Lake Side Track (Nelson) Howard, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 03-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3W3T0

Didn't spot this first time at the start of our walk but quickly found on our return. Tftc

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A new container in place. Thanks paddleckick.

Noticed that the previous log was a DNF and as I was nearby decided to check it out. Had a good search but no sign of the cache. New container in place ready to be found

Had a good look around, and found the classic hiding place near coord but no cache..

Going for a walk in the rain. Nice quick find. TFTC

Found on the trip to Whisky fall. Thank you for the cache.

Mum spotted.
Mum, Dad & B15 off for a walk to Whiskey Falls, hopefully.
TFTC bumandworker!

# 837

And, school holidays have rolled round again. We are up at the lake for a couple of days and Miss B has a walk planned. This is it, up to Whisky Falls. While Miss B and Mrs B did the walk, I played leap frog getting the caches along here.

Find 1, and yes, barely on the track and stop. Easily found.

Found it on my way from Mount Robert. Tftc

We decided to walk to Whiskey falls today. A lovely walk with lots of bird life. We were expecting the track to be longer based on the information from the visitor centre so we were surprised when we read the sign.
This cache was in the second place we looked.
Thanks for placing

2723. A quick bike ride from the camp to the carpark. Mrs ToT quickly onto this one. TFTC!!!

TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho & Gazzelli

I was so excited when I started walking down the track that I went right past it. A short backtrack and I was signing the log. TFTC.

Found with chermione. Tftc

Very friendly bellbird here giving us a song and display. Mum retrieved but I found it! Tftc

Good start to our day

Found with Judith. Cool weather but sun is out. TFTC

Almost never found as the gps pointed 15 up track and then 15 back down track. The track is so wide and flat,

Found at the start of our loop walk around the lake. Hoping to stay at Coldwater hut if it's not full

Located with Ricardinho

The first find of the day & after exploring a number of possible options, we hit the jackpot.

A lovely leisurely hike to Whisky Falls today after our excursion up Mt Robert yesterday,. The weather was stunning again & we wanted to take advantage of that We got away a little later than we hoped, but we had plenty of water to combat the heat.

TFTC

The first for today, and a relatively quick find although it could have been one of many options here. A good start and we are on our way. TFTC B&W.

Second full day at the lake, and it’s another stunner.
After a successful excursion up Mt Robert yesterday, today we decide to tackle the somewhat less vertically challenging lakeside walk to Whisky Falls.
A full day with 13 caches targeted, and all were found. All were in pretty good nick, although we may have added a sliver or two of RITR paper if the logs were a bit damp.
Again, great fun, weather and company and good to see so many people out doing the walk.

After a little hunt i finally located the cache. Tftc

A nice quick find thanks. Last for the day.

Ms_KR and I are back from our wee tour of the North Island. Today we cruised from Blenheim to Murchison. Once the morning cloud burnt off the day was hot and sunny.

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

Beautiful day in ST Arnaud for caching, TFTC

In St A for a few days with fam. What a beautiful start to the Lakeside Track! TFTC

Thanks MuzzaL53, a quick find when picking up the car after our loop the lake walk. Tftc

Our eighth find today after completing the Loop the Lake walk with HarrisGang5 and on returning to pick up the car. TFTC.

Last find on walk back from Whisky falls. Thanks

Found it. TFTC

we were staying with nana and grandad for the weekend and we wanted to go for a walk to find some geocaches. I had a great day. Thank you for putting the caches here for us to find

we were staying with nana and grandad for the weekend and we wanted to go for a walk to find some geocaches. I had a great day. Thank you for putting the caches here for us to find

we were staying with nana and grandad for the weekend and we wanted to go for a walk to find some geocaches. I had a great day. Thank you for putting the caches here for us to find

Quick find at the start of our walk to whiskey falls. TFTC

One upside from the recent lockdown period is that it gave me the opportunity to think about some day walks and overnighters that I've wanted to do for a while but never got around to. So, with NZ regaining some sense of freedom I set off for one such walk - the Mount Robert circuit.

...and so the trudge up the hill to the carpark begins. It's been a good day - walking and caching.

Thanks

#2744

Ok the Lake side walk is nearly over. Picked up 2x TB here and tagged this one. Cheers
Now just the last hour to walk to get back to Zara by 1pm.

Stayed at Cold Water Hutt Friday night. Ended up with 2 other roomys and 2 others camped out. Im up and on the trail by 7am. An amazing view with fog coming down the river and disbursing over the lake.

Zara and I are off for some much needed tree time, with Lake Rotoiti on my agenda for today. Arranged a hut pass, left Zara resting at TeeTotal and hit the trail by 10. Finally arrived at Coldwater Creek Hut just before 5pm.

Todays mission was to hire a 4wd and head to St Arnaud to sign off the new virtual. We enjoyed our road trip. Now we are heading up Mt Robert for a look. Took ages to find this one. Left to TB's. SL. TFTC.

