Rocks and Railway ( West Coast) Cape Foulwind, South Island, New Zealand
By weenz on 25-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3NP2W

We had to search a lot, but were successful.

Beware of the brambles! Don't ask me how I know . TFTC

Great scenery TFTC

Love the humour with this one

Found during a trip through beautiful landscape. Thanks

Found it! Thanks.

Quick Found. TFTC from Pausine from Germany

Trouve I saw the seal colony last year but the rain was super heavy so didnt walk the loop. Doing it today and loving it. Tftc

Still on our mountain walk easy thanks

Easy find. Nice an dry. Room on log still. Thanks for the hill top walk.

Another quick find on the walkway amongst spectacular views. TFTC

TFTC great day to be out in the walkway! Stealth required !

8 februari 2024 15:44Dutchies on a holiday in NZ. Nice view from this point TFTC,KrokoDit is mijn 920ste gevonden cache.

Das macht Spass und wenn wir Glck haben, kommt an diesem eher regnerischen Tag sogar noch die Sonne Merci

Found it! What a great walk. Tftc

We went on our walk to the lighthouse. The track was well visited and I had some problem getting a quiet minute to search for the boxes. So I could not find all of them but only a few. This one was easy. Cachers leave traces. Good if you are able to see the cacher highway and find the container at its end.Thx for hiding.

We travelled on Road 6...... Seals? Railway? where? After a celebration of New years night at car cabine ..... windy day begins. Lets explore the path. I like that views. Thanks and greetings from the Czech Republic.

Found, many thanks

Found it. Tftc

Spent a little longer at this one. Gps kept me in the middle of the grass with nothing matching the hint close by

Another from this set, thanks ! Found With Hana yesterday

Yay! TFTC! I came all the way from Vancouver BC Canada to find this cache Thanks for being part of the adventure!

Very beautiful walk although the kids thought the path itself was too easy Found a few caches along the way but also a few DNFs. We tried our best
Saw a few seals at the colony, cool to view them from a distance without disturbing them.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are currently parked up at the NZMCA Campsite at Westport … we needed to walk the Cape Foulwind Track to nab the ‘DoC Kiwi Guardian CodeWord’ from the plaque on the track, so thought we might as well do some geocaches as well … this cache was easily found, log completed & replaced, albeit we had to avoid the ‘muggles’ that were out & about on this beautiful, sunny morning … love reading about the historic aspects to the scenery along this track … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #4,042 for us.

This is the third cache we found on the Cape Foulwind Walkway today.

We walked the full loop today. On our way we searched for a cache once and a will. Thanks for showing us this trail. Especially the south part, was not even on my map. And not many people new this track.

At the 3rd one I tried...cant get them all on the first go...tftc

Today we had a walk on the Kawatiri corstal trail. On our way to the seal bank we found this cache.
TFTC Strietsi und Bazi

Easy find enjoying this walk so much

Some interesting history to learn here. The pioneers of the olden days certainly had it tough. What a great day to be walking the cliffs and enjoying the peace and tranquility. TFTC. Eatmorchikin from Brisbane

Easy find tftc

Thanks for hiding this cache weenz I appreciate it. We parked by the lighthouse carpark. This is the furthest we walked. We will save the rest for another time and probably walk from the other direction ️

Went again for the wrong object first.
Thank you for this nicely placed trail,
NathanS05

Easy grab ! TFTC

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Cheers, Cympull.

TFTC

A beautiful walk from seal colony

That was a lot of rock.

TFTC!

The terrain rating is correct especially when you need to do it more than once to find the right one. TFTC.

TFTC

Fftc nice walk

Tftc on a Easter road trip of the west coast

It took several tries of hint items before the jackpot was struck.
Thanks for setting this up

Decided on a ride of the section to Tauranga bay. This was a great track to ride with a variety of scenery. Its amazing what they did in the past. Great with the signs. TFTC

Needed the hint on this one, and then it was a matter of deciding which one. It was well hidden. TFTC

For the first time on this walk, I didn't find the cache in the first place I checked. But, this was only because there were a couple of hint items that were closer to the one I correctly thought the cache would most likely be at.

Rocks and Railway is Rocks and Smiling Face for me. Found, signed and replaced and really enjoying the beautiful day!

Found with Judith on a lovely sunny day. Staying in the area last night. TFTC

Yes with kaz53

Today my plan is to cache around the Westport area. Weather not that great but I've got my raincoat so it OK - not too cold anyway. First up, I'm going to walk the Cape Foulwind walkway to Tauranga Bay and back. Wow! Amazing history here. Railways, tunnels - who would have thought that all that was near here. TFTC, Biggles.

