John Evans Memorial (West Coast) Moana, South Island, New Zealand
By hazedarus on 01-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3PR4D

Found after a beautiful fun paddle down the crooked today

Time for a trip down to the Coast for the new challenge. Great weather today. Quick find on a nice drive

Found on the way back home.

Thanks for hiding this cache hazedarus I appreciate it. I put a very temporary logbook in a very temporary container. It is better than the remaining container I won't be going down this road again unless a whole heap of new caches get published. We stopped here for morning tea.

Found what appears to be the peices of what used to be the little container. Might need replacing

Think its broken

Believe we found location but appears to have been broken as we found part of a lid hidden under the rock.

After finding the cache I drove over the bridge. What a pretty river. As I drove over I spotted what I though was a trout in the middle of the river. Back I walked and sure enough in the middle of the river was a lovely big trout!

I was up and away early this morning making my way to Lake Brunner. The roads are blissfully quiet early in the moring so having to frequently pull over wasn't a problem. Thankfully the blackberry that is slowly taking over the place wasn't an issue this morning. TFTC

Nice quick find here. Thanks hazedarus

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Great to read about the area - TFTC

The road has quite a few potholes but is not too bad. A nice easy find here too. tftc

Nearby muggles stopped on the bridge to check on the stream. TFTC

#20401. We left this one for the drive back (good parking on that side of the road). Troodles got out and made a quick find. TFTC.

We had the time today for a wee detour down this road for two caches. The parking was better for the return journey and I was relieved to make an easy find after the protracted search further up the road.
Interesting to read on the plaque that both John Evans and his wife died around age 62, though she died more than 20 years after her husband, and didn't remain in the area but died in Sydney. TFTC.

Nice little side trip from the side road lol. TFTC!!

A nice detour on our way home. Gave the milk tanker a chance to get well ahead before we caught up again. An easy find. TFTC

It was opportune to be passing today. Landscaping had been performed with some real big gear. Big enough to shift the rock holding the plague. The cache was still there but broken and rather flat so container was replaced. Please return cache as found. No camo on the container this time.

Nice easy cache found while hubby was having a nap in the van. Beautiful clear water and a lovely walk in the bush

Thanks for making us stop here, a nice bit of history. Out for a day exploring. Nice to actually get to these areas finally. TFTC

We're down to Level 2 so we're away again. Good luck.

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Thank you.

Came here for some fly fishing.
While my father tried to catch a trout - we saw them from the bridge, but it seemed to be the wrong time, the wrong fly or something like this - we got eaten by the sandflies and logged the cache!
Thanks for hiding and greeting from a german, feeling half-kiwi family!

On the way back to home now, second to last cache. Nice river below, didn't spot any trout though. Cheers

We were making our way back to Nelson in readiness for work tomorrow and we decided that it was a great day to go along a road we have never been along before. GK quickly made the find, the log was signed and returned as he found it. Meanwhile I wandered along to the bridge to see what I could see below. At first I spotted a trout in the water below then a fly fisherman appeared from under the bridge. He tried and tried to catch the trout but it was just not interested in anything he was floating over it.
We watched for a while and then we moved on.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Nice and easy, after the showered cleared. Was well covered with vegetation but I think it's been a few months since it was last snagged. Thanks for the cache.

Out and about over the Easter weekend grabbing some caches as I head to Christchurch via the west coast. Thank you for placing all these wonderful caches out for me to find. Had fun looking in, under , around and behind to find them. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. Your caches made the trip a lot more interesting with some adventure thrown in. TFTC

A quick and easy find. I've never been over this road before. Cheers

We are on an extented Waitangi Weekend cruising around the Coast. Today we headed to Greymouth under beautiful blue skies.

Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers

Heading to Granity with SJT_NZ and taking a 'cachers route' past some caches we were keen to take in, a quick find at GZ and all in good order. TFTC

A quick find with Tregearp whilst passing through. All in good order. Signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache hazedurus.

Cool!

