Minister Of Lands (Nelson) Takaka, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 10-Sep-11. Waypoint GC33XMY

Was heading back over the hill today, so pulled in before making a quick find, all good here, cheers

Trouve ! / Found it ! 5296me cache trouve.Merci bumandworker pour la cache 5296th cache found.Thank you bumandworker for the cache

Located with Ricardinho A quick stop along the main road heading to Takaka. RNZ hadn't got this one on previous trips, so we stopped to grab it. Off to Pohara for the long weekend camping in the tent which will be fun Weather is looking great for the long weekend which is a bonus as well! RNZ had a few caches he wanted to target on the way over the Takaka hill & up the start of the Cobb Valley Road. We couldn't go too far today because we needed to set up camp. Stopped in Takaka township & did the Adlabs there, saving the 2 bonus caches for another day. Plus it was too busy to find them today, muggles foiling our plans! TFTC

Another quick find here on the way into town. TFTC B&W. Travelling to Pohara for a long weekend break with RG72, and todays caching goal was pretty much to get as many as we could comfortably on the way there. We got most of those on the road over. A couple of these were a bit old, which made me wonder why i had not got those sooner. But there has also been an effort by local cachers to fill some of those holes up the hill, which is much appreciated. We dabbled a bit down the road to cobb valley, but not too far as we have tents and stuff to put up at the campground so will leave that for another time, but we did do the Ad Labs in town. Thanks for all the caches and sorry for the cut and paste.

later

After an exciting day yesterday and great visit to the labyrinth rocks this morning we are heading back to Nelson.Day 2 of The Wellingtonians are back tour with TwigNZ, YetiNZ, Mr-Mcgoo. After the last trip, with more caches for us to find, we decided we had to return. And, of course, there will be days of laughter, usually at my expense During our time here, all found caches were signed as NMTY (regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us hadn't found it previously), or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.Apologies for the late log -I am well behind with my logging. Kia ora rawa atu for the cache bumandworker.

(# 8148) On a caching trip to the Nelson/Golden Bay area for a repeat trip for the four amigos. Day two of this trip took us from Takaka over the hill to Kaiteriteri, through Motueka and back to Nelson. Tripping with NZ_B, TwigNZ and YetiNZ. Another day full of hilarity with nobody being spared being the butt of the jokes. Signed the log with NMTY.

Thanks bumandworker for bringing me here.

Some time ago a group of us from Wellington decided that what we should do is come down to the Nelson region for a long weekend of Geocaching. So we did. We had such a good time that just a few months later we decided to do it again. The same team to the same location, with the same agenda. The only real goal for this four day break is exploring, having fun, and finding more of the unfound geocaches in the area.

Day two of this trip took us from the labyrinth rocks of Tākaka over the hill to Kaiteriteri, through Motueka and back to Nelson. We stopped at many caches along the way, and this was one of them.

Most of our finds here we signed the log with the collective name of N.M.T.Y to represent the four of us: NZ_B, Mr-Mcgoo, TwigNZ, and YetiNZ.

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Thanks to bumandworker for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with Geocachers like this creating them and placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

Back in June, four Wellingtonians (NZ_B, Mr-Mcgoo, TwigNZ and YetiNZ) came down to visit the Nelson region. We had such a blast that we decided to do it again, and here we are!
During our time here, all found caches were signed as NMTY (regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us hadn't found it previously), or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.

Day 2, and having spent 1 night in Takaka we are driving back down to Nelson via Kaiteriteri and Motueka and various stops along the way.

A quick find at GZ, although I'd probably be called pedantic if I pointed out that the hint should really be "where concrete meets stone".
All is fine here, thank you for setting this one up.

Trouvée facilement sur la route de Nelson (et à ce rythme là, on n'est pas arrivé )

Mplc ️

Bit of a big day today, I have to do a drivetest on the Kaiteretere South vodafone site, then a highway drive between Motueka and the Spit. But I intend to grab a couple of minute caches for the South Island 300 minutes challenge.

Quickly located the nicely hidden cache.

TFTC bumandworker, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 5 find(s) of 12 today, making this find #3870

Every time I wanted to go Geocaching in Takaka, I got sidetracked by all the caches on the way. Today, I put on my blinders so I could get to my goal. This was my first stop. TFTC.

Quick easy find. TFTC

Quick and easy find, tftc

Quick stop on our way to Takaka. Tftc

#18306 @1320
In Nelson for some relative's birthdays. Working remotely most of the week, but took today off to cache. My eldest grandson and I went for a drive to Takaka and back (from Stoke) to grab a few challenges, do some walks, and top up my 1.5/1.5 find numbers. 38 caches all up including 5 labs. Cache easily found. TFTC.

Nice quick find, TFTC!!

Impressive set of gates. TFTC

a quick find while mr rattll admired the marble wall.
thanks for putting this here for us to find

Thanks for the cache. Great find.

What an easy park and grab. Stopped the car, walked straight to the cache like I had always known where it is hidden.


