Hawea River Track (Central Otago) Hawea Flat, South Island, New Zealand
By Seeker 01 on 18-Jan-10. Waypoint GC2346P

Hi all,

As I haven't been into Geocaching for a while and I am no longer in a position to maintain this cache I am archiving it.

I hope this place has been of interest to the people who visited it. It has been great hearing and seeing your experiences.

Cache will be removed in due corse.

Thanks,

Seeker 01

Found it! TFTC!

Re-visited. Notebook is soaking wet.

Very late logging ... Found with Mporokosa. TFTC.

Our final full day in Wanaka, so we decided to bike the Hawea River Track and grab some caches. Found without a problem. TFTC.

Logbook was quite damp but My pen wrote on the paper without too much trouble. This marked my turning point back to the swing bridge and car.

Mr Daywalk was registering for the Hawea Challenge, so an ideal excuse for a one way bike ride down this track to do the caches - all new since last time we did it. Unfortunately no time to dry off the logbook much, but put a pill bottle with a dry logsheet inside the cache as an alternative. [tB Paua Dolphin](https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=9F94E3) visited.

Awesome little walk! Water was so nice we could see the fish swimming around! Log was too damp to sign and didn't take anything to replace it with. TFTC!

Very beautiful place. Saw a trout, but no eels. TFTC!

Somebody should come here and take all contents out for an hour or so to dry them out on a sun. The log is too damp to sign.

Found while on a walk between Albert town and Lake Hawea. TFTC!

Biking with our Active Adventures group around the Hawea. I stopped and a couple of them asked if there was a cache here. I said yes and they were amazed. Log was wet, but I didn't have anything proper to replace with. TFTC

Found during hot walk along the river today

TFTC

Found on a bike ride to Lake Hawea with family. Log very damp! Tftc.

Log is very damp. Someone can't have put it back in waterproof bag

Log very wet - needs drying out

Found it! Nice easy find on our afternoon ride on the last official day of the school holidays. TFTC

Nice easy find. Very pretty spot for a rest and a snack... We left the kiddies snoozing in the pram so we didn't have to worry about the cliffs.

Very cool spot

Nice place. Left a tb. TFTC

On a wonderful walk from lake hawea to the rodeo club we left a coin here. Later enjoyed the rodeos and walked back.

Thanks!

TFTC! Quick and fun find!

Done most of the local caches now. TFTC

Out for a bike ride today tftc

Done

Great view.nice walk along the river track.

Quick find while taking best dog-friend Tasman for a walk along the Hawea River. great spot.TFTC

Great hide, 3rd find of the day.first finder of 2015

In Wanaka on business and had a few hours to spare so hired a bike and thought somes exercise would do me good. As it just happens came across a few caches.
2.10pm - SLTFTC

Gorgeous view of the river. Great find.

TFTC

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

TFHC

Found cache on ride with Tillerpilots. Great track. well worth a visit. TFTC

Found on a bike trip with the kids. TFTC

First geocache! Woo!

Finally a chance to get this, fun bike ride:-)

THANKS FOR THE CACHE Sweet spot easy access from track/river

First find of the day TFTC

Thanks for making the bikeway even more enjoyable

Found easily whilst out on a bike ride

Replaced Pen.

TFTC Had a nice picnic in the lee of a Manuka/Kanuka nearby. "What a beautiful day, we're not scared"

Got it

After a short drive turned into a long 1 because we got locked in the green waste tip we thought we make the most of it and get this cach

Parked at Camp Hill Rd and trekked up the track past the civil works in the river. Lovely weather for a hike in the sun. TNLN

Nice bike ride on a lazy Sunday, trout in pool:)

Drizzly bike ride but an easy find, have spent many hours in the eddy below with high school students teaching kayak skills lovely spot indeed. TFTC
NB. No pencil in the cache so I'll put one in in the next few days.

Great spot. Lovely chat with muggle, oblivious to the cache box, thought I was having my lunch! Left TB. TFTC

Nice walk on a sunny but windy day. Took TB. TFTC

Found while section-walking the track as a part of Te Araroa. Hiked from Hawea at Domain Road to Camp Hill road and back again - plus some more along the lake front. Nice spot, thanks Seeker 01.

