Sandflies Feeding Ground (West Coast) Barrytown, South Island, New Zealand
By gracie7 + Mum on 25-Nov-12. Waypoint GC41ZRR

Just finished the Pororari River trail with the kids. Such troopers walking all the way and to finish it off, a swingbridge!! Kids love them. TFTC

We enjoyed the nice bridge and the clear water Thanks for showing us this beautiful place! TFTC Team Stefanne )

Day out walking the loop.Enjoying the countryside and finding the geocaches very pleased the cache didnt live up to its name

We were lucky. That day no sandflies were around. The hike between the two valleys was very nice. We were a little bit surprised about the bikers on the pack track. But other people obviously have more physical capacities than I have. The find was no problem. Muggle waited in the hut on the other side for me to check trees and sign the log.Thx for hiding.

Quick find out caching with my nephew and niece from New Jersey USA, whilst travelling together for a week after a family wedding.Thank you for placing the cache. I have enjoyed my opportunity to cache on Te Waipounamu (South Island Aotearoa New Zealand). I acknowledge the Maori iwi of Waipounamu, the custodians of this beautiful land.

Today's road trip planned to go North of Runanga up to the Pororari River leaving Rapahoe for another day.The only live non-huma thing around today was a weka. This took a while as my coords took me to a bush lawyer covered punga. I then noticed another and zoomed into that one. This one's armpits are very close to the ground.Cheers for the cache, Gracie7 + Mum.

Found with Kiwimykl. Refer to his log for details.TFTC gracie7 + Mum

Found with NZDi. Full log to follow.

Tfyc

Great day to visit this spot. Make sure you bring your togs as it is an amazing swimming hole under the bridge with the local eel.

Gotcha, no flys on me

And they even get in the car with you. Found with NutcacheBNE

Great walk here on a very nice day!
No luck with this one though...

spent 6 great weeks in New Zealand with my The start was a bit bumpy (Cyclone Gabrielle) but then it got better and better. We travelled to both islands and discovered a lot. We photographed and filmed many beautiful things, but most of it stayed in our hearts.
Almost everywhere we stopped, a cache was already waiting for us. Most of the caches are well maintained and easy to find.

With mostly very nice weather, we saw a lot of this impressive island. In many places, caches were waiting for us, which were sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find. This cache was also included and was successfully signed

We puzzled a lot in advance and the tours were well prepared
So this box was also well found.

now I have another on my personal cache card.

many thanks to [^] **gracie7 + Mum** [^] for the effort and the cache and greetings from Germany

TFTF

**Geistercacher**
#34235

A nice find on a warm evening. There were plenty of bikers around today, tftc

On the way the belong to the westcoast we stopped here to visit the Pancakes. After that we went to the Suspension Bridge and found the Cache.
Thanks for hidding say the GeoGrillen

Quickish find. Especially since I had no phone signal. TFTC

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..

Spending the next wee while based in punakaiki as I landed a bit of work..

Hitting the track for a few days while the rain has stopped..

Last day of an awesome hike over the paparoa track...glad to see someone had found it since my dnf which made for a quick find..always good to turn a frown upside down tftc

Took some time to find the cache as we searched quite a few Punga in the area. Finally found it on the ground near the base of the Punga. Looks like it fell down from it's original hiding spot. We tried to tuck it back in the "hairy armpit". Hope it stays there. Thanks for the hide

#11,315. I am down in Punakaiki on a work trip. Today we have been in the field but before we head back to Westport we had time to grab several more caches down this way. Parked at the carpark and crossed the swing bridge. Headed for a likely spot but nothing there. So widened the search checking all around a lot of the hint items in this area. Finally back to the first spot and found the cache on the ground under some leaf litter. We signed the logbook and placed the container in a spot closer to the ground but hopefully secure from weka. Thanks gracie7 + Mum for hiding it here. I have been over this track previously. Will hopefully get a chance to do it again some stage.

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..

Spending the next wee while based in punakaiki as I landed a bit of work..
Out for an afternoon stroll to the saddle...this should have been easy but not so ...raining when I came back down so didn't try again...!!!

Nice hide at the beginning of my ride, thank you.

Decided to ride a bit of the paparoa track today. There were no sandflys feeding today. After searching a few locations we had the cache in hand. Thanks for the cache

Just finished the loop track on a beautiful New Year’s Day on the coast. Last cache before the hordes of people up on the main road near the rocks. Will need to leave those caches for later this evening for it to quieten down.
TFTC

Found on 6 weeks long holiday.

Kids enjoyed looking for it.. but hubby found it (he's not a cacher!)

TFTC quick find

Great spot, - Thanks Bitsprayer

TFTC CZ

Off we go and what a great way to start a walk... A geocaches. My muggle friend has no idea how many stops we will make along the way! TFTC

Beautiful day to find cache #2 for us! Thank you

A good hide no sandflies

TFTC

Tyfc nice easy find with Kerry owl ,

Tyfc nice easy find with kerryowl, never knew swingbridge here.

Great find in an awesome place. Thank you for the cache

Thanks gracie7 + Mum for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on the many wet or plastic logs)
Weather today was unsettled with rain at times.

