Lock 'N' Load in Rock Road (Wairarapa) Konini, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 05-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2B8H6

Log is lovely and dry. The vehicles race past. TFTC

#8440. Heading north today with Infoferret to locate some skindo caches in southern Hawkes Bay. Before travelling north I uploaded a number of older archived skindo caches and this was one of them. We stopped and parked on the side road. Wandered over to GZ and IF found it immediately. Nice to pick up a cache that has been missing for a long time until BFG made the recent find. Signed the log and replaced the cache where found. Thanks skindo for hiding it here.

Stopped as we headed north to see if this venerable old cache was there, and it was! TFTC Skindo

The third most common type of skindo ?? Almost 5 years lonely!

After a visit at Cape Palliser we drove to Woodville and on that way we found some caches.
The cache container is still there!!
Mahopalu

GONE!!

Seemed obvious where it should have been but no luck.

Found this one while away from Whangamata on a holiday TFTC
The log is full and the container has lost its lid

Quick find with juice__box.
tftc.

Found while on a 24 hour caching adventure with Skaga through parts of the Wairarapa.
A nice quick find in the dead of night! It seems that there are only us two nutcases, truckies and a huge amount of very yucky spiders out this morning!

#1352 Found during a 24 hour caching raid in the Wairarapa with Nic-jay- seeing how many we could find in 24 hours. Found a cache AND a spider at this one. Ew. TFTC!

Log full

Wbond1116 and Wbond-Jnr went on another day trip to Wairarapa to try to get 100 caches. It rained most of the day

The great news is that we got 101 !!!

Some of the caches we logged with both our names, however to save your logs we simply placed "Wbond x 2" on many. We trust this is ok.

The log was full......

Log full here

Wbond1116 and Wbond-Jnr went on another day trip to Wairarapa to try to get 100 caches. It rained most of the day

The great news is that we got 101 !!!


Some of the caches we logged with both our names, however to save your logs we simply placed "Wbond x 2" on many. We trust this is ok.

Log is full, please replace.

Quick find on a trip into skindoland with Spudnz and Tommygun9.

Nice mission today to the Wairarapa with AtomsNZ and SpudNZ.
Leaving early in the morning we managed 57 including one FTF and finishing with one published that day (we were however forth on that one).

This one took longer than it should've before rocking on down the road.

I got a text from Tommygun9 asking if I wanted to partake in a trip into skindo country. How could I say no? About 250km's and 9hrs later, I found 61 with three DNF's. A big thanks to Atomsnz for solving most if not all of the puzzles we found today. Found this one after a shortish search. A big spider had also made its home with the log, which is full.
Thanks for the cache and the smiley. Found with Tommygun9 and Atomsnz.

A plan was hatched for another extreme, fly down, drive back caching weekend. funkymunkyzone, alpenmilch80 and myself flew down to Wellington on the first flight Saturday morning. We met up with vista at Petone in the Toyota Yaris rental car, as he'd flown down the previous day. We headed straight out of town and made a beeline for the start of our route at Featherston. We zig zagged our way through Wairarapa, Manawatu, Wanganui and Taranaki on our way back home to Auckland. To save time and log space, we stamped the logs as "Team AMFV".

Our 1500km / 40 hour drive consisted mainly of narrow gravel roads, some of which had spectacular scenery and views. Sorry for the copy/paste logs as its now all abit of a blur having only a few short naps in between. Many thanks to all the cache owners who have placed caches for us to find on another epic little adventure. TFTC!

mike-miss, funkymunkyzone, vistra and I met early Saturday morning for a two-day-geocaching-trip and once we collected the smallest relocation car available (a green camouflaged Yaris) we were on our way. funkymunkyzone already descripted the route we took in detail and I am still very impressed how he managed mostly the driving without getting lost a single time. Clearly he has his own Topo map in his head . This was a great team effort and I enjoyed the groups spirits and its laughs along the way till the sleep finally got me after the last cache in Taranaki.

In total I collected with the "Team AMFV" 278 smiles along the way and the word "brace" is no longer foreign to me. I would like to give a big thanks to Skindo and all the other cache owners for all the placements along our tour and hope I don’t annoy too much with the copy and paste logs. TFTC

tftc no lid and needs paper

Another fly-down-drive-back-caching weekend, this time in the company of mike-miss, alpenmilch80 and vistra. Three of us flew down very early on Saturday morning and met up with the other who had flown down the previous day. We headed straight out of Wellington, stopping just once to rendezvous with the other member of the team. We cached our way through the Wairarapa, Manawatu, Wanganui and Taranaki under the moniker "Team AMFV" (google it if you're interested, but it seemed appropriate for our mission).

We headed over the Rimutakas and started off with a loop of Lake Ferry before heading north and out into the back blocks.By the evening we were up around Masterton and heading back out into the sticks, criss-crossing Route 52 picking up cache finds along crazy little roads, the craziest of which were around Pongaroa, from where we headed back down and across to SH2 just north of Eketahuna, coming over the insane hills at Pori just after dawn. Spectacular.

We all piled into our little Toyota Yaris rental car, which had probably never seen such terrain before in its life, judging by the amount of clanging of metal on stones, and scraping of underbody on metal road centre. All part of the fun though, and nothing like taking 40.5 hours (with basically no sleep), over 1500km, to get from Wellington to Auckland, stopping at 288 caches along the way - 173 on Saturday and 115 on Sunday. I enjoy driving long distances, so I drove for about the first 26 hours plus a few more hours later on Sunday - also because I had designed the route so I knew fairly well the way we were going, and this time we made no mistakes!

