Clarks Rough Rest (Nelson/Marlborough) Tapawera, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 27-Jun-12. Waypoint GC3PD4Y

Driving further from Blenheim via Nelson to Golden Bay & the Spit we took a loop via highway 1 to 63 and number 6, a nice tour through the country and so many caches. We stopped here and there with our muggle friends who were patient and just enjoyed our smiles when we found a cacheLike this one Tftc

After years on our bucket list and three cancellations due to Covid, we are thrilled to finally be here. Following several cruises we flew from Sydney, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand to begin our next adventure. Picked up our rental vehicle and will be driving, exploring, hiking, and caching both islands for 3.5 weeks. No problems locating the container, adding our ink to the log, and placing it back as found since there weren't any muggles in sight.Thanks for adding to our adventure today, Nukeworker and Racquetball Girl, Arkansas, USA

Yikes slightly scary area - carcasses of deer and some unpleasant graffiti along with rubbish. No signal to look at clue but geo eyes showed us the way . We're going to stop for A brew but skiddaddled out of there. Tyftc

It was a bit rainy today, but I needed some finds for my calendar loops.

The area is a rubbish dump with lots of mattresses and other junk. The cache is just far enough away to be safe, TFTC.

Tftc

Heading up to Brightwater, Motueka for the night, then Kaiteretere South, then a highway drive up to the Spit for Vodafone. On the way up I saw this on the Montana, and figured it would be a good enough spot to stretch my legs a bit.

TFTC bumandworker, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 2 today, making this find #3864

Short stop here on our way south.
All in good condition.
Thank you for the cache
NathanS05

Find number 2. Quick find, I added some new RITR paper in this one, and it’s good to go. Found a bit precariously placed, is more secure now. TFTC B&W. The pergola is still standing.

Driving home to Blenheim, and of course we are still taking the SH63 route (although SH6 is open in a few hours), so it’s over the Spooners I go.
The main goal was the Ad Lab at Coronation Forest, but I get there and the road is closed.
A quick decision needed then on whether or not I break the rules and plough on regardless, or heed them and find something else to do.
It’s the latter, and I decide to head out to Glenhope and back home on an exaggerated loop that takes me past a few caches I have yet to find.
Good fun, good weather (mostly) and great success as Borat would say. Thanks all COs.

11.10. 2022 10:10 Uhr GMT+11
Cache lag auf dem zerwühlten Boden. Logbuch fehlt ...
DfdC DeSchmidt_n #5
To the Owner Cache needs maintenace !!!

Was able to locate and sign when we had a quick stop for our dog . The log was completely soggy could do other a replacement nice hide
Though thanks

Cache very wet but just signable. TFTC

Took me a few moments to find and then I went back to original item that I was looking at and dug a bit deeper. Cache is bit wet but logbook OK for signing it

A bit of GPS wandering but got there in the end. Thanks for the cache.

Day 10 - Labour weekend extended road trip with Kiwicampnut - relocated to stay south of the ditch.
Quickly found, signed and returned.
Had the place almost to ourselves (nothing new this trip) with just one other car at the other end.
Thanks for the cache bumandworker
# 3082 24 October 2021 1:53 pm

On a trip with Ruru_NZ to gather the tour caches needed or in my case not done yet. Should be able to knock them off on this trip.

Did some tlc on container as it was in a bit of a state.

Day 16 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Travelled from Murchison to Motueka today. We had intended doing so yesterday but the route was cut off due to the recent heavy rain and subsequent flooding. We got through okay despite a slip being cleared in one place and seeing plenty of evidence of recent flooding, plus very high rivers still.

Took a while to find this one. The coords on my iPhone were all over the place. Back to the van to fetch my Garmin and to enlist Mrs tbird’s assistance. Still took another moment or two to locate, but the Garmin did seem to make a difference! #4178. TFTC.

Always keep meaning to get this one as drive past but either someone here or wrong side of road or something. Parked up and a muggle? car came thru park as was getting out of car. They Looked at gazebo but then took off leaving me to locate cache. Tftc

TFTC

Toilet paper everywhere but the cache was all good. TFTC

Please check on this cache.
After I logged it for what I found with the note of FTF, I noticed that your cache is from 2012 ...

Found a Small cache out in the open and shattered around.
The logbook has multiple logs in January and February 2020, but our offline cache details only two on 25 January 2020?

But it was close to GZ so we assume it's the cache.
We rehided it at GZ TFTC

Perhaps the owner can check on this one, the FTF was Rangi at 24 December 2010

The ‘just one more look’ approached worked.

