Curious Weka (Punakaiki, West Coast) Punakaiki, South Island, New Zealand
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gracie7 on 25-Nov-12. Waypoint GC3X3AD
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On a road trip together with -moge-; across New Zealand; from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island; up, down, right, left ... So much to see, so much to experience. So many great, and sometimes old, caches! But I can hardly keep up with the logging. Far too exhausted from all the experiences. I am sorry that it will now be a standardized log for some founds.
Hello gracie7 + Mum,Another day, another Cache.Together with Dr Donna travelling through New Zealand. We arrived at Auckland Airport and made our way up north. After visiting Cape Reinga we went on our way South to reach Stewart Island with stops in many different Citys all over the country. Of course we have an open eye for nice Caches but take what we can get. Today we came across your Cache "Curious Weka (Punakaiki, West Coast)" and signed the logbook with our names or took pictures for Virtuals or Earthcaches and answered all questions asked. Its great how many nice spots we are able to discover through our journey and how many of them we only See because of Geocaching! Thanks for bringing us to this place and takeing care for the geocache. Liebe Gre und vielen Dank fr die Hege und Pflege deines Traditional Cache! -moge-#############Der Cache "Curious Weka (Punakaiki, West Coast)" von "gracie7 + Mum" war fr mich Cache 6773. Gefunden am 26 November 2024.Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat der Cache die Wertung 1.0 / 1.5 (d/t)
This one made for a quick last find of the day before making dinner. Those flowers next to gz are really pretty! Visited with rumpuslabs, tftc
My wife and I are in town from Cleveland, Ohio for our vacation "Trip of a Lifetime" for the next 3 weeks and of course we are going to be doing some geocaching while we're here.This one had us searching for a bit but after reading the hint I was able to make the sweet discovery here. Great hide! All is well with the cache. TFTC!
I flew into Christchurch a couple of days ago for a 3-week bucket list road trip around South Island, and made my way across the Alps to the West Coast yesterday, ending up here in Punakaiki for the night.A straightforward find here on my way out of town this morning without any muggles around to keep an eye ... bliss! Thanks to Gracie7 for a nice hide.
automatic translation EN : After visiting Tauranga Bay and its seals, we stop here to admire the Pancakes Rocks. Despite the rain and the wind, we will do the entire walk, remembering to answer the labs' questions and look for the caches found here. Thank you to all the installers for the work carried out for our greatest pleasure. Greetings from France. Our Travel Bugs pass through this cache but do not come out of our backpack; they continue the adventure with us. Trip to New Zealand, decided very quickly , but that didn't stop us from preparing a small file of caches to search, as far as possible. The GC46 was, of course, at the top of that list! and there you have it, we visited it during our stay in Wellington. Yesss!! Our program should allow us to discover a large part of this country.FR : Aprs avoir visit Tauranga Bay et ses phoques, nous nous arrtons ici afin d'admirer les Pancakes Rocks.Malgr la pluie et le vent, nous ferons la totalit de la balade en oubliant pas de rpondre aux questions des labs et de chercher les caches qui se trouvent ici.Merci tous les poseurs pour le travail ralis pour notre plus grand plaisir.Salutations de France.Nos Travel Bugs transitent par cette cache mais ne descendent pas de notre sac dos ; ils poursuivent l'aventure avec nous. Voyage en Nouvelle Zlande, dcid trs rapidement , mais cela ne nous a pas empch de prparer un petit fichier de caches chercher, dans la mesure o cela sera possible.La GC46 tait, bien sr, tout en haut de cette liste ! et voil, nous l'avons visit lors de notre sjour Wellington. Yesss !! Notre programme devrait nous permettre de dcouvrir une grande partie de ce pays.Merci pour la dcouverte - Dzikuj za zabaw - Dankie vir die pret - Faleminderit pr argtimin - - Thank you for the fun - ylnc n tkkr edirik - Eskerrik asko dibertigarriagatik - - - Hvala na zabavi - - Salamat sa kalipay - - Hvala vam na zabavi - Dkuji vm za zbavu - Zikomo chifukwa cha zosangalatsa - Tak for det sjove - Dankon pro la amuzo - Tnan teid lbu eest - Salamat sa kasiyahan - Kiitos hauskuudesta - Tankewol foar it wille - Grazas pola diversin - - , - - Na gode da fun - Mahalo ioe no ka hauoli - - Gracias por la diversin - Ua tsaug rau kev lom zem - Daal maka ntrnd - Terima kasih atas kesenangannya - Grazie per a diversione - Msi pou plezi a - Hn ji bo kfxweiy - - Ai u linksm - Merci fir de Spaass - tibi gratias ago pro ludens - Paldies par jautrbu - - - Terima kasih kerana bersenang-senang - Misaotra anao amin'ny fialam-boly - Grazzi gall-pjair - Mauruuru koe mo te ngahau - - - - Bedankt voor het plezier - Danke fr den Spa - Takk for moroa - - - Obrigado pela diverso - - Mulumesc pentru distracie - Faafetai mo le malie - - Ndinokutendai nokuda kwomufaro - akujem vm za zbavu - Hvala za zabavo - Waad ku mahadsantahay madadaalada - Kea le leboha ka monate - Asante kwa furaha - hatur nuhun keur man - - Tapadh leibh airson an dwpiemy- Elence iin teekkr ederim - - Qiziqarli uchun rahmat - Diolch am yr hwyl - Ksznm a szrakozst - Cm n v s vui v - Grazie per il divertimento - Siyabonga ngokuzonwabisa - Siyabonga ngomnandi.
