The Sneaky Green Cache Kaniere, South Island, New Zealand
By Lucas & Cyndel on 31-Aug-19. Waypoint GC8D6G9

This one keeps going missing

I couldn't track this sneaky cache down today. There was one spot that was more likely than the rest but it was bare.

VERY SNEAKY PARTNER FOUND IT tfct!!!

Looked for ages! Couldnt find anywhere

This was very sneaky

Definitely sneaky and definitely green. Great one. Pleased to find this fairly quickly, although a couple of wrong spots were examined first. Cheers .

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In the spirit of reconciliation we would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country on which we geocache throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We (the pants people) pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

We also acknowledge the traditional custodians of New Zealand / Aoteroa, as we geocache throughout their land while on holiday.

TFTC,
Great find
AJK444

Great find with AJK444. TFTC

TFTC

Mr 9 found it after a couple of mins looking in the wrong place. Great wee find! TFTC

Tftc!

Found it, but it was exposed on top of the leaf litter. We tucked it away in the geozone. Our 100th find!

Too sneaky for us

This one wasn’t too sneaky to find. Tftc

Not too sneaky, managed to grab it without too much trouble. Tftc

Certainly lives up to its name this one.

1st find on our Hokitika search!!

Sneaky indeed and green!

Found it thank you!

Signed and replaced as found. Many thanks for the cache.

Found with KNCN. Sneaky tftc

The hint was good. Nice sneaky hide tftc

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Beautiful day for geocaching! Finally found this one , thank you

Found it

found it

Thanks!

A bloke was sitting quite close to GZ reading But we managed to find it right under his nose TFTH

Good hiding spot

FITW Harisree


Here in coast for work.

Grabbing few while in this area

TFTC

FITW Albijos
When Albi mentioned about his work commitments at Fox Glacier, as always we decided to make a trip out of it, but this time its a long over due overnight one. Spending quality time together, enjoying the drive, picking up some caches, small walks, and also cherry on top, a Heli ride woo-hoo.
First took the wrong path to the cache and got stuck as there was no way to go further. Corrected ourselves and then cache was soon in hand. TFTC.

Found it

Quick find but fun

Easy find

We stopped here to check on this one for the kids and was gone so we replaced it with the same type of container. We didnt have a green one so we made do with what we had. Still in theme but probably much more obvious. All good to go again. Happy Caching

We were persistent but no luck

It’s a little green thing

Took way longer than I would like to admit got I bit frustrated feels good to find it

Great cache and took us a minute or two. Lovely spot that needs a little TLC. TFTC

Yay found it!!

Found with Kiwimykl. Today is the fifth day of our visit, and todays mission is to tidy up a few areas where we didn't quite achieve what we intended to do early in the holiday. That means a revisit to Londonderry Rock and Hokitika Gorge, do the Woodstock Rimu Heritage Trail and grab a few PnGs on the way back to Greymouth. Having ticked off all of the major missions mentioned above we are now on the road back to Greymouth and stopped by here for a QEF PnG.

Kiwimykl and I decided to spend a few days based in Greymouth between Christmas and New Years as a geocaching break from our greater family, who we are having three camping/caravanning holidays between 17 Dec 2021 and 24 Jan 2022. Over five days we cached the 'Grey' area taking in such places as the Larriken Track, Omutumotu Bush Walk, Mahinapua Tramway, Brunner Mine Site including both sides of the Grey River as far as Stillwater, Hokitika Gorge, Woodstock Rimu Heritage Trail, Rewanui Walkway, some Survivor series puzzles we missed on a previous visit as well as a few PnGs in between the various locations. Our logs were either in full or abridged to KM + ND as log space permitted.

Thanks to all to CO's who placed and maintained these caches, especially G7&M and H&H. However from the amount of pill bottles used as cache containers, we have serious concerns about your respective health and wish you all the best in that respect. As a token of our gratitude, we left a token of our appreciation behind which will become apparent in due course.

TFTC Lucas & Cyndel

Found with NZDi, refer to her log for details.

TFTC Lucas & Cyndel

Easy find for the 7 year old. Thanks

Found with Judith . Sneaky hide. TFTC

Good find. With Kaz53

Tftc good holiday adventure

A bit hard and fun

Not to hard but it was a cool spot

Easy find

Fun activity during lockdown. You won't get too wet

Hard to find but cool

Quick easy find today. Thanks for the cache

Phew chilly here this morning TFTC

Stopped here for lunch after walking round the heritage track. tftc

My 4th coach for the afternoon. Such a lovely day to be out walking

Sneaky it was, I was looking at the completely wrong spot at the beginning!! Crawling in the bushes to get to the corner. Then I rechecked and GPS lead me to another area, searched again in several corners that were so wrong, finally I used the map view of my phone and it was showing the green dot on top of the roof, which only could mean one thing. So around in circles I went and eventually found it. Thanks and sorry for late logging

Cool wheel barrow

Easy find for Miss 5 on our way to Hokitika gorge. Tftc

Easy find. Did the lovely bush walk afterwards. Then had a cup of tea before departing.

