The Confluence (West Coast) Haast, South Island, New Zealand
By Guzzi Riders on 03-Sep-14. Waypoint GC5CCWB

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.

It looks the cache has been buried. We will visit and reinstate somehow. Soon.

As previous DNF indicated, there has been recent earthworks at the cache site, see photo. Cache owner please check. Muggle sandflies were aplenty today lol.

I write "WRITE NOTE" because it is a time when we can't go on a long adventure, so I travel in the memories of my visits to New Zeusemad. Of this adventure in New Zealand, I only stretch Travel Bug. Writing "FOUND IT" is probably not right anymore, it wasn't today, but I was here before. And unfortunately I won't get here again.

I am sending a beautiful greeting from the Czech Republic.

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Our GPS took us to the rock, but it had rather crudely been dug around by a machine and we suspect the cache got buried too. Hopefully the owner can check and clarify.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

We are heading to Pleasant Flat for a couple of nights before going further east. Towing a caravan means we have to be selective about which caches we choose to target. No problem here with a good size parking area.
Thank you Guzzi Riders.

While the rest of the country is wet and miserable we're heading south with a good long term forecast. We're hunting Tour caches and anything that's not slowing down our objective. We fuelled up at Allied 4km up the road from Haast toward Jackson to take advantage of better service and prices. After enjoying the excellent conveniences available for travellers in the township we pressed on and pulled over at the reserve at the Confluence. We read the info and said WOW. Took some pix signed the log and headed for Pleasant point that was going to be our base for a couple of days. Thank you Guzzi Riders

Luckily the cache was quickly found as one 1 micro muggle managed to land on me. Signed log in car and dashed out to replace the cache and take a few photos, without pausing to give them a chance to pounce again. Tftc

Tftc, thanks for the dry log book ,yes the little muggles are still here

Found it logbook was wet. Added new piece of paper with ziplock

I was behind some trucks for quite a while so decided to take a view stop. Bingo even found a stop with a cache.

Great spot. So true about the sandflies. Also watch out for muggles - everywhere.
Contents were quite wet, so had trouble logging out find.

A beautiful place to stop and take in the view. Another confluence found. T4tc

Nice view

Diesen Cache habe ich als Teil des Teams LaMaLaMa (jetzt: Mr_Lama) gefunden.
Da sich das Team leider getrennt hat, logge ich nun unter meinem neuen Account Lærry nach.

Ich hoffe auf Euer Verständnis und danke Euch für’s Verstecken der vielen tollen Dosen!
Selbstverständlich werde ich jedem Cache einen Favo hinterlassen, bei dem es der ursprüngliche Account auch getan hatte. Falls ich einen Cache vergesse, dürft ihr mich gerne anschreiben.

Ich wünsche Euch viele tolle Caches und sage zum Abschluss: Bis bald im Wald!
Liebe Grüße von Lærry

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I found this cache as a member of the team LaMaLaMa (now: Mr_Lama).
Since the team unfortunately split up, I am re-logging with my new account Lærry.

I hope you will understand.
Furthermore I thank you for hiding the many great caches!
Of course I will leave a favo to each cache where the original account did it. If I forget a cache, you are welcome to write to me.

Best wishes, Lærry

(# 6146). Day 10 of my South Island odyssey. Today is getting some caches between Gore and Haast as well as having a good look around. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

Beautiful views. Tftc

Fifth day of a two week motorhome excursion, heading via the Coast to the lower South Island, picking up a few caches along the way – eight today. En route from Haast to Wanaka at this stage. A reasonably quick find. The logbook was soaking and I barely managed to write my name. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to rectify the situation! #3338. TFTC.

Logbook was wet. Enjoying the caches

Found it on another beautiful morning TFTC

On the way from Queenstown to Fox Glacier we stopped here to eat something while it was heavily raining. Nevertheless I could find this cache easily and log it in the car. Took one TB with me. TftC =)

Found this cache on our trip south to Arrowtown. Dropped off Still Kickin’ Around TB and picked up Knight’s Steam Locomotive to help it on its way. Great view and info about this location. SL. TFTC.

A cool place and interesting to see the difference in the colour otkf the two rivers.

TFTC M.o.E.

