Riverside Rest (Nelson/Marlborough) Longford, South Island, New Zealand
By Kiwi_Explorer on 25-Jun-10. Waypoint GC2ARAZ

Cache gone so archiving.

Attempted on my journey from Christchurch to Auckland but no joy here.

No sign of cache container at gz. Found log book though. Definitely needs maintaining.

Needs Maintenance

Checked around the obvious point but no luck. Nice river though!

been pass this one a lot lately but their always seem to be a car or two parked in the area nice and quite on my way home last night so tonight was it, good to know its down the track a bit so could have got it on other times too, nice big box too

Making our way home from Hawarden with my Mum and Dad. They are more willing to stop and wait for me than my Husband is on most trips. A very chilly day, 4 degrees, but still sunny. Chilly in them there bushes! Great to see a decent size container, although lacking in good SWAG. The other 16 caches I have got today were all small or micro. TFTC

A nice wee break, easy find, thks

After passing a carcass of a large dear at the entrance to the river track wondered on down towards a great location for the cache. Never knew this track was here.
Coming up from Christchurch today when the first snow fall of the season was just starting , very cold , until we arrived back in Sunny Nelson. Thanks for the cache KE.

Found it on our way from Westport to Abel Tasman National Park. It was a quick found. Out: to
tftc

Reasonably quick find.

Great spot tftc

Nice plac for a short stop on our trip north. TFTC

Got a campervan yesterday and loaded my recumbent bike after the south island tour. Heading northeast to Picton, ferry tomorrow. TFTC.

Tftc

On our today´s journey we drove from Greymouth to Nelson. We searched and found a lot of caches. So this logs will be nearly the same for this day. Sorry for this. Usually we don´t log at this way...Thanks for showing us interesting spots

TFTC
jekejaerfi

Travelling around the South Island.
Looking at our wonderful home land.
Weather has been inclement but this has not dampened our enthusiasm. 
Unfortunately two lots of campers here when large signs say no camping.
SL TFTC

Quick grab look out for wasp nest tftc

On our tour around the South Island! TFTC

I was lucky with this one nearly stepped on a wasp nest at the GZ didn't notice until leaving I did check out the river first really stunning TFTC

No rest here for me, had a bit of a scramble to find the cache. Wonderful river view. TFTC

This cache got a visit from me on my way from Christchurch to Blenheim. Took a quick short break to catch it, went out to the river and then for the cache. Finding it wasn't hard and now my name is in this caches log too, another NZ cache on my vacation in your beautiful country.
Thanks from the german visitor for hiding and maintaining this cache

***No muggles were harmed while searching, finding and logging this cache...***

TFTC

Tftc from Israel !

Yeah easy find on wet day. TFTC. SL

Thanks for the hide we enjoyed our little walk in the bush.

Good day for it, nice wee walk TFTC

A bit of bush bashing required with this one but not too difficult to find...gps was spot on despite trees above...tftc

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

West coast trip, day 9. Returning home

What a marvelous holiday we've had. Had a lovely picnic lunch in the sun - pity about all the litter bugs!

Z6 for the find - entirely on his own!

Dropped off a Travel Bug. And made a trade -Z6 looks pretty smart in his new Sheriff's badge!

TFTC Kiwi Explorer!

# 465

After some planning Shannonp1 and I got sorted for a mission into areas we hadn't been. Up to Hanmer through the Molesworth to Blenheim, down the Wairau valley to St Arnaud down the Shannandoa to Murchison and then home via the Lewis. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners especially Bum and Worker and sorry for the cut and paste.

So a few weeks in the planning phase, me and Surveybase finally got out and about for a mission. Through Hanmer, up the Molesworth to Blenheim, across through St Arnaud, Murchison and then home. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners and sorry for the cut and paste. Cheers.

Nice place.
Tftc

Called in today to dry out the cache and add a new log and bag. Also rehid the cache a bit better than it was. The hint object sure has degraded over the years.

Cache was full with water and log roll is missing. Put a new little paper in it, but that will also become wet.

