Kawatiri Beach Reserve (West Coast) Westport, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 20-Sep-15. Waypoint GC63TYY

We were able to track down and log this cache during our overnight stay on the beach. TFTC

Thank you

Good hide TFTC

Thankfully I came from the eastern end by the nzmca, nice quick find once I followed along the trail, perfect place to drop in this TB I have no idea where it want's to go that I picked up in the north island. TFTC

Worked out way through the maze eventually got the cache. Thanks for the cache

After getting lost for awhile we finally found our way to GZ and a cache - log signed - thanks for the cache

Nice walk

An early morning stroll from the overnight camp. Dead on co ordinates & a very quick find. All in good order too. TFTC

Found during the stopover in Westport. Nice quiet spot.

While parked up at Westport NZMCA thought we'd go for a walk before tea - TFTC

Cache is very wet and has nothing but wet logbook. The walk is nice, so thanks for bringing us here.

Down south from Tauranga. On a roadie with a group of friends. Great to collect a few caches along the way. Many thanks.I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. Its just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

Found it on a bit of a wet morning. The log is full. I have replaced a the log with a paper one. Hopefully will do the trick for awhile

Back on the west coast and calling westport home for the next wee while having picked up work in the area. So time to turn all that green , yellow..
Plenty of tracks to choose from in the area luckily I picked the right one..tftc

Easy find, great ride tftc. Log is full

TFTF such a maze of paths

Great walk, not too hard to find. Thank you for placing here. Staying at the NZMCA Park.

Was not so easy to find the pad.
Here a WP S41 44.066 E171 36.281
Thanks all OK.

Long twisty walk. Why can't cyclists go in straight lines?

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches.
Hasn't been found for almost 6 months. Luckily there was a pen nearby. Staying at the NZMCA Park.
Cheers, Cympull.

I tried to get to GZ through the camp ground, but ran into fences in all directions. I retreated and found the right path which led to GZ. TFTC.

Staying at nearby camp so decided to get this in the dark. Quick find. Enjoying the caches on a nice day

Out and about in a friend's camper van, collecting the occasoinal cache along the way.

A nice quick find.

TFTC

Stayed nearby sat night and thought this would be a good morning walk.

Took the hard way in and easy way (bike path) out.

Thanks for the cache!

After arriving and parking up at the near by freedom camping spot, mr rattll went for a little walk to check the area out, so picked up this cache as well
Thanks for putting this here

Staying close by and decided on a quick walk between showers. Once on the right track and at GZ. The cache was soon in hand.
Thanks for the cache

We agree with raisinpig. Log dry but the container not so much. The bike tracks are a real rabbit warren. Had to make a few detours to get on the right track. TFTC

After wandering along a cycle path and having to double back I finally came to GZ.
All tucked away nice and dry log in a wet container.
TFTC

Found on 6 weeks holiday.

Bit of a ride out to this cache. Cache all good. TFTC

Had a great day on the E-bike, caching on the Westport cycle trails, 39km 6hrs and 44 caches, trails in great order. - Many Thanks Bitsprayer

Day 10 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Enjoyed cycling on the trails on the outskirts of Westport today and picked up a few caches. Great day for it!This is the closest cache to where we’re staying but we had to bypass it earlier because of the “one way” system. Last one for the day on my way back to base. #4130. TFTC.

Camping nearby. Out with the dog for a walk and geocache. TFTC

Stopping over night at NZMCA Park. With glass of wine in hand we set off down the path.

Just how I like quick find. With Tokerau

Staying quite close to this guy today so we went for a walk after tea nice quick find here.
Tftc

Found while out caching with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC bumandworker

Found with NZDi. Today is the fourth day of our Wet Coast adventure and as the weather was supposed to be abysmal we decided to do a road trip to Inangahua Junction to pick up the roadside caches that would be impossible to stop for when towing a caravan. That was the plan... we got as far as our first find of the day and then as we got closer to the next the heavens open up and I got drenched. It would appear that as the warm air mass coming across the Tasman gained altitude it dropped all its moisture. The weather looked better nearer the coast so we changed our plans and headed back.

This was our seventh find of the day and I started to follow the cycle trail be it headed in the wrong direction, so I followed the old road through the long wet grass getting my sandals soaked. Of course once I got nearer to GZ I picked up and followed the cycle trail again and made a quick find. I followed the cycle trail all the way back to the geomobile.

TFTC B&W

No find for us today

We couldn't get this one today - area totally flooded!

I went for a little walk from where I had parked my snail shell a couple of days ago. Nice what they plan for this area.

Cheers for the cache.

Just 80m from my caravan, this one was a nice quick find after a short wander along the bike trail. No problems with the cache, it's got a new waterproof log and plastic bag. TFTC

Quick and easy find. No sign of TB.
Logbook needs replacing soon.
TFTC

Nice track to explore.
Cache dry and in good condition. New plastic bags have been added.
Maintenance not required.
TFTC

This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.

