Hair of the Dog (West Coast) Arahura Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By Annie & PB on 17-Apr-10. Waypoint GC2709V

The road has now been fenced off and I was unable to get to the cache as it was an electric fence.

Sounds like this is no longer able to be accessed.

Log book too wet to be able to write in.

Found

Found it! Book is quite wet/soggy!

Jaspah78 was the founder of this catch. Our first geo adventure near the Arahura !

Quintin & Kiana ❤️

7/12/2015

First Geo Adventure.
Quintin & Kiana

Me and the bro

I had fun dodging the electric fence and cow poo

Found it but VERY wet, with Abby

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

TFTC

6760. Out for the day geocaching from our base in Kumara to Lake Kaniere. This was cache number nine
of twenty one for the day. An interesting and easy cache not far off the main road. Thanks for the history lesson and for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

I enjoyed reading the additional information in the description and the humour. Great to pick up another of these classic older style caches. TFTC #6649

Yayyy my first find for the day on my wild foods festival trip! Tftc

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way to Hokitika and Kaniere Lake. We' ve seen beautiful things!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Found it

Found this back on the 15th November but phone died so logging it now. Was a quick find. Remember going to the pub years ago

díky za keš
Log after homecoming from long holiday

Nice wee detour on an old road tftc

Things have changed. Tftc

Nice and easy cache in the morning, thanks

With Edvern. No sign of the pub now. A drink would have been welcome.

Found with Mapper Ted. An interesting little detour into past history, thanks. Like the title

Found while heading down the coast to Queenstown, nice spot TFTC

ty for the find

Heading out to cache for the day with my little geobuddies Coco and Milo and Nosynel of course.
Was just about to step closer to the cache and a weka jumps out with fright. Not sure who was more scard me or it. Lol.

Poor weka got a fright during the cache hunt.

Hair of the Dog??? and you put a logbook with a picture of a cat on the front, haha loved it. Easy cache although I did fall into the ditch in front of the cache. The others just laughed!

After driving around in circles and finding some references to dogs we ended up with a fortunate cache find.

Dakotacats found this, I laughed when she ended up in the ditch - it looked funny from the car!!

Easy find
Tflc

on roll! Thanks west coast!

Driving on the old road, picked up the cache. Tftc

Easy as

A quick find. We found our first geocoin yay. We are just finding out what to do with it. TFTC

Quick find. Remember well the days the highway came this way. Nature is taking it back

Ah. That's the bit I should have read more carefully - - - dog-leg to nowhere. After signing the log I was cruising along, tuning the radio - as you do, when I suddenly became aware I was running out of road. You can't be too careful!!!! I reckon I remember the pub. How times have changed. TFTC .

Going from Hokitika to Greymouth today, enjoying the fact that caches point out a few back roads. Thanks.

A car was parked right beside it. But we still managed to retrieve it and put it back without being seen. TFTC.

Two Muggles were sitting in their car eating Pies.Womble Terry went over to the window and told them that the Lights were on,and it was sneakily found signed and quickly put back.TFTH

Quick pick up ... Cheers

Just down the road from my grandparents house! Cool history and although smelly beautiful scene!

Thanks!!

Had to search a bit for this one as the grass was really long and wet after days of rain. Tftc

Cache and contents are a little damp. Thanks for the history. TFTH

A quick easy find on the old road. TFTC

Whilst staying at the lovely motorhome camp we went for a stroll to find some nearby caches. Found quickly. TFTC

Enjoyable find on a day caching around Hokitika. TFTC

Quick find while out and about collecting a few caches in the area. TFTC, #5817

Quick found,

TFTC

Georode

Doing a caching trip to the coast

A quick find on the way to Hokitika today. I'm sure I must have driven along here in the past but the memories are a bit distant. Signed log, TFTC

Nice trip down memory lane as we have often been round this corner when there was no other way to go! TNLN. TFTC.

It felt strange driving along this abandoned road with the white centre line markings. TFTC

It seems like yesterday that the hotel burnt down, I remember it well. Thanks

Hey, woof... JC Cache Dawg here...

Im loading all my finds from my Alpha Males (aka GenCuster) logs, where he deigned to remember that I was with him... As if he could forget...10/01/13 15:30

took a nice detour to this one, and visited a well-disguised hole on the way between cache and car TFTC!!

10/01/13 15:30 Think the terrain rating should be higher as I thought I'd have to resort to rescue equipment after HM disappeared down a grass covered hole between park & grab JC Cache Dawg scoffed as he'd have leapt it. Cheers, GC.

