The Guppy (Tasman) Tata Beach, South Island, New Zealand
By Juicy Fruits on 10-Jul-14. Waypoint GC58JDC

Hint seems out of date. A better one would be maybe "do not disturb the penguins".

Came as a night cache as staying at the NZMCA site for a few days. If I had known there was a penguin breeding colony here I would not have done so. You do not need to go past the barrier. Please do not do so. I heard the penguins in the distance but none near gz though there are nest boxes. Should really be moved a few meters back away.

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Day 19 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Moved on from Pakawau in Golden Bay today via Collingwood (Adventure Lab time) to Takaka and on to Port Tarakohe for the night. Picked up a number of caches along the way despite quite a bit of rain at times.

After making it to our nearby base for the night I checked to see what caches were in the vicinity. Quite a few actually! As we were fast running out of daylight I decided to go after just this one. Fortunately it was a quick find, although I’m still not quite sure how the hint applies! #4224. TFTC.

A quick find by SJT_NZ while I was still reading the description, we're in the area geocaching on a two day jolly. Got here early and even still because of the good weather a lot of people getting their boats ready and a few fisherman. Thanks Juicy Fruits for the cache.

A quick find with Tregearp on a caching weekend over the hill. All quiet just after 7:00 a.m. but certainly a bit cool. We watched the an out rigger with a crew of about 8 head out for their morning training run. All in good order, thanks Juicy Fruits for the cache.

Day 6 of a 9 day caching holiday in the Tasman region with GB Leader. After heading over the Takaka Hill yesterday, today we explored the area around our eco accommodation in Wainui Bay, almost as far as the road goes. Then off to Takaka to explore and cache. Just here there are lots of blue penguin boxes, and I didn’t feel comfortable fossicking about. Also, there is a lot of recent earthworks in the area. So recording a DNF.

Went for a little walk along the breakwater after dinner. Nice quick find. Thanks for the placement Juicy Fruits.

Lovely location. Found yesterday evening.

Great cache, love the area TFTC

Quick find thankfully there was a pencil as didn’t have a pen on me when realised there was a cache here. Lovely place TFTC

Reasonably quick find while trying not to look obvious. Grabbed the TB to.

Found with my wife on a bike ride

I dropped a tb off. Thanks Juicy Fruits for creating this hide. It was find 9359 for me.

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Spending a few days at the nearby NZMCA park. Pleasant stroll to this, and a nice look atthemarina

#8528. I am over in the Takaka region on a work trip. After spending a couple of nights in the back country it was time to return to civilisation. After a debriefing of our field trip in the office I had a few hours spare before dinner to go and find some local caches. I parked near the clubrooms and headed out along the breakwater to GZ. Found a place that looked suitable for hiding a cache and was pleased to spy the container immediately. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache where found. Thanks Juicy Fruits for hiding it here. I wondered where the cache title came from and now I know.

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Early start to a big day TFTC

TFTC! Teamklavier from The Netherlands.

Found it. Tftc

I hunted some trickier spots while Mrs Q had already found!

#6- stunning day, last day of 2019 and second cache found today. Be conscious of the penguin houses close by. Nice hide thanks.

Warm mod winter evening out for a gc stroll. Tftc

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First find of cache. Thank you

First find for us in this beautiful area. Clue had us puzzled but eventually found it.

Spent my day finding Caches around the Abel Tasman Drive and this was one of them.
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Parked near the camp and walked in. Nice quick find and able to claim 380m towards the DGSC distance challenge. Thanks for the cache.

Staying at the nearby campsite, this was a quick find with the hint. How beautiful is it here??
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Tim and Viv - ddm

Sorry couldn't log as book full. But thanks for the cache.

Log full nice hide tftc

Needs new log. Log full

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Nice view of the ocean from here! TFTC and history lesson!

Parked the caravan nearby for the night....and now off exploring the local area.
Muggle free so was a QEF for me today.
TFTC juicy fruits

A quick walk out along the breakwayer, good excuse to get outside after a rainy morning. Tftc

A lovely day to visit this spot and after parking our campervan we strolled to find the cache. No muggles whatsoever to hinder us.

A favourite point given for the sturdy container and location and also for the history behind it, marking such an incredible achievement for a 16 year old.

Beautiful views, easy find! First New Zealand cache, tftc!

After a very long search we did not find.

Nice walk

Nice hide. Thanks lovely day today.

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

A great excuse to walk out here. The tide is ripping in at the moment. Thanks for bringing us here Juicy Fruits

Early morning stroll to the cache ...sea water was all yuk brown from the rain yesterday...cache found all good thanks juciy fruits for the placement...there was one big fat snail guarding it

Nice walk.

2nd for the day good fun

A beautiful evening for a walk to catch the sunset. First visit here and first cache in this area. Tftc

After dinner I decided to take a walk along the breakwater out to the end to try and locate this cache.

The hint item doesn't apply any more.

Cheers for the cache.

Quick find on a lovely spring afternoon. Tftc

Cool spot. Tried fishing otherside no luck. Like the container. Dry as a bone cheers

Over here for the weekend staying at the NZMCA park. Had at great morning watching a barge getting loaded full of rocks by a digger. Then it was time to take the dogs for a short walk in between showers of rain. Grabbed the GPS and off we go. Nice spot for the cache right where i thought as we were out yesterday walking the dogs and spotted this spot and thought it was a good cache sight. Cheers for the cache.

Taking a winter birthday break at Pohara Top 10 Holiday Park. Wandered out for a walk while waiting for barge loading to start. Port Tarakohe a great deal busier than last year with the rock being trucked in and barged to Wellington, apparently for the Transmission Gully motorway. TFTC.

