Puwaha Trail Bee - ware Westport, South Island, New Zealand
By weenz on 13-Dec-20. Waypoint GC93W9R

Tftc had to write sideways. no room left

Just passing through Westport for a day after hiking the wonderful and delightful Heaphy Track. Goodness, Westport has far more geocaches than Id expected. TFTC!Spent 5 minutes poking around the wrong $hintObject, only to realise there was another one right next it.Getting a bit tight for space on the log.

Another nice quick find while out for a short walk this morning, TFTC

Loving the walk

Great find

Picture made it easy

Easy find tftc

The log needs to be replaced, but good find!

Out for a bike ride from the NZMCA park to Tauranga Bay and back. Not sure how many caches I can grab as today this trail is very busy - but doing my best not to be muggled.TFTC

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A nice quick find. On my bike for a pre dinner ride. Nice. Note some of the logs are full and are in need of replacement. Thanks for placing your cache. It has been a while since we got back from Europe, and it is time for us to see more of Home. Ms_KR and I are off to the West Coast for a wee break, and some caching. Today cruised around the area picking up plastic boxes!Occaisionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

Nicely hidden under a stump, hope youve been going to the gym and can move stuff

Hard

Amazing, quick find TFC

Walking the Kawatiri Coastal and Heritage Trail — Section 1 Puwaha — Westport to Carters Beach collecting caches along the way; TFTC

Good hide on my way back to Westport on my bike. TNLN
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Back on the west coast and calling westport home for the next wee while having picked up work in the area. So time to turn all that green , yellow..
Couldnt see it fir looking at it good size container so dropped off a tb tftc

Quick find tftc weenz

A gap in the muggles helped here.

Cheers and thanks,
S.t.

AliGle and I were traveling around the middle and upper South Island, with the main focus being the completion of the PWGT3 and PWGT4 GeoTours, but we found a few other caches along the way. As there was a PWGT cache on this trail, we decided we'd explore a bit more of it and find some more of the caches along the way. A quick find here, TFTC!

Another quick find with Vistra. Tftc

Heading on a wee family summers holiday.
Reefton done, now time for a few nights in Carters Beach.
Came out for a mornings Bike ride with MrsTG before our planned adventure up to Denniston. Finding every 2nd one in the Westport direction, returning will find the skipped ones...
Had to wait for a runner to go past before making the find and sign. Thanks.

While I finished off the last cache and replaced it, Andy came on to this one and was still hunting when I arrived. He found it not log after and we signed and replaced then headed off again.

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Found with Cympull. Nice doer upper across the track. 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.

Another quick find. TY!

Finally time for our last PW Pilgrimage to the mighty west coast! A trip initially timed with the Wild Foods Festival. Justlooking00 and I are finally here. Day 3 is the turn south again from Westport to Blackball via HW7. After two days of rain and weather warnings we have sunshine. A lovely walk through the bush here with birds singing early morning (and have i mentioned the sunshine?) Thank you for the cache.

We came to Westport area for the long weekend with the hope of finding all the caches along this trail and a few more. We woke to such a calm sunny morning it was just stunning. The further we got along this trail the windier it got - and the wind just kept increasing - I wish I had taken a hat with me.
This was another nice quick find as per the hint - there were a few muggles around this morning so we wanted to be as quick as we could at each stop.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Poor tree

Big stump

Pretty solid 7/10 would find again

Enjoyed doing the bike trail and enjoying the caches

Enjoyed the walk to this cache Thank you for the cache great hide

Quick find while biking on a lovely evening

Very easy find thanks to the hint, it’s very wet inside.

Took the TB so that it’ll dry out.

Thanks!

Yep had to wait for more muggles to pass. Such a popular track. Not surprising really, it is lovely.
Thanks for putting this here

What a lovely track to cycle. Have see a few people out and about today. How long have those B's been there. Found easily and good to see it survive the floods. TFTC

An easy find here and our number 3 along this track. Thanks.

Covered in sand, lucky didnt get washed away

We stayed last night in Westport, and today are travelling along the coast to Greymouth. But before we leave Westport we wanted to pick up the PWGT cache along the Puwaha Trail, and of course find the other 4 Trads along the way. This shady section of the track was very welcome, with the sun pretty hot even this early in the day. No problem making the find here, thanks.

We hired bikes for the afternoon and headed out to check out this trail. We could see that the recent flood water had reached gz, but the cache was secure in its hiding place. We emptied out the water and dried the cache as best we could. The log was still dry. TFTC

A nice bike track

I love this bike track This is JDScouts and my final long summer holiday in the camper. We're on a tour of the West Coast and geocaching is one of the things on our agenda.

