Petrified Wood (Nth Canterbury) Conway Flat, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 08-Nov-12. Waypoint GC41015

An interesting spot! TFTC

Out exploring new parts of the country. TFTC

Definitely a drive by and grab

Trouve ! / Found it ! Le logbook s'effrite, j'en ai rajout un nouveau 5225me cache trouve.Merci bumandworker pour la cache The logbook is crumbling, I added a new one 5225th cache found.Thank you bumandworker for the cache

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity. Log sheet almost disintegrated.

Stayed out at motorhome park & grabbed this on way out. TFTC and would not have noticed the wood otherwise.

Wow, cool bit of local history there. Cheers

Heading home to Chch - detour down here never been down here so nice day to explore. Amazing piece of log! TFTC!

TFTC we drove past this without knowing it was a piece of petrified wood, nice to go for this cache and realise this is what it is

More later

Camped over a Conway Flats last night, near the Kaikoura Coastal Walkway. First cache for the day as I head away from this stunning coastline.

Quick easy find paper a bit wet but able to write on - TFTC

Tftc and greetings from Czechia.

Quick find by my 4 yr old grandson today. Paper a bit damp

We are starting the Kaikoura walking track tomorrow, so this evening we are finding some of the nearby caches

Had to come and look at the petrified wood, and when we walked along the beach we tried to find more, but no success.

Pictures taken, and cache found, thanks for the hide bumandworker

Tftc. Quick easy find

Nice quick find here, Andy read the sign/plaque while I signed the log, then we were off to the next stop. tftc

I have never been down this road - time to fix that! Quick find after waiting out a huge truck heading across the bridge. TFTC!!

Nice quick find. A beautiful drive on our offroad road explore today

Beautiful valley. Easy find. Tftc.

Easy find

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on wet or plastic logs)
*We soon had another good cache located, now to the next one!*

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Found it

Always love petrified wood. Left a calling card.

.We are heading to Cleverly after walking around Ocean View and Kaikoura this morning. Just had to stop here and check out this monument and of course leave our calling card in the cache. Cheers

Out with the Seagnoid, in the Seagnoid Mobile today, to Kaikoura and beyond, for another great road trip on a lovely sunny day.

#18096. Interesting bit of petrified wood. Quick find a short distance away. TFTC.

Today is the last day of StreetWalkerNZ and my 3 day weekend trip to Kaikoura and the plan was to find as many of the remaining unfound caches in Kaikoura in the morning then start heading home to Christchurch, with a detour or two en route.
It's been a while since we have been in the area ans with 5 caches to find, well worth the detour. Found the cache then had a look at the ancient block of wood. TFTC.

Found it on the way to a beach.

An easy find on my way to start the Kaikoura Coast Track

Heading up north for a few days, had a great drive up to Blenheim today 60 caches for the day, road busy and foggy in places. Thanks to all the caches placers - Bitsprayer

Found with Mporokosa. Tftc

Nice little spot. Easily found.

A short walk along the river resulted in a find at this nice location.
TFTC

Cache very wet. Dried as best we could before continuing on to Conway Flat. TFTC!!!

Over to Kaikoura for the first time in a long time to spend the weekend walking the Kaikoura Coastal Track.

After dinner StreetGamer and I took a drive out to see what we could see - and find what I could find.

My last find for the day but only just.

Storms, rain and general water in the past few months had made this a petrified cache - and not in a good way either. Clinging on with all its might against a 3-4 metre plunge to certain extinction, I took an executive decision and replaced it 'one back' so that this cache might stand a chance of lasting - almost - as long as its petrified subject.

Thanks

#2246

Nice easy find on a great day out and is teetering on the edge as part of the bank has slipped away. TFTH

That's a nice piece of petrified wood. Thanks for showing it to me and the cache

#7319

All still dry...thanks to Bald Ed

Day 2 of our North Canterbury/Marlborough caching excursion. Second stop after leaving our Parnassus camp site. I think that the CO may have got the age of the tree a little wrong, by a mere 72 million years. Replaced the sodden log n baggie with fresh. All good now. Seems that we are following the Wombles of Woodend, but nearly a month later. TFTC

I was on my way to Conway and stopped for another look. This time I ignored my GPS and quickly found the cache. The log was very soggy, so I took a pic. Thanks for placing the cache here.

Am I going blind? I dunno, I spent quite a while here and couldn't find the cache, or a suitable rock. Nice petrified log though. I even pointed it out to a couple who stopped when they saw my work vehicle and thought something was wrong with the bridge. I thought I'd better move on before more people became concerned. Next time.

A nice bit of wood. A pity that they stuck some concrete on its side.

Thanks for the cache!

Thank you for this cache

Thank you for this cache.

Looked at the wrong stone then the right one. Thanks

An enjoyable drive after the busy main road. Got a bit muddled with the rocks and the petrified wood but once we had sorted that error it was an easy find . TFTC

Heading to Kaikoura with the clan to try our luck on a whale watching tour. We past the turn off and I mentioned to Mrs TW that I was keen to check out Claverley. She said 'turn around' so we did and headed this way. We wanted to see the 'Seaside Cottage' that was for sale. We have been to Conway Flats as that was the end of the Kaikoura Costal Track but we hadn't see Claverley. It was a beautiful rugged piece of coast line. We checked out the 'town' and cottage and headed out of town to stop here. Took a loop or two before we consulted the GPSr and found the cache.

