C for Miles (Nelson/Marlborough) Mahana, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 02-Feb-11. Waypoint GC2N7XZ

Has suffered at the hands of a zealous cleaner upper. Time to move on, not replacing.

A double thank you Sidewaze for this cache. I have permission to log this one because it was missing when I searched for it. ?? That was really kind as I don't know when I will next be up in Nelson.

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Needs a check

I think it's gone. Nice view though

Oh, yeah. I also DNF'd this one on the 11th, but forgot to log it.

On a west coast adventure and on our way to Nelson for a few days . My first time to travel up the west coast of the south island In 20 years so this time we get to cache our way in to uncharted territory, so let's see what fun adventures awaite us bring it on.
Day six of our road trip , to day we are exploring the Nelson area ,let's see what fun adventures awaite us.
Out exploring the Nelson area and today we head out this way so we could not drive by this one with out a quick look .
A quick find and paper work completed, cache returned to the hide.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

This cache certainly lives up to its name

#8591. 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.

Its true you can see for miles along this ridgeline. We found a place to park and walked back to the GZ. The cache was quickly in hand. The logbook was duly signed and the cache replaced where found once the coast was all clear again. Thanks Sidewaze for hiding it here. Starting to head back to the highway now as soon we need to get to the airport so I can catch my flight home.

Heading to Motueka early Sunday morning. Stopped off here for a quick snag and tag. Cheers

Its another weekend exploring Nelson and Tasman with The Seagnoid, Toby and Zara. Early start out of Blenheim getting to Nelson by 8am. Had a great weekend picking up a couple of Labs, even a new one on our way home in Havelock.

I only just clicked now, as I am online logging this cache a few days after the find, just what the CO meant by the cache title. I so did not have my mojo that day!
Added a path tag, subtracted a wooden Kiwi Guardians coin.

Given that I am leaving Blenheim soon, I am putting in a concerted effort to cache out the South Island. 40 caches this weekend, only a few thousand more to go. A couple more weeks should do it! As usual I have Zara, Toby and Taybeedragon along for the ride. We were supposed to be going to Murchison, but there is some horrible weather that way, so we came here instead. Much better!!

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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Two nights in Upper Moutere, another early morning start to find caches in this area before going to catch the ferry. Thanks Sidewaze for the cache

Parked on the correct side, walked down and crossed only to find out I need to go back again. All good and dry.

Easy find, thanks

Found it!

A quick find and sign while doing some back road caches. All quiet here today so no problems
Thanx4tc

Great wee hide thanks

Literally, what a great day to grab this one. TFTC, Sidewaze

A quick find on a trip down this road, thanks for the cache Sidewaze.

International Geocaching Day today, and with a couple of events on in the top of the south I decided today will be a trip to Nelson, since it seeems I have not been there for yonks.
So a quick catch up with the Boomtown Massive over an eggs bene early doors at the local event, then a drive to Nelson. With an upcoming trip south, I decided I will target a few Nelson caches to fill in holes in the D/T and Hidden Month matrices. This will help clarify what I need to do down there. Sandwiched in between was the Nelson event of course; and a few lesser goals and plan Bs.
As it panned out, it was a reasonably successful day. Caught up with the ephemeral Capperz, who was flitting around the place also, but had managed to ditch the whanau at a mall for long enough to go for a drive up Aniseed Valley road and get a few. Then we went our own ways, and it was some cache maintenance and a drive toward Mapua to get a few just before there, before making the way slowly back down a less busy road. A 20+ day and good fun. Logs signed ricardinho, ric.nz or RP where space is limited. Thanks to all the COs.

T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C
---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
-- AR9ZB7

Driving up the road, it was clear where the GZ was likely to be, quite a bit of development in the area so in 5-10 years time it will be like suburbia. SJT_NZ found this one, it was covered pretty heavily in dirt but he rooted it out. TFTC all in good order.

A quick find with TregearP whilst passing through the area.

Took a couple of minutes to find as well buried, but with excellent coordinates found on the second dig.

