Path to Walk - Bridge (Marlborough) Anakiwa, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 02-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33DEC

This one took a little while amd I had doubts which side of the stream it might be on, but the coordinates on the map proved pretty accurate in the end. A methodical search by TA found it.

We took an hour long diversion from our task of finding [the Letterboxes of Marlborough](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6A62Y_the-letterboxes-of-marlborough) to drive up the Anikiwa Road to see that famous spot, picking up a few caches on the way. This one was quite tricky ... a bit higher than a foot off the ground, unless the replacement was popped in by an Ent maybe. Anyway, with the superior eyes of trifolia A the cache was eventually located. TFTH!

Time to try and tick off this months challenge. There is enough on this end of the Queen Charlotte track for me to almost do it.I had previously looked for this one and had a replacement prepared. Dropped in as close to GZ as possible, about a foot above the ground in the tree.

Another dnf for me. Turning into a nonproductive day. Might be time for the cafe instead

Searched round all the possible hint items but nothing found.

So much new growth

Co-ordinates were putting me in the middle of the path with no trees near.

This cache was found on an afternoon trip to Annikiwa . It was found with my wife on day three of our eight day holiday in Marlborough based at Picton.

Lucky my husband was patient. I persevered and found it.
JDScout and I are spending a week in Picton. We have spent this week exploring Marlborough and finding a few geocaches. Thanks bumandworker for creating this hide. It was find 9471 for me.

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Couldn’t find it. Will be back later though

What to do, what to do, jump on the quad and go for a blat to get some caches. Arrved at the gz and there was some wildlife sign on the cache.. ohh well have some latex gloves so on them doned and managed to retrive the hide.
Cache in good order, gz cleaned and cache rehidden.
Thank you for bringing me to this area bumandworker and for placing and maintaining Path to Walk - Bridge (Marlborough) geocache from Mr Cuddly Brick
Found on this awesome day the 2 September 2020.
Cache number # 2379

Ŕìde from ozzie bay to Linkwater. Tftc

Had fun getting through the cuttings to reach gz. TFTC

Staying in the Sounds for a week or so, so taking the opportunity to find a few caches that have sprung up since my last visit.
TFTC

Found on our TA thru-hike. Really appreciate this path, keeping us off what looks like it would be a narrow and dangerous road!

Found on our TA thru-hike. Really appreciate this path, keeping us off what looks like it would be a narrow and dangerous road!

A short getaway to catch up with family on the Mainland and drive some roads not travelled before.
We spent a few of nights in Picton and picked up some caches. Found just before some walkers came past, rehid once they were out of sight.
TFTC bumandworker.

Nice hide!
Love the effort that is put into these caches
Tftc

we rent to mountainbikes, had a lot of rain - and FUN
TFTC, team bycycle

Another quick grab. Got this one on the way back as that way parking was better. No probs, TFTC Bum.

There have been a few new ones placed along the QC track, but I don’t have time to do them tonight. I will come back some other day with the bike and see how we go. In the meantime, a quick trip in to do some one this road and the QC Drive if I have time. Turns out I didn’t, but still good fun. Thanks all COs.

Just come back from a great walk along Queen Charlotte Track to Anakiwa View and back picking up a couple of FTFs along the way. So now time to head home. But time for a couple of stops along the way.

Last stop for the day. Quick find here after The Seagnoid believes this one is gone. Ha. Ha. Cheers. That cleans up a few straglers. Time for home.

Had an early message from The Seagnoid for a walk at Anakiwa for a couple of FTFs. Yep Im in - pick up at 3.30. No change of plans make that 12.30. Its been raining here early morning and weather changeable since then. Thankfully its a lovely afternoon for a walk, but track wet and muddy in places.

Another quick easy find signed and replaced in it hiding place .Tftc bumandworker

Cloudy day out geocaching with Trex5159 #TFTC

Quick park and grab with muggles closing in. Tftc

We've had these coordinates for a number of years now and remember being unable to find it so it's time we had another look. Nearly gave up again but persistence paid off. TFTC.

Well we failed on this one . We are we sure we searched the area fully so will keep an eye out for this cache and see if we are proved wrong. Thanks for bringing us here for a lovely waterside walk

My third (this is getting embarrassing) DNF today. This one I am sure is not here. I searched GZ and the hint object pretty thoroughly.

