A Farmer's Best Friend (Manawatu) Hunterville, North Island, New Zealand
By tmann421 on 03-Aug-09. Waypoint GC1WQVP

Beautiful day. Great memory. TFTC

Happy New Zealand trip with geocaching.A pity were with muggle friends and cant visit as much as geocaches as we like. I appreciate all the caches we passed and visited.Thanks, tmann421, for the cache. Greetings from Taiwan.

Easy find with the kids and wife this be our 3rd find

Fun cache. TFTC

Found with Nutty Nora. Lovely wee park to stretch the legs. Now to take a pic of the dog. TFTC

Finally stopped at this park to take a picture of the woofer for our friend Jenn! Woo hoo a cache too! On a roadie from the brass band champs with Piwaka 54

Nice easy find for Miss 5

#2750. Day 6 of a road trip from Wellington to Morrinsville (& back) to attend the 100th birthday party of a distant cousin.Yesterday, I travelled down from Te Aroha to Rotorua, and this morning continued my trip south.Time for a refreshment stop in Hunterville, and this cache nearby. Nice easy find, well camoflaged by autumn leaves. All good at GZ. Got some data for the Shemoozle multi in the area, but no time to collect it all. Progress for another time.Tftc tmann421. (This is a distant cache for you!)

Liking the quick finds in the drizzle . With Tokerau

Found with JR, umbrella up and a quick find was what was needed.

Lovely to stop and see the statue and read about the dogs.Found with Henbit Deadnettle and Jaeh68TFTC

on our way from Lake Taupo to the west cost we had an overnight stay at the freedom camping in hunterville. TFTC Fischus

4-week family trip through NZ - Find #103!A very quick find at a nice rest area .TFTC!

Came past and freshened up the logsheet here.

Travelling to Wellington we made a break. Thank you for this additional break item.

Stopped off here for a picnic lunch on our way north on a family holiday. The cache was a nice quick find, TFTC

Dieser Cache konnte heute erfolgreich geloggt werden.Danke an den owner fr's legen und pflegen TFTC Schmerzbefreit

Quick find, thank you. Easy once a told my Kiwi friend about a 'cabbage'

1,189, nice quick grab and go. TFTC

We where here for the campsite nearby. When we arrived we where walking around for a bit to see where we ended up. While doing so we checked for any caches and this one was the one closest to us. A quick and easy find. TftC

Thats a nice little town here. But what is so special about this kind of dog? The cache itself was also a bit strange. No cabbage to be found anywhere close. Even tho we did not find the cabagge we did find the cache itself. Tftc

Thanks for your amazing cache. I really appreciate the time you took to set up and maintain your caches. Cheers, Cympull.

Log was hard to write on, and may be in need of replacement, but managed to jot down my username. TFTC.

Easy find.A bit damp.No pencil.

Found it!

Log sheet looked like it had been wet at some point and fell apart when I tried to unravel, didn’t have any paper in the car unfortunately. Our best friend enjoyed investigating the trees around GZ and leaving a note on the doggy hotline

It’s my birthday soon so instead of having a fancy dinner we decided to do a weekend away camping. I said I was happy with the cold just no rain so up north from Palmy we went chasing better weather. Geewiz is it cold!

TFTC
C&J

Easy find, reserve very wet underfoot, unfortunately log book has perished. Requires maintenance. Still good to find though.

Quick find on today's road trip! With kilo2bravo

I found it somewhere everywhere
Cause I finally found it

Nice easy find after we drove to get custard squares at Flat Hill cafe tftc

Hint definitely gave it away, nice fast cache

Al small peaces of paper in there

Picked a random spot for lunch and lo and behold a cache within 10m tftc

After going on a bit of a detour, back on the main road. The log paper is damp and quite torn. TFTC

Stop, eat and grab.
TFTC and greetings from Germany.
Klatho & Gazzelli

Found it!

A cute little park, tftc!

TFTC

Delightful rest area! I saw a couple of things that might have matched the hint (including the green picnic table!) but in the end it was obvious. Log nice and dry in its double housing but my pencil didn't make much of an impression and I didn't want to rip paper. TFTC

Thanks for the cache. Love Wallacefam.

