Precarious Punakaiki (West Coast) Punakaiki, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 19-Oct-05. Waypoint GCR16C

DNF for NZDi and I today. We have had another unlogged DND almost two years ago, and as it has been over two and a half years since the last find and six logged DNFs since, I think it is time this one was archived.

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Great walk along the rocks- ended up spending a couple hours here with the boys. Shame we couldn’t find the cache but a fabulous day for rock hopping!

As I'm staying less than 600m from gz I just had to give it another go after checking out a few log photos to try and narrow down the search..unfortunately I came up empty again..have message co regards replacement but am still waiting for a reply..great place for a cache though ..
3rd times a charm maybe..

Spending the winter woofing, tramping and exploring the west coast caching along the way ..of course..
Staying in punakaiki for a while with my next job so a great opportunity to explore the area..
Jumped on the bike to ride the (knew for me) bike lane along the coast..while waiting for low tide..

Absolutely gutted that I couldnt find this and after 2 dnfs I wasnt to surprised but this has been on my radar for years to help complete the d/t grid for a second time..searched for a good while with nothing to show reading other logs makes it sound like it was on the spit of land at the end but there's only so far I was willing to go..dont think I left a shrub in searched or a crack not checked..

I may be back...

The tide was right, and there was almost no wind, so GSEL was keen to attempt this one. Made our way carefully over the rocks to 'the chasm', where sanity prevailed, and we were able to 'go bush' for the last 30m or so to the cache location.

Then the search began, but after exploring every nook and cranny around the area we were forced to concede defeat, and made our way back to the waiting car, with my progress impeded by the sole of one of my trainers becoming detached from the rest of the shoe (a pity, as these shoes had great grip and were comfortable). Will have to see if I can get them glued back together.

I'm not saying that this is missing, but we searched everywhere we could think of.

Infoferrets log says it all. We came. We looked. We failed. Spent a good 20 minutes searching all around in every possible crevice, under bushes and flax. Seems hard to believe its been muggled but also hard to imagine what hiding nook we overlooked in the search. The walk out and back wasn't as bad as feared. Fairly calm seas and mid-tide, no rain all helped.

On a west coast adventure and on our way to Nelson for a few days . My first time to travel up the west coast of the south island In 20 years so this time we get to cache our way in to uncharted territory, so let's see what fun adventures awaite us bring it on.
Day two of our road trip , to day we are exploring the Nelson area ,let's see what fun adventures awaite us.
It's was on of the cache on my to get list .
So left the high heels at home and set to and bush bashed my way to gz and out on the headland . A bit of a search and I think this is what I'm after .
Log was to wet to sign did what I could , I forgot to take a spear .
Back and put some dry shorts on .

Life is short. Live one foot step at a time.Never say" I'm gonna "- Just do it!!
Thanks for the hide
tftc

Got to within 50m of the point that this cache is on, but began to get dive-bombed by 6 gulls and 2 oystercatchers!! As much as I wanted this cache, I decided it best not to stress them out... so turned back. Maybe another time....

Tyfc nice easy find with Kerry owl, great place

Tyfc found with kerryowl , great spot a favorite ,to wet to sign will post pic

Great find with blunsdon. Log to wet to sign. Thank you for the cache

I looked forward to this cache, as one of my friends recommended it. After a not too difficult walk to the GC zone, I enjoyed the view, got several scratches from the shrubs, looked in all cracks I could find, but could not find the cache. At least I enjoyed the magnificent view. Thank you showing the location.

Found with StreetWalkerNZ on a most enjoyable drive north from Greymouth on a gorgeous sunny day. We got as far as Crow Bay before turning back as we had left a few caches to do on the return journey.
I had checked low tide times this morning and saw that the timing was perfect for this cache (maybe not so perfect for the blow holes, though), and we arrived just over an hour before low tide. We parked in the resort car park and walked along the beach to the rocks. Hmmm, they were a bit wet and slippery in places so had to watch ones step. Maybe an afternoon visit would be better when the rocks had a chance to dry in the sun?
Once at GZ, the cache didn't take long to find. Amazing how many (unfound) Moneydork caches are still lurking out there . Thanks for the cache (I think).