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

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It took a bit of a search. We stayed another night at Greymouth. Look out my friend Ethness is in town. We are back to DoubleTrouble. We are driving from Greymouth to Nelson today. Thanks bumandworker for placing this geocache it is find 8254 for me.

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Took a few minutes to find the right one.

Berrydehamster and me are travelling in New Zealand for three weeks. We cross the country from north to south and back again by campervan, see a lot, do a lot, visit lots of places and meet a lot of people. It’s nice to be here and we have a great time.

As both of us are geocachers, we find a lot of caches on our travels. This is one of the caches we found. Thanks for your cache, bumandworker, that helped give us a wonderful time here.

NBokkie and I are going on holiday to New Zealand for 3 weeks. In Auckland we rent a camper. We start on the North island and driving to the south to make the crossing to the South island. Here we make a round and then take the boat back to the North Island. A long trip, but a very beautiful one! We do and see a lot on our way............
In addition to being a tourist, we are also going to cache along the way. The virtuals and earth caches are often on tourism places. If we have a long day of traveling, we stop for some caches.
It were great weeks!

A quick find

It was raining too much on the west coast so i headed up to Nelson to restock and move into the warm weather. While up here i hiked around a lot of the hills. I can see why people love mountain biking around this area. And i picked up a lot of caches along the way. Thanks for placing them.

Had to park road side as the rest area was closed...walked in and found ...thanks BW

We had to park on the road as the rest area is closed, presumably because of the fire risk. No trouble with the find. Thanks for the cache bumandworker

New Zealand 2019.
QF TFTC
Castor & Pollux
23-2-2019 13:37h.

Finally found this one after a dnf a few years ago. Fine day, a new phone and gps on phone took us straight to the cache. Tftc

GPS was bouncing round like a rubber ball and I was bouncing off the trees. Finally managed to bounce into the right one. TFTC

I had parked my snail shell up in Murchison yesterday and noticed that there were a few caches on a back road to St Arnaud that I hadn't travelled.

This one was 9m away from my GZ.

Cheers for the cache.

19:37:00
Today we made a trip to Lake Rotoroa. Very nice landscape, unfortunately also some rain was on the way. At the lake etaws could be bathed until the biting flies annoyed us a bit. The way back to Nelson was Cacher time again. Several simple and nice caches were on the way, sorry for the standard log. It becomes more individual again when the www is more stable on the road. Now we'll make a ratatouille.
TFTC and Greetings from Lippstadt, Germany

"Rough" is certainly the correct word to describe the track here. I had a bit of trouble finding this cache as my GPSr was very indecisive. I wasn't sure about the hint; to me, it seemed to relate more to how to replace the cache than how to find it.

Found with VikingNav today while exploring the area during our drive from Westport to Nelson. Thanks for the fun cache! >^..^

Taking a leisurely drive to Nelson, while finding a few caches along the way. Enjoyed the drive, the sights and the caches. TFTC

We needed to stop here, and happened to be right by GZ. So, search near GZ..?? Mr D of course ignored the GPS and homed in on the obvious a wee way away...

Didn't see a pagola.

out with Red Roaming as we tour the world but spending the most time in New Zealand. Logs signed DD & RR or with our full caching names. having spent a lovely night in a farm backpackers we are on our way to another backpackers in Nelson. The weather is lovely today. apologies for the cut and paste logs.
this one took us ages to find- I obviously haven't got my caching 'eye' in yet today! We looked in the obvious place 3 times and used a torch before I eventually spotted it!! TFTC

Took us ages but we found the cache where we initially thought was the obvious place and looked at least twice, but the 'one more look' technique worked! Many thanks

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During our holidays in NZ we discovered a lot of interesting places and caches. This is one of them.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining.
TFTC

today was another nice day for our holiday trip in new zealand were we of course also found some caches along the way from Hokitika to murchison.

This is one of them. thank you for maintaining this cache.

#8690. On our way back to Nelson after a day trip to the West Coast on a rainy day. Stopped off the Kohatu-Kawatiri Highway in Tapawera to have a break at this rest area. It was certainly rather rough. GZ was pretty quiet when we visited. Found after a short search. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for bringing us to the site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

Good quick find on the way home.
By now we decided to do just random ones as it would take for ever to get there.
TFTF

The gps was bouncing all around. During my wide ranging search for the smiley I searched one likely locations twice with no success. Finally got George to come help. She looked around and went to where I had searched twice and quickly came up with the cache. Wives can be so maddening! - Zeke & George of Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA

A short distance from our last cache to this one, a quick stop among the trees and soon we had the cache in hand.

replace....now micro with water proof log

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun but no luck today. Sigh. Thanks for placing the cache.

