Whariwharangi bay - Abel Tasman national park Tata Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By The Rolling Frog on 05-Aug-12. Waypoint GC3RYXQ

Having some insurance repairs done at home, and not wanting to be stuck there with 3 young kids we decided to take a road trip instead. So me and my 8yo, 3yo and baby did some tramping and camping in the area. Found after exploring the beach while staying at Whariwharangi hut.

Little bit creepy with those spider nets, but easily found ! Thanks for this one

Beautiful winter day in the Abel Tasman park. We slept in the hut and are now exploring the area. Quick find here, tftc!

Good hide, TFTC!

Nice place. Thanks

Trouve ! / Found it ! Trouve lors de mon passage au Parc Abel Tasman.4603me cache trouve.Merci The Rolling Frog pour la cache Found during my visit to Abel Tasman Park.4603th cache found.Thank you The Rolling Frog for the cache

Took me a second to but I found it

Spent a little while searching but gave up. May be still there though

Good find, well hiddenTFTC

A quick find with victoriousone - tftc

Found with mumandme. Staying at the hut and we enjoyed a walk along the beach and finding these caches. TFTC

The rest of the group checked out the view at the beach whilei looked for the cache. It was a bit hard to reach, do I had to take off my large overnight pack in order to get to it

Trouvée

First find for Miss Nine and I on one Day 1 of our walk along the Abel Tasman Coastal Track. Thanks!

Found it

Streeetch….. nice spot

TfTC. A good easy find.

Nice quick find here with the hint. Too windy today to sit on the beach so headed back to the hut for lunch. Tftc

Great hide. TFTF

Thank you awesome hide a little agility helps!!! Amazing trees!!

Quick find after a cuppa at the homestead...
Looking forward to a good sleep tonight as we walked 20km today from Awaroa via Separation Point!
TNLNSL TFTC

We did a hybrid MTB/walking assault on this cache and did the round trip in 2 1/2hours
Great wee walk and a good time of the year to do it.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Day 4 on my Inland track adventure

TFTC CZ

Found on day 1 of our tramp on the Abel Tasman coastal track. Hut is a lovely location. Cache in good order. TFTC

Found with a group of friends spending 12 days in Motueka and Takaka tramping and biking. A nice days walk into the hut, Separation Point (what views), Mutton Cove (its changed more than a little compared to 40 years ago) and back. TFTC

This one took a while to find. Next to a beautiful beach. Thanks for placing the cache

Found this after a magical couple of days in the northern end of the Abel Tasman NP. TFTC.

Last cache before the hut and dumping my pack. Picked up trackable for further travels. TFTC.

After stopping off at the hut and setting uo our sleeping bags as we knew there was a few booked in for the nite. We headed out for a look at the beach and a cache or two. Yay a nice quick find.

Cheers

Have never been this way before and will be back. Better get a move on for my ride

This is a 110 % place for a cache. TFTC

Nice quick find in the right place. Beautiful spot, nice and quiet end of the track

Easy to find with the hint. All well with the cache but gale force winds here. Is a storm on the way???

Today’s gale force wind started to show itself here! Thanks to the hint we found this right away. Great place! TFTC

Nice one. Tftc.

An amazing day out on the boat with Poppa. What a beautiful beach.

One of the best Christmas Days. Kayaking in the Abel Tasman. Merry Christmas & TFTC

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

Quickly found this cache while on a small day hike and a nice rest at the windy beach. Thanks for the cache.

Out on a day walk, and could go past a couple of caches. Fabulous spot to take a break.

Left my pathtag. Great trees!

Love the hut here... story goes there is a ghost.... not a believer but have to say we've heard creaking planks in the night while staying there in the past while everyone was in bed... TFTC

Even goed kijken en de juiste ingang vinden. TFTC

Settled into the hut so we went back to get these caches along the beach

Number three for me on the AT

TB: K1FWYZ

No pen sorry! ️

Found it on 18 Jan with a few others. Lovely beach!

Quick find. TFTC

TFTC

Day 3 of our Able Tasman adventure today was from awaroa to Whariwharangi .

Yay good to finish the day with a find time to take the boots off and go for a swim on another hot day tftc

Found it! Lovely beach. TFTC!

Found today with a few others. Nice spot at a lovely beach. TFTC!

We completed the Abel Tasman Coast Track from North to South. On day two we tramped from Whariwharangi over Gibbs Hill to Totaronui and onwards to Awaroa. AS low tide was quite late and the weather forcast not very nice, we didn't get started until 1pm. It rained most of the way and we were happy, when we arrived in Awarowa hut.

We had already found this cache yeasterday, but as the plan is, to find a cache everyday we saved the cache for today and walked to the cache again while it was nice and dry in the morning.

Thanks for this Cache!

