[JD] Te Tai o Marokura (Canterbury) Kaikoura Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand
By JDSavannah (maintained by a local cacher) on 12-Mar-11. Waypoint GC2QTP1

No longer viable.

Enjoying this coastal walk, thanks for this cache, but it does need maintenance, the log book is very wet and soggy.

Very wet logbook, had problems to sign it. But very beautiful spot! Maybe choose a safer place for the cache?

On holiday in NZ from Scotland and enjoying exploring Kaikoura's wildlife and geocaches. 2nd last of the day. Beautiful, cold winter's day, the mountains were wonderful

Logbook very wet and struggled to sign it. LOTS of water under the boardwalk and can't really see a way of keeping this cache dry. Did our best propping it up with stones. Lots of muggles in the car park but not many here so an easy enough find; followed by coffee and crayfish fritters!

TFTC

Seals! We saw seals!
And found a cache after giving it up as a DNF. I'm guessing it must have been washed out of its hidey hole during some high water because the eagle eyed youngster spotted it in the vegetation about fifty metres along the path. It was totally soaked inside, so we put into another bit of paper to sign, and returned it to where the GPS and the hint said it should be.

This cache needs a local to adopt it. Thanks

Quick park and run to this find with CaptureNZ. I won! Haha TFTC

Found while filming with capturenz.co.nz and barekiwi.com. TFTC

did it today on my peninsula walkway . tftc

Love kaikoura. TFTC

Great spot, nice walkway. Go Kiakoura Lion's! Blenheim Bear

#5439. We were please there was a path from the road to GZ; just about a drive-by. TFTC.

This entry was edited by StreetWalkerNZ on Sunday, 05 May 2013 at 07:55:38 UTC.

Good to see people using the boardwalk, fortunately not when we were retrieving the cache.
TFTC.

Big (or maybe just medium sized) black spider gave me a bit of a fright as I retrieved this one.
TFTC.

Quick find. Thanks from this Canadian!

A lot of caches and impressions today. 10 caches on a day and sightseeing, on the boat, on the peninsula. We unfortunately did not see whales, but we saw lots of seals and dolphins and albatrosses too!
Another cache on the peninsula track, a quick walk, stop, search, find, log and rehide
Thanks for the cache and bringing us some exitement along the track!
NINO

HalveZool (#628)

Number 3 on our way to seal city. Amazing how the big fellows were lying around everywhere. thanks

A spotted the rock and there it was.

Windswept & rained upon - no muggles around here today.
TFTC.

Enjoyed this one.

Nice spot on a cycleway beside a stunning section of coastline. Went straight to the cache. Tftc

Nice One!!!!!!!!!!Found with family visitors from Florida while showing them the sights of the South Island. Our niece Missy has claimed Kaikoura as her #1 New Zealand town. Having a great time. Much fun. Thanks

TFTC

Lovely walk and will be returning to day for seafood.tftc

Nice easy find off walkway and great views. SL tftc

Traveling through New Zealand in February with the Campervan we visited your Cache.
Thanks for showing us this place.

TFTC Mammut75 with LumpiMaus / Austria

Nice find on evening walk. Not many seals around when we were there.

91

Lovely walk along coast. No muggles! Tftc

Thank you for a nice afternoon arround the penisula

TFTC Bariso

Easy find in a beautiful spot TFTC

I've been on a three week tour of New Zealand. We were a group of 20 Danes, where I was the only geocacher, but many were interested to hear about what it was.

We arrived in Kaikoura early in the afternoon, and we then had a few hours on our own. I chose to lace up my hiking boots and take a trip out to the Seal Colony.

Today's second cache was found after a short search.

Thanks to the cache owner for the cache.

#3607

Second cache of the day on a little trip around Kaikoura after a leisurely breakfast at the motel. Had to wait for a muggle to jog by on the boardwalk.

TFTC

ds8300

Easy find, great hint, beautiful walk from town, TFTC!

#50, 2013-01-23 at 19:38, Díky za cache. TFTC

TFTC quick find

This was another easy find on the peninsula, after a nice walk above seal city.
Found and logged at 18:25.
TFTC, CHUG2 (from Germany).

#53 Found on our seal walk. I came very close to a fur seal not far from this one. Thanks and greetings from Sweden!

Nice and easy find on our walk around Kaikoura Peninsula.

TFTC + greetings from Hamburg/Germany
Ragnar

Favourite hoilday spot. TFTC.

TFTC, lovely sunny but cool day in Kaikoura.

Nice walkeway in this part of the beach. Thanks. www.mgm-ibex.ch

Found as one of many caches we collected as we drove South on Highway One. Good cache.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Nice and easy find in a lovely spot! TftC!

