Harwoods Lookout (Nelson/Marlborough) Upper Takaka, South Island, New Zealand
By Q moto on 25-Apr-05. Waypoint GCNN2A

This geocacher reported that the cache might be missing.

dont cache anymore

Stopped while there was little traffic around and made our way to cache area. After a bit of a search, checked the previous logs and saw that the last 8 were DNF's. Spent a while longer looking, but stopped once other people turned up. All up we probably spent 15-20 minutes looking. Think it's time cache was checked.

Quiet morning stopped for a good search. DNF

Pinched...

Probably been nicked

think it's been taken?

I think it's been pinched...

The coords sent us to an area which couldn't be T1. We looked around for other possibilities and finaly gave up. Nevertheless thank for showing the view.

*French*
Une superbe vue sur la vallée... on stop le véhicule et nous regardons le gps! Une cache.... cool
Par contre, pas moyen de mettre la main sur celle-ci

Q moto, thanks for the geocache
Frank et Muriel
Belgique
Log with GSAK

We were on our way to Nelson for a new freezer and thought this would be a nice stop. The cache was shown on my GPS on the wrong side of the road, so no find for me. Need to come back to search at the correct side of the road.

Great view! One can see the look out point from road. If it wasnt for the cache I would have drove off without finding the lookout. Thanks!

found on the Takaka hill on the way home to schedule a few breaks on the Takaka hill. this cache was a good place to put one in a place I didn't know existed. This viewpoint has a really good view. find #121

Another fantastic view

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Thanks for placing the cache. This look out could do with a bit of a prune and clean up.

We stopped to find this on our way back from a day trip to Golden Bay. Nice views from a couple of spots at the platform but it looks like they are diminishing with the encroaching growth and might eventually disappear all together unless some pruning takes place.
We made the cache find harder than we needed to, in the end the sun shining on the container led us to it.
Thank you Q moto.

It was time to venture on and over the Hill and with a muggle friend for company we set out to cut a path of yellow. We missed this one on the way to Takaka for reasons unknown. On our way back the car park had us cross the road to the track but we would have finished up there regardless. The views left are stunning. If the vegetation could be trimmed it would be out of this world. I have passed here more times than I remember but never stopped to investigate. Thank you for making me Q moto

Fantastic spot.

First we wanted to travel to the north island but it is such imazing in Abel Tasman that we will stay one more day.
Thanks for this one on the way.

We stopped off here on the way over the hill and grabbed this cache while we enjoyed the view.
TFTC

never stopped here before. No pencil

Qef . Much lovely spot

This cache was found when we where heading out of goldenbay. Really nice sight over goldenbay. Although this log make's it look like we found it in the middle of New Year's Eve. This cause my gps is set on europetime. Thanks for the cache on this nice look out!

Lovely tftc

Smart little cache in a beautiful spot! TFTC!

Hiding away for some get views. Tftc

What a lovely spot, would have just driven past and not know it was here tftc

Good spot for a cache. TFTC Q moto

A nice quick walk and grab and a view aswell. Thanks for the cache

When you find the right access it's easy! Thank you!

Short walk, wonderful view and a really quick find - thanks and I will leave a Fav-Point here!

TFTC
Photomaus (Germany)

Not exactly a park and grab, but was a nice little walk even on a cool day. A couple of muggles having a snack, so I explained geocaching and went about the search. Cache seems to have shrunk over time, but got it fairly quickly. Don't know if I converted any new cachers, but they seemed to have an idea of the game. Thanks for keeping it alive.

Quick find on our way back home from our weekend in Golden Bay. Great views. Thanks for the cache.

Found it with Team FIN [janahola, kapeka, laalaa & temyllyl]

We had fun with caching few weeks here in New Zealand. Lots of geocaches and many sort of them too. We saw awesome places, weather was pretty good all the time and people were friendly and polite. Caches were pretty similar like in our home country. Of course there were some exeptions. Nice and really scenary country!

