Boulder Bank Border (Nelson) Glenduan, South Island, New Zealand
By BigglesNZ on 10-Oct-12. Waypoint GC3YDBG

We enjoyed this rocky walk as we saw lots of little birds singing their hearts out while flying high above us. Thanks to the hint we found the cache in the first place we looked. All is good and dry here. The sound of rocks clacking with the pull of the waves accompanied us all the way. Thank you.

Last find for the day, chRcheuses sharp eyes spotted it first. TFTC

Sneaky because it wasn't. Live the lime green cover!TFTC

Found#found#glassladybug

I don't know why I never came this way in the past. I needed a few finds for today, so I made a point to find this one. It was a sunny day so I really enjoyed the walk. TFTC.

This cache:Could not resist to check the post first but the hint is correct. Close though Tftc!Today:Classic school hours trip for Mr. and Mrs. Dutch Kiwi to spend some time together outside without kids. Today's target was Glenduan & the nearby swamp area. We packed our gum boots and we sure needed them today! Fun times walking through the ankle-high water, searching for caches left and right. And not a single DNF, what a great day! Thanks to all CO's for placing and maintaining!

Nice one. Thank you! We left a swap

Great location! Kids had fun hunting

Whooooohooo

I do like the frosty mornings and beautiful blue sky days. So refreshing. Now we are in the sun we are a lot warmer. I am enjoying looking across the bay when I look up because I am happy not needing to watch where I put my feet (path doesn’t have any stones sticking for me to trip over!).

The last of the Boulder bank caches to find as we have decided to do the rest on a later visit. The walk has been enjoyable.

In Nelson with TwigNZ, YetiNZ, Mr-mcgoo for a few days of caching and meeting up with other cachers from Nelson. All logs signed as NMTY.

Kia ora rawa atu for the cache BigglesNZ.

Day 3 of my Nelson trip, along with NZ_B, YetiNZ and Mr-Mcgoo. This is something we planned a while back and have very much been looking forward to
During our time here, all found caches were signed as NMTY (regardless of whether 2, 3 or all 4 of us hadn't found it previously), or with individual names for Challenge Caches according to whomever was claiming the find.

Last night we had planned out our day to start up here and work our way back towards Nelson. The only problem was the sudden publication of 4 new Caches, and what with New Zealand's foremost FTF addict amongst our number, we had a bit of a debate as to whether we would stick with Plan A or switch to a mad-dash Plan B. Plan A won out so here we are.

Walking along to this cache, I was very much reminded of Brighton Beach in the south of England. I wouldn't go sunbathing there either lol! Standing at GZ having found the cache, I figured that we were pretty close to a fence post, so I guess the Hint is a little subjective. No issues to report with this one, so one we had signed the log the whole thing was replaced as found.

Thanks for setting this one up.

Some time ago a group of us from Wellington decided that what we should do is come down to the Nelson region for a long weekend of Geocaching. So we did. With minimal specific agendas, and lots of unfound caches in the area, the goal for this four day break is exploring, having fun, and finding geocaches. Here is one we found.

This was day three, and another fifty plus day that had us focusing around Nelson town, starting here at the northern end and working our way south.

The log was signed as NuMpTY (or NMTY) for NZ_B, Mr-Mcgoo, TwigNZ, & YetiNZ

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Thanks to BigglesNZ for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

(# 7888) A caching trip to Nelson with NZ_B, TwigNZ and YetiNZ. Day 3 of a 4 day trip interspersed with exploring and humour. A quick find.

The log was signed as NuMpTY (or NMTY) for NZ_B, Mr-mcgoo, TwigNZ, & YetiNZ. Thanks for bringing me here.

My second cache of the day. What a great morning. All good with the cache. Thanks

Yip have no idea what the concrete is either, nice walk though tftc

Gound on the 18th with nzchasers123 but forgot to log tftc

found with kjj162. great weather today for a walk along the boulder bank and grab a few caches tftc

Second find on a beautiful day. Brought the kids out to throw some stones while we scratched our itch... TFTC

Quick find after Biggles. Not easy walking on these stones though. Removed glass jar from gz.

Nice easy find

All good here. TFTC

Just walked throu the raupo swamp to find a cache for The Seagnoid. So now I have these on my radar. So its a walk along the boulder bank at 8am in t he morning to get this one snagged and tagged. Cheers.

