Terry Me Cow (West Coast) Kumara, South Island, New Zealand
By Bitsprayer on 30-Apr-06. Waypoint GCVN0W

Done it's dash.

Came back in drier weather and no luck

Found an obvious group of Pongal but cache.

Found awhile ago only just logged

We walked up here and went thru waist high gorse to the pungas and found nothing. Got a view of the river further up.

It's getting a little overgrown around here but the view over Kumara is still there. TFTC

Out on my bike for a few caches after an early breakfast and before the Muggle family members arise. This one has lasted the distance. Not so many from this era still around. Thanks bits prayer.

A wee discussion between Mr P and myself as to where the cache was going to be... hence I took one for the team and went through the young gorse to GZ. Amazing views. T4Tc

Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't that be Tara Ma Co ? A cool little walk - - about the right length when there are lots of caches to find, and so little time . Loved walking along the escarpment, loved that the kamahi are in full bloom and loved the views. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Cheers, does not look like it has been found for a while

Cheers, does not look like it has been found for a while

Time to head home after an awesome weekend caching around the hokitika area.
Early start on a mission to get as many between hokitika and Arthur's pass.
White truck and hi viz jacket perfect camo for these caches
Log was to wet to sign , drained water from the cache tftc

A nice walk and quick find. Thanks Bitsprayer

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A nice easy find. Thanks for this cache Bitsprayer

short walk before dinner. track is a bit over grown in places . good view from the top. tftc

Interesting place! Not many people come up by the looks of it. They have resurfaced the parking area, so I had to park a little further - funnily enough near the plaque that explains the history of the hill. TFTC!!

This our last cache for today, we have had a great day collecting the caches and code words for the TMGT series and gathering other puzzle and traditionals that are along the way.
We have driven past and mentioned this cache to each other on several occasions, today we made the time and effort to head up the hill to find it.
The cache was quite wet as was the log, but it is still useable.
Some good views from up here, but the trees have grown and is blocking much of the view over the town.
We carried on and did the loop walk, enjoyed walking amongst all of the punga trees
Thank you for placing the cache and thank you for the smiley

cache fine

Beautiful walk on Easter weekend with the family, ticked off 4 geocaches in kumara , great views

Good find

On the road for a trip down the West Coast with our little caravan to explore this part of the country. It is not a caching expedition as such, but we do manage to stop for one or two
Our travels lead us to your cache, as we travelled down the Coast, many thanks, Bitsprayer, for bringing us here. We’ve had great fun so far and look forward to finding a couple more caches as we travel on our way. TFTC.

Found it bitches

Found nice walk

TFTC

Found on a nice day down the coast

Hi there found your cache yesterday. It is surviving the winter & log is dry but everything else very wet. I poured out the water but didn’t have any tissues on me to dry contents.

Needed a walk so braved the muddy track to look for cache. Nice views. Easy find once I looked on the correct side of track. Log dry but everything else wet. Needs a clean out. Tftc.

Found with Turtlet.

Soggy day. Perfect for geocaching!

TFTC

Tftc

Yesterday I moved my caravan a bit further south to stay with an old work colleague in Awatuna. So this morning I will continue with the caches along Stafford Loop Rd and onto Kumara.

I took the short way in by taking the righthand track up those steps, signed the cache, and took the long way down by the gradual grade track.

Cheers for the cache.

A quick venture up the hill to admire the stunning view:-) TFTC

How on earth does Bitsprayer know about these places? A nice local walk to an interesting viewpoint, really worth doing. [http://www.kumarawestcoast.org/walks-attractions/](http://www.kumarawestcoast.org/walks-attractions/)

Out at Kumara gala. Over from Chch for weekend visiting relatives. Nice quick find wit beautiful scenery. TFTC

Great views of the town. Care needed along the top as part of the edge has crumbled away. TFTC!

Was not sure how safe it was to leave the bikes at the bottom of the hill so pushed the bike up to the top of the hill and then rode down the other half of the loop. Great views from the top of the hill, not sure if the remnants of the picnic table are because it got blown away or due to vandalism. TFTC

#14126. Given where the track started, I thought it might head downhill towards the river. I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to climb to an excellent viewpoint. TFTC.

