Tree Line End (Nelson/Marlborough) Wairau Valley, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 24-Nov-12. Waypoint GC41V5G

Out and about collecting caches and turning the green to yellow on our map. This was one of bumand worker's caches that we had not yet found so it was good to add it to the tally with a nice quick find.The container had a damaged lid and we have made temporary repairs to it which will hopefully hold for a while. One day it will need a new container.tftc#9769

Found - lid cracked. TFTC

Thank you for the cache

TFTC. Nice easy find.

Safe png. Thanks.

Very easy to find with the hint. TFTC.

Nice and easy good wee trades. Paper is a bit damp might need a new lot at some stage

Nice views of the rugged mountains from herecache all good thanks B&W

All good here. Thanks for the placement bumandworker

Cache in sight IF you happened to stop here and look in the right direction. Most amusing.
Log damp but pen worked fine.TFTC.

Cache full of water but paper ok. Tftc

Can definitely tell you’re in Marlborough with the row upon tow of grape vines. TFTC

Nice quick find on our travels, thanks for the placement, so glad the rain never came.

All in good order. TFTC

P n G. Small parking spot.

Found it

First find of the day in the rain so it may be the last. On to Nelson. Tftc

Nice easy find tftc

QEF QEF tftc

Thanks bumandworker for placing this cache

It was nice and dry

Replaced as found with rock on top

With the Memory Lane souvenirs up for grabs, what better than a power trail to tick up some points. All good here.

Mum for the find.
Wedding Anniversary trip.

TFTC B&W

# 542

Nice quick find.

Another cache on my way home from Seddon. The joys of travelling alone! TFTC

Quick find tft

Quick easy find. Good clue. TFTC

Day 4 of Nosynel's and my geotrip through the Molesworth and back through the Lewis. Today we are heading to St Arnaud after staying the last 2 nights with Arandee. Thanks for the cache.

The big Molesworth circuit is in progress. Today is day three of Jude _E and my geotour. Thanks to her kind son we have use of a Toyota Hilux, extremely helpful indeed. We stayed a night at Blenheim with some of Jude's friends and are staying at St Arnard tonight.
I wanted to find a large cache, some solved puzzles, some park and grabs and a few others on the way.

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If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. I will keep you posted in my logs.
Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Eltee291, Hingis20 and I are on our way to St. Arnaud today. Got to get em all!! Tftc.

Quick find late this morning with eltee291 and crman1 on the way out to Saint Arnaud. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache, bumandworker!

Found today with hingis20 and crman1. Sitting around wondering where to caching today and both hingis20 and I both came up with the idea of heading to Saint Arnaud seeing as how it was was going to be a nice day. Thing is, I was in the house and he was in the caravan when we thought of it. On vacation here from Victoria, BC, Canada and visiting with my daughter and her family. TFTC

Another quick find once the traffic cleared, TFTC B&W.

A quick afternoon drive, down past Wairau Valley township for Jo and I to grab a handful of caches that should not be taxing finds. And for the most part, they weren't.

T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C. T F T C
---This log is trackable!
-- Feel free to discover.
-- Please mention in which cache you've seen this code:
-- AR9ZB7

Out for a drive, picking up caches every now and again. Nice easy find. tftc.

Driving along SH63 with geohusband picking up a few caches every now and again. tftc.

On my way to Auckland after a south island recumbent bike tour. TFTC.

Going home the long way around. Nelson to Picton, then West Coast then Oamaru. TFTC

Yebo bumandworker

On this sunny day we decided to drive into Tasman, first time and the change of the country is quite impressive
Lake Rotoiti is the goal and to spicen up this outing we stopped here and there on route as well as in St Artaud and at the lake
Please note that most logs have been signed as B52
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Yip, not much other white around
Tftc

Today was a driving day on our New Zealand trip with a few park and grab caches.
TFTC

Zara & I are off to explore St Arnaud. Last time I tried this, Zara & I were becoming acquainted and Nigel and I were not getting along. Today was an enjoyable trip down picking up a few caches on the way.
Another quick stop and grab. Cheers

After some planning Shannonp1 and I got sorted for a mission into areas we hadn't been. Up to Hanmer through the Molesworth to Blenheim, down the Wairau valley to St Arnaud down the Shannandoa to Murchison and then home via the Lewis. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners especially Bum and Worker and sorry for the cut and paste.

