Carters Beach Wandering (West Coast) Carters Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By Survey Base on 31-Dec-11. Waypoint GC39Z2Z

Unfortunately there is going to be ongoing construction here for some time. Archiving to free up the area. Will try and replace a new one in a different area at Christmas.

When we were last over the protection works were ongoing, we will be back over at Labour weekend and will check then. Hopefully this is OK

After the innundation of cyclone Fehi this cache is most likely in the Tasman Sea. Have checked and it is missing and there are ongoing works at the site to remedy the innundation issues. Will have another look once progress is made.

Despite the hint its a DNF for us

I missed this hide on my first sweep, how I've no idea as it was in plain sight if you look from the right direction.

A short drive around Carter's Beach, it's too hot to walk, and grab a few local caches.

T4tC ️ Survey Base

Civv'nr & MissTreadlightly (UK)

Spikey ouch

Need to be reasonably stealthy here with all the houses etc around. tftc

Nice quick drive by on my way to Cape Foulwind. Thanks Survey Base

#7167

Spot on.

Quick and fun. TFTC

Quick find. Thanks for sharing this with us. TFTC

Quick find. Thanks for shearing this with us. TFTC

I had unfinished business with this one, I came here 4 years ago and the cache was missing. This time no problems, a quick find. Signed log, TFTC

had to get this one as was staying at the nearby camp. TFTC

What a great hiding spot

A quick p & g as we drove through. TFTC.

TFTC

Haven't found it yet. Will try again

Found with NZDi. We had been intending to do a trip to the Coast after a workmate and fellow geocacher came back from a Christmas camping holiday and dropped a map of walks around Westport on my desk. On comparing the walk and geocaching maps, it was apparent to see there was plenty of scope for a geocaching holiday or three to the coast. The only thing we needed to ensure ws that the weather played the game, unlike when my workmate had her Christmas break there. Knowing that we had the weekend free this weekend I kept an eye on the forecast for the coast and it was looking pretty good, so a motel was booked and a rudimentary and flexible geocaching plan was hatched.

The idea was to head to the Coast early on Friday morning picking up no more than half a dozen caches along the way. We limited ourselves to this as we know from previous experience that it can take over six hours to do an hour and a quarter trip if you are geocaching as well.. Once we got to the coast, we were going to do the Cape Foulwind walk, then cache as much as we could from there back to town. We then intended to do as much of the K.R.T caches before retiring for the night and in the morning do the Charming Creek Walk before heading back home again picking up the odd cache along the way. In the end it was mission achieved with 74 finds over two days and only one DNF along the way.

After our trip from Blenheim, severely limiting the amount of caches we grabbed along the way, we arrived at the carpark around 10am. After getting changed into more appropriate caching attire we walked the track to Tauranga Bay picking up all the caches in order apart from the nearby multi. After completing the Cape Foulwind walk, we headed back towards Westport picking up as many caches as we could along the way.

Another QEF PnG on our trip back to Westport from Cape Foulwind. We haven't got many Westport caches yet but we are seeing a trend and have worked out who Wesport's version of B&W is. This is one of the few who weenz isn't the CO.

TFTC Survey Base

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC Survey Base

Quick find thanks to hint. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

Quick easy find .

Found while staying at the Top 10 Holiday Park at Carters Beach on our geocaching road trip honeymoon. TFTC

Found with friend, her first ever time finding caches

Thanks for the cache. We are at Carters Beach for a weekend of music at The Buller Gorge Country and Western bash , having fun. Nice landscaping

We left for our Waitangi Weekend in Westport last night. Camping at Marble Hill. We being JDSCOUT and I.
The last one near our campervan. Now to go back and lie on the couch.

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Thanks. Survey Base for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4597 for me.

Found on the way to Westport with my wife. Last one.

On my way to the Wesport Geo event caching as I go doing lots of wandering this weekend

Easy find - nice garden start of our bike ride

On a West Coast Adventure. TFTC

This place is gorgeous!! Reminds me of aramoana near dunedin, only without the history. TFTC with cab165

TFTC with odgersaj on our adventure

Camping at Carters Beach for a week with friends from down south... Weather has been pretty wet the last few days so haven't been out and about as much as I would have liked. Today was a slow day round camp - with a walk on the beach in the howling wind.
Grabbed a couple of the muggle kids in our group to come out with me in the local area for a hunt before tea. This cache was tucked away nicely - but found by Miss 9 pretty quickly.
TFTC Survey Base

A cache of many firsts - FTF this cache in 2017, our first cache for 2017, our first cache on the South Island and our first of four caches tonight! TFTC - www.thesoloavocado.com (Australia)

It was too late last night to finish the four. TFTC.

Rain has stopped, nice evening to find a few caches. - Bitsprayer

Hi, My very first Geocache find. Hooray.
Ps with assistance from Dianne the wife.

Cool geocache but no pen so bring one

Found it, Grtz from the Netherlands

Staying in the house 100m away for a couple of nights while on a firefighting course at the fishing school so got this one before the rain starts. TFTC

A long weekend proved to be just what it said on the tin; a weekend that was long. With mrs capperz trapped in work for 2 of the 3 days this weekend a plan was made to head over to the West Coast for some caching, with the added bonus of some fine weather too. Forecast was for clear skies and low 4, high of 15 degrees, which is some preferred caching weather. Also in possession of a geocaching map of Westport being virgin territory there was every chance of finding a 'few'.
A slight chance of one of 2 FTFs in Westport and the bait was dangled and too good to not take a swipe at. Headed off at 0830 on Sunday and got back around 1830 on Monday so a full on couple of days with park n grabs, beachside specials and a walk along the Cape Foulwind walkway (there wasn't any wind, and it wasn't foul so thinking of renaming it Cape Nicesun.
Day 2 of our trip and most caches were on the Western side of the Buller river. Nice and easy find here as we head towards (in a zig-zaggingly styled) the Foulwind walkway
Yet another different C O down this road and a nice place for a cache. Q E F and replaced as per the hint
T F T C Survey Base

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

Find by pnutbeagle and The Marathon Man (on vacation from Ontario, Canada) during our vacation to New Zealand and Australia

Now heading down the West Coast on our way to Milford Sound for a boat cruize

Find by pnutbeagle and The Marathon Man (on vacation from Ontario, Canada) during our vacation to New Zealand and Australia

Love the mosaic work across the street tftc

After lunch we took a wee drive down this way to check out the new subdivision and found this on the way TFTC!!!