And so my happy streak came to an end here.

My GPS was a bit bouncy and in my mind there was only ever one likely hiding place, but I found nothing there.

Good to see the pergola is still standing though!

Indeed a park & grab cache, easy to find. Thanks!

Yet another quick stop, cache was easy to find.

We are traveling on our holiday from Auckland to the Bay of Islands and back southwards to Bay op Plenty, Lake Taupo, Wellington, Nelson, West Coast.
Easily found @ 11:42.
TFTC and greetings from the Netherland.

Very enjoyable trip Thanks for all your caches

A nice rest place. We stopped here to look for this cache and it was a quick find. Although it was already getting dark but no problems.
TFTC!

Quick find together with Cache-Chriss and StiftLeer.
TFTC

On our way to Westport, we came along this cache.
Together with Cache-Chriss and RuhigBrauner I found this one quickly.
TFTH!

Found on our way to Westport together with RuhigBrauner and StiftLeer.

TFTC

Today was the day we wanted to crank up some numbers so we went caching for 'park and Grabs'. It was a lovely day and we started in Wakefield before heading south and then back north. This was cache No 48. Thanks to all the cache owners who made this a special day.

Quick find and sign . don't think it will be long before it falls over Thanx4tc

Just passing on the way from Murchison to Takaka

Pergola is definitely looking a bit rough. TFTC

NZDi and I had planned a two day caching weekend with the original idea to cache from Blenheim to At Arnaud to Kawatiri Junction to Nelson on Friday, then cache around Nelson on Saturday. We decided this would be too ambitious and scaled it back and start from Kawatiri Junction and this was the fourteenth cache of the day.

Throughout the weekend our logs were signed Kiwimykl + NZDi or KM + ND or variations of the two with or without the date depending on the size of the space available and / or the particular logging requirements of the CO.

Once again having overshot the first entrance, we took the next and came back along the rough track to GZ. This CO really needs to get a new GPS because rarely are his coords accurate, but I guess we all know that by now and compensate for it. Another cache where my cache repair kit got a workout and a new log c/w plastic bag was put to use. A previous logger said they were scared to sneeze on the log, unfortunately, I think a subsequent logger did. I don't mind doing the odd bit of log maintenance for this CO, given the amount of enjoyment (and sometimes frustration) he has provided us.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

Found on our Westward journey to Westport

TFTC

Found this one while on vacation away from my home in Whangamata. TFTC

Easy find. Log rather tatty. HOTA

Quick Find on our way to motueka
TFTC and greetings from germany

Thanks quick cache in the dark this morning TFTC

I was afraid to sneeze on it! Cache was about 10m from where I got GZ but only so many places it could be.

Greetings from Denmark
Today was moving day. We had to drive from Greymouh to Motueka.
Thus we had time for some few caches.
Thanks for showing this place.

Today it was time for leaving Motueka and drive towards Murchison and further on to Westport. On the way we made some stops and found some caches .

No problem finding the box without a hint here .

Thanks for the cache.

A quick find here. SL TFTC

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

6555. Off on a camping/geocaching holiday to Nelson. Day two was from Murchison to Tahuna This was our eighteenth stop for the day. Found after a short search. Logsheet damp and munted. Thanks for the cache. Rodney and Iris.

Doing a road run. St Arnaud, Korere-Tophouse and around in a loop, back via SH6.
Beautiful warm afternoon, high 20s and balmy.
Straightforward find, cache in order; log signed and safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

We had to stop over the Road as we couldn't pull in,as we'r towing the Luv Shack (Caravan)and the Traffic was sooooo busy,most heading North.Eekk a Traffic Cop pulled up behind us,'What now we thought',but Phew..he wasn't interested in us,he was only watching the Speeding Traffic.
After a few mins he turned around and was gone.We dashed over found the Cache quickly,and dashed back and we carried on our way.TFTC