To explore the island today we are going from the east coast to the west coast. ??We drive over the Arthur Pass through very varied landscapes. ??Sometimes the valley is narrow, sometimes it is wide. Then again we drive along a wide river delta. We see bare mountain slopes and then again forested mountains. ????So our tour is never boring. ??We choose a few caches along the way to search for and log.??Earthcaches??, labcaches and virtuals are also popular. ??A big thank you to all owners and greetings from the Moorhelmi??
Und weiter geht unser groer Neuseeland-Urlaub! Fritzi1219 und ich genieen die einmalige Landschaft, das tolle Wetter und die vielen neuen Eindrcke! Alles Caches konnten gut gefunden werden!TFTC# 7539 / 13:08Gru vom Team Lawinia11 aus Deutschland, LilienthalAnd our big New Zealand holiday continues! Fritzi1219 and I are enjoying the unique landscape, the great weather and the many new impressions! We managed to find all the caches!TFTC# 7539 / 13:08hGreetings from Team Lawinia11 from Germany, Lilienthal
One weka was entertaining tourists nearby, so we could find and log the cache without any attention to us.Thanks!
Fortunately we managed a discreet find at a moment when the parked cars were all empty. Thank you x
After doing the loop walk we stopped by here and found your cache exactly as the hint said Thank you
Day #5 Nelson to Greymouth - The Mega New Zealand ExperienceA chance for an overseas Mega was too good to pass up. Especially with half the state seeming to be attending also. I set about some last minute planning.? Flights still available? Accommodation found? Mode of transport securedLooks like its time to cross the ditch. Ive never visited the South Island before so it is bound to be a fun filled trip.After a day of exploring Nelson and a home cooked dinner from Grub62 and Bunadoorian, it was off to Greymouth via a number of sights.After a wonderful stroll around this area, I snuck out the front to grab this trad.A big thanks goes to gracie7 + Mum for taking the time to add Curious Weka (Punakaiki, West Coast) to the geocaching map for us all to find and enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------Wow! The fun just never stops.Have you logged your will attend for Victoria's first ever Block Party? (Think Mega but even more special!)Join us on 22-23 March 2025 in Sunbury to celebrate 25 years of geocaching by logging your will attend at [**GCAP417**](https://coord.info/GCAP417).?
Nice quick grab for once. When other people say this it always seems to take me ages, but not today! Added paper to log. Tfc
Turns out we were parked right next to the cache, so it really was a case of park and grab.Thanks for the cache gracie7 + Mum, topped off a great visit.
Thanks so much to you and the others for placing caches in this really epic location
Short search after visiting the pancake rocks. This container was not anymore where it was supposed to be but laying on the ground nearby, after logging I put it back where it should have been before.TFTC #455
Merging my accounts. Found this as "Ambers007" on 12/10/2022. Now tracking together with "Hoterini" and merging the old finds.
On a roadie of the south island up from Invercargill. On the home stretch southward now..West coast caching! A bit of stealth needed here. Cache all good tftc
A nice quick find this evening, last cache for the day before walking back to the freedom camping spot nearby, TFTC
Mum was heading up to Westport tonight so she came prepared with a new logbook.The cache had been put back very high but luckily with abit of cunning she was able to retrieve it.All good to go here again. Happy Caching 
Nous poursuivons notre road trip en NZ, aujourd'hui de Greymouth Nelson et jaunirons ce petit point. TFTC logue en team Mado. Logbook trs humide.
