First Contact Tata Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By BigglesNZ on 03-Aug-13. Waypoint GC4HWZ8

Watch this space.

Beautiful!
Left a trackable.

Tftc

A very nice place and an interesting story. Thanks for the new logbook.

A Special place with a special history.

Easy find thanks.

Replacement cache in place. (Thanks to SunRoller)

Looks like it's gone again. I'll replace as soon as I can.

Looked in all the obvious places using gps and hints to no avail so then looked in places that were less likely but still came away with a DNF but thanks heaps for bringing us to this important monument and beautiful view.

Hunted and hunted but no luck today

OK nice view tftc

TFTC- quick found! another beautiful view!

What a beautiful bay but tragic history from all points of view.

When going back home after a beachvisit in Ligar Bay. This was an important spot to visit (being Dutch) LOL. Interesting spot. Our friends from France found the cache

Took a while to find this one, even using the clues. Finally found after thinking the last clue might not be correct and sure enough there it was. Replaced cache to where we believe the third clue would have had it. tftc

Beautiful spot. Cache in good condition.

Beautiful spot for a cache. cache all great order

Yes, nice easy find:-) TFTC!

Found after the Nelson to Tarakohe yacht race (I was aboard Same Cafe, we came second!). I had some time to fill in, so I had a look for some geocaches. TFTC

Found it one a beautiful sunny Sunday. It was lying quite open on the ground, so we "put it up".

Easy find thanks

From our holiday in New Zealand after å friends wedding at Anatoki Salmon farms.
As the Cyclone Gita destrøyed our plans to do the Heaphey trail we needed to find another plave to explore. Today we choose to drive to Wainui falls.
When we stopped her we found out ther was a cache hidden on this spot, which was interesting spesial for a Dutchy.
Thanks for showing BigglesNZ.

~Ayorama~
Proud member of 'teamGalskap'.
Dutchy, soppelsker og ælvecacher.

I don't know where I'm going.
But I'm going.
Shall i go to the left , where nothing's right?
Or to the right , where nothing's left?
Are you coming with me?

Nice place. TFTC

Fun find on dark

Glorious viewpoint! Unspoilt coastline, perfect weather and few people. What more could you ask for. TFTC

A view to die for. Limited parking but space just past the official pull-in.

Very interesting spot and a nice view. Thanks for pointing out this location.
TFTC!

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

Touring the area and stopped at the Abel Tasman memorial. First to find. This is my first ‘FTF’. Easy find after 5 min. Thanks

Replaced the missing cache today.

I'll try to get over to replace this in the next week or so.

Just saw update. Great spot for a cache

This may have been taken or moved?

I think this has been removed when some bushes have been cleared in front of the hiding place.

Had a good look for this one but all to no avail. DANG!

Haven't taken the time to stop and visit the memorial for about 30 years, so thanks for giving me an excuse. Had the place km ourselves late on a winter afternoon, I wouldn't like to try for this in mid summer. Left a trinket

Taking a winter birthday break at Pohara Top 10 Holiday Park. Interesting spot. TFTC.

Taybeedragon, Zara and I are on a three day geocaching extravaganza curtesy of Her Majesty the Queen, Defender of the Faith, Protector of the Commonwealth. Happy birthday, Liz!
I have been up here before, and there must have been a cache here then, so I must have found it, and let the dragon do the find. Oddly enough, when comes the time to write a write note (mostly to help the dragon with logging her finds) I find this cache was not found by me. or DNFed. It's old enough though. I came up here and completely forgot to look for the cache? Strange.
Anyway, gets a fave for the location and the histories. Much better than a roadside barrier cache!

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 the awesome Rawhiti Caves are behind us - so what adventures await us?
Had seen this memorial from the harbour - so lets go and visit it. Great place and lots of interesting info. Easy snag and tag after just missing a beautiful sundown. Cheers

Nice cache, nice monument. TFTC.

Found on a great weekend over here

Well, that was quick.

Nice spot though. Thanks for bringing me here!

The travelling fox is happy =^,^=

(Found with Don Cristobal)

No muggles around because of the rain
TFTC says CachingTIA

Thanks for showing this historic place! Great place and great hide. Took a TB to travel with me to Australia! Thanks a lot!

Great view and cache

Quick find only had to wait for a couple of muggles to go. Left Gator TB but missed getting the number. TFTC.

I walked up here today from pohara. Cache could not hide from me too long. Hadnt got a peoler pen with me and hope that a proove photo will be sufficient. Tftc

Very interesting to learn about Tasman's exploration of this area. Hello from Juneau, Alaska. ~thanks #3795

Thanks!

A quick find in the Walker Girls flying visit to Golden Bay. So much to do, so little time. This was our only Geocache find in the Bay. And a great spot at that. TFTC

Quick found while having had coffee break here (self supply
TFNC
C&M alias DRQN

Found the cache but I could not manoeuvre it from it's hiding spot so did not sign the log.

Quick find & a gorgeous view from the top. However forgot a pen on this journey hence could not sign the log book.

On Wed 7th the brand new Oregon 700 hiccuped and lost all cache details from the Takaka PQ. Still showed icons with cache names- but no details. So a trip to the Takaka internet cafe to note down the directions and hints for a handful of essential Takaka caches... but not this one. Since we had learnt a lot about Tasman's visit during our stay at Takaka, we made a point of stopping here on our way past to see the stretch of sea where it all happened. No clue, but Mr D looked where it 'should' be hidden and there it was. Had left pen in car so attaching photo of logbook with Penguin Traveller TB.