We are traveling on our holiday from Auckland to the Bay of Islands and back southwards to Bay op Plenty, Lake Taupo, Wellington, Nelson, West Coast.
Easily found @ 13:20, but cache was full with water.
# 3254.
TFTC and greetings from the Netherland.

Found with c@chetracker on our honeymoon trip around the South Island TFTC

Heading home after a geocaching/cycling weekend tftc

TFTC nice rest area

November in Europe, the dark month, neighter autumn nor winter: short days,rain, fog. Everywhere unlucky people.
But now we are in NZ. Early sunrise, mighty green and flowers everywhere. Happy cows and sheeps also. We delight look forward to such lovely challenge. Thank you NZ. Greetings from Germany, from the mountains of Harz. TFTC

Hooray !! A lot of these roadside picinic areas were showing up today.
Each equipped with an unfound cache [^]

This was another pleasant riverside stroll, well away from prying eyes

TFTC and more cache fishing !!

GPS about 15 meters out thanks for the hint

TFTC

Found with GameShotDarts. TFTC!!

Gotya! Caching with my awesome missus Obscenefairy. TFTC!!

Found it. TFTC

This little park was out one stop between Picton and Greymouth. I grabbed the cache and then ran down to the river to get a couple photos and to stretch my legs before we hit the road again.

Quick find on way home, good to see a large container instead of all today's micros. Only thing is the amount of rubbish in the area. TFTC

found all good kids were happy...hokitika

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.

Found on our Westward journey to Westport

TFTC

In Murchison to day with 1/2an hour to spare so off for a walk and a cache or two TFTC

Coordinates are a little of but with easy description easy to find

Was found on the 27/03/2015, not much in for the kids so put in a few extras. Thanks for the find.

10 meters next to our GPS but found it in the end. Place in the map is wrong.

Esay quick find. TFTC.

Found this cache during our NZ holiday in 2015.
Thanks for hiding the cache and showing us the place.

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Found it.

Gorgeous river hideaway. Nice find tftc

So much space in the box but not many things to trade.
TFTC
Greetings from Germany
Die McMuffins

Heading into the direction of Nelson today and collecting some geocaches on our way. This one was a quick find. TFTC

Sneaky log a tiny bit damp

Today it was time for leaving Motueka and drive towards Murchison and further on to Westport. On the way we made some stops and found some caches .

No problem finding the box with the nice hint .

Thanks for the cache.

Last one for the day with Hinemoana, sonia26642 and tunfisk.
TFTC!

Found with Hinemoana, /dev/gc0c and sonia26642.
TFTC

A big mission awaited - Sonia and Menzo's wedding in Nydia Bay. Considering the number of cachers in the family, it is not surprising that we turned the trip there and back into a semi-caching road trip! We signed most logbooks as team polak to save space and time. We are grateful to all CO's who made our travels so much more fun.

The others found one in town while we got ice cream and V, but I already found that at a previous visit, so was keen to make another stop. Nice place, thanks for bringing us here!!

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On our way up to Nelson to hang out the weekend before our wedding. The fiancee went in a different car that visited the touristy spots with his mum, while I went in the caching car with my mum!!

A quick find, and a nice wonder on our way up north.

Boys were getting not happy though by this point that we were stopping at too many caches, so had to cut it here, and head straight for nelson from here...

Consec caching day # 811

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2nd attempt master 12 found

6542. Off on a camping/geocaching holiday to Nelson. Day two was from Murchison to Tahuna This was our fifth stop for the day. Good to find a large container. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Great cache, found it on the way back.. Our GPS said we're always 8 meters away, but the hint helped..

Nice spot and thanks from Nat for the regular sizes cache. Good for her swapping mission.

Dug into the earth, I have some full hair ! But not found :'-(

Day 3 of caching in and around St Arnaud/Nelson Lakes. Today mostly cachemobile, and some short walking.
This was #24 for the day.
Made a straightforward find. Cache in order, log signed and then safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick find.