We stopped to see the giant wheelbarrow and noticed that there was a cache nearby. M walked all the way around and found the cache at the last corner.

Lovely area, thank you for taking us there. On holiday in Hokitika for a few days and looking forward to getting a few smileys while we are here. Good start today finding this cache as we thought it would be harder than it was. Cache is all good. TFTC

Nice excursion to locate while visiting the town.

A quick fibd in the dark with Nanzie. Thanks Lucas & Cyndel

#10722

Quick find tftc Lucas & Cyndel

Found after driving from Christchurch over to Hokitika. Flat plains to the sky, into the foothills, over the pass, gorges and dense forest. Magic scenic country. We loved the barrow. TFTC

Coordinates were slightly out for me so it was just a matter about been logical as to where I looked. Thanks for the placement.

Too many muggles around having afternoon drinks to risk looking for this one today. We will be back.

Nearby muggles were taking cuttings from the gardens. TFTC

East find on a fine cool day. TFTC

Found while visiting hokitika. Great cache, thank you. Left TB been looking after since pre covid.

What a beautiful place for a cache. Found with everdene22

Thank you for this cache, Lucas & Cyndel.
Spending the afternoon caching in Hokitika on a expedition with lytteltonwitch, before we head to Greymouth for the weekend. This was an interesting location & well hidden cache.

A quick find in an interesting area

Out with Mr C's cousin, picked up son from rest home and had a nice drive out. Stopped for an ice cream then came here. This sure was a sneaky hide, was third time looking here when Mr C spotted it yeh. Thanks for this cache Lucas & Cyndel.

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!*

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

After doing the walk at the Hokitika Gorge I decided to try this one. I think I have been here before though not certain.

Cheers for the cache.

Took a couple of minutes.

Made this my first stop on my cyclocache tour of Hokitika. Thanks for placing this cache Lucas & Cyndel. Sorry your first one went missing.

Tyfc nice easy find

Great find with blunsdon. Thank you for the cache

Yeah boyyy

Found

Had it not been for IceBerguson,, this cache would have been lost to me as is the dead of the might on a caching tour. Last one before we head home. Tftc

Yes yes yes this one was well guarded

Took a while, I am the first one for ten months

Lying out in vegetation. Tucked into corner. 3

With a bit of imagination you could say that it was raining, but we did not need raincoats or anything of that nature. none the less, it was nice of the CO to provide this large rain shelter to help us keep the drips off the logbook.

Taybeedragon and I are off on another weekend's exploring - again! This time to the West Coast. The company owes me some time so I took Friday off. Lots of rain on the way down, but after that it was a nice cloudy-but-not-rainy weekend. It never rains on the West Coast when I come to visit! Parked Zara in Greymouth and on Saturday came down this way in Toby. Taybeedragon had an excellent trip planned - two cycle trips, some TMGTs and adventure labs, 74 caches all up today.

Second day of a two week motorhome excursion, heading via the Coast to the lower South Island, picking up a few caches along the way – 13 today. After enjoying the Treetop Walk and walking a nearby trail to Lake Mahinapua, we stopped to look for this cache on our way back to Hokitika. It was a reasonably quick find and our last one for the day. #3327. TFTC.

We were in Hoki doing abit of maintenance and was heading home when Mum spotted this unfound cache on the nav screen so we stopped to rectify that. We were with the CO's when it was hidden so we knew it was in the wrong spot so after signing it we put it back to where it should go. Thanks for the cache munchkins

After conquering Mt Brown and claim the ftf at the same time anything else I do today would be a walk in the park .
Nice quick find tftc

Lockdown morning adventure!

Nice one!

At GZ we met a lovely man, born in Indonesia, raised in Holland and now a local resident. He was enjoying a takeaway linch and we chatted at length about the European Community and Brexit about which he was very well informed nd enthusiastic - as we are. The cache was soon in hand - we shared with him our geocaching experiences all over the world. SL. TFTC Thanks for bringing is to this peaceful p,ace with its interesting history. Have aFav point. It’s a p,ace we wouldn’t have visited if it wasn’t for this cache.

Went back and had another look. Good find

Sorry looked hard

Tftc

Good find

With The Tramline walkway over, we walk towards Sneaky Green Cache to be stopped by Troodles and StreetwalkerNZ who have just visited it. Caught up on some news then off to get this one snagged and tagged. Cheers

Friday 7 February. Its on our bikes at Lake Mahinapua. Then off to Hokitika Gorge and Lake Kaniere and back to Hokitika. Moved north with Zara to Kumara Junction for the night. So lets go exploring!

Making a long weekend out of Waitangi Day exploring the West Coast with Zara Toby, Bullertrout and Bro. Its Waitangi Day today. Exploring Hokitika, Ross, Hokitika George, Lake Mahinapua, Lake Kaniere areas today. Great time and visited some amazing places..

#17838. We were initially in the wrong place; found after a bit of searching once in the right location. TFTC.