Bishops Saddle (Nelson/Marlb) Collingwood, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 05-Jun-10. Waypoint GC29TE6

We echo the previous finder! Oddly enough, we stopped her for lunch a few days ago before realising there was a smiley to be gained. Interesting history. TFTC.

Quick find thanks to recent replacement, tftc!

Cache replaced. Thanks andy.gail

Checked this one while gathering info for the Virtual. Cache missing so replacement put down.We are one of **Bum's Workers**

Fast easy find. Thanks

In Golden bay for orienteering.

More soon

Located with Ricardinho A quick stop to grab this traditional cache & the info for the virtual cache. A cool location with history boards about the goldfields. Day 3 of our Goldenbay Getaway & today we are off to explore the Aorere Goldfields, hike to Druggans Dam & the Cathedral Cave & finish up in Collingwood. We did have Wharariki on the agenda for today but we just ran out of time. Another fabulous day in paradise TFTC

Thanks bumandworker for the cache!

Easy find tftc

Found with Nutty Nora

Been meaning to stop here on our many trips to visit Piwakas muggle bro in Pkawau. Great spot and history

(# 8121) Day 1 of a caching trip to the Nelson/Golden Bay area for a repeat trip for the four amigos. Tripping with NZ_B, TwigNZ and YetiNZ. A day full of hilarity with nobody being spared being the butt of the jokes. Signed the log with NMTY.

Thanks bumandworker for bringing me here.

A quick find after completing the virtual.

Day 1 of “The Wellingtonians are back” tour with TwigNZ, YetiNZ, Mr-Mcgoo. After the last trip, with more caches for us to find, we decided we had to return. And, of course, there will be days of laughter, usually at my expense .

During our time here, all found caches were signed as NMTY (regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us hadn't found it previously), or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache bumandworker.

Some time ago a group of us from Wellington decided that what we should do is come down to the Nelson region for a long weekend of Geocaching. So we did. We had such a good time that just a few months later we decided to do it again. The same team to the same location, with the same agenda. The only real goal for this four day break is exploring, having fun, and finding more of the unfound geocaches in the area.

Day one of this trip took us all the way out to Cape Farewell and then back to Tākaka. We stopped at many caches along the way, and this was one of them.

Most of our find here we signed the log with the collective name of N.M.T.Y to represent the four of us: NZ_B, Mr-Mcgoo, TwigNZ, and YetiNZ.

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Thanks to bumandworker for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with Geocachers like this creating them and placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

Replaced log with Ulmuslynx.
Great hide.
Thank you for the cache

Couldn't see it anywhere.

DNF for me here, too.

My r4th DNF for the day.

No pile of rocks and no cache. CO needs to check.

Nice find in the bay today.

Good fine

Someone gave a toot as i was searching. Tftc

On a blustery day out in The Bay. Replaced log and container

Despite driving past here hundreds of times, I’ve never actually stopped. Great to finally read the signs! TFTC!

Container is cracked and log was mush. I replaced the log but the container probably needs to be replaced too

Log completely soaked. Needs replacing.

Day 7 of my 2020 NZE (New Zealand Experience).
(My apologies for the delayed logging but I'm in catch-up mode)

Seeing as I can't be in America right now, I'm touring around the South Island instead. During my time here I am aiming to find as many of the TMGT caches as I can (preferably all 41) and also as many Virtuals, Earthcaches and Letterbox Hybrids as possible, plus any Trads or others that will fill a hole in my D/T grid, my Jasmer grid, or else the last 3 remaining Hidden Dates on that grid.

After my huge drive of yesterday, I had planned today to be a bit more leisurely. I was delighted to be at Farewell Spit as it's a place I have long wanted to visit, so I had spent the previous night here in my campervan parked (not on the DOC reserve) on the side of the road as close to the beach as was allowed to make an early start on my caching for the day.

A quick and easy find here today, but on opening the cache I discovered that the contents were absolutely soaking wet! I was just about able to leave my mark, but this cache could really use some maintenance!

Thanks for placing this cache.

Was put in open log soaking wet. Have put in new bit of paper in and replaced in right place. Interesting spot

Nice easy park and grab. TFTC

Sadly the view wasn't that good, so I couldn't see the mountains named on one of the signs.
tftc!