Called in for quick find and log. Zip lock torn so replaced bag. TFTC

Easy find. Reserve must be due a grass cut soon!! Thanks BW

A plan was hatched to try and grab a number of caches, in excess of 120 if possible. I had already found a load between Renwick and St Arnaud but consulting the map around St Arnaud area showed some semi power trail drive by caching opportunities. Fellow Manawatu cacher the Seagnoid was asked if he was interested and a resounding yes was the answer. So the car was fuelled up at very early o'clock and provisions for munching were also loaded. An 0630 start was the plan and the day came to its conclusion around 2130 after approx. 15 hours of driving and caching.
Outcome was a very successful figure in excess of 130 caches which constitutes best day ever (for both of us), best week, month and year too. Over 500kms driven today and man I feel tired but need to make a start logging the finds, and DNFs. Thanks to all the C Os involved in making our day such a great one. Nearly all caches were well maintained, interesting and accurately plotted. There were bellbirds, beech trees, pies and water, sealed roads, gravel tracks, no sandflies (thankfully), rivers and bridges and creeks and bridges and streams and bridges and much conversation about all things caching
A great day out in good company and all made possible by the efforts of the hiders.
T F T C to all the cache owners. We mostly signed as C/S or Capp/Seag or other combos

[green] Capperz called me up saying he wanted to get his ruby Busy Cacher badge, and try for 120 caches in a day. I said YES PLEASEE!!, as I too had tried this once before but only achieved 103 before night defeated me and Edvern in Auckland last year. A successful day, with over 130 caches found in 14.5 hours and 500km. Also tiring - I went to bed as soon as I got home, despite it not being dark yet (yes, we could have cached some more, but the next objective is 180 caches, and there was no way we would have achieved that!). Alas, I had to leave all the planning to Capperz, and he produced a great little plan, listing all the target caches (and more) with which way to turn at next intersection after a cache - a great way to plan a back road travel.
The day was cool, cloudy, with a little drizzle. Perfect caching weather - the weather kept most of the muggles away from the muggle areas.
Thanks to all the COs for a great day out exploring the back roads of the Marlborough region!
Logs signed as CS or occasionally as CapSeag.
Dropped in a pathtag.

Quick grab along the road. Tftc

On a big mission up to Nelson over Show Weekend with Purdiepurdie, Karma Reprint and Team_Gaters we signed our cache finds as PKTT the 'power packet' but we called ourselves the 'G4'. We headed off on Friday morning at 4.30am and made our way to Nelson today. We drove heaps, laughed heaps, found heaps of caches and poke our noses here and there. It was a great day we didn't stop until about 9.30pm for a cuppa and relax and getting ready to do it all again tomorrow!
Quick one... onto the next.

Thanks for the cache.
#2391
Cache 25 for 95 caches today
Cache 25 out of 192

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Canterbury Show Weekend so headed North to Nelson for a fun caching 3 day weekend with TheWanglers, Karma Reprint & Purdiepurdie......for speed, efficiency & to prevent RSI we signed our logs PKTT.
Quickly cornered along the way. Cheers.

A quick find with quiet road conditions.

Found on a mad mission to Nelson with PurdiePurdie, Team Gaters amd the Wanglers. Started Friday @ 0430am and finished Sunday 1830. Plenty of fun, caching and well more fun!
Signed the log PKTT

Thank you very much for the hide.

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Our last one today, thanks for the cache!

Found in the third place I looked, coordinates weren't far off, and in retrospect it was the obvious place TFTC (1359)

Found on the drive north to Takaka from Christchurch for a few days there with family during my annual leave.

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!

We took the Lewis Pass route on the way up, and encountered all kinds of silly weather, including snow and hail. We did consider turning around and following the highway, but it ended up being ok – we just had to drop a few caches as there was no way of getting there in the knee high snow…

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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04/10/2014 7:40:00 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!!

Consec caching day # 699

TFTC!!

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The last stop tonight.

Quick find nice hide TFTC

Thanks for the cache

This rest stop doesn't get much love from the PTB so had to drive very carefully around the potholes. The Oregon was not much use under the trees, but fortunately StreetWalker's GPSr is more reliable and he soon found the cache. TFTC.

#7454. Good to pull well off the main road (even if the drive through the rest stop was rough). Nicely hidden. TFTC.

quick find

-and one more visit from Denmark- here we had a lunchbreak and almost smashed the car by going down the gravel path.

During our visit in beautiful New Zealand, we have naturally sought some caches. There were many memorable impressions on our trip and showed us some caches the New Zealand off the beaten path. You have a wonderful country! We thank all Ownern for the cache and send best regards from Denmark, Thyde2.

Fund nr. 2137 d. 14-02-2014

last cache of the day home for some lunch

Found this on our way down to Christchurch. TFTC

A quick stop and find. Slowly caching my way down to Reefton today.

TFTC