Todays mission was to hire a 4wd and head to St Arnaud to sign off the new virtual. We enjoyed our road trip. Now exploring up Mt Robert. This one took a while to find. SL. TFTC.

A quick grab at the beginning of our lake tour to the whisky falls

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Not allowed to drive the motorhome past the new bridge, so I biked up to the car park. That hill is grunty in places! Broke up the grind by looking for caches on the way up the hill, which gave a great unbroken ride back down. Quick find here

Quick find, our last for the walk from angelus hut

An interesting twist of events had me driving a van, fully set up for sleeping and camping, so I immediately applied for leave on Friday and looked for a suitable destination. St. Arnaud has been on the cards again for some time, so it was a no brainer to head in this direction! On Saturday, I decided to take a walk around Lake Rotoiti all the way through the swing bridge. Not because I was trying to keep my feet dry, but there were a couple more caches that way! It was definitely not a cold day, and I kept reapplying sunscreen and insect repellent the whole way. Excellent tramp, highly recommended!! After a previous dnf, I was going to just walk to the car, but this one was screaming at me to be found! I was going to give it 5 mins and only needed about 1.5. Thanks for all the caches that made the day so enjoyable!!!

It was very wet underfoot when we made our way to this cache but the cache was nice and dry. tftc

Izzy FUG lots of fun

On our way up the road to look for Om we stopped to pick up a hitch-hicker and ended up taking her a bit further than we otherwise would have gone. Checked the GPS when we parked and noticed that there was a cache nearby. Walked down the Lake Side track and found it after a short search. Thanks.

On a hike from the Whisky Falls to Kerr Bay we found many caches. Thank you for hiding and caring!
TFTC

Having had a day at the Braeburn last week today we came to the west track of Lake Rotoiti. The walk down toward the falls was uneventful but the views were much better walking back north. We walked for about four hours in all collecting caches along the way.
TFTC.

On a caching trip via Chch, Hanmer Springs & onto St Arnaud.

We stopped at the parking spot and had morning tea before venturing on to find the cache.

Bugger...we could have done whiskey falls. We thought from DOC info that it was a 5 hour one way trip!

Log damp but very usable.
Log now double bagged.

This was the 23rd find on out South Island trip of 2016 and first for the day. We were doing the Lake Side Track and managed to find every cache that we went for, having not gone for some that were more out of our way. This one initially gave us trouble because the GPS would not settle, however after reading a previous log we took another look and found the cache pretty quickly a few meters from where our GPS was telling us. The cache was a bit wet, but we sealed it back up as best we could. Thanks for the cache!

Found after walking out from Lake Angelus hut, and still walking ... back to St Arnaud. At least a few more caches like this were collected along the way. Thanks b&w.

Soggy day

We always wanted to do the walks in this National Park - so today we decided to start with an easy track to the Whisky Falls. Managed to find all the caches on the way - this one was clearly visible from the right angle. TFTC

Loverly day Good walk TFTC

May not have earned the terrain. Only walked from car park though think that's as far up as our geocamper will be taken today. Nino TFTC

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

NZDi and I have been planning a few days away up at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes. Yesterday we took over six hours to travel up the Wairau Valley from Blenheim caching along the way. The trip normally takes just over an hour but we were in no hurry as we could not check in to our accommodation until after 3pm anyway. On the way up I managed to get a nice round fifty caches and NZDi got six more that I already had converted into smiley faces.

Todays aim is to get the cache at Parachute Rock then carry on to the ridge to place one of our own, however I don't think the weather Gods are going to play the game. After that we will play it by ear. After getting back from bagging Parachute Rock minus the side trip up to the ridge, we had a shower and lunch and put on some more clothes suitable for caching in the rain. We the came out to cache the area between Mt Robert Road and the lake.

We parked at the suggested waypoint and made the short walk to this cache. C:geo was freaking out in the wet bush, but eventually settled down enough to give us a fix on the cache.

TFTC B&W

One of the many caches we found today amoung the tourists TFTC

The last one on the way back. Tftc

Found while out walking the loop. Great walk, tftc

Found near the end of our walk around the lake. A dead bird skeleton was nearby. Not sure what it was. Tftc

Staying at the Airforce holiday home at rotoiti - great opportunity to bag a few of the many caches hidden up here.
Woke to a cloudy morning but decided to head up Mt Robert via the pinchgut track anyway. Didn't realise how busy the track would be.
Phone died on the way down Mt Robert so just connected it to car charger and it came right after a few minutes. Saw that this cache was close to the car park so a QEF - grabbed the trackable inside too.
TFTC

Trip can start
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Nice spot. TFTC!

Found it. A great walking day arround lake Rotoiti. TFTC.

