I for the Main Chance (Nelson/Marlborough) Upper Moutere, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 20-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2MN55

Over and out

Good time with Tufty, thanks.

Out and about with DragonDefender for another cache-finding mission.

This one got in the way so just had to sign it off.

Cheers for the cache.

A quick easy find to start a day of caching in the rain. TFTC

Found and replaced the cache with only twelve whizzes. TFTC.

We found it! Small.

Good name

I found the cache and a broken fishing rod. Thank you Sidewaze for this cache.

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Planning for the NZ Mega 2021 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, October 2021.

First of the afternoon here. The signage certainly did the trick - RG spotted a gallery just up the road was open so the geocaching was put on hold while we went and checked it out. There are certainly a lot of talented people in these parts.

A Sunday drive around Moutere for a couple hours for myself and RG.
We picked a couple of roads and picked up the caches on those while enjoying the autumn sun. Thanks for the caches all COs.

Located with Ricardinho
A bit of afternoon caching on a glorious day in Upper Moutere ️
So many cool places to explore & Neudolf Road has it share of great businesses & creative types. McMillian Gallery is def worth a visit
I have laid claim to the title of official geocaching photographer for Ricardinho, so I snapped a pic to document the find!
TFTC

Found with NZDi. It is Easter and NZDi decided she wanted to go to the Mapua Easter Fair seeing she missed out last year due to Covid-19 Level 4 Lockdown. Also we purchased a caravan late last year and as Easter is traditionally the last outing of the season before caravans are closed up for winter, we didn't want to waste this opportunity even though we have another trip planned next month.

So the plan is to set up at Motueka Top 10 Holiday Park for three days going to the Fair on Sunday, then on Monday look at the weather and decide whether to spend another three days in Golden Bay or head down the Wet Coast. In the meantime there is some caching to do.

Today is Day 4 of our expedition over the hill. On Friday we managed to get what the purists would say was 17 caches, but two of them were Lab Caches so GCHQ says the tally is 25, and who are we to argue with that. Saturday the purists tally was 20, but one of those was a Lab Cache so GCHQ says 24. Yesterday we went to the Mapua Easter Fair so only had the afternoon to cache and only managed to grab 12 with no Lab Caches. Today we are going to head out to Upper Moutere where NZDi spent her formative years living in Blackbird Valley and going to Neudorf School.

We had no plans for the day, just drive along roads and pick up caches as we could on the way to Upper Moutere. We turned into Neudorf Road and stopped to pick off this cache. There certainly are a lot of differnet ventures out this way now, mainly of the artisan type. Back on the day when NZDi lived up Blackbird Valley the Ewers and the Benseman families were mainly involved in growing hops. That died off but is now taking off again.

A QEF PnG. TFTC Sidewaze

Found while on an Easter caching holiday with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC

Tftc!

Yaaaaay! Found it tftc

This was a quick find! Thanks Sidewaze, your cache is in good condition.

Found

#8588. I have been over in the Nelson region for the past week, mainly up in Takaka on a work trip but managed to squeeze in some geocaching on the weekends either side and on a couple of other days. After driving back to Nelson last night and staying with a friend I had some time prior to my flight back to Wellington in the afternoon to pick up more caches in the Nelson area. This was one of them. My muggle friend has joined me on the trip today although she has geocached with me a few times now and knows what to look for.

Back again to do a circuit of several caches we had earlier bypassed. This was one of them. Didn't take too long to track down the cache at this spot. The logbook was duly signed and the cache replaced where found. Thanks Sidewaze for hiding it here in this lovely rural setting.

Heading on towards Motueka and gathering a cache or 2 along the way.
Quick find here, thanks for placing and maintaining this cache, Sidewaze.

Found on a drive to Nelson, the long way round, TFTC

Had a meeting out in Moutere this afternoon so left a little early and made a few detours on the way there. This was quickly spotted, signed and replaced. Thanks for the cache.

Found it

I disabled my caches during Level 4 lockdown to encourage everyone to do the right thing. Now we’re moving to Level 3 I’m going to leave the decision to search for a cache or not to each individual. Remember you still need to stay in your bubble and a bit of hand sanitiser before and after handling a cache would be appropriate. Keep yourself and others safe.

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PLEASE, stay safe and keep others safe by observing the rules.
Remember all things must pass - - - and that includes the upheaval caused by Covid-19.

Whilst hubby Orth 21 found this one for us I had a chat the the very friendly locals.

Found with orth71 - all she wanted to do was feed the calves.
TFTC

Biwer original sends Greetings from Germany and thanks for the Cache.

TFTC and greetings from Germany

Quick png
TFTC
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Nice quick find TFTC. #717

Quick easy park and grab

Left early this morning to go on a trip from Dovedale to Nelson to explore cool locations and pick up a bunch of caches along the way. This was one of the many caches we found.

Arrived at GZ for a quick find in the obvious spot. TFTC Sidewaze!

All sorts of businesses in this area. A quick find. TFTC

Took longer than should have didn't use my eyes or read the hint properly Thanks for this cache Sidewaze

Another nice easy cache on my way back from rose rd.

The work truck providing a good cover from any curious passerby

Thanks

Great find thanks!

No idea why they are sometimes so hard, but got it in the end. TFTC

TFTC

After visiting the Neudorf vineyards (and trying their great vines) we stopped here before proceeding.
A wuick find - thanks for the cache!