Found with StreetWalker en route to the West Coast for Queens Birthday weekend to escape the drizzle of Christchurch.
This is another cache we have driven by before. It was a lovely day for a walk and enjoyed the view of Kumara on one side and the river on the other. Once in the right spot (after vigorous frisking of the wrong hint objects), the cache was a quick find. Grabbed the TB. Thanks for bringing me here and great to find an older cache - 11 years and going strong. TFTC.

Found with the help of Bosloerie. Thanks.
From South Africa.

Tfrc. Found it while with Vinnige Voete and BoertjieRSA, all the way from South Africa. Historic town of Kumaro well worth a visit.

Found it, thanks!

Interesting hill, nice view of Kumara. TFTC.

519 West Coast Wilderness Cycle Trail

Found it once we looked on the right side of the trail. TFTC

End of day one on trail nice find

Awesome spot! TFTC

Log book is pretty waterlogged. Hard to sign.

Nice little track i never knew about. Left a travelbug which i hope travels back to texel holland.

Murphys law! I managed to take the wrong path until I thought about it. Returned a made a climb that was rewarded with a find and a great view.
Thanks
erninz

Wet, raining, but what a great wee walk.
Qiock find and took the tag.
tftc

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Quick find - picked up TB

Its Easter & have teamed up with The Seagnoid & Zara, for a magical mystery tour. Bug out Thursday lunchtime picking up the Seagnoid on the way to exploring the amazing West Coast.
Loved this walk and the amazing views down the river. The Seagnoid found it and started to return but I wanted to keep following the track which thankfully was a great loop track. Much enjoyed. Cheers

On a big Easter caching mission with ZaraBus and TaybeeDragon. Lots of crawling through mines, climbing hills, walking through bush. And yet we only covered a tiny bit of the West Coast, between Greymouth and Hokitika.

Climbed the hill had some great views of the cow. Interesting to see the difference in altitude on each side of the hill. Dropped in a trackable, path tag, emerald and a favourite - I like these walks.

I noticed the track was not marked on the map, so I added it an hour ago - the maps have updated already (Open street Map)

cache fixed thanks to gracie7 + Mum

Went for a walk along the track. Doesn't look like track gets used much. Found the cache and sat in the sun for a while while we waited for the cache and contents to dry out. Once done replaced cache and continued along loop track back to car.

I thought we had a spare logbook in the car but when we got here we couldnt find it, so we had to leave a logstrip instead (still good for 50lines) and we will add a notebook for you while passing another time. We removed the old soggy logbook and wiped out the container. All good to go again

Stunning day - tftc. Dropped off a tb. Log book needs replacing though.

Totally saturated! Needs maintenance. Nice wee walk, good views of Kumara stroller friendly with 4WD version tftc

Totally saturated

I was looking for a multi. Thinking it was on this track. While looking at my Gps I discovered that I had it all wrong but this cache was here. What a lovely stroll.

A nice easy find. TFTC

I would say that I found it right away but that wouldn't be true.
atarted looking on the wrong side of the trail. Looked like a geotrail. Wrong.
Once I started on the correct side no problem.
TFTC.

Found on our way to West Coast.tftc

Great walk and views. The cache is pretty damp inside. Tried to dry it as best we could.

Lovely evening walk to top of the hill. Ta

Luck had us chose the right way at the fork. The views got better as we went. The steep drops noted. At GZ we were careful where to put our feet, just in case. Just before, the big bush of rhododendrons was a delight to see in flower. Thank you Bitsprayer for placing this cache.

I enjoyed the lower part of this track through the bush but then we had to battle a bit further up on the less maintained part. The cache was easily found, just lying on the ground. When replaced we added a bit of natural camo but suspect the local wildlife might dispose of that soon enough. Thank you Bitsprayer.

Found while cycling the trail.
Easy find. A bit damp.
TFTC

Quick find

Easy find.