Day 9 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Travelled from Reefton to Westport today. Picked up a few caches along the way, then more on the Cape Foulwind walkway in the afternoon. Great views along the walkway. A quick find. #4105. TFTC.

Another find by miss 5

Completing the Cape Foulwind Walkway for Easter and picking up a few caches along the way.

A quick find.

#6595

Quick find on a beautiful day!

Had to laugh when we saw the info sign as we had just been discussing the land formation and figured out it was man-made. We were exactly right. Stunning planting going on around this area too. Cache is all good,TFTC

Found on the walk from Tauranga Bay to the lighthouse. Thanks for the cache, loved this series on such a fantastic walk!

Found it but my pen doesn’t work.

Checked....replaced log.

*Thanks weenz for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!*
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on the many wet or plastic logs)
Weather was quite bad again with several heavy showers of rain

*We soon had another good cache located!*

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Ah! Which post?
But found it with friends on a spring morning walk.
Logbook full.
Tf

Needs new log book

A great morning walk along the coast. It was beautiful and sunny and people did not start arriving until I was on my way back. This meant that I had free range while searching and managed to locate all caches along the way. Thanks for making the walk even more awesme! TFTC!!

The kids loved trying to spot where the train went and couldn't believe that a train would have even been there! TFTC

TFTC quick find as far as I can go tonight or 2 dark to get back great views with a red sky

TFTC had no pen but found

Quick find. Tftc with jakesrage

Tftc with isistibisi

Tough jobs tftc

Here we split roles: While Paddelhannes went for the cache, Kanuirm studied the highliy interesting information panel. What a huge quarry this must have been!. And the danger and hardness of the workers' lives we better won't imagine (although unwillingly we had to).
Thank you again for these well considered caches!
Paddelhannes + Kanuirm from Bavaria, Germany

This was the last one on our little tour. Would have loved to go all way to the seal colony, but just had not enough time left. TFTC

Found another one TFTC

Another little Cache on this trail thanks for the Cache!

Today we headed to Cape Foulwind and had a wonderful time here. A lovely track above the coast line, a fine old Lighthouse and several caches to find. Makes a great day

We skipped the first cache at the parking lot, went straight ahead towards the Lighthouse. Some pictures later we finally set of to the track and found the next cache here. This was an interesting sign here to read. Hard to imagine with today's views.

Thank you for the cache!

The Cape Foulwind walk was great! Thanks for alle the caches there.

Out today clearing off a few caches we missed last time.

Nice easy find here.

TFTC

Greetings from the UK

Mud and Kim

#5: rocks yes, railway probably before a long time!
Thanks
Häschensucher

I can't imagine why they would have stopped the passengers back in 1930. It would have been a fun day out for them.

A quick find; interesting to read about the railway and the quarrying. TFTC

Found whilst walking the walkway from the lighthouse on a beautiful day...

We started in Nelson today and our daily goal was Greymouth.
On the way I had the possibility to look for some caches during a hike and the coffee stops.

This belonged to it and I could register myself in the LB.
Thank you says Pöni.

A really nice walk along the coast! The weather was perfect! TFTC! ️

Guiding a group so could only find a few on the circuit. This was one. TFTC

Quick find after watching the seals and eating ice cream

Wonderful walkway. We enjoyed walking and caching here. Thx for the cache.
#3385

Intreresting reading, I was wondering about it on the wander and that explains it. Cheers

These information boards attract the muggles, but they also mean their attention is focussed elsewhere, so I could collect, sign and return this one unobserved. TFTC

Interesting information panel here tells you that the headland was all removed for granite quarrying.

Went to the second hint item, and there it was!!! Great views. TFTC

We clearly wanted to see the see the seals. And so we went this beautiful way, and we were looking forward to the caches. Thank you for that!

Tftc

Without reading I would not have guessed that there was a quarry. Fast find. TFTC

No problems so far.

During our walk in the early morning we saw many seals under beautiful circumstances

TFTC

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, now WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC

Second post lucky. Thanks for the cache

TFTC and greetings from Germany

(# 5400). Today is day 7 of my West Coast trip. Today I am traveling from Greymouth to Westport. Had a stop in Punakaikai to have a look around and grab some lunch. A must do was to complete the Cape Foulwind walk. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

We are exploring the west coast right now and the best way to do it is looking for some caches. The Cape Foulwind walkway is really amazing and we were lucky with the weather. Thanks for the caches along the way