Walked down to the river, and found the stash on the way back, tftc

Tftc first cache on a lovely hot boxing day

Hard to miss that one. Great location that I've explored before. TFTC

Another Don't know how I missed this the first time I looked. Ah well, is smilified now.

Well, work has finished for the year, and it is time for the annual road trip to Auckland. Today was from Christchurch to Picton, a longer way.

Thanks for the hide.

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A plan was hatched to try and grab a number of caches, in excess of 120 if possible. I had already found a load between Renwick and St Arnaud but consulting the map around St Arnaud area showed some semi power trail drive by caching opportunities. Fellow Manawatu cacher the Seagnoid was asked if he was interested and a resounding yes was the answer. So the car was fuelled up at very early o'clock and provisions for munching were also loaded. An 0630 start was the plan and the day came to its conclusion around 2130 after approx. 15 hours of driving and caching.
Outcome was a very successful figure in excess of 130 caches which constitutes best day ever (for both of us), best week, month and year too. Over 500kms driven today and man I feel tired but need to make a start logging the finds, and DNFs. Thanks to all the C Os involved in making our day such a great one. Nearly all caches were well maintained, interesting and accurately plotted. There were bellbirds, beech trees, pies and water, sealed roads, gravel tracks, no sandflies (thankfully), rivers and bridges and creeks and bridges and streams and bridges and much conversation about all things caching
A great day out in good company and all made possible by the efforts of the hiders.
T F T C to all the cache owners. We mostly signed as C/S or Capp/Seag or other combos

[green] Capperz called me up saying he wanted to get his ruby Busy Cacher badge, and try for 120 caches in a day. I said YES PLEASEE!!, as I too had tried this once before but only achieved 103 before night defeated me and Edvern in Auckland last year. A successful day, with over 130 caches found in 14.5 hours and 500km. Also tiring - I went to bed as soon as I got home, despite it not being dark yet (yes, we could have cached some more, but the next objective is 180 caches, and there was no way we would have achieved that!). Alas, I had to leave all the planning to Capperz, and he produced a great little plan, listing all the target caches (and more) with which way to turn at next intersection after a cache - a great way to plan a back road travel.
The day was cool, cloudy, with a little drizzle. Perfect caching weather - the weather kept most of the muggles away from the muggle areas.
Thanks to all the COs for a great day out exploring the back roads of the Marlborough region!
Logs signed as CS or occasionally as CapSeag.
Found the easily visible from the path. Hid it a little better.

TFTC was good fun

Found with Kwaka40 on our way home from Christchurch.
TFTC

Easy find with Wilson#41
TNLN

I've driven past so many times and meant to stop but never have. As i walked down the track i wondered at the wisdom of not grabbing the torch in the car as it was just on dusk. Spotted a likely location and made a quick find without returning to the car for the torch. Went down to check out the river, no likelihood of me trying that section in my kayak TFTC

#2192

This eluded us today

Found with daughter on the way back to Christchurch.

A restful place to stop and search.

interesting place

Another stroll in the bush, nice views. Tftc

Great spot well with the short walk to the river
G1

Tftc - hope to pick up a few on way from Murchison to Richmond

found it

Found on a day trip between St Arnaud and Murchison. Quick find. TFTC

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

After staying the night in Westport we headed up to Nelson today, picking up a few caches along the way. A quick find after a short stroll through the bush, TFTC

After staying the night in Westport we headed up to Nelson today, picking up a few caches along the way. A quick find after a short stroll through the bush, TFTC

Nice way to end the year tftc

Quick grab from the highway. Thx

A nice place to make a Rest. On the way to Hanmer Springs I made a quick stop here.
TFTC and greetings from Switzerland

12910… A great spot to see the confluence, many thanks for showing us this cool location.

Loved this spot and the amazing views from near by thanks for bringing us here we would never have stopped if not for caching T4TC well worth a fav point

We ended up going right down the track to the river, as our GPS indicated the cache was further from the track than it actually was. A second pass and we quickly spotted the hint object. TFTC