Ocean Vista (West Coast) Paparoa National Park, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 01-Aug-04. Waypoint GCK547

Cache has been removed during recent renovations.

As per the recent logs, due to the maintenance and improvements of this area, I don't think the Cache is there any longer.

Nice spot all the same.

This area has been upgraded recently, new fence and area re-gravelled. The cache was damaged when the work was being carried out. The cache is in the Punakaiki visitor centre. Probably not a wise idea to hide a new cache on the wrong side of the barrier. Cheers.

Yeah nope, didnt see where it might be even in the obvious spot. guess its gone

Felt a bit naughty jumping the barrier - which wasn't helped by Zekeasaurus telling me off in the way only a 3 year old can! Had a look in all the hint-lead places I could find, as did Dopeyr but nothing uncovered. Our last stop in Punakaiki before heading to stay with a friend in Tapawera. Zekeasaurus was out like a light a few moments in to our journey and remained so until we arrived!

Could not find with Zekeasaurus Bunnz

Found ourselves here unexpectedly today and the viewing platform has a new barrier that is blocking the cache. We didnt have time to look for the cache as we were here for something else but the cache could still be accessed if you walked on the outer side of the barrier.

14:15 - Beautiful views to limestone rocks TFTC

Tftc

Found 1:13pm , find # 2066
Our holiday touring the South Island is going really well and we're enjoying it immensely.
After some rain overnight, we scouted around Greymouth this morning and picked up a few caches.
Then we left for Nelson, and found more along the way, until torrential rain made us decide to put caching on hold after doing the swing bridge near Murchison. So unfortunately we didn't do any more until reached Nelson.
This was find number 11 for the day.
Great location, easy find.
Always just behind a team from Denmark, after several days.
Took a geocoin which will come back to Australia.

Thanks Moneydork.

Found it together with Team Autoværn on our New Zealand tour back in 2013.
DK

I know this log is very late!!
But on the holliday the internet connection not was very well, so i would have done it when i got home. but i have been so busy!!
So now i am looking at my GPS, and se the caches i missed to log
thanks for this cache

What a beautiful place for a cache. First, looking in the wrong place, but still found the right spot. Thank you. Team Wattschipper, Germany.

Although there was low cloud, it was still an impressive view, and a quick easy find. TFTC

Stopped in to swap trackables

Easy find, took TB with me to more south. TFTC!

every day we find a lot of great views in new zealand.. its so awesome!

tftc and a good journey, coins!

greetings from Germany
~Okapi~

On our way to the pancake rocks, we found this nice cache an the wonderful view.

TFTC

remorsion

IN: coin

Thanks for the cache, which I found during my journey through amazing NZL. Kind regards.

Muggles just left, nice day great view TFTC

Nobody here when we stopped, easy find and a WOW view. No TB in here though. tftc

TFTC

Great photo stop opportunity!

We found this nice cache on our trip from Greymouth to Nelson when we stopped here for lunch in a fantastic landscape.

Thanks for this cache!

Today we visited this nice Cache on our way from Greymouth to Nelson TFTC

Lovely views, the weather has decided to be very nice to us during our visit to the Coast. TFTC!

Easy found and a nice place. TFTC.

Found a few days ago passing through to Haast. Easy found and a nice place

There was a drizzly sea mist along the coast today but still a spectacular view from here.
Many thanks

Cloudy, windy and muggles. It must be fantastic view if there is good weather. TFTC!

Very windy conditions today. I didn´t see Mt. Cook, but I believe you it can be seen from this lookout. tftc

TFTC
Gruß Frodo32

Cool place!

So long and thanks for all the cache! - 15:20 - koem

Not so great views today, but breathtaking enough that we left the Garmin at GZ. Realised at our next stop and had to head back. Thanks God it was still there. TFTC

TFTC Chelonia

Quick easy found TFTC and happy new year

bus pulled up had to hurry cheers

Found during our big New Zealand Holidays! - Thank you for this cache and greetings from Germany!

On our great trip along the east coast, we picked this one up. Great view! Thanks!!

Found it during my kiwi traveling. TFTC

What a wonderful spot!! In clear sunshine we could see both: Cape Foulwind and the snowy mountains. The cache was easily found and the journey continued. TFTC.

