Queen's Reach (Fiordland) Te Anau, South Island, New Zealand
By KiwiGeoswami on 20-Dec-09. Waypoint GC224X1

I've stopped geocaching, so am archiving my caches.

Just until Level 4 ends.

Bit too much into the bush for my liking but otherwise easy to find

All fixed!

I'll fix this next week.

The pathway is currently seriously flooded and I wouldn't want anyone attempting to get this cache at the moment. It will be seriously underwater and most likely floated away. Will replace as soon as the water goes down. It's been here for many years with no troubles, which just shows you how high the river currently is!

What a nice place. Would be great to camp here but is not allowed. Have to pay the moneygrabbers in town!!!!

This weekend is my last chance to access the vault for the Mystery at the Museum. So a road trip was in order. Accompanied by my mugglish hubby and by Saethwr we set off on a circuit to the north as locking are slim to the in any other direction.
Overshot the turnoff to here so back tracked a bit. Across the ford, along another track ans walked from a big pothole.
Read the hint and soon had it in hand. Was sitting on the ground and is damp inside. Replaced in the fork up off the ground a little bit.
Thanks for the smilie KiwiGeoswami.
2546 10 August 2019 14:04

A quick and easy find. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Today we drove from Invercargill to Te Anau with a magic sunny and calm autumns day

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

On our roadtrip in the South Island. Visit the Vintage machinery museum, a quick stop to do this cache. Lovely sighting of the Takahe.

Nice wee wander

Thanks

Another hiking day together with D4nielB. Today we made it from Te Anau to Rainbow Reach via Kepler Track and back on the other side of the river via Lake2Lake Cycle Track. Great hike with many impressions to take back home.
This was another easy find on our way.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Juliane

Today Jul1ane and me did a 35km hike from Te Anau via the control gates and Kepler Track to Rainbow Reach and back along the Lake2Lake Cycle track. It was awesome weather for this tour, and on the route we even found quite a few geocaches.

An easy find.

Continuing on with our tiki tour we came to Te Anau area grabbing some caches on the way.
Stopped by this one and cache found quite quickly though a bit of a scramble to get to it
Thanks for showing us the area
TFTC
Tim and Viv - ddm

Found on a very rainy day, great cache

I was taking a break in Te Anau for a couple of days, in between hiking the Rakiura and Kepler Tracks. I spent today doing a few short walks and finding a few caches in the greater Te Anau area. Took a drive out to this cache and made a quick find at GZ. TFTC!

Peaceful walk from the main road. Could be a park and grab with the right sort of vehicle. TFTC

Today we are driving from Te Anau north along the road towards Milford Sound and back. We are visiting from Toronto ON Canada to spend 24 days with our daughter who lives in Wellington NZ. Quick stop at GZ. Found at 2:36 PM. Thank you KiwiGeoswami for placing and maintaining this cache.

Stunning location.

We have found this cache during our holiday in New Zealand. Greetings from Czech republic

Found with Old Croman and Lutseman. TFTC

Found on holiday in Te Anau. Thanks.

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On a quick holiday in Te Anau, haven't been this way for many years. Thanks for the caches and I look forward to coming back again soon. Apologies for the generic logging.

It was a lovely hid and beautiful scenery. TFTC

Out with family and a friend hunting caches tftc

Great area thanks for bringing me here tftc

Filling in time on a winters day in between rainfall.

Down the lake to lake track for ride. Tftc

Managed to drive right to this one so saved my tired legs tftc

Nice location! Tftc

Nice location! Tftc

Nice location! Tftc

Great find

Beautiful afternoon to head out and locate a few caches. I walked from the parking lot on the gravel bit, while a family where heading out on their bikes. Nice to see the area being utilised. No one at gz when I got there. TFTC!!

Tftc beautiful riverside location

great find nice place tftc

My first visit down to this little spot. Tftc

On Tour with TVRAT
TFTC from Germany
Icehawaii

T4TKäsch
YES, we käsch!
Käsch ON!!

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
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TVRAT

Cache found in fine shape. Fresh logbook and plenty of trade goods. tnlnsl tftc

There is far mor difficult pne around, but I like the spot very much.
Logbook ist wet.

Thank u

Walking around the Te Anau area collecting caches on New Years Eve.

First find of the day after a short walk.

#6141

Thanks for bringing me here lovely views all around. Picked up a trackable remove it on.