Greetings from Finland

IN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Marvelous country and nice landscape. This was ferry day (Wellington - Picton).
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Sixth day on our geo-roadtrip in New Zealand, and caching our way towards south. Logged using our group nickname FIN with janahola, laalaa and kapeka. Driving to south and heading to Christchurch Mega event. After ferry ride from North Island we continued our road trip by driving west side of South Island.

We hurry to Wainui beach to collect some sand samples to one 5/5 Earth cache before high tide. Luckily water was still pretty low when getting there. When heading back to Nelson we had time to find some caches.

On a geoholiday road tripping to Christchurch MEGA and around beautiful New Zealand. Our four people group (temyllyl, laalaa, kapeka and myself) from Finland used group tag FIN to log the caches.

Today we took a ferry ride to Picton and our road trip continued to Richmond. This was fast find. Nice view. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Great park and grab. Lovely clear view today, if a little windy. Tftc!

Find #2408. Exploring Tasman district for a few days, this my second day. Made an early start to get over the Takaka Hill (some 12kms longer and 250m higher than my local Rimutaka Hill). Cold wind blowing but sunny. Nice views from here. SL TFTC

Quick one for mum on way home after week holiday in Golden Bay. Tftc

Found with Vydra20. TFTC

Found on the way to Cobb valley. TFTC!

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC Q moto

Second time lucky! But only log book, no pencil or trades so could not sign!!

Fantastic views across the valley - stopped off and ate lunch on our watts Takaka. Unfortunately forgot pen so couldn't sign log. TFTC!

Found a while ago while showing some friends from Norway around NZ

Found during our road trip From Nelson to the wild west and return. Great day's caching was had.
Wowsers, an oldie and a goodie. Great view and excellent site for a cache. Long may it last.
Cache find was straightforward.
Log signed. Cache safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Nice quick find

A quick find on our tiki-tour around Nelson and Golden Bay. Today was the explore from Nelson to Takaka to check out Abel Tasman National Park for a possible future holiday.

The view up the Takaka valley from this lookout are incredible.

In Takaka for the weekend picking up a cache or two. Thanks to all those that have placed caches out there it made our holiday just that much more interesting. Only just got this one before all the muggles arrived. First car here seven cars when we left and the view is stunning

Found it

Found it at a super location.
TFTC Catwrazle66

Found it on our trip up north

Found it on our trip up north

Found it at a super location.
TFTC Catweazle66

Found it at a super location.
TFTC Catweazle66

Found it on our trip up north

Found it on our trip up north

Found it at a super location.
TFTC Catweazle66

And finally the much talked about trip for the Heaphy Track is underway. A few months ago the work sports committee decided this years adventure training trip would be New Zealand's longest of the Great walks; 78 kms from Collingwood end, emerging at Karamea somewhat older, more tired and wiser? We'll see.
But first. Get to Pohara for overnight accommodation at the top 10 and a St Patrick's night in Takaka for a feed and a few glasses of the cold, black wet stuff.....once a year can't be that bad surely.
In the van on the way here and after zigging, and sagging, G H 6 7 1 0 picked a cache for us to race out and grab en route, this one seemed to fit the bill nicely. After chasing a wild goose down the road, up and over a bluff, we eventually arrived at G Z, yay.
No problems with the find, quickly replaced a s found and on we go down the hill through the ominous looking mist.
T F T C Q moto

After weeks of training our preparation is about to pay dividends and the company I work for is sending 19 of us to spend four days and three nights on the Heaphy Track as part of a Team Building/Leadership/Get to know each other exercise. We start the track on the 18th of March, but as four of us are Geocachers it would be a shame not to make the most of this opportunity to indulge in our obsession. Over today and the next four days Capperz, GH6710, Kiwimykl and Raisinpig will jointly, individually or any other combination search for and log caches during our travels. In most cases the actual logs will be signed by one of us with our individual GC names, but we may just use our initials being C, G, K and R.

This is my first cache of the trip and it was discovered with capperz and GH6710. GH6710 was on GPS duties and took us a round about way to the cache on a drizzly afternoon. The way we approached the cache could not be attempted by a wheelchair as the D/T rating indicates, but why make it easy. The views were not anything to write home about due to the weather conditions, but I imagine they would be fantastic in fine weather.