#500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone gave a toot as i was looking for this one. Tftc

Day 11 - Labour weekend extended road trip with Kiwicampnut - relocated to stay south of the ditch.
There was another couple inside the gates, but they weren't interested in what we were doing. Quickly located, deteriorating contents removed, signed and returned.
Thanks for the cache bumandworker
# 3097 25 October 2021 1:18 pm

On a trip with Ruru_NZ to gather the tour caches needed or in my case not done yet. Should be able to knock them off on this trip.

Continuing on our PWGT journey visiting the top of the Mainland this weekend. Quick stop to sign the visitors book TFTC.

I am being taxi Mum for my son and daughter in law for the Heaphy Track and finding a few geocaches. Today's pick up day. I have until 2pm to geocache until my heart's content. I stayed in Takaka today and will drive over the hill with the kids to Nelson. Thanks bumandworker for creating this hide. It was find 9680 for me.

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Found on the way to a weekend at Totaranui. TFTC

Found on the way home from a weekend in Wainui, perfect day for a wander around this peaceful place.

First cache in the region, been salmon fishing in Takaka , nice quick find here, tftc

#8553. I have been staying in Takaka this week but today is time to head back over the hill to Nelson. I decided to locate some of the caches along the main road on this side of the Takaka Hill. This was one of them. Parked nearby and headed over to GZ for a nice quick find. Surprised this is only the second visit this year. Its hardly a big hike to reach the cache! Signed the logbook and returned the cache where found. Thanks bumandworker for hiding it here.

Nice and easy park and grab. TFTC

On the way from pohara to westport we made a real short stop. It was clear where it is before we left the car. A real drive in

Greets from Germany.
Tftc. Danke fürs Dösle

A quick and easy find at this quiet place (except traffic noise). TFTC

A quick grab tftc

Quick cache'n'dash as promised.
Tftc
Tim and Viv - ddm

On our trip thru NZ we visit a lot of places and see many spectacular locations.
This cache was one of our stopps thanks a lot to the owner.
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

1x TB in

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So, we took the time to visit a few Caches, to remove some green, orange or blue dots on our map.
We will distribute favorite points according to our mood and caches met.
Thank you to all Owners for the installation of these boxes and for their maintenance.
A nice place for a box!
Greetings from France!
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An easy find and the last for today. Opted for 10 this day, but only counted 7. Maybe next time.

Nice to get an easy find. Lovely kept area

Easy find. Nearly didn't have to get out of the car. TFTC.

Too easy!

A quick find while on our way to Whanganui Inlet for some kayaking and walking and a spot of geocaching. TFTC

Found with TregearP whilst on our way to Westhaven for some walking and kayaking. All in good order, took nothing, left nothing, signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache.

On the list to fix next time in the bay

Has been put in a very obvious place. Tftc

The log is wet and mushy and needs to be replaced

Managed to sign this log but it started to disintegrate on me. Might be time for a new one. thanks

Never noticed this place before as we speed to the bay. Great place for a cache thank you bumandworker.

This weekend us capperz are over the hill to Golden Bay and celebrating. It's our wedding anniversary on Friday followed by my 50th birthday on the Saturday. So we looked around for a decent place to go for the weekend and the potential of this beautiful area won out (this time). Only grabbed the one cache on the Friday night (there was much drizzly rain and poor visibility) trip over the hill(s) so there was much anticipation for what was next. Both the Saturday of my half-century milestone and the Sunday were bathed in golden sunshine and the temperature was perfect; neither too hot nor too cold.
Day 2 and a few in and around the region before we head back over the hill again. I had a plan which required me to get a sample of sand from Wainui and would be rude not to go look for the caches to the waterfall too.
Nice and easy here on our way back home
T F T C b&w

This MP had quite a varied range of ministerial portfolios during his time it seems.

A quick find, and a longer ponder as to what a Minister for Rehabilitation would have been responsible for.

Thanks

#1368

Park and grab TFTC

We had a lovely weeks holiday in the beautiful Golden Bay and we were heading back over the hill for part two of our holiday. We had to stop by as the 2 year old cachelet piped up "I need to go toilet". We pulled over and lo and behold a cache is nearby. Quick pee and quick cache. Rest assured the pee was nowhere near the cache. The cross looked stunning with the misty hills in the background.

Thanks for the cache bumandworker.
#4622

Found while doing a few caches on & over the hill. Managed to find 23 caches before my iPhone went flat,Should have grabbed my car charger as i had to leave a couple unfound for another day.TFTC quick find here

people buried all over the place of note

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

It didn't take long to find this one and get it signed then on the road towards home again after a very enjoyable days caching over this side of 'the hill'.
Thank you bumandworker.

A quick find on the way home again after a successful day caching. Thank you Bumandworker

Yeah.
Just another one for me without shoes.
Thank you for the cache.

While roaming NZ and encountering lovely landscapes,I found this cache.TFTC

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Quick park and grab tftc

A honor to get this cache. Strange not to go into a lot like this. Tftc

A quick park and grab spotted as soon as I got out of the car. Thanks for the cache

A quick easy find, spotted from the car. TFTC

On our travel through New-Zealand we visited some really nice places.

