Pioneer Spirit (West Coast) Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand
By Moneydork on 04-Dec-06. Waypoint GCZNKE

Visited the cache site to check on it.
It is missing.

Time to archive it in order to allow someone else to place a cache in the area.

Lots of likely hidey holes but no cache found.

Log is seriously full and needs replacing.

Even the expert was stumped

Enjoying caching around New Zealand on our visit from the UK. As others have mentioned the log book is full but managed to squeeze in a log entry. TNLN. TFTC.

Quick find before dinner ...! TFTC! Markus + Jana (Germany)

Staying nearby before going tramping. Log totally full, needs replacing.
Enjoying the West Coast hospitality. TFTC

Quick find on the way through. Logbook still damp, mouldy & full.

TNLN - Thanks Moneydork

Staying in Hokitika, took the GPS on a walk to the chippy shop and found ourselves walking straight past so had to take a look for the cache.
Easy find, lucky as the info was back at the camp.
TFTC.

An obvious and easy find but the log book is full and is very damp - needs maintenance desperately. TFTC.

Book is wet, mouldy and full. Needs to be replaced.

Quick find but quite mouldy. TFTC.

Quick find - tried to dry the log a little. I stayed right opposite for two nights. TFTC

11:30
We enjoyed the interesting stay in Hokitika and
learned a lot about the NZ greenstone.
TFTC and greetings from germany, Joachim

Quick find at the end of a caching day. TFTC.

Very easy find.
Didn't even need to use my GPS!

Full log book.

My daughter's first find. It needs a new log book, as this one is rather full.

Found it by GuanacosTeam
TFTC!

Trobat per l'equip GuanacosTeam
GPC!

Found it!
Cache found in our holidays in New Zealand.

Cache #1.001. And this is a good cache to start the new thousand caches !
The logbook is full.

TFTC
Greetings from Barcelona

Nice Village I found more then this geoache *IoI*
TFTC

Tom

Looked fot this one 3 years in a row and now....found it.
Out: TB Buzzy
Thanks-Meryl-The Netherlands

Quick find while on our way home from southwestland.TFTC.Dropped in TB

Nice easy find. Was a bit exposed but I fixed it up. Got it on the way home from the Hokitika swim carnarval. TFTC
- Jake0magnet
+ Bit of greenstone

Cache was wet, but we could log.
Found it very quick.
TFTC + Greetings from Germany
Basti + Jule

2nd find in the same spot. I had to walk across the rialway each time....

It took me two goes to get this one as a very slow moving muggle was wandering past.
Nice and easy apart from that
Thanks,
S.t.

Handy having that seat there, isn't it. Quick grab, sign and replace. No swaps, thanks and cheers from Grandalf(1165)

Found with Jem. Easily spotted by Jem after a search. TFTC

After looking to hard we found it in the obvious place. Number 3 of the day. TNLN TFTC

6/7 of The Grady Bunch found this cache.

A quick grab and go between passing cars. TFTC.

2124. A quick find then we were heading back to Moana. As we got back into the car we spotted the moon rising through the clouds so we turned the car and sat for a few minutes watching.

Thanks
Iris & Rodney

Quick find today on our journey down the west coast. Nearly to depart Hokitika. TFTC!

A quick find on a wet day before a visit to the greenstone shops. The cache was a bit damp, but the log was dry. TNLN Thanks Moneydork.

Quick stop and find.

TFTC

We approached this from the other side of the railway, so tried again today. Easy find, and we got a coin we didn't expect.

A quick easy find. A lingering smell from the shrub stayed with us for some time. Left a geocoin

Got some fuel nearby. Enough time to do some caching Thanks!

Visiting from Orange County, California, on a 2-week biking/kayaking/hiking and backpacking adventure with Active New Zealand Active Adventures group throughout the South Island and picking up caches whenever I could wherever we stopped. Had a short rest break to shop for jade and have lunch in this quaint little town, so we took advantage of the few minutes we had and went hunting for this cache. My wife took pictures of the statue while I made the grab -- a quick and easy find. SLTNLN -- thanks for the fun, Moneydork...

We too in the tree ... thank goodness for electronic compass in the garmin 60CS !

This was a quick find down the road from where we were staying. TFTC Dan'gle(UK)

Fun find. Big mac tb not in there

Cute dude

A nice quick find whilst the traffic was whizzing by. Cheers Gav [1898]

Nice quick find, another geat bit of history

I found this cache while on our trip down the westcoast, cheers.

tryed last night(with out lights) but unable to find so came back in morning and found
TNLN

Quick find, while my companions enjoyed buying jade jewelery.

In: Burger TB
Out: Nothing

TFTC.

_sunrise_

3rd find for day, took butterfly, left 6 army men

quick find, cheers

Quick and easy find, that left the butterfly saturated, not just from the West Coast rain either. Too wet to stop and read the information unfortunately today.

