Convenient Spot (West Coast) Makarora, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 22-May-04. Waypoint GCJGEA

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Did not find with two GPS and 100s of trees

It was definately dark. It was not quite so chilly as the last failed cache spot. We were searching by our headlamps. We looked in every tree within quite a wide area of GZ and found several perfect spots, but no cache.

We searched high and low for this cache, but must have been barking up the wrong tree. Nevertheless, it was a great little trail on our way to Te Anau. The rest stop was full of KEA Caravans. TV & LB

Didn't find the cache, but thoroughly enjoyed the short walk through the bush. A little fantail hopped about only about 30cm from our faces - gorgeous. Thanks for bringing us to this spot.

Huge struggle with borrowed Etrex.
+ Whistle
- Teaspoon
Jan & Sam

Rain! Rain! Rain!

We enjoyed the loop-walk but were as soaked as the cache itself

Lovely spot! It would be great if the cache could be maintained to conserve this place for other cachers. Thanks!

Easy find on the way to the west coast.
Logbook is soaked through.
TFTC

Nice Drive by found. A great found at Restroom-brake. But all are soaking wet. The logbook to, therefore i cant sign in it. thx for the nice cache but needs urgently maintenance.

Wally69

Yes a nice spot for a cache but still managed to sign the wet log book. cheers

A damp log, but a quick find amongst the muggles. A good spot for a snack (more for me than the sandlfies!) TNLN THanks

Cache and logbook thoroughly wet. GPS was sending me for a long time to the other side of the path so local sandflies enjoyed a lot of feeding.

Travelling around the South Island from South Australia, wanted a spot to drop off a travel bug, but cache was waterlogged and mouldy. Your sandflies are worse than our blowflies! Apart from that, a beautiful area.

Stop and had lunch nice place
very wet in cache log book very wet too

unssy

On our way to the north.

Found during our driving holiday in NZ in company with our elderly parents. An easy find while we stretched the legs for lunch. TFTC - Dropped in for a visit the NZ Trekking Geocoin and Ellie the Elephant TB which is travelling with us during our holiday.

A great stop on our way to collect our own PB for the day...

TFTC!

Very wet inside. Didnt have time to dry out.

Quick walk. Notebook needs replacing. TFTC

One of a series of very enjoyable caches we found on our 10 day tour of the the South Island. Searching for caches along the way made it far more exciting than it would have been otherwise and took us to all sorts of interesting places we would not of found otherwise.

TNLNSL. TFTC

Found it very fast. No trade, TFTC Coxibleu

The cache was in wet condition. We tryed to dry, but it needs more.

Thanx for the cache..... but logbook and everything is wet!
teamKollMont from Germany xx

Took the short walk through the forest to find this neat little hide. It is in urgent need of some TLC. Managed to print our names in the wet cardboard on the back of the logbook. TFTC.

Also logging in and out our England Geocoin.

TFTC!

nice stop for a short rest, Logbook is still damp, and found quickly, muggles where at the picnic site so easy search
Thanks and we are on our way.

Easy find but the log book was nothing but a soggy, smelly mess, completely unuseable. This cache needs URGENT maintenance.

Found by Sc00t and Twisties on our tour of the New Zealand South Island.

Sorry for the late log i lost my list of finds

This little place was gorgeous, they were cleaning the toilets at the time so we just went about getting the cache and enjoying the quick walk!!

Cheers
www.teambooya.com

A very wet cache container and a lot of sandflies ...
tftc.

Found on way to Queenstown from Haast. No record left on the log as pages to book wet. Trouble locking in coordinates on GPS, but found a good looking tree.
Beautiful spot, DazEm from Aus

This cache needs help - see my log entry for details.

Cache really wet and may be in the wrong place. The tree has had somewhat of an accident, and I'm not sure that the hide is still correct.

Hubby found this cache on the top of a tree for anyone to see. The container was open and the contents were wet, moldy, dirty - just horrible. I cleaned everything up the best I could. 3 trade items were trashed beyond saving so I threw them away. I put the soaked log book in it's own baggie. I put one dry piece of paper in a separate dry baggie which should work well as a log for another 5 or 6, if you write small. We did not know where it was suppose to be, so we placed it back on the same tree we found it, but out of sight, sort of in deep.

This was in the midst of a 16 day excursion, 2800 mile romp around NZ. A lovely country and we had a wonderful time.
Point Reyes Chick
California, USA

Lovely spot. Took a long refreshing draught from a crystal clear stream. TNLN

First logbook completely full, so replaced the logbook with a new one. (Yes the old logbook is still there)

A nice easy find and a good reason to stop. Unfortunately the cache is quite wet inside and needs drying. We wiped out the container and dryed what we could but the logbook is wet.
TFTC

Found this one while driving from Franz Josef to Wanaka with JessJess60. It was her first introduction to sandflies. Thanks! TNLN.

Found this one with looking4thebroc while traveling around south island. thanks!