Ouch. That was me. Then justanurse said, here it is with no pain. Tftc

After searching around the wrong hint location, theroamingreliever read some logs and we soon had cache in hand tftc great views

Very spikey to get to and close to the edge. But quick find.
Thanks

23/03/2014 9:21:00 AM
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I had been wanting to come over caching to Greymouth for a while, since I had never yet been caching further than the West Coast CANZ cache!!
Spur of the moment, a trip was planned, and I decided to head off on Friday after work. However realised we had monthly after work drinks! Ah, stayed for that then, and then left.

Started headed home this morning. Decided to find anything and everything along the main road back to chch - including a few detours, until time ran out.

Easy one along the way
Enjoyed walk up - good to stretch the legs

Consec caching day # 504

TFTC!!

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Looked at the pongas very closely but no cache. Both GPS and phone indicated same location.

Just started to rain as I set off, so took my brolly for a walk.
Easy find, log is damp but OK.
TFTC

Heading to Greymouth with TheWanglers on a caching weekend. Stopping along the way to pick up a few....nice to knock off another. Didn't get the cache name...took TW pointing out the river (and naming it) for me to click. Not a coaster I. Nice one...Cheers.

Team_Gaters and I have planned a this trip over the last few months. We finally got to the business end of things and kicked off out West Coast raid. We had two days and a lot of boxes to tick. We started at 5am on Saturday morning and it took over 12 hours to get to Greymouth. We drove a lot, walked a lot and had a lot of laughs. We experienced 4 seasons and even contemplated aborting the mission as we were standing in icy cold weather freezing as the rain came pelting down in Arthurs Pass. We encountered matigouri, rosehips, blackberries, brambles, spainairds, baby gorse and old man gorse!!! Still finding parts of prickles in my skin! We also saw kea, weka, cave weta, tree weta, giant slugs, giant spiders in caves, west coasters, fat wood pidgeons, tui and a giant dragon fly. Had wet feet for nearly two days. Three FTFs and on of them was unpublished (first for me).
Quick jog up to GZ and what views. TG wonder why this was called "Terry Me Cow" and I said "There it is" as I pointed to the Kau.
Awesome weekend. TG and I joked that going back to work would be a bit of a let down, so to combat that we would keep one foot in a bucket of water and the other one on top of a pin cusion, that should ignite the memories.

Thanks for the cache.
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We will have to utilise the picnic table up here one day! Nice spot, took a little searching to find the cache but soon was in hand. Lots of swaps here which the kids love. Tftc

First cache of the afternoon after a yummy lunch in the pub at Kumara. Managed to locate the track entrance quickly and my guess as to which direction to take was correct, it led me straight to the cache. A great viewpoint! Found quickly, signed log, TFTC.

Easy find

Walked up for the exercise , view and a cache but unfoortunately only got 2 out of three. Found the hint item but the cache was still not found

Another slight detour to find a cache, luckily took the correct track and cache soon in hand TFTC.

Found it well. TFTC

TFTC

Travelling from Hokitika to Rangiora today in beautiful New Zealand! The caches we are finding are taking us to some wonderful spots that we would never have seen or known about - my favourite thing about caching! Thanks for bringing us to this spot. TFTH - much appreciated!!

Travelling up through Arthers Pass today on way to Christ Church. Picking up a few caches on the way through.
TFTC Happy Cachin!!!

Quick walk, quick find, who needs a Skytower for a view. TFTC.

A good lttle walk to GZ, An interesting view point. Thanks for the stop

eally enjoyed getting a view of how big the town actually is. thanks.

Nice walk, great views, good cache. TFTC

Excellent cache. We presume that the narrow ridge was ground level before all the sluicing for gold.

Nice short walk u the hill, didn't like the plants near the cache actually..
Thanks anyway!

A good little walk.

A pleasant walk on a lovely day. Log very wet. TFTC

A nice wee walk during a coast sunset and the smell of coal fires TFTC

good cache thanks
LGM

Good to be active again after a few months off