Bird's Eye View (Takaka Hill, Nelson/Marlborough) Takaka Hill, South Island, New Zealand
By Sidewaze on 17-Jan-12. Waypoint GC3B268

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

I have had to replace wet logs too many times. This one has done its dash .

Ohhhh not today.

Very wet log book. Too wet to sign so photographed instead. A very worthy spot for a cache. TFTC

Our very cache in the South Island - away for a family holiday doing some sight seeing but had to grab this on the way - tftc

On our way to Nelson we stopped at this Outlook and made a quick found.

Thanks for the hide and the maintain.

Greetings from the Steipilzbrätler from Switzerland

Greetings from Austria. Tftc

This was our second stop on a day trip 'over the hill'. We had bought an elderly neighbour with us and she led the way as we made our way to GZ then to the viewing platform. A walk enjoyed by us all.
Thank you Sidewaze.

It was time to venture on and over the Hill and with a muggle friend for company we set out to cut a path of yellow. Countless times I have passed here both for business and pleasure but it took a cache to check it out. After the find we pressed on till the lookout and boy, is that worth it, a bird's view indeed! +1 Thank you Sidewaze

We spent 4 incredibly wonderful weeks in New Zealand for vacation and
had a lot of fun to discover all the marvels of this country.
Day 20 - on a cloudy and windy day we went to the Pupu Springs, a group of large and crystal clear springs,
sacred to the Maori people before going to Farewell Spit.
At this narrow sand spit we had a pleasant walk over hills to the beach - miles of sand as far the eye can see!
We finished off with a coffee and a delicious muffin at the café.
Besides we still found time for geocaching and picked up quite a few caches on our way.
This was one of them!

TFTC,
Stadibast

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro–Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.
On the way back form Farewell-Spit to Takaka we passed this place. Great view.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

Nice and easy with Skyryser. TFTC The-Shredder

Wow. What a great view. Thanks for the cache on the way. Found it quickly with The-Shredder. TFTC Skyryser

Great hide. What a magnificent view from the lookout. Well worth the trip

8 years ago I allready liked this little walk and I still do today. I think we'll here tonight.
Thanks

We stopped off for the view on the way over the hill and took the opportunity to get the cache.
TFTC

Quick find, lucky to strike between muggles.
TFTC

Thank you for hiding this cache to make the walk great besides the wonderful environment! TFTC

On our drive to Golden Bay, we are in awe of the sights. Great lookout and thanks for the fun while we stopped.

heathtree
Moncton, Canada

The GPS battery died here, but the eagle eyed Mrs ToT just happened to spot the likely looking hide and there it was.. TFTC!!!

We enjoyed the opportunity to stop and stretch our legs at this scenic view. Lucky for us the cloud lifted so we were able to look down over the valley.

Super nice view! Tftc

We have been on a road trip trough New Zealand for 25 days. We stopped here for a short walk to the lookout

Thanks for the cache

Really a nice spot to stop on our way. We enjoyed the view.
Greetings from Denmark.

Fast find on our way to the lookout. It is a fascinating mountain.
TFTC

Had a couple of long reads of the sign at the amusement of suspicious passing muggles. Tftc.

In New Zealand for 4 weeks. Travel the South Island with our campervan. Of course, we have seen many great places and met nice people.
This cache we have found.

Wöty & AdrenaLina

#2582

TFTC! Amazing views of the valley. We were coming back to Takaka from Riwaka, nice stop for some rest.

Nice little walk to a great view!

What is more important? The scenic view or the cache. What a question for a cache enthusiast!!!

Found today on way to pohara. What windy road (lots of twists and turns). Great little walk with fantastic view to finish. Tftc

Quick find. A great view from the nearby platform. TFTC

Great place, love the path to the lookout! Unfortunately it was totaly cloudy this day.

A lot of toilet paper and Brown things around the cache, puhh.

Greetings, Kasakka

#2 on our road trip to Golden Bay. Great wee walk, well worth it. Had the pleasure of meeting some other hunters at gz, mini cacher for the win again!