The facilities promised in the title were appreciated, in fact relied on for a while previous! Lovley spot to stop. Thanks.

Nice Cache. But many Sand Fly!
Thanks!

chronosdd from Dresden (Germany)

out: TB

Certainly a good time for a break - we knew from the title what the nearby facilities would be. An easy find. +Duck TB. Thanks.

Found it on our way to Wanaka. Cache is seriously wet! We think the lid didn't/doesn't close too well.
In: Smiley Teacup
Out: Nothing
Groetjes uit Holland!

Visisted this beautiful place on our camper van tour through whole NZ.
TFTC! Annari from Austria

We enjoyed the little nice walk through the bush. Next time we will stay here for a longer time.

TFTC!
hixxx from Austria

Our Second find of the day. Cicadia's were in fine voice.
TNLNSL TFTC

Fast find.Thanks for the Cache.Greeting of ankeolaf Germany.

Great spot, have made a note for future travels in this area.
GPS no go under the bush so relied on the clue, pretty obvious when you see it. Log book a tad damp. TFTC

This MUST be the wettest we have ever got trying to find a cache. Worth it all the same, despite the bugs!

13.35: On the way from Wanaka to Haast. We found it more by accident than by a planful search: in that moment when the signal get lost in the forest I stood already beside the right tree . The content was rather wet, we tried to dry as good as possible. Lots of muggels around at this time a two coaches stopped at the resting area.

Weather: cloudless, (kiwi-)hot, 22°C;
Wheelchair: not tested, but should work

IN & OUT: nothing.

Thanks!

Oliver+Gabi

I'll second the need for bug juice here. I just about got carried off by the little buggers! No swaps and TFTC.

GPS steered us wrong direction. Tough to get good cords. Not only did we find the cache but spent the next 2 hours catching the little hitchhikers that decided to ta along for the ride.

SL TFTC From Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but living in Suzhou, China.

Cache 14 on Honeymoon roadtrip.

Nice easy find this time - GPS was all over the show and I had to search a few places before I found it

TFTC TNLNSL

[Find #179]

Great spot. Followed the DOC crew over the entire pass at 30 to 40 KPH and of course they pull off at this spot. REI bug juice or similar is a must on this cache. TNLN TFTH Scott and Lorry USA PS be warned NO insecticide in cache.

This was a fairly easy find during our bicycle ride through the South Island. I declined to ride up through the Haast Pass, but some of our group did that tough ride. The cache itself was pretty wet inside --- the top was ajar and it looks like this can happen rather easily when placed in its hiding place. I took a koala keychain and left a screwdriver keychain. TFTC!!

Lousy GPS reception but a quick find none the less at this lovely picnic area and forest walk. The cache container needed a dry out (I used the last of my emergency toilet paper) but it was for a good cause, I thought. TN/LN/SL

Took full advantage of the location and had lunch, used loos, feed ducks, stretched legs, found cache. TNLN.

This was a nice spot. TFTC

Just a gorgeous spot! Visited on the way through to the West Coast.

A perfect way to take in a bit of the rainforest while having a pit stop on the way through. A pleasant stop indeed! TNLNSL TFTC!

Located with no trouble. Cache container damp. TN left koala key ring. Took a few local insects with us in the car!
Thanks

So we walked around the track a couple of times on this one. GPS was no help at all! Went back and read the clue then decided to use our geocaching instincts, they turned out to be spot on! Cache was a bit wet, emptied it out. TNLN

Raining here today, quick dash roumd the track.

Many Thanks Bitsprayer

There was a bus load of tourists to avoid and lots of rain but eventually we found this one. We had absolutely no reception at cache location and relied on the force to see us through. At least the rain keeps the sandflies away.

I enjoyed the stop. Very nice walk and not too much trouble locating it. The container was not sealed and thing were a little wet, not too much damage

It looked bad in the beginning. No description with me, no signal (GSM nor GPS), and it was raining. Then after few locations quite far from each other I used the best and most used hint: where I would put it, and there it was! The box was really wet inside, I removed half desilitre water from there. Left silica gel (needed here), tool Maja the Bee. It will meet an other Maija the Bee after couple weeks far from here.

23.03.2006 14:30 h #323 28 of 65 in NZ
That’s what we noticed all over NZ: You find very clean “equipments†for a convenience stop almost everywhere. This is different in Europe! But you can also find a nice short walking track and impressive trees which you wouldn’t find in Europe either. And you could even find a cache Thanks for it.
Albatross1901 and Florian from Germany

Just beat a tour bus. What luck! Gave container a dry out and added a new plastic bag. Took Insect repelent and left super glue.
Thanks

Despite rain and bad gps-reception we finally found this cache.

