Bigger is Better (Mananui, West Coast) Ruatapu, South Island, New Zealand
By gracie7 + Mum on 24-Apr-17. Waypoint GC74JZ3

Nice spot and a beauty of a tree

As I walked up the track my GPSr took me to the right hand side where there are two places that fit the cache name, but neither produced the cache. I went across the track to the third possibility and found the cache there. I guess biggest is best. TFTC.

Found it while on vacation from WI USA. On tour with Moa Trek. TFTC

Quick find. We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.Thanks for showing us this place, & for placing and maintaining this cache. The is our playground

Day 3 of trip with Blue Jay around the south island. Today we went from Hokitaki to Fox Glazier and again saw some beautiful countryside..This cache was found along the route.TFTC. Toffee Man.

Thanks for the gorgeous walk - caches are the bonus! TFTC

A lovely tree, a whole world growing on it. Spotted the cache easily despite the numerous hidey holes. Thanks for placing

Quick find in a beautiful spot.

Magnificent tree, on a beautiful walk. Thank you for bringing me here

thanks

Trouve !

Tftc

TFTC awesome spot and nice bush walk

Tftf

Easy find for the grandson

1MinnieMoo and I were in the area and thought it would be plain rude not to grab this one.Thankfully it was a nice quick find. A lovely place for a cache. TFTC gracie7 + Mum

25/9/2023 Find #6609Day 17 of the Fangsoki/1MinnieMoo New Zealand South Island adventure. Todays journey would take us from Hokitika to Nelson. A lot of driving to be done, but before we began the trip towards Nelson, we just had to detour for a couple of older caches in Hokitika first. Having grabbed the older cache here we headed back towards the van and stopped for this one. Quickly found at a beautiful big tree. Thanks for the cache gracie7 + Mum.

Found

Quite easy find tftc ️

Back to resign and log as found
Thank you for the cache

TFTC

First looked on the wrong site of the track. Then had a look to the bigger. Thanks

First we were looking for it on the other side of the track but finally we found it. TFTC

TFTC

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we are currently parked up at the DoC Lake Mahinapua Campsite … we’d been down to Ross & were heading back to our campsite but decided to detour & have a look for a few more local caches … we picked the TB out of this cache, it can go for a wander with us for the next wee while, till we find somewhere appropriate to drop it … this cache was easily found, log completed & replaced … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #3,906 for us.

Day 7 on our holiday in New Zealand. Today our tour is going from Fox Glacier to Punakaiki. We also visited this traditional cache, found it, and signed the logbook.



***T4T$ - Many Thanks to gracie7 + Mum for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Quickly found using the hint; TFTC

A nice find along this lovely walk. TFTC

Easy find with Cympull. TFC

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches.
Found with Fisha1288
Cheers, Cympull.

We would never had walked here if it weren't for geocaching - thanks once again co - TFTC

Lovely specimen

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I remember coming here before we had a kid and doing this walk in terribly heavy rain, silly idea, Lovely today.

Pretty easy, nice spot

Cool walkway and easy find

If first you do succeed keep looking

A quick easy find on a nice Sunday bush walk. Cache all good In The hood. Thanks for the placement

Parked up on the return journey from Hokitika back down south. On a mission to find another oldie on the track. A lovely stroll on the sheltered track away from the strong cold wind. Easy quick find, good hint, cache all good tftc

Found with nana (wombats_4) a big one and a nice hiding hole tftc

There was just one place the cache could be, but I approaached from the wrong side. SW approached from the "right" side and made a quick find.
Big is good. TFTC.

#21547. The second cache along the track was also a quick find. Enjoying the walk (and the fact that it's not a long one; it was well into the afternoon and we were a little weary). TFTC.

Beautiful big trees in here and such a peaceful walk , cicadas were absolutely humming today ! Love the sound of summer ! Great quick find

We had to look at the second bigger option. Coordinates are a bit off but the hint was very helpful. Kiddos loved the beach!

A quick find on a lovely walkway.

#6779

Wow this little area is beautiful! I never would have thought to come here if it wasn't for the caches!

Just about got muggled but managed to stay stealth. Great hide. TFTC

Great find

Amazing Bush! Thanks for taking me here. TFTC

On the Coast for 6 days white baiting and finding a few caches. Tftc

Found on this wet day as I was signing the cache 2 hounds were on the track whete i was.
Thank you for the cache

TFTC!

Found with NZDi. We are heading to the Wet Coast on a trip to help support the Hokitika and Franz Josef post-Covid lockdown tourism industry. The package includes a nights accommodation in Hokitika and Franz Josef, entry to the West Coast Tree Top Walk and the Franz Josef Wildlife Centre as well as a helicopter flight over the Franz Josef Glacier all for $299 per person. We had two glitches on our trip, the first was when we were turned back at O'Sullivans bridge due to a slip at Lyell. The second was going into Level 4 lockdown at midnight tonight cutting our trip short. The slip at Lyell wasn't much of a drama, as we detoured through Springs Junction causing a 30 minute addition to our travelling time.

Our main caching target for this trip was to gather enough metres to climb Puncak Jaya in the GCHQ Reach the Peak Challenge.

