Thunder Creek Falls Mt Aspiring National Park, South Island, New Zealand
By les_premos on 30-Jul-12. Waypoint GC3RKC1

Visited with bektheraccoon, TFTC!

Now that is an impressive waterfall! Gathered the required information, wandered to the falls, took some photos and then headed quickly back to the car and out of sand fly range. Visited with rumpuslabs, tftc!

TFTC! Thankfully highway 6 has finally reopened just in time for our journey to Frans Josef! Stopped off at thunder Falls for a quick snack and to gawk at the waterfall.I have attached a picture of me squinting in the bright sunlight by the viewing platform.

Cool falls!

It's day five of my 3-week bucket list road trip around South Island, and today, I'm heading from Fox Glacier to Wanaka via the Haast Pass.I really enjoyed today's drive, and its high point for me was probably Thunder Creek Falls ... it's awesome!It was actually funny trying to get the required info ... lots of muggle tourists, from buses mostly, kept congregating for a chat at the both ends of the track right where I wanted to be.Thanks for bringing me here and for the geology lesson les_premos. It's getting a fave point from me.

I stopped at this cache only because of the earthcache and the knowledge I knew I would learn.Thank you for bringing me here to visit a place I have driven past in another life. And thank you for taking the time to put this cache together.Standing on the upper level of the viewing platform seemed to be an invitation for me to offer myself as lunch for the resident sandflies who glady accepted . Another earthcache that has taught me a little about the world I live in. And a magnificent waterfall to boot !!.

Visited. Administration follow.

Day twenty two of our epic New Zealand Adventure with The Morris.Traveling between Queenstown and Fox Glacier.A lovely drive through the mountains and around the lakes, out to the West coast.A great spot to stop and have a short walk to some lovely falls.It got a bit crowded as a couple of buses unloaded piles of muggles at the falls.I think we got most of the questions correct though.Answers sent to the CO.Thanks, Robmc.

Day 23 of our Enzed adventures with Robmc and today we drove from Queenstown to Fox, a long drive with a couple of stops along the way.So many people here! Nice easy spot to walk to I guess. Robmc has sent our answers.Thanks for contributing to our amazing holiday les premos

Went on an official excursion to look at the nearby waterfalls today. I use the term official loosely, as it involved Nobby insisting we take a scenic route, which turned out to be through half the Shades and a rather suspicious cabbage patch.Arrived at the waterfall, which was impressive in its own waywater tumbling dramatically down rocks, birds fluttering about, and the sound of rushing water drowning out my thoughts. I was just starting to enjoy it when Nobby slipped and fell in. He emerged sputtering and shouting about how he was merely testing the depth for everyones safety. He now smells like wet cabbage.Carrot, of course, thought this was a fantastic opportunity for a team-building exercise. He started assigning everyone roles: Nobby as the deep end tester, Detritus as the muscle, and me as the concerned supervisor. I tried to explain that my job title doesnt include water-safety expert, but he was too busy building a safety raft out of twigs and bits of his uniform.Meanwhile, Colon spotted a rather large fish leaping out of the water. He promptly declared it the most dangerous fish in the city and tried to catch it with his bare hands. Ended with him falling back into the water. I have to hand it to him; hes consistent in his commitment to absurdity.By the time we left, Detritus had constructed what he proudly called a waterfall defense mechanism using twigs and some leftover rations. I told him we should probably focus on more pressing matters, like getting back to the city without further incident. Remind myself never to take a team-building trip again.

CaptainVimes and I have crossed the pond to attend the Geo Toroa mega in Dunedin and tour around the South Island for two weeks.Beautiful place. Not much observation required earthcache-wise.Thanks les_premos and happy caching

#3974 Today is day 17 of my geocaching vacation in New Zealand. I'm driving from Franz Josef to Wanaka and finding geocaches along the way.Found it! Short walk to the falls.les_premos, thank you for the cache!-crystaloops from Taipei, Taiwan on October 17, 2024 @ 14:43:28[GC3RKC1] Thunder Creek Falls was a D1.0/T1.0 Other Earthcache at the time of finding.

We decided to call at a few waterfalls on our way to Wanaka today and I'm delighted that there is an EarthCache here. I gathered the info and have messaged the CO. We enjoyed the waterfall even if we did get bombarded by flies as we descended the platform. Thank you for highlighting some interesting features of this place. Tftec

On secondment to Melbourne, Australia, combined with short holidays here and there. From day 49/74, I was accompanied by my dear son, geocacher Ruupertti, who travelled from Finland to visit me in Australia and to spend a holiday with me in New Zealand at the end of my secondment. Day 69/74, Saturday. Finally time for our holiday in the beautiful New Zealand, day 5/7! Today we drove from Fox Glacier to Lake Hayes (near to Queenstown). We drove via Haast Pass, Lake Wanaka, Lake Hawea, and Cardrona. We saw some awesome views, waterfalls, etc... and we really enjoyed ourselves today. Wow, what a beautiful place this was and awesome water fall!! We simply loved the place! A favorite point from me, definitely. I sent my answers to the CO and I attach my photo too. Thank you for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland!Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).

