Tauranga Taonga (West Coast) Cape Foulwind, South Island, New Zealand
By cap10xs on 08-Jan-06. Waypoint GCRYJ1

found in the first place we looked, didn't realise it has been archived as it was on the gps. A great spot maybe someone will put another one here.

Pulling up caches

Found with NZDi. We had been intending to do a trip to the Coast after a workmate and fellow geocacher came back from a Christmas camping holiday and dropped a map of walks around Westport on my desk. On comparing the walk and geocaching maps, it was apparent to see there was plenty of scope for a geocaching holiday or three to the coast. The only thing we needed to ensure ws that the weather played the game, unlike when my workmate had her Christmas break there. Knowing that we had the weekend free this weekend I kept an eye on the forecast for the coast and it was looking pretty good, so a motel was booked and a rudimentary and flexible geocaching plan was hatched.

The idea was to head to the Coast early on Friday morning picking up no more than half a dozen caches along the way. We limited ourselves to this as we know from previous experience that it can take over six hours to do an hour and a quarter trip if you are geocaching as well.. Once we got to the coast, we were going to do the Cape Foulwind walk, then cache as much as we could from there back to town. We then intended to do as much of the K.R.T caches before retiring for the night and in the morning do the Charming Creek Walk before heading back home again picking up the odd cache along the way. In the end it was mission achieved with 74 finds over two days and only one DNF along the way.

After our trip from Blenheim, severely limiting the amount of caches we grabbed along the way, we arrived at the carpark around 10am. After getting changed into more appropriate caching attire we walked the track to Tauranga Bay picking up all the caches in order apart from the nearby multi.

This was a QEF thanks to a descriptive hint. We were wondering why weenz let you take this prime position on the track, but closer investigation shows you got here first.

TFTC cap10xs

Found with Kiwimykl, refer to his log for details.

TFTC cap10xs

Nice quick find with the hint. Kids enjoyed the seals. Thanks to all cache owners for taking the time to place and maintain your caches. BJ25.

On West Coast travels for a wee family holiday. Staying in Westport. Came out in the late afternoon to find a seal or two...and not disappointed. Quick find and sign between muggles....although; not many are walking further than the seals! Cheers.

Easy find but muggles everywhere so extreme stealth required.

#1883;
Almost couldn't stop watching the seals. TFTC!

Found on our trip around New Zealand, greetings from Switzerland.

After watching the seals we found this one. Tftc Sprunghörnchen

Today we visited the local seal colony. There where manty mothers with their babies. We also visited this cache.

Thank you for the cache

Une magnifique vue sur les "seals" et une cache en même temps !!

Nice Place. Thanks for bring me here and for the cache.

Despite the heavy rain lots of tourists about. Staying at nearby Omau Lodge for the night but wish it was for longer. Dropping off one of our own TBs and hope it travels far. Tftc

I am going to visit a lot of different countries on my travel tour around the world! At the moment I am staying in New Zealand. Of course I also try to find some geocaches on my tour. So I have visited this Cache as well. It was a beautiful place which I reached by a nice walk!
Thank you for hiding and best regards from somewhere in the world!!!
15ost

Nalezeno pri 3týdenním putování po Jižním ostrove NZ.
Díky, pozdrav z Cech.
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Found during 3-week journey through the South Island of NZ.
Thanks, greetings from Czechia.

Great little find. Thanks.

Logged on a beautiful afternoon walk to visit the fur seal colony. Couldn't stop watching the cute little pups playing on the rocks...

Greetings from Germany & thanks for hiding!

Fast and easy find after watching the seals.

TFTC
#SBCF

Quick hunt

We found this cache nearly 18,100 km away from our Homezone. The young sea lions played in the water. It was nice to see

Thank you for showing uns

Cheers Lady Grey and H1Palm

We found this cache nearly 18,100 km away from our Homezone. The young sea lions played in the water. It was nice to see

Thank you for showing uns

Cheers Lady Grey and H1Palm

On our trip through New Zealand we visited many wonderful places. And of course we also visited some caches!
New Zealand is great!
In: 1FVP
TFTC

On our way through the south island TFTC greetings from CZ R&J.

On the walk, there was a lot of caches, very nice views. TFTC from Slovakia.

Found with FnJax. Fabulous location TFTC

Found with FnJax. Fabulous location TFTC

Found with ChisL while coming for a look at the seal colony. TFTC

During round-trip in New Zeeland we certainly tokk our GPS with us from The Netherlands to score some caches.
In the beautiful surrounding of Westport we found this one among some others.
Thanks.

TFTC!
Logged as NickElse

Found on vacation in New Zealand

TFTC!

Tftc took the 3rd tree to find, my fault

Thank you for the nice Cache

Thanks for the cache, went for a walk round the cape picked up a few caches. Thanks for placing these caches

Thanks for the cache, went for a walk round the cape picked up a few caches. Thanks for placing these caches

09:46 Amazing seal colony! My wife couldn't stop watching them so I went find the cache. Unfortunately I forgot to bring a pen so I'm sending just a photolog.