#18191. The beach was easy enough to walk on, then we had to clamber up on to the rocks. They were wet, so a bit of care was needed (the ones lower down were rougher, so offered more grip. Got to within about 30m of GZ, and then had to choose between stepping over a gap in the rocks, or a bush bash. The bush bash eventually won out (although the gap was only a foot or so, the rocks were wet, and I wasn't sure whether they would take my weight). I wasn't looking forward to getting wet walking through the scrub, but it wasn't too bad and I soon popped out onto the headland. It didn't take long to spot the cache (it wasn't coveredby anything). Log book was saturated, so I took a photo. TFTC (it was a fun challenge).

Studied the hint, previous logs and the images. Got to GZ easily but 30min intensive searching found us nothing but two empty ziploc bags. Either it has been muggled or intensive bush wacking is needed to find it.

Tftc log wet but ok

Found easily after a not too difficult clamber over dry rocks. Parked at the visitor centre but it might be more convenient to park right at the beach. Amazing views.
TFTC

Found today on our way home from Granity to Christchurch. We stopped here to find this cache in particular as it fits a hole in my d/t grid. We enjoyed the walk along the rocks and spied a cool crab in a rock pool. Tftc!

On our trip thru NZ we visit a lot of places and see many spectacular locations.
This cache was one of our stopps thanks a lot to the owner.
TFTC
Schmerzbefreit

The weather was too windy to do this one safe.

Great conditions to try this at low tide today. Unfortunately with just 15m to go we were clearly alarming the nesting gulls who started a loud dive bombing! I could see that the cache would be just beyond their spot and, with a precarious gap or two to get through, I decided that the comfort of the birds and my safety were more important. I will suggest that this cache be disabled until the end of this nesting season.

Gulls nesting just 5-10m from the cache. We were clearly alarming the nesting gulls who started a loud dive bombing! This is at the most difficult/precarious point of the route.

I think that sensible cachers should agree that the comfort of the birds and safety are more important and will avoid this one for this nesting season.

I suggest that this cache be disabled until the chicks have flown the nest.

We really enjoyed finding this cache with the Wood family. Great day out. Finding this secluded spot was a bonus.

Found with the Bairdfamily. Got our tides wrong and thought we would give this a miss. In the end it was just after low tide. Fairly quick find. Had a few winged observers and a few two legged from across the way. Tftc.

Found this Geocache during our visit of the Pancake Rocks. Nice climbing and jumping! TFTC!

What a cool place! I actually prefer caches like this one, it was even not as difficult as was described. T4TC

Greetings from Texas! Just visited the earth cache at pancake rocks and wanted to get this cache next. First went to the visitors center to ask when high tide was. At 2pm, she says. Ok, it's 1pm now, so maybe we can still get it. Drive over to hotel, park, and start walking down the beach. Start walking on the rocks. Waves are coming ever closer. We get to about 150 feet from the cache and waves are really close. Decide it's too risky, so we turn back. Get almost back to the beach when a big wave comes. Of course, the wave would get ME wet and not Hubby, LOL. Luckily, I've got a change of clothes in the car!

We were visiting the pancake rocks on our way north. On the way I saw the T/D rating and after reading the logs I wanted to give this one a try. We parked at he visitor center and sent the reat of the family off to visit the rocks. Then I made quickly my way down to the hotel and hopped along the rocks. Such a interesting formation. Finally I reached the gz and after a short search I had the logbook in my hand. All wrapped in 4 zip lock bags. It seems quite necessary here. TFTC to Moneydork for showing me this awesome spot and a fav point from me as well.

I'ive started my beautiful trip of the South Island in Christchurch, I've visited many beautiful locations. I've travelled via Lake Tapeko, from Dunedin to the most southern part of Bluff. I've then continued with a cruise in Milford Sound and then back to Queenstown.
From there on I've visited Wanaka and the Haast pass to the Franz Josef glacier. I went all the way up to the Abel Tasman NP. Richmond und Nelson as the sonnierst cities were on my list as well.
I've soon reached the east coast in Picton and Blenheim.
After a couple of days, I've then travelled back to Christchurch via Kaikoura.
I've spent a couple of days in Christchurch and it's surroundings.
I've visited many geological sites and have found many caches along the way.
I've travelled 3500km and have experienced so much.
Thank you to all the owners
Team sissifalke

Definetly one of the best spots I ever found due to this hobby. What a view from up here. The tide was low so the access was acceptable easy. Nontheless some big steps had to be done here and there to bridge the gaps. But the final location was absolutely worth it.