A quick cache after visiting this wonderful geological formation. A quick find here. Tftc
Aprs notre priple en Australie, on dcouvre la Nouvelle Zlande : de Greymouth Nelson. On logue en team Mado. Merci pour la cache trouve rapidement mais logbook mouill. Quelles vues magnifiques !
I have now visited this very interesting hot spot for the fourth time. SiamFee and I were able to find the cache quickly. Thanks for bringing me here.Thxs for the cache.Best wishes from Siamkiwi
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 68/74, Friday. Finally time for our holiday in the beautiful New Zealand, day 4/7! Today was an awesome day! Today we enjoyed the beautiful West Coast. We drove from Charleston to Fox Glacier. We saw some things we will never forget - such as the Seal Colony Tauranga Bay and the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes in Punakaiki. I just LOVE New Zealand! After visiting the Pancakes and the Blowholes, we visited this cache. It was a quick find. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).
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 68/74, Friday. Finally time for our holiday in the beautiful New Zealand, day 4/7! Today was an awesome day! Today we enjoyed the beautiful West Coast. We drove from Charleston to Fox Glacier. We saw some things we will never forget - such as the Seal Colony Tauranga Bay and the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes in Punakaiki. I just LOVE New Zealand! After visiting the Pancakes and the Blowholes, we visited this cache. It was a quick find. Thanks for the cache and greetings from Vaasa, Finland! Logged with [GCDroid](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gcdroid).Found together with Heureka10.Thanks for the cache.Greetings from Czech Republic.
Found together with Kendar05. Thank you for the cache. Greetings from Czech Republic.
#2281 (Tontako Team) Kia Ora from Spain! We found this cache during our New Zealand / Aotearoa holidays.TFTC
On our thirteenth day in New Zealand we drive from Picton Tasman.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.
It was quite a few years ago that we visited here. Looks very different to how we remember it. So much work going. Busy with muggles, obviously, but no one at gz, so we could grab this one easily. TFTC
Soon found photo taken as proof as again came out without a pen, replaced as found TFTC
Found with Dali87 within our famous trip around New Zealand. Thanks for nice cache 
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....................................................................... TB Koumesovo geopivo DDEV7M Trouve ! / Found it ! 4649me cache trouve.Merci gracie7 pour la cache 4649th cache found.Thank you gracie7 for the cache
Our journey through New Zealand takes us to beautiful places. Fortunately, we see a lot and the geocaches also invite us to make extra stops. Thanks to the CO for making this available. A warm geocach greeting from the Netherlands
After failing in finding Punakaiki cavern we logged this one to document our journey through New Zealand. TFTC
Visiting the South Island from Ottawa, Canada, and getting some caches along the way. Spectacular location. The weka is still here. TFTC
Stopped here for a walk and a cache before travelling further south. . Thanks for the cache
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Today steffixx and me spent another wonderful day here in NZ while driving from Harihari to Punakaiki. We stopped at the car park and took a walk to the Pancacke Rocks and Blowholes. What a wonderful place on earth!! Afterwards, we were searching this cache before driving home. A big thank you to gracie7 for leading us here and for showing this place and of course also for maintaining this cache here on site!Best wishes from the North Sea, Germany, from Cuxine ????????. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________________oooooooo____________oooooooooooooo_________oooooooooooooooooo________oooooooooooooooooooo_______ooooooooooooooo?ooooo____oooooo_______oooooooo?oooooooooooo___ooo__ooo_______oooooooooooooooooooo__oooo____oo________oooooooooooooooooooooooo_________oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo_oooo_______oooooooooooooooooo________ooooo___ooooooooooooooooooooooo_________oo_ooo____oooooooooooooooooooooooooo_____oooooooo__ooo_oooooo__________oo___oooo_______ooo__ooo_ooo______oooo__ooo_______oooo___ooo__ooo___ooooo___ooo_____ooo___ooo____oo____ooo____oooooo__ooo____ooooooo____________ooo_____ooooo____ooo
Found this on my tour around New Zealand with my daughter. She arranged the tour and brought her dad along.Really a nice spot. Amazing with the power that's in the water./GS64
During our trip around NZ we also visited this place. We found several caches here. Thank you. Greetings from the Czech republick.
Today we went up the west coast from Haast to Murchison with stops at Franz-Josef Glacier and Pancake Rocks.On the way back from the rocks we had a quick look for this cache and found it quite quickly.Thanks for hiding and maintaining the cache.Happy hunting!TFTCschnuckel1[#24064]
Just the right elevation for me to reach. Really enjoyed our visit to this spot.TFTC!
