Horsing Around on the Walkway (Hokitika) Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand
By gracie7 + Mum on 19-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GN88

This cache has been problematic from the start. Often being DNFed when is actually there and has become frustrating to keep checking on it. Time for this one to go.

Couldn’t seem to find unfortunately

No horsey no cache

Looked for ages but couldn’t find it.

No horsey related objects found nor anything that could be a geocache. Lots of broken bottles however, so be careful everyone, and hopefully better luck than we had.

Traveled from Queenstown to Hokitika today and spending the night here...got out for a couple of evening caches...couldn't find this one, but it was getting dark, so could have easily missed it...

#17846. After a DNF yesterday the CO came through with some helpful info, and it didn't take too long to track down today. That was the last Hokitika cache on our list, so we headed off in search of a well earned coffee. We thought we would try the place we had lunch at yesterday, but it didn't open until 11. However, we found a good alternative and enjoyed a coffee before heading north to Greymouth (aka g7+m-land). TFTC.

We had looked for this cache yesterday and found neither the horse related object nor the cache . Reading through old logs later on, gave me the intel about what to look for, plus a plea for help from the CO was answered, so with a more precise hint, we soon found the horsey object [:p], then the cache. In our defence, it was really well hidden [:p].
Thanks g+m, it was great to turn a frown upside down, and the horsey object was indeed unexpected! TFTC.

Couldn't find either the horse related object or the pile of stones . May try again tomorrow before we leave Hokitika.

Couldn’t find

Good one. Glad it wasn't too hard the night was coming.
TFTC
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Labour weekend caching adventure. Thanks for the hide.

(# 5316). Today is day 2 of my West Coast trip. Weather wise the day wasn't to bad apart from an absolute deluge around lunchtime. No caching at the time as it was far to wet. Today was a trip to Hokitika then the gorge. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

This one I did find, but it wasnt till I had signed the log I saw what the title refered to, well done.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

Ignore below.
I FINALLY found it lol
TFTC
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We werent having any luck finding our own cache, but in expanding our search we found a replacement from 2017 last signed in April. We moved it to (hopefully) a much more specific hint and we will see how it goes here.

No luck here at 0 meters and at hint object. Not meant to be this trip to Hokitika.

Quick find on stunning mid winters day. Tftc

Not a sign of it.

No luck for us today

On a road trip south, enjoying the day and pic up some caches. TFTC

Greetings from 2 Austrians  
Die_Asseln

Saw key item and attended to hint to no avail.

That was a hunt for 2 old heads TFTC

Couldn't see how to get to this one from above so came at it from below and was a quick find thanks to the hint.

Day 1 of a 4 day road trip. My mission on this trip was to travel South and West and then East and North. I decided to stop for the day in Hokitika, so after finding a motel to stay in, I had time to find a few more caches before turning in for the night. I couldn't see what might have inspired the cache name but I might have just been getting tired. I did find the cache though. TFTC, Biggles.

On the road for a trip down the West Coast with our little caravan to explore this part of the country. It is not a caching expedition as such, but we do manage to stop for one or two
Our travels lead us to your cache, as we travelled down the Coast, many thanks, gracie7 + mum, for bringing us here. We’ve had great fun so far and look forward to finding a couple more caches as we travel on our way. TFTC.

Interesting, it probably means something to who ever worked on it. I wonder what though. Cheers

New Zealand 2019.
Last log before sunset.
QF Thanks to the hint.
TFTC Castor & Pollux
21-1-2019 21:01h.

A two day trip over to the Coast with Bitsprayer.
Thanks for the placements, a lot of fun.
erninz

Second day of caching on the west Coast an in Canterbury, and what a great day it was, around 100 cahes I think, Many thanks to all the cache placers. -Bitsprayer

That one made me smile, I came down the steps so started looking for the cache before seeing the 'object' the titles refer to. But once I saw it, it made me laugh.
After signing and replacing the cache, I continued down the steps and the right down the street. And there I saw something similar, although not as nice, but made me smile again after having just found this cache (see pic)

tftc!

One of 11 caches found today between Greymouth and Hokitika. Changeable weather – started off dull, then rained before the sun came out for a considerable time, then rained again before we flew off home from Hoki. Didn’t make sense of the first part of the hint for this one. However managed to locate the cache without too much trouble. #2081. TFTC.

It was okay, didn’t understand 5up but still found it

Found on our third trip here finally clicked tftc

T4TC #23

#24

TFTC

Couldn’t find

Hmmm, we stopped to check on this on aswell and couldnt find it either so we replaced it while we were already here. An uncamoed 50ml pill container with log. All good to go again. Happy Caching

Found the hint item, no joy with the cache though.

This took a little to locate. Found hint but cache wasn't were I was looking to start with but it all made sense. Tftc

Took me a while to find the title name then I soon had the cache. No idea why it's there. Thanks gracie7 + Mum

#7652

Took ages to find ..no idea what the clue ment ....signed and returned as found on ground under aggie tftc

Well this may not last. I am sure the next heavy rain will wash it away. Took a long time to find this though. Thanks for the cache Gracie7

GK found this one TFTC

The Seagnoid, Zara Toby and I are off for an expedition to the West Coast for a long weekend. Left Zara with her friend Total Span at Kumar Jnt while we explore Hokitika.
Another walkway to explore. Another snag and tag. Cheers

Day two of a three-day geocaching extravaganza with Taybeedragon.
Found the cache, but didn't find any reason for the cache title. Is this the way horses get taken to market? Perhaps its on the way to the My Little Pony hair salon? there's a gnome who makes bridle tack but is on holiday this weekend and had taken his open for business sign down? Maybe there was a real horse? but it was inside a Trojan Horse and so i didn't recognise it?