Had to come back as we forgot a pen yesterday. Still as beautiful a spot so not a problem at all. Well worth a favourite point. Right. Now for a swim! TFTC

This year me and RobLigtenberg were lucky enough to spend almost 2 months in New-Zealand on a great holiday. We explored both islands and just like everyone else we loved it. Apart from all the major attractions (roturua, tongariro, abel tasman, the glaciers, the fjords and so much more) we also tried to do some caches in order to discover even more of the country. We spend two great days in the Abel Tasman national park and today we explored the northern end of the park. On our way back to the camping we visited the memorial (a must-see as real Dutchies ) and had an easy find with this cache.
TFTC #388

During our nearly two month holiday in New Zealand we spend time on both the northern and southern island. Both islands happened to be very beautiful, each in its own way. Together with Ninagustein we searched for many caches, as we think it is a great way of discovering the country. Numerous caches get you to places you otherwise wouldn't have visited and it is also fun to find caches at touristic places. On this day we went to the northern part of Abel Tasman national park for a hike. On our way back (to Collingwood) we found this well hidden cache.

TFTC #434

Quick find with miss 3. Tftc

In the area finding a few caches - thought we would have a wee look for this one - a family were at the site before us so we hung around and waited - the wind was howling so we thought that they would soon move on. We waited some more - watched the kite boarders in the bay below and then we waited some more - seems that the family had no intention of leaving so I went up the top and took some photos and distracted the families children while GK made the find and signed the cache. We had plenty of time to read the information boards while we were here tftc

While I spotted this cache straight away, I just couldn't get the angle right to remove it so left it to hubby to attack from another angle and soon was signing the log.

We had an hour or so before our guest arrived for the day, so I took myself off for a walk whilst the rest of the MSEBNs and friends cosied indoors by the fire.

I made my way straight to the top to take in the view - which wasn't at its best today, sadly - before descending to look for the cache.

It took me a while to make first contact, mainly due to my angle of approach and mis-reading the navigation instructions and then a while longer to extract the cache from its tight-fitting hidey-hole.

Certainly a nice spot to stop awhile, whether caching or not.

Thanks

#1201

Came here yesterday, and said to my wife there was probably a cache somewhere.
Checked for Pohara caches over night, and found it today.
Thanks.

Stunning, today Golden Bay was beautiful. I have never actually walked up here before so finally had an excuse to stop, was not disappointed and I expect I will stop again. I took the cache to the deck to sign and almost lost it over the side!! however all ok, and put back as I found it. Thank you.

Wot a beautiful spot TFTC

Found it great cache very accurate -thank you

Found it

My husband ,Sir belac and I got up early and headed to Takaka so my husband could go fishing .So Sir belac and I armed our selves with GPS and pens etc and spent the day caches .I had been to this monument before with Paddle chick, a quick easy find Tftc. Buggles

Beautiful view,  found with Nanzie tftc

Learned alot more about abel tasman . TFTC

This is a stunning memorial and one certainly worthy of a cache. We found the cache no problem, extracting it took quite a bit longer. Hopefully we've returned it so it is easier for the next finder to get to the log.
Thank you BigglesNZ.

How embarrassing to see a cache being produced from a spot you just checked. This is a memorial that I find to have been carefully thought out and implemented. The view on a setting sun is just stunning. Thank you BigglesNZ

On Geocaching road trip. Letting the geocaching lead us to some great spots. TFTC

Would the next finder please erase my added comment in the log book. Of course we all know that it was Cook who was killed in Hawaii, not Tasman! A real brain-fart moment when I wrote that. TFTC

We stopped off here before heading back over the hill and had a look at the monument and the view.
TFTC

Couldnt get the container out from where it was placed. In tight

Always interesting to read our history. TFTC

Fast find in this very interesting location on a breezy evening.
TFTC

Team Tata! TFTC!

Quick find. That is a big hill. TFTC

Cool spot. TFTC

Found as we set out on a caching afternoon. Great spot. Thanks Biggles!

Quick find for N. Tftc

I was a bit wild when I found it because it was in a place that I had a look in on a school camp but thanks.

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Easy find. Thanks Biggles for making it an easy cache. Was pressed for time. TFTC.

No pencil so we didn't leave a note

This is according my gps not the first cache of 2016. Cause my gps is set on Central Europe time. So it's logged on 31-12-2015. But it was the first I found in 2016 on 1-1-2016 NZ time. Does it really matter? I enjoyed the cache and the history I learned here! Thanks for placing a cache here!

TFTC - last find of today

Fortunately no visitors to site when I was there. Took quite a while to extract but easy to return (had the knack then).Great View. TFTC

Found during our holiday in New Zealand. Thanks for the cache. Greetings from the Czech Republic.

Thanks for the find, should have logged ages ago.

Under the stairs. Beth had a strop.

On the road to Totaranui … so a little time for some caching in an area we’re not usually in. A great day for travelling, and neat to stop off, and collect one of, ‘yours’. T, BigglesNZ,FTC

Found while staying in Pohara for a few days. TFTC.

Lovely views in the early morning

Nice find, thanks for this one, would have never walked this track other wise

Great spot for a cache. Dropped off a travel bug.

A quick find at this rather basic looking monument, although it was quite difficult to remove and replace the cache. TFTC

Found it, what a nice place to stash a cashe.TFTC.