A weekend trip up to the Nelson Lakes with G H 6 7 1 0 and the Seagnoid was planned with a couple of days of the weekend in one of the work baches not far off the lake side in Rotoiti/ St Arnaud. Targets were set; get the Seagnoid past 4000 caches, get more than 50 a day for G H 7 6 1 0, and get me past 3200 cache finds. Also in target was some tramping, some boat caching (grabbing whilst moored as close as safely possible to G Z) some 4 W Driving and some basic park and grabs. We also wanted to get all of the puzzle/unknown caches in St Arnaud as well as 100% of the multi caches in St Arnaud (cache Tectonics!). There was driving, boating, walking, rain, mist, sun, ducklings, eels and trout, sandflies (of course), beech trees and great views. Fun and sweat (no tears), a wasp sting and over 100 caches found for me. We all surpassed our targets and at the end of 2 full on days we returned to a cooler Blenheim than when we left tired out.
The last day of January and this January has probably been my most prolific with lots of great South Island caches, with a handful of N I ones thrown in for good measure. Todays plan is to start with some P &Gs, then off up the Pinch Gut for a nice tramp, then back to the car.
A quick park, dash and grab of this one before we set off up the hill for the trip over the top. Didn't realize that we'd be popping back out of this track a few hours later after a great walk.
T F T C b&w and onwards we go

[green] Capperz decided that this was the weekend for a marathon run on St Arnaud. Not sure why, except that base lodge there had a cancelled weekend and was free to grab. So he, I and GH6710 had an interesting time caching the surrounds. Rained on and off. The wet long grass meant that I had wet feet for the entire trip. Saw the insides and tops of clouds, some great views, lotsw of rabbits (or maybe just the one, many times over - it always did the same thing: safe on the side of the road, it decides to runs across just in front of the car). Also got to see robins, sandflies, no keas, sandflies and more sandflies. We managed to get GH to break his 50/day record, and over 120 for the whole trip. Saturday we climbed half way up Mt Robert in the morning then boated around Lake Rotoiti in a little yellow plastic dingy for the afternoon. Sunday was lonely cache day - some over 10 months since their last find. Many of these found with GH's 4x4, bumping over some very rough roads, my first real experience of four wheel driving. What an awesome weekend!
time to start the climb up Mt Robert... But, first, drop a trackable in here

Park and grab on this one

Another good find while driving around with Just-Lookin

Thanks for the cache - good quick stop and walk.
SL

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

Found while caching with one dude .sorry we didn't have the time to let the log dry out but managed to sign it.TFTC

Very wet log book. Quick find. TFTC!

be good if some one can dry this in the summer sun...we will get there, but not for a few weeks.
cheers

A park and grab before checking out the Anglers Walk. TFTC

Yippee - found it this year after not finding it last year. TFTC

Our day on Mt Robert. Much anticipated. Car out to Mt Robert Car Park, up Pinchgut to Relax Shelter, across to Bushline and then down Paddys. A warm down along the Lakeside track. Managed 25 cache finds. A great day out.
This was #20 for the day. Now on warm down from the Mt Robert circuit. We drove down from the upper carpark to here. Then prepared for some walking on the Lakeside track. This being the first found on that track.
Cache find was straightforward. Cache in order; log signed, then safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

A note of appreciation to the cache owners in and around St Arnaud. We have encountered only one DNF in our first 2 days of caching in the region. Caches discoverable, in good condition with logs intact and signable. Altogether good caching. Thanks.

18.15: On the way visiting some lookouts around Kerr Bay. Second fast find at roadside on the way to Mt. Robert. Keep an eye at the oncoming traffic...

Weather: fine, sun, some clouds, 16°C;
Wheelchair: on the road only, close enough to view;
State: all good.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

A quick grab. Just wish we had a few more days here to do the tracks again, love nelson lakes and all its walkabouts

Quick find before heading further up the track. TFTC

#2335

Thanks for the cache

Found a number of caches on a morning stroll through the bush by Lake Rotoiti. TFTC!

Big J had in hand in no time

Found during my holiday on NZ. Nice place. Thanks.

Dried damp log, put in new bag.

This cache had about 5cm of water in it! All soaking wet. So probably need to be checked. Thanks!

Today I did this tour around Mt. Robert with heaps of geocaches! Had lovely weather with beautiful views! Got this one one my way there, had a lunchbreak here. Thanks for the geocache from a German geocacher

Found today while out with KE . TFTC

Today we are doing some of the shorter walks around St Arnaud, and of course picking up some caches along the way Tftc!

Found easy due to junior waters, liberated lady bird.

Found while on a morning bike ride in the area. TFTC

First of a number of finds for the day as we make our way to Mt Robert and around Paddy's track, TFTC, #6023

GPs took me to a point that matched the clue but could not finf the cache.

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Quick stop and find on the way up. Some nice birdsong
Cheers Gav

Found with rediguana. Tftc

A quick easy find as we started along the Lakeside Track. Any visitors in the near future will know they are in the right place when two parrots start swooping over them raucously. Presumably they have a nest nearby. TFTC

Makka pakka 2 went out to day to see what he could find and look what he found TFTC. The Makka Pakkas 2s had a lovely day out to day. Lake Rotoiti was the destination with cache stops all the way

The track was doing its best to turn into a lake. Turned out the cache was also a mini lake. I emptied out the accumulated water. TFTC

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