flying machines (Westport, West Coast) Carters Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By weenz on 10-Feb-10. Waypoint GC23V34

This looked tricky from the start. Took a while to pluck up courage to enter the garden. Then where to start as GPS wasnt that much use. Decided I had the right tree & convinced agile daughter to get out of car to climb the tree but no cache there. On extending the hunting zone I found it. I Feel like this one earns a higher difficulty rating than it has however. TFTC

A bit of a hunt but soon found the goods. TFTC

Gps not good under trees. Glad i persevered

Bit of a hunt but finally found the right one.

Followed the logs, found the cache! Yay!

Forgot pen so couldnt sign the log. Nice and easy once you widen search, not in the fork you think..

Always feel like someone is watching when I come and attempt this one..... but not on xmas day...plenty of cars in the carpark but all quite...should have trusted my gut but i searched a few other locations before coming up with the find tftc

Windy Swester. Tftc

#11,300. I stayed overnight in Murchison and drove through to Westport this morning to meet a work colleague. We are heading down to Punakaiki today. After picking her up at the airport I mentioned there was a cache here so we wandered over to GZ to look for it. Had to check a few of the trees before spotting the cache. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks weenz for hiding it here.

After doing a bit of the new cycle trail we decided to do a loop and grab the caches out towards south point. We did a circle of the garden before finding the best approach to the tree. Found and signed. TFTC

Found eventually on a quiet day at the airport.

Nice peaceful location but had to look for it

Found 29.8.21

One plane on the runway and a few cars in the parking area. All quiet on a sunny morning. TFTC

Cache is all good. Out TB. TFTC.

TFTC

Thanks weenz for placing this cache

It was all nice and dry inside and with a TB in residence which I left for others in case it is meant to fly somewhere.

TNLNSL TFTC

There is a airport! Good hide! Half of the little trees looked like peaches. TFTC!!

Out with me geo buddy, swapped bug

TFTC. Things you learn caching - Westport has an airport. A wet day today so we were only aiming for drivebys. This one took the longest and we got wet legs in the foliage.

Easy find on a bike ride from Carters Beach into town on a freezing cool morning, and back via look at airport.
TFTC

Thought I grab this one quick before my flight

TFTC quick find

Found after a brief search. Dropped off Princess Frog tb. Sl. Tftc

Nice and easy

Is it really necessary to go into the bush, it doesn't seem right....

Tricky dicky. Found on a lovely sunny day

All good here.

Found 15th Jan: My first night time geocache (@ 10pm). Phone had me at 1m from hint object - not the right one. Hand went into an empty birds nest by mistake - no body home thank goodness! Kept increasing search area for other hint matches ignoring mobile readings - found at last. Very easy find once at correct hint object
Everything nice and dry and tucked back in place. TFTC

Like the previous finder, my phone GPS pointed to a plausible, but wrong tree. Found by searching all the other options fitting the hint! TFTC

TFTC

A few options in here, widened the search and success. Cheers

led to wring tree.
but overhead cover so excusable.
TFTC
491

No flying machines in action.

Had a pretty good look around and no luck

Just been down the beach on the other side of the air strip so now we are parked at the airstrip. Dusk is approaching fast so torches come in handy to add some extra light to snag and tag this one. Cheers. No flying machines to be seen.

Its off on another geotour this weekend with The Seagnoid, Zara and Toby. We spent last Sunday in Nelson collecting the gemstones from the Museum Heist, so this weekend we are on a Geotour to the Westcoast with The Seagnoid, Zara and Toby, to return the gems. Early Saturday morning we went on another magical tour of Denniston. Great views today just after dawn. Enjoyed a walk along the Kawatiri River Trail. Visited Tauranga Bay to snag an old cache.

Another cache I thought I had been to, back in May 2015. but there is noting in the logs, so maybe maybe not. It's getting late in the day, needing torches to find the cache. Well, to not trip over the roots, anyway. Now that this cache has been found and the gems are back in the fault, it's time to head for bed, Another busy day tomorrow!

Taybeedragon and I headed out to the West Coast to figure out how to return the jewels taken from that big heist at the Teague-Ulmer Museum back into their vault. And I picked the West Coast to do that as there is a cache nearby that gives me the last hidden month for a NZ Jasmer. And on top of all that, it is the 50 year anniversary of the first men on the moon - Happy Moon Landing Day! While the rest of the country was bathed in glorious rain, we were stuck with sunshine and clouds. Oh, well, can't have it all.