This was a little adventure. Jumped across a precarious gap in the rocks to get there although later realised that was not entirely necessary. I love these caches that take you to exciting places!

Found during my trip in New Zealand.

Today, it's my 11th day of my trip.

My travel today will be Motueka - Punakaiki - Hokitika.

When I arrived here near the pancakes rocks, there was a lot of people around.
It is a big tourist attraction.
The landscapes are really impressive and amazing. It's a beautiful place to discover these limestones, these rocks and blowholes.

After visiting the tourist area, I'm come here to do these cache.
Hopefully today, the weather is nice, no rain, no wind. The conditions are ideal to do this cache.

I walk along these rocks, and pay attention where I put my feet. There is some places where you really need to pay attention, it could be dangerous.

Finally, I arrived at the cache site and I quickly found this cache.
It was amazing. Something you keep in your memory.

Thanks for this cache and thanks for discovering this place !
Greetings from Belgium !

Tricky to grab with so many muggles out and about viewing the pancake rocks. Enjoyable climb and walk for the adventurous. TFTC

18:38
FITW GreenMenace
I was a bit intimidated by the cache rating at first, got the impression that it will require us to climb up on the crag and then down to the beach on the other side.
Turned out to be quite easy to reach it in the end, it was mostly just a walk up the rocks except this one wee spot that was maybe a bit dodgy where we had to step/jump over a hole in a narrow spot.
So, overall, didn't feel too precarious at all
The blocks down at the secret bay where I though we will have to go, look like giant hokey-pokey blocks! And the pancakes on the way to the cache were really cool too. I'd say it's even better place for admiring them up close as the official walkway.

Oh, and the tide was somewhere right in the middle between high and low, I think when I checked there had roughly 3 hours passed since the high tide and some 3 hours still left to the low one. We had no problems with the waves. I'd say you only need maybe an hour or so away from the high tide to go dry and safe.

TFTC!
#5791

Beautiful find! Thank you

We paused at the first lookout during the Punakaiki Pancakes walk - and looked south to this rather intimidating crag. Hmm... but it was a nice low tide. Straight across the grass to the beach, and then a delightful wander along the flat rocks, hopping up and over as required. We saw one tern nest and carefully avoided it. Then up into the scrub and flax and, ooh-er, here's the edge, don't go any further! We were looking back at people on the lookout where we had just been. A short exploration of safer canyons and crevices, and Mr D was very happy. What an amazing scenic spot - how do you find these places Moneydork?

I made a pocket Query a year or so ago for geocaches placed in 2005 and before so I'm targeting them whenever possible. I'm on my way to Westport to meet up with the daywalk family who are renting a holiday house. I didn't find this one too difficult and took great care in foot placement near the cache as there were some terns nesting nearby. On the whole I managed to go around most of them.

We especially waited for low tide to go looking for the cache and we could almost reach the spot to enter the cache track but the water was not low enough to go around with dry feet and on the higher possible entrance there were a lot of birds that didn't like our being there. Breeding season?
So we decided to leave them in peace and return back to the main road.
But we enjoyed the place a lot on this beautifull sunny day.
Team Mavos - Albert and Maria

Wow! We've lived on the coast 20 years and never came to this spectacular spot. An adventure well worth it for this location. Just be careful not to damage any flora/ fauna or disturb the birds snuggled in nearby.

T-Tech and I are travelling around South Island for 6 weeks

We free camped last night down near the cavern, and today we are travelling on to Westport, but first of all we were pretty keen to get this cache sorted, as the D/T rating is rather nice [^] The tides were in our favour and we were able to set off from the beach at 8.30am, with the tide yet to reach the low at 9.30am [^] A bit of scrambling and rock hopping happened, and then we deviated up to the top. Not too much terrifying climbing, and although the GPS wanted us to be quite a lot more daring, we made a quick find. Very pleased to make it a smiley TFTC, Moneydork.

Over from Brisbane for a number of weeks "motorhoming" around the South Island with IolantheK [^]
Now on our way from Haast to North for a bit sticking to the coast, grabbing caches between views

Nice easy find in the end. Followed the COs advice and went at low tide. I think that the people up at the Pancake Rocks were wondering what the heck we were doing though

TFTC Moneydork A favourite point form me

Today’s leg in Janene our Jucy van is Christchurch to Punakiki, much more scenic than yesterday’s Dunedin to Christchurch and today the sun is shining, yesterday it was rain most of the day.

