Marlborough rail: Parikawa Clarence, South Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 08-Jul-17. Waypoint GC7390Z

Caching with taybee nz on our way through peggioh and towards kaikora. Been a great day so far. Nice hide tftc!

If I had arrived a couple of minutes earlier, I would have had a great view of a train passing. It was another quick find here although the container is a little askew.

Heading to Kaikoura with Jag 50.Enjoying the series. Thanks.

On a road trip with Net61 from Blenheim to Kaikoura collecting caches as we head south. Having found a few of this type of cache today, we knew what to look for here. A quick find and we were back on the way to Kaikoura. TFTC

Trouve ! / Found it ! J'ai eu la chance de voir arriver le train. Beaucoup de moldus sur place mais ils taient plus occups par le train que par moi 5251me cache trouve.Merci the Seagnoid pour la cache I was lucky enough to see the train arrive. Lots of muggles there but they were more busy with the train than with me 5251th cache found.Thank you the Seagnoid for the cache

Found on this beautiful day Great hide Enjoyed doing this cacheThank you for the cache

Tftc

What a lot of work and it now is out of work! TFTC

Back on the south island as we fly out of Christchurch in a few days . We love this part of the coast and nice to see so many new ones since our last visit, plus the new roads which were being repaired last time.This was a quick find and a nice hide, have a favourite point.TFTCTim and Viv - ddm

**20,348**Another rail cache ticked off, now we need to find a letterbox cache today for a challenge cache. A BIG Thank You to the CO for all these great caches, they must have cost you a fortune in plumbing fittings. TFTC

Heading down to Christchurch for the weekend. Had time to grab a few caches on the way. Managed 10 caches all close to the road. Quick stop, find, sign and off again. There’s always something fun about crossing railway lines. Just imagine if! Thanks for the smiley

Any easy find

17. 6. 23

This was supposed to be a family trip to Hanmer weekend but some are sick and some tired. So, what does that mean ??? Yes, a caching weekend to myself, again. I had a target of dead ones and the odd live one to mix it up.

This was a live one and easy.

A quick grab on our way from Kaikoura to Blenheim. TFTC

Found TB out. tftc

In cold light drizzle we looked for this to no avail. We have found similar cache containers when doing the historical Hutt Station Line. Hutt, Melliing, Belmont, Stations and some others. The containers are the art of a person with plumber skills? For us we found the cap had been badly cross threaded and we were unable to delve further into it. Having said all that many thanks for this cache and for those in Lower Hutt.

This place still looks like a railway station -- complete with a Geocache. TFTC.

Dose konnte schnell gefunden werden
Danke fürs Herführen

Nice quick find of the road back home. TFTC

Another quick find on our way home

Usual good asfe hide. Many thanks tb left

Caching trip with busy paws, lytteltonwitch and coconuts3. Day 6! Homeward bound. It's easy when you know what you are looking for! Thanks, the Seagnoid!
#8570

Quick stop! TFTC!

We see the pattern.. TFTC!

Another quick grab on our trip South - log signed - thanks for the cache

A quick find on a short road trip, taking a break from home. TFTC

Another TS classic which blends in nicely with its surroundings.
Thanks for putting this here for us to find.

One of eight caches located today between Ward Beach and Kaikoura. This one was a reasonably quick find. #4782. TFTC.

Time to explore this turnoff! Quick find here, TFTC!!

Tftc

Quickly found. A welcome wee leg strech.

Found on our wee trip around Marlborough and Buller region, TFTC

Nice easy one to start the day. Heading to Kaikoura.

Initially pulled over on the side of the highway, then realised that I could park right beside the cache.

Picked up the TB, will take it for an adventure.

Full log to come

After parking the snail shell up in Kaikoura it was time to visit all those caches I saw on the way south and couldn't stop at.

Another in the Rail series.

In: TB.

Cheers for the cache.

Many thanks for the cache container Seagnoid - it made an easy find for us in the pitch black. T very much FTC.

The holidays are here and another tour begins: ‘The Very Top of the South Tour’. With GraciesGPSFun at the moment before NosyNel and Jude_E join us in Nelson on Monday.

Nice cache. Quick find when I know what to look for. Tftc

Like these ones. With Toketau

Found thanks to Judithrichards

Found

Collecting a few smiley faces between Blenheim and Kaikoura. Tftc

Another nice quick find. Thanks for the placement. TFTC.

Managed to complete without getting out of the car!

Getting easier to spot these, and better than pill containers.
Back on the Mainland, caching south with the wagging tails, in Van.
Happy New Year, and happy caching TFTC

Thanks for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on wet or plastic logs)
*We soon had another good cache located, now onto the next one!*

Last cache for the night - after 10-30pm now!