I always enjoy these historic roadside plaques with caches nearby.

We overshot the entrance to the park and this was the first possible turning place. So it was a consolation to find a cache here! TFTC

Found with my wife on our End of year/New Year holiday.

A quick stop on a nice afternoon out. Day three of our trip, we stayed in Collingwood last night.
JDScout and I are on a campervan holiday from Christchurch to Collingwood to Havelock and back home to Christchurch. Geocaching is on my agenda. We both like biking and walking too. Thanks bumandworker for placing this geocache it is find 8100 for me.

Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
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Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Looks like a lot of people have found this cache.

A fast stop and find. TFTC

Quick find tftc

Thanks for hiding this cache

Found It! Thank you for the cache.

Found while over in Golden Bay for a short break

Quick stop on the way north. TFTC.

A quick find on our way back from farewell spit.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

Tftc

On the way back from Milnthorpe park and this is a quick PnG on my side of the road.
Tucked away well - TFTC B&W

A quick find - tftc

From our holiday in New Zealand after å friends wedding at Anatoki Salmon farms.
As the Cyclone Gita destrøyed our plans to do the Heaphey trail we needed to find another plave to explore. We choose to drive to the sand spit and haven't regret it. What a fantastic place`!

We took a walk to the fantastic Arches beach, saw the seals playing and found some caches Interesting parking spot beside the way.
Takk for showing us this place with his interessant information bumandworker.


~Ayorama~
Proud member of 'teamGalskap'.
Dutchy, soppelsker og ælvecacher.

I don't know where I'm going.
But I'm going.
Shall i go to the left , where nothing's right?
Or to the right , where nothing's left?
Are you coming with me?

Stopped here because there was a decent pullover here. Cache was quite deep down but safe and secure.

Nice place to stop ...cache soon found interesting history thanks B& W for another great cache

Up from CHCH visiting family in Richmond...and now a couple days in Golden Bay for some exploring. Settled in at the Golden Bay camp ground; sweet place.
Heading for Farewell Spit and surrounds....cool spot with some views and cool info. Cheers.

A quick find on our way north. TFTC.

A quick find, replace log and bag as log was very wet and bag ripped. TFTC

Found with TregearP whilst in the area for some walking and kayaking.

TregearP did a little maintenance, took nothing, left nothing, signed log and replaced as found.

Thanks for the cache.

The team ( The Seagnoid, Toby, Zara and I)are Collingwood and Milnthorpe Park on our radar for today.
Trying to find the entrance and go too far, so here is space to turn safely. And with the added extra to snag this one. Lots of interesting info boards here to read.

Figuring that the only way to cache Golden Bay in a decent time frame was to first convert the green sea of Milnthorpe park into yellow smileys, Taybeedragon and I came over the hill, and overshot.This was the nearest place to turn around, so pulled over to grab the cache while we were here. Found the cache without the gps while reading the info boards.

check

Definitely time to head home so a few roadside caches can be collected on the way. A nice big parking area here and some interesting photoboards. Cache quickly found.

Easy find, TFTC

Ok

What an interesting spot for gold exploration of the Apr are told fields never would have stopped if not for coaching ttc b n w

First cache of the day at the former gold field. TFTC.

TFTC wisoka from Germany

On holiday from the UK and we're enjoying stopping at all these information boards that we would otherwise have driven by. TFTC

Found it on our way back from the kahurangi lighthouse keeper hut. It was a realy long day and we almost made it to westport the same day. At this parking we took a short break.

Greetings from Switzerland, Team Fludia

Great history, leaving Collingwood after a lovely holiday. Tftc

Tftc, nice history

Over to the Bay for Christmas and while the folks relaxed at the bach I headed out for a little cache therapy.

Milnthorpe was my primary target (Collingwood too busy) but here was a good place to start. A quick look at the panels - worth a stop - and then down to finding the right corner.

Hurrying, I made things a little too hard on myself, but then stopped to think about things and then looked in the most obvious place.

