Estuary Picnic (Nelson/Marlborough) Motueka, South Island, New Zealand
By bumandworker on 27-Jul-16. Waypoint GC6P7P0

Staying at the nearby NZMCA park and out for a wee wander with Hubby and the doggie. Pretty busy trail hereTFTC!!

1st visit here there were workers here so second visit gz was bare and empty so was a very quick find.Thanks for the placement and the smiley

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Thanks, great find. Log has gotten wet

No picnic nor walk as I fight to do something in Nelson so back I go.

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Gefunden tftc

Quick find amongst the fresh ant nest. Gorgeous day out cycling, thanks

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Last cache for the evening while completing the the Ab lab along here, nice quick find, cheers

Found my old log book found this on 1/9/19

Out for a nice bike ride and having a great time. Cache is all good. TFTC

Park and grab

Easy find tftc

Out today for another day of caching with busy paws. Log mush and other full so have put a new write in the rain log in container. Thanks for the cache bumandworker.

Found with coconuts3 and placed a new log in very messy container/ log. Lovely spot. Thanks

Down in Nelson for a weeks caching.
Found but too wet to sign.

Was out with Jag50 and Net61.
As reported in previous log we were unable to sign the paper....

It's a shame as this type is usually waterproof....I see it has lost the O ring.

Day 5 with Supernannny and Net61 in Nelson exploring this part of the country. Quick find while doing the ad lab. Cache is full of water and the log is too wet to sign.

Hard

Found it quite good but the logbook was missing and the cache needs maintenance. That's why a photo log. Tftc

Had driven son over to Tata Beach, Golden Bay so he could spend New Year with his friends and felt I needed to do a cache on the trip home. Had no luck finding one on the Takaka Hill I stopped for but had found loo paper and a poo but found this one after some walking in circles. TFTC

Log wet. Quick find. Thanks!

Out to get some geos and fresh air after being couped up with the rain. TFTC

Beautiful day for walking

Nice cashe, easy find.

Quick find thank you

We had to cut short our planned tour and get back to the car so we could buy some lunch. Now I've eaten we can carry on. I never used to like olives but kept trying them once a year if they were on a pizza or something. Then suddenly I discovered tapenade and I'm hooked. Tftc

A few muggles coming and going but the coast was clear when I made the find.
Thanks for putting this here

Lovely morning out with my walking group.
Quick find here during a brief rest break

An easy find on a Monday morning stroll. Beautiful sunny day in a lovely spot.

Found this here cache.Good to see many people walking and biking keeping active.lovely spot also.nice rest spot.TFTC

Yet found out that we are going to red traffic light system tonight so decided to come and do some caching. It helps lift the spirits when you make a find. TFTC

How could I have missed grabbing this one while I was finding the Adventure Lab? I guess I have that much tunnel vision. TFTC.

Easy find. Tftc!

A straightforward find. Would be a lovely spot without the car of drunk muggles nearby. Thanks for placing the cache

28 November 2021 12:05 number 10463. Ants! But fortunately not in the cache itself. TFTC

Glad to find this cache after not finding GC2JV3Z A Different Perspective. Sadly we didn’t have time for a picnic today. TFTC bumandworker.

Cool spot search a wide area before We
Found the Geocach

Day 20 of three weeks winter motorhoming in the upper half of the South Island. Moved on from Port Tarakohe (between Pohara and Ligar Bay) back over the Takaka hill to Motueka today. Picked up a few caches along the way.

Once we were parked up at Motueka later afternoon I went for a short bike ride and picked up three caches. This one was a quick find. #4236. TFTC.

Quick find

Nice and easy find on our early morning walk at the Estuary.
TFTC

Last time I had no luck with finding this cache ...today it was straight forward..thanks for the placement

Two years ago we had a dnf here. Passing by this afternoon and there it was. Thanks for the placement bumandworker

Back here a year after a DNF
Obviously been replaced as we definitely looked where it was found today! Busy walkway same as last year! Thanks

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I are on a bit of a Christmas Roadtrip from Auckland to Ingill & back ... we'll be doing a few geocaches on our travels ... this being the 155th cache of hopefully many ... we had been spent Christmas in Invercargill & were now heading back to Auckland, taking the scenic route ... we were now heading North, doing caches as we go ... had stayed the night in Motueka & decided on a short walk around the Estuary before heading to Picton ... be rude not to grab some caches on the way ... another 'smiley face' to the tally ... TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #1,889 for us.

Getting around the area geocaching

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Ants! Log is full. Tftc.

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on the many wet or plastic logs)
*Soon located, plenty more light rain at times today*

Good little hidden picnic spot!

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

A nice quick find thanks. All quiet at GZ.

Found as we moved from Motueka into Golden Bay. The weather has been the best since we left Christchurch.

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

It took longer to find a tiny space on the log where I was able to squeeze my name in than it took to find the cache. Log is super full and unfortunately I had no paper with me.
Hopefully the next person to find can add some paper here.
Otherwise all good and we enjoyed a very nice loop walk here!

Great bowl of fries consumed at Toad Hall in my home town Then Richardinho & I found a couple of quick caches

We had lunch at Toad Hall, so popped in on this short walkway for a couple of quick caches. No probs here, looks like a Capperz replacement. TFTC B&W.