After staying in the town on our holiday from England we came down to see the seals (and find a cache) it was our first day we have seen rain since arriving so it was a quick stop whithout going for a walk. I couldn't see it but put my hand where i thought I would put a cache if I was hiding it and immediatly felt it. TFTC.

Tftc!;)

On a night caching run while staying in Kaikoura. Good coords gave us another smilie. TFTC

A night caching run in Kaikoura bought us to this walkway. A quick find even in the dark. TFTC.

Despite muggles in the vincinity I was able to retrieve and replace the box easily. TFTC.

A day in Kaikoura with Whale watching and some caching... enjoyed the absolute lovely weather today...

TFTC dunestar

Nice and quick and easy TFTC

Out on a day trip to Kaikoura with Captain Jack to see the sea and some caches on the way

Found it well. TFTC

Nice Place. TFTC and greetings from Germany
Klatho & Gazzelli

Went for a nice caching tour in New Zealand. Starting again from Queenstown going Westcoast up and Eastcoast down.. Nice things seem to be found here. Good cold temperatures but mostly no rain, so we enjoyed the tour everytime. Thanks for bringing us here.

A quick find with the hint. TFTC.

On our little hike round the peninsula we found this cache at once at 1.55 p.m., too.
Thanks for the hide.

#4179

A cool spot and easy find

Good find on a nice walkway. thanks

Found during our 25 day holiday trip to NZ. In these days we both visited North and South island picked up some caches along the route of course.

TFTC!

We did a walking tour around the peninsula and have found this box also. Thanks

This was a quick found and the walk is going on. Thanks

Nice quick easy find then on to the next up the hill to west ward st.

Started our geocaching day at South Bay and continued past this cache to Kaikoura, over the hill and back to South Bay...a round trip. Took time out for an ice cream at the nearby coffee cart and mobile fish cafe.

Easy find.

A nice quick find, thanks.

TNLN

Quick find and seal free. Last cache of 8 for the day.

A quick find, what a beautiful place.

Sea, mountains, beautiful. Wish I was diving though. TFTC

Quick find. Neat walkway. TFTC

easy grab after passing the seals

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Hi I'm a young cacher from switzerland and usualy I write my logs by myself in swiss german.
to keep it simple find the detailed log and any required picures of our find in Cache.Mike logs, he is my fahter.
thanks to all owners for all those fun caches we found during our 6 weeks in New Zealand

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Found at 10:45 on way south, stopping for a coffee !!! Nice easy find once we found a safe parking spot. Slowly cleaning up outstanding caches in area. The GB Coin visited the cache too!! TFTC

Last cache of a busy day on the way to visit the seal colony, TFTC

A nice find by Mr EU. TFTC

Quick find tftc

Tftc

Great cache and hide and also the place where I have seen the first seal in the sea in this area. TFTC!

Second cache today al out in the open. Signed and replaced. Tftc

Great little coffee van just down the road gave us the ideal excuse to stop and search. Our54th cache on our 35 day holiday. I don't think we will make 100

Another easy cache on a glorious day. TFTC

Grabbing a few caches in the area while passing through on our 'how ever long it takes' NZ tour.
Thanks for setting this up.
TFTC
Mud & Kim

4420. The third cache find on the fifth day of our six day geocaching tour around Hanmer and Kaikoura in our campervan. A quick find during a day of geocaching in and around Kaikoura township. A very interesting and picturesque area. Thanks, Rodney and Iris.

Found it! TFTC Wolfpac10

Nice stop for the cache on another fine day geocaching in the south island. SL TFTC

very nice little one
on my way around the area
beautiful weather
merci

Heading around the Peninsula we had spotted the walkway and the cache so we were very happy to stop and try it out. No seals today so no problem to find the cache in the logical place. Thanks to the Cache placer and the maintainer.

#429, 09:45
It was a very nice warm and sunny morning. A perfect day for a stroll along the shore. TFTC

Found it!

TFTC

TFTC Jackdanielswhiskey

Found in autumn afternoon after whale watching. Quick and easy.

Thanks!

It was a wet morning but we still went out to see what this beautiful spot had a offer even with limited views due to the low cloud. This was one of 3 caches we did along the shore line. The seals were in the car park and on the walk way at the seal colony. One of them looked like a speed hump in the car park but let you know when you got too close in case you did not spot him as he blends into the road. We signed the log and replaced. TFTC.



This entry was edited by bella at waggy on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 at 08:21:03 UTC.

Had a great afternoon geocaching in Kaikoura.TFTC.
#51

Found it. A beautiful area.

Quick park and grab on our way to the peninsula walking track. TFTC

Interesting spot. Glad we stopped.

Very nice walkway along the beach. Easy find. TNL SG coin.
Greetings from Singapore and TFTC!

Had my older (little) daughter find and rehide the cache.. she really likes geocaching.
Had to wait for some muggles before rehiding it.
TFTC

Good timing as no walkers were about