A nice find on my way past, heading home. Had a nice rest in te Anau after running the Kepler challenge.
Tftc

Nice place to stop on the way home.
Downsouthinv did an awesone job yesterday, and deserved looking after!!
Thanks for bringing me here.
Dropped a tb

Day 3 of our south of south NZ caching blitz being shown around by kiwigeoswarmi and granville86a. Great to nave the local knowledge to find these spots. Always good to find a cache quickly when the CO is watching on! Tftc

Found alongside Hevic, silvachief, and jaycie on our Fiordland trip. Though the weather was dry, we opted to take a walk to the cache from a nearby parking spot. It took silvachief and I a bit of effort to find and eventually sign, but find and sign we did. Meanwhile, Hevic and jaycie were over by the river checking out nature and all its wonders, particularly the river flow. Enjoyed this cache quite a bit. Cheers!

Nice spot, Tftc!

Last in the series... I think. Thanks

Good spot. Tftc

Got it this time, was flooded last time I was searching. Geohound having a great time and nearly bowled me over when I was nearing cache site. Good cache.

Nice spot near river. Thanks for the cache. Great to do some caches when visiting from Aust.

Getting late in the day and after passing some workmen digging along some of the new cycletrail where it meets the road, drove right out to where the track loops around the GZ. Followed the hippo trail and but cache wasn't quickly in hand. Nice camo, it was hard to spot in the crook. I SL while the little woman changed the bag. TFTC

Thanks

Quick and easy find. TFTC

Tftc. Easy find on a gorgeous day

I thin k I might have tried to get this cache years ago

Tftc

Lovely spot for lunch

Nice day for a walk

Nice quick find on a couple of days zipping around Southland.

Its a 3 week expedition, with The Seagnoid and Zara, round the South Island. Rakiura Walkway, my objective, is bagged, so its homeward bound the long way round. Its day 16 of our journey, Manapouri to Te Anau via Milford.
Lots of facilities here but no people. Maybe its just too early - but its such a beautiful day. Snagged and tagged another one. Cheers

Temp log more later

TFTH

After hiking today I drove here for this cache. Considering the hint it was an easy find.
Thanks for showing the place and greetings from Austria.

Turned out to be a great weekend for the fishing competition, so a few boats and muggles around, but still managed to find this with no one around. TFTC

Thanks fur bringing me here. Witnessed a rainbow trout being caught.

Tftc!

Quick find Tftc

Out with redsoxbean. Visiting from Pennsylvania, USA. TFTC ^_^

Traveling to Milford Sound with Loth. We started in Wanaka, stopped in Queenstown for a Fergburger and continued to the Fjordlands. Tftc!

A jet boat had just pulled up at the ramp area not far away as we arrived. Quick find - tftc

Great fun for school exercise.

Rain kept muggles at a minimum and finally zeroed in on the cache. TFTC

Greetings from Czech republic and thanks for the cache.

Good walk great location having a blast with valleysend & droidm tftc

What a lovely place to come for a walk. Very good clue. TFTC

Good find nice area withe heavensangels & valleysend tftc

Tftc

I parked the car and in the big car park and it was momentarily disconcerting to see the river "on the wrong side and flowing the wrong way". A moment later I concluded that there was a big loop in the river. A nice little walk to the cache which was quickly found.

Nice treasures. Well hidden.

Well camouflaged

Great spot. Watched a helicopter flying someone off the Kepler Challenge. Hope its not Mr Howonearth. Quick find. Thanks.

This entry was edited by howonearth on Saturday, 05 December 2015 at 05:28:27 UTC.

Found during a day trip out and about!

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

TFTC

Found. Placed travel turtle 'The Flash'

Logging The Flash

TFTC

We had basically given up on this one when we got to less than a kilometer and couldn't find a road to the cache. We headed on our way back to Te Auna to find another cache when I spotted the road sign for the boat landing. I scared my wife with my sudden braking and turn! We had no problem getting down to the cache and making the find, however, a pile of loose river rocks put some definite marks on the bumper of the rental car when we pulled out. Hopefully they will be feeling forgiving when we bring it back or this might be an expensive cache!

TFTC!

tftc

TFTC, nice spot albeit a tad chilly on a Queens Birthday Saturday.

Got about 37m from where I thought cache might be, but didn't feel like going for a paddle to find it. Geohound was having a great time. Will come back another day

Tried for this one 2 days earlier but couldn't get near as river too high. As it was I still had to do a bit of wading but cache high and dry and right where it should be.