Percy's Bush (Westport. West Coast) Westport, South Island, New Zealand
By weenz on 30-Aug-10. Waypoint GC2EA81

Never mind

After the rocky point 5km walk Elliot 13 and I went out to grab a few caches. Elliot13 had attempted this one as a teen and today we got it TFTC

Out for a few caches after the rocky point run/walk today. Found with aslis_01 and my younger brother on our second day out cache adventuring in Westport.Had a crack at this one when I was younger with no luck, today we were back with good luck to find the cache. Tftc enjoyed it.

So glad I found this, my fourth search 1st find of the day

Senw Mountain, cute stickers.

Spooky at night

Couldnt find it

I went to the original location first and then came here to find weenzs comment Coordinates changed from:S 41 45.483 E 171 36.745Coordinates changed to:S 41 45.480 E 171 36.739Thank you for the update and this cool little spot 3 colourful stickers and 6 mini ones donated

Searched everywhere.got the dogs in still couldnt. Find it

Was a little tricky as it's our first one, but we found it!

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finally get to turn the frown upside down made easier with the updated hint, tftc thanks for replacing

Found it

Coordinates changed from:S 41 45.483 E 171 36.745Coordinates changed to:S 41 45.480 E 171 36.739Distance from original: 32.9 feet or 10.0 meters.New cache

Might be gone

Not sure if its been pinched/moved. A local reckons they saw it recently further up the track

Back on the west coast and calling westport home for the next wee while having picked up work in the area. So time to turn all that green , yellow..(and some blue)
Lots of leaning trees to look under and lots of rubbish..even after reading logs I still came up empty handed...not my best morning caching 3 dnfs and 1 find!!!!

Thanks for hiding this cache weenz I appreciate it. Sadly we couldn't find it.

Found on a rainy day

Yummy

Found it kind of easy, so much fun

We couldn’t find it because it wasn’t were it should have been

Looked around couldnt find it

Not gps indicated

Took a lot to find.

My lady found it this time.

What a lovely area. How nice to donate it to the city for everyone to enjoy. Cache is all good. TFTC

Found it. Just read the activity log

Reading the comments helped. Tftc

Found 27.01.21
Under the first leaning tree you see as you enter the bush. The pencil was broken so I replaced it. White container with a green lid.

2nd attempt at this one and still a DNF. So very frustrating, especially when no one answers their messages from us for a bit of guidance. Maybe next time.

Epic bush find

So many trees on lean! Hard to find it

Found while out caching with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC

Found with NZDi. Today is the fourth day of our Wet Coast adventure and as the weather was supposed to be abysmal we decided to do a road trip to Inangahua Junction to pick up the roadside caches that would be impossible to stop for when towing a caravan. That was the plan... we got as far as our first find of the day and then as we got closer to the next the heavens open up and I got drenched. It would appear that as the warm air mass coming across the Tasman gained altitude it dropped all its moisture. The weather looked better nearer the coast so we changed our plans and headed back.

This was our fourteenth and final find of the day and we almost added to the high tally of DNFs this one gets. C:geo took us directly to the hinted item and we searched high and low around it without any lucky. After repeating the process fruitlessly another couple of times we were abou to give up, when I decided to step back and make another approach. This time c:geo took us to another nearby, but previously unseen hinted item where the cache was quickly found. It is easy to see how this one has got so many DNFs.

TFTC weenz

Pretty big container it's easy to find:)

Pretty big container it's easy to find:)

Lovely bush area.

Cache is OK

A DNF for me here.

with Baird, lots of leaning trees, but this is the coast!

TFTC. Out on a caching day with Boyd. We spent some time searching at an incorrect hint item bit widened our search and found the correct one. Very interesting spot.

Nice easy find in a lovely piece of Bush. Enjoyed a wee stroll here.
TFTC

Pretty easy find and really pretty, gonna go back another day to explore

I didn't find cache at very obvious hint site - it looked like the site has been raided by muggles. Then close by on the trail I picked up what i thought was litter ... it was the log all by its lonesome!! Then went on the hunt for all the missing cache content items and put it back together.
Have suggested "maintenance", and moved the cache position slightly (still fitting hint), its tucked away with some natural camo. Hopefully this will make it harder for those pesky muggles to find again.

Cache badly muggled - contents and container scattered along various parts of trail. Went to picked up what i thought was litter then realised it was the log all by its lonesome. There were signs of a party being held in reserve incl empty beer bottles and general litter.
CACHE - I've put everything back that i thought belonged in cache and hid under another leaning tree, right next original tree. I pushed a bit of camo ie a piece of punga over top of container (white bottle/green lid). Siggestion: Perhaps cover white bottle with black masking tape to make it hard to find by those pesky muggles? Log all dry and back in its plastic bag in bottle.