The day finally cleared for a peaceful walk along this river track cheers

Neat view & great place for our bike ride. TFTC

Beautiful spot on top of a cliff overlooking Hawea River. Bicyle very helpful. *tftc*

We took a leisurely stroll to the cache, from the Hawea end, after several days of strenuous caching in the area. The cache didn’t take too long to find, and we passed people running, cycling, and walking, all with their dogs. TFTC

Nice walk easy find! TFTC

Found while on our bike ride down the river, great place for a cache, the backwash in the river was full of feeding fish. That night we returned to try our luck at catching one but had no luck, we think they were feeding on the seeds from the willow trees.

Fun find on a very windy afternoon - very glad it was a tail wind. Perfect track for our young bikers. TFTC!

Found while biking the Hawea River Track - what a great ride this is. Neatly hidden, TFTC.

Nice walk on a very hot day.-Bitsprayer

Oh this had to be the best spot! Would live a swim right now!

Hot day good walk with my 2 year old tftc

A lovely walk down the trail - some big houses across the river. Easy find. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(2022)

Great spot for a picnic.

TFTC

TFTC

Ran in from Camp hill road and met son in alw coming in from other end.
TFTC. River high. Few nice big rainbows in the backwaters

Nice day, out for a run along the river track.
Nice pool, saw some fish resting there.
TNLNSL TFTC

A quick find on a beautiful bike ride, stunning day, great views - thanks for directing us here!

TFTC, the best cache of the eight I've done on this trip. A few elements came together nicely - a warmish winter day(enough to make the insects chirp) spotting fish, fantails, grey warblers, swallows at gz and without kids for an hour - able to get along the track at a decent rate.

Sigh - despite having the Lightning McQueen scooter and the running bike we didn't even get half way there - may require a quick adult solo trip if I can scare up a bike...and polish off the last of the seeker01 caches...

A pleasant walk in the later winter afternoon and nobody else about this side of the river. Retrieved the Bigfoot Ale TB and beat a retreat just as the sun sank below the ridgeline. Thanks for bringing us out here

Was checking out the progress of the new Kayak slalom course - will be interesting.
Found with hound and Mr Muggles. Thanks Seeker 01

Lovely day for a bike ride. Great spot for a rest. Easy find.

This entry was edited by feet_first on Monday, 06 June 2011 at 11:29:02 UTC.

Good timing here, just as we caught up to a group of slower cycling mugles GZ came into view. TNLN TFTC

Took TB left TB.

nice walk, but long do =), took it on my way to haast....
TFTC

A good part of the track for a cache with the view of the river racing past. Hoped for some mushrooms along the way but only a great quantity of toadstools. Dropped off a geocoin

Nice walk down by the river

Biked from the motor camp on lake hawea to wanaka along the tracks.. had icecream on the lake front then biked back, picking up caches along the way.. Cool bridge at the other end. Caravaning around the sth island.. Thanks
13 March 2011 | 1:18 PM

Rode the MTB from Camphill Rd to the cache. What a pleasant ride it was. This is a great facility for all cyclists both young and old. Nice looking home across the river. Thanks for the cache.

Found while on family bike ride. What a great track. TFTC

Nice ride from 2BBuilt. Even nicer having a tail wind on the way back. -Coin. Thanks.

Enjoyed the bike ride. Muggles around. Great view. Good spot and nicely hidden Seeker01.

Lovely walk along the river. TFTC

Great day for a walk, saw some fish in the pool! TFTC!

A nice walk on a sunny day. I wondered if the owner of this cache was watching from the nice house across the river!

Found it at 06:48, my 27th of 32 finds on a South Island wander, and my 789th find.

Out for a morning contitutional down the track. What a great place, next time I'll bring my bike.

TFTC Seeker 01!

Too cloudy wet and windy for skiing so went for a walk.

Non skiers enjoyed a stunning day walking and caching. TFTC!

Biked down from Hawea to do this. We thought more cachers should have been here by now.
+ a large marble, - nothing.

oh we wished we had our bikes with us, and join all the others!

*FTF* A very surprised FTF after short bike ride from the bridge. It is great to see all these new cycle ways coming into action around the country side. TFTC

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