Visiting Westport from Welly on a girls trip. Out for a picnic at the beach and some fresh air - a lovely easy walk to this family friendly cache. Hint made for a quick find. TFTC.
The sealed cache container was full of water including the one unsealed plastic bag containing the log. I didn't have any extra self-sealing plastics bags with me to help keep it dry going forward. More waterproofing layers are probably needed as original protective layers seemed to be missing.
TB: Dropped off a travel bug trackable called "Checkmate" - wanting to travel the world. It had been lost since 2011 (found in cache GC31N5G, Wellington NZ). Owner reactivated it a few days after my visit so I could log a "drop". Plse remember to log this "trackable" out in the gc online app if you pick it up.

Quick scramble about for this one, tftc

Finally found it and took TB Coin TFTC

Found thank you

Bei unserem Urlaub in Neuseeland konnten wir auch dieses Döschen gut finden.
Hier haben wir unseren ExtraSilverCoin abgelegt, gute Reise.
TFTC

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

We spent last night in the freedom camping area at Kawtiri Beach Reserve, so wanted to find this cache today to mark our being here. Wandered along the track to GZ and found the cache after scouting to see what would fit that hint. Thanks.

Slaterville!. Nice walk through here.

I took a round about way into this cache, missing the track start thinking it was somewhere the GPS was not pointing. Doh! Once on the track, nice and simple. Cheers

Yay another one done. Thanks

Good spot. I love this bike/walk trail with the sound of the sea all the way along.

Took a few minutes to find the entry point - after that all OK.

I have just moved over to the South Island from Australia. Hoping to live and explore the country over the next few years and find a lot of caches on the way. Cheers for the hides.

The storms had rolled in and were hitting us hard. So a lot of the days were now spent in the van hiding away from the he. And when it cleared up we got out and stretched the legs by caching. Thanks.

Quick find in a very murky place TFTC!!
Find 435

Codie and Sarah / great hide!

Its been raining here for 4 days, first day of fine weather and keen for a walk in the fresh air. Great little track here for both walking and biking and not a soul around, easy find, log nice and dry

.Wow what a great place and plenty of parking for Zara next time we visit. Started taking the mountain bike trail but backed back to the walking track. Then deviated off that to follow the road which promptly became very swampy so its wet wet feet. Then its backon the cycle track to get to GZ. Tipped out all the water from this swimming pool. Log very wet so arranged a new RITR paper log in a new bag, to keep this one rolling along. Cheers. Returned via the cycle track with no more puddles to traverse. Stopped here for lunch. Great place.

Its off on another geotour this weekend with The Seagnoid, Zara and Toby. We spent last Sunday in Nelson collecting the gemstones from the Museum Heist, so this weekend we are on a Geotour to the Westcoast with The Seagnoid, Zara and Toby, to return the gems. Early Saturday morning we went on another magical tour of Denniston. Great views today just after dawn. Enjoyed a walk along the Kawatiri River Trail.

There is a very nice cycleway running around here. At first I thought it was going the wrong direction so we ended up taking the old road. That was a mistake! The road has some very beep puddles, which is okay, as I have gummies. Which is not okay, as I have just discovered one of my gummies has a split. Dammit. Twice now, two manufacturer, but with splits. That's it, last of the cheap gummies for me. Going to get some decent ones next time. Anyway, suddenly we came across the bike track, and followed it to the cache. Followed it back to the car park afterwards, a much faster and easier route that the water-laden 4x4 road.
Encountered mum, walking a miniature horse carrying her 4 yr old daughter. Daughter was having a great time .

Taybeedragon and I headed out to the West Coast to figure out how to return the jewels taken from that big heist at the Teague-Ulmer Museum back into their vault. And I picked the West Coast to do that as there is a cache nearby that gives me the last hidden month for a NZ Jasmer. And on top of all that, it is the 50 year anniversary of the first men on the moon - Happy Moon Landing Day! While the rest of the country was bathed in glorious rain, we were stuck with sunshine and clouds. Oh, well, can't have it all.

CANNOT SIGN LOG AS IS A SWIMMING POOL!!!! SO DO NOT DELETE OUR FOUND LOG. Photo included.

Impossible to log, the box was full of water.
I took the TB

Box full of water.

A quick find whilst staying at the NZMCA park. Dropped off travel bug, tftc.

Added some paper to the soaked cache, but doubt that it will last. Seems as if the container is broken and we did not have aspare with us. Quick find, TFTC

Found this one on a beatiful Day on the way to Greymouth! This coast hereis really gorgeous!
Unfortunatly the Cache was filled with water so I couldn't log it and didn't have any new logsheets with me!
But anyway thanks for hiding and sharing these amazing places!

Fun find! TYFTC

We stayed the night in the beach reserve and thought the cache would be a nice little walk after breakfast. Quick find. TFTC!

TYFC needs maintenance log soaked ANF fill.