A quick find thanks for the cache

A quick find with TregearP on our way to the International Geocaching Day event. All in good order, thanks for the cache.

Taybeedragon and I have come to Nelson again, to collect a few multicaches. I am trying to get a streak of ten multis for a challenge cache. Today's multi done, we are now heading out to Motueka to visit my dad.
My note book goes on about the title of this cache. I had to look it up. Okay, I now know what you are going on about, and yeah, eye have to agree!

The Seagnoid needs a couple of multis this weekend. Its early Saturday morning and we are off for another adventure to Tasman, with The Seagnoid and Zara. We are heading to Motueka for the night with some caching on the way.
Another easy snag and tag on our way around this area. Cheers

Quick easy find.

Quick grab after a visit to Neudorf Vineyards!!

On the way to the Neudorf vineyard we found this cache .
TFTC

Lots of traffic off to the Dovedale fair.

The car psrked next to GZ was a good sheild. Quickly found. Cheers

Exploring around Richmond, and the roads to Motueka today. There are a few caches around here!!

Thanks to the CO's for the hides. Cheers.

The roads were fairly quiet this evening so I decided to pick up a couple of caches that I usually leave due to the amount of vehicles whizzing past - this is one of them tftc

Found it . Missed this one last year but now it's done!! TFTC

Quick park and grab tftc

A lovely part of the country. TFTC

Easy find lots of traffic

Quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Easy find. Tftc

After vising the oldest pub in NZ still sober enough to cache.

Scratched around in the wrong spot before I stopped and thought sideways about the description... well done thanks very much!

Thanks for this geochach our first time! Whole lot of fun

This cache was visited by one or more of the groups participating in an activity with the local Junior Youth Group. The groups were beep!, motorbooks and robots. They enjoyed the geocaching experience. .

picked this one up towards the end of our day

All the way from uk!!

Good condition x

Tftc. Park and grab on way to Neudorf vineyards

A quick find on the way to Motueka. TFTC

A trip up the valley to St Arnaud and into Richmond the long way before a loop back through Wakefield, to Rabbit Island via Dovedale. Sounds like a crazy plan? Sure was. I've solved a couple of puzzle caches over Wakefield way and was looking to grab them on a single loop drive before a low-tide assault on the Bells Island caches, which got canned due to time/energy/pluck.
Having been in this area for just over a year a few of the Nelson/Marlborough COs are replacing some of my North Island ones on my 'caches placed by a certain CO' list. A few big movers up that chart today.
Having done a couple of others in this caching series I was wondering where the rest of the alphabet was. Now I know. Only got this one today but a nice hide here with all that advertising promulgated
T F T C Sidewaze.

A quick park and grab , then we read all the signs, something you don`t do driving past. TFTC.

TFTC

Yes found it.

4th find with Girls Down Under today. TFTC.

Another quick find and on to the next cache. Thanks for the play.

Easy find

With veverek&bohouds TFFC

Log replaced

Thank u. Quick park and grab

Unable to sign log book as paper full and slightly weather beaten.

Tftc

Nice wee find. The last one on our drive....had to stop finding caches as we would never have got home!! TFTC

very quick find... Restored my faith after taking 50 mins over my last one!

"No, Miss N, it won't be there, look it's just..."

"But Dad! Look what I just found!"

"Alright then. What do I know"

Moral for the day: Plastics come in many forms - even for geocachers.

#280

Just a quick side trip onto Neudorf Rd to get this cache - the rest along the road will have to wait for another day. TFTC.

#7729. If I remember rightly, I overshot (thinking the cache would be at the corner) whereas Troodles stopped in the right place and found the cache. TFTC.

Tricky!!

Holidaying in the South Island, grabbing a few caches on the way. Found while staying in this area. Thanks for the cache.

Thanks for the cache

TFTC. Seized the opportunity - in this case to get find 4 for the 75 in a month MGSC challenge before the phone battery died.

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Found it on the way back from Townshends Brewery....with some awesome beers!! A nice QEF.
TFTC.

Plastic fantastic helps

Such a busy day on the roads today. The highway was a racetrack. Glad to stop off in this quiet road but had to wait for a couple of bikers to move off. Had they been caching or just having a chat ? Thanks for. The cache Sidwaze!

Argh! The smell of fish was overwhelming! I'm guessing this may be some type of fertilizer for the vines? TFTC.

Quick find and sign on the way to mot Thanx4tc

Enjoying our day out caching in the country now the sun is out it's even better! thanksSidewaze 4tc:)

Had to wait for a few muggles to move on before completing the paperwork. TFTC, #5390

Easy enough find, TFTC

Was so keen, I tried to do this one twice!

Good quick find. TFTC

Quick find before the rain came. TFTC

This was a good little find for us today. TFTC

What a lot of businesses down this country road . Log was quite damp - hard to write on. TFTC

[maroon]Day 4 of our 5 day Easter caching roadtrip. Today we were heading from Nelson towards the Mini Trail near Motueka, going up one way and coming back the other.[/maroon]
Nice quick find at billboard corner. There was water in the container so good thing it has a waterproof log. This is our 12th in the alphabet series. Thanks for the cache

Nice easy find. TFTC!!

We thought that we were about to meet another cacher as we drove closer to GZ. Why else would anyone be bending over in that spot? Seems he was just dropping off some local newspapers - Glad we hadn't got as far as introducing ourselves! Once he had gone we made a quick find. Thanks.