Its a flying visit to Nelson today instead of flying out to USA. So another early start picking up The Seagnoid at 6am and heading over the hill to amble about Nelson on a fine cool day. Another great caching day and exploration over the hill.

Beautiful day to get out for another cache with shellsadventure and lulu. Tftc

First official geocache today

A caching saturday adventure out with Missnboys and introducing lululovesponge to geocaching. A well placed cache in a muggle free location today. TFTC

What a nice calm place. TFTC

Found while caching with ABL973. Thanks BigglesNZ

I enjoyed the walk over here and discovered lots of stuff just scattered about brought here by the tides and someones impressive beach hut. At GZ I circled around a bit and then noticed something that looked like it could be hiding the cache ... and it was! Thanks BigglesNZ.

Found the false cache first! Beautiful place! Tftc!

TFTC. No pencil to log in book

Filling in a dot day and seeing we were well away from home we could pick up a few extra caches too. Nice little walk along the beach till we dropped over the side of the bank to grab the cache. TFTC

Doing a short walk to gather a few caches on one of our dot days - being blown along by a very cool wind in some spring sunshine - the wind dropped a little as we went down the bank for the find a short hunt around produced a cache - log signed - thanks for the cache

After all the wet weather Tregearp and I needed to get some fresh air and exercise. Tregearp had logged a couple of caches in the general area of this one where, for one reason or another, I had not.

A good excuse for a visit and walk along the beach.

Cache was a quick find with everything in excellent order. Signed log and replaced as found.

Thanks BigglesNZ for another cache.

A quick find with SJT_NZ while having a wander on the boulder bank. All in good order.

Found the empty jar under a rock first, figured it was an old cache, then found the proper cache within a metre of it. Log was a bit damp

Thanks for the hint, that made it a bit simpler. Quick find this morning and I had the place to myself, although a lady with a dog passed me on the return visit. Cheers Biggles.

This weekend was a planned trip to Nelson that we organised a couple of months back.
My niece was competing in the S.I secondary schools athletics meet at Saxton, (quite successfully as it turned out), and as my brother had organised a house in Tahunanui for 4 days I had a base for a good weekend.
So I took the Friday off work, getting into Nelson while it was still dark in the morning to start a big day targeting highly favoured caches and anything else that took my fancy. Once reaching most of my goals and catching up with the tribe later that afternoon the weekend took a different slant, and it was all about the athletics, catching up and chilling out for most of the next two days.
Jo popped over on Sunday, and after the relays finished we just had time to make the Mapua event in the afternoon, then I grabbed a few more caches on the way home. A great weekend in so many ways, with Nelson turning on some great weather.
Thanks to all the COs, found some good ones

Quite tricky under foot on the way to the cache. Not sure what the jar is that others have mentioned, but I found the cache and the log book is still damp. Tftc

An evening stroll along the start of the boulder bank...enjoyed the evening and marvelled at the wonder of nature. Found the jar refered to by previous log...but them found the real cache...everything was wet and I tipped some water out but satisfying find. Tftc

Nice hid! Jar was empty, but still a nice find

I had a nice walk down the end of the beach while my mother sensibly sheltered herself in the car. Someone has had fun trying to make huts out of the driftwood. I think it would be better to sit rather than walk on the stones myself but walk to this geocache I must. Good little hide tucked in the corner of the Boulder Bank. TFTC. Find #449

Loved this cache because I found ten bucks on the ground while walking over! 10/10 recommend Seriously though, great cache, beautiful walk, loved it! Thanks for the hint, otherwise I would never have found it.

Parked up and walked along to the cache watching the sun going down, A quick find. Thank-you BigglesNZ for placing this cache for our enjoyment. Out caching with Will of the Wisp on our “Round the World in 80 Days” trip to celebrate retirement. Signing logs with our names or initials depending on space. Greetings from England, TFTC.

First find for the Day
Looks like a good start for Christmas hunt
TFTC BigglesNZ

Yee haa! Lovely nelson day

I have never really spent time walking along here and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the walking was. It was a wild sort of an afternoon with the wind howling and the skies ready to dump a load of wetness on me. There was one surfer to watch as he bobbed up and down while waiting to catch a wave. The cache was a nice easy find. Thanks BigglesNZ

Out for a walk this morning and grabbing a few caches. Not been found in a while but in great condition. Thanks for the cache.

