Rapahoe Run (West Coast) Rapahoe, South Island, New Zealand
By The Grady Bunch (Maintained by Annie & PB) on 18-Sep-08. Waypoint GC1GD4Q

Looks like some pasture spayer got over enthused. All but two of about 60 punga are dead, and the cache is missing.

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Growly Bear
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Area has been sprayed, rummaged around dead gorse and punga. With a few walkers and a restless 10 year old I couldn't stay around longer than 15min. Next trip maybe.

No luck here.

Had a decent forage but no luck with this one.

Searched high and low with no luck to the exact description. We did find behind a clump of pungas, lots of flakes of a green acrylic paint... possibly fallen off of a painted container that is no longer there? Mystery. Hope someone has more luck than us!

Did the other day during a rain shower

Bei unserm Neuseeland Urlaub auch hier vorbei gekommen... Gesucht und gefunden! Tolle Gegend hier...!!!
Danke fürs verstecken und herführen!

Nice walk with fine views. Thanks.

For some reason we decided to look for this one on the way back from Rapahoe to Cobden on our day out doing Pt Elizabeth track. Damn it. So sidetracked huffing and puffing going uphill that we missed it by about 90mtrs lol. Only 2 of us we keen enough to go back down to claim it just to walk back up the hill lol. But claim it we did. Nice easy find for the added exercise. tftc

GPS led us straight to the cache
enjoyed the walk
good one
thank you for the cache

We had an icecream on the beach below and than took this cache. Lovely walk.

A quick find on the way north from Greymouth this morning. I had gone for a walk the previous evening and cleaned up all the caches on the Point Elizabeth Walkway north of Cobden so this was the last one needed to complete the track until some nice person goes and places some more... Signed log, TFTC

Took me a while to find but got there in the end

quick find an my way north. tftc

Found during our roadtrip with Dopeyr during his trip from England. Zekeasaurus isn't one for walking so I get some weight training carrying him on my shoulders to caches like these. Lovely walk in the rain. A bit of time discovering the right place but a fairly simple find in the end. TFTC.

Partner in crime with Zekeasaurus Bunnz. TFTC.

Nous avons marché tout au long de la Point Elizabeth Track. Vraiment beau parcours parfois dans la Rain Forest, et parfois sur le bord de l'océan. Le soleil était au rendez-vous. Et avec des caches en plus. Quoi demander de plus ?
TFTC

A quick easy find after a short walk along the track. TFTC

Had a great wander out to the point, TFTC.

Wow! What a crazy beach!

So long and thanks for all the cache! - Find # - 15:18 - koem

Bridge closed and what can we do ??? .... Yes go caching TFTC

Introducing friend to caching. Easy find. Cache is Damp. TFTC

Found it during my kiwi traveling. TFTC

Decided to run the track and back before work. Got to the end, turned around and then found this cache. Thanks for making a morning run a bit more fun.

Luckily the showers stopped long enough for us to walk to this cache. First time along this track and was disgusted to see so much evidence of dogs and bikes along here despite walking past 2 signs clearly stating they are not allowed. Cache was soon found once at GZ then a walk back to the car dodging multiple piles of dog sh*t! A great walking track spoiled by a few as is so often the case. We will be back though to walk the whole thing and pick up the other caches along the way. TFTC.

Another find for Holymu and me on a caching day taking us West as far as we could get. With threatening skies and surf up it was a typical 'coast day'. The walk to GZ was pleasant and is going to be walked end to end. Track damage by mountain bikes and copious amounts of dog sh*t put a damper on the experience though. The signs do state no access to both. TFTC

Pleasant walk on a fine morning, after having stayed the night at the campground. TFTC

Cold day but a great walk

Just about walked past, turned GPS on there i was 70m from it. Nearly got sprung by a runner while looking, didn`t even see me. Cheers for a good cache on a great walkway.

Track is a nice out and back run from other end, thanks.

Nice simple find by a great track. TFTC

Grabbed this on my walk to Point Elizabeth. TFTC. Sherlock Hood.

Nice wee walk on a summer evening

Nice easy one, beautiful views : ) good one for families and kids

Searched with 4 people. No luck. Winfriend.

As we were about to give it up, we found it. TFTC winfriend from norway with a bunch of locals.

This entry was edited by winfriend on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 at 02:42:27 UTC.

quick found in the beatiful sunset light. tftc, julmat

Nice Cache!
TFTC!
Klara&Werner from Germany

A beautiful wee stroll,TFTC

Using the clue this was quick find. Thankyou

Managed to dodge most of the showers getting to and from this cache today. All good and no problems with the find. TFTC, Biggles.

Saved this for the return trip. GPS was very variable but the hide-out was very logical. Fantastic view on a glorious day. Good to find one of the three on this walk in good condition and in place.