Thanks for hiding this cache weenz I appreciate it.

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On my bike along the Puwaha Trail.

Quickly spotted.

Cheers for the cache.

An early morning bike ride enjoying the local trail, some good scenery, and grabbing a few caches. TFTC

Up in CHCH for work and have a few days off so a good chance to get on the road and do the top part of the south islands PWGT caches and to grab a few others along the way. This was an easy park and grab so had to get it. TFTC

Quick Find. TFTC

Taybeedragon, Zara, Toby and and I are off for a few days catching up with PWGTs on the West Coast. Zara had a slow start and needed a jump start to get us on the road Thursday evening. Camped out just past Murchison Thursday Night. Lots of driving missing most of the rain on Saturday. Visited Shanty Town, Punakaiki and Denniston before returning home on Sunday. Lots of driving with all target caches bagged. A great trip with taybeedragon. Now to plan our next adventure.
Sorry for logging late these were found on the weekend of 16 sep to 19 sep 2021.

The lid for the outer container was lying in the ground beside the rest, last signed 2 days ago so no chance of any rain getting in. Returned properly. Left TB. Thanks weenz

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Found with Buller High School DT10

Cool

Today my plan is to cache around the Westport area. Weather not that great but I've got my raincoat so it OK - not too cold anyway. My last walk for today. I parked at the bridge end of the trail and walked along as far as the culvert cache and back. Hmm. Warning sign seems to have gone but the cache is still there. TFTC, Biggles.

23 October 2021 19:53. Another bQEF as we walked towards the PWGT cache. Still plenty of light left for searching.

#10,123. Day 4 of the geocaching road trip. Infoferret and I flew down from Wellington on Wednesday and have spent a couple of nights in Greymouth. But its time to leave now and head to our next lodgings in Westport. We have geotour caches to find, some adventure labs and a lot of solved puzzles on the way. Will pick up any traditional caches if we have time. The weather is still holding out and its another fine, warm, sunny spring day.

I found this new track much more to my liking than Denniston. Sure there is developed dairy farmland close by but the river views are great and the small copses of native bush had a lot of wildlife present. We started this track at dusk after stopping in Westport for dinner. Plan was to walk down and grab the geotour cache then pick these up on the return. But IF once again showed her lack of discipline and broke ranks to find and sign this cache. Replaced the cache where found. Thanks weenz for hiding the cache here.

On a trip with Ruru_NZ to gather the tour caches needed or in my case not done yet. Should be able to knock them off on this trip.

Day 8 - Labour weekend extended road trip with Kiwicampnut - relocated to stay south of the ditch.
Gould nice and dry on tbe way back from PWGT. Luckily no bees around today.
Thanks for the cache weenz
# 3025 22 October 2021 1:25 pm

Found .thank you for placing these caches along this trail. I won't get them all but a few is good.

Drawing closer to the end of this section TFTC

Had a great day on the E-bike, caching on the Westport cycle trails, 39km 6hrs and 44 caches, trails in great order. - Many Thanks Bitsprayer

We have dropped Zara in Westport and exploring with Toby. Time to stretch these legs. Too many hours driving so am enjoying this. We are after the PWGT but scooping others up along this track. No bees today so all clear to get this one snagged and tagged. Cheers.

Taybee NZ, Zara, Toby and I are off for a few days catching up with PWGTs on the West Coast. Zara had a slow start and needed a jump start to get us on the road Thursday evening. Camped out just past Murchison Thursday Night. Lots of driving missing most of the rain on Saturday. Visited Shanty Town, Punakaiki and Denniston before returning home on Sunday. Lots of driving with all target caches bagged. A great trip with Taybee NZ. Now to plan our next adventure.

️️ It’s still there after the flood.

Quick find today as we walk a small part of this trail to find the geotour cache further down. Heading through to Nelson today. Lucky the rain held off for us as we wandered along learning more history . Thinking it would be a good bike ride.
TFTC

On a PWGT expedition to the South Island with Gorby, RustyNZ, Rebel98 and boneybruce. TFTC!!!

We flew down from Auckland to Nelson for another session upon the PWGT caches and other caches that appeal. This is our last trip for the series and will complete it in the 4 days we have allowed ourselves. On this trip there is myself, rustynz, FMZ, Rebel98 and Bony-Bruce (FMZ’s mascot) starting in Nelson and heading north as far as Abel Tasman and then way south of Fox Glacier. 1500km of driving in our trusty rental.