The cache was dicovered, signed and returned as found.

TFTC Q moto

An unconventional approach to this cache from below. Foggy day with no views but nice spot to stop. TFTC

Caching with sulibats...

Easy find when bypassing on the road. TFTC.

Found it during my trip from south of South Island to north of South Island.
Thanks for this cache!:)
Greetings from Czech

Silly me forgot my pen so didnt sign log.. terrific viewpoint though.

díky za keš
Log after homecoming from long holiday

Came at GZ from the lower carpark, a bit of a scramble! A quick find once I was on the right platform.

Waitangi Weekend, off to Golden Bay for a spot of caching.

Thanks for the hide.

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What a scenic view . It was no problem to locate the box.

Thanks for the cache and for leading us to this nice spot. That deserves a favourite point from us [^].

A bit of back and forthing on this one having left my pen in the car. Doh!

Thanks!

Nice quick find. Thanks.

We stopped here unplanned. Nice lookout, great view! Thanks a lot!

Out for a few stop and grab caches on Takaka Hill with BlackChocolate today.

Long time since i've stopped here, needs a bit of a spruce up! Still a great view.TFTC

What a nice small lookout. TFTC

great stop for a view on this scenic route! TFTC!

What a climb! What a view! TFTC.

Beautiful view, haven`t stopped there for a while. tftc

#8503. Views were good from hear on the way over, but not so on the way back, so we didn't linger. TFTC.

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The third and final day of our Labour weekend trip to Golden Bay. There was quite a bit of rain overnight and some drizzle early morning, but mainly it was fine during the day so the weather didn't really put much of a dampener on our trip (apart from long wet grass and mud at some locations).
We had stopped at the parking area on the way over to Takaka on Saturday, but hadn't looked for the cache as there were people near a memorial on the U bend, and that's where we thought the cache was. Today, we parked by the memorial, then realised that GZ was further away. That's when we found the lookout was actually above the parking area! It was drizzling and the visibility was zilch today, but that meant that no-one was at the lookout so a quick find. TFTC.

We found this cache during our wonderful journey through New Zealand. Thank you for the cache and the great time in your country! Greetings from Germany.

Road trip from Westport to Takaka.
Wasn't sure to be parked correctly so had to rush to fond the cache. Did it as fast as possible

#159 and #121 in NZ

TFTC

I stopped to stretch my legs even though I'd already DNF'd this along with a few others. Didn't expect to find anything but noticed something from the lookout railing, i climbed over and down the rocks. Found a camoed container minus the lid and log. Have replaced the container and log with permission from the CO.

#2297

It is very overgrown there now. Very hard to search.

HAD GOOD LOOK...But no luck...........

On holiday from England visiting family over the hill. Time for a few caches, but not this one.
Now reading logs, we see we are not alone. Never mind, nice views to remember.

Today we hope to achieve our best month ever for caches. We will probably never beat this as caches where we live are quite rare. We headed over Takaka Hill today hoping to add a few caches to the final count. This was not one of them. Couldn't find the little blighter.

Had a thorough search but had no luck. Part way through the search as i backed out of a bush a branch very gently took off my glasses so ended up searching for them instead, not easy when you can't see without them [|)]

Had a good look but couldn't seem to find it,

Quickly found and signed log - dried out the contents as best we could. Removed a squeaky green frog that was filled with water! Great view.

This one made me laugh because I've lived in the bay since 2001, passed this pull-over countless times, and had absolutely no idea there was a deck and seating here!!

Easy find, #6 of the day, TFTC

Tftc, found with jo_G

Excellent cache. Approached the hard way from below!

Found quickly this time. Last week I went to the wrong lookout area and couldn't make sense of the coordinates...this time everything made sense. Thanks from this Canadian!

Found with redants during our Easter visit to the area. Quick find and we had the lookout to ourselves. SL TFTC.

There really was a good view from here today, TFTC