Thanks to all Owner to show us all this places.

Greets from Cologne /Germany

Gitschel

As we were logging a vehicle arrived with persons on a more traditional visit. They went in, we went on.
Barnabirdy(s)

Quick find on our way back home after our long weekend in Golden Bay. Thanks for the cache.

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

IN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Marvelous country and nice landscape. This was ferry day (Wellington - Picton).
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Sixth day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. Driving to south and heading to Christchurch Mega event. After ferry ride from North Island we continued our road trip by driving west side of South Island.

We hurry to Wainui beach to collect some sand samples to one 5/5 Earth cache before high tide. Luckily water was still pretty low when getting there. When heading back to Nelson we had time to find some caches.

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we took a ferry ride to Picton and our road trip continued to Richmond. This was fast find. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

On Tour together with Sabe73 as Team "TheBros" around South Island to visit some nice spots.
We also visited this location and could find the box almost quickly.
Thank you for showing us this place and of course for the Cache.
Greetings from Carinthia/Austria.
NoTrade

Tasks for Log-Permission (Earth, Challange, Virtual aso.) might be delayed.

Zusammen mit PPJoe als Team *TheBros* in NZL mit dem Camper auf Tour. 6 Wochen Geocaching, Herz was willst Du mehr.
Der Cache konnte gut gefunden werden, wie man sieht werden die Dosen hier gut gewartet.
TFTC & LG aus Tirol/Austria/Europe

NZDi and I have been planning a long weekend in Golden Bay for a month or so and today these plans came into fruition. Of course a long weekend out of town would not be complete without the odd cache thrown in and so a few caches were planned along the way. The weather back in Blenheim had been crap all week and the forecast for the weekend was not that flash either, however as soon as we got across the Whangamoa's we could see this part of the country was bathed in sunshine.

Today is the final day of our long weekend and the caches we get are essentially going to be Park n Grabs on the road trip home. This has been my best geocaching weekend ever and Golden Bay has some awesome caches to find. We have only scratched the surface and are looking forward to coming back in the not to distant future.

The highlight of the trip would have to be the Rawhiti Caves Earthcache, but there are too many other awesome caches as well. Thanks to all the CO's (especially the prolific bumandworker) for all your caches.

NZDi gets a little uncomfortable searching for caches near cemetaries so fortunately for this one we didn't have to enter the grounds. A QEF PnG on the road trip back to Blenheim.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Found during our road trip From Nelson to the wild west and return. Great day's caching was had.
This was the last one of the day. From here back to base in Nelson.
Cache find was straightforward.
Log signed. Cache safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Right at the dead centre.TFTC.

Thanks to all the owners of the geocaches that we found today on our way to Kaiteriteri, Marahau and Takaka. We enjoyed searching the caches and watching the beauty of this part of New Zealands Southern Island.
TFTC and greetings from Belgium.

Signed in logbook as Visa96, but have created a new profile, since my old one was shared with a friend. Found in company with 'zliber' - TFTC

Found on a beuatiful day! TFTC. Greetz from Denmark and Germany.

A quick stop and find.

Found over Waitangi Weekend in Golden Bay. A great spot for caching.

Thanks for the hide.

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With the nice hint it was no problem to locate the box.

Thanks for the cache.

#8499. Another cemetery visit while finding caches (though in case we didn't have to go inside). TFTC.

The third and final day of our Labour weekend trip to Golden Bay. There was quite a bit of rain overnight and some drizzle early morning, but mainly it was fine during the day so the weather didn't really put much of a dampener on our trip (apart from long wet grass and mud at some locations).
Heading back home now and picking up some caches we drove past on our way here on Saturday. A easy find, then read the plaques. Must have been an important personage here. TFTC.

TFTC

An easy find on a rainy day from Collingwood to Motueka. Tftc!

Quick find on the way home TFTC

#1464

Quick find on our way to the ferry. TFTC

Found while enjoying a lazy afternoon caching in the area while also enjoying some wonderful locations, TFTC, #6150

5th found it on my way. TFTC.

At first thought this was going to be problem, but there was only the minor issue of dodging a few cars.

TFTC

After leaving Abel Tasman NP we stopped at the coordinates to collect this little one.

NZ#32
MTFTC fhoernchen

Found between rain squalls after a day cooped up inside. TFTC

oh darn...I completely forgot to stop and replace the log here....book marked now for next trip.

Nice early morning find before any traffic was about .. Had to be careful signing log though as it's damp and likely to tear, sorry I didn't have a temp to replace it with but I'd used the last one in my bag last night .. Also dropped off Butterfly TB

TFTC!

TFTC this was a good quick find on our way home

Day 2, Find no.1 . Family Holiday time!
A park and grab for Dad. The cache was wet, so we dried it out and replaced the leaking plastic bag. Sorry we couldn't dry the log itself completely.
No trackable found unfortunately.
TFTC!

A quick stop but I always enjoy seeing these memorials, good local history.

TFTC

Quick find TFTC (1039)

Quick find on way back from Job in Takaka TFTC.