Great!!!

Hello from Seattle, geocaching ground zero! This was a quick stop on our way up the river. Thanks!

#2921Found by the Tontako Team.Thanks for the cache

#2303 (Tontako Team) Kia Ora from Spain! We found this cache during our New Zealand / Aotearoa holidays.Amazing views of the fallo. Lots of birds too. Loved the place. TFTC

On our fifteenth day in New Zealand we drive from Haast to Queenstown.This beautiful cache was on our way.TFTCHennesAt the end comes the poem of the day.New ZealandBy James K. Baxter(for Monte Holcroft)These unshaped islands, on the sawyers bench,Wait for the chisel of the mind,Green canyons to the south, immense and passive,Penetrated rarely, seeded onlyBy the deer-cullers shot, or else in the northTribes of the shark and the octopus,Mangroves, black hair on a boxers hand. The founding fathers with their guns and bibles,Botanist, whaler, added bones and namesTo the land, to us a bridleAs if the id were a horse: the swampy townsLike dreamers that struggle to wake, Longing for the poets truthAnd the lovers pride. Something new and oldExplores its own pain, hearingThe rains choir on curtains of grey mossOr fingers of the Tasman pressingOn breasts of hardening sand, as actorsFind their own solitude in mirrors, As one who has buried his dead,Able at last to give with an open hand.

As youngest team member of team GO_Jack, I want to do some caches during my six-month trip to New Zealand and Japan.Today I drove from Wnaka to Haast on the west coast. Stopped at this waterfall along the way. Once again a beautiful piece of nature. Our team leaves a favorite here.Greetings from The Netherlands.#3.600 - les_premos TFTC!

Another wow-waterfall, this one with alot of water!Thanks for the cache./herrFamaxe from Sweden

Stop over at this impressive fall. Quickly collecting some data and making photos, so it is when on your way with a group. Left a favourite point here. - T4TC!

After enjoying a lovely stay at a local tiny house, GeoJayne and I made our way from Wanaka to Haast to Fox Glacier. It was another lovely day and we loved all the sights we saw along the way. Geocaching takes us to all the best spots, doesn't it?I'm not sure that I will ever tire of all the beautiful views here in New Zealand! I know we have beautiful places in the U.S., as well, but really? It seems as if there's a scenic overlook every 10 feet.We have seen a lot of waterfalls, but I never get tired of them. This one was no exception.Answers have been sent to the CO for both of us. Thank you for the smiley and the fun!

Just getting around to logging the caches I found while visiting New Zealand from the U.S. with LaFavorite Cacher. We had a great time traveling around the country seeing the sights and picking up some caches along the way.Thank you for being a part of our adventures!Note: LaFavorite Cacher has sent in the answers for any earthcaches or virtuals required for both of us.

We are currently on a eight week holiday which is mostly spent in New Zealand and Australia. However, the first three days were spent in Signapore as a nice break from an otherwise long flight. The day before yesterday we drove from Te Anua to Wanaka. Today we are already heading to our next desination, Fox Glacier. Not a too long drive so we have quite a lot of stops at interesting and/or scenic places of which there are plenty. Haast pass is realy amazing. Here we also had a stop and naturally we went to have a look at the Falls. We also visited the waypoints of this earthcache. The answers have been sent by e-mail. Thank you very much for this eucational earthcache.

During our two-month trip through New Zealand and Australia we travel today from Wanaka to Fox Glacier. We drive over the Haast Pass and along the way we stop occasionally to enjoy the beautiful surroundings.We enjoyed the waterfall, looked for the answers and took a photo.**les_premos**, thanks for the cache.

We drove to the West Coast by Haast Pass and stopped several times on the road for lookouts and falls. Very beautiful falls! The earthcache was very good: nice, easy and interesting. A lot of sandflies and old tourists.

