Ashcroft's Legacy (Wairarapa) Tinui, North Island, New Zealand
By frenchm on 01-May-10. Waypoint GC27VQV

Archiving this cache. The church is being moved to the township of Tinui. Possibly too close to other caches to reinstate. Thanks

After the 2018 WENZ Mega event
mr and mrs went on a Wairarapa tiki tour, and after staying the night at castlepoint and exploring we made our way back towards Masterton picking up caches along the way, finding this cache - logged as MM78..
Lovely small church - mr started off in a slightly smaller one in the King Country.
We liked the Lychgate too.
Tftc

Yes, what a legacy, thanks for sharing the story. We had lunch here, and had a good look around taking in the history of the area.

After a beautiful warm, calm sunny Sunday, I visited here on a quiet Monday morning as the cold rain came down. Good hide and nice and dry book.
TFTC

#5796. A plan was hatched several weeks ago to do a mid-winter caching raid on deepest darkest skindoland, partly to build up finds on skindo caches for a challenge and also to get the new souvenirs launched a few days ago. So Infoferret, Ethnz and I drove over on Friday night and stayed at Ethnz's family home in Greytown. Had a reasonably early start once we could rouse Ethnz from her deep slumber. Then after stocking up on food and fuel we were off north heading to Pongaroa and Dannevirke via 50+ cache stops. After doing the Tinui Hall puzzle we stopped here at the church. The ground was very damp around the church. The cache was soon found but the container was wet and the logbook were soaked to a pulp. Have put in a replacement logsheet (now inside a mint tin within the old cache). Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Had to remove the old wet logbook as it left no room for the new dry log. Thanks for hiding it here frenchm.

Found it floating so is very wet. Love the history. Tftc

Needs maintenance. Log & container very wet.

I love the extra support given to the structure and the obvious respect the community had for the church. TFTC

Beautiful church, big wasps nest on the front roof kept us from looking too close. Little searching before we had the cache in hand. TFTC

A pretty little church here which surprisingly was unlocked. Churches aren't my thing but I did take the opportunity to look at the stained glass windows

TFTC

Found on a Weekend in Castlepoint. TFTC

On a lovely weekend away in the Castlepoint area I found this with TharntheHalkan, Jaeh68 (and a couple of non-cachers who enjoy finding caches!). Tinui is such a cute place. Thanks for this cache which added to the weekend fun.

Found with jacqib, jaeh68 and rikjwells. Tftc.

Off exploring our way out to Castle Point. Stopped for the night at the Cafe and too, a stroll while we were here. What a lovely proud little village here. Quickly found. TFTC!!!

There were people working in the church as we went through the gate but we managed to sneak past them and after a short search found the cache. Pretty church- thanks.

Easy find SL TFTC

CZECH
pěkný malý kostelík, jen je trochu podmáčený... zalogoval jsem a dali jsme si svačinku za brankou

Quickly found as cache on the ground in and full of water. Everything sodden so drained and replacement log put in. Cache replaced hidden above ground level. TFTC.

Loved finding it because it was a beautiful day!

The Church of the Good Shepherd is [**moving**](http://times-age.co.nz/rural-church-move/) sometime in the future.

Could of been tricky but my new partner in crime found it quickly

It was a bit of a challenge to find, but worth it. Beautiful little church. TFTC

Easy find as have found a few similar in churches.

After a major road trip of 750km down to Masterton for the Wings Over Wairarapa air show the weather unfortunately caused both days of the show to be cancelled. However the start of the week was to be our "tourist" time to see some of the Wairarapa sights and the weather has improved to give a cloudless summer's day for our drive to Castlepoint today. Also great weather for a bit of caching with the aim today to break the 500 cache milestone.

This cache was on our "to do" list as we had been told about the little church with the interesting ANZAC related history by another Whangarei based (our home town) cache hunter who had visited this area previously. We also thought that a visit to the ANZAC Cross on the "hill" (more like a mountain we discovered) would be interesting while in the area; this thought soon was discarded unfortunately when we saw the actual location of the cross as we didn't have the time for the 3.5 km trail and climb.

At least we did manage to locate the cache hidden at the church and took some photos of what is a very interesting and historic place.