It was a nice experience to have found this Cache as part of our New Zealand vacation.
We were able to discover many interesting places and take back home beautiful memories.

TFTC
Spiky (D)

Nice stop at our drive down the west coast.
TFTC
Greetz
Wanderratte

a wonderful view on a very sunny day. Thanks for making me stop here for the cache.

TFTC Kongo1506

I drove south today from Nelson to the Glaciers. It was a very sunny and bright day and I enjoyed the ride very much. I drove through wonderful landscape that could be put on postcards and I visiting many interesting places along the way. This is also due to the caches I have found, this being one of them. Each cache made my journey ever more pleasant! A big thank you to all owners!

smorp7

Found quickly so we could engough the incrediable view, even in the rain. TFTC

Another fave point here the view was fantastic and a nice quick find.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Thank you very much for bringing me to this amazing spot!
Greetings from Germany.

Found on our trip to New Zealand crossing the southern island.
Today following the west-coast to Frans Joseph Glacier.

TFTC, #1342 team cire-senga

What a great view.. it was quite late so no muggels
Found it on my trip to New Zealand. Thanks to all the Owners for showing me this beautiful places!

Another day in New Zealand traveling from Franz Josef to Kaikoura, a really busy day... but hey, who cares about that? Still time for some caches

TFTC dunestar

Great view!!
TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho + Gazzelli

ZH & Blondie invade NZ 2012!

Our 170th find in NZ, 1st of Day 14

After our beloved green monster died on the way north on the 12th, we were robbed of a day whilst they fixed the clutch in Greymouth, so was happy to be back on the road and happy to stop by here for our first find of the day. Plenty of tourists so made our find, had a squizz and moved on!

TFTC

Great location and we were blessed with fantastic weather. Quick find for little S1 whilst all the other S's took in the view. TFTC

Amazing views! Found together with yodakatz. TFTC!

Wow, what a marvellous view! We enjoyed this one a lot, and there even was a short time frame where we were alone and were able to find and log this cache. Thanks for showing this beautiful spot!

:bad: New Zealand - Aotearoa - Middle-earth 2012 or "There and Back Again" :bad:

Short stop on the long way to Picton!

Time: 18.18 h

No trade.

Tack för cachen!

Sanne & Kiki

After a rainy morning the weather could not be better now. We had great views all along the Westcoast, this was one of them. Thanks for showing this nice photo spot.

Kerstin + Lenz

TFTC, FITW Snow, Duncis on our road trip around NZ

FITW Hippie Girl and Duncis
TFTC

My first New Zealand cache (from Colorado, USA)! Beautiful clear day - I guess I was lucky, no rain and no one at the viewpoint. Spectacular view of the coastline! TFTC

Found it with no difficulty...returning it to its hiding spot was challenging as a bus load of folks surrounded the area....Waited patiently for them to leave before replacing it.
Magnificent view!
TFTC

... found it ! ... a great vista indeed ... until a damn' tour bus pulled up and spit out a load of loud tourists who proceeded to crowd right into our personal space mere steps away from where we were sitting. ... made the grab before the bus arrived and quickly stuffed it away ! ... TFTH

Found it well. TFTC

9/11/12 Lovely views alright nice quick find. tftc

On our way southbound this seemed to be a good stop for a little break and to enjoy the view. And there was a cache, too, but as we reached the coordinates it did not seem that we’ll be able to search for this one as the place was frequently visited by other people.
But all the sudden alls muggels were gone and we were all alone. So we just had to go too the coordinates and find the cache, so we did fast at 11.05 a.m.
Thanks for the hide.

placed: geocoin “King of Geocaching Geocoin”
took: -
#4221

Found with 90CRX on our quick trip around the South Island. Thanks for your effort in placing this cache, I enjoyed finding it.

In GeoCoin

Finally found a cache big enough for most of my TBs!

Great west coast weather

Last half of holiday trip in New Zealand. Starting again from Queenstown going Westcoast up and Eastcoast down.. A nice bunch of caches wanted to be found. First it looked like all day raining, but then we sometimes had good conditions. Thanks for the great adventure.