Nice Falls.Found with Littleclan

Great Waterfall. Thanks for sharing with us Found with CamKerry.T4TC

**Log about this cache:**Very nice and we also met some Dutchies we first saw them at the Dolphin cruise about 3 weaks ago.This thunders **General log:**After years of planning and the canceling of trip due to the corona crisis, the time had finally come:***"more than 5 weeks in New Zealand".***And how beautiful it was!Visited both the north and south islands, many tourist attractions have a cache nearby so I could do some as well.Lots of virtuals and earth caches too and traditionals. But also done a few multi caches here and there also even a mystery and wherigo cache.The trip to New Zealand was great and we saw a lot of nice places. The country has so many different types of landscapes. And the nice thing was that it is winter in the Netherlands but summer in New Zealand Too bad it takes so long to fly and that the flight is so expensive otherwise i can go here next year again.Now you can enjoy it, logging the caches is also part of it. I will try to email the answers for the earthcaches and virtual caches to the relevant co`s as soon as possible. But first log all caches and upload the photos .Submitted via Garmin Live Geocaching

Loved our visit. What a sight. Answers sent.TFTC!

I am with Muggle on a three and half week trip to NZ. Nothing serious, just the well trodden track every NZ tourist does who is coming from the other side of the world and has not the chance to come here more often. North Island is done, Auckland Coromandel, Rotorua and Wellington touched. We arrived in Picton and transfered to Motueka. Next stops werePunakaiki and FJ. Now we are heading for QT. On the way I marked some spots to get away from the wheel and enjoy nature. Ate the falls a lot of people were parking and in front of them all wished that the others were not there. Thx for hiding.

Today, on our way south to Queenstown we passend this pretty falls. Thanks for sharing this EC!Answers sent and photo included

**#17709** On the way to Wanaka we stopped here to visit the ** Thunder Creek Falls** and the ECAs we reached the platform it started to rain and a busload of asian tourists crowded it! So it wasnt easy to take a good picture, but I finally succeededI think I found all the answers to the questions to qualify for this EC and I sent them to the COThank you for showing this nice place and for the contribution to the game by the EC. TFTEC Greetings from tante resi visiting NZ from Switzerland

16:39 FITW my MomI didn't really understand the first question - what cache!? Do you mean the donation box? I will assume just that What an impressive waterfall! And only a minute in from the road. Have driven past and not stopped at this at least 4 times before!This time a stop was made, and the reward is huge!Did a bit of rock hopping to get closer and take some pics from a different perspective too.Answers sent on Jan 11th.There was also the AdLab location too, of course Kia ora! Paldies! Thanks for the cache, les_premos!#10102

Quick stop on our way along Haast river. It was raining and everything is wet. Romantic..... Thanks for the invitation and greetings from the Czech Republic.

Another lovely area with a dramatic waterfall as a backdrop and some really interesting facts on the information boards. Gathering some of the information required became nigh on impossible when hoards of fellow travellers suddenly descended upon us - all of them I highly suspect were all muggles but that does not preclude them from enjoying a lovely spot. Answers sent to CO. 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. A steady rain was falling, but it didn't slow us down. Thank goodness we had umbrellas in the car. We gathered the needed info, took pics, plus reflected on the beautiful view and falls. Our answers have been sent via the message system and we appreciate the CO developing this geological lesson.Thanks for adding to our adventure today, Nukeworker and Racquetball Girl, Arkansas, USA

Lots of tourists here today and very annoying sandflies! Answers obtained. Fantastic waterfall.

Found on the way to Wanaka. Thank you for the cache.

Together with Travelser I'm going Down Under. We are driving around with a motorhome. After 7 weeks driving around through Australia we arrived the 2th November in New Zealand. For ten days we will cross the Northern Island and than for 2 weeks the Southern Island.During our trip we of course search for several caches. Most of them brought us to very nice spots, like this one.All the CO's, and in this case les_premos, thanks for bringing us here and give our trip a special accent.

After traveling around Australia with Oopie for 7 weeks, we have now been traveling with the camper in New Zealand for 4 weeks. Along the way we will of course also visit various types of caches in beautiful places, including this one. So we make the answers together and with your permission Oopie wil sent the answers.Thanks CO for creating and laying this cache.

I visited this interesting location together with BK-Br.Nature is amazing! Our answers were sent to CO.Tftc for this earthcache

During an awesome New Zealand vacation I visited together with Wombatmann (who sent in the answers to the CO) this amazing placeThank you very much for this Earthcache

Spectacular view on the river and the fall. Due to the heavy rain of the last days there was lot of water around. TFTC

Tftc a very nice place

Stopped by here today on our way back from the west coast. TFTGC

Me a encantado

Great falls, nice place for a stop while on the road and for a cache of course
Answers sent to CO. Pic attached of the Dutch Kiwis at the falls

Great wee stretch of the legs on the way to Haast! TFTC!

During our long drive down the Haast Pass we made several stops - this was probably the most impressive one.

Danke für den Cache!
Thanks for the cache!

