On the shore of Anakiwa (Nelson/Marlborough) The Grove, South Island, New Zealand
By johnny5a on 21-Nov-09. Waypoint GC21NDE

After 14 years, this geocache will be archived. My friend who lived close to the site, reliably informs me that the cache was most likely to be washed away with the recent floods.Thank you to all those who looked for it.

May have been washed away in thr storms

Unable to find. Am guessing it has been washed away sadly

Couldnt find it and we searched for 20 mins- maybe the flooding washed it out

Time to try and tick off this months challenge. There is enough on this end of the Queen Charlotte track for me to almost do it.This was my only DNF of the day. I had a really good search round everything. There has been some trees chopped down recently. As I was walking back to the geomobile, I noticed that my scribing devices were missing. So, I retreated to GZ to find them. Still no container.

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Fun hide. Not super obvious but we'll enough off the main walking track that people will spot you

TFTC

Thanks! Good hide

Deep in the bushes

Took us a while to get this one, but got there eventually. Tftc

A bit of a mission to get to this cache. Tftc

Hint had us puzzled for a bit, went back to the coords and wondered a bit more, was about to give up when I found it, TFTC

TFTC, nice afternoon caching here

Thank you nice easy fi d

Used some past activity hints but easy find. Thanks

Went and found it with my friend. Took a while, but we found it!

Log book too wet to sign. Out for bike ride from Aussie Bay where caravan is parked

Finally had a find in Anakiwa after 2 other failed attempts on 2 different caches. TFTC

This cache was found on an afternoon trip to Annikiwa . It was found with my wife on day three of our eight day holiday in Marlborough based at Picton.

I was about to give up but persevered.
JDScout and I are spending a week in Picton. We have spent this week exploring Marlborough and finding a few geocaches. Thanks johnny5a for creating this hide. It was find 9470 for me.

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Found it with EweLou // Needs a new log a bit damp

Parked up on the quad and wandered along the track, helpful hint for the gz and a quick find was made.
Thank you for bringing me to this area johnny5a and for placing and maintaining On the shore of Anakiwa (Nelson/Marlborough) geocache from Mr Cuddly Brick
Found on this awesome day the 2 September 2020.
Cache number # 2380

Good easy find with straight forward hint. Quiet with babbling water.

Beautiful find. Is couple meters from tiny waterfall and pond. Upturned dinghy. I pulled Ivy away from the hide exposing the hiding rocks. 5 months since the last find. Enjoy. Cache damp but not wet.

Found this cashe relatively easily, but the log book was wet as the zip lock bag was not sealed properly. Ended up just logging on a random page.
Over all, great cashe though!

Found TFTC ! beautiful spot !!!

Just come back from a great walk along Queen Charlotte Track to Anakiwa View and back picking up a couple of FTFs along the way. So now time to head home. But time for a couple of stops along the way.
So we take the track down to the sea and read the hints which puts me over the creek. So off with the sandels and across the creek I go to end up with a wall of blackberry. Surely not here.! No The Seagnoid has sighted it so back across the stream to get this one tagged. Cheers


Had an early message from The Seagnoid for a walk at Anakiwa for a couple of FTFs. Yep Im in - pick up at 3.30. No change of plans make that 12.30. Its been raining here early morning and weather changeable since then. Thankfully its a lovely afternoon for a walk, but track wet and muddy in places.

A quick find here, after I figured not to take the path indicated by the link walkway sign. Bit damp down here but a quick find, TFTC johnny5a.

There have been a few new ones placed along the QC track, but I don’t have time to do them tonight. I will come back some other day with the bike and see how we go. In the meantime, a quick trip in to do some one this road and the QC Drive if I have time. Turns out I didn’t, but still good fun. Thanks all COs.

Paddle chick and I were heading back to Nelson after spending the day caching around the for shore track at Anakiwa. Another nice easy find Thanks johnny5a

Nice cache in a beautiful spot
Awesome to hear the creek as I wrote in the log
Tftc

Queen Charlotte drive geocache mission with TREX5159 #TFTC

Found it with squirt88, a park then small walk and grab and on our way again. Tftc

We had two loverly days here at Anakiwa and I found this cache fairly quick.
TFTC and best regards
MTKEus

A quick find while rest of group out kayaking. Such a beautiful spot...TFTC!

Needed hint because so overgrown! Needs new notebook and a bit of love!

All was quiet at GZ. We had a wee fossick around and soon had the cache in hand. The cache had quite a lot of water in it so we tipped it out and dried it as best as we could. The log is still perfectly dry although the staples have given way and the wee notebook is now in more than one piece - but still very useable.
Thanks for placing this cache and providing us with the motivation to come and spend some time in the area enjoying the natural beauty. and of course thank you for the smilie

Path overgrown slightly, still no pen may bring one later

From our holiday in New Zealand after å friends wedding at Anatoki Salmon farms.
As the Cyclone Gita destrøyed our plans to do the Heaphey trail we needed to find another plave to explore.

We choose to drive to the north east as it seems the weather was going to be best there. A little bit of troubles as I did not have any caches from this side of New Zealand on my gps so all of the choosen caches should be off-line loaded on the phone and without a map. This night we stayed close to the Charlotte trail but I did not find the other cache i was searching for so I took this one instead which was fast found. Thank you for this cache johnny5a


~Ayorama~
Proud member of 'teamGalskap'.
Dutchy, soppelsker og ælvecacher.