We did a maintenance run to Hoki today and stopped to check on this one. Yep, it is still there! This one should be easy, so its kinda irritating that its abit hit and miss. We moved the cache again - hopefully to a more specific hint location. I was tempted to archive it so next time theres a DNF I might not even consider visiting to make sure its still here. Happy Caching

Epic fail you pwned us n00bs... You are only as good as your next find.

Easy find. Co ordinates very accurate.

found the nylon rope, but no cache container.

My train from Greymouth to Christchurch was cancelled - so I booked a flight from here. Before heading to the airport and found some caches. This one could not be found.

**Thanks** for the cache!
Lars and Helena , Örebro, Sweden

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*Finally vacation and time for the trip 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand via China. We’re expecting to see a lot of different animals and flowers and also hope to find nice caches and meet other geocachers during our journey.*

In Hokitika today for a cache maintence run. The cache was not where it shouldve been but we found very quickly on the ground and just as Mum had replaced it back in July still unfound. We moved it to the other side of the track. Happy Caching

Found the hint item could not find the cache

Found the interesting item and the nylon line but no cache attached . Thought that was enough to claim a find but needs checking out . Thanks

Mum checked this today and added a new logbook and also a new lid.
We will leave it here for now and see how it goes.

Hadn't planned on this one as I'd had an unsuccessful visit once before. However we ended up at the start of the walkway and at least today there were the two of us to help with the search. Walked up the steps but before we reached the essential item I noticed what looked like it could have been pages of a log discarded on the side of the track. Once I had confirmed yes they were all parts of the log we then noticed the lid shortly followed by the container. Couldn't find the nylon attachment anywhere so have replaced it to the right of the essential item at GL in the interim. So I'm very pleased that we did visit afterall otherwise the outcome of the cache may have been different.TFTC #8737

Akirey and I visited in April and May New Zealand. First we decided to look around on the South Island including Steward Island then we went to the North Island.
All the time we enjoyed our trip. We saw a lot of sweet animals, amazing landscapes and met many nice people.

Also we searched for some caches. This one was one of them.

Thanks for hiding and greetings from Frankonia
xhead

When we made the find it became so obvious that we were surprised the cache is still there. As a casual passer by it is invisible though. Thank you Gracie7 + Mu

This one turned out to be a very easy find once on the right level and facing the right direction.
Thank you gracie7 + Mum.

No luck today

Fun cache, liked it. TFTC

4 of us searching .....but we didn't understand horsey clue !
Muggle friend Jan looked on opposite side of steps to where gz was pointing ...and came up wuth the goods !
Phew !

The beginner among us found this one. Tftc

Found it thanks to hint, once you see it it's easy ha ha.

On a evening walk in and around Hokitika we managed to log a few caches. TFTC!

Cache check - Replaced the damp logroll otherwise all good in its new hide. Happy Caching

Wet log easy find

There are a few steps

November in Europe, the dark month, neighter autumn nor winter: short days,rain, fog. Everywhere unlucky people.
But now we are in NZ. Early sunrise, mighty green and flowers everywhere. Happy cows and sheeps also. We delight look forward to such lovely challenge. Thank you NZ. Greetings from Germany, from the mountains of Harz. TFTC

No luck for me here today.

Found Cache after a good look

This cache has possibly disappeared due to track work?

Found the title hint quickly but no luck with the actual cache.

Good one! Adam Steele USA

Had almost given up then decided to put the brain in gear and it was in plain view all the time. TFTC

Took longer than it should.

Found the clue easily enough but the GZ remained elusive until spotted from THAT angle
TFTC

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Yebo gracie7 and mum

It took a while to find this one and didn't know about the hint
But at the last moment we stepped aside the steps one more and bazingo cih
Tftc

Took me ages to find this one. Brain must have been in wrong gear. TFTC

Quick find

Hard to find bt found it

nice one

Rather interesting all round really!

Sometimes you just don't have your geocaching brains on and I think for this one we didn't. No idea why or how it got here. Very interesting. TFTC.

Finally found the Walkway Hint,but it still took a few minutes to locate.
Probably it was made from days gone by,for some reason Luv these Walkways.TFTH

Found last weekend. Newbe didn't log it at the time.

On a maintenance run around Hoki today with our great niece/granddaughter Allyssa.
Allyssa(1yrs) loved the steps and tried to climb them all by herself. Log a wee bit damp so we replaced it

Found on a weekend in Hokitika visiting family. Found the item the cache is named after quickly, but spent a few more minutes searching before locating the cache. TNLN SL TFTC.

In Hokitika for our niece's first communion. Out for a bit of fresh air before lunch. TNLN SL TFTC.

Made me think..... and then I got a smiley. A quick find on a winters tour down the West Coast. The weather is great (though cool), and the scenery fantastic. What a beautiful country we live in. Thanks for the hide.

SL, TFTC!

This was very cool.......not sure why it is there

Nice quick easy find,TFTC

A very interesting feature! A nice quick find, TFTC

Driving from Franz Josef to Christchurch today and grabbed some caches along the way. Quick find. Signed log. TFTC!

Holidaying in the South Island, grabbing a few caches on the way. Early morning find while in Hokitika. Thanks for the cache.

Despite looking, initially we missed the interesting feature of the steps, but once that was found, it didn’t take too long to spy the cache. TFTC