Flowery Creek (West Coast) Awatuna, South Island, New Zealand
By gracie7 on 14-Apr-12. Waypoint GC3H06M

Thank

Thanks was an easy find

On a roadie of the south island up from Invercargill. On the home stretch southward now..West coast caching!Cobwebs those spiders love these hides! Tftc

QEF at GZ TFTC and greetings from the UK

Starting trip home to Christchurch so why not get a few last finds. TFTC

Exactly where it said

We took a side each. Mr Curzzz was on the right side. Thanks for placing this cache.

Good cache just needs pen/pencil

All good! Thanks!

Called in here today to pick up the travel bug during our west coast visit.

Over for the new Hokitika OneNZ cellsite drive. All fine with the drive, other than slow 5G throughput.. So I might be back, but in any case, I picked up a few trads before coming home.

Found on the ground, put back in the logical place, all ok with the contents. Also dropped off a TB for some West Coast touring.

TFTC gracie7 + Mum, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 2 find(s) of 3 today, making this find #4319

Thank you was really fun

Thank you, I found it really fun to find

Beautiful spot. Thanks

placed a prize

Quick find but not hidden where I expected, log surprisingly found dry; TFTC

Staying with family up the traffic. Nice park an gran when you look on the right side. Lovely stream

Super easy find

After the log came in last night Mum stopped to check on this on the way to work this morning. It was not as originally place so has now been put back. All good to go here again. Happy Caching

Quickly find. Its out in the open as the road side has been sprayed.

FITW Albijos
When Albi mentioned about his work commitments at Fox Glacier, as always we decided to make a trip out of it, but this time its a long over due overnight one. Spending quality time together, enjoying the drive, picking up some caches, small walks, and also cherry on top, a Heli ride woo-hoo.
Cache was easily found and it is all good here. TFTC.

FITW Harisree


Here in coast for work.

Grabbing few while in this area

TFTC

Good find with kita

Cool find!

After three full days and four nights staying in Woodstock we are now off on our way home and thought we would take an alternative route. This was our first find of the day and as luck would have it there was a travel bug which we took with us.

The afternoon has just flown by, but theres still a few places on my list I want to visit before we call it a day. A quick find here and onwards we go. TFTC

Out for a little drive with Mr C's cousin as she enjoys watching us find a cache. Another cute flowery cache thanks gracie7.

Full log to come

a quick and easy find. tftc

Nice simple one to start the day. Thanks.

Tyfcnice easy find

TYFC

Great park n grab with blunsdon. Thank you for the cache

Mum stopped on the way to work and picked up the container. The logbook was only damp so had time to dry but the cracked lid will need replacing soon. All put back and good to go for now. Happy Caching

Found book is real wet from rain getting into it . Nice drive up Stafford way . Tyftf

Second week of school holidays and off on a small family camper van holiday between kids football games & practices! West Coast here we come.
After another night in Hokitika. Up early again to catch reflections in Lake Mahinipua. Then a lovely walk to the beach...and now the back road through goldsborough to stay the night in Jacksons. Stopped here a bit more carefully than the last and got going again much easier! Quickly cornered and signed. Cheers.

Long overdue caching road trip,heading to hokitika for the long weekend with a few stops along the way....
On the back road ticking of the ones I missed last time....
Should have read the hint properly..got it finally

Had a quick look couldn’t find sorry )

Good find

On the West Coast with Nosynel and Ethness. Signing logs as JEN. Having found the one on the main road we spotted this one. Thanks!
#5245

The second day of our road road trip and we are having lots of laughs, hunting hard and signing logs. Signed JEN as I am caching with Nosynel and Jude_E. TFTC and apologies for the generic log.

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We had some brief issues working out which end was which, but nabbed it easily in the end! TFTC!

A quick pick up thank you.
TFTC
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Quick find by two Aussies on a trip. Great location heading your other cache.
TFTC️

This morning we shifted the caravan from one campsite to another further North. After setting up we headed out to do a bit of caching and visit my 93 year old Aunt in Greymouth. This was a nice quick find for us. tftc TB left

Labour weekend caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

(# 5313). Today is day 2 of my West Coast trip. Weather wise the day wasn't to bad apart from an absolute deluge around lunchtime. No caching at the time as it was far to wet. Today was a trip to Hokitika then the gorge. A quick find. Just as I took the TB there was a flash of lightning and thunder. Considered putting it back in the container as I thought it might be an omen. But I don't my taking a chance so kept for moving on. Everything in order. TFTC

Auf dem Weg zum F-J-Gletscher diesen Cache gesucht und gefunden.

TFTC
Grüße aus Germany

Orientexpress

On a maintenance run to Hoki/Mahinapua today and we passed here to check on some bugs a little further so done a random check here aswell. All okay and super nice and dry. Happy Caching

Found this one on our road trip. TFTC

Found it. TYFC

Taking our time heading home and finding a few caches along the way.

Wasnt sure of best parking for this so had to trot back over the bridge avoiding the bits of traffic coming thru. 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

Day 1 of a 4 day road trip. My mission on this trip was to travel South and West and then East and North. The first Flowery Creek cache was the second one I found. TFTC, Biggles.

22169 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. Nice little side road from our track

gracie7 + Mum TFTC and the fun it brought us. Theo

Tftc

Thanks

Found thanks

TFTC

Good spot TFTC

Found

Quick find

Took way longer than it should have. The GPS was determined I should be on the other side of the road. Thanks gracie7

#7645

Out on a maintenance run today before the rain set in and ruined it again. Mum had put in a temp log just before Easter break and we came by with a proper logbook today. All good here again. Happy Caching

Q E F . Park-Out-Find-Sign-Replace-In-Drive= 30 seconds!

