Bellbird Walk (West Coast) Ruatapu, South Island, New Zealand
By Annie & PB on 17-Apr-10. Waypoint GC2703B

Looks like this one has gone.

Looked for ages but no luck. Maybe a pic would help if someone finds it in the future

Will check it out.

We could not find

We could not find it anywhere

No luck for me either. I'm not convinced its missing just so many choices in here

Had a pretty good look for this one but to no avail. Staying in Hokitika we decided to ride south on the West Coast Wilderness Trail returning via Ruatapu and SH6. Some drizzle but a great day with stunning vistas of snow on the tops. TFTC

We had a good look but couldn't find it.

We had a good look but couldn't find it.

Here overnight after riding Wilderness Trail. Found as described although took a few minutes.thanks

On our trip from the glaciers to Greymouth we found this cache. We didn't hear any bellbirds. TFTC!

It was time to head south into new territory for me to cache.

This is a very nice area. Must remember next time I am down this way to park up with the caravan. Though I must stay well clear of the bush lawyer.

Cheers for the cache.

We did a round of caches prior to leaving, this one was pretty soggy on the inside, the log was basically pulp.
Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

At the Lake Mahinapua we have today stopped. It was very nice. How it at the Lake was many years ago, I can imagine. My wife rested in the Sun. I made a hike to search geocaches. This was well found, content very wet.

tftc
Trassolix

Fund Nr. 3691

Lovely area to visit. Thanks for putting a cache here. Cache all good. TFTC

on hols from chch

Grabbed while camping here. Tftc

A nice wee walk, lisening to the birds and enjoying the bush TFTC

Indeed it was a delightful short flat stroll through lovely bush - and a cache halfway to add to the pleasure!

i had to hunt around a bit for this one but I got there in the end.

We had the great chance to travel around New Zealand during six weeks and were able to see wonderful cities, landscapes and meet nice Kiwis. While staying in NZ many cache owners gave us the opportunity to search for very well hidden treasures and we thank them very much for preparing and maintaining them.
Greetings from Swiss geocachers
oli kuul

No trouble with this cache. Tftc

This is a lovely walk but unfortunately we heard no birds at all today. We did find the cache though.
Thank you Annie & PB.

No bell birds to be heard while our caching day is coming slowly to an end. A lovely little walk though with a two cache bonus. Thank you Annie & PB

Found it. Tftc

Found with Southpaw88

Found with Gmccul & Ellehcim2001.

Overnight stay on our next leg of our NZ tour (haast to greymouth).

Morning well spent grabbing a few of the camp ground caches before continuing on.

Thanks for placing and maintaining.

Hello from Brisbane AU.

TFTC.

Easy find, log still wet.

Our trip today bring us to hokatika.
On the way we found some caches, so like that.
Thanks for showing and hidding. Greetings from Germany!!!

Had a good search and couldn't find

No bellbirds, no cache find for us.

Found this one lying out in the open behind the trunk! Quite wet, bag not closed properly but able to sign log. Enjoying this walk too but no Bellbirds yet! TFTC

A nice quick find as we walked along the pathway. TFTC.

Lovely doc campsite with a heap of caches to find. Finished our West Coast Wilderness cycle! 158km!! Very wet cache!

After spending day caching in the area it was good to get a few caches at the campsite. An easy find on a nice night after spending most of the day in rain.

Nice easy find TFTC

Another late entry all our entry we found on the 27th Nov start of our camping n find n our wee treasure

Love the walk through here. Found it easy. Thank you.

Took me longer than necessary because with was so focused on the hint that I haven't realised that I were at GZ the whole time.

Found it. TFTC Container full of water. Visiting with Beers_good.

Good little walk near the lake, thanks

good clues quick find

A beautiful, short walk in teh New Zealand busk. Lots of noisy bellbirds enjoying the dappled light.

Took a few minutes but got there in the end. Thanks.

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

12:45
Took us a while to find this cache but we finally did after a thorough search, we just have enough time for one more cache before continuing our journey to Franz Josef Glacier, all is well here, sl and raf, tftc . Greetings from Bury in Lancashire, England.

Its Easter & have teamed up with The Seagnoid & Zara, for a magical mystery tour, exploring the amazing West Coast. Its Sunday and we are off exploring again, heading towards Hokitika.
Lovely native walk at this DOC camping site beside the lake. Joint find. Thanks for bringing us here. Cheers

On a big Easter caching mission with ZaraBus and TaybeeDragon. Lots of crawling through mines, climbing hills, walking through bush. And yet we only covered a tiny bit of the West Coast, between Greymouth and Hokitika.

Another great little bush walk. I noticed the walk was not on the maps, so I have plotted it out and added it to Openstreet map. just now - it will update on your cellphones within an hour or so.

