Robert Road (Nelson/Marlborough) St Arnaud, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 16-Nov-11. Waypoint GC37VQE

A nice walk on a wet day!

Staying a couple of nights at the DOC campground, what a beautiful spot. A nice straight forward find while taking a walk this afternoon, TFTC

Took a bit of hunting but the coordinates were spot on!Thanks!

Found with victoriousone and Kimmy+co. Tftc

Wee detour on the way home after a day out walking. Found with mumandme and Kimmy+co. TFTC

Tftc out for a day walk with victoriousone, mumandme and a few others.

Really nice place. Birds everywhere

Happy cachers are we! Wandered up here at the end of a wonderful day exploring and caching! Found with Piwaka54

Found with Nutty Nora after navigating a few potholes

Im really amazed at all these little roads off into the Manuka. We cycled up here and retrieved the cache. Some trappers walked past so we had to chat with them. Thanks for bringing us here bumandworker

I am amazed at all the weaving & winding back tracks around here you wouldn't know unless you were a localthanks for bringing me here and the cache

Found by Benji (8) next to where we were staying. TFTC

Nice wee hide. Found with Judith

Good find

I parked within inches of the cache, but was still able to squeeze in to make the find. TFTC.

A nice wee hidy spot. Tftc

Not on the small loop walk I did this morning before leaving the lovely bach, but only a very small detour, so I decided to look for it. Quick find in obvious spot, log all good although the little bag is broken and the pencil falls out. Thanks for adding a pencil, always welcome.

With help from stroppy teen! TFTC

Tidying up some unfound caches in the area with MuzzaL53. This one was just down the road from where we're staying. Tftc

Another in this mini series. Part 1, Day 2. Four of us are on a trip away in the Nelson area. We are graciesgpsfun, Ethness, Jude_E and me. Thanks bumandworker for creating this hide. It was find 9857 for me.

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Large spider gaurding the hide. Nice Bush. Tftc

Nosynel, Graciesgpsfun, Ethmess and I are caching the top of the south. Today's mission will take us to St Arnaud. Signed as GENJ. Thanks for the hide. Humongous spider was in the hidey hole. Eek!
#6801

Ah ha. Someone doesn’t like spiders! Signed GENJ. TFTC.

The holidays are here and the second half of the ‘Very Top of the South Tour’ begins. GraciesGPSFun and I have been joined by NosyNel and Jude_E and so the fun begin begins.

A quick find while taking an evening walk after dinner.Tftc

After the work for the day, sunset time, had finished I went for a walk in the darkness. I think it's about 2 degrees, so a bit cool. Easily found here once the GPS gave the correct side of the road. Got the code for another one too.

Found very quickly without the need for the hint! TFTC

Yeeha!

Quick find whilst staying a few doors down for the weekend. TFTC. #719

Another quick find, numbers duly noted, I think it’s Robert st though? No matter, a good start to the day.

Today was St Arnaud.
I had done some caching in St Arnaud before, but it was a little bit on the way somewhere else, or a handful at the end of the day. Today I decided to make it the focus.
A nice day, and successful. Had a good look around town, the lake and some good walking tracks. Only a couple eluded me today, a haul of 27 including an oldie and a virtual before I decided that was enough. Thanks all COs, an enjoyable day.

Quick find this afternoon with eltee291 and crman1. Beautiful day for a drive out this way from Blenheim. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache, bumandworker!

Found today with hingis20 and crman1. Sitting around wondering where to caching today and both hingis20 and I both came up with the idea of heading to Saint Arnaud seeing as how it was was going to be a nice day. Thing is, I was in the house and he was in the caravan when we thought of it. On vacation here from Victoria, BC, Canada and visiting with my daughter and her family. TFTC

Eltee291, Hingis20 and I are finished lunch and we are on the prowl for more caches.

Nice walk up through the bush road

Quick walk around town before the rain sets in. Nice quick find. TFTC

A great spot and a very nice little hide, the photo is looking up the road. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

TFTC

Thx from France.

#548. Took a wee bit of searching but found it in the end. Last of my St Arnaud caches before heading north. Tftc b&w.

Caching locally with Edvern today and exploring all the little back roads! Quickly found. TFTC

Enjoying an afternoon of geocaching with Tramper Ted. She parked the car so expertly that I hardly had to get out of the car to reach this one. Thanks b&w.

Down in St Arnaud for our wedding anniversary so thought we would get a few caches on a sunny afternoon, TFTC

One of the roads we hadn't been up before but the cache was soon found and second set of information retrieved for the Summer Fun cache. We'll be back another day for that one. tftc

A day in the Park whilst Streetgamer is at the gliding club down the road. A lovely spring day and a great opportunity to explore this area.

I was originally planning to park and grab as many as I could today, but the park and the weather is too nice today to rush, so I ended up doing a leisurely walk from the West Bay car park over to Kerr Bay and back.

That's the other set of numbers grabbed. Not sure I'll have the opportunity to look for the final today, but I'll be back...

