Hidden Gate (Nelson/Marlborough) Shenandoah, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 13-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4VCXN

Cache check. Still in place.

Cache check. All good.Hint added.

Had a look around but no luck for us today

On my way to Nelson yet again. The views down the bank from GZ are quite neat!

Took a moment then had it in my hands, nice views down to the river. Thanks for the placement
TFTC bumandworker, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 4 today, making this find #4256

GPS a but out so took us longer than should have. TFTC

The sandflies find me faster than I find the cache, and the cache was a quick find! Needed a stretch on the way to Nelson. Thanks for the cache.

Sorry for the late log. I'd forgotten to get the cache list off the old GPS after semi-retiring it. This had been a bit of a nemesis, after stopping a couple of times to look, and passing by quite a few times as well, when it wasn't possible to get to. So nice to finally be able to tick it off. Thanks.

Magnetic container had a bit of water but log all good. Lots of road works here. The owner came and we had a chat. The road is completed for the moment but river is being diverted so still work to be done. TFTC.

It would appear this one was resurrected as it was a quick find tonight with good co-ords. Near 2 years ago when I DNFd this one there was a small worksite building here and no armco barriers. How this cache survived is absolutely impressive. Thanks bumandworker.

#11,160. We were heading back to Nelson after a long weekend in Christchurch. Stopped to pick up this one now that its been replaced. Nice quick park and grab. Signed the logbook and rehid the cache where found. Thanks bumandworker for the cache.

FITW Albijos
Yet another work related road trip for us. Picking up some caches along. Cache is all good here, found at the new barrier end. TFTC.

FITW Harisree

In this area for work.

Grabbing few while in this area

TFTC

With the DNF's piling up on this cache, we weren't sure if we could find it. Actually it took all of 5 mins or less. Yes, the area has changed and there are new barriers erected etc but the cache was where the CO had put it, although the item he put it in was not quite where it started off. Anyway, cache found, log book and bag sodden, so these were replaced and CO was told where we rehid the cache - not where found as that is being removed - but in the same type of place that he put it which is within 4-5m of original gz. tftc

This geocacher reported that this geocache should be archived. A community volunteer reviewer has been notified.

Not quite 2 years since my last attempt and needs maintenance log. Time to let it go I think.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

No cache here or if it is then it’s under the new road works here as GZ is a construction zone. Very likely it’s gone so the CO might wanna check.

Visiting the South Island as the grown up kids are on Uni holidays. Heading up to Nelson today collecting some caches on the way. Wonderful sunny day although cold and frosty to start with. Sadly this was a DNF for us today - there was major roadworks taking place and the where the gps led us looked to have changed recently.

**A DNF on our February - March tour around the South Island. Logging back home in Auckland in Lockdown isolation**

Travelling today from Hanmer Springs to St Arnaud finding a few caches along the way. We pulled in here and wondered whether we would have any luck. There had been some very recent changes. Space has been cleared for a transportable Office building and the barrier has been demolished. We certainly could not find any cache in the location that the GPS was pointing us at. May need to check it out after lockdown.

Found while returning home to Blenheim after a weekend in Hanmer. Beaut day today for a few stops. TFT Caches on this route today.

Parked and then headed to where we thought cache title would take us - decided that it didn't look likewhere a cache would be so rechecked the gps - oh over there that makes way more sense - a quick find and sign - thanks for the cache

Assumption took me to the obvious but it was bugging me not a place the CO would place. Checked the gps and moved to GZ to make a quick find . Much better place . Thanks for the cache.

Make my wall back down to oamaru, from Blemhiem, taking the long way of coruse grabbing the odd cache here an there. Many thanks to all the cache placers. -Bitsprayer

Tftc

Day 5 and last day of Nosynel's and my geotrip through the Molesworth and back through the Lewis. Nice to have my son's Toyota Hilux for this adventure. Today we are heading to Christchurch after staying the night in St Arnaud. Thanks for the cache.

The big Molesworth circuit is in progress. Today is day four of Jude _E and my geotour, our final day. Thanks to her kind son we have use of a Toyota Hilux, extremely helpful indeed. We stayed a night at St Arnaud last night.
There was no real goal for today apart from to get back in one piece and find some geocaches.

