Can't Face Another Cache (West Coast) Ruatapu, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 19-Oct-11. Waypoint GC3693F

Hi Trigger_Fish

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Time to archive this one

The complete month march I am travelling on both Islands. Christchurch heading south, next the westcoast.
AbelTasman-Wellington-Rotorua-Hahei and finally Auckland.
This was one of the caches I found; thanks for showing me the area.

No luck

Could be having a Face Off

No luck today. Please check your cache

Please check your cache. I was unable to find it

No joy and I had a pretty good nosy about.

Once I saw the vicinity of the cache I realised what the name was about. Well done. Caches condition all good. Thanks for the placement.

08.10.2022 11:40 Uhr GMT+11
Gesucht, gefunden, geloggt ...
DfdC DeSchmidt_n #5

A quick find. The cache is nice and dry. Thanks

Jammed in there ! Found easy , going for a roll today as it’s world record day !

Thanks heaps nice and quick

Quick stop, easy find. 1st for the day

I have passed here a few times recently and kept meaning to stop here so glad to finally do that today. All quiet here. Nice quick find. TFTC

Really hard to find

We were in the area check some of our own caches so we stopped here on the way passed.
The cache so missing again so we replaced it. All good here again. Happy Caching

We looked all around the obvious spot. but no luck here today.

We couldnt find the cache

Sadly found the spot but not the cache…

On a west coast oe 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.
Getting closer to the end of the day and yup this us .
Just kidding many more caches to be found and yes many more today .
So let's see what fun adventures awaite us.


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

Just as I hopped back into the cache mobile, this is what I said!!!
Made me giggle
Tftc

On a trip to Nelson for a tramp walking the Able Tazman.
Nice spot.
Found with annielin and downsouthinv.
Tftc

Twas a simple find and the cache name makes more sense now. TFTC

We walked the long way around the garden but we found easily.

Found lying on the grass.

On the ground in the open. Lucky we got here before the lawn mower. With Tokerau

Found on a cycle loop from Hokitika on the West Coast Wilderness Trail and returning via SH6 before the last old rail section to Ross. A wonderfull scenic ride for which we give thanks to all those involved in its creation. TFTC

Have the week off and decided I would wait and see where there would be good weather and head off on a mini caching roadtrip... right now the west coast is looking great, so over I go. The FB post of a new Geotour coming out is very exciting and maybe that will help me decide where to go next.

Cache in good condition.

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Tftc,pouring with rain blowing a gale what we do to geocache

A lovely day to face another cache. Weathers fine and warm and we are enjoying a short break away. TFTC

When I was shiving my snail shell yesterday I noticed these caches alongside the road and thought I will have to come back just in my cachemobile to sign them off.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick park and grab on our way up the coast. Found with Conbat. TFTC!

Quick park’n’grab heading north with Ice Diva
TFTC

Tyfc

#18389. Initially I focused on the face, but after that didn't produce results I looked around a bit and soon spotted the nicely positioned pill bottle. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a 3 day weekend to the West Coast to increase our find counts on some low number calendar days. Also we were keen to escape the dismal grey and wet weather in Christchurch.
We spotted the reason for the cache name on the way south, but wanted to get our bike ride out of the way first before stopping for any other caches. Located in the second place searched - it was an easy find as promised. TFTC.

Long overdue caching road trip,heading to hokitika for the long weekend.after checking into my hostel and grabbing a quick lunch it was time to head back out plenty of daylight
Finally a nice easy one tftc

We are on our way to the Tree Top cafe for my Birthday lunch and had to find a few caches. This was a cute hide. Thanks for this cache Moneydork.

Nice easy find

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #577.

**Found on our February - March tour around the South Island. Logging back home in Auckland in Lockdown isolation**

Yesterday we travelled the Haast Pass and stayed overnight in the DOC campground at Lake Paringa. Today we are headed for Hokianga.
Near the end of the day and this title is starting to feel very apt! Made our way to GZ and saw the reason for the title. Nice! Quick find, thanks.

Found

Found and replaced gift with pounamu rose and mitai.

Rainy day Geocache

Awesome!!

Out cycling the Wilderness cycle trail from the Ross Top 10 Holiday Park.
We love the carving.
Thanks to Grace for keeping an eye on this for the Tiger Fish.
The cache was very much in the open. We placed it on top of a post to make it a little less conspicuous.
TFTC

Easy find..I tucked it up with some leaves.
TFTC
40

Nice to see a replacement has been put down here. Thanks gracie7 + Mum for replacing it. tftc

I have a Coast notification and we saw the DNF on this a few weeks ago, so while Mum was out for a drive at work she stopped to add a pill container here so this could live. A shame that the original has gone

Easy find thanks

Bad luck. A neighbor came to help us and said that “the fake rock” wasn’t there anymore.
TFTC. Greetings from Brazil!

Cool

No luck for us today. we hunted for a while every which way but couldn't put our hands on it.

Clever play on words with the name and place this cache is hidden. Thanks for a fun find.

Drove through here and stopped off for a quick find. TFTC

On a geocaching adventure around the country with myself, my car and my tent. Drove almost 4000km and collected 170 caches over a week of roadtripping, camping and seeing the beautiful sights of New Zealand. Lots of fun and so many great caches were found, as well as a lot of DNF's. Apologies for copy paste post. Thank you to all cache owners. Day four driving from Greymouth to Lake Hawea. Thank you for the cache

Mum replaced the wet logbook with a floral logstrip inside a 10ml tube inside the original camo container. This should last better than the last time. All good here.