All in excellent condition. Signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Sidewaze.

TFTC

I have parked my cachemobile and snail shell up in the McKee's Memorial Reserve, Ruby Bay. There are several toilet and shower blocks and fresh water available to campers. There is just one hiccup with the showers in that they have only cold water available. Brrrr! All this for $6/night. Very good price.

Today I decided to have a bit of an explore of the area plus picking up one or two solved puzzles and the odd trad that got in the way[^] You certainly can. A lot of rural subdivision going on.

Cheers for the cache.

TFTC

Amazing views here and looks like a subdivision is happening and soon homes are going to pop up. My highly competitive nieces were racing around trying to beat each other to find the cache. Up the road, down the road, up, back, across they went till one yelled in excitement with cache in hand. TFTC

TFTC

Quick find TFTC

Small caching detour on our first visit to Nelson. Do like these quick ones. TFTC

Nice quick find. Tftc

Spent a lovely afternoon out with PC getting a few caches.A quick easy find .Tftc Sidewaze

Found it tfc

The car got really muddy from parking on the muddy place on the side of the road nearby ground zero. the cache was an easy one, so no-one needed to venture out of the car. Found while driving through mahana. Find #260

An easy find on todays bicycle ride around Mapua - tftc!

Nice view over the bay, and a quick find over the road. 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.

Found it -awesome view as suggested... TFTC

Thanks

Lovely afternoon to be out. TFTC

I certainly could see for miles today it was a stunning clear warm winters afternoon tftc

Visiting from Pennsylvania, USA with redsoxbean. We loved driving around and exploring the area. TFTC ^_^

Caching with Loth and Draak during a visit from the USA. We had a great stay and found many fun caches.

30 May 2016

Wow spectacular view on this clear autumn day!
TFTC

A Sunday unexpectedly up my sleeve, mrs capperz at work for the morning, nightowl19 round a friends house and just me and Tally the dog with (potentially) a whole day to kill time. Only one thing for it then, a trip 'over the hill'. On the list of wants was a full set of 8 recently listed eggs and a second look at some caches that last time I came were either missing, or I missed when looking. I've got a whole collection of solved puzzles burning a hole in my G P S too so keen to turn them into smilies if possible. Some I've had solved since prior to moving down here to the Mainland so keen to convert.
All up a successful trip; 35 caches found, 18 puzzles and 17 traditional caches. All 8 eggs were cracked, including a dirty half dozen before noon, got all the numbers required and will go for the final another time. A lovely sunny day today to herald the change of daylight saving and my smoke alarm tested itself, at 0430 this morning!!
Another alphabet cache, thanks for placing, views all good over the road
T F T C Sidewaze

What a great view on a lovely sunny day. TFTC

Nice view.
TFTC

Tftc. Quick sign and find. Beautiful views.

Nice parking spot, I remember when this was all pine trees. Quick find and sign and back on the road again.

Scored a bone ear plug. Swapped for a Vietnamese Bracelet.

Our second one found on a hot sticky day

We needed a few items at the supermarket and our youngest cachelet needed a sleep as putting him down in the awning just wasn't happening during the day, as it was too exciting. We headed off and all three cachelets nodded off. Oh well, a spot of caching was in order...
I haven't been up this was since I was a kid. Decided to detour to the highway via this way. Quick find at GZ. Got back to the truck and realised I left the GPSr behind. Doh! Lovely viesws

Thanks for the cache Sidewaze.
#4156

Prickled by gorse

Great views over Tasman Bay. TFTC

Good hint

Great View Bit of a Grunt on the Bike But Found

You certainly can! TFTC.

Quick stop on the way to Woollaston Estate, thanks Sidewaze! #260

StreetWalker was navigating on a Sunday drive in the country and this was the first stop. Had a deja vu feeling about it and when I looked for the cache on my GPSr, it wasn't in the unfound list, but was in the "found". I was surprised that I had apparently found it but SW hadn't. Anyway, signed the logbook for good luck (couldn't check through past signatures as it was a replacement logbook).
When I checked on-line on returning home, discovered I hadn't actually found it. All most odd. Must have accidentally set to the cache to found at some stage since our last downloads. Pleased I did sign the logbook and wondered if we have been to a back road with a similar look out on a previous visit.
Great location and we did see for miles despite the ominous black clouds to the south west. TFTC.

