Iron Maiden 27: Alexander The Cache (West Coast) Inchbonnie, South Island, New Zealand
By TwoSharpe on 19-Jul-15. Waypoint GC5ZN2Y

A nice quick find here. TFTC.

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Straight forward c&d. TFTC

Trouvée Tftc

Lid sticky with age. Tftc

Nice easy find. Congrats to the person who repurposed their fuel receipt as an overflow log. Thanks for the cache.

Nice quick find to start the day, the log was full so added in another sheet. Thanks for placing Two Sharpe

#12591

On our way to lake Brunner as our first night destination in week long trip through Arthur's Pass and back through Lewis Pass. Tftc

Needs new piece of paper only enough room for one or two more names, sorry didn't have any with me

Found on a nice drive in the area. Stunning day today

FITW Albijos

On one of our usual work and geocaching trip. TFTC.

FITW Harisree


Here in coast for work.

Grabbing few while in this area

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Quick easy find on a magical day in the West Coast - TFTC

Found as described. Quiet road today. It’s a good old container but it’s still keeping its log dry. TFTC

After spending the night in Kumara, it was time to set off on the next part of my journey. Today's objective was ultimately GC30AD8 - but I did find a few other caches long the way. I parked across the road and found the cache in the first place I checked. TFTC, Biggles.

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I did not expect an Iron Maiden in these parts! TFTC!!

Nice find. Good parking . With Kaz53

Bit of a moody day with some drizzle but stopped anyway to find this with Judith

Out on a joy ride this morning and stopped for a nice quick park and grab thx.

This was a great fun cashe we did on our way to lake brunner. Horray for iron maiden!!

R

Heading back from the West to the East and I took this route to collect another in the great Maiden series. Up The Irons!

A quick find here while making my way to S.H 73. I’m enjoying the drive, the country side, and the glorious weather. TFTC

Easy find!

We were driving to Hokitika to take home Mr C's cousin after a holiday with us. With a detour via Moana for a change and the opportunity to get a few more caches. Thanks for this cache TwoSharpe.

Thank you for this cache, TwoSharpe.
A quick find as I head off to Moana to try out the new Adv Lab series there.

05/09/2020
Hubby and I had our first ever child-free weekend in 4 years!! (Well, not entirely child-free if you include the 27-week fetus!!)
So, on the to-do list was going out to Camp Creek Hut - this has been on the to-do list for a while, and with bubba coming soon, it was kind of now, or never-ish, as we didn't quite think that this trail would be fully suitable for the pre-schooler!
Went and did the hut first, stayed the night, got rained in, wasn't enough dry firewood, couldn't run the bath, but still fun!
And then we got this cache on the way back out. Well, that definitely increased the terrain rating didn't it?! Haha.
TFTC!! - it made a great reference point for the car-park as we were driving there too lol

Thanks TwoSharpe for placing this cache

It was a quick stop as I'm busting so hope for a toilet stop in Moana.

Beautiful day in the countryside TFTC

A quick find in the 'usual' place

This one took a while to retrieve - used some stones when putting it back. TFTC

After an awesome 4 days tramping the heaphy track and 2 days in westport with some underworld rafting thrown in (and some caches) it was time to head home to geraldine grabbing more along the way..
Got the boys finding while i drive nice quick find tftc

A quickly found cache. TFTC

TFTC small log book maybe need new one? We wanted to do the Mt Alexander but too cloudy.

It took quite a bit of determination and nimble fingerwork to extract the cache as it had been pushed in a long way. Got there in the end. TFTC # 13,833

Found on the way home from a holiday on the West Coast with my wife.

Another beautiful West Coast and time to head home via Lake Brunner.
Thanks TwoSharpe for placing this geocaches find for me.Sadly there is no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. I plan on going to the OzGeomuster in July. To find out more visit this site: https://www.ozgeomuster.com.au
If you can't make Aussie. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland. 
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.