Nice walk up to the cache area. Soon had cache found. SL TFTC

Thanks for taking us to this nice walk.

TFTC and greetings from Germany,
NeuOF&HobbleFrank

Easy find. Trust the GPS. Sometimes you have to go away in order to come back.

Misty/rainy today so the view wasn't great.
Brilliant spot. Nice walk.
TFTC

6098 Went on the Rapahoe Run and saw more great views of the beach.... lots of pungas, and lots of WIND. TFTC

nice view to the sea...
out: GC
in: GC

What a glorious day to do this cache. Did the walk then went for a walk in the lagoon part. Dropped off a geocoin but also picked up another one.

Came here after staying at the Rapahoe camp. Great view of the beach and the incoming rain. TFTC

Just logging to drop in GC which did not drop when I logged my visit.

Thanks for the cache. Reminds me of all the walks in the area I haven't done (yet).

Lovely views here and the local dairy provided great fish & chips to complete the stop. Left GC. TFTC

Lovely dramatic sea today. TFTC

Quick stop for a rest before walking out to the point. TFTC

Shall definitely be keen to return and complete this walk. Gorgeous day today, but lacking the time!

Took a bit of searching, trying to hard as usual! Need to do this walk again,haven't for years. Nice views which Mandz took snaps of. TFTC

(407) Nice little walk to the cache site, Mrs Brogan walked the beach looking for Greenstone.. Great spot.. TFTC, SL

Found with JemNZ. Nice day. Great view. Will go back and do the walk sometime. TNLN. TFTC.

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A great view on this lovely sunny day. TFTC

Wasn't planning on doing this one but when I pulled into the carpark and saw it was less than 400m I thought why not go see the view. So pleased I did as I found a cache and loved the views. Thanks for bringing me here.

Took a bit to find but 1st of day does

Found with gracie7. Decided to start geocaching so I am logging all old finds. TFTC

+ Cherry Casino Tb + Fish Hook Tb

Found once I already poked myself in the eye by a punga [B)] Took the 2 TBs to go in my new caches shortly, TFTC

On the way to another cache.. nice walk, good hiding place TNLN TFTC

No luck today

Found this while jogging over the track. Used to run this track heaps a number of years ago. TFTC

Quick find on walk from Rapahoe TFTC

Nice walk on a lovely day. Cicadas were singing, left shell

Quickly found it after I cycled in. TFTC MacManger

Nice walk and quick find. TFTC #1067

Hmmm. Nice view despite the rain but no luck finding the cache.

Great view on walk to GZ. No runners on track today. TFTC

5/12 today. Left our peice of paper behind, but found after a couple of mins looking. All in good cond. #105

Lovely view's from here

We saw at least two runners on our way in (in the rain) in fact one of them past us in both directions. Nice easy find. Love this piece of coast. TFTC.

Is everyone training for the Coast to coast around here? Looked like it with the runners in the torrential downpour. Only they and MAD geocachers were about... TFTC.

Walked to this one from the Greymouth end of the trackso was very pleased to find it. Then walked all the way back. About a 3 hour round trip including a bite to eat and cache finds so I would recommend it if you want some exercise. TFTC

Nice walk on the way to Point "E" Nuggets.
TNLN SL TFTC

There was lot of them Lol TFTC

A great quick and easy find before doing the beautiful walk!!!

Found with new GPS after two unsuccessful visits without a GPS.

Nice cache, did take a few minutes to find though. Cheers

Absolutely pouring down in the middle of the night. What is it with caching that drains all the sensible behaviour out - whatever, glad to be part of it! Thanks.

Easy find for us but too late in the day to do the next one on the track but it'll keep till next trip. Left a wee green car.

[This entry was edited by Hotspud on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 10:52:48 PM.]

Just the length of walk that suited us today. A stretch of the legs in a nice area as we drove up the Coast. And GPS took us straight to the cache. TNLN TFTC

Another cache we used to demonstrate caching to a new friend...

TFTC
Roland aka tasdevil13

What a beautiful track! Txs for showing us this place!

Nice spot with a great view. Found the cache without problems on this beatifull summer day. TFTC

-coin in

Nice but hot day on the westcoast. Found on the way, but great spot.

Found on the way home from the Fox River market, TFTC
Harley5447

Nice spot - a lovely day for a walk - fairly easy to find.

Easy find, and we covered it a bit more from prying eyes.

Found this with Madleech, fantastic view. A mate of mine ran this track most days when he lived in Greymouth.

Nice walk in on a roasting West Coast day. Found it faily quickly. TNLN, TFTC.

A nice walk to start the day. Easy find with Kwaka40.
TFTC

Easy find with Wilson#41
TNLN