Trolling Tasman ( South Canterbury ) Tasman River, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 09-Oct-11. Waypoint GC35XWE

Pretty sure this one is missing. Looked for quite a while in all the obvious spots within a 5m radius of GZ. Rodney and Iris.

done it's dash

Strong feeling this one got muggled...

definitely not here

Found during fozzmiester's South Island adventure. Great fun was had with clever hides and stunning locations encountered along the way. Many thanks to the owners of all the caches found and the enjoyment which you provided.

A quick find to complete the day's cachinbg activites - now to get back to Twizel for tea. TFTC

After a day or more of really awful weather, today dawned clear and sunny. Great views of the mountain, thanks Bitsprayer.

Found with Jemnz on way to visit Mt Cook. TFTC

Nice quick find, wish I'd put the caches further up the road into my gps. Will just have to come back! TFTC

Found on a drive in to the Tasman Glacier. TFTC

Last find for the day, on our way home from the best day we could get at the Mt Cook area. Watch out for tourists that don't understand the one lane bridge rules as you cross the bridge for this cache. We were three quarters of the way across when a camper van decided it would start making its way over as well, which was followed by another camper. After they both reversed off the bridge, we could continue off the bridge to grab the cache. [8]

Quick park'n'grab on way home to Glentanner Park, TFTC

Managed to squeeze in a little swap. TFTC.

Found it on our first trip back to NZ after 25 years.

Found on the way to the Tasman glacier.TFTC

Sehr schnell gefunden.

found with sandra & anne

Got the troll OK but he was hanging on pretty tight. TFTC

Easy find. Tftc. And yes what a view.

Crossed the bridge braving wind, snow and rain. TFTH

Another nice quick find in this beautiful region. TFTC

Another quick find on this beautiful region. TFTC

An easy find thanks to the hint and amazing views on our way into the next cacheTFTC

Found 4:46pm , find # 1944
Currently travelling through the South Island of New Zealand.
Today is our only full day at Mount Cook. We did a number of walks and luckily there were a few caches to find.
This was find number 5 for the day.
This was a quick find on the way back from the glacier.
I was expecting a long search after reading the logs, but Pam found it immediately.
It hidden well enough, but is a very easy find for all but the most inexperienced cacher.

Thanks Bitsprayer.

Here we found true proof of global warming. TFTC

We thought this would be a quick find but it took a little longer before we had the right grab. Tftc!

Took a few minutes to locate this one, at first I checked all the obvious 'bridge' locations but nothing Then I continue looking for less visible spots and voila! Nice hide, TFTC!

My 345th cache.
Thank you for that cache.
Regards from Bavaria
JJ

Nice loc. and no muggel can see you... I like that. TFTC

Thank you. TFTC

What an amazing place!, bush right at your fingertips and awesome views. A hot day as I accompanied the cache owner on a maintenance mission and took the opportunity.
Thanks
erninz

This entry was edited by erninz on Saturday, 09 February 2013 at 19:05:19 UTC.

Cache replaced. - Bitsprayer

Nothing to find here...
Thanks anyway, Wiesel Flink

No luck this time, I think cache is gone, could have been removed by the DOC guys setting up predator traps (whatever those are).

The cache was middle of the road. It was wet and shape was a pancake. Many cars had driven over it. We put it back where we think it has been. The box have to change.

#2232
Geocaching with Jykk€. We found the cache on the road. It was wet and like a pancake, cars has driven over it... Greetings from Finland. TFTC!

#2422
Geocaching with Katjuusa
Greetings from Finland.
TFTC.

Had a good hunt but no luck for us.

No luck for me either despite a very good look.

Had a good hunt but wasn't able to find it. Lovely day all the same. Cheers Gav

Tftc!;)

This was a challenge and took a while to locate, mdea extra difficult by cars keep driving up, making huge clouds of dust then after passing shortly turning around again an dust bathing us again.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Really nice one! TFTC

TFTC
Raining, so I was happy with a fast grap.

Sought for this cache on our way back from Tasman Glacier Lake. First we thought the cache is gone because we looked at all places were to hide a small box. As there was a trap from DOC, too the chance that it got muggeled was given. So we read the last logs and with that we found it at 8.05 p.m. We would have found it faster if it was labeled as size “micro” what it is in our opinion.
Thanks for the hide.

TNLN
#4261

:bad: New Zealand - Aotearoa - Middle-earth 2012 or "There and Back Again" :bad:

We searched here for a few minutes, but we didn't find the cache... [xx(]

We will come back someday!

Sanne & Kiki

Quick grab. iPhone/GPS wouldn't get closer than 40 feet! Hints were helpful!

This one was a bit difficult. TFTC!

Caching our way around the South Island after attending the Mega Event.
Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache,
Regards The Coffee's

I had a similar experience to the last logger - I was in a hurry heading into the valley (thinking I was in for a long walk) & did not find after a quick look. Walked to Ball Hut for afternoon tea then back to retrieve the cache after a longer search. The Ball Hut route need not take the 3-4 hours each way DOC suggests! A nice hide. Thanks.