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

Good find

(# 5979). Day 2 of my South Island odyssey. Today is getting caches from Blenheim to Kaikoura. The weather was decidedly average with mainly light drizzle interrupted by heavy rain. It's the first time I have driven along the coast since the earthquake. I can now appreciate the carnage that occurred. Even how much the seabed rose around Kaikoura. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

#5 The kids love this train series and we took a frog and left a snake so enjoy

Wow first caching since lockdown. Daytrip to Kaikoura with the family (PDH_NZ) and time to stop along the way. Nice stop here, knew what I was looking for, just took a while to locate it. Another excellent cache hide. SL. TFTC.

Whenever NanaAuckland (Darby&Joan) is in town, geocaching is on the agenda. Today it was a daytrip to Kaikoura, with plenty of time and energy to make stops along the way. Nice stop here but did take us a while to locate it. SL. TFTC.

Quick find.TFTC

This started out as a Geocaching road trip to Invercargill to drop off some stuff for the niece and collect some other stuff for Mrs banian. It turned into a bit of a race back to Wellington to beat the Covid-19 lockdown.
Quick find, I like these cache hides - obvious but hidden in plain sight.

TFTC the Seagnoid.

A quick cache and dash. TFTC

Easy find. Love the history

After spending the night in Blenheim, today we are setting off for Kaikoura with a list of caches we want to find along the way.
A 50km detour up Awatere Valley took up more time than expected, but we are glad we stopped for this trad rather than rushing by. Loved the hide here, so adding a Favourite point. Thanks.

Easy TFTC

Quick park and grab

Found it quickly hidden in plain sight,very clever.Have found simillar..TFTC

.Another of TSs rail series. Another quick snag and tag. Great revisiting here. Cheers

Toby, The Seagnoid and I are off exploring to Kaikoura again today. Its an easy day of mostly P&Gs as TS is the walking wounded at the moment, and not walking much, but can play navigator on this trip. So lets go! A great day with many stops on the way we usually drive past to greener pastures for TS.

Mai9ntenance check - all good here.

A nice quiet spot

Quick and easy. TFTC

Another quick find, plenty of parking for most of these. TFTC tS.

Driving to Christchurch to catch up with family this weekend, a long one for us Malburians. A few caches on the drive down then while the traffic is light and the light is good.

Found on a nice day on a trip south over the long weekend

Offen passed this station but didn't realise there was a cache here. Thanks

Day 6of Streak Week TFTC

Enjoying finding this quality series of Marlborough rail caches today, thanks Seagnoid. The Pointsman's phone booth is quite a feature too.

The train must have spent more time stopping at stations then it did on the move. TFTC

Nice to provide an off road car park for it!

I had originally planned a 2 day overnight caching road trip but some family commitments intervened which shortened my plan to a 1 (long) day road trip instead. I aimed for the east coast south of Blenheim and went for it. Although the weather on the day started out a bit grim and grey, it brightened up as the day wore on and I had a great time finding 40+ caches along the way. After going as far south as the St Michael's Church cache I turned around and headed north and homewards, finding a few more caches that I had left on my way south. There was a KiwiRail van parked at GZ on my way south - and a train going past too - so I left this for my return trip. The coast was clear on my return leg so I pulled in and found the cache nice and quick. Dropped in a trackable too. TFTC, Biggles.

Quick stop on our way to Christchurch for a week. All good here. Thanks the Seagnoid for the cache.

A quick find on the way back from work trip thanks

Meanwhile this is my third geocaching-trip to Middle-Earth . And I love it! [:X]
Still there are routes and places in this beautiful country that are on the 'discover-me' list and want to be visited and explored. .
Starting from Kaikoura, this day (#21) was dedicated to drive up north to Blenheim along the beautiful, scenic route #1 at the coastline [^] - a new experience .
The weather was again blessed with blue skies
Was happy to visit quite a few geo-treasures that seamed the route - just like this one:
The addiction to my new passion (=to collect Marlborough rail caches by the Seagnoid ) is further growing by this great hide ! Yet another one of these fantastic containers around the container! ...
Thanks to the owner [:X] for placing and maintaining these cool rail-caches and best regards from Germany!

Another great Railway cache picked up along the way home. Stunning day along the Kaikoura coast. TFTC

Another one of the seagnoids rail way influenced caches...thanks for the nice clean cache ..it is always refreshing to have something slightly different...well done

Yes, easy to find, but also enjoyable clean and in good condition. Such a welcome change from some!! Thanks for the placement the Seagnoid

Found on 25/01/2019.

I was up at the top of the South Island competing in the South Island Orienteering Champs. This gave me some time to grab some caches on the way there and back. It was great fun to explore a new part of the coutntry.

