Willow on Redwood (Marlborough) Redwood Pass, South Island, New Zealand
By GH6710 on 09-Oct-15. Waypoint GC64TJ7

With the recent opening of the cycle/walkway over the Awatere River, connecting another piece of the Whale Trail, it was time for some placements. Along the way I found the last couple remaining over Redwood Pass. And, I also stopped here, and within a minute, stepping round the glass recycling centre, I found the container. Photo attached, of log, with the last genuine finder showing. Container replaced where I found it, next to the float.

Container missing, this spot has unfortunately been plagued by rubbish and isn't ideal for keeping the cache going.

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

Bad start to the day. Found stump. No cache.

Plenty of hiding spots, but all the ones I tried were empty.

Back again but could not find

Dnf

With barely a start on the Hidden Creatures souvenirs (4/100) and only this weekend free to do it, we set off to Blenheim to see how many we could collect. I didnt think we would get to the World Turtle but was happy with whatever we brought home. Like others before us we followed the geotrail and got caught up looking at the logs and not the actual hint item. Once we exspanded and saw the hint item the cache was quickly spotted. The logstrip is a little damp but writable. Thanks for your effort in placing this cache for everyone elses enjoyment.

Another one made tricky by the darkness of night! TFTC

Decided to look at this one on the way home after work. Had me "stumped" for a bit, but got there in the end. TFTC

Hmmmmm!!! Looks like dumped, rather than stumped with vehicle seats and prunings dumped at the GZ. TFTC!!!

Quite a few perfect hiding places here, but finally found the right one. Tftc

This one took a bit of looking. When I was the log about a log is not a stump I widened the search and came up trumps. Cheers.

Today was a day spent cruising around Blenheim, waiting for the late ferry to leave. I was so hot today, >30 degrees. The aircon in the car was working overtime.

Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Our plan for the day was to find caches along the main road before it reopens next month. This was a little detour as it was close by. Took a bit of searching in the long grass but GK soon said those magic words. Thanks GH6710

Nice
Wet feet

Quick scramble around and soon found tftc

Great views across the lagoon, which I was able to enjoy while Annacons made the find and I kept the kids off the road (in our ute). Tftc.

This one had us well and truely "stumped" and wet!! Searched every likely place for a long while much of which was overgrown.

After searching through a lot of tall grass we found it! Tftc

Hint was a bit misleading but otherwise great cache all of us had to get out and find it so you know its a great cache. TFTC.

Logs are not stumps. Tftc

Quick find this afternoon with eltee291, crman1 and potterfan16279! Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache!

Relatively quick find this afternoon with hingis20, crman1, and potterfan16279. In Blenheim to visit with my daughter and her family. From Victoria, BC, Canada. TFTC

Easy find with Moneydork

Willow Id say

Thanks GH6710. QEF on the way over Redwood Pass to get a few caches north of the awatere mouth. First time over this road. Had only ever cycled up to where the seal stops before.

We were heading back to Nelson through the Redwood Pass after having a good day caching .Quick park and grab Tftc GC6710

Nice quick find, thanks GH6710

#5014

Almost our last find of this outing, cracking Friday afternoon...tftc

Last time we came in search of this cache there were guys working on the electrics over the fence so we kept on going. Arrived at GZ and couldn't see a willow in sight - now I know why I guess. Found after carefully picking where I walked to avoid some horrible looking stuff. TFTC #8646

Such a nice little spot for a cache,thanks for creating it

Final cache for trip from seddon!

We had decided on a trip to Seddon today via Redwood Pass, an area new to both of us. This was our first stop on that route and the cache took a little while to find while dodging the remains of an unfortunate sheep. Hazedarus made the find here and soon enough we were on our way again.
Thank you GH6710.

Initially we wondered how far we were going to take looking for this one. Remnants of good hunting, legal or otherwise at GZ does that. Having come some distance we didn't want to leave empty handed. Circling and homing in close to where we didn't want to be I bit the bullet. The find was not so bad after all. Dropped TB. Thank you

Stump cut?

Made an early start this morning heading to Seddon and the Awatere Valley. Found a few others along the way. TFTC

The first find on what would be an epic Good Friday caching adventure (by our standards )
Thank you for the hide here.

I decided to spend the first half of Easter weekend in Marlborough and second half back in Nelson. Plenty of caches to find along the way. I decided to head south along Redwood Pass with a plan to return north tomorrow via the main highway. This was the first cache I found along here. Looks like another cacher had already been here today too. TFTC, Biggles.

Thanks

A nice drive around here today

TFTC

Drove this pass today for something different. Nice.

