Beachcombing (Westport,West Coast) Carters Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By weenz on 30-Jun-10. Waypoint GC2APVW

Seems to of been washed away, sea getting too close now

Nice walk first thing in morning

One of todays finds during our month long travels through the South and North Islands. I am on rations but am still managing around 10 finds a day.

Thanks to all the cache hiders. TFTC.

Dug a little deeper and there it was.

OOPS

High tide has been through here once again by the looks. Maybe we didn't look hard enough but High tide driftwood convinced us it had succumb to the sea gods

Nice find while staying at Top 10 camp. Prize win courtesy of the Coast Radio station Bottoms Up tour

Checking after last weeks storm to find cache has disappeared, replaced a new one same place.

Tried to grab this yesterday with the others but approached from wrong place to be met with electric fences!! So tried again today from the beach with more luck though pinkpeardrops got a wet foot coming back.

Only cache for today, lovely evening walk along the beach. Got a wet foot coming back from cross the stream/sea TFTC

Found it hard to believe this cache was actually still in place and intact as there was a considerable amount of debris from the sea thrown up all around and over it! TFTC.

Was sure we were actually on a proper walkway, didn't make it onto the beach, as we didn't trust the fence that bites!

TFTC

Found just before it was time to head back home after a weekend trip to the coast. TFTC.

Dropped off TB

Easily found on a romantic evening stroll with Mrs_McGromek. Tftc!

Lovely walk on the beach with Mr_McGromek.Tftc!

Lovely walk on the beach with Mr_McGromek.Tftc!

Heading over to the Westcoast for a weekends family adventure. Stopped at a few caches along the way.
Staying overnight in Westport - Mrs G has some Family History chasing to do up at Denniston.
Came out for an early mornings family wander. Great beach. A quick find and sign. Cheers.

Found on a walk along the beach in the sunshine from our campground. Had no problem with the electric fence. Thanks very much weenz

Found once we had both been zapped by the electric fence - ha ha!

We are on holiday in NZ for three months and camping in as many places as possible! Therefore, when we spotted this cache we just knew we had to try and add it to our collection.

Many thanks for the cache.

Found today with Sir & Lady Harveyjj.
Staying on a nearby campsite as part of our visit to the S Island and we were delighted to be able to have a nice evening stroll to this cache. Thank you for placing it here.

TFTC, log signed & cache returned safely from whence it was found.

Greetings from the UK

Day 11 of our NZ-Holiday took us from Greymouth up North to Westport.
There were some lovely Caches along the road.
Thanks to all the Owners for hiding them and showing us some cool spots.

MfG
Coint82
15.02.2014 / 16:00

A quick find on an early evening walk with geocaches! #10 of the day, TFTC and bzzz!

Once we navigated the electric fences it was an easy find. TFTC!

Tftc

Easy find

found this one on the walk back down the beach to the car from the Trinket Tree. Lots of people enjoying the beach this afternoon. TFTC #5360

After booking in at the nearby spot I wandered down for a quick look at the beach. Then wandered along for a look for this one. A quick find was made then onto the next.
TFTC

#951 - Here are too much possibilitys to hide a cache. More - it isn't our lucky day for caching - to many DNF today... but we are trying pur luck by this cache. After ten minutes we made the radius bigger... I thought always on the clue.... no idea what it mean. Than a brainwave - a look... here is a lot of camo... could it be? Yes! Gotcha! TFTC.

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 44.944 E 171° 33.116

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 44.954 E 171° 33.070

Distance from original: 217.1 feet or 66.2 meters.
Moved the cache as it was being gobbled up by the gorge and blackberry and near to impossible to get to.

DNF… No luck Beachcombing.

DNF

Was also surprised to find this still there

Finding caches in the area

An easy way and a harder way to this and I took the lata. But all good TFTC

It is lucky it is still there, digger had recently cleaned out the ditch next to it.

Thought I was going to have to bush-bash through the gorse to get to this one, so was glad when I didn't. TFTC.

Checked out cache today and all is well, still in its place.

It appears that this cache has been destroyed as there is a piece of sistema container left in the area and try as we might, and we did try, we could find nothing else.

Am out of the country at present will check out this cache next week when I am back

Things got a bit prickly for the kids. Can't post my pic as it would be a huge spoiler. TFTC

I was staying at the nearby holiday park, so thought I'd go out this morning to find a few caches. This was my first and I was glad I wore long trousers. My hands were scratched several times by the thorny bushes and my fleece was also snagged along the way. However, the cache was quickly located just before it started to rain, which meant a rather wet walk to the next cache. TFTC.

Found it with no problem. 2 types of prickly stuff there to get scratched by.