TFTC the Seagnoid

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

Nice hide. Tftc

Out and about on a road trip from Papamoa to Dunedin. No problem with the find. Merry Christmas and TFTC.

Another one ticked off, lots of work gone into these.

An awesome Molesworth Mission trip with Karma Reprint and The Wanglers (signed as K2T), day three today was from Seddon back home to Canterbury via Kaikoura. Thanks the Seagnoid for the cache, 127 of 132 for the trip. Cheers

A plan was hatched and the plan set into motion, Kiwi Moose and Karma Reprint asked me if I'd like to join them on a Mad Marvelous Molesworth Mission... I asked them to give me a day or two to get back to them. I was able to get the Cachelets sorted so I was on like Donkey Kong.
Day 1: Boys picked me up and we headed to Hanmer for a cache or two and some mean as burgers for dinner. Popped over the Hill and camped at the Acheron DOC campsite. Enjoyed the many stars, we would have enjoyed more if we were on the other side of the trees, doh!
Day 2: Up and at em nice and early and cached our way to the coast. Weather was good with a bit of patchy rain. Spotted the the High Country Flying Club hooning up the valley, we saw 10 or so light aircraft. We were stopped at the Wards Pass by the Molesworth Station Manager Jim and had a sausage and a cuppa while we waited for the mob of 1000 head of cattle to wander up the pass. Great yarns were told by Jim. We decided on a camp site but it was crap and we headed into Seddon for the night at the Awatere Motor Camp.. that was interesting.
Day 3: Worked our way home via the coast and a few side trips. KM's vehicle had started acting up so we nursed her home and got home just after 5pm.
Great company, great fun and a few caches were ticked off the ol' list.
Nice cache.

We signed the log as K²T (Kiwi Moose, Karma Reprint and TheWanglers)

Thanks for the cache the Seagnoid.
#5876
Cache 25 out of 33 for today.
Cache 124 out of 132 for the trip.

Found after a short search, logging in field, TFTC.

TfTC

Was down in the South Island on a personal trip to take care of some family issues that had arose, we decided that we would take the Interislander and make our way South so that we could take our own vehicle and all the supplies that we required as after we worked out the costing's of flying and taking a rental this was the best option for this trip.

Arriving in Blenheim for the night after a late afternoon sailing we decided to stay in our usual accommodation venue for last night. Today we decided was to make our way to Christchurch and catch up with Family and tidy up a few things and stay the night there.

After finding GC40Z51 - Deadmans Stream (Marlborough), this was the next cache that we decided that we would stop and have a look for today. I decided that I would keep my invisibility clock (Hi vis) on as it makes you blend in and no one takes any notice as to what you are doing once you have it on.

Managed to find a parking spot within 20 metres of GZ, while Mrs Yeetrees was taking care of a few things,I was just about to get out of the car but decided to have a quick look and I soon spotted the cache, as I have seen a few of these hides now. Pointed it out to Mrs Yeetrees and she was very impressed with the cache hide.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and then replaced the cache back where I found it. Thanks the Seagnoid for placing another cache here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (13861). This area has changed so much since I was here last which was before the Kaikorura earthquake, was really enjoying the views and the drive South.

Now it is time to continue on our journey South to Christchurch via Kaikorura

Disclaimer: The above log may be based on true or actual events

Thanks for this cache, the Seagnoid - found with warfi on our road trip home after the Welly Mega. My main goal for the day was Marram Grass Wanderings - and that was the cache we found before this one.

Enjoying this series, another quick find. Thank you for placing.

We stopped here for a cuppa and cache. SoBad made the cuppas while Mrs found the cache. Log signed, drinks drunk and we headed towards home. Just with a few more sidesteps for cache from this CO.
Thanks.

Our last few days on holiday, enjoying the sun, the caches.

Thanks to all the cache hiders.

TFTCs

Great series. Circled then spotted. TFTC

Another easy cache on our way north. TFTC

This is our first in this series. We enjoyed the series in the Manawatu so will be looking to complete this one over time.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Great easy find on way to Blenheim for st claire half marathon

Being a relief teacher with a campervan and a supportive family, I decided it was time to make use of the school holidays. I stayed the night at the Top 10.
The end of a lovely stay. I will be back.

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Thanks. the Seagnoid for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 5775 for me.

another quick find albeit a bit damp, thanks for cache

We didn't plan to find this cache, but after negotiating all the road works coming up the coast, we were looking for somewhere to stop for lunch, and spotting a cache on the map, decided this would be a good spot. The nicely hidden cache was a quick easy find, after which we sat in our car and ate our lunch. TFTC