Second day of Chelzea and I doing a weekend cache run through Hanmer to Blenheim through Molesworth Station, an overnight camp and then return along the main highway back to ChCh. A pretty intense weekend with over 120 caches found that most seem to blend together so reluctantly cut and paste logging. Had a great time finding many wonderful caches in a fair few cool spots worthy of the visit. Very few DNF's but will note anything interesting or wrong with individual caches. Thanks to all the cache owners.

Cache found on our way back to ChCh.tftc

Off on an adventure with B&W today to Kaikoura.
He let me pick this one up on our way to the two "new" ones.
Tricky in the long grass. More than one stump. A better Geotrail required

TFTC

From Australia out with the new inlaws kayemart6

Maybe it help if you are looking at the correct stump hahahaa. So the search took a bit longer as needed

Yebo GH6710
Exploring on a rainy day the Marlborough area, we found your cache
Tftc

Found on a great day's caching in Blenheim today, there are lots of caches in the area these days!

TFTC

Dropped off tb

Picked up tb, Great day to be out. Tftc

A quick find today with 1cat lover.nz in the nice Blenheim sunshine. TFTC.

A quick find while out caching with Mrs KE this afternoon.
Thanks GH6710 for the cache.

#9483

[green] It's another one day, and I am back to the SS Waverley. Two days ago I was there looking for the cache and found and signed the visitor's log. Which is not the cache. So today I went back. Pulled the trackables I placed in the visitor's log and found the right cache this time. Alas the trackables didn't fit there. So now I am here to claim a second cache. And what luck! Despite its small size both trackables fit! So I dropped them off.

Found on a days caching in Marlborough on a great day

Mrs SoBad's little car would have been fine but it was even better to be in Sidewaze's cachemobile. Good fun, good company and another cache.
Thanks.

A fairly quick find once we reached the hint object. TFTC

Yes but which one? Ah this one.TFTC .

Heading out for a drive to Marfells beach - this one sort of on the way - just a slight side road.
Parked pretty close and found quickly with no traffic in sight.
TFTC GH6710

Making our way North towards home after the Christchurch Mega with tmann421.

A nice quick find for us here.

TFTC

Another cache found with Just-Lookin as we were driving towards Picton and the ferry back home.

Soon had the cache found.
SL TFTC

Tftc

found no probs while out for a drive tftc

Qef Tftc! A few stumps to choose from...

Found with NZDi. While all and sundry are in Christchurch at the NZ Mega Event, NZDi and I are having a little geocaching weekend of our own. Today we travelled the length of the Awatere Valley up as far as the Molesworth Cobb Cottage and picked up all the caches we didn't already have with the exception of three of GH6710's caches up the Mt Altimarloch Road for NZDi. We even managed to score a F T F up the Medway which must 'annoy' Marchwood as he was up there the day before when it was listed.

Tomorrow will go to Nelson with our MTBs and ride around Rabbit Island picking up caches where we can, and on Sunday we will go up the Maitai Valley and see what we can find up there.

After caching out the Awatere Valley as far as the Molesworth Cottage we had a count up and realized NZDi had done 43 caches, I had done 39. This did not sit well with NZDi's even number OCD issue, so we had to find another.

Thanks for providing that extra cache at the end of the day.

TFTC GH6710

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details. Final cache for the day.

TFTC GH6710

A wee diversion as head to Kaikoura.
Oh...that stump.
Cheers GH

Caching with capperz and Yoon86 on a sunny Sunday caching trip up the Awatere valley
T F T C

Out geocaching with capperz second one for me today!

A Sunday morning trip out after watching the first half of ABs versus France and being reassured there will be an AB presence in the semi-finals. I'd arranged to meet up with caching buddy yoon86 and take nightowl19 and Tally the geo-dog along for the trip too. The promised heaved rain then following gale-force winds didn't turn out that way so the conservative park and grab combination of caches along Medway Road and Awatere Valley could have been traded for some walks but ho-hum, next time.
Some wonderful scenery along and through Awatere Valley today and Tape is losing it's white cloak as the days warm up as the year draws on. There was a few dust storms on the way back as the wind strengthened but nothing too serious to bother the geo-mobile. Passed 4600 cache finds to which was an additional r=target for the day. Off to NZ Mega next weekend, my first, so good to get a few more 'local' caches before then.
First up here for this new placement, I'd initially thought it was Willow on Redwood Street but upon checking was glad to find another along this back road. Added a couple of new ones myself today
T F T C G H 6 7 1 0

On such a lovely Saturday, over 5 hrs after publishing, I was doubtful of a ftf, but I got it! I was not really in appropriate caching attire for this, short dress not the best, but I got it, and no one was looking! After my recent trip up the Awatere I noticed no caches along this road, and planned to rectify, I shall add more! Tftc.

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