#1753

We drove up to his one as the rain was pretty set in, but quick find and turnaround! Tftc

No idea these roads were here, tftc!

Glad that we decided to walk up Robert Road rather than drive the camper up - the street is more like a super walking track than a road. Got to GZ and soon had the cache in hand. Thanks.

Staying nearby at St Arnaud House so a quite walk before dinner to pick up this one. TFTC

Yebo bumandworker

On this sunny day we decided to drive into Tasman, first time and the change of the country is quite impressive
Lake Rotoiti is the goal and to spicen up this outing we stopped here and there on route as well as in St Artaud and at the lake
Please note that most logs have been signed as B52
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Good find
Tftc

Zara & I are off for a great expedition at St Arnaud. Leaving Zara on entering St Arnaud, Nigel navigator & I start exploring for those elusive treasure boxes.
Yep bagged this one. Cheers

Yaa caitlyn found it

Thanks for the fun find

Found it with Iggy24 and krystellem

Easy grab with my wonderful friends! Heading to the last multi cache!

Found with my wifeys and Aaron

This was the 36th find on out South Island trip of 2016. We were heading out of St Arnaud and were taking the scenic route out in order to get a few caches along the way. This cache took us off the map on the GPS (I haven't updated it recently apparently). We managed to stop near ground zero and retrieve the cache and turn around without any problems at all. The cache is in good condition. Thanks for the cache!

Found the cache and yes, I walked all the way from the motel too.
Thanks for the cache.

Quick find. TFTC.

27 March 2016 10:30. TFTC, a quick walk to gather the info needed for later.

After some planning Shannonp1 and I got sorted for a mission into areas we hadn't been. Up to Hanmer through the Molesworth to Blenheim, down the Wairau valley to St Arnaud down the Shannandoa to Murchison and then home via the Lewis. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners especially Bum and Worker and sorry for the cut and paste.

So a few weeks in the planning phase, me and Surveybase finally got out and about for a mission. Through Hanmer, up the Molesworth to Blenheim, across through St Arnaud, Murchison and then home. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners and sorry for the cut and paste. Cheers.

Just got back from Lake Head and found nice path from beach to Roberts Road. TFTC.

We visited this area on our way back to the north. Stayed for one night at the lake with a lot of sand flies and rain. The little stream was not so little anymore at the end of the day. At the evening i made a short trip to find a few caches. This was one of them.
Thanks for the cache.

Not much room in the log but we managed. Greetings from Scotland. TFTC

a quick grab while on holiday at st arnaud. TFTC.

We were amazed how many homes can be tucked away up these tracks . This was nice and easy. TFTC.

I walked up to Robert Road this arvo.
Filling in time after setting up camp early

This cache hiding place is really obvious when you see it
Seeing it is the trick ... it took me at least five minutes

TFTC, Bob's your uncle

Last night in this town before heading north, so went for a drive around the town to find some of the many caches placed here, and with the light drizzle about all the muggles seemed to be indoors, making for unobserved finds.
Thanks for the cache, bumandworker.

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

NZDi and I have been planning a few days away up at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes. Yesterday we took over six hours to travel up the Wairau Valley from Blenheim caching along the way. The trip normally takes just over an hour but we were in no hurry as we could not check in to our accommodation until after 3pm anyway. On the way up I managed to get a nice round fifty caches and NZDi got six more that I already had converted into smiley faces.

Todays aim is to get the cache at Parachute Rock then carry on to the ridge to place one of our own, however I don't think the weather Gods are going to play the game. After that we will play it by ear.

But first, we have some unfinished business on this cache which eluded us on our last visit. Today it was a quick easy find and I can't explain how I missed it last time. Then, I had been caching for less than a month, so it is amazing what nine months and almost one thousand caches experience does for your ability, but even now there are some I miss.

TFTC B&W

Last cache of the day, looking forward to a cold beer TFTC

A beautiful sight at St Arnaud, snow everywhere. Family weekend in the Air Force house! TFTC

Staying at the Airforce holiday home at rotoiti - great opportunity to bag a few of the many caches hidden up here. A new home going in near this one - lots of vehicles and activity so stealth was needed.
TFTC

A weekend trip up to the Nelson Lakes with G H 6 7 1 0 and the Seagnoid was planned with a couple of days of the weekend in one of the work baches not far off the lake side in Rotoiti/ St Arnaud. Targets were set; get the Seagnoid past 4000 caches, get more than 50 a day for G H 7 6 1 0, and get me past 3200 cache finds. Also in target was some tramping, some boat caching (grabbing whilst moored as close as safely possible to G Z) some 4 W Driving and some basic park and grabs. We also wanted to get all of the puzzle/unknown caches in St Arnaud as well as 100% of the multi caches in St Arnaud (cache Tectonics!). There was driving, boating, walking, rain, mist, sun, ducklings, eels and trout, sandflies (of course), beech trees and great views. Fun and sweat (no tears), a wasp sting and over 100 caches found for me. We all surpassed our targets and at the end of 2 full on days we returned to a cooler Blenheim than when we left tired out.
The last day of January and this January has probably been my most prolific with lots of great South Island caches, with a handful of N I ones thrown in for good measure. Todays plan is to start with some P &Gs, then off up the Pinch Gut for a nice tramp, then back to the car.
Time to go and grab the boat for this afternoons caching adventure so grab this cache, and those vital numbers, on the way to the house
Nice and easy, and close to accommodation for the find
T F T C b&w