A personal challenge day for us. Beat our 'most caches in a day. After a late start we left Motueka at 9:45 and headed south. First cache was about 50KM away. Once we got to SH63 it was park and grabs all the way to Blenheim. From there it was a few caches in town before a burger and a return to Motueka. Home 11:20pm with target achieved. Thanks to all the cache owners for their placements.

So a few weeks in the planning phase, me and Surveybase finally got out and about for a mission. Through Hanmer, up the Molesworth to Blenheim, across through St Arnaud, Murchison and then home. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners and sorry for the cut and paste. Cheers.

The last cache for the day before a change in priorities (heading to a winery).

Out and about with a bit of a time limit in the daughters car.... so up this way for a drive.
Running out of time fast - so this is my turn around spot. Plenty of room - cache a QEF.
TFTC B&W

#1403 Container dried and split bag replaced. The log book is damp so it may sweat in the bag and container. If others can spend a few minutes waving it around it may dry even more than I was able to help it in the few minutes I was here.

Thanks for another South Island smilie.

NZDi and I have been planning a few days away up at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes. Normally this trip takes just over an hour and as we can't check in to our accommodation until 3pm we would leave around 1.30pm. Today we left just after 8am and made it into St Arnaud just after 3pm.

Of course something delayed us along the way and this was the sixteenth for the team and the tenth for me as I had already got six of them. Logs were signed with Kiwimykl + NZDi, KM + ND or variations thereof. In most cases the caches were in good order but when not, log sheets or ziplock bags were replaced where necessary.

Thanks to a helpful hint this was a QEF PnG on our road trip to Lake Rotoiti.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Day three of my top of the south biking trip: St Arnaud to Renwick. TFTC

A quick find en route to Lake Rotoiti with the little ones for a school holiday adventure. TFTC.

Good hide. TFTC #545

Found quickly
Tflc

[green] Some time ago I and a couple of friends launched an attack on St Arnaud, but were unable to complete the area. So today after work I am heading back to finish what we started. Which means getting there first!

Signed in logbook as Visa96, but have created a new profile, since my old one was shared with a friend. Found in company with 'zliber' - TFTC

Found together with Visa96 on a good sunny day TFTC

Another good find while on a geocaching trip driving around the area with Just-Lookin
Holiday nearing an end and caching towards Blenheim now.

Soon had the cache signed and on to the next one.
Thanks for all the good caches along (and side roads of) highway 63!

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

Whoa..., New Year's Day already. My NY resolution is: start out the way you mean to finish! So, it was bright and early for a start to the day's caching!
Now on the marathon, otherwise known as the power trail through to St Arnaud.
Straightforward find. Cache in order, log signed; safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Found on a big day with Team Gators down to St Arnaud and up the Wairau, this was one of 139 smilies for me for the day signed as KMTG. Cheers.

In Richmond on a wee family holiday. Headed out for the day with KiwiMoose on a caching mission through St Arnaud and up the Waiau Valley- to save on the possibility of RSI we signed logs as KMTG.
A long fun day. 150 caches total. Nice one. Cheers.

Most of the GZs on todays road trip had good parking, and all of the logs were in good condition. Some did have a wee bit of water, but the contents were fine.

Well, work has finished for the year, and it is time for the annual road trip to Auckland. Today was from Christchurch to Picton, a longer way.

Thanks for the hide.

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The day dawned bright and time for a caching mission. Well into the afternoon now and heading up the Wairau Valley. TFTC

07/10/2014 12:15:00 PM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Almost every single log we signed as 'Team Polak' to avoid needing to write out both usernames taking up space on logsheet - as well as precious caching time!! Haha.

This was it - one of the caches on our big day

Consec caching day # 702

TFTC!!