*Nice walk across the bridge to cache site, took a bit of searching to get the good cache located!*

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

Beautiful winter morning here.
Cache had fallen out of tree but all dry and secure.
Rehidden as per photo.
Thanks for bringing us up here, we would not have found this without geocaching.
TFTC

Beautiful winter morning here. What a great spot.
Cache had fallen out of tree but rehidden as shown in photo.
Thanks for bringing us here.

We found this nice place away from the road. Loved the small bridge and a little walk. Thanks for that cache, we were tall enough

wow, what a nice place away from the road. Loved the small bridge and a little walk. Thanks for that cache, we were tall enough

Out enjoying a bit of hiking before I continue further north along the coast. Great little hidey spot - I reached it after a bit of struggling. Great hike but now I have to walk on boring roads for a while to get to my van. TFTC!

It's actually not problem, if you're tall enough.. in a few years it will be a tree-climbing cache!

Not too many sandflies today. Signed as tbnz. Tftc

Found during our visit. Signed as TBNZ. Thanks for the cache

Having done what we could of the eastern end of the Paparoa Great Walk, we decided to explore at least some of the western end. Returned via the bike track which involved a lot of road walking, but did enable me to grab this cache.

Nice hiding spot, and almost impossible for container to be muggled.

TNLN. TFTC.

I have just moved over to the South Island from Australia. Hoping to live and explore the country over the next few years and find a lot of caches on the way. Cheers for the hides.

The storms had rolled in and were hitting us hard. So a lot of the days were now spent in the van hiding away from the he. And when it cleared up we got out and stretched the legs by caching. Thanks.

Found pretty easily after walking across the swing bridge

Found while out hiking before heading down the coast. I know what you mean about suspension bridge with a guy at end end jumping. Tftf SL greetings from NJ in the US.

Out on a maintenance run today and we stopped here to check on this one.
Thanks to the efforts of Majus this one was saved and in currently in great order.
All good here Thanks to Majus. Happy Caching

Believe it or not. No sandflies here. I hate these little bugs.
TFTC

On our vacation trip through New Zealand we passed by here too.
Many thanks for the cache and best regards from Munich / Germany

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Day 13 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Greymouth to Murchison.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of interesting places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

Morgens noch ein paar vom Abend gelöste Multis eingesammelt, dann ging die Reise weiter nach Murchison. Unterwegs noch die Pancake Rock begutachtet und bei Westport an der Küste entlang gewandert. Abends durch einen geheimtip in einem unscheinbaren Bächlein noch Aale gesehen...

Greets from Switzerland

#3902 Very nice day after rainy night. No flies, but very annoying wekas. One stole bred from my daughters hand. The cache was wet and there were some ugly fungi inside, fortunately we have always wet wipes with us, as we have baby, so we cleaned and dried it. The cache is fine now, enjoy! Thanks for the cache, greetings from Czech Republic.

To the end of a nice walk along the Pororari and Punakaiki River a quick and easy find. Cache was on the ground, we put it back to where we believe it should be. No sandflies during our visit, by the way.
TFTC, Mella0211

18:37 , Kia ora Aotearoa .
Urlaub und cachen unter der langen weißen Wolke .
Das intensive Grün der Farne , Wälder und Wiesen , das klare Blau des Himmels und das freundliche Türkis des Meeres .
Die Delfine , Seehunde und Pinguine die wir in ihrem natürlichen oder geschützten Lebensraum beobachten konnten .
Die unendlichen vielen verschiedenen Strand- und Küstenformationen .
Die kleinen Kunstwerke vor den Privathäusern , in den Gärten , Cafes , Parks oder an den Straßen .
Das Alles macht Neuseeland so einzigartig und hat uns entspannt und freudestrahlend über die Insel getragen .
Gefreut haben wir uns auch über diesen Cache am Wegesrand .
Kleine Hängepartie an einer tollen Konstruktion .
Nebenan lag dann der Cache als Belohnung .
Vielen Dank für das Abenteuer vor Ort .
Gruß sulu .

Sorry for the late log entry, but the memory is still there .

Nicer swingbridge than the bullers and for free. TFTC

Quick easy find with kids this time. No luck here 5 yrs ago.

Parked up and off for a walk. Lovely looking area. Good swing bridge. Tftc

I was lucky, no flies today.. T4TC

Took longer than it should have to find as cache was on the ground

Found this one during our Holiday in New Zealand.

Quick find.

TFTC

Fast find on my way back to Punakaiki. TFTC.

Beautiful river crossing. Nr 11 here in New Zealand with Harresen

We left early for a hiking trail along the river and on the way we looked for some caches. The weather was fine and it was going to be a hot day so an early start was a good thing to do.
After finding the cache we now know what a Puna is.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

Nice bridge! With sunny weather it was a beautiful walk in this nice valley.

Found it

Very gutted we didn't have service so couldn't read the clue or look at the photo. Make sure you do this before hand or download to your list

Quick find.

#1886;
Not too many sandflies there today. TFTC!

