Welcome to Wairau Valley (Marlborough) Wairau Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 25-Feb-12. Waypoint GC3DADD

Found it, but the description does need updating. TFTC

On a roadie of the sth Island. Took this road up to Nelson for a few caches. Tftc

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Nice easy cache, tftc found with aalis_01 on our way back from a weekend in Whites Bay

One to tick off that we missed last weekend on our travel home. Found with Elliot13. TFTC

Quick find in the usual place.

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After a walk along the river it was dark so headed for some park and grabs out to Wairau Valley. Great spot for a cache. Thanks for the smiley

That was quick. Cache in good condition

Straight forward drive by grab and sign thanks B&W for the placement

I was confused by the descriprion but very quickly spotted the hide. Thanks for the placement bumandworker

A quick find. All safe and dry. TFTC.

Yep. another easy one. TFTC.

Travelling in the right direction today so quick find. Tftc

Today's plan was to travel along the Renwick-St Arnaud road to locate and sign off a few caches.

A small settlement coming up.

Cheers for the cache.

A quick find. TFTC bumandworker.

Never been this way before an enjoyable drive through wine country. TFTC

All in good order. TFTC

Thx for the smilie in such a lovely place

Mr 13 needed dropping off at a friends house today so time to clear the road from home to Wairau Valley. There were only 2 left for me to get and this was the first. Easy find here. Strange that one other time the GPS had me at the other end, about 30m away.

Thanks bumandworker for placing all these caches

You are a legend...

TNLNSL TFTC

Long drive today, made longer by geocaching.

Quick find, TFTC

Quick find tftc

Mum and Dad Mission.
TFTC B&W

# 529

Day 4 of Nosynel's and my geotrip through the Molesworth and back through the Lewis. Today we are heading to St Arnaud after staying the last 2 nights with Arandee. Thanks for the cache.

The big Molesworth circuit is in progress. Today is day three of Jude _E and my geotour. Thanks to her kind son we have use of a Toyota Hilux, extremely helpful indeed. We stayed a night at Blenheim with some of Jude's friends and are staying at St Arnard tonight.
I wanted to find a large cache, some solved puzzles, some park and grabs and a few others on the way.

Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au

If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

Eltee291, Hingis20 and I are on our way to St. Arnaud today. Got to get em all!! Tftc.

Quick find this morning with eltee291 and crman1 on the way out to Saint Arnaud. 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

Thanks for the cache.

Quik find. Nearly went past it.

Found at 13:43 - #8273 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Thanks

A quick find here and cache all good, tftc

#553. Found at 10.22. Nice easy park & grab en route to Picton. Hi Donald Duck! Tftc b&w.
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Quickly found. First of hopefully many on return trip to Christchurch. tftc

Such a long way with vineyards either side of the road.

Another quick dash in the rain

A quick stop here. TFTC

A passed Mr i-gotit who was on his bicycle as I approached this one. He went to the nearby convenience while I took care of the cache before driving over to where he was to load the bike back on the car.

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 one for a welcome

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Quick park and grab no problems here tftc

Found on another caching expedition with jojo. This time south of the Wairau and west of renwick to Wairau valley township. Thanks to all COs for the caches. QEF thanks

A nice quick find on the way home. TFTC

After much agony finding and manually loading each cache for my first roadtrip with Zara, GPS Zara and I are on our way.
Easy find - Bit confused - what has the name and the clue got to do with the find location??? Still hopping along.

Another quick one. TFTC

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.

A personal challenge day for us. Beat our 'most caches in a day. After a late start we left Motueka at 9:45 and headed south. First cache was about 50KM away. Once we got to SH63 it was park and grabs all the way to Blenheim. From there it was a few caches in town before a burger and a return to Motueka. Home 11:20pm with target achieved. Thanks to all the cache owners for their placements.

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.

A great run of caches along the valley - we've decided that the person who finds the least today buys the ice creams.

#1397 Thanks for another South Island smilie. All good at GZ

NZDi and I have been planning a few days away up at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes. Normally this trip takes just over an hour and as we can't check in to our accommodation until 3pm we would leave around 1.30pm. Today we left just after 8am and made it into St Arnaud just after 3pm.

Of course something delayed us along the way and this was the tenth for the team, but it was only the fourth for me as I had already got six of them. Logs were signed with Kiwimykl + NZDi, KM + ND or variations thereof. In most cases the caches were in good order but when not, log sheets or ziplock bags were replaced where necessary.

A quick easy find on our road trip up the valley.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Found it on way to West Port
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[green] Some time ago I and a couple of friends launched an attack on St Arnaud, but were unable to complete the area. So today after work I am heading back to finish what we started. Which means getting there first. Usually see "Welcome to" caches at some sort of Welcome to... sign, but there are none of these signs around. Anywhere.