Having been here before with a DNF, I decided to run away from my teenagers at home and enjoy a bit of nature.
Just did the other Bellaire at the start of the track and decided to try again for this one.
Went by the hint and the cache was in hand within a couple of minutes.

Tftc
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Easy find.

A lovely find while doing this tiny walk with our walking group of oldies on tour from Auckland !
Thanks Annie & PB!

Out with our walking group on a short walk. Many interested in the find. Tftc

Found on a little walk on a beautiful sunday. Tftc! No TB here.

Thanks for the Cache in this great Nature.
We enjoy the walk from the Camp Ground.

Found it - TftC

Very nice walk! Tftc!

Amazing, wonderfull short bushwalk!

Nice bush walk

Found it with Jane Marple and Potin. TFTC

Found during our stay here at the camp site.
Tftc

This morning we started in Greymouth. Our first stop was Hokitika with its interesting art works. The next stop was here to spot this nice place and all its caches. Thanks

Logged this cache when we where camping on the doc camping nearby. Lovely walk tftc!

Found this cache on our 4 weeks honeymoon through New Zealand. So many great places to see in this beautiful country.
On the 10h day with our campervan we drove from Franz Josef Glacier to Punakaiki (Pancake Rocks). On the way made a break at Lake Mahinapua and searched for some geocaches. This one was found easily.
Greetings from Germany
TFTC

Found it easily. Thanks

Quick find on this gorgeous trail. Lots of curious wekas keeping us company. Tftc

Forgotten to bring my own pen, but there was a blue balloon inside. TFTC

Stopped to check out the camping area which was great but as it's raining we decided to keep driving. Not too wet to find the cache though....well it was really but we did. Tricky little hide! TFTC Annie & PB.

I had spent the morning in the local camp site, so it was a pretty good occasion for a little morning walk. Very nice little forest, The cache was a bit hard to find, but I managed to spot somehing like that mentioned in the hint.. and the cache was found not too far from the path

Found at 08:53 AM - #5729

TFTC

Looked for too long, had to move on. Next time maybe

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

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.

Grab this when walking the loop track on the way to getting a nearby FTF with Joshyreno. Tftc

Cache wet through, however log was dry Beautiful spot . SL after some maintenance; Thanks for sharing this spot; TFTC too

A long drive on our holiday today. We needed a break so we stopped at the first cache we got on our gps. What a nice place. You don't see from the road. After a short hike we found the cache quickly.

TFTC Team Klijnschatje
The Netherlands

6792. Back out Hokitika way today from our base at Kumara.This was so we could do the Treetop Walk. (What a great experience!) Decided to do some geocaching while driving around the area. this was cache number one of fifteen finds for the day. Did this on our way there. This was a lovely walk. Great to hear the clear bird calls. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Nice little walk on our weekend in the Pukekura. TFTC

Found with Vydra20. TFTC

We spent great time by the lake. This short walk wa lovely. TFTC!

Quick find while staying at the DOC camp.nice walk. TFTC

Found right on the spot woop woop next plz

Enjoyed the walk and showing visitors to nz what geocaching is. Thank you

Stayed at this campsite, very cold night but some nice short walks around. As bonus we found this cache, easily thanks to the hints.

trip with a campervan in the north and south island for one month.
very good time and a lot of nice cache's!!
thanks

#1045

Very nice area of the Coast. The flying vampires were out so a lump or two to scratch over the next few days. Well placed but easy enough to get. TFTC

Thanks great find

Great one to start on Thanks

DNF, no internet here, so all I had was a coordinate, but without any hint. Now that I can read text and hint, I must admit that my search area was a bit wrong.

Easy find once right punga found
Tflc

Nice walk. A little bit difficult to find. Tftc

We'd just done the tree walk, and thought we'd grab a few caches on way back to Barrytown.
The cache was a bit exposed, so re-hid it a bit better
TFTC

Lovely walk. Didn't see or hear any bellbirds. Maybe it was a bit late in the day for them. TFTC .

Out and about with Mrs Nofs on a lovley West Coast day. Managed to take in lots of views and snag a cache or two while we were about it. Thanks for adding these to this part of the world.

Looked and looked, recent storm damage in the area, will check again another day

TFTC. Easy find!

replaced with a smaller cache for the moment.

Lovely short walk through West coast forest. Log absolutely unuseable - needs replacing. TFTC>

Found by me and Jock. Cache very wet so didn't write in notebook. Nice walk

tftc

Short evening walk from my campsite. Lovely sheltered campground. On my bike this time but looks like I'll be planning a return trip with the kayak.inquisitive weka managed to get it's head stuck in my front wheel while I was cleaning the bike. And most indignant when it freed itself. At least it didn't hurl itself at my face like one did one night when I shone my headtorch at it. Silly me.....

A lovely bush walk. Thanks for bringing us here. dex had his caching naus with him today and had a quick find. Tftc