Couldn't find it on the way up the Tasman Valley but read the log entries and noticed some people were too short to reach it so that gave me a clue and I got it on the way back, TFTC.

Quick find on our way out to see the Tasman Glacier, which ended rather badly with a very bad nosebleed for one of us... good thing we didn't wait to get this on the way back out! Gorgeous views up the valley on a day like today.

Find #1348. Amazing the impact a single valley can have on the weather, cloudy, wet and raining at The Hermitage; sun, blue sky & (surprisingly enough) warmth in Tasman Valley! It's caches like these that make you appreciate the beautiful landscape of this place, placed where you can get out of the vehicle and actually get a sense of the scenery around you without glass or metal obstructing your view...

Like others, we had some initial teething problems hunting this one - the hint was very clear but a search all over yielded nothing of interest. We were just about to give up before one of us made a find - no length problems here. SL TFTC.

located from above, followed by quick grab . We're on our way to NZ MEGA 2012 in Dunedin. See you there!

Just started raining. TFTC

This entry was edited by Zissas on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 4:52:37 AM UTC.

tnln

"Up above the sky so high, like a diamond in the sky" and we all want one of those!..

too short!

Took us a while but finally we found it by seeing it from the bottom and catching it from the top. We had to be clever as we are not tall enough .... Merci pour la cache ! Greetings from France

Had to make a quick find as off to watch a video in the cool theater at the Hermitage.

The road was closed, but we visited this one. Beautiful lookouts all the way. TFTC!

Found this one together with Kockers
TFTC DeSchmidt_n #1

Nice quick park and grab

Quick find. Coin there with no log of it so I left it.

Took longer than it should. Stepped back and found quickly - truly a great spot

A quick stop on the way back from the Tasman glacier. A tricky stick one this was and had 4 of us looking high and low. Mr K eventually stretched to the right location and finally had the container to hand.
Signed the log and left one of our path tags (if you take it please log it on Pathtags.com so we know it has gone to a good home).
Thanks Bitsprayer for the cache and greetings from Western Australia. [^]
Day 22 : Cache 3 : Total caches 75

The last one at Mt. Cook for us and an easy one since I'm a quite tall person.

Some Muggel so it took some time. TFTC!

The last on the Mount Cook Day. Puschelige Grüsse vom Team Puschel!

After a couple of days of fantastic weather I had a wet morning's wait for an afternoon bus, giving an opportunity for a brief visit to the cache.

Couldn't find this with the aid of 30 Biology kids...yet was a different story with Mr. Rex in tow!

Grateful for some help from the logs to get this one, good hide, many thanks.

Found it on this fantastic day @ Mt. Cook. TFTC

Wasn't an easy job but keeping some distance gave the solution. Unfortunately it was very cloudy so, no big views. TFTC (nl)

Quick find - not many spots where it could be. Thanks and cheers from Grandalf(2084)

Having been up the Hooker Valley, I thought I'd better drop in and have a look for his one as it wasn't too far off the main road. Lots of corrugations on the road in, but by driving at an optimum speed they were hardly felt!

There were only a couple of places where this one could be. You definitely wouldn't want to be short!

Thanks for the cache, Bitsprayer

Tricky, look from the side

Nice quick find for us.

Four pairs of eyes and lots of lateral thought but we still couldn't unearth this one. We spent as long time looking. Wasn't a wasted day as we continued up to the Tasman Glacier and enjoyed the walks plus a picnic lunch.

oooh I hate to say it but no I didnt find.

After a bit of a hunt, still could not find it and we also were getting a message from the car to hurry up!! LOL! Never mind, we had a great walk up to the glacier look out so all was not lost!

sun, 31c, no wind, we got the views.usually more snow around when we come up this way.

Nearly gave up but found after a good hunt. Just been on the trip out on the lake.

tricky little hide took a while to find..
TNLNSL
thanks

You need to be tall for this one!

Oh the relief, back to a computer after a week away and see someone else has also failed to find it! We spent a considerable time looking, to the point where the car was goingtokeepdrivinguptheTasmanwithoutusifIdidn'tcomerightnow. As schnuspa says, there is a DOC trap under the bridge which means a worker may have found the cache, if it was in plain sight.

Apparently you're looking for a micro, rather than a small - that changes the places you look!

This entry was edited by daywalk on Monday, 09 January 2012 at 06:07:00 UTC.

Are you sure that the Cache is still there.
We looked around for almost 20minutes.
The GPS-position was exact and though with the hint we did not find it.
There was a trap placed under the bridge. Could it be that they replaced the Cache?

Yay, an unexpected FTF! Was staying just down the road waiting for the weather to clear before going climbing, so thought I'd do this to avoid cabin fever setting in. This one took a bit longer than expected, but a nice find thanks! Love the prayer flags on the bridge

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