It was such a lovely day for a walk, we decided to continue on from picking up the challenge cache & pick up a couple more caches.
Took a little while to track this one down, but we got it eventually.
Left a pet rock - a tropical fish. TFTC BigglesNZ

No issues finding this cache, all in good condition. Still fine weather at this end of Nelson although wind getting up a bit.

Nice easy find.

Thanks for that. To encourage more people to visit the Boulder Bank there's a Geocoin waiting in the cache.
TFTC

Found it

Out for a mid winter stroll along the Boulder Bank. Tftc

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Another bit of Nelson I wouldn't have discovered if it were not for the caching. A bit of ankle rocking and rolling on the way over but all good. Cheers

WoW! this will be a memorable cache for us. We had a very long walk along the Boulder bank, one way and then the other. On this side we managed to get to your cache. It is our 900th cache so a milestone for us. Thanks to Biggles.

Finally the wind dropped to what might be called "bearable". This El Nino is driving me a bit nuts... but then, it is a pretty short drive. I work nearby and had been meaning to grab this one for ages. Today, I did. Thanks Biggles!

Today is my daughter's birthday, nightowl19 is 14 years old and it only seems like yesterday that she spotted a hidden box near a path in Scotland and our Geocaching adventure began. Today is the day that Olivia, a k a nightowl19 decides what we're going to do and where we're going to go for her birthday treat. Tally the (sometime) geo-dog was also invited so it was all aboard the geo-mobile for a day around the shops of Richmond, and Nelson. Or not if you're of the male capperz geocaching type.
So, my task was to buy a new caravan leg, move mrs capperz and no19 from one set of shops to another and meet some simple timings. So I loaded the G P S with a couple of D5 solved puzzles along with a couple of others for a 15 find day. Caches in Richmond, Stoke and a few on the boulder bank were all welcome and provided some decent exercise
With the girls dropped off at Nelson C B D and an hour and a half to dispose of I had to cache by phone as the G P S had nothing worthwhile loaded. I'd already found the nearby Challenge cache so Tally the dog an I enjoyed the trip along this part of the boulder bank
T F T C Biggles NZ

NZDi and I had planned a two day caching weekend with the original idea to cache from Blenheim to St Arnaud to Kawatiri Junction to Nelson on Friday, then cache around Nelson on Saturday. We decided this would be too ambitious and scaled it back and started from Kawatiri Junction instead. After getting forty caches on Friday we decided to cache the Boulder Bank then head back to Blenheim. After getting a few caches on the trip out from town, we are now on the Boulder Bank proper and this is our eighteenth find of the day.

Throughout the weekend our logs were signed Kiwimykl + NZDi or KM + ND or variations of the two with or without the date depending on the size of the space available and / or the particular logging requirements of the CO.

After returning from the Cut in record time, I didn't think we would have enough energy for this and the other a little further along. But we had rehydrated and taken some sustenance on board so were ready to go again. I thought the cache would be by the border but the hint said otherwise and was correct.

TFTC BigglesNZ

This entry was edited by Kiwimykl on Monday, 07 September 2015 at 17:40:07 UTC.

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC BigglesNZ

I was expecting more of a walk to get to this cache, but following the unmarked access road took me to within 500m of the GZ where I was able to park and walk the rest of the way.

Despite there being one other car parked, there was no one in sight, so once again I had the place to myself. Hit the GZ within a few minutes and found the container in the second place I looked. The log was a little damp despite the bag but otherwise all good.

Thanks for the hide in a very peaceful part of Nelson.

#665

After our big walk on the Boulder bank, we were very pleased to see the car and have a sit down. Then we had to decide whether we had the energy to find the last 2 Boulder Bank caches a little bit further north. We saw that we could drive closer to them, so carried on and were happy to get to about 500m of this cache.
The path started off well, then deteriorated into another bouldery slog before the path reappeared again. Maybe part of it was washed away?
Passed a couple of cool tepees, we think a photo of one of them was in the newspaper a few weeks back. Last 40m or so to the cache was a bit of a struggle, but the things we do for a smiley....TFTC.

#9370. We had just enough energy for a bit more walking, so carried on to finish the last two caches in the area. Generally the going was a lot better than further down the boulder bank, with just a couple of stretches of uneven terrain. TFTC.