#8409. We'd driven along the Moutere "Highway" a few times since moving to Richmond, without having the time to detour to this area. Well, today we got round to exploring the area; and it proved to be most interesting. This was the first cache of the day, and the views were excellent. TFTC.

09/10/2014 2:32:00 PM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Almost every single log we signed as 'Team Polak' to avoid needing to write out both usernames taking up space on logsheet - as well as precious caching time!! Haha.

Consec caching day # 704

TFTC!!

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For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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Oops. Apologies to those who opened this one in its sorry state. It kind of slipped off the radar. All fixed now. I do wish people would catch on to the fact that all containers are more waterproof if they're placed the right way up [xx(].

Despite the container and the bag, this log is soaking wet and unsignable. No spare with me today, so had to leave it as it was.

Quick to find but slow to sign as the cache is very wet and dearly in need of some log-love. Signed as best I could.

Thanks

This entry was edited by msebn on Tuesday, 05 August 2014 at 06:38:41 UTC.

Quick find. Log damp but still signable. Fourth cache today. TFTC

With judithn out for a Sunday find. Logbook waterlogged. Needs some tlc.

Doms mate taj found it

Wow this is a fast road - everybody seems in such a hurry today. We parked away from GZ as advised. A quick dash and grab and then a few minutes at the car admiring this fab view. Thanks for the cache.

Found after a minute or two and with nice view. House here one day?

Found with Sevren.tftc

Great view, thanks.

TFTC

What an astounding view. We are enjoying where the geocaches take us...... new places and views. 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]
Yes you certainly can C for miles. The solitary sheep in the paddock next door didnt even left his head (even when taunted) Thanks for the cache

Nice easy find with terrific views. TFTC!!

Today I Went for the 100 caches in 1 day. With a very early morning and just breaking even at lunch time with 50, it looked like it was going to be 12am to 12pm. But after a move out of the city they started to speed up, and i managed to grab the last at 20:30 with 106!! Thanks everyone for the caches that they have placed, from the ones that have been planed for months to the park and grabs

Read the clue, jumped out of the car, crikey where can it be... Back to the car, GPS retrieved... Ah, wrong point of interest! Much easier when you search at GZ TFTC

Perfect view nice cache . Thank you

TFTC. The views from this location were expansive, so a perfect location to place a cache.

Hot Stuff!

quick find while out on a bike ride

used to be trees here. now neither forest nor new lifestyle. Good view though. TFTC

What a view. Quick find TFTC

Enjoyed the fantastic view while signing the log. TFTC

cool cache had lots of fun biking to it up the road
TFTC

Easy find and a great view. A favourite

Can C why this would B an A grade geo-site !

Nice easy find while doing Cross Number 4. TFTC

A frosty morning find. Great views from here. GPS was also a bit sluggish this morning.

On a roll today. This one just 1 of 16 finds. You certainly can see for miles today.

Had to wait for a muggle walking down the road in the dark before we could retrieve this one. Nice and easy, thanks! Great view at night time

Find no 28/35 on a brilliant Good Friday, caching with Hazedarus. TFTC

#28 of 35 on a brilliant autumn day caching with Holymu. TFTC

Fabulous views - we cetainly could C for Miles from here. Spotted a cache too, thanks.

# 5429

WE biked to this cache. It took us a while to find it. Thanks for the cache!

Corker spot. The view was straight off the post card.

Brownie checked out the view from here as well today.

TNLN SL TFTC

A beautiful summers day...and yes I could C for miles. Thank you for the view and cache.

I am back in the south island again geocaching , I am doing a road trip with this Nana and Auntie and having Good time bit disappointed that there areno swap in the small caches I have come across Thank for the Caches

nice day and very good view.TFTC