Unfortunately we didn’t read the last passage of the cache description - sand flies took over our vehicle immediately after opening the doors...
IN: TB „Knight's steam locomotive 1“

I have a 3 month sabbatical mostly traveling around the planet. My goal is to find and log 1000 caches. New Zealand is my 4th station traveling from south Christchurch to north Auckland, my first visit here, its far away. This is my sabbatical-cache #564.

Found on our way from Franz Josef to Wanaka on a beautiful sunny day. No hint provided, no hint needed. A nice quick find in a fabulous location. Thanks for placing this cache here. Have a favourite point for all the enjoyment.

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

Travelling and caching from Cromwell to the southern West Coast via Haast Pass. Another scenic spot along the way to park up and admire the view, and to find a cache. We enjoyed the expansive views of the joining of two rivers from GZ. No problems finding the cache too, thanks.

Found with Adrift

Found during our trip through New Zealand!

Vandaag even met dekluitje erop uit geweest. De Signal's emoticons trail stond al een tijdje op de planning maar eigenlijk nooit aan toe gekomen. Vandaag een start gemaakt. Tot nr 29 gekomen, ook nog uitgeweken om wat anderen te doen. Alles werd prima gevonden. Mooie omgeving hier, het was heerlijk rustig overal.
Bij nr 20 moesten we over een sloot springen, net toen we aan het loggen waren kwam er een boze boer op ons af, wat wij op zn erf moesten. Hij zei dat er geen toestemming was om er een buisje neer te hangen en vroeg ons vriendelijk om zn erf te verlaten, gelukkig stond onze naam op het papiertje voor we weg gingen
ondanks dit voorvalletje hebben we toch nog even lekker kunnen cachen. Volgende keer gaan we weer verder.

Today we were on the way from Franz Joseph to Wanaka.
Luckily I could find this cache without being eaten from these little bastards;-)
Nice viewpoint - especially when sun is shining like today.
TFTC saying Sverabe and greetings from Germany
(#1396 @14:00)

Wow I can't how fast the water is flowing. Impressive!

Chur from chch

Chur from chch

#2125
Found it during our holidays un New Zealand.
Amazing place.
Thanks for hide.

Found with MrsC on our NZ travels, from the UK. A very wet day on the Haast Highway. A great location, shame about the weather.

Found with mr c on our travels from the UK thank you. The rivers were certainly raging today although views were rather limited. Very atmospheric.

Auf unsere Fahrt von Wanaka bis zum Franz-Josef-Gletscher auch hier gehalten und diesen Cache gesucht, gefunden und geloggt.

On our drive from Wanaka to the Franz-Josef-Glacier we stopped here and searched, found and logged this cache.


> TFTC
> HanSoloAndFamily

With Malinki. WOW!

TFTC. Found together with rejseholdet from DK

TFTC Locked as rejseholdet

Found it Together with friends tftc logged as rejseholdet greetings from Denmark

Found it Together with friends tftc logged as rejseholdet greetings from Denmark

TFTC. Found together with rejseholdet from DK

Found it Together with friends tftc logged as rejseholdet greetings from Denmark

Found this Cache on our way from Haast to Makarora. TFTC

Found it while we made a short rest. Thanks

A find without problems.

Thank you very much for placing this cache for me to find. TFTC

Today, we focus on the Haast pass between Hast and Makarora. The container was humid inside, we dried it, both container and logbook are in good condition.
A jet boat disturbed the area for a few seconds. We then enjoyed the confluence. Very nice view on both Valleys. Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache.

Found this one quickly - very cool location! Thanks for the hide!

On my way to Wanaka I took the beautiful Haast Pass, which led me to this wonderful place and scenic view... and to this little container
Thanks for this cache and best wishes, kischte.

Beautiful views but would have been even better if it wasn't raining just pulled in here by chance to let a car overtake - and there was a cache

Different water colors today, impressive. A quick find cache too. TFTC

Quick find while making our way Northwest. Cool to see the different colors of the rivers.
Thanks for the fun, Guzzi Riders!
Found on November 23, 2019 at 10:24 AM
CptPhoenix&Tigerlily -- Flagstaff, AZ

Berrydehamster and me are travelling in New Zealand for three weeks. We cross the country from north to south and back again by campervan, see a lot, do a lot, visit lots of places and meet a lot of people. It’s nice to be here and we have a great time.