Time to start to deal with these creepy crawly caches that have sprung up along the back roads around here. All were Q E F s and replaced as found, some new bugs I'd not seen before - the caterpillar was a stand-out fave. T F T C

The last part of the day involved mopping up a few solved puzzles and heading to Hokitika via Kumara (my least fave vegetable!)

Day 2 of the trip and with daylight saving starting/ending yesterday I found myself up nice and early and in McDs having breakfast at around 0615. The bike had been loaded into the car for the cycle along the beach to grab the Survivor series remainder (though one DNF would prevent a clean sweep!). It took around 1 hour 40 minutes from #3 (DNF last time) to the end of the line #33, and only 30 minutes cycling on the way back, quite a few caches found on this trip and nearly all were puzzles too. After that was done it was drop the bike in the apartment and head along from Cobden to Point Elizabeth all the way to Rapahoe beach end, then all the way back to the car and finally off to Hokitika, along the back roads, before the rain came down too heavily. As it was the rain got heavier and heavier and caching was stopped for the evening at around 1800, stuck on just over 90 finds. A great days caching and apologies in advance for the cut n paste logs, will comment specifically where I remember any variation.

Easter weekend 2018 is here and I have a cunning plan. Well, a caching plan, but what's the difference? With mrs and daughter working over the weekend and me with a few days off work there was a chance to convert some of my solved puzzles over on the West Coast into smiley faces. And add to my West Coast caching total. And do the Point Elizabeth walk, and several other appealing strolls. And some other stuff and all the way along gaining extra points for the planetary Challenge thingy to gain some electronic 2D Geo-souvenirs. And so, setting off around 0730 on Easter Sunday with the trusty mountain bike aboard (for the Greymouth beach-side track) I clocked up just under 1000 kms by road, a few extra on 2 wheels and several more on 2 feet, quite the trip. The threatened rain only arrived on the second afternoon in Hokitika (by which time I'd done my walks for the day) and the drive back from Greymouth via Westport was in blazing Autumn sunshine - Beautiful. Fantastic scenery all around and a large number of caches from b&w and gracie7&mum helped the total to just over 180 finds.
An awesome few days which my family wouldn't have enjoyed, but conversely actually would have, for the most part. An FTF in Reefton on the way through on Day 1 was another bonus, and monkey off the back for the monthly streak. A few DNFs which is to be expected with that many looked for, but a lot of good sights and experiences too. Thanks to all the COs for their placements.

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Took longer than it should of but nice quick wee find

I had thought I might be able to get a few along this road but alas the rain set in and got the better of me today. Anyway first find today was quick and before the rain. Both log and cache very wet. I cleaned as best I could. Dried container and items and put wet log into a dry bag with an absorbent pack in the hope it wouldn’t get wetter. Log was hard to sign and meant I took up more room than I should have. Needs log replacing or at least drying out. Still, a nice reason to drive this lovely valley and it means I will have to return to get the rest. TFTC

Locating and signing off a few caches that I have driven past, or near, several times over the past week so it time to stop.

Cheers for the cache.

Another quick find tftc

Found without any problem. I'm rather puzzled as to why I didn't do the other one that is showing up on the map.

Short diversion and a quick find on the way south to Hokitika. TFTC

#14892. Given how long it took us to find this cache, it was a good job we'd turned off the main road. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on day 3 of a long weekend visit to Greymouth.
We took the scenic route from Greymouth back to Christchurch, via Stafford Loop Rd.
We took an embarrassingly long time to find this cache. Once we swapped sides, there it was. We were moogled by some curious cows in the neighbouring paddock - probably wondering what was taking us so long. TFTC.

Spotted it quickly. Tftc

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Day 3 Greymouth - Hokitiki
Day 3 Greymouth -Hokitika
After completing the card series, we made our way following a caching trail into town.
I wanted to do the Flintstones since I had done all the puzzles before leaving Australia.
We found Greymouth a great town to drivw around, a good selection of hides & containers found.
Thanks for placing this cache gracie7 + Mum

Thanks for placing this cache gracie7 + Mum

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We did a maintenance run to Hoki today and stopped to check on this one. Glad we did as the lid was getting pretty brittle and was already abit broken so we replaced it. All good to go here. Happy Caching

Found it quite quickly after several cars had passed us.

TFTC TNLN

**Blinkies**

Loved the hiding spot!!!

Atama found this one . Yay thanks guys . Having so much fun

Found it cool hiding place

Quick find.

After logging the relic I felt energetic enough to bike a little further to the Flowery Creek. Luckily, traffic was light and I could log undisturbed.
Thanks for luring me here, gracie7 + Mum

Nice quick find at the start of our day

Parked close and fortunately went straight to it. Greetings from the UK. TFTC #7164

As we are staying in Awatuna Homestead on Staffordroad we needed to search for this one.
It was easely found.
TFTC

Nice easy find

Sorry Gracie7 doing a U-turn as heading from Lake Kanarie to Blenheim not heading up the road for more caches.

Picked this cache up on the north whilst exploring the West Coast.

Late Log - TFTC

Quick easy find

Quick easy find

Had to wait for three vehicles to go past here before finding and signing the log. What are the odds? TFTC #8739

had some time to kill on way to Greymouth.TFTC

Its Easter & have teamed up with The Seagnoid & Zara, for a magical mystery tour, exploring the amazing West Coast. Its Saturday and we are off exploring again, heading towards Hokitika. Its finally daylight. A quick find for the Seagnoid in the rain. Cheers

On a big Easter caching mission with ZaraBus and TaybeeDragon. Lots of crawling through mines, climbing hills, walking through bush. And yet we only covered a tiny bit of the West Coast, between Greymouth and Hokitika.
5th cache of the day. Now that it's daylight... it's raining! Great. But we got a cache! So it's not all bad