - old maid + compass whistle thing. Thanks.

Easy find. Gave the weka living in the base a fright. Local farmer must have wondered what I was doing. TFTC. TNLN.

A very quick driveby FTF. Cache was right where you'd expect it to be.
Took something, left card game.
TFTC.

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