TFTC

Out for a drive in my local neighborhood. Tftc

Hey find

Bit of history here. Tftc

Two days ago I came along to do these caches but I had a senior moment and forgot to load them into my GPS then. But now they are there.

A muggle was parked right at the GZ when I went up the road but had gone by the time I came back.

Cheers for the cache.

Finally it's time for a Christmas break and some time away from work. Time for Mrs KE and I to pack up our newly converted camping car and head out into the wilderness for a few nights. The West Coast looked inviting and there might even be time for some geocaching. If we can remember how to do that.  

Muggles now not wandering around us so we stopped on our return. Lots of locals down enjoying what looked like a great swimming hole as we passed over the bridge. An interesting plaque to read while signing the log and then we continued our drive to Lake Kaniere.
Thanks hazedarus for the cache.

I noticed that a TB got sort of stuck in this cache. While passing today I picked it up and later dropped it at GC7ER10. I failed to take note of the tracking code so can't log its new location

Extremely hot and remote

Visiting with Hazedarus on a maintenance trip. Dropped TB.

Removed sodden log. New log nice and dry because it's double bagged!

Nice easy find on a beautiful coast day. TFTC

Thanks for this cache, I would not have visited this past of the valley without it. Cache is in good shape. I found out the hard way that you don't need to go near the blackberry! Left a token

Nice quick find on a morning cache drive

Found this with the help of my talented sister who could find a needle in the haystack. Did not take long to find. Take time to see the river. Very pretty.

Can't say I enjoyed the brambles - but I'd do anything for my sister!

Quick find in the obvious place, tftc

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Decided to attack the "Know When to Hold 'Em" PT on Nelson Creek Road from the wrong end so I had the caches on the drivers side of the car. Found this great little spot after having stopped for coffee in Moana.

TFTC

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Tftc

Found the cache then wandered across the bridge. Wish we brought the fishing rod! Tftc

Cache check for the next season. Log replaced. All good to go.

Easy find. The river was crystal clear and beautiful but couldn't see any fish.

very interesting plaque - thanks for pointing it out. The colour of the water was magnificant today - icy blue. TFTC #5959

Found in the middle of the lawn, so placed it back a bit closer to the memorial. TFTC

Found on trip to West Coast (and its warmer and drier than the East for a change)

Enjoyed caching around this area today

TFTC

We love the coast

nearly missed it...distracted by rubbish maybe. thanks

Found it! Great cache, TFTC! 28 December 2013 22:21

A quick detour to collect these 3 caches.
A Dash in the rain and back to the car to sign the log.
TFTC

Awesome cache for an awesome pioneer

A quick find on a circuitous route back from Moana to Jacksons. Signed log, TFTC

First time in this stunning area for me, I really enjoyed the scenery and history.

TFTC

Many Thanks for all the caches found today on a 1000km 20 hour trip from Oamaru to Greymouth and back.and maintaining them.

Bitsprayer

An interesting wee stop, quite intrigued to see something like this and will be learning more about this individual.
Thanks
erninz

Out on a (long) days caching trip across to the West Coast from Oamaru. Fortunately for us we left the rain behind us on the east coast and enjoyed a fine sunny coast day. This was one of our finds on the day. Many thanks to the CO's for your caches and the many interesting places that our trip took us to. TFTC

A lovely wee spot to stop for some lunch and a quick cache with some history. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Straighforward find, no problem.

Found it on the way to west coast TFTC and happy new year

Easy find, not too many visitors up this way though TFTC.

Found it


TFTC

logging for the record. TFTC.

Rainy old day, classic westcoast day ofcourse!


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Beaten to the FTF by 10mins. We only cache on weekends and it looks like no.13 were staying closer to the cache site than us Really thought we were gonna nab 4 FTFs today. Thanks for placing them and making us make a trip out to Rotomanu I also placed a couple of my own today.

FTF 0810 Thank you
Use to go trout fishing here, noticed that there were 7 trout in the pool.
thank you for placing the cache here

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