We are on holiday from Scotland, travelling south from Greymouth. Was convinced the tree was the obvious spot, but after a lot of searching realised we needed to look elesewhere. Then found it easily, and TNLN thanks.

Doh!! Another one that we had made entirely more difficult than it needed to be. Well spotted by PB when we were passing through tonight. TNLN

There didn't look to be a lot of hiding options here, so our first guess was correct. Great little cache and dash. SL. TFTC.

Also logging in and out our England Geocoin.

thanx for the cache!
teamKollMont from germany, xx

great little rainy day adventure for me and the kids easy find TFTF. 13

Had a quick look, but was too public during the day. Will try again when we are in town later in the evening

Found it. Would have been an easier find, if i had know the cache size. so I searched for micro places and its a small container. TFTC.

Easy find after a caffiene fix downtown.

Easy Find, Almost out in open. Placed it back a little more hidden.

The easiest the more difficult-searched>30 mins-in vain. Next time better.
Meryl(Holland)

Really easy find. Maybe to visible? TFTC.

Quick find. The hide location reminded me of home a lot. TFTC.

This was my last cache before breakfast! Was "rush" hour in Hokitika and I felt vey exposed, so had to pretend I was a statue inspector! My eyes did the searching and my hands performed a quick grab when all 247 muggles had their eyes turned away!

TNLN

Off to Cafe de Paris!!! Yum!!

Nice easy one before we headed south, thanks MD! Took 50c, Left Armyman.

Nice easy drive by. +caribina -candle TFTC

Nice easy find on a beautiful West Coast day. Thanks.

Nice easy cache on a Saturday morning bike ride. TNLN

Final check of tomorrow's plans before turning in for the night and I quickly realised this was less than 300m from where I was staying. So, quick trip down the road, wait a little bit for the local youth to yahoo their way down the street, and grab the cache. Wouldn't of got to sleep otherwise, knowing my nearest unfound cache was so close
TFTC

Lots of traffic made it a bit harder, but got there in the end. Took the sheep and insect out as getting hard to shut the lid. Thanks.

Found while attempting "Tour of Hokitika" - hadn't realised that one had been archived and replaced by this (No wonder we struggled a bit and had to use some "extrapolation")

The statue has definitely been in the wars! Found it on the way back up the coast. TFTC Long-John

A lot of rubbish here. We did not feel too comfortable snooping around broken glass and stuf. Also, the poor man on the statue misses an arm and is shot through his hat.... ha ha ha.

Greetings from Holland.

In: Smiley teacup
Out: candle (we had to take something out in order to fit something new in...ha ha ha).

Easily found. TNLN

Wish the rain would stop - not good geocaching weather. Since this cache doesn't get a lot of visits, I will take Belinda TB to another location. Had to hunt a bit but it was where a geoacher would figure. Decided to mix up the contents and do a lot of trading:
- Hokitika post card
- TB Belinda
- tape measurer
+ Rugby sheep
+ scorpion paper weight
+ polished rock
TFTC
Early Rizers

A quick easy find in the dark on our way home from my Newphew's birthday BBQ.

Took nothing, Left TB Belinda (571988).

Found this cache together with Ingrid and hixxx on our way to Franz Josef Glacier.

Greetings from Austria! Annari

Thanks for this nice cache. Found it after having a Chinese lunch in Hokitika.

Greetings from Austria!

A straight forward find while biking through Hokitika. Hard to be discreet though when you are wearing bike fluoro tops. Sorry to see that the pioneer is still missing one arm.

Nice wee spot to sit and watch the world go by.

Thanks Bitsprayer

21.10: Back in Hokitika from Arthur’s Pass. This late find on a short walk after dinner was possible, because we slept on the other side of the road. The cache was there where we expected it.

Weather: overcast, light wind, 16°C;
Wheelchair: no problem!

IN & OUT: nothing.

Thanks!

Oliver+Gabi

My #35 in NZ! TNLN

Quick spot while 'reading' the statue. TNLNSL, cheers!

11:48 am - Scrabbled a bit, but sense prevailed. Took ball, left cow. Hope the pioneer doesn't stay armless for long. TFTC.

Caching with Linleye.

Nice quick find on a day trip to the Glaciers, on a stunning Coast day. TNLN, cheers.

Nice day, great spot, 5th cache of the day on the great Xmas southern cache hunt..

TNLNSL

TFTC

So where did his hand go? The picture shows him being complete. Nice quick cache across from our hotel. SL TFTC From Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, but living in Suzhou, China.

Alexander (5yo) found the cache quickly. He wanted to move the coin onto another cache so off we went.

yee ha found it without GPS, just puched it in to the GPS one day and sore on screen where it was and never got around to finding it, but I was walking past today and thought i'd see if i could find it and there it was.

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