We are on our long-awaited journey around the world in 99 days. Second try after canceling in 2020.
Our third stop after Los Angeles and Hawaii is New Zealand.

This time was of course used to find some geocaches here.
Today we were on the way from Lake Wakaka to Franz Josef and while that we were searching for the Earthcache **Thunder Creek Falls**

At the given coordinates the needed answers where found quickly and after sending them, ther is a new smile on our geocaching map!

At least we would like to take this opportunity to thank les_premos for the interesting information and for creating this Earthcache!

Greetings from Nuermberg/Germany
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Thank you for the cache - जियोकैश के लिए धन्यवाद - Vielen Dank für den Cache - Gracias por el caché - Merci pour le cache - Grazie per la cache - Obrigado pelo Cache - Bedankt voor de cache - Tak for cachen - Hvala na predmemoriji - Takk for cachen - Kiitos välimuistista - Tack för cachen - Спасибо за кеш - Díky za mezipaměť - Dzięki za pamięć podręczną - Önbellek için teşekkürler - Dankie vir die kas - Asante kwa kache - ขอบคุณสำหรับแคช - 感謝您的緩存 - キャッシュをありがとう - ޝުކުރިއްޔާ - Terima kasih atas cache

TFTC I love that this sport breaks up long journeys and shows you some incredible sights

On our way north we stopped here. What a wonderful place! Answers were sent, photo and FP attached. Tftc.

Drove von south to north and had a great stop st waterfall. Answers were sent, thank a lot. I

Day 6 on our holiday in New Zealand. We visited the spot of this Earth Cache. We made the requested photo, and added it to the log. Of course we searched for the answer,s and sent it to the CO.



***T4T$ - Many thanks to les_premos for this Earth Cache, and showing us this unique spot. ***. ️

I’m visiting New Zealand from Perth, Western Australia. Today we travelled from Franz Josef down to Wanaka in appalling weather conditions. So much rain. It’s interesting that rainfall here is measured in centimetres (and on Milford and Doubtful Sounds in metres). Where I’m from rainfall is measured in millimetres. The huge amount of rain resulted in spectacular waterfalls all along our drive. It was magnificent. Thank you for setting up this Earthcache.

The complete month march I am travelling on both Islands. Christchurch heading south, next the westcoast. AbelTasman-Wellington-Rotorua-Hahei and finally Auckland.This was one of the caches I found; thanks for showing me the area.

Díky moc za perfektní earth keš, nádherná zastávka na cestě z Aucklandu do Queenstownu, od severu k jihu. Celá cesta byla nádherná a tyto krásné vodopády to ještě vylepšily. Díky moc za ukázku i kešku. Zdravíme z České republiky, z Bilovca.

Thanks so much for the perfect earth cache, a wonderful stop on the way from Auckland to Queenstown, north to south. The whole trip was beautiful and these beautiful waterfalls made it even better. Thanks a lot for the sample and the cache. Greetings from the Czech Republic, from Bilovec.

On feb 12 we passen these falls On our roadtrip through NZ.
A beautifull fall, a nice walk to the falls and beautifull weather. Thanks for showing us this place.

And a picture.

Answers were sent. This was a fun stop. Great waterfall!

Very late log. My wife and I took a big trip through the South Island . We stopped at many waterfalls along the drive from Wanaka to Franz Josef. This was one of them. I don’t recall the sand flies being as bad here as some later ones. Beautiful place!

We stopped at all 5 stages of the Haast Pass adventure lab, but lost signal after just one and couldn't get it restarted. Still, we did find a few caches and enjoyed the waterfalls.

Our coach stopped here on our way to Queenstown . Spectacular falls and a interesting earthcache. Greetings from Scotland Tftec
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Did this on whistle stop tour through to queenstown thank you. Answers sent in jointly by granandme

OCW Baxter360 and EverestHigh who sent our answers on my behalf. Beautiful location. worth an FP. TFTC les premos!

Had a great day out today from Wanaka to the Blue Pools, then Haast Pass, then a bunch of waterfalls - all different, all beautiful. This one was impressive falling from such a height. OCW MaxAdventurer and Baxter360. TFTEC les_premos

Gotcha - not much water today -answers sent

Passing through on my tiki tour around the mainland. Stopped to look at the falls on the way to Wanaka. TFTC.

On my way from Haast to Wanaka I stopped at every cache.
That was a special one, give you a point.
Thanks a lot

A beautiful day at the falls for cooling off.