Quick Found this one on my way to Westport. TFTC

After wandering along the beach, as we got close, we began to wonder where the cache would be, but headed through the prickly stuff, and it was quickly found. TFTC

It was good to grab this one after missing it our last time we were in Westport. Horrible prickly stuff with webs in it but we managed to find and sign the logbook which is damp. It could do with a good drying out. 5/41 caches found today. Thanks for the cache

Found with neo-2. Tried this one before but no trouble this time. Logbook a bit damp.
TFTC!

Ace7 returned to the van park but I went on after this one. Got a little scratched up so long pants would have been smarter but I got there in the end. Thanks for your cache weenz. It's a great spot out here at low tide. TFTC

Found at 7:13:00 a.m. on 22/01/2013.

A relatively quick find once I'd got the correct side.

TFTC weenz

Had two goes at this.first was so obviously in the undergrowth I thought I had it wrong. Second was different angle and easier. tFTH

TFTC
Gruß Frodo32

TFTC Chelonia

Got totally drenched while doing this one. Thanks God we are staying in the camper ground close by. TFTC

Need to wear more than shorts to get this one

Camando training course under the electric fence and on through the prickles and more prickels

My coord were off at first so took a few attempts to find the safest route to GZ. Once found the obvious path it was easy enough. A few ouches and the cache was in my hand. A few ouches more to get it back!! Not best to be dressed in shorts and T-Shirt. Signed by Mr S. TFTC.

When we went for a short stroll on the beach we also searched for this container. It was harder than we expected and we had to look in various different places before we found the correct spot, which is quite exactly located where the GPS was trying to send us the whole time. Thanks.

Kerstin + Lenz

Found it after an encounter with a most unfriendly bush! Lovely beach with only a bicyclist and a horseback rider in sight.
TFTC

... found it ! WOW ... a vast expanse of beach that was totally deserted ! What a treat to stroll along and watch the waves and have the scene ALL to ourselves. GZ, on the other hand, was prickly bush hell !
... made the painful grab that nearly ripped the shirt off my back ! ... TFTH

Found at 6:01 AM GAFF1 in the company of Phetlern. Saw penguin tracks, but no penguins and then it was gorse! We somehow avoided it though.
Thanks weenz

09:02
Our time on the South Island is drawing to a close as we journey further north toward Nelson & Picton in company with Pprass. We followed the penguin tracks up the beach but the tracks were heading out to sea. Had to fight our way through gorse to get to the cache and wonder if this shouldn't be a T2.5!

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt weenz.
4430

Approached from the wrong side, soon learnt my leason, TFTC.

On a caching trip with Holymu destination West Coast. This cache was on the list of night caches. GZ looked like one big gorse bush. Approach was tried from all angles and in the end it was decided to give blood. Close to giving up something caught the eye. Didn't see any penguins in residence. Nice one! TFTC

Well, that was an interesting find in the dark! Our first attempt at night caching round Carter's Beach was thwarted when we arrived to find a fireworks display about to happen. At least with all the locals gathered here it meant less muggles elsewhere so a quick change of order saw us carry on after making a donation to the Search and Rescue volunteers manning the road intersections. Once at the cache site the geo gods had to be appeased with a donation of red hydraulic fluid. TFTC.

A nice little walk along the beach, thanks for the visit.

we went for a little walk and thought this one did not survive the last flood....but surprise surprise after some searching it was found save and sound in its nest

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Hi I'm a young cacher from switzerland and usualy I write my logs by myself in swiss german.
to keep it simple find the detailed log and any required picures of our find in Cache.Mike logs, he is my fahter.
thanks to all owners for all those fun caches we found during our 6 weeks in New Zealand

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Went for a walk on a rather windy night as a bit of leg stretching was needed after sitting around all day. Surprisingly easy to find, and there was indeed a Little Blue Penguin nearby.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Were digging around in some very nasty bushes until we found the telltale sign. TNL SG coin. Greetings from two Swedes in Singapore and TFTC!

Number 8 of 8 in 90 minutes at Carters Beach. Maybe the terrain rating should be increased to 2.5 or 3. There is a lot of the prickly stuff here. It also depends a lot on the direction you are coming from. We got a little help since we found the traces from the two other teams that tried to reach the cache location a few hours ago. Yes, thats right. Three logs on a single day.

Doing a few whle visiting the local area.....

Being honest this was our third visit! both previous times in silly on ttire! (shorts and flip flops) Got our jeans on and dealt with the prickly bu66ers!

Thanks for setting this up.

SLTNLN

Went out for a lovely beach walk today. Arrive at GZ and realised that shoes were required. Mr M had to jog back to the car to get the footwear. Then Ms M made a quick find.
TFTC

Found this one while on a South Island holiday

You're sure right - plenty of the prickly stuff!! Nice beach walk. TFTC

Definitely a beachcomber! Thanks for the find.

