Tuamarina and the River (Nelson/Marlborough) Tuamarina, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 02-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2CPVV

Great lunch spot on way to ferry. TFTC

Washed away, and no where above high tide suitable to replace.

Should have read the logs before heading out - lesson learned. We will be back.

Thought we'd have a bash as we've been known to find "missing" caches before today. But no sign of it. Looks like the river may have been thru here so unless it was hanging, probably washed away. [^]

will be back up in Blenheim in 3 weeks, so bookmarked and will check this one.

We gave up after 20 min but will watch this cache for the next visit.

No idea where was it

A place of great historic interest which I've passed many times. Thanks for making me stop here
Caching after work tonight for the 5th day straight, nice

USA Flag TB drop

First find on our round trip today. Thanks!

Did a circatious drive to find it but was fun. Tftc found with buzzybe

Found with Kiwizoom. Nice afty out caching

Nice wee spot. TFTC

#2491 @0900
Another quick find. My first time down this road. TFTC.

Very quiet here today so a quick find.

another deserted spot on Christmas Day, quick find with the hint, TFTC

Quick find, guess it is lucky alot of the caches are still in place after all the flooding. Had extra bonus of watching model planes being flown nearby. TFTC

talk about soggy, I am sure the log sheet was doing the crawl around the clip-top, how can they leak so badly? Cleaned up the cache and put the old log in a sealed bag, then a replacement log in 2 bags, should keep things OK for a while.. Looks like the site got the worse of the recent flooding. TFTC it's still there and that is the main thing.. Blenheim Bear

A nice easy find while on a trip north. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Thanks

Out and about exploring the Marlborough area. Nice spot by the river. Quick find. +TB SL. TFTC.

leap year, leap day. This was the first of 9 on a quiet day looking for landscape-suitable rocks for the garden. Found the rocks too!!

quick and easy find.TFTC

Expected a walk to this one but almost a driveby TFTC.

Had been to this area before so last time we were surprised that the gates were all closed off - but this time all was good and we were soon at GZ a quick find log signed thanks for the cache

Last time we came to do this one the entry gates were all locked off due to some work being done in the area. swe were glad today they were all open and we could dash in and grab the cache Co-ordinates were spot on so a quick recovery and return of the cache TFTC

cache recently checked by stayonmytail, local geoguru. thanks T

Good find with the kids. TFTC

Found with Grandad by boys TFTC

good find in the rain
found with hedgehogs23

good hide found with dolphin21

Pulled out the thermos for coffee here before heading for the ferry.
+ a marble, - nothing.

nice quick find TFTC

First cache of the day, and a nice easy one to get us (figuratively) warmed-up. Cause it was a bloody cool day with a frozen start and high cloud keeping the sun away! Cheers Gav [9208]

3pm 9 1/2 hours of caching and still a few more to do,this was a great litle spot out of the way.no one around so was a quick easy find,Thanks for the cache

A nice wee spot and a quick wee find - Thanks.

Once we got on the right side, and found our way in at night, the log was signed.

Bitsprayer

Once we found way in to GZin the dark the rest was easy. TFTC

easy find TFTC

Easy find. Good spot for summer...

Note to self don't wash the car the day before going caching

Found it great fun. Well done
TNLN TFTC

Have to come back here soon to try our hand at the local browns TFTC

Logbook is saturated and found the cache exposed and ajar. Put the logbook back inside plastic bag but probably needs maintenance. TFTC

Ignore that call for maintenance. There is a nice new log sheet in the cache and everything is dry. SL TFTC

Today was tidy-up day for the caches in the Blenheim area before moving on to Nelson for two days. I was out with BaldEd again this morning. There were three young blokes camping down here.

The cache was very wet as was the logbook which was a soddne mess and unable to be written upon. Dried out the cache and left a temporary logbook.

Cheers for the cache.

First cache that I found whilst out caching with Tufty today. The cache was wet and the logbook was sodden. Dried the cache and contents and left a temporary 3 page logbook in a new baggie.

Another excellent cache easily found with G_G_G. Enjoy the photos. TFTC

Jr taybee has this own account how am logging this old find under his new Username (Jr taybee) was log as part of taybee team

Oooops...theres more flooding in the cache than on the reserve. Log book too wet to write in. TFTC

Jr taybee is geocaching again in the south Island without senior taybee he is doing a road trip geocaching with this Nana and Auntie and look's like he is having a Good time TFTC #0764

First for the day while exploring in the region. The cache is intact but it has most certainly been inundated recently - the logbook is completely sodden and is becoming slimy. It was disintegrating as I tried to open it but I managed to extract the latest page and dry it sufficiently in the sun to be able to write on it. I have placed this in another ziplock plastic back that I had with me, unfortunately I didn't have another logbook or I would have replaced that too. I suspect the container leaked because the lid was not clipped on fully - I removed a lot of fine sediment from the clip grooves before I could push them home and lock it properly. Hopefully it'll be a bit more waterproof now - but it really does need some maintenance. Signed log, TFTC!

A victim of the flooding. Cache full of water. Emptied out but log soaked

Couldn't sign log as wet. Tftc

Found the access easily, while heading east. Cache find was just as easy.

Was at some caches further along this river earlier today. Interesting to see these flood protection structures from a different angle. TFTC, Biggles.

A quick easy find on our way to the ferry. TFTC

Only one other vehicle there and they were further along the river. No problems with the cache. TNLN TFTC

Had to use the hint as the GPSr was playing up and seemed to be pointing to some nasty undergrowth. After that, it was a quick find.
TFTC.

#1817 (3/18 on a day in Marlborough). Peaceful spot by the river. TFTC.

This entry was edited by StreetWalkerNZ on Monday, 22 November 2010 at 23:30:35.

very windy down here today. TFTC #1633

A great spot and a quick find - missing smeyes today. Took ugly fly (kids have weird taste) and left harmonica. TFTC.

A spot we have never been to, Nice easy find- TFTC!

A nice quick find in an interesting spot, quite a bit of work has gone into flood protection obviously.
TFTC

quick find. tftc

First time down this road, quick find. TFTC

First time down this way. Looked like a film crew here working with a jet boat.
Swapped coins.
TFTC

Neat spot with the wattles all in bloom. TNLN. TFTC.

a rather dull day but another new place to explore is good. TY. + ausi geocoin.

River high and angry looking but not high enough to flood cache today. TFTC.

The new Nuvi got its knickers in a twist trying to get us here, we resorted to looking at the map and commonsense. TFTC.

Found just before dark and rain with Clare. Dropped off geocoin. TFTC

Know the area well, have borrowed stones for landscaping projects in the past, quick detour and find. FTF at 10.15.TFTC.

Found it on a wet day. TFTC

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