TFTC nice easy find

Tyfc nice easy find for mystery at the museum.

Found it in the dark cool hiding spot

Found it.
Thanks.

Found this one while on a holiday away from our home in Whangamata. Thanks for the cache

Nice find while waiting to see a friend off. Tftc

Found while dropping our travel companion at the airport to head to the North island whilst we continue on around the south

Unusual having a golf course next to the air port..especially the way I play golf ha ha ..nice hide thanks weenz

Was out here last week catching a flight to Welly on Sounds Air, nice to get a smiley from here

There were several host options here and most were checked before the large TB was spotted and then the cache. Thanks for the placement weenz

Enjoying a short break in Westport with visitors from the UK.
This cache was a quick find. TFTC.

TFTC

So Westport has a daily flight to Wellington? Must be very useful, to judge from the number of cars parked here.

Having just spent 5 days walking The Old Ghost Road (& one very comfortable night at the Rough and Tumble Lodge) we somehow had the energy to cache our way home. We found 18 and had one DNF, and then wilted and stayed the night in Reefton rather than continuing to Christchurch.

I'm afraid I'm going to continue the cut and paste logs, but at least the weather improved so we could actually open containers without them filling with water (all logs signed ).

Speaking of which; we signed the logs BRN (Bo&bronnie, Rincewind3, and Not Manly Jack) to save time and space in the log books.

NMJ wanted to drive out to the rivermouth, and that took us past the airport so...
Let's grab the cache there too! A nice easy find under the watchful eye of a cat in the window of a nearby window.

TFTC weenz
Find # 3644

perfect way to end the day. Need more days off to get further up the coast. Yay

Enjoyed the treasures inside TY

Thanks another kool find

A nice and quick find. All the cars in the carpark were empty thnkfully. Cheers.

After last nights rain, I thought it would carry on into today. But no! A few showers in the morning and the rest of the day was great. Off to Westport for tonight.

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

Tftc
On a holiday trip in New Zealand was looking for a few geocaches places were beautiful and great thanks

A short drive around Carter's Beach, it's too hot to walk, and grab a few local caches.

I looked at several options before finding the correct GZ.

T4tC weenz

Civv'nr & MissTreadlightly (UK)

While waiting for our flight -only people on board - thought we'd pop over to get this one. Quick find. Tftc.

A quick find at the airport, seems the West Coast is the place to be for cachers these holidays. Most caches have been found recently. tftc

Steed found this one while I was busy trying to film the magnificent cloud of starlings doing that cloud thing I have only seen on TV before.

Nice quick find, no one around. Left a TB TFTC weenz

#7160

Interesting spot, found while in Westport for the NZ army.

Found it whilst on exercise with NZ Air Force

Tftc

Found it after awile

A quick find while leaving the airport. TFTC.

Found with NZDi. We had been intending to do a trip to the Coast after a workmate and fellow geocacher came back from a Christmas camping holiday and dropped a map of walks around Westport on my desk. On comparing the walk and geocaching maps, it was apparent to see there was plenty of scope for a geocaching holiday or three to the coast. The only thing we needed to ensure was that the weather played the game, unlike when my workmate had her Christmas break there. Knowing that we had the weekend free this weekend I kept an eye on the forecast for the coast and it was looking pretty good, so a motel was booked and a rudimentary and flexible geocaching plan was hatched.

The idea was to head to the Coast early on Friday morning picking up no more than half a dozen caches along the way. We limited ourselves to this as we know from previous experience that it can take over six hours to do an hour and a quarter trip if you are geocaching as well.. Once we got to the coast, we were going to do the Cape Foulwind walk, then cache as much as we could from there back to town. We then intended to do as much of the K.R.T caches before retiring for the night and in the morning do the Charming Creek Walk before heading back home again picking up the odd cache along the way. In the end it was mission achieved with 74 finds over two days and only one DNF along the way.

After our trip from Blenheim, severely limiting the amount of caches we grabbed along the way, we arrived at the carpark around 10am. After getting changed into more appropriate caching attire we walked the track to Tauranga Bay picking up all the caches in order apart from the nearby multi. After completing the Cape Foulwind walk, we headed back towards Westport picking up as many caches as we could along the way.

