Blue Lake (Nelson/Marlborough) Takaka, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 25-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4H3G1

A nice quick find here, cheers

Found cache but a bit wet. Have dried it as much as possible and replaced. Awesome murals! Pity the Blue Lake is on private property now as I would lived to have seen it.

I never did see the lake, if it even exists, but the cache showed its face. TFTC.

Have put new paper in and a new bag, old one was very wet. Cool find TFTC

Super murals. Tftc

#18302 @1200
In Nelson for some relative's birthdays. Working remotely most of the week, but took today off to cache. My eldest grandson and I went for a drive to Takaka and back (from Stoke) to grab a few challenges, do some walks, and top up my 1.5/1.5 find numbers. 38 caches all up including 5 labs. Cache easily found. TFTC

Located with Ricardinho

On our way to Pohara for the long weekend & we grabbed a few caches on the way.

Cool location & I've never seen the artwork here. Someone is super talented!

TFTC

A few caches for RG72 and I today on the way out to Pohara, which is where we are spending the long weekend.

A nice location for a cache. Quickly found, I added some RITR paper as the previous log was damp. No issues here, enjoyed the artwork. TFTC B&W.

Somewhere in Golden Bay we hadn’t really noticed before. Managed to sign cache but paper very wet.

Lovely mural

Great mural. Quick find with no.13. Tftc

Found with Ulmuslyn on this beautiful day Loved the mural.
Amazing thank you for the cache

Amazing murals! TFTC!!

AQuicck stop stretch and find on a short road trip.TFTC

Over this way on a couple of nights break away from home - a quick find sign - thanks for the cache

This was our last cache before heading back into town for lunch. The noticeboards are really informative and we enjoyed snooping over the fence to get a view of the lake and general surrounds. We're really enjoying caches like these that fill in some of the history that isn't brought forward in many of the local summaries. Thanks b&w for another cache.

A quick find with SJT_NZ while on a two day jolly in the area, lots of diverse seedlings in the area, thanks b&w for the cache.

Never been here before and I've been coming to Takaka for 25 years! TFTC

Most of bench gone but still somewhere to sit and have a look. I really like it, thanks for bringing me here, and TFTC!

Found with my wife on a bike ride

Another cache found on our bike ride today. We are enjoying the cycle ways.
Thanks bumandworker for creating this hide. It was find 9372 for me.

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It’s a shame people can’t walk around Blue Lake . Awesome mural though! TFTC!

#8535. This was my last cache of the day after visiting Farewell Spit earlier in the day. I was staying with friends in Takaka and this cache was on the road to their house. So stopped here to look for the cache. It was quickly found in the first place checked. All good. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks bumandworker for hiding it here.

Took a litle bit of searching. The place to sit threw me off a bit as it seems to have disappeared!! Thanks

Found as we explored more of Golden Bay. A great day for it, fairly quiet on the roads and on the walks.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Round loop ride to Takaka. Tftc

Well worth the stop. Thanks for the cache, CO. But the seat has gone!

Like everyone else I took photos of the murals! There’s one round the corner too. An interesting story to it. TFTC

Very artistic, thanks for the stop and the cache.

Park and grab

TFTC

Found with NZDi. We are on a five day holiday with our son, daughter-in-law, and three granddaughters. I have been under strict instructions from NZDi that this is a 'family' holiday, not a geocaching holiday.

Today we went into Takaka for the granddaughters to play on the neat playground at the Memorial Park. Afterwards we had lunch at one of the local cafes then went home. After four days of holidays the girls were all tired so they were given some quiet time in the afternoon, this gave the grandparents a chance to go geocaching.

This was our third find of the day after logging a DNF (or more accurately a DNL (Did Not Look) at a cache that appeared to be located on residential private property in a nearby newish sub-division. This one was a QEF PnG, but unlike other caches that we had found where previous loggers had said the log was soggy but the summer had dried it out, thids was not the case and the log was soaked. Fortunately I have managed to find my cache repair kit in the multitude of boxs that needed to be unpacked after my recent house shift, so put in a new RitR log in a ziplock bag. I left the originol log in place in case the CO wants to do an audit one day.

TFTC B&W

Found while caching with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Unusual artwork. Quick find, before going to chat with a nearby fellow cutting wood. Thanks!

Found when dark nice mural

Thanks for bringing us here! Cool murals. tftc and a quick find.

We have our share or murals back in Nelson, for sure, but this is one I could not tire of looking at. A nice back-story told on the info panel too.

A shame the Blue Lake is off-limits, but probably a little too dusky now to do it justice.

#1967

Easy find log very wet put in New one awesome mural thanks

Log very wet I put in a new one may pay to check out thanks

TFTC

Found it on our trip to pohara cool cache. TFTC found it with dad and my younger brother.

Amazing mural but log too wet to sign.

Quickly found the cache and admired the murals. Thanks.

This is awesome, a favourite from us. Thanks bumandworker for the cache

How do we go c the lake? tftc

Its a long weekend so The Seagnoid, Zara and I are off for an adventure to Golden Bay. The Seagnoid is navigator and Zara and I pair up getting us from A to B?? Its Monday and there is a chilly wind around. Must be cold The Seagnoid is wearing a hat.
No sight of blue lake but I love the art work here and the little info plaque. Snagged and tagged with no GPS assistant here. Bugger - the container disintergrated in my fingers - so a repacement was in order. Cheers

Taybeedragon, Zara and I are on a three day tour of eastern Golden Bay, courtesy of her Mjesty, the Queen. Happy birthday, Liz!

I was still admiring the mural, hadn't got out the GPS yet, when the dragon reported sh had found it. She said she put her finger though it, so i am guessing the cache has suffered from UV degradation. Anyway, we put in a new container.

