Wainui Entrance (Nelson/Marlborough) Tata Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 25-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4H3JW

I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

Hi bumandworker

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

This has gone

Found the rock behind the tree but no cache!

On our trip thru NZ we visit a lot of places and see many spectacular locations.
This cache was one of our stopps thanks a lot to the owner.
(this one we was not able to found - sorry)
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Lovely walk

Noticed that I forgot to log this one. We had friends over from France and they "helped" looking. So Bert did found this one for me

Found the cache thanks to mumandme who we met at the waterfalls. Our GPS wasnt working at all and hadnt loaded the info and hint. Would never have found it! Lovely place! TFTC

Tried this one on the way up to the waterfall but couldn't find it anywhere. Decided to have another go on the way back down with another couple of cachers. When we focused a little higher than our initial searching it was quickly found. tftc

The waterfall was nice but also the walk we enjoyed very much. TFTC

Searched every Manuka and lifted all stones at base. No joy.

Tftc
On a holiday trip in New Zealand was looking for a few geocaches places were beautiful and great thanks

Found it this cache with Cic
TFTC!

I found this cache together with my partner Pityulino during our holiday in New Zealand. Today we visited the Wainui Falls, bathed in the fresh water of the steam and also found some caches on the way. This was one of them. We found the cache in good condition. TFTC!

Kerstin.nds and I walked to the wainui falls. On our way we found that cache.
Tftc

Nice walk to interesting falls. Easy found, tftc

CZECH
3 metry za cedulí... čekal jsem, že ve směru treku

This morning I had remembered that I wanted to have a look at the Wainui Falls before I leave tomorrow.

This one was the first of a few (5) DNFs today. Found a tree with a rock at its base within the required distance from a sign but there was nothing under the rock. No other trees had rocks or caches at their bases.

Walksabit and I are continuing our tour of the South Island by travelling north along the west coast. We left Cape Farewell this morning and are heading to Motueka. Grabbed his cache on the way to the falls. The falls are sure spectacular and well worth the walk to them. Thanks for placing a cache along the trail.
Greetings from Ottawa, Canada

Found with NZDi. After spending the past month or so stuck at home preparing our house for sale, the looming long weekend called for something special. So three nights were booked in a motel in one of our favourite places... Pohara and early on Friday morning we headed across the hills (firstly the Whangamoas and then the Takaka Hill). We didn't get off to a great start being held up slightly with a flat battery... perhaps I should have taken heed of what the AA man said a few weeks ago when he did a call-out to my address for a similar fault and bought a new one. Fortunately I have become self-sufficient in the flat battery rectification stakes and this was rapidly rectified. Knowing that we were going to a few out of the way places on our weekend endeavours and note wanting a similar experience, I purchased a new battery as we went through Nelson (I couldn't do it in Blenheim because we left too early).

The plan for the weekend was to do some caching in the Golden Bay area on Friday and Saturday, celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary on Sunday with a little more caching but some more traditional anniversary activities, and then do some more caching on the way home. Today's mission was to collect some of the caches in the Canaan Downs area at the top of the Takaka Hill.

Our caching around Canaan Downs was cut short when we discovered we had a flat tyre and decided we needed to get it fixed before everything shut up shop for the long weekend. This gave us some spare time in the evening before darkness set in to find a few more caches a bit closer to Pohara where we were staying. The last time we did a caching visit in this area, the track to Wainui Falls was closed for maintenance, so we took the opportunity of an open track to get the caches up here. This was the first of three found and was a QEF thanks to the hint.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

took a walk to the falls and found this cahce. also got eaten by mosquitos big time. very lovely spot can recommend to anyone to go there! tftc

fixed

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??
OK time for a walk while Zara stands guard. Finally snagged and tagged this one. Cheers. Now on to the falls

Taybeedragon, Zara and I are on a three day sojourn to Golden Bay, courtesy of the Queen. Happy birthday Liz!
Another nice little walk, always better than being cooped up in Zara all day. Found the cache 10m from GZ, which is a little unusual for this CO. maybe it was cloudy / rainy as well as in the bush when this cache got placed. Nice swimming hole!

Took a while as looking too low. TFTC.

Found on a lovely walk up to the falls . Visiting from Whangaparaoa

Hello from Juneau, Alaska. Just walked to the falls. Great hike, lots of others enjoying themselves on a sunny and windy day. #3803

A quick find, whilst taking some of the whanau up to the falls. Water was pumping down today, after the storm yesterday. Thanks for another cache B & W

Found this on the way to the waterfall...
Here we met a norwegian woman, who had fallen in love with a kiwi. And the were on vacation together to find out if she should move to NZ or he should move to Norway... I think the largest question was: Who is able to move away from your kids?