OUT: TB "Travel Bug Dog Tag"

Nach einer ewig langen Anreise machen wir jetzt für die nächsten 5 Wochen Neuseeland unsicher und suchen hier nach Dosen und Abenteuern. Zuerst auf der Südinsel und danach noch auf der Nordinsel. Und da wir einmal hier unten sind, gibt es auch noch nen Abstecher nach Fiji.

Heutige Etappe: von Hokitika nach Murchison mit kleiner Wanderung an den Pancake Rocks.

Zur Dose:
Nach der Hängebrücke musste Frau Bison Pferde photographieren, in der Zeit suchte, entdeckte und loggte ich die Dose.

Danke für's Legen und Herführen sagt Bison1.0.

TB in

Found on a murky drizzly day, thankfully my insect spray did its job and I did not become fodder for the sandfly's! Grabbed the travel bug and will take on some visits then let it have a rest somewhere else! Tftc

I arrived in Punakaiki on a beautiful day and decided to go for a walk on the Inland Pack Track. Therefore, I came by this geocache and of course searched for it. Despite the warm and sunny weather, there were not many people on the walk and I could search undisturbed. And getting away with only about three sandfly bites is not too bad, I guess
Thanks for the hide, gracie7 + Mum

took and left a TB

A last minute trip to Punakaiki with Ariestiger to maintain a few caches and this being one of them. After a very slow drive down to the swingbridge through some free roaming horses I was surprised to see an occuipied car sitting on the dry riverbed (hope it didnt get stuck with the tide) I replaced the wet book with a new one and dropped a TB. All good to go again. Happy Caching

I drove gracie7 out to Punakaiki tonight so she could do some maintenance on a few caches. We stopped at them all so I could find them too. A nice drive on a beautiful hot evening. TFTC

After hiking with the group, before crossing the bridge, I was happy to get this cache that was much easier than the one on the hike. Log was soaked, so I added a log and baggie. TFTC

Found on a walk through the forest. Walked a bit around GZ before the GPS got me to the container. Nice walk and luckily not too many sandflies.
TFTC!

No sandfly around. Greetings from Bavaria.

We found this cache while our trip through NZ
Thanks for that cache!

Found the cache during a hiking tour - but the logbook is very wet

Now tucked out of sight of muggles further into te arm pit.

Nice walk across the bridge soon spotted cache on the ground returned to hint location. TFTC

Amazingly not a single sandfly today although I'm sure they have had me running for the car on previous visits. Kiwi Grandad found the cache on the ground but returned it where we thought it was supposed to be.
Thanks gracie7 + Mum for the cache.

#10433

Found

Nice hide on a wet but enjoyable day Tftc

Found it

I saw there were a couple of geocoins that were sitting in this cache and had been for a while so I decided a rescue mission might be in order. It was getting close to sunset and we made our way out. we had fun crossing the swing bridge and I quickly spotted the cache because it had been replaced in a very obvious way. I thought the geocoins would be gone for sure, but nope they were still there. I grabbed them while my friend dealt with his sudden nosebleed. Once that was in order we headed for the car. I got many sandfly bites today, but happily none of them were from here. Tftc.

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro–Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.
On our way from Westport to Greymouth we passed this place and stopped for a search. Beautiful beach but terrible sandflies.
Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

We have been on a road trip trough New Zealand for 25 days. Today we went for a very nice walk along Punakiki River and Pororari River. Of course we looked for some geocaches.

Thanks for the cache

First in NZ!

Wir lieben diese Hängebrücken in NZ...
Eine wirklich lohnenswerte Wanderung
TFDC!!!

Found it on a half day bush walk. Stunning walk for a wee geocaching outing. Tftc

Beautiful fine day. And a surprising lack of sand fly's!
Had a walking in circles due o the gorse, but found it in the end with the help of the hint.
Walked to the next swing bridge and back. About 1.45hrs return.
Thanks for the Cache

Running this hood! Tftc!

Not many flies around due to rain.. so .. that was blessing.. and a curse

As others did, I found the container on the ground.. is a bird picking it out?
I took a TB from here.

Found at 05:24 PM - #5797

TFTC


This entry was edited by renelm on Monday, 09 November 2015 at 07:40:10 UTC.

Nach kurzem suchen gefunden:) TFTC

Whoops! Tried running across the bridge. It kinda comes up to meet you.... Tftc

[green] Drove down Friday night for a three day wages to petrol extravaganza. Doing the Blenheim - Greymouth - Westport - Blenheim loop. Drove to Reefton Friday night so I could grab some empty log books early the next morning. That done its on with the main mission. An awesome three day experience, only about 30 caches per day, but two badge upgrades, wekas, seals and penguins, an awesome coast road and coastal walk. Wonderful.
Caches like this make me want to go tramping again. Which I have to do anyway, to fill in my D/T grid. No sandflies today, cache on the ground easily visible (assuming you are looking for a cache that is, passers by still would not have seen it). Put it back where it should be.

That's a pretty cool looking suspension bridge, I'm not a fan of them either gracie7, but this one is pretty tame. We were surprised to see lots of people walking around this area - reading the previous logs now I can see it is on a popular loop track. The geo-nana was sent in to retrieve this cache, even though she is the most vertically challenged of us all! TFTC