As both of us are geocachers, we find a lot of caches on our travels. This is one of the caches we found. Thanks for your cache, Guzzi Riders, that helped give us a wonderful time here.

NLBokkie and I are going on holiday to New Zealand for 3 weeks. In Auckland we rent a camper. We start on the North island and driving to the south to make the crossing to the South island. Here we make a round and then take the boat back to the North Island. A long trip, but a very beautiful one! We do and see a lot on our way............
In addition to being a tourist, we are also going to cache along the way. The virtuals and earth caches are often on tourism places. If we have a long day of traveling, we stop for some caches.
It were great weeks!

Found while stopping for a photo of the mistake on the hills. TFTC

Like the different colours of the rivers. Left Oldenburger Reiseschaetzchen tb
Greetings from Wales
TFTC

Nice quick grab.Thanks Bitsprayer

Another nice park and grab as we motor to the coast. TFTC

Quick find.. logged then enjoyed the views before the bugs got to much lol TFTC

Day 15

Trip from Greymouth to Queenstown for the day. Travelling on both islands for 22 days holidays. Nice view from here with lovely sky blue. Found it. Thanks Guzzi riders for placing this cache

Greetings from Melbourne, Australia

Forgot to log 2 days ago.

Thank you!

Today the next tour with Vesperugo. It is a wonderful Region and we liked it so much to walk, explore and search the boxes. Nice place, we took some photos and found the box - thanks to the precise coordinates we could found quickly.
Many thanks to hide the box, show us the place and do the maintenance.
Löwenzahn-RLP with Vesperugo

Found during our NZL Trip!
We thank all the Owners for hiding the Caches, showing the locations and making our trip wonderful and very special!
JOEKEjosa from Nürnberg / Germany

No fotos today, ka heke mai te ua/raining. Last one for me before spending the night in Haast. Tftc

A quick and easy find. Cheers

Easter holidays, and a road trip to Milford Sound. Time to start the trek home, via the West Coast. Off to Haast today, and again the weather started well on the East of the pass. Once we hit the West the rain started, and it sounds like it is set in for the rest of the day.

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

Sandfly heaven!!

Found on a quick stop to stretch the legs. Didn't have cell coverage but checked as it looked a likely spot. TFTC

Wegen der Sandfliegen extra schnell gesucht und geloggt.

TFTC
Grüße aus Germany

Orientexpress

Stopped here by coincidence, and found the cache immediately while sandflies were hunting me down. Thank god for deet. Thanks for the cache!

A fine Stop along Haast Highway. Thanks for the well maintained cache and greetings from two German geocachers travelling beautiful New Zealand

Thanks for this caches

Glad to see a plaque so we knew what mountains we were looking at. Tftc!

Day 12 of our tour of the South of the South Island
today, Queenstown to Frans Josef
with quite a few stops along the way

just a quick stop here
admired the view
dodged the sandflies
no wonder there is no one else around
and found a cache
signed and replaced

thanks for the cache

Unsere große Neuseelandrundreise haben wir natürlich auch zum Anlass genommen einige Caches zu suchen.
Oft entdeckten wir so interessante Orte. Danke für das Herlocken an diesen Ort und den Cache.
Grüße aus Germany

Nice hide tftc

Nice day nice place

On our way from Wanaka to Franz Josef, D4nielB and me took the time to look for some geocaches on our route.
We decided to take the risk (sandflies) and stopped here, too. The cache was a quick find and until we signed the logbook, there were no monsters at all attacking us. But then... we had to get back to the car very quickly.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Juliane

Today's trip for Jul1ane and me is from Wanaka to Franz Josef - of course with some caches on the route again.

Quick find, enjoyed the great view while signing the logbook.

#16914 10:32

During our holiday in New Zealand we have visited both the North and the South Island. We saw a lot of highlights of this beautiful country, but there is so much more to see. So many highlights, so many caches! The geocaches showed us a lot of special and interesting places. Sometimes a quick find, sometimes we had to search longer. A few DNF's, but that doesn't matter. We loved New Zealand and we hope to come back some day!