Nachdem ich mein Nachtlager aufgeschlagen hatte (Van hingestellt), wollte ich noch einen kurzen Spaziergang machen. Wow, da hat es ja einige Caches und so wurde der Spaziergang dann auch etwas länger. Bis hin zum Hafen hat es mich gelockt.
Die Caches konnte ich zumeist gut finden. Andere waren hingegen nicht aufzustöbern. Es hat aber dennoch zu einigen in Westport gereicht

Great area TFTC

During our 3-week journey through the South Island of New Zealand we also passed this beautiful place. A cache here and there may not be missing. Greetings from Germany by S & T147

Staying at the NZMCA park ..out for an evening stroll found log damp but signed thanks ..for the placement B&W

We are staying at the NZMCA park and surprise there is a cache nearby. Thanks for the cache bumandworker

#16895 18:22

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 "Kawatiri Beach Reserve (West Coast)".

bumandworker, thanks for creating and maintaining this cache!

Greetings from the Netherlands,
de hangijzers

Tftc

Lovely morning for a bike ride. Husband soon found the cache and I did the paperwork. TFTC

Came back for 2nd look today.
Aaah. Not sure why did'nt see first time

Staying at the NZMCA camp & grabbed this before heading north to Gentle Annie. A great loop walk that the community should be proud of. Thanks for placing this cache here

Great wee find, was damp inside, dried it out as well as we could tftc.

Nice stroll from the beach along an unused track connecting with the new one. Thank you for the cache

Staying at the NZMCA park for the first time I thought I might go for a wee wander around this little trail and go out to the mouth of the Buller River. Grab this on the way passed. Cheers

Quick find but log very wet. Thanks for bringing our attention to these lovely tracks

Many thanks to all the COs who helped make our geocaching holiday a great success
We left home early April and returned 21 May 2018. We toured from our home base up to a wedding in North Taranaki then carried on heading south right down through wellington and on down the west coast and back up via the eastern side of the alps some times going around in circles. Our aim was to get as many smiley faces on the puzzle caches that we had solved but of course stopping for many traditionals, multies and others as we went. some time we biked the bike trails or walked but mostly by campervan. we enjoyed the quite back country roads, many of them were metal but we just travelled along slowly going from cache to cache. Most caches were in good condition and I will remark if we thought it needs maintence etc.

A nice and quick find after wee walk. Cheers.

Todays plan. drive up to Denniston Plateau, grab as many caches as practible, and go down "The Trudge" to meet Ms KR at the bottom. Mission successful!

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

Despite being an anti weka cache, it was a quick easy find after walking along a grass track from the road. Incidentally there is now a toilet at the car park. TFTC

Took a longer than best route
but soon on the right track.
Just strolling after Buller half marathon this morning !
Thanks

Parked up and followed the gps into the bushes and onto a nice little track. Followed that for a while until the gps started going in circles, then started looking for cache. A glance at the right angle indicated a cache and we were soon signing the log. tftc

What a great cycleway for the whole family to enjoy.TFtC.

A nice introduction to the tracks here - we returned the next day and biked them, discovered we had biked the 'wrong' way soturned around and did the loop again the correct way. Very nice curvy track making the most of the terrain. Were there several weka, or was it just one taking lots of shortcuts to say hello again at the next corner?

Some campers setting up nearby. Many don't look self contained and the new toilets are not yet ready. Nice walk to the cache.

It's fantastic to see this area being developed the way it is. I really enjoy visits to West Coast beaches even though or maybe because they're so different to our Tasman / Nelson beaches. It looks like at some stage in the near future you'll be able to change the toilet attribute from negative to positive . . . a very fancy new facility is being built near the parking waypoint. Thanks for bringing us here!

Beautiful area very impressive.
Arrive at GZ and it was long before we spotted the cache
Thank you bumandworker for the cache and bringing us here

Stayed in Westport overnight, went for an early morning bike ride before heading towards Nelson. A quick find here - signed log, TFTC

Thanx. Another one. Greetings from Holland

T-Tech and I are travelling around South Island for 6 weeks

We free camped at Kawatiri Beach Reserve last night and this morning took the walk around the area to get the two caches done. GPS was a little manic here but eventually the cache was in hand. TFTC, bumandworker.

Over from Brisbane for a number of weeks "motorhoming" around the South Island with IolantheK [^]
Now on our way from Haast to North for a bit sticking to the coast, grabbing caches between views [^]

Spent the night in the free camp zone and grabbed this one on our walk in the morning. Cache in good condition [^]

TFTC bumandworker

Camped here last night in Janene our Jucy van. Whilst the muggle had a lie in I went for a walk along the beach, my goodness what a lot of driftwood here. The tide was out and there was miles of sand before the sea.

Of course there were a couple of caches that had to be found too, I stumbled across this one having worked out the coords for the multi and was wandering around the paths trying to find my way to it. TFTC