I don't know where I'm going.
But I'm going.
Shall i go to the left , where nothing's right?
Or to the right , where nothing's left?
Are you coming with me?

Quick find while out riding around the bay on the MTB from Momorangi. TFTC

After a nice walk on the end of Queen Charlotte Trail we found this little box.
Tftc
Greetings from Germany!
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Took a little looking, got there in the end. Cheers.

Early ferry today, and off to Neslon for a couple of nights. Good to be back on the mainland.

Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

TFTC
Found on our TA

Parked the car nearby and walked down the trail, a quick find TFTC

A quick find from excellent coordinates and hint. All in good order, signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.

Beautiful spot. Thanks for hiding. Logbook is just a little bit wet.

Nice spot to pause and watch tho swans. Quick find, thank you

Quick find, TFTC.

12:02. Found quickly and much appreciated, Tftc

I wonder if Swan tastes good? There are plenty here for the taking.

Nice hide, found on a nice day out with the family, tftc!

Good instructions. Easy to find.

A nice morning by the shore to go hunting. TFTC.

Nice one on a hot day

Found it quickly. Tftc

Checked the geocache and it's still there - the area around it had become a bit overgrown, so cleared the area and she's all good!

If cache was placed between bush and stream then has disappeared in recent flooding which has washed out the bank very close to bush. Nothing else resembling cache hide around.

Nice find

Bit slippery and ended up on the floor, but nice easy grab!

found this a while ago while visiting the Magic Library great cache

Nice easy cashe in a stunning spot. TFTC.

Rapidly running out of daylight, we shot down and grabbed this one.

Easy find.

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

Quick find thanks.

Late evening walk to find my first cache in New Zealand.
Was hoping to pick up a tb to take back to Scotland but there are none in the cache.
Tftc

I read the hint to Miss 4 and she lead us straight to it, very pleased with herself! tftc

Cool cache! Log has got a bit damp we dropped a TB we found in Aus!

Cool cache! Unfortunately the log book is a bit damp. We dropped a TB from Aus!

It is day three of a three day weekend (Waitangi Day) which gives me the opportunity to boost my numbers in the local area. On Saturday, in the company of Kiwimykl I have done some local Blenheim caches along with the route to Picton and a few Picton caches. Sunday's caching involved the Port Underwood Road and some more of the Picton caches and today's effort involves the Queen Charlotte Drive, Anakiwa and the route between Havelock and Blenheim. As we were time-limited we decided to target PnGs or those caches only involving a short walk.

This place is a little more populated than the previous two caches and the were a couple of boaties preparing their boats for launching nearby. They were too preoccupied with their endeavours to take notice of us as we walked down the track. for a QEF.

TFTC johnny5a

Found with NZDi, refer to her log for details.

TFTC

Showing our friend Nat a couple of caches after a great day Kayaking. TFTC

Beautiful spot Anikiwa.

Finally found a cache easily- thanks

Easy find thanks

After walking part of the QC track we grabbed this one pretty quick.
#402

Quick and easy find on our way to the Queen Charlotte Track. Thank you!

Nice one. A quick find in a lovely spot. Tftc

#1464 Quick find. Great to see that another Upper Hutt cacher found this yesterday

Found with wb-jnr

Thanks for another South Island smilie. All good at GZ

#695 With Wb1116

Nice and easy find given that the hint was more like a set of directions (c: Geo-kids completely oblivious to cache due to the lure of the nearby stream and the resident cockibillies and crabs. TFTC.

A very quick find. TFTC

Found with Polargirl and Spudge. Another very quick easy find here. TFTC!

TFTC, Allepousse and I gave Polargirl a headstart on her bike then met up with her at each cache on this road, she was mostly faster on her bike than we were driving!

Díky za keš. Labo58 Czech republic ☺

as a new comer i was unable to find cache with your written instructions.what was i missing and how big are the 2 trees you mention?

followed written instructions but didnt find 2nd tree as stated.

Nice and easy to find

Mum & Dad dropping off N9 for his school camp at Mistletoe Bay ( they're hiking in ). Thought we'd pick up some caches along the way.

TFTC johnny5a!

# 407

Yes find it after an afternoon kayaking !

A few grassy paths around but easy find once we were on the right path! Tftc

Lovely walk with my brother and sister in law on a beaut marl sounds day. Thanks ☺

TFTC. Great letterbox nearby.

A nostalgic visit to the Anakiwa area. TFTC.

Came over for a walk on the pathway on a gorgeous autumn day. TFTC.

A very lovely spot far a cache!!
TFTC from Canada

Was visiting a muggles family who own a bach at Anakiwa and introduced them to the world of geocaching.
Mr 5 loved this easy find with me.
TFTC

Found it

Pick up local Cacher call The Seagnoid
Sign log and cache in good order See taybee Log as we did it at the same Time
TFTC log by Gsak

This entry was edited by taybee nz on Monday, 23 March 2015 at 03:10:07 UTC.

Caching with The Seagnoid today taybee_nz found this one
Sign log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak