Serpentine Beach Westland District, South Island, New Zealand
By maitahisteve on 16-Dec-20. Waypoint GC93Y91

has had a wash and like the water so much it went for a permanent swim.

have to check

So much erosion along the coast line here where coordinates are…. Sadly nothing here.

Initially surprised that it wasn’t obvious given previous logs. However we could see that there has been rapid erosion —— big pile of sand fallen down since the last rain, and suspect cache has gone with it.

What a lovely spot. A few people around but nobody paying any attention to me. TFTC.

With sveppi on our 2 week Chriatmas break in the South Island, we deove to the end of the road and fossicked for Pounamu for 4 hours. I grabbed the cache on the way down to the beach. Easy find. As for the Pounamu, we are still figuring out if our green stones are greenstone!

Nice quiet place for lunch and a stroll on the beach.

A bit of an impromptu visit for coffee at the beach. Lucky I checked for caches and took a pen
Cache in good nick, not many muggles today.

TFTC maitahisteve
Find number 4832

(Logs signed Rincewind3 or R3 if saving space. Occasionally signed BRN if caching as a team with *B*o&bronnie, *R*incewind3 and *N*otManlyJack)

Nice quick find TFTC

With 2 caches to find here, it was worth the wee detour en route to Greymouth. Lots of cars parked along the road to GZ, and I wondered what they were here for.
It didn't take long to find the cache, which was good as neither of us were wearing our jerseys and it was quite chilly at GZ with the sea breeze. TFTC.

#21551. There were a few people on the beach, but nobody near GZ. Quick find here. TFTC.

The two container system seems an effective way of keeping the log bone dry. From arrival to discovery about 3 seconds. Thanks.

A quick easy find on our road trip. Log was very wet, we have replaced with a sheet of waterproof paper. Original log left in outer cache. TFTC!

Found on a nice trip down the coast. Hopefully tomorrow will go over Arthur's Pass

A bit of heavy rain didn't stop us from finding the Cache down at the Beach.TFTH

Easily found

Found on our road trip, log book is wet.

Lovely beach - over 20 years since I did the Coast to Coast, thanks CO for bringing me back - TFTC

Tftc lovely day lovely beach

After passing this road many times over the last year or so I finally came down here to see the beach. Beautiful place to visit. Quick find. TFTC

No camo on this container. Regis as best we could. TFTC

Nice easy find. Tftc

Clever hide, log was a little wet.

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 maitahisteve

Found with Judith. A stayed a nice easy park and grab. TFTC

Quick find

GK hung out here while ML was on her mission = mission accomplished.

There was a huge digger working around here, it had widened the road and then headed away off down the beach road.

The ocean was fantastic to watch and surprisingly there were quite a few people around even though the weather was not all that flash.

The cache was an instant find in the obvious place.

We have been here a few times before and always stop to admire the wapiti on the way in, their velvet was looking pretty impressive today, even though they are not at the full height yet.
Thanks for placing this cache and thank you for the smiley

Kia ora koutou katoa.

Back after our enforced covid holiday.

Have fun.

Unfortunately all Geocaching through level 3 MUST STOP.

https://www.covid19outdoors.nz/

At Alert Level 3

Geocaching, Orienteering and Rogaining are not allowed.

Do not touch geocaches, orienteering markers or any other object if you come across one.

The principles of outdoor recreation at this alert level are:

No gathering for active recreation with people outside your bubble.
You can travel for active recreation within your region.
Maintain physical distancing (2 metres) with people outside your bubble.
You are encouraged to wear a face mask
Always scan in using the QR code
If you feel unwell, stay at home

just on dark, a wee bit of rain, but the place is busy. - Thanks Bitsprayer

A nice quick find as I slowly head back home today picking up a few target caches on the way. This one was close to a targeted one so picked up while I was here. TFTC # 17,384

Found on a beautiful crisp winter morning

TFTC maitahisteve #845, 9 June 2021

Heading to hokitika for the long weekend, plan A was to cit through the old Christchurch road...bit no closed for grading ....so onto plan b ...
Found in the rain...

On a west coast oe and on our way to Nelson for a few days . My first time to travel up the west coast of the south island In 20 years so this time we get to cache our way in to uncharted territory, so let's see what fun adventures awaite us bring it on.
After over night rain the day cleared and we got a spectacular west coast day .
I quick stop here to pick up this one and complete the needed paperwork before heading north.
A nice walk to nab this one

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Good quick find when ya know where to look

Brrrr, but a goody. Thanks for bringing us here.

On a trip to Nelson for a tramp walking the Able Tazman.
Rainy but found.
Found with annielin and downsouthinv.
Tftc

We are back in greymouth and wondered why this one did not have a smiley face when we done the tmgt back around the corner and we checked it out and we had signed it.
Tftc

Found on a nice walk , didn’t get to sign as left pen in the car . Few swaps in there . The deer are roaring down here and man they stink ! Check them out as they are very cool to see how they do the wild thing lol

If only finding punamu was as easy to find . TFTC

Quick find. Surprised at how many people around here. TFTC

Super easy!

Wow it's lovely at the beach.

Tyfc ,nice easy find with Kerry owl, 3rd time lucky with muggles normally parked here

Great find with blunsdon. Thank you for the cache

A nice quick find thanks. Fav Point for the hint!!

Ms_KR and I went for a wee holiday on the West Coast, chasing some of new PWGT over there, and any others we need to find.

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

Sunny sandy and super. Tftc

Out on a gc adventure and stopped here for late picnic lunch. Great spot got busy as we left. Thanks for the cache maitahisteve.

There were a few muggles fishing on the beach but no one near GZ. Thanks maitahisteve

#10745

Lovely beach pretty calm today a few bods fishing not sure if they got anything thanks for this cache maitahisteve

Cache was a quick find and I walked as truck picking up portaloos was in the way

Walked on to here from the nearby TMGT cache. No problems, a quick find in the obvious spot. Signed log, TFTC!

Found the obvious hiding spot in the dark without too much problem but did a few laps before I found the cache! Daylight would have been much easier though I’m close to finally getting 100 caches in a day. Tftc

Too many geocaches... but got this one. TFTC

On our way home now as work tomorrow. Had to stop by here for something else so grabbed the cache on the way. tftc

A bumpy drive to the cache site to find a camper van parked overlooking the area. We hoped they didnt think too much of a couple of oldies wandering around the place. TFTC

Lovely spot on a drizzly afternoon. The rain didn't stop 3 locals from fishing off the beach, but i suspect that to locals a steady drizzle doesn't count as "rain".

Quickly located the obvious feature, then hilariously circled it a few times before noticing the natural camo.

Now the big event is over we can turn our thoughts to geocaching again and since it's a cracker day here on the Coast why not start today. Phone GPS was giving us a bit of a runaround here so Hazedarus got the Garmin out and immediately found the cache where I had looked earlier, oops!
Thank you maitahisteve and Season's Greetings to all.

After a day of overindulgence today was for fresh air and some exercise. A small list was compiled with something old, something new, P@Gs and a decent walk. With the wide open space you'd think that the phones would direct us to GZ without a problem Holymu was directed opposite where I was and the Garmin was fired up for the occasion. It pointed where Holymu already unsuccessfully looked so I no more than casually rummaged around a bit and surprisingly finished up holding the cache. Thank you matahisteve

FTF..A great hidey place! Cache left as it was found.

TFTC
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Went for a walk after lunch and was duly rewarded. TFTC

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