Driving day: moving from Haast in the region of Queenstown. Sky is cloudy, but no rain.
After gathering the required information on the panels, we went to the falls. Beautiful…
Thank you for showing us this place
NathanS05

??Beauty!!!??Greetings from the Czech Republic ???? and Thanks For This Cache.?? Answers sent.??Dky za ke.????20:14?Moje 4657??

This was a beautiful falls. Not the most powerful one we saw, but certainly one of the prettiest. Thanks for making us stop here!

Found on our visit to the falls. Thanks for the cache

I visited this impressive EarthCache while on vacation in New Zealand Thank you for the experience Greetings from Germany

in: favourite point

Love waterfalls and these are great.

Still on our road trip through , driving today from Fox Glacier to Queenstown.
A long but enjoyable drive via the Haast Pass, several waterfalls, Lake Wānaka and Lake Hawea - the landscape changes constantly.

Here, at Thunder Creek Falls we walk the short track from the car park for admiring the tall fall and here is an earthcache which I like to log.
I’ve sent the answers to the CO.

Thank you for placing an earthcache here - many geogreetings from chitza from Belgium

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Great waterfall indeed and real easy to get to from the road.
Thanks!
FP added

On Holiday from California, mostly around the South Island by Campervan. Stopped on our drive from Fox Glacier to Lake Häwae today. Very impressive falls. Uncertain about one of my answers, so logging a note pending the CO’s approval to log a find.

Answers sent to co.

Making our way to Haast for the night. Our 1.5 Hour trip took most of the day as we had to keep stopping to see the sights. I'm obsessed with waterfalls so love stopping to see them any chance I get. Thanks for this earth cache.

Answers sent to CO for is all
As always, we love a side trip to see a waterfall, and this was a beauty.
Thanks for bringing us here. Found with downsouthinv and Abbykitt.

On a west coast oe and on our way to Nelson for a few days . My first time to travel up the west coast of the south island In 20 years so this time we get to cache our way in to uncharted territory, so let's see what fun adventures awaite us bring it on.
A nice stop to stretch the legs and take in the falls .
Today we have the time to take in the beauty of our own backyard and see some more of what nz has to offer.
Annielin and Abbykitt and I are on an adventure.


Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching.

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc
Answers sent to co
Thank you for this one ..

This was the last cache on our day trip from Queenstown...what a wicked waterfall! And so many hidden falls on the road here...well worth a slow drive and peeking down any crevices along the road side. A nice short walk minus the sandflies that have come out to greet us.

On my way to Ross for a spot of whitebaiting and getting a few caches on the way. Great looking fall. A second visit was needed as I forgot what to count but that was no hardship. Thanks

On the way to Queenstown we passed this very interesting location too. Especially after a lot of rain, as we experienced, the waterfall is very worth to seeing.
TFTC!
Greetings from Germany
Felsmaus

. 1627. 2:48 pm. Impressive falls! I wonder what the view is like from the top - not that I'd be game to go find out. Found with eKitten, GRAkiWi, Li0npaw and Jenryellea. TFT(waterfall Earth)C.

Photo shows the waterfall pouring out of my geocaching scribble stick.

Pouring down rain, but we wanted to stop and take a quick look.

Falls were definitely falling today!

Great place for an EC, thanks for putting it here!

There were plenty of roadworks along our journey today. It just so happened a traffic light had been put up right opposite the track entry. We had a red light so we shot across the road and parked up. Lovely walk to a great waterfall. Must be spectacular when there has been some rainfall. Took lots of photos and went back to wait for the green light. Answers have been sent. Logging in anticipation of correct responses. Many thanks for setting this up.

A beautiful spot

What a beautiful spot. Answers sent. Enjoyed checking out the scenery.

On a south island road trip for 3 weeks, Quick stop to take a pic before heading north to Franz Josef. What a stunning waterfall. Sent answers to CO.

Cool waterfall and easy walk to get to it.

On a roadtrip to collect the last 5 tourcaches on the West Coast...

I spotted this EC on the way through, and coudn't help but stop. Glad I did, a nice area, that I had to myself. Obtained the information then carried on my way, I'll send the information through shortly.

TFTEC les_premos, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 12 find(s) of 13 today, making this find #2930

I've actually swum in the pool at the bottom of the waterfall, many years ago. A whole group of us crossed the river. Mad.

Out geocaching on a sunny day as we make our way through the Haast Pass. Great waterfall and enjoyed answering the questions. Thanks les_premos.

We got here just before a bus load arrived, but we had enough time to go through all questions before it was a case of standing road only.. Merlot had sent our answers on my behalf.

A drizzly rain was falling when we stopped here. Just as we finished getting the answers a tour bus arrived so we raced down to the falls to get the last answer and take our pictures before the crowd arrived. Thanks for bringing me to this earthcache.

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

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