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Thanks for hiding this geocache.

Quick find. TFTC

This cache fills my 2nd last hole on the S41 Latitude quest, so I was really pleased to find it. The container was wet & in the open; log slightly damp.
I sealed the log in 2 new plastic bags.
**there is a major discrepancy between the log in the cache and on-line loggings; I searched for a duplicate cache but couldn't find one.
Thanks for this one, B&W. Have emailed re the log discrepancy.

After spending the night at the waterfall we were heading to Christchurch again and stopped here to grab one more cache. Quick find. TFTC

Searched with my hands instead of my eyes and found quickly.
TFTC

My granddaughter, Redco5, and I headed off for Murchison yesterday for a few days to see the sights and pick up a few caches as well. We decided to try for the ones on the roads south of Murchison.

Cheers for the cache.

I was out with Tufty, my Grandad, caching in the Murchison area going southwards.

TFTC, b&w.

This cache was found on my great journey by campervan from Christchurch to Auckland. All good at GZ. Nice and plesant park and grab. TFTC

Found yesterday on a road trip to visit my mum in Picton. Nice hide. Tftc

Quick find while heading home after a few days in Christchurch with the kids. TFTC

Making our way home from Hawarden with my Mum and Dad. They are more willing to stop and wait for me than my Husband is on most trips. A very chilly day, 6 degrees, but still sunny. I had an idea where it might be, it was pushed quite far back, I put it back not so far in. TFTC

Definitely a park and grab - parked, then grabbed it in the first place I put my hand. Signed log, TFTC

Found

We had thought that driving all day with only a few stops would be boring, but it wasn't. We found some nice caches while making our way from Hanmer Springs to Picton, and the landscapes were absolutely stunning. The high mountains and the wide valleys, the rivers and the changing skies, sometimes cloudy sometimes blue. The light has a different quality here, it was like seeing everything in 3D.

Certainly an interesting gate. TFTC!

We liked the pirate sign on the gate and soon reached in to find the cache. T F T C b&w
Day 3 of our mini-holiday and time to head back over the (Lewis Pass) hill. On the way we stopped off at a few, but not all, geocaches to help break up the journey, and also convert a few greenies into yellow smiley faces. Laetitia seemed bitten by the caching bug and accompanied me for most of the finds all the way home, even finding a few before me!
We have a foreign exchange person over from New Caledonia for this week, and the school holidays are still on so it's only reasonable to show our visitor, Laetitia, some of the sights and sites around our back-yard, and beyond. So it was decided that we would stay in the work 'bach' at Hanmer Springs for a couple of nights and recent road closures etc meant that the trip from Murchison to Hanmer along the alternate route would take us past some previously untraveled roads and therefore afford us even more scenic experiences, and a few caches of course.

We found this cache on our drive from Christchurch to Picton after 2 weeks exploring the South Island with our families. This was our opportunity to get a cache in this region before we head back ip to the north island. Thanks for hiding!

Another quick find. TFTC

Stopping off at the odd cache while heading to Blenheim. quick find. TFTC

Another short stop and roadside grab'n'log, as i was driving from Christchurch to Blenheim. Quickly i had the right idea, where to look and then git my hand and pen busy signing the log.
Thanks from the german on vacation to the owner if this cache for hiding and maintaining it

***No muggles were harmed while searching, finding and logging this cache...***

Dad located a few caches, while on a mission to pick up his new (second hand) kayak.

TFTC B&W!

Found with moneydork. TFTC

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On the return journey from down south and in need of a break and what better place to stop than where there happens to be a cache,, Thanx4tc

We did wonder what would happen if we went past the warning sign but fortunately the cache was an easy find away from the warning. TFTC

After some planning Shannonp1 and I got sorted for a mission into areas we hadn't been. Up to Hanmer through the Molesworth to Blenheim, down the Wairau valley to St Arnaud down the Shannandoa to Murchison and then home via the Lewis. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners especially Bum and Worker and sorry for the cut and paste.