Feeeeeee and I completed the Abel Tasman Coast Track from North to South. On day two we tramped from Whariwharangi over Gibbs Hill to Totaronui and onwards to Awaroa. Because low tide was very late we couldn't get started until 1pm and we met a continuous downpour from Gibbs Hill till the finish. We were very glad to arrive at Awaroa Hut!

In the morning the weather was still nice so we went for a stroll up and down the beach. On the way there we looked for this Cache and it could be retrieved very quickly.

Thanks for this Cache!

# 2114

First find on way to Awaroa. Cache log is damp. TFTC

I was out on a 4 day walk of the Abel Tasman Track, from Marahau to Wainui. On day 3 I walked from Awaroa to Whariwharangi, but the weather was shocking, so I didn't stop to do any caches that day. Day 4 was a short walk from Whariwharangi to Wainui. Before I set off, I went for the short stroll from the hut to the beach and made a quick find of the cache here. A nice spot, favourite point added! TFTC!

Day 4 and this was by far the hardest day. With a 4:30am start dictated by the tides the tramp began with a 1km walk across the estuary to a narrow point on the otherside. Today was a cool day to be a geocacher as I had walked the estuary the night before, waypointed the track start on the otherside and was an easy cross in the dark with the trusty Garmin, followed by about 25 other hut dwellers.

Another slip required a huge detour over the hill which took hours and in the baking heat. By the time I reached the hut it had been nearly 9 hours on my feet and sure enjoyed sitting down.

The hut is apparently the oldest DOC hut in New Zealand and was a lovely old building with stories of it being haunted.

Collected this cache after dinner down by the water. A nice quick find and all in order.

TFTC

Beau beach and impressive tree. TFTC

Quick find on the last day of the track.

Found it. Couldn't actually reach it, but took a photo with my phone. It was definitely there.

picked it on the way to totaranui - 2. on our 5day track tftc

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC The Rolling Frog

Found with NZDi. After spending the past month or so stuck at home preparing our house for sale, the looming long weekend called for something special. So three nights were booked in a motel in one of our favourite places... Pohara and early on Friday morning we headed across the hills (firstly the Whangamoas and then the Takaka Hill). We didn't get off to a great start being held up slightly with a flat battery... perhaps I should have taken heed of what the AA man said a few weeks ago when he did a call-out to my address for a similar fault and bought a new one. Fortunately I have become self-sufficient in the flat battery rectification stakes and this was rapidly rectified. Knowing that we were going to a few out of the way places on our weekend endeavours and note wanting a similar experience, I purchased a new battery as we went through Nelson (I couldn't do it in Blenheim because we left too early).

The plan for the weekend was to do some caching in the Golden Bay area on Friday and Saturday, celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary on Sunday with a little more caching but some more traditional anniversary activities, and then do some more caching on the way home.

Yesterday's mission was to collect some of the caches in the Canaan Downs area at the top of the Takaka Hill, but that was cut short and we ended up doing some Wainui caches last evening.

Todays mission is to start at Wainui, head out to Separation Point, carry on to Totaranui, then return to Wainui over the Gibbs Hill Track. After coming back down the hill and past the cottage we arrived at GZ to find the cache visible for all to see in the second one. We unsuccessfully tried to camouflage the cache in the location we found it, but finally decided to relocate it to the fourth as described in the hint.

TFTC TRF

Have been keen to visit whariwharangi hut for several years, so this was a good excuse. Day trip from Nelson, drive over takaka hill, walk over the hill to whariwharangi, then the reverse to get home. Long day, we'll worth it. What a cute hut and fantastic beach. Rescued a trackable that had been stranded without being recorded. Left a trinket

Fast find

TFTC

The last day of our AT tramp; it's raining and we're heading back in to Totaranui to collect the water taxi back to civilisation, with a hot shower and a meat pie both at the top of the list!. But I m digressing, this is a last opportunity to find a cache or two within the park and mission is successful.

after more than 20 km walk, I found this box and thank you for hiding it.
Some other boxes I did not found:-(

Day Four of our Abel Tasman & Heaphy through hike. Thanks for taking us out here. This cache was a little worse for wear but still in use. TFTC

Thank you for the Cache - beautiful Spot! Greetings from Germany:)

Found it! TFTC

First overnight tramp with the kids to one of favorite huts in the able Tasman. Perfect hint. TFTC

We stayed in the golden bay area for a few days and did a one-day-hike in the abel tasman NP. We started at the wainui carpark and made our way to the seperation point and back. Its a very nice area and we loved to explore all the hidden beaches. Unfortunately most of the caches which we found were in bad conditions, usualy wet. We also had a few DNF.
Thank you for this cache on this great walk!

Greetings from Switzerland, Team Fludia

During our Sabbatical trip we made our way to Abel Tasman as well. I found this one beside our walk around the northern loop today. It was again a bit tricky to find the right pass to it but was another easy grab and log and the last one very close to our campsite!