Thanks for the cache bumandworker.
#4476

Awesome ancient tree!

Nice with another excuse to go off the main road. Nice piece 'wood' (we all know, that petrified wood actually doesn't contain any wood.. right? You know.. science and all that).

Found at 11:08 AM - #6054

TFTC

[green] On my way back to Blenheim from a long, tiring two weeks at Christchurch, centred on the Mega event there. A wonderful day, beautiful blue ocean and many thanks to all the cache owners from today and the last two weeks. I went up two belt grades, found over 750 caches this month, all except 20 of which were in the last two weeks! So many thanks to all the cache owners that have made this such an awesome trip.
\Hard to tell this is wood! Oh, it isn't. Its rock

Growing ever more bored with highway driving, it was at the picinic spot at the turnoff along this road that I noticed a cache called "Petrified Wood"
How could I not take a detour ??

The detour was along a narrow, sealed road through some beautiful scenery
This is more like what I came to NZ to see !!
At GZ, I couldn't easily park so kept going to find a spot to turn around.

Almost a half an hour later !! I parked the geomobile by the rock.
The cache was a quick find.
So I took in the riverside scenery and inspected the rock in question
A very nice specimen indeed and yeah !! A bit older that 8 million years me geology training tells me.

I will be taking a few more detours off the highways now !!
This escapade was a lot of fun, with plenty of scenery and two caches found
The other cache was the reason it took me half an hour to get back to finding this one

TFTC

I had parked my Mobile Travel Bug at Parnassus last night so it was off to do some of the "off the main track" caches today.

I was a bit late to collect it to use as firewood.. BTW, you left off a zero on its age.

Cheers for the cache.

That is one impressive piece - wish I would look as good in a tiny fraction of that time. Just admiring it when a local in a tractor pulls up to tell me all about the original plaque being stolen. Thanks for pointing this out. TFTC #7120

It is great to find really old things!!
TFTC

Out on a late afternoon mission from Goose Bay. Cool monument. Now that IS OLD.
TFTC

Tftc. Found it on a famous five adventure down the Conway river.

Tftc. Found it on a famous five adventure down the Conway river.

Haven't been down this road before

Found a misty morning ,nice drive out here.
TFTC

Heading home after a fun wee family weekends adventure in Kaikoura. Decided on the wee side trip to pat the old stump......fantastic. 80 million years old.....hard to imagine. Cheers!

We decided a small detour was worth the effort to see what an 8 million year old tree looked like. The plaque says its actually 80million years old.(see photo) A quick find and sign. I am not sure what I thought it would look like but it wasnt this. If the sign didnt say it was a piece of tree I wouldnt have guessed it was. Thanks for the cache
[purple]Our cache find: #2891[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 5/46[/green] | [blue]Cache of our trip: 136/224[/blue]

Thanks for showing us this area. Another pathtag.

Worth the side trip to come get this, and we were rewarded with a chunk of wood......lol very cool to think that it is as old as it is. Thanks for taking Nosynel and myself out to this. Cheers

We keep intending to do the beach walk and keep running short of time. This made a very interesting alternative today.
Thanks.

Flew in to chch last night, heading up to Kaikoura for a night, found a few on the way, even though the weather was a little rough

Tftc

Found by Dana with Margaret6967 & clan. would never have known this was here without the cache - thanks!

When out caching it is nice to find something that is older than us.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Cool wood.

Quick find. Thanks

Thanks for some History,, I camped up in the river bed for the night and did a bit of fishing while there. TFTC. Cheers Bo

Interisting place and a nice big bridge

12:25
Found during another hitch hike trip from Waipara to Kaikoura. This is nice place. The weather was very good for nice walk to the ocean.
TFTC

I have been eyeing the caches along this road for a couple of years but every time I drive past on SH 1 I never seem to have enough time to make the diversion. Today I planned from the outset to come here and found 4 of the 5 caches in the area. This one was a quick find - good to actually see an example of the petrified wood as on the two occasions I have been down the beach looking for examples I didn't find any. Signed log, TFTC

Tiki-touring around New Zealand,found this peice of petrified wood,amazing.

I was quite impressed that something from 8 million years ago still exists here, pretty sure I read the sign as saying 80 million years though? which is even more amazing.

TFTC

Nice view of things here. Thanks bumandworker for placing this cache.

#7038

Found on an extended Queens Birthday road trip with the infamous Kiwi_Explorer. Thank you for this cache and your contribution to Geocaching in general.

An interesting bit of geology, and the cache didn’t take too long to find. TFTC

Nice easy find. Tftc

interesting things we are seeing TFTC

tftc up here bailing hay

Little devil found

We can't believe we had missed this spot for a cache in our travels. We use this road to go down to the riverbed to take the kidlets for a swim.

Interesting place,quickly found the Cache,then headed down to the Beach TFTC

What an interesting spot.

Out on a day trip to Kaikoura with Captain Jack to see the sea and some caches on the way Had hoped to bag a FTF on three in this area but have been beaten by a day to all. C'est la vie.

This entry was edited by Macrb on Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 07:55:00 UTC.

Plan A failed today. Plan B was to cache up around Kaikoura. Saw this cache as I loaded up the GPS and thought that I had a chance at FTF. Got to GZ and found a blank log. Yehaa. And a nice block of wood/stone too. Had a great day, thanks for the hide.

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