So a few weeks in the planning phase, me and Surveybase finally got out and about for a mission. Through Hanmer, up the Molesworth to Blenheim, across through St Arnaud, Murchison and then home. 209 caches for the weekend and a pretty high success rate. Thanks to all the cache owners and sorry for the cut and paste. Cheers.

We are on route from Riwaka to Hanmer Springs to meet my sister and her husband. We made a pact to not do too much caching and just pick up a few. This is one of the few. Thanks bum&worker for the cache.

Out and about this weekend a bite of a road trip to the cost and CHCH to see friends and family. All and all a good weekend out. And with so many caches to chose from and not enuf time to get them all ( good excuse to go back for more) sorry about the cut and paste. But thank you to all those that have put caches out there for all to find. And thank you for taking me to some interesting places seeing some interesting sites and the time I wasted looking in all the wrong places

Heading to Nelson Caching on the way T4T$

On the way home from Nelson to Oamaru, caching as we go. Lot of moaning and swearing at this one, and then from me too when I discovered Heafudd M had left the car door open and it was now full of sandflies! TFTC

Driving hamner to motueka today, picking up caches as we go

Tftc

A little slow logging this cache for a number of reason – mostly very slow internet speed where we live. Anyway, did this cache on our Southern Safari in Jan./Feb. Now in town with much faster Broadband. Had a wonderful tour and able to deal to this one on the way. TFTC

NICE P n G.
TFTC

6531. Off on a camping/geocaching holiday to Nelson. Day one was Christchurch to Murchison. This was our twelfth stop for the day. This one took us very little time to find once we had parked. Thanks for the cache in a lovely shady roadside spot.The day was turning into a scorcher. It was getting too hot to drive. Rodney and Iris

This was our last find on a weekend trip to the Lake Daniells area. We left this one until on our way home and the cache was soon in hand. Thank you bumandworker.

Our last find on the way home from Lake Daniels. That gate is well hidden but seems to get plenty of use. Thank you Bumandworker for placing this cache.

Quickly found,and a good name for this one.All good here.TFTH

Very short stop on our way northwards. Perfect to stretch our legs and to find this cache. Thanks a lot for the box.

Short stop to stretch our legs. Thanks!

Found the hidden gate - - - and the hidden cache - - - and a very flat rat on the side of the road. One less rodent to be out there terrorising the birds. TFTC .

TFTC. Out to play for the weekend with the destination of Nelson. Caching crew on board were Karma Reprint, Team_Gaters and TheWanglers, logged as PKTT for this trip. Gosh did we have fun looking for caches, most of which we found, in this very beautiful part of our country.
A quick find at a hidden ???. Nice hide.
Thanks bumandworker for placing the cache.

On a big mission up to Nelson over Show Weekend with Purdiepurdie, Karma Reprint and Team_Gaters we signed our cache finds as PKTT the 'power packet' but we called ourselves the 'G4'. We headed off on Friday morning at 4.30am and made our way to Nelson today. We drove heaps, laughed heaps, found heaps of caches and poke our noses here and there. It was a great day we didn't stop until about 9.30pm for a cuppa and relax and getting ready to do it all again tomorrow!
Quick find and the cache was nicely hidden.

Thanks for the cache.
#2374
Cache 8 for 95 caches today
Cache 8 out of 192

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Canterbury Show Weekend so headed North to Nelson for a fun caching 3 day weekend with TheWanglers, Karma Reprint & Purdiepurdie......for speed, efficiency & to prevent RSI we signed our logs PKTT.
Hidden gate indeed - at least there was good parking

Aargh....that says it....why do not finders think of the next cache hunter to follow.....!!

thanks to mrdan01 for the patch up.

Quick find however no log book. Replaced it with one of my own. TFTC (1341)

Found on the drive north to Takaka from Christchurch for a few days there with family during my annual leave.