Day 2 of a 4 day road trip. My mission on this trip was to travel South and West and then East and North. This road trip was all about the numbers but not quite in the usual way. In fact it was hours and hours spent on the road in search of minutes (and caches). I'm filling in gaps in my 'minutes' found across New Zealand in order to complete the 400 minutes challenge for the cache GC7YQZ8 - at the start of this trip I had a 52 minute gap to fill. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick find, attempted to sign the log but it was very wet. Tftc

New Zealand 2019.
Quick find
TFTC
Castor & Pollux
21/1/2019 17.00 h.

On our way to the home stay at Whataroa. We soon spotted this but it was all strewn around and the log very wet. Put back together and hid again after signing. TFTC

Cool idea.
TFTC

Great name for this cache. We are on our way up the west coast of New Zealand. and grabbing a couple of caches as we go. We are on a trip from British Columbia Canada and having a wonderful holiday. TFTC

Cool place for a cache. The name had me curious so I had to stop and find out. FP. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. Team Broadbent (signed TB on micros). Find # 1894

22160 Traveling through New Zealand to see nice people and places. Also to find some geocaches.

Today we went from Farnz Jozef Glacier to Greymouth and we had all day, so we made many stops. Allong the road we found many caches, but we also visited Ross, Hokitika and Shanty town. There caches brought us to special remarkable places.

After checkin, Greymouth around the hotel was visited.

Most caches were found quite quickly.

Moneydork TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

No rain so a chance to grab this cache. Not too much caching today due to the weather. We are travelling the west coast in our bus for the first time. T FTC

Today we made a trip from Franz Josef to Karamea via Westport, thereby visiting many new sightseeing locations and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was dry all day long, cold in the morning but it got warmer in the afternoon. Sun was our partial compagnion the whole trip.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to Moneydork for showing us this location and for the fun we had at Can't Face Another Cache (West Coast). The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 18. Oktober 2018 @ 09:51 Uhr @ [#12024](https://coord.info/GC3693F)

Neat find tftc

Great find . Thank you for the cache.

Best yet!

Very cool name

Cool cache thanks

Cool cache!
Couchsurfing here in the street while on vacation from Hungary.
TFTC

@14:45, TFTC

We were confused as to why people were saying it was well named, until we got here! TFTC

Auf der Weiterreise von Fox Glacier nach Hokitita haben wir am Wegesrand die Caches eingesammelt und die tolle Landschaft genossen. Diese dose konnten wir gut finden. Danke fürs Legen.
On the journey from Fox Glacier to Hokitita we collected the caches along the way and enjoyed the great scenery. We could find this dose good. Thank you for laying

A quick cache and dash whilst passing on route to Fox glacier. Appropriate cache title. Signing logs with our names or initials depending on space. Out caching with Will of the Wisp on our “round the world in 80 days” trip to celebrate retirement. Greetings from England, TFTC.

Nice hide tftc

I'ive started my beautiful trip of the South Island in Christchurch, I've visited many beautiful locations. I've travelled via Lake Tapeko, from Dunedin to the most southern part of Bluff. I've then continued with a cruise in Milford Sound and then back to Queenstown.
From there on I've visited Wanaka and the Haast pass to the Franz Josef glacier. I went all the way up to the Abel Tasman NP. Richmond und Nelson as the sonnierst cities were on my list as well.
I've soon reached the east coast in Picton and Blenheim.
After a couple of days, I've then travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.
I've spent a couple of days in Christchurch and it's surroundings.
I've visited many geological sites and have found many caches along the way.
I've travelled 3500km and have experienced so much.
Thank you to all the owners
Team sissifalke

On our trip from the glaciers to Greymouth we found this cache. TFTC!

Meh... I guess I was too tired, didnt realize I had it in my hand ^^

Awesome little container! I've seen it many times before and so must have ReCached. But he just moved it aside and so it was my time to unearth the cache. TFTC Moneydork!

January 30, 2018 @ 16:16
Cache #2360

Having a holiday up the west coast and down the east. And a few caches on the way. Scenery stunning. Thanks to all cache owners.

GK had this signed while I was still fluffing around with the gps tftc

TFTC first one for this trip

Very well done. On our way to whataroa for Canterbury show day

Took me a moment or two to spot it. Tftc

Harder for us than I'd imagine would be for most! Had never seen that type of container. After finding it we were almost back to the car before I realised where the log would be and doubled back! Great fun hide.

Day 4 Hokitiki - Lake Paringa
We ventured back into Hokitiki to find a couple more caches before heading into the glacier area.
Raining most of the morning so picked up a few where we didn't have to venture to far from the camper. A great drive down the coast, many good caches in wonderful locations.
Thanks for placing this cache Moneydork

Nice. Tftc

I picked the cache up twice to see if it was hidden underneath. Then Holymu made the actual find Thank you Moneydork

I have to admit to making harder work of this than I should. Put that down to removing glasses to avoid the dense foliage around here. I picked it up twice before it was third time lucky.
Thank you Moneydork.

Greetings from Australia, found as we continued exploring, we managed to make the stop here, log retrieved signed and replaced as found, thanks for the cache and the fun

Nice hide and cache. Tftc

Found it on our way to Westport. It was a quick found.
TFTC

Heading down to Fox Glacier today so we stopped on the way passed and gave the cache a clean out and new logbook. Just like new again! Happy Caching

Out with Red Roaming as we continue our wonderful tour of New Zealand. On our way to Arthur's Pass today via a few caches, of course. The weather is not kind to us today except when we were doing the 3 earthcaches! Now the rain has really set in and the wind is blowing ++. cache found with no problems but it is our last cache of today. MTFTC

Cache soon found whilst admiring the nearby carving. As we were driving from Fox to Arthur's Pass in the rain, we knew we really didn't have time to stop for another cache...but just one more we thought! Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

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Found on our trip around New Zealand, greetings from Switzerland.