Gradually making it back to the car despite the crappy weather, looking forward to breakfast somewhere.

With a group of Westies (rustynz, rebel98, gorby, FMZ and boney bruce) on a caching adventure in the South Island

No bees seen today, but the orange marker is flapping in the breeze, so knew where to avoid.

As to the cache, all good in its hiding place, thanks again weenz for the hide. We are walking the trail today, on our way back to the car.

Fun find with a group of Westies. Thanks for the hide

Was very BEE WARE but algood here today thanks. Nice to be out enjoying this trail.

Buller High School Digital Tech yr 10 Class Field trip

Didn’t see orange flag or bees
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We drove in for an afternoons caching on our bikes. Parked up at the playground and rode towards the Cape to begin with.
Now off to the bridge and back.
A quick find. TFTC

Caching with Sidewaze. Apologies for the late log - working at catching up. I enjoyed finding your cache. TFTC

Yes we did be bee aware but we needn't have worried, didn't see or hear one bee but found a cache and signed the log. Thanks for bringing us here.

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We, Miss 8, Miss 9 and I, walked from the Westport end out to Carters Beach. What an awesome trail. Highlights were the information boards the friendly people and hearing a Fernbird. We also saw an enormous rat so hopefully some trapping occurs along the trail. This was awesome seeing the beehive, we did loiter a wee bit as it was fascinating to watch. Quick easy find at this spot.

Nice quick find today. On my way back to the car.

I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

Quick easy find. TFTC

While on the geotour cache hunt I was able to also grab the odd cache here and there, this was one of them.
thanks for the placement - cache is all in good order

TFTC, nice quick find. out for a quick walk before the rain

Had to wait for some muggles to go past then a quick find, TFTC

Tyftc

3km Walk today with Blake (2) Quinn (5) and Docndi. Left a car at one end and drove to othe end of the track. Caches were easy enough for the kids who loved finding these. Awesome little walkway. Tftc

Great co ordinates ..landed me right on the spot...no bee's around to day ..maybe too windy for them....thanks weenz

I stopped just past the signs and tried to see where the bees were, but there didn't seem to be any activity there. Probably just as well. Thanks for the cache weenz

Nice to find such a good sized cache here. The sign says don't loiter but I wasn't going to walk past the cache. In the end no need to loiter as it was a nice quick find. TFTC # 16,684

Thought there it will be.
On a trip hunting out PWGT caches, and picking others up on the way past. This is one of those, tftc

Continuing on our PWGT journey visiting the top of the Mainland this weekend. Quick find while completing the trail TFTC.

Buzzzzzy little beezzzzz.

Cache is all good. TFTC, SWAG added.

Another great find on this beautiful trail. Sl. Tftc

Found 21.2.21

On a visit to the West Coast we came to Westport specifically when we heard a section of this trail had been opened. And we weren’t disappointed. Its and easy, scenic and enjoyable ride and we look forward to visit again as further sections are finished. TFTC

Found 7/2/21

Enjoyed the stroll along the river. A fleeting visit this time as I’m doing a loop to Westport and back to Greymouth to get the geotour caches. Read the info as I was leaving the last cache and made a quick find without getting the gps out of my pocket. Tftc

Full log to come

Good find

Great walk from Carter’s beach to Westport with the family on a sunny day. TFTC. Good hide

Over time we watched our sea of yellow in and around Westport slowly being interspersed with green. So a plan was hatched to spend a few days and remedy the situation and even taking the opportunity by leaving some similar offerings. Being walkers we decided to warm up along the rock wall at the golf course before sampling Puwaha, the first section of the Kawatiri Coastal and Heritage Trail. After we found a nice shady spot for the car we set off from the Carter's Beach end in pursuit of a variety caches. It soon proved that no expense had been spared to create a fantastic trail that makes the most of the unique landscape using bridges, boardwalks and a wide and well constructed pathway. Well used by walkers, runners and cyclists we still found enough time to find caches and complete the formalities without being muggled. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience we will recommend to anybody willing to listen. After finishing our walk there were still a few caches left which we found while exploring town and country in the coming days. Thank you weenz for a wonderful experience.

Now that the 'silly season" is behind us it was time to think about heading off for a few days somewhere. With the proliferation of new caches in this area it made sense to head to Westport and park up for a few days.
We decided to walk this trail towards Westport with the idea that if necessary we could finish it from the other end tomorrow. As it turned out it took much less time and effort than we had assumed so was completed in one attempt.
I noted the warning signs here but no bees thankfully.
Thank you weenz.

3rd find of the last day of our holiday in Westport. TFTC