Heading in to the bay, to spend a bit of time enjoying the beauty of the area. Quickly found the obvious GZ but did not find the cache. It did look as though the water has been through the area so potentially it has been washed away. We put a replacement cache in the obvious place. Hope this is okay - if not please remove our found it log. Thanks for showing us this track - we are planning to come back with our bikes - just need the weather to be a bit more settled and warmer.

A nice and quick find, all quiet, not too many walkers or bikers today. Cheers.

Early ferry today, and off to Neslon for a couple of nights. Good to be back on the mainland.

Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Found on our way to Anakiwa.
Logroll wet

A quick find on our way to Picton. TFTC.

A quick find with SJT_NZ on watch while I went in for the retrieve and log, TFTC

Another quick find while in the area this morning. All was clear but as leaving the GZ a couple of walkers spotted approaching with a dog. Not sure where they came from, but 90 seconds earlier and it could have been all bad.

All in good order and thanks for the cache.

Reasonably quick find. TFTC.

12:24. TFTC, quickly located, signed and replaced. Now on towards Nelson...

Nice quick find log very wet something has been chewing top of container

No pen, so photolog!! Found during afternoon run.... book is very wet!!!

Tftc

after crossing on the ferry from Wellington and on way to Nelson, could see the weather was going to pack it in and wanted at least one cache for the day so took a small detour and collected this one. Side road fairly quiet. TFTC

Nice easy find, but the book is very wet. TFTC

Wooooo another one ticked off

found this a while ago on a trip to the "Magic Library" great cache

Nice easy find on our local track. Thanks

a quick find but the goats were distracting

Found it easily.unable to undo cache to sign.good spot away from muggles.

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

Was busy looking near the obvious item listed in the title. Was mistaken.
Found after a bit more following the coordinates.

After nearly giving up, we tried a different area and found straight away! tftc

It is day three of a three day weekend (Waitangi Day) which gives me the opportunity to boost my numbers in the local area. On Saturday, in the company of Kiwimykl I have done some local Blenheim caches along with the route to Picton and a few Picton caches. Sunday's caching involved the Port Underwood Road and some more of the Picton caches and today's effort involves the Queen Charlotte Drive, Anakiwa and the route between Havelock and Blenheim. As we were time-limited we decided to target PnGs or those caches only involving a short walk.

As parking around here wasn't the best, I stayed in the car and let Kiwimykl do the honours. He was quickly back with the log in hand which we signed, replaced and were soon on our way to the next.

TFTC B&W

Found with NZDi, refer to her log for details.

TFTC B&W

Damit unsere 1-monatige Serie nicht verfällt, gab's noch einen kurzen Spaziergang hierhin. .. Nochmals gut gegangen. Huf. TFTC

It took me a while to find it and earned me some scratches, but it was fun. TFTC!

#1463 Found on way to Anakiwa with wb-jnr.

Thanks for another South Island smilie. All good at GZ

#694 with wb1116

Found with Polargirl and Spudge. A quick easy find here and our last one while on holiday in the south island. TFTC!

I was left to battle the bushes and return the cache as Spudge and Allepousse had to get back to start on dinner. TFTC

TFTC, Allepousse and I gave Polargirl a headstart on her bike then met up with her at each cache on this road, she was mostly faster on her bike than we were driving!

Yebo bumandworker
Yes got it, quite overgrown but manageable
Tftc

Grabbing a few caches on our drive to drop N9 off to school camp.

TFTC B&W!

#408

Off the ferry this afternoon and decided to take the slow way home.

Hmmm. Something's different. A hint - thankyou Last time I concentrated on the Bridge. Maybe the coords have changed too or the stars were aligned differently today.
TFTC

It was fun re think our strategy tftc

Day#2 of our trip to Picton via Port Underwood Road and time to head home to Richmond, via another scenic route, of course. Another stunning sunny day and lots of interesting places visited so many thanks to all the COS for their cache placements.
We were able to park near the bridge - it does look brand new - and walked the last few metres. We took the cache name too literally before realising that the GPSr was point a few metres further on. Managed to make the find while the area was free of muggles. TFTC.