Tucked away nicely

Nice One TFTC

replaced log and returned cache to correct position

Listening to a lovely bellbird as we approached TFTC.

Cache container there but no log and plastic bag in open. Have tucked away but needs maintenance.

This weekend us capperz are over the hill to Golden Bay and celebrating. It's our wedding anniversary on Friday followed by my 50th birthday on the Saturday. So we looked around for a decent place to go for the weekend and the potential of this beautiful area won out (this time). Only grabbed the one cache on the Friday night (there was much drizzly rain and poor visibility) trip over the hill(s) so there was much anticipation for what was next. Both the Saturday of my half-century milestone and the Sunday were bathed in golden sunshine and the temperature was perfect; neither too hot nor too cold.
Day 2 and a few in and around the region before we head back over the hill again. I had a plan which required me to get a sample of sand from Wainui and would be rude not to go look for the caches to the waterfall too.
First up here and just sludge in the bag. Removed the sludge and can the next finder please add a piece of paper for others to sign please
T F T C b&w

*French*
En fin de journée nous partons à la découverte de la "Wainui Falls" et nous profitons de notre passage pour dénicher cette cache qui est bien trempée
La pluie nous accompagne en cette fin de journée [xx(]

bumandworker, thanks for the geocache
Frank et Muriel
#10147
Belgique
Log with GSAK

I couldn't me sign in. the paper was wet. :/

Nice day for a walk up to the falls with some of the grandchildren. Its been awhile since we were last up here things have changed so much. Log very wet so could not get out of bag without it falling to bits so did not sign. Cheers.

We did the hike up to the Wainui Falls and found some caches on our way.
This was our first one and thanks to the hide a fast find.
Thanks for the hide!
#661, 11:22

We spend a lot of time over here, so find a few caches on our walks. TFTC.

No time to go further than this cache today but we will return. It was a very pleasant walk to GZ on a familiar track although we haven't been here for a few years. The coffee and bun after the walk were even more pleasant given the weather and time of day.
Thank you bumandworker.

This is a place I know well and leads to one of my favourite places. It's been a while but the more things change the more they stay the same. Plenty of cars on the car park coming and going. Along the track "that" swimming hole still looks the same. The find was simple and the coffee and buns after a welcome sustainer. Thank you bumandworker

OK

The rule for the day of finding caches neither KE nor the SoBad team had found had already been broken a couple of times. Broken again here - well we were walking right past the site on the way to a new cache. The track was reasonably busy so Mrs Sobad read the hint for a quick find. The log was signed and the cache returned before anyone walked past.
Thanks.

Just home after our Golden Bay camping trip from the Marlborough Sounds. It was not a caching expedition but we did manage one or two . We were travelling with our camping group who, although not cachers, joined in the fun. Our travels brought us to your cache – many thanks, bumandworker, for bringing us to this spot. We’ve had great fun all the way.

On the way home from a paddling long weekend at Totaranui. Nice easy find. TFTC

#4362

Found this one off I search of next

Quick and easy find. The log has seen better days

Shiny new trail works in progress here.

On holiday in New Zealand for 4 weeks & staying with my family in Lyttelton

TVM4TC

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Greetings from Canada. 1 of 3 found on our way up to the falls. Thank you.

Sorry for logging it so late. I was on holiday here and couldn't log it sooner. Tftc!

In the way to???
The water falls of course.
TFTC tram4ms (Marko, Martina, Maximilian and Marie)

Quick find by maddy

Easy find. MERRY CHRISTMAS (eve).

Three out of the four on this track found today and you don't have to go far in these parts to find a B&W hide and this was a trademark hide, quickly spotted and grabbed by HorseGirlNZ.

Thanks

#989

We saved this walk to do with our hosts after another successful Golden Bay Bridge tournament the day before.
However, there happened to be a fairly important rugby match on earlier and our hosts decided to go back to bed while the intrepid cachers chose to venture out into the cool early morning air.

We did our best to get to DOC's parking coordinates but getting to within 70M of this cache was the best we could do.
A quick find and sign.
TFTC

This entry was edited by Marchwood on Wednesday, 04 November 2015 at 22:24:36 UTC.

check...not as placed, but it will do

Quick find at the start of our walk to the falls after the track had been closed for repairs. What a great family friendly, (and grandparent friendly) walking track. Thanks for the cache.