Stopped here to use the conveniences... Found there was a cache nearby.
Nice spot.. Cache container was wet.. Suggest systema container which is better at keeping out the weather.
Took Crocodile TB to join tour...
TNLNSL
TFTC

XenaCommander was getting the urge of nature call... so stopped by here to use the convenience and found that there was a cache nearby.... Zeroed in and retrieved.
Nice Spot.
TNLNSL
TFTC

Gorgeous spot, walk and amenities. Cute clue. Cache wet inside so we cleaned it. Thanks to whoever left Avon She's So Soft bug dope! Smells nice and works.
Took TB 542620 Legoman (DK)
Left TB 541835 Crocodile King Ring
+ plastic cow
- jandal key ring

A nice walk for our 2 years old son,m left the tB Danish traveler #2

Shocking GPS coverage!! One of the apprentices found it just as walking past the spot. Didnt hang around too long with all the sandflys.

- Lighting fish
+ Basketball

If it was not for the last couple of nights in the tent and a wife that wants a hot shower tonight we would have camped here. great spot.

The lady at the Haast petrol station said that it was 34 degrees when we passed through. Certainly felt like it when we got out of the car at this "Pleasant" spot. Had only planned a quick stop to grab the cache but it was so hot we decided to cool off in the nearby river. One thing led to another and we ended up putting up the tent and staying the night. It was very nice to float down the river (with lifejackets on) and look out on snow capped mountains. TNLN. Many thanks.

Great spot. THX for the nice little walk.
Greetings, Thomas & Birgit (Germany)

Certainly a pleasant break. Found easily but the flies were a nuisance - thanks for the spray!
Took:singapore badge
Left:singapore dollar!

Mike and Mark - enfield explorer scouts, london england

no rain - minimal sandflies
+ club cards and jandal keyring
- canada goodies and glass stone
TFTC

Found this cache on our trip from Canada. Bad satellite reception, got muddy. TFTH!

Good spot Moneydork. Very convenient use was made. Cache found without drama. Took spanner, left Buzzy Bee keyring.
Conton

Nice short walk.
Needed the facilities, thanks.
TNLN
Placed a SuMo Cyclist logo sticker on the inside of the cache lid.

Ohhh, those blinking sand flies. How do you locals put up with them. Seems like a good camp site when the weather is good, but that was not the case today. Easy find, and then back on the bikes to avoid being bitten to death. Thanks again Moneydork. TNLN.

This was an easy find after not finding the Gates of Haast cache. Quick find for us.

TNSL
Left Singapore patch.

TFTC

The Sea Bowzer's

Thanks for the cache! trendy64
No Trade

Caching our way through NZ and stopped off to grab this one on our way to the West Coast. Lost GPS signal, but managed to find the cache with hint. TN/LN. Visiting from Utah, USA. Thanks for the fun! Bean Stompers

Certainly a nice place to take a break. Took nothing, left Australian play money.

A good place to take a break while on the drive to the west coast. Thanks.

Nice lunch spot TNLN

The conveniences were convenient for us oldies sans kids. Nice stroll into the forest. Coords spot on so easy find.

At 1200 hours.
What a good spot for a cache and an easy find. Son-in-law spotted it very quickly - his first find.
TN
+Aussie Penny Melbourne Mint 1953
TFTC Onslow Fisherman

Found this on the 10th of Sep. Nice spot with a nice little walk around. I was amazed that the GPS actually kept track in the trees. Found the cache without too much trouble. Had plenty of time as no one else was around (probably a good thing, as we are not that stealthy!). Left wrench, signed log and took HIPPO travel mammal (hardly seems right to call him a bug). He will pop up in the desert and move out from there.

A great picnic spot. and a brilliant hiding place. Kids found it because it was a good climbing tree! Put our trackerbug hippo in it and took out a tennis ball with which we had great fun for the rest of the holiday.

Once I gave up on the idea of using the GPS, found it straight away

Took a coin, left a green star. TFTC

This was a pleasant area despite the downpour, it was a serene walk and a wonderful respite from the terrors of driving on the wrong side of the road!!!
TNLN, thanks for bringing me here!

Yes, well we needed to use the conveniences so it was convenient to stop at this conveniently located spot. The cache also was conveniently located and easy to find with the hint. We really enjoyed the short walk in the forest. There's something about misty days that gives a nice ambience under the tree cover.
TNLN. Thanks guys.

Great drive in cache... but be careful of those blood thurstz flies!

no trade

elNino

good stop and got plenty of photos of the fungi in the bush
visit www.fungi.co.nz fotos by ray hart
+ fish light
_ keyring

Spying a tree some distance off I guessed the cache had to be there but on arrival the GPS still recorded 17m to go. It very soon after told me to go back 30m. I decided to try my tree. Using the hint only served to confuse given that next to my tree was a hollow tree lying down comprising little else but bark. Went for the simple option and Bob’s your uncle.

Greetings from Saudi Arabia. Though I sympathise with the comment that the cache is one minute walk whichever way around the circuit you go it is not half way around something it is important to appreciate given the GPS wander.

Virtually no gps coverage under the wet trees so it was more a case of checking all the accessible trees around the path. TNLN. Greg and Bev