Passing through on my bike on the way to ride the Rainbow Road. TFTC.

Signed in logbook as Visa96, but have created a new profile, since my old one was shared with a friend. Found in company with 'zliber' - TFTC

Found together with Visa96 on a good sunny day TFTC

Easy find with Arandee. Cftc

Quick find with Gazedn...coming back down the valley.tftc

Another good find while on a geocaching trip driving around the area with Just-Lookin
Holiday nearing an end and caching towards Blenheim now.

Soon had the cache signed and on to the next one.
Thanks for all the good caches along (and side roads of) highway 63!

Holidaying at the top of the South Island with tmann421. Many thanks to all the CO's for making this a memorable trip.

Nice find here.

TFTC

Whoa..., New Year's Day already. My NY resolution is: start out the way you mean to finish! So, it was bright and early for a start to the day's caching!
Now on the marathon, otherwise known as the power trail through to St Arnaud.
Straightforward find. Cache in order, log signed; safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

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.

Most of the GZs on todays road trip had good parking, and all of the logs were in good condition. Some did have a wee bit of water, but the contents were fine.

Well, work has finished for the year, and it is time for the annual road trip to Auckland. Today was from Christchurch to Picton, a longer way.

Thanks for the hide.

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Had to run back down the road to get this one. Left hubby and kids to do a U turn and come get me. Standing on the side of the road doing the 'GPS-is-a-phone' trick to avoid interest from passing Muggle motorists. Reflected afterwards - this must have looked really odd - not a car in sight. Ah well, TFTC.

The day dawned bright and time for a caching mission. Well into the afternoon now and heading up the Wairau Valley. Quick find TFTC

07/10/2014 1:09:00 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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Nice cache, soon located as we mopped up Wairau

We managed to overshoot GZ (expected it to be near the welcome sign) and had to walk back to GZ. We were excited to get to Wairau Valley as this would be the last settlement for some time and we were hoping to find a cafe and a coffee (we did find a cafe, of sorts, but sadly it was closed, so no coffee for us this monring). TFTC.

#8102. I was expecting the cache to be at the sign; so wasn't paying enough attention to the GPSr, and of course we had to go a fair way past GZ to find somewhere to park. TFTC.

Easy find.

Find #370 for the BAMMJams - our last find for the day. It was going to be or first, but there was a man painting right next to GZ, so we left him to it and grabbed it on our way back, when he was gone. The mini-BammJms dropped a dice, but nothing to take out. TFTC.

quick find
good one
thank you for the cache

Thanks for the cache

Quick find Tftc

Quick find tftc

Enjoyed the road through Wairau Valley. TFTC

Find #5 on a road-trip from Blenheim to Dunedin, through St Arnauds, Hamner Springs, Aoraki/ Mount Cook, and Christchurch. I found the cache further down the road than I expected, and I almost fell into the river at the same time, but I managed to nab a find in the end. TFTC

Return trip St Arnaud and Blenhiem today so collected a lot of caches on the way. Enjoyed the easy drive through the Wairau Valley. TFTC

Found with Emvy_us as we enjoyed a pleasant evening caching our way back to St Arnaud. TFTC, #6014

Quick find, TFTC

This was one cache out of bumandworker's tremendous ownership throughout the South island. I found it travelling the area. TftC

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And such a sunny welcome it was too, TFTC.

A quick drive-by. TFTC.

NZ road trip with Schlitz13. On our tour we had the time to look for some caches. We found them, and some special places of interest or great views.

TFTC!

After we visited Lake Rotorua we had a little action today. We stopped at the 'Buller Gorge Swingbridge', where we both enjoyed the short ride back to the entrance, I did the 'Superman run', lowestrider choosed the more comfortable ride. Cape Foulwind was only a short stop over, because we had to see the 'Pancake Rocks'. Very impressive, but the weather was so cold and we had strong wind today.

Of course we brought our own pen. I cannot remind a geocacher going out without one, do you ? [:o)]

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additional information: I will change my geocaching alias name from 'Schlitz13' to 'Megalodon'

Makka pakka 2 went out to day to see what he could find and look what he found TFTC.

My last weekend in the area for a while so time to boost up the numbers on a caching trip towards Nelson Lakes
Quick and easy find at GZ

Quick find TFTC

On a 'run' up the Wairau Valley today. And what a great day; blue sky, frost on the road side, snow on the mountains, clear, cool, and beautiful. Thanks for all these neat caches I have had a very busy day.

Quick find on our journey up the valley. TFTC

Parked 100m away; left the GPS in the van and made this one a race. I won. The boy won the race back though.

TFTC. Out for a drive along this beautiful stretch of road.
Thanks to bumandworkerfor placing the trail.

Hmmmm... this hide seems familiar !! TFTC !

Easy, I like these ones.