Found today. We decided to take the short walk to this one while in the Wainui area. The track still is closed despite the notice saying it will open at the end of September, much to the disappointment of several groups we met a short way along the track . Found the cache then walked back to the car park. TFTC

I really love this track but we only walked as far as this cache as we had other plans. TFTC .

Was surprised to see the plastic tape and track closed sign here and was a bit cross that there wasn't one at the carpark. However on the way back out there was a huge sign saying the track was closed till the end of September. Don't know how I missed that but very pleased that I did because I wouldn't have gone any further and this day really hadn't turned out great in caching terms. The waterfall will wait till the track's opened again. TFTC #7288

Found while out for a stroll with Ducksarse Dave .

Track closed for repair but managed to locate this cache just beyond the tape - no workers today but they are doing a great job!

Great track, found the cache during a walk in the morning. Greetings from Germany scharmbeck12

today we started a nice trip to the Abel Tasman Nat.Park. First we walked the Grove Trak, then we had a short stop at the Abel Tasman Monument, after that we had a walk to the Wainui Waterfalls. Further we drove to Totaramui. On our way back home we stoped in Pokara for a nice bath in the ocean. On this daytrip we found a lot of caches. Thats to all owners from Germany.

We stayed for 3 days in Takaka together with Athosandros. Today we made a trip to Abel Tasman Nationalpark. On this tour we visited the Wainui waterfalls. On this walk we found this cache.
Sorry for the late logging but the internet connection in our motels was very unstable and bad.

quicklx gound when going back... lovely track! 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.

Bit of a search on this one, but tmann soon located.

TFTC

The cache was not where the hint suggested and we looked all around before finding it about 3 metres further away buried.

Returned to hint area. SL TFTC

Nicely tucked away

First on many hopefully for today. Onwards & upwards to the falls. Had no pen, so couldn't fill out the log.

Found it very quick at the start of this beautiful walk - thanks

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With laurienorton and CWNN. TFTC

With CWNN and JudithN

TFTC

Found it quick and easy on our beautiful walk to the falls TFTC

Tftc!

Couldn't find this cache on our way in and decided to have another go on the way out. The GPS was all over the place but eventually we found the well hidden cache. Thanks to bumandworker for placing this one.

Another nice day in NZ on a wonderful track - we saw a lot of nice places and of course we found this cache here.
Greetings from Germany.

TFTC

#1514

First stop on the way up to the falls. Nice to have an incentive to keep the little one going.

Rainy day walk to Wainui Falls. I was pleased to see this cache and one other were on the track which would provide further incentive to mini-cachers to keep plodding despite the heavy rain. A straight forward find at GZ with the help of the clue. TFTC

Quick find. We loved the Wainui Falls.
CO thanks.
Greetings from The Netherlands.

On the way back from Wainui Falls. A lot of muggles on the way. One of us has to look out for muggle and the other search for the cache.
Easy found. We enjoy the walk and the falls
Thanks CO

Well Christmas Day 5:30am and I'm awake!!! only problem is the rest of the house isn't!! So I sneak out the door put on my walking shoes, and stroll up the road and fill in some time finding a Christmas Cache or two. The cache is soon found then off up the track a bit more then I head back, arrive at the house at 8:00 am and dads up getting the bread maker going, Michael's listening to a CD on his walkman. Pretty sure the pop of the cork coming out of the bottle got the attention of the rest of them eh. A very pleasant way to kick off Christmas Day. Cheers and TFTC

Fast found. TFTC

Found on nthe way to the falls. TFTC, a visitor from the Czech Republic.

Found with team RJay on a rare golden bay weekend trip. T4TC!

Nice hide, TFTC

The first of three easy finds up this track today .. I too am surprised more geocachers don't come up here as the waterfall is well worth the short walk, and there are a multitude of great swimming/picnic spots along the way (though maybe wait for summer to enjoy those)

TFTC!

Out for a long day's caching in the Bay with Kiwi Explorer. FTF We were surprised and pleased to find a few unfound caches among the bunch that we got to today. FTF number 7 and the final FTF for us today. This was a real bonus as we'd even taken a break from caching for a well-earned coffee and snack back in Takaka. Last time I was near here I'd meant to take a walk to the waterfall cache but ran out of time. Today it was time to find this and the two other cache I hadn't found on the track. Last time I actually walked the track was to find the old and now archived cache that used to be on the other side of the river. No need to get wet today for any of these cache though. TFTC, Biggles.

FTF. Out caching with Biggles and clocking up a few more wearing in kilometres on the new Fiat engine. A quick find here and a blank log. My third in a row on this track. Continued on up to the waterfall so your trap worked.
Thanks bumandworker for placing this cache.

#7190

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