With the Geotour coming to and end soon Yvettetb and I decided to go on a road trip to collect Tahi and Rua. Of course I had some puzzles at various places to collect and a few special types were added to the list too.

This was our 4th day. We'd stayed in Taihape last night and todays plan was to get closer to Palmerston North collecting my unfound SHIELD puzzles on the way. We eventually made it to Fielding after a sucessful day.

I noticed this statue as we drove into town. Glad there was a cache here. We've just bought a huntaway pup as a pet for my daughter. She loves taking him for walks down the farm. He was scared of cows at first but is getting more used to them. Thanks for your cache

Our North Island Roadtrip from Whangarei to complete Tahi & Rua of the NZ Geotour - Day Four

Collected this cache when we were in the area doing the multi. Quick easy find at GZ. TFGC

Spent much of my life living and working on sheep farms and huntaway dogs are awesome animals. They definitely become your best friend. My last huntaway was called Rose and she was amazing ! Thanks for the cache. tmann421

Great place to stop and stretch my.legs

Pulled into the rest area then checked the cache radar and what do you know a nearby cache. A few muggles about but their busy doing muggle things too busy to notice the weird person walking back and forth looking at their gps. A fairly quick find there’s only one cabbagey looking thing I could see in the near vicinity. TFTC

Up from Southland with muggly hubby to revisit some old haunts and discover new places. Taking a leisurely trip and the caching goal is to complete PWGT2.
This is Day 1 on the road. Aiming for Mangaweka.
Having picnicked nearby I realised that here was a stage of the PWGT and also a trad. It would have been rude not to coect the smilie so I did.
Plenty of hunt aways in Southland so good to visit their origin.
Thanks for the cache tmann421
# 3441 14 November 2022 2:11 pm

A quick find here, TFTC!!

Beautiful spot

Paper wet. Added more

Tricky find with one Cabbage tree uprooted and one standing strong!

A quick find, and a quick photo. mrs’s photo is quite good, with wagging tails all posing tftc

Driving to Taupo for the weekend and made a couple of stops on the way. I think there were originally two cabbage trees there and one has been uprooted. After searching the one left we widened it and it was found under the uprooted one. I hid it back as best as I could. TFTC.

Stopped here for a quick break and leg stretch and to let Jager out for a bit of exercise on the way back from Wellington to Turangi with FMZ after our French Bakery course, with all sorts of yummy bread smells coming from the back of the car. Quick find and then on our way again. TYFTC!

Found with Madcow2, Mumandme and Kimmy+co. Having finished the Tongariro Northern Circuit today is a day of exploring. Amazing trip and views so far. TFTC

Tftc, on the way home from doing the northern circuit with mumandme, madcow2, victoriousone

A day out caching with victoriousone mumandme and Kimmy+co

Stopped here for the geotour, saw this cache as a bonus!

Thanks! Was a bit wet inside.

Early morning leg stretch on way to Rotorua. Thanks.

Heading to Taihape for the night and stopped here for a coffee break. I knew there was a cache nearby for which I’d had a very fleeting look previously, but at that stage there were too many nearby muggles to warrant a “hands and knees” search. Hardly anyone nearby today. Managed to locate it reasonably quickly! #3390. TFTC.

Out for an evening walk with partner and her granddaughter. Good quick find in a great little reserve. Tftc.

During the long drive from Auckland to Paraparaumu, made a stop in Hunterville to take rest from driving and did a little caching. Nice park here and quick find at GZ. Thanks for the break from driving and the cache.

Nice

A quick find on our way back home to the Naki. #104 of our trip and our last. Good toilets here and a nice wander through the park over the bridge and to the cache. I covered the cache up a bit with some debris as it was a bit exposed. Don’t think I’ve ever visited this town before so thanks for placing this cache here.

Was nice and easy! Lovely spot too for a feed

A quick grab while in the area. Thanks for the cache.

Easy first cache for weekend in Hunterville with Sean. TFTC

On our way back from Taupo. Always alk great place for a quick leg stretch. Thanks for placing the cache

Quick find thanks to the hint

Nice quick cache on our way to Wellington.

Great park and find tftc

Nice quick park and grab. No one around today except the occupants of my car. TFTC.