[green] Capperz decided that this was the weekend for a marathon run on St Arnaud. Not sure why, except that base lodge there had a cancelled weekend and was free to grab. So he, I and GH6710 had an interesting time caching the surrounds. Rained on and off. The wet long grass meant that I had wet feet for the entire trip. Saw the insides and tops of clouds, some great views, lotsw of rabbits (or maybe just the one, many times over - it always did the same thing: safe on the side of the road, it decides to runs across just in front of the car). Also got to see robins, sandflies, no keas, sandflies and more sandflies. We managed to get GH to break his 50/day record, and over 120 for the whole trip. Saturday we climbed half way up Mt Robert in the morning then boated around Lake Rotoiti in a little yellow plastic dingy for the afternoon. Sunday was lonely cache day - some over 10 months since their last find. Many of these found with GH's 4x4, bumping over some very rough roads, my first real experience of four wheel driving. What an awesome weekend!
This cache is just a hundred metres from where we are staying. That's not in itself a reason to get this cache, It's because it is needed for a puzzle cache. None the less, nice to grab

Just down the road

Day 1 of our stay in St Arnaud. Didn't get cracking until we'd enjoyed a coffee from the General Store cafe, not bad either.
A beaut day, sunny, warm and lots of very relaxed looking people out and about.
We adopted cycle power for the day's caching and this one was a ride up - the hill - and grab.
Cache find straightforward, all in order; log signed, then safely re-hidden, just as found.
TB Ausie! Ausie! Ausie! [sic] Oi! Oi! Oi! not in this cache. As luck would have it I came across it a little later in the day in another cache and 'retrieved' from there.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

We wandered up to this one, a nice obvious location. Found on a big day with Team Gators down to St Arnaud and up the Wairau, this was one of 139 smilies for me for the day signed as KMTG. Cheers.

In Richmond on a wee family holiday. Headed out for the day with KiwiMoose on a caching mission through St Arnaud and up the Waiau Valley- to save on the possibility of RSI we signed logs as KMTG.
A long fun day. 150 caches total. Nice one. Cheers.

Easy find. Cftc

Robert Road is there?..!! But you need to keep walking. Once found the cache is found..a beauty, thanks

On a mission with KFNZ from Nelson to Lake Rotoiti. Nice quick find and gathered the required info for later. TFTC Edited to correct Found date.

Weekend away with MuzzaL53, heading to Lake Rotoiti, phones in hand, personalised manual for the weekend, and collecting caches as we go.

This cache was found as part of our afternoon mission at the Lake.

A quick find - almost saw it from the car!

#3467

This entry was edited by KiwifruitsNZ on Saturday, 13 December 2014 at 05:11:07 UTC.

On a mission with KFNZ from Nelson to Lake Rotoiti. Nice quick find. TFTC

#8599. An older section of town, where it feels you are in the middle of the bush because the houses are so well screened. TFTC.

We drove to the cache and managed to park right beside it (looked like it's a quiet road). As luck would have it, a couple came walking down the side road just as StreetWalker was looking. They soon walked on and he quickly made the find. Informationfor the bonus cache recorded, then reversed a little down the side road to make a U-turn. TFTC.

07/10/2014 2:58:00 PM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Almost every single log we signed as 'Team Polak' to avoid needing to write out both usernames taking up space on logsheet - as well as precious caching time!! Haha.

This was it - one of the caches on our big day

Consec caching day # 702

TFTC!!

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For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

Today was to be our biggest day. S planned the route to cover the most possible easy to get P&G’s but we ended up not limiting ourselves to only those. D2.5? Why not? Let the brain have a bit of fun! D3? I am sure we can get there quickly!

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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Thanks for the cache, we haven't been here for many years, really enjoying our time here. Playing camp host at Kerr Bay

Tftc!

Mr_McGromek saw it first. Tftc!

Found at a short walk trough St. Arnaud.
tftc, bugsHGW (Germany)

An easy find on a morning stroll. A nice spot and a wonderful day Tftc!

Nice little spot

Found while out on a very early morning excursion down the Wairau Valley. TFTC

Found on an enjoyable evening pottering around in the region collecting a few caches, TFTC, #5918

Quick find and got some directions for dinner. Place was closed when we got there though.
Cheers Gav

Found with rediguana. Tftc

A quick easy find, where quite a few houses are hidden away in the bush. TFTC

Lovely beech trees up this narrow road. TFTC

Yay!