Today we have found the cache "The Confluence (West Coast)".

Guzzi Riders, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

Great place to stop for coffee in our camper. Lovely view. Tftc

Quick stop and find. We signed the logbook.
Interesting how some do Geocaching.
As far as I remember you have to do a physically signature in the logbook
before do the online log.
H and K didn't.
Anyway, TFTC and greetings from Austria

Nice view to the river. Again no H U K log .
TFTC and greetings from Austria

Found quickly on the way to the Westcoast.
Nice views.
TFTC and best regards

MTKEus

Heute ging es von Queenstown weiter Richtung Nord-West an die Westküste Neuseelands. Wir kamen durch das Skigebiet Cardrona, durch die kurz vor dem Challenge stehende Stadt Wanaka,  über den Haast-Pass und erreichten schließlich die Tasmanische See. Von schottisch angehauchten Bergen, engen kurvenreichen Bergstraßen, endlosen Seen und Wasserflächen, urzeitlich angehauchten Wäldern bis zu langen Stränden war alles zu sehen. Besonders beeindruckend waren die Regenwälder mit den bemoosten Bäumen und Farnen. Einen Dinosaurier haben wir leider nicht gesehen. Dafür meint Herr fleuchi Wale gesehen zu haben. Vielleicht waren es auch mutierte Karpfen. Auf jeden Fall ist ein Beobachter mit seinem Fernglas in seinem Wohnmobil fast ausgeflippt als er uns auf die schwimmenden Objekte aufmerksam gemacht hat. Karpfen in der Tasmanischen See sind eben doch was Besonderes. So abwechslungsreich wie die Landschaft waren auch die heutigen Caches. Die meisten waren gut zu finden und sorgten für ein wenig Bewegung während der langen Fahrt.

Today we left Queenstown and drove to and along the west coast. The landscape was very different. From the ski areas of Cardrona, the city of triathlon Wanaka, Haast-Pass and the Tasman sea we saw such a variety of New Zealand. We did a few caches on our way and had some diverting breaks on the long journey. Our final stop was on a private farm among sheep, cows and of course a lot of sand flies.

Day 9 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Wanaka to Franz Joseph Glacier.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of interesting places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

Mit Heckenstürmer startete ich die heutige Etappe von Wanaka nach Franz Josef noch mit etwas Sonnenschein. Doch bald wurde es immer bewölkter und somit auch regnerischer. Gute Kleidung hat uns aber nicht vom Cachen abgehalten und wir konnten doch einiges finden. Auch wenn wir nass in dwr Unterkunft angekommen sind, wars ein spassiger Tag.

Greets from Switzerland

Day 2 of a 4 day road trip. My mission on this trip was to travel South and West and then East and North. This road trip was all about the numbers but not quite in the usual way. In fact it was hours and hours spent on the road in search of minutes (and caches). I'm filling in gaps in my 'minutes' found across New Zealand in order to complete the 400 minutes challenge for the cache GC7YQZ8 - at the start of this trip I had a 52 minute gap to fill. A cool spot and a quick easy find for the cache. TFTC, Biggles.

A wonderful sunny day for the west coast!

A quick stop on our drive from Franz Josef to Wanaka. Lovely views and not too many people around so a quick find of the cache.

Signed log and replaced as found.

TFTC

On a road trip to check on our caches and drive to the furthest road south in the West Coast. Replaced log book and cleaned out rubbish. There has been quite a bit of landscaping going on here as in trees cut down so the view is easier to see now but the cache a little more exposed. Fortunately there is now less chance of people using the area as a bush toilet.

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.
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

We are on vacation in New Zealand and of course we seek some caches.
Thanks for this one!
Greetings from the Dutch.

Logtime: 09:25 #6693
Heute: 2. Cache von total 4 Caches.

Heute sind wir von Haast über den Haastpass nach Wanaka und weiter bis nach Clyde gefahren und haben unterwegs diesen Cache gefunden.

Danke und Gruss
simeat und Frau
Switzerland.

On our way to Wanaka! Beautiful drive with quite some stops at several viewpoints, waterfalls and some more caches!

Tftc Guzzi Riders!
#4350

Amazing views. Really huge rivers in this area.
TFTC