Quick find once through the flotsam and jetsam. in jandals

Thanks for the cache.
Made a round thru Carters Beach starting from the camp ground.
Cheers
Philipp

A prickly find while out for a walk. The wind is still blowing but the rain has stopped (for now - this is the West Coast). Kids enjoyed playing and getting wet in nearby stream. Tftc.

Not nice at all, especially if your GPS leads you further into the mess than actually needed.
TFTC

Too prickly for me so geohubby made his way thru. SL TFTC

Didn't' like the pricklies but a good find

Found it and got the scratches to prove it! Took geocoin and will drop off at next stop on my travels.

#4 in a quartet of finds at Carters Beach. Had fun looking around in the gore blimey (gorse) for this one. TFTC.

Dropped off GC

Found on a beautiful sunny Christmas morning. Wearing my best geocaching jandals but luckily managed to find quickly despite the prickly bits of nature around the cache.

Dropped geocoin Suncatcher, nice sunny spot there for it by the sea.
I noticed some penguin sign, looks like about 4 are nesting in here, but to see them you will have to be there at the crack of dawn or late at night.

A quick find in the rain while in Westport for the day. I'm glad I was wearing good waterproof boots with high gaiters, great for walking in long grass in wet weather. Lovely beach, enjoyed the walk. No lack of driftwood around here, one could make a fantastic bonfire once it dried out. Signed log, TFTC!

How creative is nature with all the wood on the beach....
TFTC
Eeltinkies from Holland

Liebe Cachebesitzerin, lieber Cachebesitzer!

Ich habe meine Funde bisher immer gemeinsam mit team_BAFL geloggt (diesen habe ich am 21.11.2011 als meinen 1315. Cache gefunden), habe aber seit einigen Wochen einen eigenen Account bei geocaching.com und logge daher alle bisher gefundenen Caches nach. Ich hoffe, das ist in Ordnung für dich! Leider hat das Nachloggen im ersten Versuch nicht einwandfrei funktioniert, daher musste ich bei einigen Caches die ersten Logs wieder löschen.

mairona

Dear cacheowner!

In the past I logged my founds together with team_BAFL (I found this cache on 21.11.2011 as my 1315. cache), but I hace my own account at geocaching.com since a few weeks and therefore I log all my past founds for this account. Thanks for your cooperation! At my first attempt there were some problems with the logs, thats why I deleted them.

mairona

Liebe Cachebesitzerin, lieber Cachebesitzer!

Ich habe meine Funde bisher immer gemeinsam mit team_BAFL geloggt (diesen habe ich am 21.11.2011 als meinen 304. Cache gefunden), habe aber seit gestern einen eigenen Account bei geocaching.com und logge daher alle bisher gefundenen Caches nach. Ich hoffe, das ist in Ordnung für dich!

Knilchi

Dear cacheowner!

In the past I logged my founds together with team_BAFL (I found this cache on 21.11.2011 as my 304. cache), but I hace my own account at geocaching.com since yesterday and therefore I log all my past founds for this account. Thanks for your cooperation!

Knilchi

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@2140hrs

We found this cache after a short search, no penguins near by.

TNLN

thx for this cache!
(3 of 5 stars with [url=http://www.gcvote.com]GCVote[/url])

[orange]team_BAFL (impr.) from Austria[/orange]

Tis only in the pissing rain and ferocious winds that you realise this geocaching caper is mad. TFTC!

quick find on the way to greymouth tftc

#592: Flotsam & Jetsam


We stopped by this one on our clockwise trip around the Northern part of the South Island. We were staying at the nearby Top Ten, and so I thought I should go out and try the four caches within close walking distance. This was number one, and my GeoCompanion for the evening was excited at the prospect of seeing penguins, so she came too. Well, no penguins, but we had a nice walk on the beach as the sun was heading down. Took a couple of pictures of things we saw.


SL/TFTC!

Having not read the previous log we went the same way and luckily the fences were easily crossed by use of the handles to make it more comfortable Cache was finally spotted after taking the wrong side approach and getting too close to some of that prickly stuff!! Finally spotted my destination and signed the log TFTC

Think I would rather have walked along the beach to this one but read cache description after doing the cache !!! Stretch0 to tried the prickly path to the reward but managed a more prickly way back out !!! cache signed and replaced - thanks for the cache and bringing us to the beach

More like beachfoaming! Took an alternate route from a new subdivision (would not recommend as what seems like a communal path stopes 3/4 to the beach and there are electric fences and wooden fences to surmount) and found the cache easily. TFTC

Sehr pieksig

plenty of trails here not caused by penguin

A nice walk.TFTC.