Travelling around looking at our wonderful home land.
Weather has been inclement but this has not dampened our enthusiasm. Looks like the church has a lot of support ers

SL. TFTC

Good find with the kids and The Big Flax in our way to Castlepoint.
Thanks for the Cache

Well there wasnt a service here but 2 Ladys out the front asked if we wanted to look in the church
We explained what we were doing and they said ok so we went on in
Been to a wedding at castlepoint and on our way home again many thanks

Thanks for the hide in a well kept church grounds. Found this with the Te_Panipi crew on our way to Castlepoint for a weekend fishing, swimming, walking and fun. A total of 6 Geokids & 4 adults on this mission.

One of 20 caches located today, mostly between Masterton and Castlepoint. A wander around the church and a reasonably quick find. Pleasant little settlement in which to stop. #1410. TFTC.

A weekend away with the family, visiting various spots in the Wairarapa, so what better to do than nab a few caches that happen to be on the route. Mostly good weather and the roads not too busy made for some good caching.

TFTC

Set off from Wellington on Monday on a tiki tour and spent the night in Dannevirke at a friend's. Tuesday was a bit of a wash-out, and no one was in the mood for caching, but later, after a rest at the lovely Ashcott Homestead, where we stayed (and when the rain had stopped), we decided to drive to Napier for dinner. Our meal was a disappointment, but the caching more than made up for it. Wednesday we drove to Castlepoint, with a quick stop in Tinui to see the church, schoolhouse, jail amd police station. It didn't occur to me that caches might be nearby ... I'd been driving for days, and was keen to kick back at the Whakataki hotel. But once I'd recovered, I looked online and the decision was made to leave Castlepoint just a little bit earlier the next day so as to nab two caches in Tinui. Tftc!

Tricky to get, TFTC

Lovely little village. tftc

Visited here as part of the transtasman rural ministry conference. We had morning worship here. Amongst the information shared they talked about big floods which have flooded the church above the floor level.

Nice placement. Lovely rural church. TFTC

#2032 I made it out here today with a group of Scouts from Rimutaka Zone which includes Upper Hutt to Masterton. As today is the 100th anniversary of the first Anzac Service we supported our Masterton hosts at Tinui.

We headed out early and a couple of us checked out a couple of caches. Thanks for this one.

All good at GZ. Log dry etc.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.

quick visit on ANZAC day. TFTC.

FYI I understand there is an intent for the church to be moved in the future to higher ground by the hall.

A day on the road in the Wairarapa. Looking around fence posts, under braces and in odd places like that for caches. Having enjoyed a visit to Castle Point we headed back inland and for the road to Alfreton. Our visit here was topical given that it was the ANZAC long weekend. Not a great deal of evidence of preparations happening here but later saw what went on on the day itself. The church was open and we took the opportunity to have a wee look. Some beautiful stained glass windows.
Cache was a straightforward find if requiring one to adopt an unusual body position. All in order; log signed, safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

Great history, and a great find, TFTC

A down and get dirty find!

Parked and had a cup of tea while waiting for people at church to disperse. Ground grovelling find uder the watchful eye of neighbouring dog.

Followed by a very friendly wee dog Tftc

Down fro the Hawkes Bay for the weekend. Decided a trip to Castlepoint was good way to spend the day. TFTC

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Thought it would be one for yesterday but nearby residents put paid to that idea. Nabbed today on the way home from Castlepoint. Spotted by peeking through the slats out of sight of the neighbours and quickly retrieved and signed. Great little church. Thanks for the history. TFTCSL

Found with little blue hen. Another interesting bit of local history. TFTCSL

Unexpected techniques required but got it tftc

Easy find tftc

TFTC easy find after reading description

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Good cache had been taken home by the care takers of the church should've asked permission but is returned now

A quick find after a morning caching around Castlepoint. Thanks for the cache.

On a geocaching trip over the Wairarapa.

A quick find and a bonus pathtag ... thanks tommygun9!

Enjoyed learning of the history. Called into the local craft shop and the lady behind the counter believed they were moving the church because of flooding soon.

Thanks for an interesting cache.

So this is where it all started. Very nice town with a historic past. I left a personnal momento to mark this cool cache.
T F T C frenchm.

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125 Mission summary:
SpudNZ, Hunterhillson, AtomsNZ and Tommygun9 (me) (we logged ourselves as "TEAM SHATner" to save space and time) decided to set off for a caching mission to gather a heap of caches in the Wairarapa on a Wednesday. Noting that the weather was going to be good we set off from Palmy a little after 0600 and grabbed a few caches in the dark and morning light before (having a pie and) setting off south down Route 52. We had a couple of zig and/or zags south and got to Masterton in the dark of the moonless evening. Two of our party broke through the 1000 cache mark while I managed a day of 125 finds. We got back to Palmy very late cold, tired and hungry and know that, despite the uncharacteristically fine weather, summer is definitely the better time of year for long caching missions. Thanks to the local hiders for all their caches.

Cache no.98 for the day. T f T c frenchm.

Logged as team SHATner - (SpudNZ, Hunterhillson, AtomsNZ, Tommygun9) Spent the day caching out in and around the Mighty Manawatu, the Wild Wairapapa and the Bay of Hawkes, in the hope of clocking up +100 caches. As well as seeing some of the best scenic views rural NZ has to offer, we also came across a few stray sheep, a couple of rabbits, Farmer Joe, the Ram gang, some shifty goats, Farmer Dave, a pie, a cop, Farmer Ned and Farmer Ted, diggers, mud, rain, sun, fog, Farmer Jane and her trusty farm dog.. And even a few caches!

In the wee hours of 20 May 15, Tommygun9, Atomsnz, Hunterhillson and myself formed an elite squad for a daring raid into Skindo land. Our codename; Team SHAT-ner.
We would be operating deep behind enemy lines, often out of contact range from Hotel Quebec, limited supplies and no chance of rescue, should we need one. We were horrendously out numbered. I’ve heard rumours that it was close to 300 to one.
Our mission; covertly kill off as many insurgents as we could and return home alive. We had all set personal goals for the mission; mine was to crack the 120 mark. Although, I had recently learnt that another member of our squad from yesteryear had a tally of 133. Perhaps I need to re-evaluate my goal.
Our insertion point was the North entry to Route 52, where we soon realised that the insurgents were coming thick and fast. We had to fight for every inch down that road. After 10 hrs of battling insurgents at every turn, we eventually reached our Southern most point, the insurgent stronghold of Masterton. It was the “home straight” from here. We blasted our way North as fast we could. Sporadically shooting insurgents from our windows as we went. The road was blocked near Mount Bruce so we had to make a detour back towards Masterton and take some of the back roads. I hope this wasn’t a trap. We eventually made it back over the hill to safety. I don’t think we were followed.
We did notice a few spotters located down the back roads that we didn’t clear. No doubt, they’ll relay any information back to their Supreme Leader and we’ll see reinforcements taking up defensive positions around the country side on the satellite imagery we receive.
Weeks of prior planning and INTEL gathering meant a smooth and successful mission was carried out. Against the odds, we returned home well after dark, safe and sound after a hard days work.

Some numbers for the mission:
620 km’s covered,
16.5 hrs of driving,
132 insurgents killed; of which 118 blindly follow Supreme Leader Skindo.
116 were killed on site
16 were questioned before being put in front of the firing squad.
7 evaded us.

For acts of bravery above and beyond the call of duty. In which I successfully carried out a raid into enemy territory and killed 120 hostiles or more, I am awarded the Ruby Badge. I also received various other badge upgrades as well.

I have been out this way once to partake in an ANZAC ceremony. Thanks for the history lesson.
A quick find made by the team here. Signed as Team SHAT-ner
Thanks for the cache and the smiley.

After hearing that Tommygun9, SpudNZ and Hunterhillson were planning a mission to Skindoland to knock off some caches out there I decided that I couldn't possibly be left behind to go to work for the day while they had all the fun -so I offered my expertise in solving Skindo puzzles in exchange for a seat in the vehicle. Turns out I only ended up having to solve a couple but gained a seat anyway.
Starting out well before the crack of dawn, my hope for the day was to crack 1,000 caches and under the cover of darkness I found my 1,000th cache at around 8.30pm. After coming across a major accident on state highway 2 our route home was greatly expanded and it was close to 11pm before we finally made it back to civilization and a well deserved dinner.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the caches we found today
Favourite point from me on the one -such an awesome site

Was going to grab this one on Anzac day but no chance. Town was packed. Ciol location with lkts of history. Love caches that bring you to interesting spots. TFTC. Had no gps used the clue only was quite pleased to find it.

What a great spot.
Thank you for that cache.
Regards from Bavaria
CR

LOved the little. Church. It has a very special place in our NZ history. And I am told it is a grade 2. Historic places trust. They are hoping the NZ defence force. Will help with its maintainable etc as it is very special. When you realise that this is where the ERY FIrst ANZAC service was ever held.. I was luck enough that a Church warden went past and offered to show me inside. Etc etc...thank you for bringing us to this historic place...I am giving it a Fav. For no other reason except it is a very important part of our history and all should come and see it.