#10028. The bridge is pretty flash. At first I thought the cache was going to be under the bridge, but it proved to be a short distance away. TFTC.

Parked close by and only walked a few meters to this spot - pretty cool pathways around here.
TFTC

A nostalgic visit to the Anakiwa area. TFTC.

Had a DNF back in the 13th Feb 2014,but it was a different story today.Made it the last one out this way as it was getting to dark to see.TFTH

Pick up local Cacher call The Seagnoid
Sign log and cache in good order See taybee Log as we did it at the same Time
TFTC log by Gsak

Caching with The Seagnoid today my GPS was out of date on this one so the Seagniod Found the cache as i was looking in the stop. as GZ was 12 meters away and taybee_nz was looking forward to small Cache as the cache page shows and was very disappoint to found Micro here
Sign log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

[green] Got invited to a road trip with Taybee and TaybeeNZ, and Taybee had cleverly worked out a route neither of us had been on - 40 caches worth! Picton, Queen Charlotte Drive and Pelorus. Long day.
For some reason, Taybee and taybeeNZ decided to look over there, my GPS pointed me to way over here. After I found the cache I checked the logs - yup, Taybee had the old coordinates! I'm doing well today - haven't needed a hint all day so far. Here's hoping!

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 16.912 E 173° 54.153

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 16.913 E 173° 54.145

Distance from original: 36.9 feet or 11.3 meters.
nearby

replace

Staying at Smith's Farm for a few days. First search of the day on a morning walk up Anakiwa Rd. Thought I did a thorough search but came up empty-handed anyway; wondering if there have been some "did not log" searches in the 4 months since the last find. I imagine it would be unlikely that there have been no searches made over this time, especially considering the glorious summer weather we're having.

bookmarked to check (see link on cache), but unless not returned correctly by last finder, this will still be there. easy to miss

Had a good search. Lay on the ground on both sides and stuck my head under to try and see what Isis saw.
No Luck.

A nice little bridge must have cost a bomb

Took a little finding. Had to employ the eyes from one direction and the hands from the other, so a little visual memory was required. Got there in the end. .

What a substantial bridge. Easy find, but unable to fit in the trackable I intended to drop.
Cache is still listed as a small, though it is a micro.
Thanks for the invite to explore this area.

No time to explore this trail today, it looks inviting, TFTC.

Found on the way home from Anakiwa TFTC

#1944

We noted this on the drive in to Anakiwa but thought it would be better to get on the way back out. Quite a sturdy construction. TFTC and replacement. #5591

Well hidden. Off to wash my hair and clothes now

Wow, this one took some finding and I was just starting to think it'd gone missing again. Persistence ended up in success though. Sneaky hide this one!! TFTC BW!!

Yep it is not there.Oh well maybe next time we come up this way.

replaced cache...now micro

Oh bother, went past today, and forgot this one....even though it is book marked and in my GPS......next time.

Had a pretty good look but no cigar.

Possibly gone given date of last log?

we will check, but going to be late Jan before we get there.

From Picton to Havelock along Q Charlotte.
Easy find today, nice place

Easy find, but getting it was harder. Wish we had our bikes with us. TFTC

Found the cache ok but how do you remove it. Got a canvas out of car, lay on the ground and on inspection, decided it did not come out, so , think about it. Signed and replaced. Very good.

Great cache B and W. Had quite an adventure retrieving cache as a big spider had taken up residence on top of cache. When cache was removed the spider fell on my face. Certainly memorable.

Trusted the GPS and found without problems in the usual place for such a cache. TFTC

Easy find. Dropped a trackable I picked up in Raglan.

A quick find after dinner, love Nelson

TFTC

Back to visit Anakiwa where both of us had been in our youth when there were no houses and an unsealed road .

Knowing we will be back as a team meant Mrs SoBad was tempted to leave this for another day. For a moment anyway. But spotting the name and the closeness to the road it seemed silly not to stop. Especially as the path was clear of walkers and riders. Found the cache signed the log, and put the GPS away. That was definitely the last for the day. And 14 more b&w moved to the found list.
Thanks for the cache and the contribution to a great random day for Mrs S. SoBad was less happy with only 1 wicket down in the test - but then he could have been caching instead.

Quick find on way home from picton

Quick find tftc

Day 97 of Te Araroa Trail.