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For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

Today was to be our biggest day. S planned the route to cover the most possible easy to get P&G’s but we ended up not limiting ourselves to only those. D2.5? Why not? Let the brain have a bit of fun! D3? I am sure we can get there quickly!

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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A nice straightforward find, and cache name assisted in vehicular navigation!

We hadn't travelled on SH63 before so decided to travel home to Richmond from Blenheim via the scenic route, and of course, pick up one or two caches as well our total for the day was over 60). Many thanks for the hard work setting up this trail - for the varied hides and especially for the safe parking nearby. We had great weather for the trip and really enjoyed travelling on this quiet road.
So.... which line of trees is it going to be....Aah, that one. TFTC.

#8107. Another one of the series where GZ is easy to see from a distance (this time from the flora rather than because of a bridge). TFTC.

Easy find.

Find #368 for the BAMMJams - an easy find, hint told us exactly where to find it! The mini-BammJams dropped a dice, but nothing to take out. TFTC.

nice easy find
good one
thank you for the cache

we have this on our check list...the hide may be compromised?

If a visitor can spot and move it to a better spot...please go for it and let us know.
Could be a wee while before we are down this road.
Cheers
b&w

Quick find. Tftc

Quick find tftc

Yippee found easily. The "white" is broken so may be at risk of muffling. TFTC #505

Quick find TFTC

#1775

Easy good clue. TFTC

Return trip St Arnaud and Blenhiem today so collected a lot of caches on the way. Enjoyed the easy drive through the Wairau Valley. TFTC

Found while making our way slowly to Blenheim, TFTC, #5986

Sweet

Had to wait for the cyclist to pass us - he will be stumped by our overtaking and stopping. Quick find once he was out of sight - TFTC

This was one cache out of bumandworker's tremendous ownership throughout the South island. I found it travelling the area. TftC

12687…

Quick find at the Tree Line End, TFTC.

A quick easy find on the Wairau Valley power trail. TFTC

Found on a sunny October afternoon. TFTC

My last weekend in the area for a while so time to boost up the numbers on a caching trip towards Nelson Lakes
Quick and easy find at GZ

Nice easy park and grab in the rain.

Quick find. Has turned into a cold day. TFTC

#11 of the night a couple of choices as we pulled up - but only one made sense and revealed our prize thanks for the cache

Stoll going strong and finding all we go for just glad there wasnt too many places for the caches to be hidden TFTC

On a 'run' up the Wairau Valley today. And what a great day; blue sky, frost on the road side, snow on the mountains, clear, cool, and beautiful. Thanks for all these neat caches I have had a very busy day.

another day down the wairau another cache on the way home. tftc

Quick find on our journey up the valley. TFTC

Windmills! TFTC

On a 'run' up the Wairau Valley today. And what a great day; blue sky, frost on the road side, snow on the mountains, clear, cool, and beautiful. And a cache in the bag. Thanks for making this day a very busy one.

This Tree Line End marks my 500th bumandworker cache. The variety in hides, containers and locations are always a surprise and as I have put elsewhere - have added a richness to my life. I can't thank you enough for that. As per today there's still another 572 to go but they get put out at a quicker rate than I find then so it often appears its a bit of a losing battle - no complaints about that though. TFTC #4845

TFTC. Out for a drive along this beautiful stretch of road.
Thanks to bumandworkerfor placing the trail.

Decided to do the circuit today; Nelson to Nelson via Tophouse and Havelock.
Driving down this straight I was trying to guess which tree line before I got there. Out by one.
TFTC

Day two of a four day Nelson / Marlborough caching trip - Today’s itinerary was travelling from Blenheim to St Arnaud by way of the Wairau Valley. The weather was overcast with some misty rain to start with but it improved as the day progressed. This was one of a number of caches I found today. SL TFTC

Rain easing a little, TFTC

2 of 2 caches today after leaving the Omaka Air Show. TFTC

[blue]Day 2 of our 5 day Easter caching roadtrip. Today we were heading from St Arnaud to Blenheim tackling the power trail.[/blue]
Quick grab here. Abit of wind starting to pick up so I got to see the windmills going across the road. Thanks for the cache