Took a brief break and wander at Tinui as we travelled from Castlepoint to Riversdale to see what that little settlement has to offer. Much prefer the amazing sights of Castlepoint. Thanks for the cache and the history

Great spot and friendly locals.
TFTC

Took a few pictures. Camera is always handy in places like this. TFTC

Thanks for the historical information and providing a reason to stroll around this little place.

(1233) Found while holidaying in the area. TFTC

Nice church, TFTC

Thanks for the interesting information regarding this place's history. The cache find was a simple affair. All in good order.

Quick find on the way to the beach with the kids. TFTC

We arrived here on Monday afternoon to find the church busy, but it emptied out again before we left the village so got to tick this off after all.

On my way back to Masterton a quick found. TFTC

My 48th cache! Very wet and muddy around cache but was an easy find. Thank you.

nice arch

Poor pet lamb at home all alone

My muggle friend and I hd a marvellous time writing all the information. t4tc

started at 8 this morning and headed over to get 50 caches today on a loop, didnt find a couple but hubby got to do a lot of gravel road and the weather was nice. TFTC

A lovely rural church.
Found during a day's caching in the Wairarapa with helbaby7, and trusty driver, PalmyDave. TFTC

Day 2 of our weekend out caching. First time ive been down in the wairarapa area, got around 100 over 2 days, TFTC

Found with 0oSpudgeo0 on our trip to Castlepoint. TFTC.

Found on our drive to Castlepoint. TFTC

On to Martinborough from Castle Point. Another great holiday day. A quick find. Thanks for the hide.

See taybee log TFTC log By GSAk

Easy find on this one TFTC

A relatively quick find once I read the hint and thought. GRRR just realised that I forgot to download the 2 nearby caches so I will have to come back here - such a hardship!

Set off with Zissas for a day's caching to take advantage of everyone else being at the Mega. The hunt continues. TFTC.

Found as part of the Zissas/EthNZ substitute MEGA caching run. What a pretty well kept church. TFTC

I had to get one in this town that A friend has often mentioned. TFTC

A MEGA Adventure

Both Nova Lightning and myself had set ourselves caching targets that we were hoping to meet in time for the NZMEGA in a few weeks. So with a plan in progress and fuel in the tank away we set.
Departed home at 6pm Friday, returned home 3.30pm Monday, 7 hours sleep approx 470 caches and a great adventure.

Thanks to all those that have placed caches especially Skindo as I think we gave his caches a bit of a nudge

Thanks for a great weekend of Caching and Bull.

Mega Weekend

It all started about a month ago when Cats&Dragons brought up the idea of heading down the line to collect 350+ caches. We both had targets that we wanted to meet before attending the NZ Mega. Plans and locations were drawn up and puzzles were begun to be solved. It took me a while to get my head around a few of the puzzles and with the help of a cacher I was soon on a roll.

The weekend finally came and we departed Hamilton at 6pm on a Friday night. 3days, 2,000km, & 11hrs sleep, later 472 caches collected. Thanks to all those who's caches I found especially Skindo with a huge number laid.

Found with samelemon on a cycle trip to Castlepoint.

A nice evening to be out picking up a few

TFTC

Stopped off to have a look while heading home after a trip along the "Long and Winding Road". Another nice country church. TNLN SL TFTC

A quick easy find at another nice wooden church in Wairarapa. No service today. TFTC

+ Courting Couple TB

Out on a Skindo clean up day. Nice to do more than a park and grab for a change. Nice little church. TFTC

tftc

When I got to the back to the church the neighbour was close to the church and probably wondered what I was up to. Luckily he got into his car and drive away. It was a quick find once he had gone. TFTC.

Another lovely little church and thanks for the background info.
Nice garden really sets off the church too - looks like there are a few bushes of mutabilis roses if anyone is keen on old roses.
TFTC.

A wonderful old church.
Had to be wary of a muggle in the house next door.
Left a pet rock - an elephant. TFTC

Lovely spot and took a little crawling to find this one. Thanks for the cache. Did with Mycro Man on the way to and back from camping at Castlepoint

Did with CrystalFairy

12.45: Not found, we don't like to inspect such places that very thoroughly. So we moved quickly to the next one only 220 metres away.

Thank you for showing the place!

Oliver+Gabi