Easy find for the boys. 5 April 2015

Another nice area visited on a geocaching holiday with Just-Lookin.
We certainly had lovely hot weather and lots of good cache finds.

No problems here and soon found the container. SL TFTC

Day Two: On holiday with tmann421 exploring the top of the South Island. Lots of geocaches found and adventures had in the collection of many a cache. Thanks to all the CO's for making this a thoroughly enjoyable trip.

Another nice quick find.

TFTC

[green] On a day excursion from Blenheim to Nelson with Taybee and TaybeeNZ. Rained over the hill but nice and clear here. We were hoping to drive out on the boulder bank, but that's a no go so we walked up this way instead. This is my first trip with the Taybee Clan and I got my introduction to their technique. Taybee points in the general direction and TaybeeNZ dashes off, finds and retrieves the cache before I have a chance to blink. They are a pretty awesome team to watch!
Starting to wonder if I will beat the little blighter to any cache today.
Found some interesting... tents? and messages along this beach - check out the photos.
Log was very wet, but still writeable.

Taybee Back in the mainland again and caching all in good order sign log book .TFTC See Taybee log

Day Trip to nelson with THE SEAGNOID to day, The Seagnoid have a list he wanted to Do so that
was the play for the Day.had rain in the Hill both way,The Seagnoid now know the way we work at Caching And we are planing another Day Run.

easy find by Taybee nz Here cache was wet log book was ok

TFTC log by gsak log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

Great day to grab a few more of the caches around the place. Thanks BigglesNZ for the cache.

A sunny windless afternoon after some viciously cold weather, making this a very pleasant place to be

Thanks Biggles

Thanks

Walk on the BB with wife and the dog as the sun set. TFTC and the motivation to go.

Having found all the other caches south of here along the Boulder Bank last year, I stopped and went for a walk to get the two north of the parking areat today. A quick find - signed log, TFTC.

Cool

TFTC

Book a bit wet. TFTC

A bit soggy but not too bad

12736… Enjoyed our boulder hopping stroll along the Boulder Bank, many thanks for the cache.

Good spot. Getting a bit damp (mildew inside) & needs pencil sharpen.

Found

TFTCache

Log very wet but a great spot

What an awesome walk for this one tftc

churs

Quick find after work this evening. Lovely walking along there as the sun dipped behind the mountains. Log quite damp. I double bagged it in the hope it might stay a little dryer TFTC

#1069

Quick find. Pleased the rocks weren't wet. TFTC

Great day for a walk along the boulder bank

Had to wander past this and claim another because a young couple were parked up at the shelters.

Stopped and watched the surfers enjoying the surf.

TFTC

nice walk along the beach. a a couple of caches along the way. tftc

Took a walk up here from boulderbank road. TFTC!!!

I found myself driving that last bit of road very very carefully. Wouldn't want to get in the poo for not driving carefully, would I!!! I've never been in this part of the world before. When we've all had a guess at what the structure was, are you going to give us the answer? My guess is a millionaire had a mansion here. - - -Absolute beachfront!!!! TFTC

out with the dog. cheers

I hope Biggles will cut me some slack here. The pencil was broken beyond repair and I left my pen in the car. I took the attached photo to show that I found the cache. Also left a geocache.com tattoo for some little cacher. TFTC!

One of 4 caches collected on our trip down Boulder Bank Drive today. We got wet through on the front on the way here and wet through on the back on our return. Much better than being on the couch though, thanks for the motivation. TFTC

PS I think that the features here may be "Snapper Point" which is a fishing spot I have heard about along the boulder bank in this area. I have not fished this area much and had very poor results when I have!

Nice walk with integersmirk despite the weather, looking forward to coming back for some fishing TFTC

I made today an "unfinished business" day. Got muggled out on my last visit. All quiet today.
TFTC

Lovely wander along to the cache this afternoon. Very interesting and unexpected structures which provided a great frame for the two guys fishing. TFTC #4413

Enjoyed a nice walk to cache site,very windy today here,,lovely spot Thanx4tc

quick find.very windy thou t4tc.

A beautiful sunny Nelson afternoon and time for a clean up of this area with Mrs MuzzaL53 navigating. A quick rock hop and soon had this one in hand. Took GeoKrety TB (not your usual TB) TFTC.