Such a lot of lovely places to stop on the way and loads of nice T caches too,, but travelling with s muggle I had to limit myself to Earthcaches only and close by trads.

We decided to call it a day here and find somewhere to camp, this gave us some time and we thought we’d have a go at this one.

Glad we did, lovely walk and not too challenging at low tide. Cache is wet inside but double bagging has the log dry. FP for the location. TFTC

After visiting the pancake rocks i went for a little walk to find this geo. As nobody had a look for it in the last 6 month the geo was hidden even better thanks for carring!

Beautiful spot. Perfect weather, go the west coast

What a spot . Saw on a truely stunning day. Tftc

LOL. High tide and huge waves. No way, Jose.

On a road trip around nz, picking finds whenever possible, great to know I was able to do this one given the difficulty of terrain. I'm thinking we found the non swimming route to ground zero but wearing dinner gear with dress shoes made for great stories later... Mud and shrubs it was for us due to heavy rains that day. Took a bit of hunting to fine the sneaky hide. Fav point, thanks for fabulous views. Tftf

I have been in New Zealand alone 25 years ago.
This time i visited down under again with my wife.
On our way south we also visited the pancake rocks.
We had a great view and the weather was fine.
The way to the cache was a little challenge for us.
After a short search we found it in his hidden place.
Favourit Point in!

Thank you very much for this cache and many greetings from Germany.

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Thanks a lot for the next New Zealand´´ s cache! I must say that this country is one of the best for the geocaching and geocachers in the world! Definitely YES! Beautiful hills, mountains, views, landscape, waterfalls, lakes, rivers, rocks, forests, ocean, villages, cities, farms, orchards etc. AyAmalin loves this country!
Greetings from the Czech Republic! I would like to invite all geocachers to Czechia, we have got many excellent caches on amazing places too!

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AyAmalin

#8489, 19:18,
During our holidays in Newzealand we searched some Caches.
After having the correct entry, the rest was easy. The little jump is only a problem in the head.
The search in the scrub took us a longer time.
Thanks for placing and maintaining this box
arbor95

Together with arbor95 I am on a holiday tour in New Zealand.

We are two Germans, old friends since a long time. Together we visited a lot of other countries in the past, even before we started geocaching. [^]

For our trip we usually looking for some extraordinary caches.

Therefore we had mostly a lot of fun.

We found the only possibly way and we did it. After a little bit searching I found the box.

Thank You very much for this geocache, for the challenge and for the maintaining.

Greetings from tripleclaus to Moneydork.

At World’s End – New Zealand – One of our dream become true.

Our plan was to stay 4 weeks in New Zealand. But this wasn’t this easy to manage at work. So we moved spontanic the plan from march to november. We informed us before about point of interessts. The list was this long so we decided to go by campervan from the north to the south to have the most mobility. We arrived after way to much hours in Auckland and started there our round trip. At first we enjoyed the area in auckland and the north. In Waitomo we were able to see and enjoy glohworms in one of the famous caves. But this area had a lot of nice hiking trails were we could discovered the Piripiri Caves, Natural Bridge and the Marokopa Falls. This was already impressive to see and still the beginning of our adventure for life. The trip went on over Okere Falls Scenic Reserve direction Rotorua. In this area we enjoyed each hour, because each corner was different. We visited the Haumurana Springs – what amazing water -, Blue Lake and Green Lake and relaxed in Kerosene Creek. We liked all the water and in our travel guide we found a hike cloth to the Huka Falls, which ofcourse we did as well. All this flowers were bloom. One oft the Highlights was Wai-O-Tapu. The weather was perfect and all this colors awesome and the geysir a nice shower. By Campercan the to tour went on direction Tongariro Alpine with a short stop at Orakei Korako and the Tongariro River Loop Track. Lu like nice hiking tours and what could be the best for her birthday? Of course the famous Tongariro Alpine Crossing. We started early in the morning and walked approximately 9 hours over gras, stones, snow and colorful water. Now we had to leave the Heart of North New Zealand and went over Taranaki Falls to the East Coast with the goal Napier. The weather was cloudy and often raining but a small sightseeing was a must have. The last stop on the North Irland was Wellington. But it was only raining and some streets were already flooded. That’s why we change spontanic our plan and only did the First Cache of New Zealand and went by ship over the Marlboro Sound to Picton. We went over Farewell Spit to the lonely Wharariki Beach with sea lions. On the way back to the big streets we stopped at Waikoropupu Spring and Janie Sesson Shipwreck and drove untypical to Karamea. In Germany we do not have this much and public caves and that’s way we enjoyed this area! Cloth to the West Coast we took a look at the Pancake Rocks. The weather was just raining and so we could not see the Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, but we still visited them. We leaved the bad weather in the hills and enjoyed the Sun at Ship Creek, Thunder Creek, Fantail Falls and the Blue Pools. Wow they were relly blue and this clean and deep. I never saw something similar before. About Wanaka we read a lot in our travel guide and looked forward to it. There arrived we visited the Puzzling World and walked around the sea. Queenstown the next town we drove just through because at this time there was a marathon and it was really campervan unfriendly. So we used the time and drove to Milford Sound and enjoyed the hills surround us on the water. I never felt this small. After we are landed again on land the trip goes on to the Chasm and Clifden Caves and the Clifden Suspension Bridge. Wow what an adventure. At the end we visited a few cities like Bluff, Duneding, Moeraki Boulders and Christchurch were our Trip sadly ends.

At all this places we looked for nice and unique caches which shows us places which we never would had seen without. We enjoyed the nature and wildlife each day and it was really an adventure for life. At the end we drove approximately 5000 kilometeres and felt this relaxed.
Thanks to all owners for placing this caches and this much informations which we got about the particular areas. This was an adventure for life for us. Thanks for this beauty time.

Greetings from Germany – Luco235

Had no problems to find a good access to gz. The search took a while, but finally I discovered the cache and logged it. The power of the waves is awesome! Thanks for hiding!

One of the more fun ones we did recently. Figured out on the way back that there was an easy way to get there that didn't involve jumping. Thanks for the cache!

Nice ! Thank you

Nice hide.Deserves a fav point. Tftc

Once in a lifetime we wanted to travel to the other side of the world. This year we took a chance and made a 4 weeks trip to New Zealand! Although caching was not the main purpose, we had our GPS prepared and when we were close to a cache, we of course looked for it and logged it. So we found several dozens of "kiwi-caches" and want to thank all the owners!!

In Punakaiki we first found the tradi at the street, then the lookouts and (hopefully) the answers for the EC. Afterwards we noticed this tradi. Hmmm. D/T doesn't seem easy.... Anyway we tried it, but found nothing at GZ. This was not bad, since we liked this place very much!! So in the evening in our B&B in Barry"town" (I just LOVE this Kiwi humour!) we took at look at the log pictures. Then we knew, we were right and came back this morning. At this time we were lucky and my wife spotted the carefully hidden and covered cache and we could liberate Sami after logging.

Thanks for this best cache, that we had in NZ up to now!!

TFTC #3585, Ebnater

Hardest one we've ever found! And were attacked by seagull at the top. Amazing spot though. Left Sami the Dog trackable.

[purple]We were heading to Punakaiki to do maintenance of our own so we made the effort to finally replace this wet log. I couldnt remember what size the container was so we took a couple of options. While standing there writing in the logbook I was getting attacked by birds (looked like seagulls to me - but Mum said they were terns) and yet Mum was sitting down and they werent interested in her at all?!! We quickly double bagged the new log and put everything away and got out of there pretty fast.

Holidays in New Zealand! We have been looking forward to them for years. We had lots of time to prepare ourselves for a great trip. As geocachers, we also picked out a number of great caches. Armed with a "to-do list" and accidental encounters we were lucky to log many caches. Thank you for placing them and keeping the game go on!

Day 16/28: Punakaiki - Franz Josef
Lots of driving, but not enough time for the many caches that we encountered. Thank you for this cache.

This was found number 6885

Greetings from the Netherlands

Thank you for this nice Cache

Well after looking at the rocks we were working at a plan to get this cache as its our first 4.5/4.5 loved the rock jumping didnt come into any water, guessing the water was out? I followed hubby to gz also followed a geotrail which was helpful, hubby got swooped at while I stayed low signing the log, the size of the containers are a lot smaller down south and had expected a 1ltr sort of size, could only fit one tb and 1 paracord keychain. Thanks for the awesome location. Fav point from us on how we had to get there

Group effort. swooped by seagulls but enjoyable nonetheless!

very interesting terrain. Thanks for the cache!