Added fresh pencil, log & info sheet ..

Taybeedragon, Zara and I are on a three day geocaching extravaganza curtesy of Her Majesty the Queen. Happy birthday, Liz! Strolled out here for a quick and easy find. Hey! double containered! Well done (all my caches are double containered now - water never seems to leak into the inner container). Dropped in an emerald and a path tag.

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?
Time for a walk to bag and tag this one. Easy find at GZ. Cheers

Quick easy find on morning bike ride.

Found on a great weekend over the hill

Found while exploring golden bay this morning. Thanks for hiding!

What an interesting place had a fair hunt around and found other things like several penguins homes then finally the cache. We'll hidden almost another penguin hide . Great spot and thank you for the cache.

Quick find on this one though not sure what the clue referred to. TFTC

Staying at NZMCA camp. TFTC.

We are keen geocachers on holiday from Tauranga, gathering a few smileys as we go. We overthought the clue at first, then spotted a likely geocaching spot and so it was. Cache is all good, carefully replaced. Very quiet around here this afternoon, saw some manta rays cruising along in the shallows, but not much else, TFTC

Hello from Juneau, Alaska. I walked over from Ligar Bay on a beautiful morning. Several fisherman throwing their casts nearby. They didn't pay much attention to me. I looked in the wrong places first, then I made the discovery. I tried to make it too hard! #3797

Walked from the optimist cache and watched different techniques of launching boats ( smoothiest and quickest launch was by a young couple and SHE was driving the 4wd yay for girls lol ) wandered past the cache to start with but soon back tracked and had cache - signed the log and wandered to the end - Thanks for the cache

Went past this one while busy watching the boaties going in and out of the entrance. A quick back track and after being puzzled a hide was spotted and cache grabbed. TFTC

A bit of a walk for this one. The only muggles around were playing with their boats. TFTC

One of two finds for the day on a quicker than usual break in Golden Bay. thanks for the cache.

Quick find on a very windy afternoon. Boats rocking and rolling in the harbour and not many people about.

Quick walk out to the cache on the way to Lygar Bay TFTC

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.
Was aiming to get both the caches on the arms of what looks like a stag beetle (on maps) but had to settle for just the one. There were a couple of people around but managed to stealth in for the find
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Staying at the nearby campsite and out for an evening walk. Quick find.

The wind was fair howling around here today, very pleased we were not wanting to go boating - GK realised he had left his glasses at the last cache so he went to look for them while ML looked for and found this one tftc

A lovely stroll on a sunny winter day and great reminder of this young woman's epic achievement!! TFTC:-)

This is our last cache for the day as the sun has gone and night is quickly falling. At least it was a nice simple find.

What a fantastic achievement - Laura Dekker's that is, not my finding the cache.

I have learned to sail, but never truly got to grips with that, so prefer the kayak and paddle option.

Neither forms of transport were needed today, just some common sense and patience.

I overlooked the hiding place on my first pass around, but spotted the likely place on my second lap.

Best get back to the bach now before our guests arrive.

Thanks.

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There was a very cold wind blowing as we walked to this cache so thankfully it didn't take too long to find. Also thankfully Hazedarus had the foresight to look where I had already but my excuse is that his arm is longer.
Thank you Juicy Fruits.

A re-check gives results sometimes. It had to be there so we checked the (k)nots. Thank you Juicy Fruits

Wake up girls took a bit to find

Sir belac and I went to sit down on the coarseway to have lunch on the way back to the car we picked up the cache.Tftc Juicy Fruit

I found it very quickly tftc

Parked by the NZMCA camp and walked out to this what knot. TFTC

Found while in the area with our caravan. TFTC

Found a nearby paper wasp nest too, didn't sign the nest, signed the log though.
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Nice one tftc

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TFTC - easy find

Thank goodness wifey was with us, I'd abandoned hope of finding this one but she sniffed it out . Tftc

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

A quick easy find after a pleasant walk alongside the boat harbour. TFTC

Found after staying overnight at the Motorhome park.TFTC.

Quick find during our first holiday in the area. Thanks for the cache.

Great place - popular with the boaties! Didn't need the hint, but struggle to see it's relevance. Whatever, a good hide & pleasant short stroll. TFTC

Bryce and Mum's find after a days fishing.

NZDi and I have been planning a long weekend in Golden Bay for a month or so and today these plans came into fruition. Of course a long weekend out of town would not be complete without the odd cache thrown in and so a few caches were planned along the way. The weather back in Blenheim had been crap all week and the forecast for the weekend was not that flash either, however as soon as we got across the Whangamoa's we could see this part of the country was bathed in sunshine.

This is day three of our Golden Bay caching weekend and the plan was to visit The Grove, Rawhiti Cave, The Labyrinths and the Milnthorpe Park with a few random cache to link them all together.

After getting Tarakohe Harbour, it was only natural that we should go for this one. The last time I used the launch ramp here was to launch my jet ski back in December 2013, at that time some careless driver put a ding in my geomobile and didn't own up to it, so I don't have fond memories of this place. This time I got a smiley face for my efforts, a much better outcome.

TFTC Juicy Fruits

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC Juicy Fruits

Had to go back a second time as too many folk out for a stroll on such a sunny day. Was good to check out the penguin nests while we waited though. Grabbed the dolphin tb

A nice day for a wander out here. On the way back we stopped and watched a young seal lying on the rocks and calling out to us. Dropped off a dolphin TB because I thought it would like it here. TFTC #7056

In Takaka for the weekend picking up a cache or two. Thanks to all those that have placed caches out there it made our holiday just that much more interesting. Quick find thanks

big rock

ok

good find