Thanks

#1395

First grab for the day on the way back to takaka

This weekend us capperz are over the hill to Golden Bay and celebrating. It's our wedding anniversary on Friday followed by my 50th birthday on the Saturday. So we looked around for a decent place to go for the weekend and the potential of this beautiful area won out (this time). Only grabbed the one cache on the Friday night (there was much drizzly rain and poor visibility) trip over the hill(s) so there was much anticipation for what was next. Both the Saturday of my half-century milestone and the Sunday were bathed in golden sunshine and the temperature was perfect; neither too hot nor too cold.
Some interesting notice boards here telling of days of old, and gold, mrs capperz read them whilst I found the cache
T F T C b&w

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Caching back from Collingwood to Nelson. Some interesting reading here. If it wasn't for caching I would have zoomed past here once again. Thank you bumandworker

On our way through to Collingwood this area was occupied by a couple of camper vans. Fortunately for us they were gone when we came back so we were able to make a quick find here.
Thank you bumandworker.

We spent 4 incredibly wonderful weeks in New Zealand for vacation and
had a lot of fun to discover all the marvels of this country.
Day 20 - on a cloudy and windy day we went to the Pupu Springs, a group of large and crystal clear springs, sacred to the Maori people before going to Farewell Spit.
At this narrow sand spit we had a pleasant walk over hills to the beach - miles of sand as far the eye can see!
We finished off with a coffee and a delicious muffin at the café.
Besides we still found time for geocaching and picked up quite a few caches on our way.
This was one of them!

TFTC,
Stadibast

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro–Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.
On the way back form Farewell-Spit we passed this place. Easy find.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Interesting piece of history here. Took a few cool photos. Hard to believe it was so long ago.

On holiday at Motueka and having a ball.
Very nice area.

TFTC.

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Quick find tftc

Nice wee read. Tftc

A nice quick find here before reading some of the plaques. Thanks for the cache

3 weeks New Zealand - Day 8
Thank you for this Cache.
Greetings from Stuttgart - Germany

On tour with Del84
We just had to stop for this one.
After a short search and a lot of possible corners Del84 made the right grab.
TFTC

On the road with Franzi5055.

Auf dem Weg nach Pohara, dieses Cache der Küste entlang angepeilt und gesucht. Dank Hinweis am richtigen Ort gegriffen und gefunden.
TFTC

#381

Howling wind today. We pulled in here to turn around and I said this looks like a cachey place. Turned on the phone and sure enough. Good information here tftc

Quick find on our way back from farewell spit. Caching always takes us to interesting places. Thanks for the cache.

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

NZDi and I have been planning a long weekend in Golden Bay for a month or so and today these plans came into fruition. Of course a long weekend out of town would not be complete without the odd cache thrown in and so a few caches were planned along the way. The weather back in Blenheim had been crap all week and the forecast for the weekend was not that flash either, however as soon as we got across the Whangamoa's we could see this part of the country was bathed in sunshine.

This is day two of our Golden Bay geocaching weekend, and todays efforts are concentrated on the caches around Wharariki, Cape Farewell and Farewell Spit. After getting Wharariki Walk we looked for other nearby caches that I had seen when planning this trip. It looks like I didn't set my radius far enough when creating my pocket query and the search missed four caches at Wharariki, Cape Farewell and Pillar Point (although I didn't know this until I got back into cell phone reception). We decided to head back to Puponga where we last had reception so we could save the missing caches on my mobile app.

After getting the four missing caches, it was time to head back to our accommodation at Tata Beach. On the trip back we picked up a few QEF PnGs, this was the third.

Cache in good condition.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Found during our road trip From Nelson to the wild west and return. Great day's caching was had.
Well now, there's something I never know. There's gold in them thar hills Hoss!
Cache find was straightforward.
Log signed. Cache safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick find as we drove past. TFTC!!!

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our trip from Takaka to Collingwood. We had a lovely day!
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

TFTC easy one

A quick easy find, as we looked over towards the black cloud covered hills. TFTC

Lots of interesting reading here. Cache found quickly and cleanly.

Found over Waitangi Weekend in Golden Bay. A great spot for caching.

Thanks for the hide.

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Nice with some caches to find on our way to Farewell Spit. The box was found without problems .

Thanks for the cache.

Holidaying with tmann421 in the North of the South Island. Many thanks to all the Co's for making this such a memorable trip.

Nice find here.

TFTC

Good spot for a cache.
Quickly found and signed. TFTC

He has come to a nice place then. Tftc