#5031

What a wonderful place, at least a couple of meters away. This actual place wasn´t that wonderful. In the middle of the bushes and with very fresh human poo just a couple of centimeters away from the cache.

But the view from Hawk´s Eye View was great so it´ll be a FP anyway.

Greets from Sweden!

Tack och bock!

What an amazing place and view. Thank you for the cache. Best regards from Germany. Family Holleradhiho

Cool rocks!

Easy found with a fantastic overlook a few steps away. TFTC team4ms (Marko, Martina, Maximilian and Marie)

What an amazing day for climbing Takaka Hill – although I suspect any day would be amazing in this part of NZ. A balmy 32 degrees as my car wended its way up. I felt like I wanted to stop and appreciate the views that got more and more spectacular. This cache was just the excuse I needed for a proper stop. Awesome. Thank you so much for placing it.

Kia ora for the cache. Found with Lollipopcat and Spydude13.

TFTC found with Us04 and Spydude13.

TFTC found with Us04 and Lollipopcat.

On my way to Golden Bay and Wharariki Beach I stopped here and went to the lookout.
Really nice!!
Then I found this cache quickly!

TFTC!
Greetings from Germany,
LaMaLaMa

Great view from the platform! This was a lovely wee walk to stretch our legs. Tftc

In our way to Takaka, thanks to the hint a rather easy find!
TFTC!

Find #2405. Exploring Tasman district for a few days, this my second day. Made an early start to get over the Takaka Hill (some 12kms longer and 250m higher than my local Rimutaka Hill). Cold wind blowing but sunny. Nice views and a lovely piece of bush. SL TFTC

All fixed .

Stopped for the view and found the cache. Unfortunately log book is so wet it's unsignable. TFTC !

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC Sidewaze

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.

This was our third cache of the day and a short diversion from the main road brought us to an area with some handy facilities and a cache that gave us the opportunity to stretch our legs. Unfortunately the log book was only in one bag and that was not sealed so the log was sodden as a consequence. I managed to scrawl our details on it anyway and replaced it in both bags which I ensured were sealed, but I guess it won't dry out until summer.

TFTC Sidewaze

Tftc!
Could not sign as entire cache & log saturated.
CO please accept photo as proof of find. Thanks

This is so much a must stop place that I don't want to disable the cache. Please just do the best you can until I work out a way to prevent it from getting soaked all the time.

Found as we drove over the hill to Takaka. Great views! Unfortunately we didn't have a pen so couldn't sign. TFTC

Found a while ago while showing some friends from Norway around NZ

Log book too wet to sign unfortunately. Beautiful view back towards Nelson from the lookout. TFTC

Good hide and go seek cache. Good distractions to be had and make sure you see the view from the platform! Great spot.

Thanks

Tftc

Found during our road trip From Nelson to the wild west and return. Great day's caching was had.
Enjoyed the information board and the Maori legend. Carried on to enjoy the lookout vista.
Cache find was straightforward. Wet cache, but log was safely bagged, so OK.
Log signed. Cache safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

This entry was edited by Tararua Turtle on Sunday, 28 June 2015 at 12:12:07 UTC.

Got it on our way over the hill. TFTC.

Nice quick find

We (Tricia.L.McMillan and I) found this cache while we were on our vacation in New Zealand and drove down and up again through the entire country.
On our way from Westport to Nelson, we decided to make a little detour to watch the Te Waikoropupu Springs. On our way there we also stopped at this location to take a look from the viewing platform. While I was standing on the platform, I also checked and realized that there is a cache close by, so on our way back to the car, we quickly found it.
Thanks for putting a cache at such a nice place.
Frog23-net

TFTC

Nice easy find. Took the bug!

In Takaka for the weekend picking up a cache or two. Thanks to all those that have placed caches out there it made our holiday just that much more interesting. No panoramic views to day it's to foggy . Found the cache easily then went on to find the old cache just up the track a bit further so have signed both logs and tucked the old cache just under the boardwalk where it use to be

busy today with muggles but quickly found. Decided to part with our trackable "Frodo". Enjoy your next adventure with another cacher my friend.