We left for our Waitangi Weekend in Westport on Friday night. Last night was spent at Carter's Beach Top 10. We being JDSCOUT and I.
I loved the signs near here.

Find out more about New Zealand's next big event [Oamaru Geofest](http://oamarugeofest2017.wixsite.com/geocachingevent)

Thanks. cap10xs for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find 4611 for me.

Found on a nice walk with my wife.

I was hoping to see my cousies near here.

Woohoo our 800th find.
Visiting family in Near Nelson and now heading off around the South Island.
Brilliant spot. Great views.
Tftc

Found it!

We have driven down from Nelson today and decided that before we went to our motel we would take on this walk and the caches on it. As is our way we start at the furthest from where we park and then make our way back to the beginning. With the aid of the hint the find was a formality. TFTC

We stayed at the top 10 holiday park last night, and off to Greymouth now. We just walked to the lighthouse, then drove to the other end, and walked here. The sun is coming out, yay! TFTC.

Loved watching the seals. Tftc

Found it didnt bring pen none in container

Geocaching and holidaying in beautiful New Zealand with SwagHo from Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada TFTC.

Fantastic view. Here with HennyGeo on a month's holiday in lovely NZ from Vancouver Island, Canada . TFTC

Always wanted to know what was over here. We enjoyed the walk along the track, picking caches up along the way. The curse of wet weather meant brushing passed the long leaves/branches got me quiet damp, but found the cach okay. TFTC

Traveling together during our Sabbatical, I've found this one beside Dr. Dose and have shared the same nice experience as he did.

Thanks for it and all the best!

During our Sabbatical trip we made our way to Westport as well. I found this one beside visiting the sea lions today and achieved one more nice experience...

Many thanks, moin moin, and best regards sends Dr. Dose...

during our family NZ tour we found also this cache, great country, cool hides, SL, T4TC

Sehr hübsches Plätzchen! TFTC! #, SGeoG

Sehr hübsches Plätzchen! TFTC! #, SGeoG

Found while visiting the seal colony. TFTC

Quick found on a great spot. Thanks

Quite windy but dry. Not that Foul winds as expected with a seal colony. TFTC! Grüße vom Sänger

On the walk to the Seal Colony easy find TFTC

What an awesome coast! Easy walk.

(#599)

Travelling around NZ for 4 weeks, today we startet in Kaiteriteri and drove to Charleston. Weather was very rainy but nevertheless we enjoyed our journey. On our way we stopped several times to search and to find some caches. We enjoyed to see the sealions in this beautiful area.
Thanks for hiding and greetings from Germany!
Klostersigi

This cache was missing when I last walked through here two and a half years ago so it was a high priority to find it this time. Nice quick find then went out to the viewpoint with the tourists to spot the seals. Only 3 to be seen while we were there. TFTC #9644

During our New Zealand Round Trip I was looking for some Geochache. Today we took this walk track to the Seal Colony. A nice area. I could found this one also.
Thank you for cache support

Tftc

Found this cache together with SpookyEyes during our camper van tour through NZ. Thank you for hiding the container and showing this place to us. Greetings from Austria.
TFTC

Found this one together with looki on our Campervan Tour through NZ. Today we are heading for the Cape Walkway and the Seals. Great views along this cool way!
Thanks for hiding. Tftc & Greets from Austria

Quick find by the view for the seals.

So far seen on this trip: Thailand and New Zealand.

TFTC from a geocacher on his journey through the world.

Danke!

After a semester abroad in New Zealand, I travel around the country with MMXX now. There are plenty of amazing spots to discover.
Thanks for placing a geocache here and sorry that I keep my logs short.

Logged: 29/10/2016
# 2 found today

After watching the seals it was a short walk to this cache. Nice bonus was the signpost.
Took the coin with me.


Another day of our tour in New Zealand.
Clouds , rain, sun, 7-14 degrees
Greetings from Belgium
TFTC cap10xs
this was found 7020

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Found this Cache together with beatsteak during our amazing New Zealand journey
We really enjoyed watching the sales, what an amazing experience

tftc
Greetings from Austria!

Found the cache with **Himbäre** on our trip to NZ.
What a country!
We loved to watch the seals!

TFTC and greetings from Austria

A nice quick find after watching the seals and pups. Took TB and dropped a TB. TFTC

Dropped this on our travels

Good cache. Lots of muggles

Thanks for the find on a gorgeously sunny day.

Great cache!

Thanks

On a West Coast adventure....TFTC

Walked from the lighthouse to the bay and back. A great walkway with lots of points of interest. The cache was a quick find. TFTC. Dropped off 2 trackables.

Got it! TFTC ... d_mode

On tour with a couple of muggles and needed a geocaching fix. Got some good pictures of the colony.

Thanks cap10xs.