#561 A nice cache on our NZ drive.

Today we found a total of just under 60 caches, breaking our record of caches in a day. we saw many beautiful sights and visited many nice places, New Zealand is full of these. We drove up from Greymouth to Punakaiki and across to Hanmer Springs. A long day with a lot of driving but it was definitely worth it.

Thanks to all the hiders for their caches, without you we would not be able to find these caches and some of these great spots.

All logs were signed wherever possible. Some logs were full or waterlogged and this prevented us from logging them. Loved this one. Had birds attacking me but managed to grab it in the end.

Favourite point from me.

Condorito

TFTC. Together with Justin Case 1986. Easier than expected, be careful of birds attacking you. No swimming and/or rock climbing necessary

This entry was edited by TomBrno740401 on Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 05:01:36 UTC.

Very nice challenge TFTC beware of birds

Bit of effort to get this but all worth it. Bit of rock hopping and gentle uphill climb with a great vantage point at the end. TFTC

loved this one was a fav for me, thanks heaps for the knowledge to bring us here Aroha and happy caching A MUST DO CACHE

Logged as wrong date. Want to keep the streak alive.

Dec 14: dipping a couple of TBs we discovered in our possession, to trigger their kms

We decided on a breakfast of pancake rocks and, being Canadian, luckily we had some maple syrup. We parked (probably illegally) at the ritzy looking hotel near GZ and walked out to the beach as if we had the right to be there. No one challenged us and we successfully made it to the pancakes. The tops of the pancakes were slippery, as if buttered. We stayed low until there was no other choice. We admired the nascent potholes along the way and wondered if they had been made the same way as our limestone potholes in Ontario, Canada. 20m from GZ, instead of choosing the route of certain death, we climbed up and followed a subtle geo-trail, while trying not to fall off the far edge. As usual, Grayelm the Eagle-eyed made the find. Thanx for the early morning challenge on our way down the coast; it was a real adrenalin-pumping eye-opener!

We'd finished admiring the well named Pancake Rocks and watching the blowhole but clearly MrG was looking for something more . . . LIKE THIS!!! The tide was going out as we sourced a route to GZ. The obvious one was the one we took, slippery in places, but we soon worked out the good from the slimey. Then MrG dropped his glasses down a watery crack. With a two finger stretch we recovered them before they joined the Tasman Sea. Things went smoothly after that and the cache was found easily. The log as mentioned before is saturated so we left a small logsheet in a plastic bag and retraced our steps, all the way to the pancakes, berries and cream. Mmmm, we earned that! TFTC Moneydork.

More than 21 years have passed since my first visit to New Zealand. In 1994, I was only 12 days here, but this time I wanted to see the country a little more. Then I realized there would be a MEGA-Event in Christchurch at Labour-Weekend. I started my trip a day earlier and was happy to attend my first MEGA outside of Germany. I got much help from the cachers there, so I could visit the different event places without using the bus or a taxi. Later on the tour with my group, I could only look at the caches nearby.

First I had to jump over a small gap but then I found a better way for the way back. It really took me some time to find the cache and I searched very careful. I was happy to find the box, but the logbook was too wet to write on it. So I will attach a photo log of the box.

Pacmess

1857

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

FIN (laalaa, janahola, temyllyl, kapeka) holiday in New Zealand. Marvelous country and nice landscape. We had fun.
Greetings from Finland.
Thanks for the cache.

Seventh 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. Heading south by west coast via some nice caches!
After visiting more known Punakaiki rocks, we did a little coastal walk by the sea. Amazing views!

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 drove from Nelson to Greymouth. Of course some caching on the way. After the Punakaiki earthcache we couldn't resist the stars this cache have. Relatively easy find. TFTC!

Welcome to MEGA Finland in 5-7 august 2016!

Was not a good idea to get this one at night after a couple of beers. Rocks are a bit slippery and could be a long drop if it goes wrong. The log book was so wet I could not write in it but I gave it a go and it sort of worked. TFTC BH

Found on our 25 day New Zealand South Island holiday.

