Queens Reach Fiordland Fiordland Community, South Island, New Zealand
By Kiscardi on 05-Jan-21. Waypoint GC94VQ9

TFTC. On our bikes on a misty raining day.

Definitely missing. Had checked at christmas time and the cache was safe then. Replacement cache placed today. Pleased with the length of time the previous cache lasted at a popular spot.

Obviously no one has found this for a while.

Looked for a while, no cache to be seen.

As previously mentioned, no cache could be found. We had a good look around. There was a suggestive group of rocks behind the biggest tree and even a round dent in the soil, but no cache. We widened the search area, but no luck. TFTC

Ooh I couldnt find this cheeky one unfortunately after a good search Thank you from Bomba

We parked here for a tea break & had a good search around. Bang on gz was a likely pile of rocks, but no cache to be seen. Could this one have been muggled?

Weather report is no looking great for later today - so left early for a ride toward Manapouri and back. Ended up turning round at balloon loop road - so about 45 km return trip from the caravan.Trail was pretty quiet so made caching easy yay! A few cars about but no one lookingTFTC

Visiting here from Adelaide (South Australia) for the 2nd time (because its just stunning here). Walked from the Control Gates along the Kepler down to the swing bridge, and then back along the bike trail, collecting caches along the way. A 23km walk with a stunning forest trail next to a beautiful clear river.Cache found and log signed.

Decided to park up at Queens Reach and walk to a few caches. This one was a quick find near where I had parked my car

Quick short ride before tea, nice section great climb up to the top. Thanks Bitsprayer

Loving this bike ride today from Manapouri- TFTC

Tftc

Quick find once we got the right tree, tftc

Nice spot here and all is well with cache. Thanks for placing it!

On a road trip to Te Anau for a quick day trip and the weather is just perfect for a nice walk in the bush my favorite place , in excuse to go bush rain hail or snow .
But today a bit of fun wr visited and pick up the needed info for this one .
It was a beautiful flat lake not a breath of wind it just beautiful.
Dam it I did not bring g my pack as the Kepler is looking like I should be walking it .
Next trip
Must bring pack
I have put the boat in here many times and gone both up and down the river it lost of fun to boat as it's never the same.
Signed as Adam
Thank for the fun

Answers sent to co Thanks for the fun

Getting out and about in to the out doors is my happy place so any excuse to go caching. As if I need an excuse aahhh nop I will go rain hail or snow so let's goooo

Life is short. Live life one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!! Tomorrow may never come just grab Life by the horns
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Good Friday caching roadie trip. What a lovely day lots of trucks with trailers parked up. Very busy place. Signed log as Team ADAM TFTC

A nice day to get this one.
Nice walk to this one.
Quick find at gz.
Found as the team adam, abbykitt, downsouthinv, annielin, Mrs Hazzer.
Tftc

Excursion with downsouthinv , Abbykitt and Mrs Hazzern on a Good Friday day trip.
Team ADAM

We saw a jetboat being launched and head downstream, then saw it on the way back from the Horseshoe bend seats.

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

First one after we turned back. We thought about continuing on for the last 2 trail caches but there was quite a gap and rain forecast so headed back to Te Anau. Thanks for the cache, Kiscardi. #8698

I am helping out my kids who are doing the Routeburn Track. So I am caching when I can from Christchurch to Queenstown to Glenorchy to Te Anau and then back to Christchurch.
We had to make a u turn as we biked past it.

First for the day. Hard to believe that the river floods this high up.

Oh! Another first to find for 2023

I'm a little surprised that you think it might flood to here. Holy smokes, that's some river rising.

Found quickly thanks to an odd looking pile of rocks at the base of a beech tree that a cacher would notice immediately.

Thanks kiscardi for hiding a cache here at the oddly named queens reach.

So thiiis is where the town jetboats start from. Ahuh.

Came back later with the local jet boat company.

Found on along our bike round trip from Te Anau. TFTC

Nice quick find

Nice little hide. TFTC

After an epic 4 days walking the Milford track and a couple of nights in te anau to resupply and get my truck fixed, it's time to hit the road for a few more adventures... after spending a couple of nights up the Milford road... back to te anau for the night and then where.....

Afternoon p and g's with a bit of walking thrown in..tftc
No coverage and unable to access the hint made for a long search finally got it..

Drove to this one after a long walk this morning. In need of a bit of a rest.

Did a bike ride from Balloon Loop to Te Anau to get the last of these before we move to Alexandra. TFTC

Quick easy find: TFTC!!!

AliGle and I were doing a bit of a tour around the south of the South Island in a Jucy Camper over a few weeks. Today we spent the day in Te Anau, going out for a few walks and finding a few caches. Found this while checking out sections of the Lake to Lake trail. TFTC!

Parked and grabbed this one with Vistra. Super busy here with boaties. Had to be discreet in our movements.

Found - Mrs McMike2012 & I now live full-time in our caravan & travel the country visiting places we want to visit … we were parked up at the new NZMCA Manapouri camp site & were spending our time exploring the area, on foot & by bike … this is another cache found on the Lake2Lake Mountain Biking/Walking Trail … this was an easy find, log completed & successfully returned … pleased to add another 'smiley face' to the tally … TFTC ... TN:LN:SL ... #2,004 for us.

I kept this one for #700. I took the easy option and drove down plenty of trailers about today and some people training for a triathlon. Tftc

Day #6 of my Summer Holiday and time to explore Te Anau on New Years Day. A beautiful hot sunny day and not much wind at all - quite the opposite to yesterday! We stopped here for a very late afternoon tea and found a lovely secluded spot nearby with a picnic table overlooking the river TFTC

Found with Nutty Nora

Found with Piwaka54 on our epic southern adventure. Great camo! TFTC

In Te Anau for a few days, and having just done the Fiordland Jet, we picked up our bikes to cycle back to Te Anau along the Lake 2 Lake trail. This was the first cache, no problems here, thanks

Thanks for the cache, was a quick grab and go

I have shifted my snail shell to Te Anau from Gore to pick up some of the new caches sinces I was here a year ago.

A nice wee drive to this one.

Cheers for the cache.

All good here.

Quick find. TFTC

Heading to Te Anau for a couple of days picking up the new Lake2Lake caches along the way. This was an added extra, pretty park up area tftc

A fine day, hardly a cloud in the sky, so a good day to get out and make some progress on some souvenirs.
Arived to find a jet boat and driver at the lakes edge, by the time I got back from using the nearby facilities he had been joined by his passengers.
Managed to find the cache just as they got underway - assumed they were focused on their upcoming ride rather than on me.
Nice new container and log book in place with just a few signatures so far.
Thanks for the smilie Kiscardi.
2816 1 May 2021 14:20

Darcy retrieved this one. Good cache

TFTC second to find thanks for the new caches along the trail

After a lazy day of cabin fever, the weather improved slightly, and I was off...
Parked up at Queens Reach and set off on foot.
Didn't realize this was a FTF until later, thought it was just a replacement log.
Quick easy find, don't think it will flood here.

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