Many thanks for hiding, moin moin, and best regards sends Dr. Dose...

Traveling together during our Sabbatical, I've found this one beside Dr. Dose and have shared the same nice experience as he did.

Thanks for it and all the best!

Together with Fenz i had the pleasure to visit New Zealand. We were traveling around for quite some time and thought: Why not combine that with some geocaching! That doubled the fun and we found a lot nice places we wouldnt have, if we werent looking for the boxes invisible to the other tourists. For details on our cache finds see the logs of Fenz. We want to thank all the owners for their effort, the nice hides and the fun we had on our journey! Definitely gonna come back to you Kiwis, greetings from the other end of the world, keep it on!

Found ist, grabbed it, singed the logbook with AntiTerrorist. Tftc

The plan was to hike the Abel Tasman Track, but not the normal way, just backwards. So starting at Totaranui, going to Whariwharangi, to Awaroa, to Anchorage and back to the parking lot. Went great.

Stayed here for the night and could find this cache, and the one two trees before.

So far seen on this trip: Thailand and New Zealand.

TFTC from a geocacher on his journey through the world.

Danke!

After a semester abroad in New Zealand, I travel around the country with MMXX now. There are plenty of amazing spots to discover.
Thanks for placing a geocache here and sorry that I keep my logs short.

My sixth cache on my first Great Walk! We had flown in from Wellington and had a great time in Nelson, before getting up at the crack of dawn to catch the bus to Marahau on Saturday. For my tramping companion (a muggle), this was her first time carrying such a heavy pack (all 9kg lol) and the first time she'd be sleeping in a DOC hut. Unfortunately, my iPad (where I'd saved a list of priority caches) wasn't charging, but I had a printout with some crucial details, so whenever I saw somewhere that matched the description, I took a chance and dragged my friend off on a short detour. She was quite happy to sit on the beach and scan for dolphins that the other walkers had all seen, but they proved elusive. However, I was luckier and soon found what I was looking for Thanks for a memorable find on an awesome hike in a beautiful part of the world. Ps. We went back to the beach later in the afternoon and we rewarded with a spectacular display of marine mammal acrobatics!

Quick find thanks amazing spot

Found by chance a couple days ago just before I reached camp. Tftc!

Was really interested to return here as I now work with a Handcock descendent .
What now would be a dream location would have been tough back then. Thanks

Spectacular hiking day. TFTC

Stayed at this lovely DOC hut. Was my first time in a hut and just loved it here. TFTC always exciting collecting caches when out tramping

We spent 4 incredibly wonderful weeks in New Zealand for vacation and
had a lot of fun to discover all the marvels of this country.
Day 21 - we hiked the northern part of the Abel Tasman Coast Track until Totaranui and back over Gibbs Hill.
It was pretty exhausting up the steep hill, but the views breathtaking and worth the effort.
Another brillant walking day in NZ!
Besides we still found time for geocaching and picked up quite a few caches on our way.
This was one of them!

TFTC,
Stadibast

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro–Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.
This day we made a Trekking tour from Wainui, along Whariwharangi-, Mutton- and Anapai-Bay and back over Gibbs-Hill Trail.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

An easy find among those big trees. TFTC

Found it
TFTC

In New Zealand for 4 weeks. Travel the South Island with our campervan. Of course, we have seen many great places and met nice people.
This cache we have found.

Wöty & AdrenaLina

#2590

With CWNN, judithn &Hollytean on a lovely week in Totaranui

Fantastic day for a walk over the hill and a swim in the bay. Quick find with my little geohelpers. TFTC.

Today we needed an excuse to get the boat out of the shed for the first time in far too long, great weather and Geocaching was it! Mum, Dad and I got as far as Whariwharangi, picking up geocaches along the way and going for a swim. We parked up on the beach at the first of these caches, and walked along to pick them all up. TFTC (2658)

Three out of three along the beach before heading back uphill towards Wainui.

A bit of a stretch, but a quick, easy find before stopping at the Whariwharangi Homestead for a rest.

I'm not sure the dead stoat in the nearby trap was enjoying the day as much as we did!.

Thanks

#986

I found this one on my five day 75 km tramp through the Abel Tasman. What a wonderful experience this was and more so with some nice caches on the way! Thank you to all the owners!

The last day to the end of the track at Wainui. The northern part really is much nicer than the popular south, also because it's so quiet!

Three sunny days on the Abel Tasman Track, one of them going by kayak. So I did my best to find some geocaches while walking part of the track. Liked the amazing scenery in the northern part of the track really a lot. Its a lot more quiet than at the southern end of the track. Had an amazing day on the water. Found this one quickly as it is out in the open. Not sure if this was the original place of the cache.

Thanks for my first abel tasman cache

Easy find with Kwaka40.
Lovely spot for a day walk. Quiet beach.
TFTC