Apologies for the late log but with little or no internet as we travelled and only super slow WiFi in van parks I decided to log all finds on my return home.

would have liked to have spent much more time enjoying this area....

TFTC

To Day we leave Westport and up the way to Greymouth we pick up some caches. This one was one of it. It took a litel bit time to find the acces to the cache and an other bit of time to find the cache . At the end i was compliedly weath cos the rain is comming but an other great day in New Zealand with great views and great caches. Thank you for the cache.

after visiting the pancake rocks we are touchy-feely with the rocks. it was a grandios view and a nice climb. but we must search few minutes to discover the cache. the logbook is very wet. so we take a foto... - T4TC ..punkt on tour with chomo

The rocks were slippery, but we dared! After a longer search we found the totally wet cache - a foto follows. We were very lucky about this exciting experience in breathtaking landscape. Great!

Thanks and greetings from chomo along the way with ..punkt

Greetings from Finland! Visiting New Zealand with kobolttti and besides seeing the sights we're also getting some geocaching done.

I was busy parking the car so kobolttti got a head start and made it to the cache while I was still busy fending off angry birds. I guess the mating season is not the best time to get this one. But at least at noon we had low tide and the trek was easy. Thanks for my first 4,5/4,5

Found with Ephief. Easy way to the cache during low tide. Not really a 4.5/4.5 but a tidal 3/2. Some extra difficulty from the nesting birds. Didn't like disturbing them but luckily was at GZ already when they started attacking me. Logbook is soaking wet.

While staying at the Pancake Hotel this one was a must to do. At 5 pm it was no problem to find our way to the cache. The only problem was to log the wet logbog. But we did our best. Thank you for showing this other side of the Pancake Rocks. TFTC

Hello from England. We noticed this one whilst walking to the Pancake Rocks viewpoint. Hmm, it's only 2 hours to high tide, can we still do it? We yomped down the road to check it out. Ohhhh, the waves are already crashing at the edge of the rocks ...ok we'll make a start and see how we go. Well, we got to 190ft from GZ before it became rather high and narrow, so one of us stayed there with the bags, and the other braver one continued onwards. He "enjoyed" the leap over the chasm, and was relieved to find the coords were spot on for the cache. It is still soaking wet though, so he took a photo as well. These are fabulous rocky coastlines around here - have a FAV for the scenery and adventure [^]. TFTC [5314]

We had the whole extended family here for Fathers Day breakfast and felt like a cache after they all left. With plenty of daylight left we came out here hoping the tide would be right to get to GZ. As we arrived we saw an awesome looking Punakaiki sign made out of driftwood on the beach (photos included.) It was a perfect time to visit but because I already had the cache stored on my phone from the last time we came through I didnt know that the cache needed a new book so the one we found was still wet and we just barely managed to etch our name so I left a sticker. Sorry we didnt have anything in the car so [red]could the next person please bring a new logbook or leave a piece of paper. [/red] We had fun rock hopping and the find was a quick one. The trip home felt long but we are very pleased to have finally smilified this cache. Thanks for the cache Moneydork [purple]Our cache find: #3001[/purple]

Back today, the rocks were a lot easier to walk on and not slippery. The cache was easily located but too wet to log. Awesome views tftc

This cache was one we needed for a challenge cache and one of the main reasons for our trip over. We had tried before and to slippery. This time a beautiful day and dry. So much easier. Made it to the end and it was there I had my little 'oh that's a drop' moment I get in caches like this. Justanurse pushed on and I followed for her to say 'I see it'. A great feeling to get this cache. Log was to wet to write in and nothing taken to replace but justanurse has a picture of cache.

Justanurse and I went to attempt but stopped quickly. Has been raining and all rocks wet. Shoes slipping a little so will try on a dry day.

Enjoyed hoping over pancakes! after a short search during high tide Lucifer & me quickly found this one. Thanks for bringing us here! TFTC & Regards from Bremen, Germany pxfritz

thanks:-)

Log was wet needs replace

Thanks for the cache

We found it! It was not that difficult..even on a stormy day. The look book is totally wet, so we were not able to sign in. Beautiful spot TFTC, Divercacher & Leonie

noop. found nothing

Wow, wow, wow! Best place ever!! Glad we die This one! High tide, so a bit too dangerous, i think... Thanks though, for bringing us here.