We were heading towards Te Kinga for the night and we noticed this cache with plenty of parking right alongside it. We had met up with tonyb12 by this stage so we jointly found it. I had left the phone in the campervan but having found many barrier caches it did not take long to narrow down the options of where it would be, I found the cache in the second place I looked which is always a bonus. We signed the log and returned the cache to where we had found it.
Thank you for placing the cache and thank you for the smiley

Found while over night camping

Out and about over the Easter weekend grabbing some caches as I head to Christchurch via the west coast. Thank you for placing all these wonderful caches out for me to find. Had fun looking in, under , around and behind to find them. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. Your caches made the trip a lot more interesting with some adventure thrown in. TFTC

A quick find while on our way to rediscover the Poerua Gold mine. We were successful there too. TFTC.

Day 12 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Arthurs Pass to Greymouth.
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

Nachdem Heckenstürmer und ich den gestrigen Nachmittag und den heutigen Morgen auf Arthurs Pass verbracht hatten (angeblich geschlossene Strasse wegen "Coast to Coast"), konnten wir unseren Weg nach Greymouth fortsetzen. In Moana eine kleine Runde gemacht und bei Brunners etwas Geschichte betrieben.

Greets from Switzerland

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Whoops drove past it, U turn TFTC.

A two day trip over to the Coast with Bitsprayer.
Thanks for the placements, a lot of fun.
erninz

Second day of caching on the west Coast an in Canterbury, and what a great day it was, around 100 cahes I think, Many thanks to all the cache placers. -Bitsprayer

Heading off to Moana via Cave Stream so dropped into this one on the road journey, a quick find thanks TwoSharpe for the cache. All in good order

A quick find with Tregearp whilst on our way to Moana for the night. All in good order, managed a break in traffic with a muggle free retrieve, sign and replace. Thanks for the cache TwoSharpe.

Found!

I've been past this one several times and not stopped. Today there was time for a quick stop and find.

A quick stop and grab in the rain. Tftc

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she has spent some time up there working

Quick find on way from Iveagh bay to Kumara

The day fined up so I headed out towards Lake Brunner signing off caches on the way.

I put my bright orange invisibility cloak on for this one.

Cheers for the cache.

Finally it's time for a Christmas break and some time away from work. Time for Mrs KE and I to pack up our newly converted camping car and head out into the wilderness for a few nights. The West Coast looked inviting and there might even be time for some geocaching. If we can remember how to do that.  

A not so quick grab here. My fingers were too big to extract the cache so had to call on Mrs KE to sort that out.
Thanks TwoSharpe for the cache.

On our way from Arthurs Pass to Moana, we stopped here to look for this one. Hardly any traffic, good weather, and a quick find.
#1801 ni/no log:08.30 Thanx!

Found while making a couple of stops on the way home from Moana. Nice easy find, made easier by the very quiet Monday roads. We found the nearby DOC sign interesting. We will have to come back for an explore. TFTC

A quick find on the way home. Thanks.

Last day of our enjoyable Queens Birthday visit to the West Coast. Time to find a few caches in and around Greymouth, polish off the last of the card trail bonuses then head back to Christchurch via Lake Brunner.
Wasn't expecting to find an Iron Maiden cache so far from Chch. A quick park and grab on the way home. TFTC.

#14226. Good to include another IM cache in our haul for the weekend. TFTC.

Fast find TFTC

out with Red Roaming as we tour the world but spending the most time in New Zealand. the weather has been very very wet for the last 2 days and so it continues today. WET, WET. we are on our way to Westport to stay overnight. Logs signed DD & RR or with our full caching names. No problems here TFTC
apologies for the cut and paste logs

Cache soon found by DD in the pouring rain while driving from Otira near Arthur's Pass up to Westport for our next overnight stay. Having found a few of this series in Christchurch at the beginning of our trip, we couldn't drive past this one! Many thanks

Travelling around the world with Dartmoor Deliverer to help her celebrate taking early retirement!

NB Dont forget our Devon UK Mega 2017 GC6JZNY this August in the beautiful East Devon area of our county. UK Megas are over one week full of events and geocaching - a wonderful way to enjoy our county!

Found it..getting more brave with the creepy guardians

My sister was getting braver as the day went on! Quick find, thanks.