Rooie was green with fear because of the winding road along the misty cliffs but she found the cache quick enough.

TFTC from the Netherlands

Found on our way to Takaka. Didn't stop for many caches on this trip as I was with non-geocaching friend.

Found it on way to take in amazing view on a beautiful morning

found on trip to Pohara to spend time with family
nice side trip to break the drive over the hill

tftc picked it up on a motorcycle trip around the South Island loved Takaka hill what a great ride and i bagged two caches on the way.

Found it! We continued our driving tour today with a visit Collingwood and beyond. A stop,to stretch our legs and take in the view and was also rewarded with a cache. Lots of people passing GZ. I wonder if we parked next to jojo&bobby? Stunning views of the valley. Amazing geological formations. TFTC SL

Awesome cache!!

Quick find on our trip to the Golden Bay!

Lovely view from the lookout - everything was in order with the cache.

Mallorcatommy and I were travelling through the southern island of New Zealand. What an amazing, breath-taking landscape! On our way we did some nice walks, enjoyed ourselves and found great geocaches. Thanks to all owners for nice hiding spots... We wouldn't have been to a few places without these little boxes!

Thank you!

Every day we are traveling around is same but also different. Today we had again the pleasure to visit some very beautiful spots and were also able to find nearly placed geocaches. I thank every single owner for placing it and giving us with doing this an other good reason to come here.

Third cache en route to golden bay, great track and view back towards nelson. Had to be quick it's a busy one! Many thanks!

Found it during my trip from south of South Island to north of South Island.
Thanks for this cache!:)
Greetings from Czech

When visiting daughter, TFTC. Misa from the Czech Republic.

díky za keš
Log after homecoming from long holiday

A quick easy find, on our way to the viewpoint which certainly provides an impressive view. It was quite busy today, and we had our lunch in the car park. TFTC

Nice hide. Forgot my pen for the second time today hope the photo is ok. Tftc

Hopefully the worst is over and it's time to enable this one. Cheers.

Didn't manage to locate this one today! But enjoyed the view from the end of the track anyway!

On a geocaching holiday with tmann421. Exploring the area, lots of amazing places, views and caches. Thanks to all the CO's for making this such a memorable holiday.

Didn't realise this one had been disabled. Muggle deposit not quite so offensive.

TFTC

Warning!!! Some foul muggle left a cache of poop very close to the cache:( disgusting!!!!!

Will disable for a couple of weeks.

A nice walk to Hawkes Lookout in the late light of the day.
Very beautiful cloudescape, but the cache was a little bit hard to find.
Funny big insects flying around - obviously it's the start of their working shift.
TFTC,
Team ERw2 - Eva and Robert F. - We 2 (2512)

14/1/14 Marion Edwin

Very nice walk and view on the end. Tftc

one more nice surprise on our road trip
we had to go to the WC and this cache was on the way...so let's see a nice view
and it is amazing, congratulations and thanks for sharing this place
on our way back a little friend tried to get a ride with me and we stopped some minutes to hear a strange bird singing.
Ah and near the cache, there was a big spider's web...so i took a longer route
greetings from portugal and thanks
gustavo and carolina

Found it

Quick find! Plastic bags wet but inside the second one is nice and dry Stopped to have breakfast/lunch at the lookout, beautiful day today. Thanks!

Note: My partner list his prescription eyeglasses somewhere on our road trip - this is one of the places we stopped. If you do come across some please send me a message. Thanks in advance!

Thanks DOC for the great interp and maintenance. Definitely a fantastic view.....on a good day. Cache very wet, including the log. TFTC

Out for a few stop and grab caches on Takaka Hill with BlackChocolate today.

Replaced log.

Found with katuska and marcicz beautiful place

Thank you

Thank you for showing me lovely place, visited with friends from Czech Republic.