This entry was edited by GenCuster on Saturday, 19 January 2013 at 09:52:05 UTC.

Cache soon in hand with the help of the hint. Met by two local four legged muggles who seemed to be out for a walk on their own TFTC.

Interesting history, and also to consider that this used to be the main road. On our way back to Christchurch. TFTC

ZH & Blondie invade NZ 2012!

Our 167th find in NZ, 10th of Day 12

Took the dog leg thinking we could sneak through to 'The Relic'. not to be, got a smiley at least.

TFTC

Last time a campervan was parked direct in front of GZ. So had to come back today. Well, with that amount of rain even a campervan would not have stopped us! TFTC

Oh No! Our holiday is drawing to a close. Day 18 and travelling from Hokitika to Greymouth today. Again no rain but a little overcast. Still nipping around in our little Corolla, Geo Hire Car with Flags flying - Getting noticed everywhere we go. lol....

Checked out of our accommodation and before leaving town decided to pick up a few local caches as we headed off.

Well no drinks here today! But we managed to find the cache.

Noticed after picking up a cache opposite that there was a farm worker nearby after we left so lucky we werent muggled at this one too it would seem.

TFTC Annie & PB

Took longer than it should have to locate Not where I expected it to be.

Took Farmer Dog TB and left St. Mary Star of the sea GC. Thanks Annie & PB for the hunt

Remember the pub, had a few beers there, quick find. TFTC.

Set farmer Rolly on is way again. No better place for him than to be amongst beautiful farm land during calving time!

Great to know the history of these roads. Got TB but it hasn't been logged. TFTC

No dogs, no hairs, just a cache on a sad lonely old bit of road. A quick stop and hunt and the smiley was mine. Thanks

I remember this pub. Found white post, fell in a hole but couldn't find it.

Nice easy find. Great start to a day caching with the kids! tftc

Nice hide

Cute

TFTC Muggles every where around here.

Just getting to log West coast caches - only managed to do a few as other on holiday with me not so keen. This one wasn't a good choice as bit hard to turn the caravan on the dead end road so no more caches for me that day.
Interesting preserving of the old bridge and area - tftc

Coordinates changed from:
S 42° 40.238 E 171° 01.198

Coordinates changed to:
S 42° 40.236 E 171° 01.198

Distance from original: 12 feet or 3.7 meters.

A very small movement to a hopefully slightly higher area.

Down in Hoki today, so dropped by to fix this one up. Dried off, replaced logbook, and moved a few metres to a slightly higher spot.

Thanks for helping us to pass an idle day around Hokitika, waiting for the one day Coast to Coast race tomorrow.


Cache contents are very wet.

Easy find although mobile took us on 2.5km trip that should have been 500m - wet log

Found end of last year but due to unforseen circumstances never logged it on here.
I remember the cache being extremely wet, as it was just after recent flooding, as this area was under water.
Logbook was wet then too.

Found it, it's a bit wet, so didn't write in the book. Might go out and replace the notebook next time I'm going past.

Found!! Very Wet!! Tried to write name in without much success - cool piece of history TFTC

Another very wet log. It seems to be a bit of a problem with most caches round Hokitika.TFTC

A very quick find almost as quick as the hounds. TFTC

Not knowing this road at all I couldnt figure out the reason for the cache while we were there sitting here now reading the cache notes and logs it makes sense!!!! good - one explained lol It was a quick find and we did drive to the dead end just to have a look - signed log thanks for the cache

Had picked early on that it looked like an old roadway but never knew the story till going to grab the cache thanks for bringing us here TFTC

Nice quick driveby, and had a lovely view of the pink peaks of the mountain under the light of the set sun. Cheers Gav [9531]

I remember this dog leg from when i was young, left a taz TFTC

Interesting how the blackberry is already creeping on to the road here TFTC

The road certainly is going to nowhere and the cache is in the middle of nowhere.TFTC.

It is hard to believe that this was once a busy spot. It is amazing the effect a small road change can make. Thanks.

On our Pounamu search we thaught to reach an interesting beach spot through this road but only found a (not even green) box - at least. TFTC!

On quake break with mother and allowed to find one or two.

Nice quick find. Good tour around the area searching for geocaches. SL TFTC

found it. TFTC

great quick and easy find found with ribsc and bluejean1

Yet another random vehicle gone up and down here for the cache - not too many other travellers though! TNLN thanks

A quick find and interesting story about the location.
TFTC

We hadn't been this way in awhile. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. TFTC

Interesting little road, was this the old main road? Thanks

Pleasant detour away from traffic