Heading home from a great weekend in Kaiteriteri with RG1972. Unfortunately I was a bit hobbled this weekend with a sore heel, but we got in some nice (slow) walks, a fun bike ride and plenty of good eating experiences. And the weather played ball. Thanks all COs.

In the area so made the quick grab and sign. Thanks for the cache.

Pleased to find this on our second attempt couldn't have been easier, tftc

Quick find. TFTC.

Out for a ride tftc

Without a picnic to Estuary Picnic. TFTC

Had a week in Christchurch visiting family, now visiting family and friends in Motueka area. An early morning walk around the inlet to find some caches. Thanks bumandworker for the cache.

On Tour way to Abel tasman we found this cache. Thanks for the Cache

Bit overcast today so headed into Motueka to clear up some of the caches we missed or new ones placed since we were last here, 8 years ago.

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Thanks for the cache nice one.

Found today

TFTC Locked as Rejseholdet

TFTC. Found together with rejseholdet from DK

Found it together with friends. tftc. Logged as rejseholdet, greetings from Denmark

Nothing to see here.

Short look here. 2 good hides at apparent GZ turned up nothing. Nice walk around the estuary though. Thanks

Also had a good look with no joy. Replacement certainly not there at base of post. Gone?

Yay!

TFTC

Nice easy find. Beautiful spot for a walk. TFTC

Found it .. thanks! Rainy day fun.

Out for a walk around he estuary walk way on this nice late afternoon. Nice and quiet around GZ apart from all the work going on in the background.

Cheers

Thanks for this cache. This was a part of the mystery!

Didn't have a pen but great easy find. TFTC

Bike ride in the wind on a Sunday. Challenging work, thanks heaps

With the G P S zeroing out in the same place it was clear where the cache should be though I suspect it's too far up now. Left in place a lower newer hide, at base of post and rock on top. T F T C b&w

A Saturday at our disposal and Autumn marching rapidly towards the cold of Winter meant I weighed up my weekend intentions, especially as I was to be working all day (and night) on Sunday. Although I've already traversed the Motueka river highway twice in the last 3 weeks, I decided that a repeat of my recent caching run would be in order, with mrs capperz along for a ride too. The leaf colour, air clarity and general scenery was awesome, yet again, and we had a great day out of over 400kms travelled (local??). Double figure cache finds and a few TBs swapped out to bring back over the hill. We headed out to Motueka viaTapawera and back via Whangamoas.

I don’t think it is still here.

Had a good long look...no luck ...if it where I think it should be it not there

Hunted far and close, under and around. No luck here

Quick find on a beautiful day.

Went to resign and cache seems to have moved from its location...

No luck for us today but then search was curtailed due to junior muggles turning up.

I knew exactly where it was! After a poor start to the day I finished the day with 12 finds in 15 attempts, including 8 finds in a row. TFTC and another fun day of caching

I decided to go for a walk along the Inlet Walkway seeing that I had parked my snail sheel right next to it.

Nice little hidey hole.

Cheers for the cache.

A nice walk around estuary tftc

Walked straight to it
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If it wasn't a wet log thwarting my attempts to write previous.. I must have grabbed the only pen in the house which doesn't work.

Will return and resign shortly

Nice job. Handy spot.

A quick find and all nice and dry, TFTC

Found on a walk around the estuary with the dog. Cunning little hide TFTC

Its Queens Birthday Weekend so we are off caching for the long weekend. Todays route took us from Motueka through the Rai Valley to Blenheim. As we arrived there was a beautiful dalmation doggy straggling behind its own so we sat in the car waiting for them to be out of sight while we spied possible cache locations. Once the coast was clear we could get out and look and the cache was in the first place we looked. Thanks for placing this cache here for everyone else's enjoyment.

A quick find after having been in Harakeke on business.

All in good order. Signed log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache B&W.

Found during half a Saturday morning of geocaching, with morning tea at the picnic table.

Twentieth find of the day with NZDi. It is Easter weekend and we have decided to take a break. Today we travelled to Motueka in preparation for a day trip on the Abel Tasman track. Tomorrow we get picked up from Marahau by shuttle and taken to Kaiteriteri, from there it is on a water taxi to Anchorage and we then make ourway back to Marahau, picking up caches along the way. And finally on Sunday we will head back home dropping in at the Mapua Easter Fair on the way.

Today wasn't supposed to be a big caching day, but some bright spark at GCHQ dreamt up the Planetary Pursuit which put paid to that. Fortunately, I have almost 100 solved but unfound puzzles, multis and challenges in the greater Nelson area, so it is time to put them to work.

This cache was not one of the solved puzzles so it was not worth the full 15 points for the Planetary Pursuit. However, every little bit counts and this contributed another five points to the tally. We parked the car as close as we could to GZ but still had about a 100m walk to the cache. At GZ with no hint, I asked myself 'Where would I hide it?' and promptly discovered it in the first place I looked. Unfortunately the previous finder returned it too deep into its hidey hole for me to easily retrieve. NZDi was no help because she had 'tweaked' her back earlier in the week and could not get into a position to use her skinny fingers to good effect. So I resorted to slowly cajoling the cache out of its hole cursing my habit of chewing my finger nails. Eventually it succumbed and I was able to complete the paperwork and carefully return the cache so the next finder didn't have the same trouble.

TFTC B&W

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC B&W

Over from Melbourne visiting Jay’s family and grabbing the occasional cache on our travels. TFTC.

Found on a walk with my dog thanks