Quick find, TFTC

Know this spot well. the two biggest trout i have ever seen used to be below this bluff. But that was many years ago. was planning on caching back to nelson but a car versus truck down the road put a stop to that. quick find tftc

For the sake of sanity we set off with sonia26642 for a crazy geocaching trip, aiming to cache until we drop. The main destination was Nelson and the ‘surrounding’ area, but then we ended up covering a few miles in three northernmost regions, plus a few in Canterbury. We were signing/stamping the log as 'Team Polak' or ‘TP’ for the two of us on this trip to save logbook space. We found a lot of different caches, city ones, road side, park side, up a hill and on an island, and we enjoyed every single one of them. It was good to be a professional thingfinder for a few days!

We took the Lewis Pass route on the way up, and encountered all kinds of silly weather, including snow and hail. We did consider turning around and following the highway, but it ended up being ok – we just had to drop a few caches as there was no way of getting there in the knee high snow…

We had great fun and are grateful to all CO’s who placed caches for us to find, and help restore our sanity before returning to our other non-geocaching lives!!

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04/10/2014 5:50:00 PM
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This was one of the most epic weeks ever, and definitely my most epic caching week ever.

Me and mum headed up on a holiday north to Nelson and very wider surrounds. In total during the trip, we found almost 500 caches! (470 odd I think, but final results are yet to be in! ) We covered about 3000 odd km I think too. Crazy! And had our absolute best caching day ever too at 160 found. Spend 9 days travelling, caching, and having the best time ever!!

So sorry about not so epic logs, as otherwise this would probably take me the rest of my life to log, especially with two big events to organise coming up! Eeek!!

Consec caching day # 699

TFTC!!

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A quick wet park and grab, staying incognito next to the private gate sign

Quick find driving north. Tftc

Quick find on our way to Nelson tftc

No longer a hidden entity due to at least 21 visits + the CO to date. TFTC #5920

A sneaky gate! Found on a lovely Queens Birthday Saturday driving from Hanmer to Nelson. Thanks for the hide.

Quick find Interesting cache TFTC>

#7446. Good parking and a quick grab by Troodles. TFTC.

Wouldn't have noticed the gate without the cache . One of the few caches that I found on the trip as StreetWalker was always at GZ before me. Found more by touch than sight. TFTC.

This entry was edited by Troodles on Sunday, 04 May 2014 at 09:09:48 UTC.

The gate may be obscured from the road, but the sign on it is very clear when you are near. No problms with a cache as a park and grab on the way south. SoBad parked - and also grabbed as Mrs was saying 'I think it might be here'.
Thanks.

Thanks for this quick grab, it certainly is a secret gate - the message is clear. Tftc

possibly someones access to the river shame t is private property beyond the gate - tftc

The gate wasn't hidden but the cache was. Took a bit of searching before Mr located it. TFTC

An easy find driving from Nelson to Hanner Springs. Tftc!

Off to Nelson for the weekend and we didnt leave til after 4pm but I still wanted to take the slightly longer route as there had been more caches placed since we last came through this way. This was a nice quick park and grab. We found a nice wee spot that you couldve put it if you wanted to be sneaky, but we'll take the nice quick P&G when were in a rush to make check-in. Thanks for the cache

[purple]Our cache find: #2399[/purple] | [green]Cache of the Day: 4/12[/green] | [blue]Cache for the Weekend: 4/80[/blue]

Heading off to Christchurch today. Time for a few caches on the way.
A quick park and grab.
TFTC

What lies behind the gate I wondered?, slowly caching my way down to Reefton today.

TFTC

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

On a drive from Christchurch to Nelson today, picking up a few caches along the way. Another quick find here, TFTC!

On a drive from Christchurch to Nelson today, picking up a few caches along the way. Another quick find here, TFTC!

A quick grab by the hidden gate. Wonder where it goes.
Thanks bumandworker for the cache.

#7708

Happy New Year!! My second cache for 2014. On my way South for some caching adventures in a South West direction. Not much traffic so pulled over next to the cache and found it nice and quick. TFTC, Biggles.

Found on way South

A decent padlock on that puppy, cheers

#3478 @1310
Picking off most of the new caches on the way to Nelson. This one was another quick find TFTC.

FTF Quick find, nice to see a blank log. Gate is well hidden, would never have noticed it otherwise TFTC

#1331
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