Found a while ago

Stayed the night at Carters beach as part of our Sth Island trip - lovely spot TFTC

Nice quick find in a walk with the geo family

Lovely evening walk

Good times....good times

Found with llizzard on a beautiful day tyftc

On a wander round Carters Beach while waiting for the others to get out of bed. TFTC.

Found with 1Octember after a nice stroll through the village. TFTC.

Quick find thanks to great hint. Thanks for the smiley!

Tftc!

Heading back to Westport for lunch having completed the Cape Foulwind walkway. There look to be some nice houses in this area. TFTC .

This is a pretty spot but we imagine it's bleak in winter. This was a quick find once we were on the right side of the creek. TFTC.

A quick find during a pre-dinner expedition.

Found with Mporokosa - TFTC

Easy find in this lovely area.

Nah !! Not muggled !!
A quick and easy find where the clue said it would be
Not that I was in a rush

TFTC

This one was weird... everyone else found it with no problems, and I can't find a thing.. the flower bed seems recently disturbed, so maybe it's been muggled? I moved on..

Gave up at 05:32 PM

ISAG

On the road with Franzi5055.

Trotz sehr schlechtem und stürmisches Wetter dieses Cache vor Abfahrt nach Punakaiki gesucht. Schnell gefunden und geloggt.
TFTC

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This entry was edited by Del84 on Tuesday, 03 November 2015 at 01:10:59 UTC.

On tour with Del84
This one as a start in the day before we left the camp ground and headed towards Punakaiki.
After reading the hint the find was rather fast.
TFTC

[green] Drove down Friday night for a three day wages to petrol extravaganza. Doing the Blenheim - Greymouth - Westport - Blenheim loop. Drove to Reefton Friday night so I could grab some empty log books early the next morning. That done its on with the main mission. An awesome three day experience, only about 30 caches per day, but two badge upgrades, wekas, seals and penguins, an awesome coast road and coastal walk. Wonderful.
Pretty garden here

This entry was edited by the Seagnoid on Wednesday, 03 June 2015 at 17:58:10 UTC.

Mums one. Tftc.

A quick find while kids were looking for eels to feed their left over tea to. Tftc☺

Nice easy find for us newbies thanks

Found

One of todays finds during our month long travels through the South and North Islands. I am on rations but am still managing around 10 finds a day.

Thanks to all the cache hiders. TFTC.

It was a bit tricky to find this one on a night walk with an almost empty torch, but somehow it appeared in my hand!

Greetings from germany and TFTC
hovonlo

Tftc

Weather gods cleared again so set out for some night caching after dinner. Nice easy find tftc

Brrr its cold here

A nice quick find just as it was getting dark. TFTC.

Another quick find, just getting dark and the waves are crashing in. TFTC

Short drive to look for this one after leaving our accommodation to head home. Nice hide! TFTC.

Went out for a run and found some caches, thanks for this one

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Hi,
I'm a young geocacher from Switzerland and found this cache during our 6 weeks in New Zealand
Please read our story for this cache in Cache.Mike's log. He also answered any needed logging requirements
Thanks for those caches! [^]

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Shockingly good find

Excellent hide!! Took a while TFTC

Did a bit of wander before my phone settled on the correct location.

TFTC

Thanks man, nice spot around here. TFTC.

Good Friday, off to the Coast, though doubtful of getting there after the windstorm. A nearby tree was totaled, but the cache is still in play. Thanks for the hide.

Took a few mins but soon had the smiley, tftc

Nice hide. TFTC

Yay! Found it

Found it didn't take long at all

Quick find. TFTH

Easily found by Mrs_McGromek tftc!!!

Found it tftc!

Heading over to the Westcoast for a weekends family adventure. Stopped at a few caches along the way.
Staying overnight in Westport - Mrs G has some Family History chasing to do up at Denniston.
Came out for an early mornings wander....before heading up to Denniston. Quick find and sign. Cheers.

We are on holiday in NZ for three months and camping in as many places as possible! Therefore, when we spotted this cache we just knew we had to try and add it to our collection.

Many thanks for the cache.

Found today with Sir & Lady Harveyjj.
Staying on a nearby campsite as part of our visit to the S Island and we were delighted to be able to have a nice evening stroll to this cache. Thank you for placing it here.

TFTC, log signed & cache returned safely from whence it was found.

Greetings from the UK

Last find of the day on a walk back from the beach, 12 finds in all for today! TFTFC

Arrived at GZ and some men turned up and chucked some shark fins into the creek! Then we watched the eels come out and feed. Took a while to find the cache but got there in the end, TFTC!

Tftc

Very lucky with this one. We decided to have a drink at the local come everything place after a really lovely wander along the beach. I had a look at the phone trying to decide which cache to do next and this one pops up which wasn't in the GPS. Signed the nice white blank log. Thanks for the replacement. TFTC #5361

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 45.060 E 171° 33.088

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 45.057 E 171° 33.121

Distance from original: 150.8 feet or 46 meters.
New location and updated hint