We noticed a handy trio of caches on the way back to town from doing the Tree Tops Walk, so stopped by here for a QEF SWaG (Short Walk and Grab). NZDi found this one while c:geo led me astray elsewhere.

TFTC G7&M

Found on the way back to Hokitika after doing the Tree Top walk with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC gracie7 + Mum

We spent time admiring the host of this cache while muggles passed by before moving in for the find. This is a lovely little walk. TFTC

I've lost count of the number of people who have spotted me in the bush off the walking track - I am sure they must all think I'm having a pee in the bush!! The same thing happened here!! TFTC

Thanks

We were out for the day on a maintenance run and came to check on this due to the DNFs. The cache was just were it should be and all fine. Also we couldnt see any sign of the supposedly broken limb and the 2 DNFs have actually signed the log. All good here. Happy Caching

Looked n searched thoroughly but nothing here. Will be back to grab this

Had a good look for this one ,the tree that looks like the hide has a broken limb that may brought attention of muggles. Look forward to another walk to find

We had found the cache at the beach in 2005 so pulled in hoping to find the other 2 caches here on the way back to the motel. We decided to go for this one first which proved to be a mustake. When we got there we found neither of the two pens Mrs SoBad took with us worked. So a quick walk back to the car for a replacement and on the way back we passed 2 sets of people heading back to the carpark. If we had found the carpark cache first we would have realised the pens were useless and saved the extra wlak. Lovely aming the trees though.
Thanks.

A nice clean dry log to sign. TFTC

We noted last time we were here that this logbook was abit damp so while we were out on the other side of the lake we came around here to remedy that. A new book was added and its All good to go here again . Happy Caching

I spent quite some time thinking about which was bigger, and just where my little arrow was trying to point me. Then at last I was signing the log. TFTC.

Stopped to do this lovely walk and find the caches. It is gorgeous thru here. Thanks for this cache Gracie7 + Mum.

Walked from lake mahinapua. The km along road wasn’t great but this bush makes it worthwhile. NINO 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)
*We soon had another good cache located!*

This is a very nice track and we enjoyed the visit!

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

Quick find after a bit of bush bashing. TFTC!!

Another nice walk.

Second week of school holidays and off on a small family camper van holiday between kids football games & practices! West Coast here we come.
After another night in Hokitika. Up early again to catch reflections in Lake Mahinipua. Then on to this lovely walkway. Just as we arrived the two other cars in the wee carpark up and left (do we smell that bad?) leaving the whole area to noisy us. What a lovely walk! Mr12 found this cache in the likely spot. Thanks! We can hear the surf - beach getting close! Onwards!

another good one with the kids cheers

Got this one

We checked on this one while we were here replacing the missing cache at the carpark.
It was in the wrong position (not put back at the hint) and now the log is quite damp
Its still writable for now but we will replace it next time we happen to be passing.

Beautiful bit of bush. Tftc

Found a lot lower than waist high. Thanks gracie7 + Mum

#9694

Quick easy find damp log gracie7 + Mum

Long overdue caching road trip,heading to hokitika for the long weekend.after checking into my hostel and grabbing a quick lunch it was time to head back out plenty of daylight
Found on the way to the beach no problem with this one..tftc

My very first one ever! I was beyond excited.. nice easy find.

Easy find on the coast. Greetings from Missouri USA. T4T$

Thanks

Thanks

Found with MrsC on our NZ travels from the UK. Thanks. Great location.

Found with mr c on our travels from the UK thank you.

Nice find. Biwer original sends Greetings from Germany and thanks for the Cache.

Auf unserer Rundreise durch Neuseeland kamen wir an diesem cache vorbei...Jeder Meter dieses Landes ist es wert sich anzusehen..wir wsren begeistert und auch die vielseitigen caches haben uns gefallen..danke fürs pflegen und legen

Had to search for a while

Nice tree. Found on our way from Franz Josef to Arthurs Pass. TFTC!

Quick find.
TFTC
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Well hidden easy find container is wet inside

The cache title made for a quick easy find. TFTC

Fast spotted, the hint helped. TFTC

Another nice quick find here. TB dropped. tftc

Nice walk and find thanks

Thank you for taking us here.
TFTC. Greetings from Brazil!

I am on holiday with Nana and we headed off to Hokitika to have a picnic lunch with my cousins Lucas and Cyndel, after lunch we went on this walk to play on the beach. We were walking along the track and I saw this huge tree and I said to Nana "that would be a great tree to hide a cache" and Nana said to have a look and YAH I found a cache and signed the log and put it back. Thanks Aunty Grace for putting a cache were would have hidden one.

What an impressive tree. This was a good hide and took us ages and left us with dirty and wet hands. Thanks Gracie 7 for this cache.

Called here this afternoon, it took me ages to find this one. I had started searching in the right place but missed it - the coordinates weren’t all that accurate and by the look of all the trampled ground around nearby trees, I wasn’t the only person having problems. And I realised later that if I had had the photo it would have made things a lot easier! Found it at last in a spot I had already checked several times. Signed log, TFTC.

A quick Bush walk and a quick find.
TFTC
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Quick find. TFTC.