Had the day off work and Mrs Rubbishparty visiting for the school holidays so headed out towards Hunterville for some caching. Enjoyed a stroll through the town collecting 3 caches. No problems here. Photo of Mrs Rubbishparty getting up close. She’s missing our Border collie that had to stay at home. Thanks for the smiley.

Otto amazing sist put to yos

Thanks Geocache! We found it

Our first cashier:) thank you

Awesome to have a stop here rather than a drive through.

Quick find early in the morning with no muggles around and no pen oppps

Lovely lil find thank you

Found with livingk and gpetone returning from several days in Turangi and Rotorua walking and cycling some of their trails. TFTC

Found with gpetone, and Pat&John during a lunch stop on our way back south from Rotorua. Great wee place to pause. TFTC

Having a lunch stop between Rotorua and Lower Hutt with the HVTC trip home.
TFTC

Great place nice easy stop in go out cash.

A quick find after a loo stop! TFTC.

Stopped here for a pleasant picnic lunch on our way down the line to Wellington. Dog-mad daughter was very pleased with the statute. Nicely maintained park, but weird that there are no signs saying how long the bush walk is. Thanks!

TFTC, sorry no pen on this wet day

Didn't have a pen that worked ... but found thank you for the find

I am roadtripping up to Auckland this weekend for a mates 50th birthday, and have broken my journey up a bit by stopping for a few caches along the way (as you do lol!).

Hunterville is one of those places that I have driven through countless times but never really spent much time at, apart from letting my lad play on the dog statue when he was a nipper. One of the bonuses of caching is that it makes you look at places differently, so I was happy to make this one of my stops today.

A quick and easy find here today is the obvious location as per the Hint. There was a family taking a break nearby but managed to take the cache over to the nearby seating to sign the log etc before replacing it all as found and then getting back on my way again.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Stopped for dinner and let the kids play on the playground for a bit of a break from the car. Quickly ran over to get this one. Was a bit of a challenge!

Muggles and others in the car who were in a hurry. Had a decent look but no luck today

Found fairly quickly after rummaging through all of the leaves. TFTC!

Completely thought I had logged this one. Found this one on our journey home to Whanganui after an extra long Waitangi weekend. Gave us a good reason to have a break and look about Nice easy find for Miss 11. Tftc

Starting to get a little drowsy on the road. What better way to wake up than a bit of caching? Especially in this biting wind. TFTC.

A quick find despite a few muggles hanging about. A very cool statue! Tftc

Feeling a little tired with all the driving, so we pulled over for lunch, a bit of a rest, and to find the cache.

It was a short walk to GZ, and thankfully a quick find. Thanks for the hide tmann421 a fun find today

Stopped for a picnic en route to Wellington. Quick find to nab our 500th cache. Left a little Welsh badge as a reminder of home. TFTC

After seeing the sheep thought it would good to see mans best friend thanks Tmann cache all good TFTC

Nice to cool off in the shade at GZ with some foliage to screen ourselves from muggles nearby. Having lived out in the country areas this is indeed a farmer's best friend. Thanks again tmann421.

A lovely drive exploring on Labour day. Time to grab a few caches in Hunterville. Dogs are faithful companions...I an thinking of mine both past and present as I log this one. Tftc

I left Wanganui and was heading to Turangi. SH4 was closed due to a landslide, so I had to drive down to Bulls and then go north. This one was on the way. TFTC.

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We were on a trip from home in Upper Hutt to Whanganui, but had decided to detour to buy some plants from a plant nursery a bit to the north of Hunterville. After getting the plants we passed through Hunterville for the second time in the day and stopped in the park for the rest rooms and a little Geocaching. After first finding the cache by the sheep statues in town we headed back towards Barnaby past the dog statue to look for this one. It seemed very appropriate: I can't recall ever having actually spotted the dog statue before (just as I'd never seen the sheep), but it makes sense that Hunterville should have one. There were muggles picnicing at the shelter all the time since we'd parked earlier, but magically they moved off just as we walked towards GZ and I had the field to myself for the time it took to locate the cache, sign the log and replace the cache.
Thanks for this cache tmann421, and for keeping it well maintained.

Found as a part of a previous group TanjackMüley, aka WanderingSparrow. Now I'm continuing on my own. TFTC