Nice mural.Pretty lake.

We have passed by here often, but never stopped to enjoy the murals on the building - they really are very good.. The cache gave us the incentive to do just that, while at the same time finding the cache.

What a beautiful mural we have some great artist in this country ,a quick easy find .Tftc Bumandworker.

Found on our holiday to Takaka. Walked from a friends house to here that was really close by. found easily by this nice mural. tftc. Find #120

This cache was found between passing muggles on this busy road. Thankfully the feature wall provided plenty of excuse to be standing where we were.
Thank you bumandworker.

GZ most likely is the best opportunity I ever had while caching to look innocent when muggles approach. The last muggle passing was jogging with head phones on and almost run in front of my car later. A fright for both of us. The artwork was appreciated. Thank you bumandworker

Like the previous cacher we were looking around to get a glimpse of the Blue Lake. Will take a look on google instead.

A nice mural and a quickish find. Just a pity that the famous Blue Lake is on private land and can't be seen.
TFTC Now.. what will be number 400? #399

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Found while Team Walker NZ were on a Summer tour across Tasman to Golden Bay - enjoy sun, sea and sights. Happy New Year and all the best for 2016.

Quick find on our way home from a day at the beach. Nice to bask in the air conditioning in the car! TFTC.

Nice artwork and a nice quick cache, thank you for placing.

A quick easy find, by some very impressive artwork. A favourite from us. TFTC

Love the art work here very well done.Nice Quick find.Cheers

Find #2418. Great day to explore Takaka by bike. Cute little lamb in the yard came up for a chat & pat - obviously a family pet as it had not the slightest interest in other lambs in the same yard. SL TFTC

Found on a weekend over in Golden Bay

Very nice murals, a quick easy find on our way to Wainui for the week-end. TFTC

Motueka to takaka today, picking up caches as we go

Tftc

#1253 Slightly exposed I thought - a few more rocks could help. TFTC

On a geocaching holiday with tmann421. Exploring the area, lots of amazing places, views and caches. Thanks to all the CO's for making this such a memorable holiday.

Good find here and a lovely location.

TFTC

Another good find with Just-Lookin

Thanks for the cache and encouraging us to visit this area.
SL

I feel verry welcome. Tftc

Quick find TFTC (1384)

A very cool mural indeed. Ms M was so taken with it that she brought a couple of friends back the next day to see it. So worth a fave.
TFTC

The third and final day of our Labour weekend trip to Golden Bay. There was quite a bit of rain overnight and some drizzle early morning, but mainly it was fine during the day so the weather didn't really put much of a dampener on our trip (apart from long wet grass and mud at some locations).
Very cool mural, and obviously the community is very proud of it. Didn't notice the nicely laid out parking places as I came from the wrong direction so my parking was not ideal . All quiet here on a stat. holiday morning. TFTC.

#8486. We didn't see the blue lake, but the mural was well worth stopping for. TFTC.

This entry was edited by StreetWalkerNZ on Saturday, 01 November 2014 at 07:21:48 UTC.

replace log (water proof)

Neat artwork, great to see the local sights.

TFTC

What a lovely cheerful, humorous mural! The cache container was sodden, but miraculously the log is ok. Dried out as best we could but might need a more water-tight container ... Thanks! J&G

I have been here before but without a pen. So I came back to sign the log today during our little caching tour. Tftc

easy to find, TFTC

again nice and easy..thank you

During night time a nice Cache, thanks for showing this spot to me!

easy find

Found on a day's exploration around the region, letting the geocaches lead me to all the interesting places. Great artwork, sure beats the graffiti people. A quick find - signed log, TFTC

Love the mural TFTC

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This entry was edited by paddle chick on Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 07:43:49 UTC.

Found while enjoying a lazy afternoon caching in the area while also enjoying some wonderful locations, TFTC, #6145

We all enjoyed the mural and the informative signs at GZ. Nice spot that we were surprised had not been highlighted before. But it is now so thanks.
And thanks of course for the cache.

Found in the christmas holidays.
TFTC

We have driven past this mural in the past when checking out the Rototai cemetery further along the road (including the cache there).
It's nice to be taken back here to find a cache this year as well.
TFTC!

Not an area I pass through very often, so it was nice to visit this morning and see the mural, The cache was quickly found which was good as the weather was rather inclement. Where the hecks summer. TFTC

Loved the art work and took lots of photos...sent one via smart phone to an owl obsessed grandson. Not sure about the community gardens...in the tyres perhaps? Straight forward find. TFTC

Found with wandercat. Loved the art work. TFTC

Almost a CITO. Cache quickly found and then a beer can removed from the nice split tree. TFTC

What a cool mural. - - - The walkway was interesting too (I snapped a few signs). Thanks for bringing us here.

Caching with Sidewaze, and she said it all in her log and pictorialy. TFTC

Found in the rain between bursts of thu der and lightening. TFTC

I enjoyed looking at the murals giving a neat pictorical history of the area. Thanks for pointing them out. TFTC #5142

Out caching with Biggles and clocking up a few more wearing in kilometres on the new Fiat engine. That's a brilliant mural and deserves a cache. Good to see a new one here.
Thanks bumandworker for placing this cache.

#7192

Out for a long day's caching in the Bay with Kiwi Explorer. Great mural and now the name of the cache is explained. Thought there might be a few places to check for the cache but following the GPS took me to a spot where there was really only one option. TFTC, Biggles.

It's a shame you can't see the lake from here, or the cute & quirky cottage next to it made entirely from materials scavenged from the local transfer station .. The tenant/builder worked there (this was years ago so he may have moved on) so the only cost was his time and physical labour ..

The mural and community walk-way however are here to be enjoyed by all, it's very Golden Bay!

TFTC

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