The Other Road (West Coast) Dobson, South Island, New Zealand
By holymu on 27-Dec-20. Waypoint GC94BY6

Was off on a solo caching raid from Runanga to Lake Brunner. Droved right past initially as the parking was on the river side of the road. Doubled back and made a quick find. TFTC holymu

Tftc, nice easy find.

This was a clever one! Did in dark to avoid muggles. Signed log and added a couple wee things TFTC

Today before we headed to our next stop, Reefton, we popped over to Ross as we wanted to explore this little town. Then picked up a few as we made our way to ReeftonQuick find hereTFTC Tim and Viv - ddm

Quick find on a rainy day. TFTC

Cache check, all good.

To hard

Tftc

Quick find. TFTC

Cache check proved water proof paper was fine if wet and doesn't need replacing until the log is full.
Cache was put back out of sight.

Log saturated. Tftc

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 holymu for hiding and maintaining of this cache s*** ️

Tha ks for the cache holymu and the snippet of history 192.168.178.1

We travel "the other road" quite regularly (well once a year anyway ). Nice to have this cache to find. Thanks for the placement holymu

On the back road to Greymouth to collect a few hides on my way into town.
A quick park and grab. TFTC

Is there another road with another cache?

Found on our way to Greymouth

Thanks for hiding this cache holymu I appreciate it. Our diesel was running low so we weren't allowed to take any detours. Thankfully this hide was on the way that we were heading.

I have been along this road several times now, usually chasing caches but sometimes visiting acquaintances in Taylorville. Thanks for the hide.

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..

Spending the next wee while based in punakaiki as I landed a bit of work..

Hitting the track for a few days while the rain has stopped, having completed an awesome 3 days along the track I now had the fun task of hitching a ride back to the start to pick up my truck....just happened to be picked up by a legend who was happy to take me all the way round " in the work vehicle of course"....perfect opportunity to grab a few on my way back down the road...
Nice quick find tftc

Quick find on a nice morning in Greymouth

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.
Had no trouble in finding this one. Cache is all good here. TFTC.

Another quick park and grab.Thanks holymu

Quick park n grab on the way home. Thanks for placing holymu

#11931

Quick png. TFTC

Found with Kiwimykl. Today's mission was to head out to the Brunner Mine site do the caches there and as many PnGs on the road both sides of the river between the mine and Greymouth. We have completed our mission a the Brunner Mine Site as well as all the roadside caches on the south side of the river between there and Greymouth. Heading back towards Greymouth picking off random road side caches. Another QEF PnG, but thanks for the tip on the alternative route. Going what seems to be the direct way does seem to be a bit windier when towing a caravan. Congratulations on finding KMs 200th placement.

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. This area certainly provides a veritable pot pourri for geocachers. 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 holymu

Found with NZDi, refer to her log for details.

For me the choice of which road to take is highly dependant on how many caches have popped up since my last trip or else in one side and out the other. TFTC # 17,892

After lunch, it was time to head to Brunner Bridge for the ad lab here. Of course, it had been dry while we were inside eating lunch but as soon as we drove off, the drizzle started again. Bugger.
This was a quick park and grab so didn't get very damp looking for it. TFTC.

#20377. We've taken this other road a few times now. We were heading up river, and there was lots of parking on that side of the road. TFTC.

I finally took the other road and found this cache! TFTC!!

Last find on day 2 of our West Coast adventure. TFTC

Quick grab. - Thanks Bitsprayer

TFTC

logging for the record. I was present when the cache was placed.

Today we were out on a maintenance run out to Nelson Creek to check all the cards then up to Ikamatua and home via Taylorville Rd on a miserable rainy day. Wow it seems like ages since we have actually found a cache (instead of actually just doing maintenance) We stopped here to find this one only to find it wasnt in the GPS and my phone still had us located a few kilometres down the road and Mum said 'I'll just go check .... ' and came back with the log for me to sign. Easy as that. Thanks for adding to our smilies today

A quick stop here while making my way from Brunner to Rapahoe this afternoon. TFTC

A nice quick find thanks.

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. Day 3 and off home today.

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

A quick find and my last for the day. Heading back to motel as I need food.

Nice park and grab with plenty of room to pull off the road. Tftc

FTF A bit of a surprise. An easy find on a day trip to the West Coast. TFTC

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