Made this harder than it should have been. TFTC.

A good and safe Hidey Hole..That wont get wet..TFTH

Quickly found. TFTC

Didn´t go the track but found the cache

TFTC
jekejaerfi

Day # 8 in New Zealand on a geocaching holiday-trip covering Thailand, Australia and finally my beloved NZ .
I had so much looked forward to return to this beautiful country, and now I'm here again - awesome!
Today's rainy tour took me from Arthurs Pass to Nelson.

The weather was more than sh...y throughout the major part of the trip ..
Rain, rain, rain [xx(] - and a road slip just 21kms out of Arthurs Pass [B)]. Road was closed for nearly an hour ...
Needless to say, that most of the treasures that were waiting along the road had to remain undiscovered due to flooding , heavy cats and dogs-rain [B)]and general 'I am not gonna leave the car now' - feeling [B)] .
But finally - approaching Nelson - the weather cleared up, got better and the sun came out. Cool!.

The day was a bit exhausting but ended up promising - rewarded with 16 finds and 'home ‘n dry' [^] !

Passing at this one it was raining like hell, got wet allover! [B)]

Hey - WestCoast - you have awesome caches [^] !
A big thanks [:X] to all Owners involved [^] for hiding and maintaining .
Cheers from Germany

Another quick find on our trip home via Arthurs pass. The long way!!!!

Needed small fingers! Log is dry (unlike the weather):-)

Stop by on the way past on a little kayaking/Fishing trip to the westcoast, Then parked up for the night down the road a little on the way back. TFTC

A quick stop for a quick cache. Tftc

An easy find on a lovely spring morning. TFTC

Easy found

A very brief detour to find this cache on our way to a family visit nearer Lake Brunner. A quick find in the obvious place.
Thank you TwoSharpe.

A few days on the Coast to celebrate a family birthday. As we usually come via Lake Brunner we took the scenic route this time via Nelson Creek and had only a small detour to make because of this cache.Thank you TwoSharpe

Nice quick find on way home from West Coast. TFTC

Heading for a wee family holiday in Greymouth. Quick find and sign between traffic on the way past. Cheers.

Found on a failed tramp up my Alexander. Tftc

Nice P & G on my way to the East Coast
TFTC

Long ride from Greymouth back to Dunedin. TFTC #1765

Found with Mporokosa. TFTC

An Iron Maiden all the way over here?!? Wow. Lots of lilac growing wild along the river bank. We made the right choice to travel this road up to Westport -- less traffic, less bad drivers who don't know NZ road rules. We discovered the next day that there was an accident at the Buller Gorge. A German driver in a rental motor home crossed the line, smashing into a local's older model Land Rover pulling his little boat. It closed the highway for hours. Such a shame.

Thanks for the new cache, we didn't expect to find when we left home a few days ago and were pleasantly surprised.

Container replaced with another one and I take full responsibility for what it is. However, it should be dry and safe until it gets replaced as the hidey spot was slightly smaller than the one I had a spare container for. We have enjoyed reading the road signs for the Around Brunner race that happens to be on today. Cheers

Cache gone, with lots of nice new barrier in place. Replaced with what we had in the car! Thanks.

Found on a raid to the Coast with Kiwi Moose. Signed the log KM+KR or KR+KM to save log space.

Thanks to all the CO's for their hides.

While roaming NZ and encountering lovely landscapes, I found this cache.TFTC

Searched thoroughly but no luck

Looked everywhere. Might need to go have a look if it's still there.

We see that hasn't been found since September and as it looks as though there is a new end on the bridge and we couldn't find it, we wonder if it has gone.

Found on an afternoons explore around Lake Brunner. TFTC.

Just starting to rain. The nearby hike looks interesting.

Published

[blue]Unpublished FTF around 5pm thanks to the COs.[/blue][purple]
We had an awesome time at our event at Castle Hill and was given the heads up on a new unpublished cache on the way home. We didnt mind going the slightly longer way home to bag the FTF. Thankfully it was a nice quick find as the cold had picked up and we were happy to get back in the warm car. Thanks for the cache