We found this one on our recent trip to New Zealand to attend the Mega Event.
Thanks for the cache Moneydork,
Regards The Coffee's

It wasn't a bad view today so it must be a spectacular one when it's not pouring wit rain. A nice quick find for which we are grateful. TFTC

Even on this rainy and blustery day, it's worth stopping here, and you can really imagine ships being wrecked on the vicious rocks you can see like teeth in the pounding surf waves. The cache was safe and sound and surprisingly dry, and we managed to avoid the pair of muggles crazy enough to want to look at the view in this weather. An atmospheric stop today, TFTC, Moneydork. =^.^=

Nobody around today. Enjoyed the view and found the cache quickly. All in good condition. SL Thx. Visiting from Arizona, USA

Just got this one signed as a bus load of tourist turned up, turned out to be a busy spot. But great views.
TFTC

Stopped her on our route from Nelson to Fox Glacier. A very nice view indeed an not a muggles in sight. Must be our lucky day for sure. we dont had the pleasure yet to write into a log with a nicer view while doing it. At least not that many times.

Thanks for the cache!
/MildasVänner

Got there and there was a bus load of Muggles. Thankfully they left before too long and we were able to start searching. Easy find with great views. Thanks

A bit slow logging this one,found it at 1408 hrs 15/10/12 .GPS'r had me on the wrong side of the fence.A car pulled up on the side of the road down below me and I then thought about a possible over hang where I was hunting,well that thought got me back on the safe side of the fence.Checked the hint and an easy find. That,s when I met Felix 11 and Hubby.I hope their MEGA EVENT event went well.
Thanks for the hide and the great view, CF

Unfortunately the weather was terrible, but we still made a dash from the car. Found quickly. View wasn't very far, with all the misty clouds closed in. Never mind. SL. TFTC.

Day 2 of our Criss Cross Tour of NZ before the Mega. Heading from Reefton to Greymouth today.

We parked in the wrong spot as usual. And started the longer walk following the GPSr. As we did so Mrs Felix was looking around and around. Mr Felix thought she had lost her marbles yet again but no she was apparently hearing voices? Sure enough as we rounded the bend we saw another car and realised there were people at the lookout. Mr Felix walked back to the car to move it to the better parking spot.

Whilst Mrs Felix walked up to the lookout. On arrival she notice a man off to one side but was enjoying the view. He must have hurried his movements as her eye caught onto the movement and realised he had a cache out and was trying to sign and put it away before she turned back.... lol...

With a quick comment of "Don't bother to put it back!" Introductions were soon made! So we both signed the log before returning to our cars. It sure was cold out in the wind today. Great to meet you Chieffakawee, shame you can't stay for the Mega.


TFTC Moneydork

Nice lookout. Unfortunately it was quite rainy and windy, but this made the sea crashing on the rocks very impressive. TFTC.

quick find - fortunatly cause it was really stormy today tftc

Found this Cache on our Trip to New Zealand.
Thank you for the cache.

Greetings from Austria / Germany
Falk & Krissi

Awesome spot for a cache. Thanks

Nice easy find thanks

Beautiful view great caching spot thanks

nice view on the ocean.

After a few days of rain we let our clothes dry in the sun and went for a nice walk to the cache.

Always a great view no matter what the weather. Came past here on Friday night and noted the large crowd of black hooded youths and low slung cars. Plenty of rubber left on the road to mark their gathering.

TFTC

TFTC. Quickly found. Great view!

Found that one together with crispyhaugio on our road trip throughout NZ.

Have been to the Ocean Vista in Nelson so this was a must do. Truly a magnificent place to stop at so thanks for bringing us in here. This sort of site ticks all the boxes for us, something special to see, a readily accessable cache, and good parking. A favourite from us. TFTC.

we first had to wait until a car full of people sat down again on the move. Then we struck. Thanks

As we arrived there was a coach we some tourists. Soon they left and we could find the box. Thanks for this nice view

Been here a few times, nice spot and i found the cache, it has been a big day of DNFs, and guess who most of them belonged to.

14/7/12 @ 3.20pm - Quick easy find, shame about the weather, I bet the view is fabulous on a fine day SLTFTC

Found it!

TFTC

We found it!

TFTC

Wow the views from up here were fantasic. Got a video of a weka coming less than a meter away from me. Thanks for the cache =)