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Easy find with hint

Really lovely little park. Thanks for bringing us here. Sl. Tftc

Cache back in same place again

Too many DNFs so didnt visit.

We could not find this one we spent a lot of time and effort to. We will be back.

Sad about this - lots of hunting in 2 likely places but no luck

Nope, could not find this. We would have put in a replacement, but I was not one hundred percent sure where it was. Too many options.

Hunted high and low. This one eluded us

It was cool!

TYFC

TYFC ,many years 40 or so since I been here ,fused to be a rope in a tree to swing on ,used to play here after rugby training for old boys.

Good old Percy ...every twon needs people like this..a fitting place for a cache..thanks weenz ..well done

Wow a neat park to visit. All ok here. Re- his with more natural camo. Thanks for the cache weenz

Found easy as

Had a good hunt around. Found two likely spots that matched the clue but it must be too well hidden for us today.

Checked ..... still there

Thought I found tree but no cache

Found thanks have left something inside : )

Had help from a little friend

Had been moved, replaced back.

This one was not in it's correct place so we returned it to the right one. Yay.

A nice and quick find to get started on the day. There were a few hint items though. Cheers.

Todays plan. drive up to Denniston Plateau, grab as many caches as practible, and go down "The Trudge" to meet Ms KR at the bottom. Mission successful!

Thanks to all the CO's for placing and maintaining these caches. Cheers.

A quick easy find in the obvious location in a nice little reserve. TFTC

Strolled down from the holiday park to this lovely park to claim our first cache of 2018. Left two butterflies. TFTC. Loved the swing further into the bush!

Due to a flat tyre cutting our adventures short earlier in the day, we headed out after tea for some more caching. At first we thought this was private property, but soon realised upon reading cache page fully what the situation was. Found and signed the cache and had a look around. Remnants of vege gardens etc still show. tftc

Heading back after an evening exploring Westport - this lovely spot was definitely worth a stop, even in the growing darkness. Was Percy a lawyer? [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WEST18830810.2.16](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WEST18830810.2.16)

I didnt know this place existed even though I have driven this road many times, tftc Weenz

quick easy find here while in the area on holiday tftc

It took a throw days

Getting down on my hands and Ness was a mission

We left the campsite and within five minutes we found the cache.
TFTC

Nice easy find.TFTC

A return trip here after a blank during last years Queens Birthday weekend over this part of the country. Back to the same location today, and a Q E F ensued, yay. No TB at home in the cache. T F T C weenz

With a van to transport me around I headed out after the parade in Westport town centre for a couple of hours break in the sunshine and a few caches.

And so it was decided that for this years Anzac Day observations that a group of my workmates and I would head West, to the Coast, to pay our respects and parade in the Air Force colours. We loaded into the van on mid-afternoon on Monday and arrived in Westport just on dusk. Checked into the motel apartments for the evening before an 0430 start on Tuesday to parade at Granity followed by Waimangaroa at 09145 and finishing at Westport at 1100 to march on the Cenotaph.
An awesome couple of days with many new people met, places seen and other experiences and tales from the Coast. Oh, and a few caches too!

A lovely piece of bush. Thanks for taking us there. Quick find.

A lovely piece of bush. Thanks for taking us there.Quick find.

Nice we hide in a nice park. TFTC

Cool spot thanks for bringing us here, and the history!

What a lovely little bush it is Quick find with FnJax - TFTC

A lovely little patch of bush. Found while on our geocaching road trip honeymoon.

A bit late logging. Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

We didn't even try for this one last time we were here because of all the DNFs. Glad to see it back in action. Nice little area for the cache. Truffles had fun zooming around, sniffing everything.

I'm really happy to tick this one off after my last DNF. Thanks for replacing it after that attempt. Found uncovered but replaced with the camo lying beside. Thanks weenz

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Lots of hint objects here, but made the find and signed the log a nice bushland area TFTC

found it while on a night bike ride - good plum tree here

Beautiful evening and location for a cache

Logged a day late - apologies. 5 mtres out for me, but safe and sound. TFTC, nice present to the community.

Cache back in place

Harder than I thought

Think it's been stolen

Lots of holes but didnt find

Found nothing apart for drug bombs
I might have better luck next time
This one may want a check

3 DNFs in a row for us, time to leave town I think. Checked a few hinted items but nothing found except one telltale rock at one G Z