Only a few more caches on this side of the river to find, however now that I am at home logging all the finds, I see that I missed a nearby Letter Box Hybrid. A disappointment but nothing to worry too much about as I will be coming back to this part of the country for geocaching a few more times in the future.

As for this cache, its another one of those QEF PnGs.

TFTC weenz

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC weenz

Nocturnal caching trip after kids in bed at the camp ground. Felt a little bit uncertain in the bushes in the dark. Wouldn't do that in Christchurch! Found soon enough fortunately. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

On West Coast travels for a wee family holiday. Staying nearby so came out to have a looksee at the airport.....on finding the cache the boys were excited when a helicopter came in & refuelled then left again....way cool....

Quick find.

Found it nice one found it on Westport trip t ftc

Didn't spend too long looking, but couldn't find it.

Getting a few caches before heading back to Nelson

We left for our Waitangi Weekend in Westport on Friday night. Last night was spent at Carter's Beach Top 10. We being JDSCOUT and I.
I wonder how many people fly into Westport from Wellington?

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Thanks. weenz for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4609 for me.

No planes today.

Easy find nice garden and area to bike around

A quick find on a nice morning. TFTC

Nice and easy find while waiting for Sounds air to take me back to Wellington.

A long weekend proved to be just what it said on the tin; a weekend that was long. With mrs capperz trapped in work for 2 of the 3 days this weekend a plan was made to head over to the West Coast for some caching, with the added bonus of some fine weather too. Forecast was for clear skies and low 4, high of 15 degrees, which is some preferred caching weather. Also in possession of a geocaching map of Westport being virgin territory there was every chance of finding a 'few'.
A slight chance of one of 2 FTFs in Westport and the bait was dangled and too good to not take a swipe at. Headed off at 0830 on Sunday and got back around 1830 on Monday so a full on couple of days with park n grabs, beachside specials and a walk along the Cape Foulwind walkway (there wasn't any wind, and it wasn't foul so thinking of renaming it Cape Nicesun.
Day 2 of our trip and most caches were on the Western side of the Buller river. Nice and easy find here as we head towards (in a zig-zaggingly styled) the Foulwind walkway
Coordinates a bit out here, but only one real option for a viable G Z
T F T C weenz, again

Find by pnutbeagle and The Marathon Man (on vacation from Ontario, Canada) during our vacation to New Zealand and Australia

Now heading down the West Coast on our way to Milford Sound for a boat cruize

Find by pnutbeagle and The Marathon Man (on vacation from Ontario, Canada) during our vacation to New Zealand and Australia

The Marathon Man disturbed a rabbit when he went in the area for it

Awaiting for plane to arrive after busy day. Neat find

Great airport

Easy find. The people who were around were all busy with the little plane that was about to take off tftc

Just arrived in Westport we found some caches before a cup of coffee. Nice hide. My husband was glad, we came to this place, he has been flying these small machines.
Greetings from Denmark.

It probably sounds silly, but others who find this GC in its new location will understand ... "A quick find once I looked in the right place!" Found with Mporokosa as part of our Waitangi Day drive-about. TFTC

Glad the location of the cache changed because even in its new location, I felt a bit uneasy.

Bit late in logging these - was a lovely stay at Carters Beach TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 44.411 E 171° 34.666

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 44.428 E 171° 34.739

Distance from original: 346.8 feet or 105.7 meters.
Moved to a new locatiion

Found it in the new place.. TFTC

Its in a restricted area. We got told off so shifted it to the nearest agapanthus outside. Near the Avis rental car parks

Oops got told off here going into a restricted area hehe

So.. normally this place would be available for seach unobstructed.. today the airport was turned in to a fieldbase for a traning excercise for the airforce.. the nice men in uniforms at the entrance did let me in, after I had explained geocaching to them, but when I approached GZ, I realiez the area there had been fenced in and labelled 'defence area'.. did not want to go there.. no I didnt't.. thre are other caches out there =)

Exciting little adventure with some lovely treasures

Grace found this one.

Found it! Easy find

Tftc

Nice easy find at this cute wee airport. tftc.

Dropped off TB