Our once in a lifetime road trip through the beautiful country of New Zealand lead us to so many great places.
We enjoyed our time and had a quick stopp here to grab this Geocache because it was on our way.
Thanks to all the owners for their great caches!
TFTC Campotosto/Austria

A perfect sunset, lots of neat seals and sea birds, plus some cool flora, plus a cache. Thanks heaps for placing a cache here, it really is a special place.

This was the twelfth find on our South Island trip of 2016 and last one in the immediate eare. We drove out to the lighthouse wanting to do the walk but the return time did not quite work with our schedule, so we did both ends. This cache was the second we grabbed on the walk from this side. We stopped to look at the seals for a good long while and then made it up to this cache. We spotted the probable location once we were at ground zero and with the hint, but had to be patient for a suitable break in the muggles to make the grab, which came before too long. We found the cache easily enough and soon had it logged and hidden again. The cache is in good condition. Thanks for the cache!

A long weekend proved to be just what it said on the tin; a weekend that was long. With mrs capperz trapped in work for 2 of the 3 days this weekend a plan was made to head over to the West Coast for some caching, with the added bonus of some fine weather too. Forecast was for clear skies and low 4, high of 15 degrees, which is some preferred caching weather. Also in possession of a geocaching map of Westport being virgin territory there was every chance of finding a 'few'.
A slight chance of one of 2 FTFs in Westport and the bait was dangled and too good to not take a swipe at. Headed off at 0830 on Sunday and got back around 1830 on Monday so a full on couple of days with park n grabs, beachside specials and a walk along the Cape Foulwind walkway (there wasn't any wind, and it wasn't foul so thinking of renaming it Cape Nicesun.
Day 2 of our trip and most caches were on the Western side of the Buller river. Nice and easy find here as we head towards (in a zig-zaggingly styled) the Foulwind walkway.
Onto the walkway and we sure picked a good day for the walk. Took 45 minutes lighthouse to carpark at other end, then just over 30 minutes back after a 15 minute picnic lunch. Passed a few different families and dog walkers but no one took any notice of us.
Thanks for all the caches here and COs who placed them, many great views to be seen
T F T C cap10xs

We're visiting from Florida, USA. That was great fun. Thanks for placing the cache.

Out walking the trail with the family. Nice day on the Coast. You can still smell the seals from here!

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

Today it is time for Ninalila and I to go back to Cap Foulwind and see the seals 'again' because it was too rainy the day before for geocaching. The weather is really good today !

The walk was nice and more ppl than yesterday of course
It wasn't a problem to find the boxes anyway.

We logged with our team name : Lekiprokos

Thank you for the cache and the discoveries

fefe.adrien and I went to Cape Foulwind and Tauranga Bay yesterday to see the fur seals colony. But it was so rainy that we gave up to play at geocaching. Today the weather is better so we came back there to search the list of caches on the track along the coast. Most of caches were easy to find even with muggles around.

We signed on the logbook with our team name : lekiprokos

TFTC

Spot well chosen, indeed, for a cache, because even without the GPS, we know where we are !!! Endroit bien choisi, en effet, pour une cache, parce que même sans le GPS, nous savons où nous sommes !!! Best regards from France ! and TFTC...

Gevonden! Nice spot close to the seals. Thanks and greetings from the Netherlands!

Easy find 18,761km from home! Tftc.

TFTC!

Found it during our road trip to New Zealand. Thank you for showing us this great place.

Geocaching was one of the minor parts in our wonderful and way too short trip to NZ.
We had a brilliant trip through this awesome contry. We were highly impressed by these quick changes in landscape. Thanks a lot to NZs openminded and lovely people, we always had the impression to be welcome.
We hope to be able to come back one day and visit some of the numerous things we couldn't take a look at.
Cheers from Germany guys and thank you soo much

From 19th February to 20th March Stadibast and I visited New Zealand. Half of the time we made a trip around the North-Island. After a short stay in Auckland we went to: Bay of Islands, Cape Reinga, Rotorua and the Wai-o-Tapu-Thermal Wonderland, the great Taupo-lake… We made a Rafting Tour in the Waitomo-Glowworm-caves or hiked the Tongariro–Alpine-Crossing and, and…
In the second part of our holidays we visited the south island, hiked in the Abel-Tasman-Reserve , went to the Marlborough-Sounds, the Golden Bay, the Oparara-Arch, the Franz-Josef- and Fox-Glaciers, had a great sight on Mt. Cook and Mt. Tasman, relaxed at the Wanaka- and Hawea-Lakes,….
New Zealand is a very amazing country and with exceptional natural sites. We are very impressed of these great nature monuments and sights and we are happy that we met so much friendly and helpful people.

Greetings from Germany.
TFTC
black_dog2402

Really enjoyed watching the seals here ! And another cabbage tree cache as well !!!!!!
Thanks cap10xs !

Seals were well worth visiting thanks, and a cache as well. Tftc