Sorry for the largely copy/paste logs, but it's hard work remembering all the different caches. Some stood out from the others but we enjoyed every single one of them and were thankful for every single placement along the way. This trip, and the company, was fantastic and a fun but shatteringly tiring weekend.

TFTC!!!

This cache was found as part of a marathon weekend of geocaching with alpenmilch80, mike-miss and funkymunkyzone - aka "Team AMFV" It was a full on weekend of non-stop caching, mostly on windy gravel Wairarapa roads!

I had flown down to Wellington on Friday, then met up with the others first thing Saturday morning. We loaded up a Toyota Yaris rental car, then slowly made our way back up to Auckland, arriving late on Sunday night! The poor little car certainly got put through a lot!

It was an incredibly long and tiring weekend, but great fun at the same time, with a great group of cachers! All up I found 250 new caches over the weekend and revisited a few that I had found before. Sorry for the copy and paste logs, but the weekend is already a blur! TFTC!!

A quick stop and sign and some funny looks from passing traffic ; SL, TFTC

Log book full, quick find tftc

Tftc. Easy find. 1/3/2014.
Log book is full.

This entry was edited by 4Tees on Saturday, 01 March 2014 at 21:28:16 UTC.

Found lid on the ground - no cache or log.

Quick park and grab as the other cars and trucks are whizzing past - NB there is no lid on this cache so I put it back where I hope it wont get water inside it. TNLNSL TFTC

Fast bit of road, but safe to cache! Tftc Blenheim Bear

A napot így ideje, hogy vizsgálja meg a Wairarapa újra. Talált ezt a cache. Köszönöm a geoláda. Kiváló!

Found while touring Wairarapa in campervan many thanks

Nice, quick and easy find. TFTC Greetings from Finland.

Today we found many nice caches, betveen Carterton-Taupo.
Greeting from Finland
TFTC

The last for the day and it was quickly found.

First find!

Found durin g our trip through New Zealand.

Quick find here. So windy today though. TFTC

Quick find whilst heading north on a blustery caching day in Skindoland, muggled by some cachers at this one TFTC.

Tftc

Found it

We found this one on our way back from the Cape Kidnappers challenge. Nice easy find. Thanks.

A Sunday of caching in my namesake territory. What could be better? And a beautiful mid-summer-like day as well.
This one gets lots of visitors. Cache find was straightforward. Log signed, then safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too you beaut!
The Turtle strikes again!

Quick grab, watch for the traffic.
TFTC

A 'D'oh' moment with this being such an easy find. On our last trip I'm sure I would have searched the right spot, but perhaps too casually because on that occasion the GPS had frozen on me and wouldn't pinpoint GZ to less than 40m. You feel rather conspicuous out there too, so it needs to be a quick find - as it was today!
TFTC

5670. On our way from Napier to Carterton. Did some caches on the way. This was find number sixteen of the day and a quick and easy one with ample parking in Rock Road. Thanks. Rodney and Iris.

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.

52nd cache of the day on a super saturday hunt. TFTC

#44 on Super Caching Saturday with Metal-art.

I just love these magnetic caches..busy road but with some gaps in the traffic..TFTC!!

Had to watch the traffic here. The cars were flying by as we signed the log.

quick find, had a lovely chat to a farmer that came down the road

Quick find. Thanks for the cache.

Found just in time before the heavy rain and thunderstorm came and chased us all the way back home to Palmy. TFTC

Heading homeward but still time for a few last caches. Hadn't planned to do this cache but it was on our way. A reasonably quick find in the dark between passing traffic. TFTC.

Tripping around with Becsicasa, while on annual leave. TFTC

With both Z-masterNZ and I on leave from work, what better way to spend our time than heading down country and getting a few caches from out of town. The plan was to head for New Plymouth as I have never been there before and wanted to see some of the sights. The plan changed and we ended up in Wanganui, before carrying on to Wellington.
With the weather looking at packing in on us, we decided to try and run away from it and head out east. Napier here we come!!! Quick stop to retrieve this one as there was a bit of traffic on the roads and the dark clouds were looming closer.
#557.
TFTC

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Quick find on way home

Easy cache - found with Crystal Fairy.TFTC

Quick and easy find. T4TC. Did with buttels

Nice easy find. TFTC

Nice... On the way home TFTC

The scenic reserve nearby is a beautiful spot. TFTC

TFCF

Nice and easy, cheers.

Hit and run

Hit and run

On our way to Taupo and only stopped for a few drive bys. TFTC

The 16 year old and mum of the team were heading south to Wellington from north of Auckland picking up a few caches along the way. It got to the stage we were only stopping for caches on our side of the road as we were on a tight time frame and wanted to stay as safe as possible. TFTC

On an epic geocaching road trip with Endmosteye44 and our geomutt
TNLN - TFTH

Tftc

Parked across the road where it was safer. Busy road. Timing was everything. TFTC

tftc our hundredth find

TFTC
Team Urbanisator
Arnhem, the Netherlands

Easy find on a trip to Masterton, like the hiding place
TFTC

Quite a busy road here, we were not really comfortable parking here. Thanks.

Kerstin + Lenz

#3435. Quick stop and find. TNLNSL. TFTC.

Nice easy find on a business trip to palmy. TFTC

Found it with Etherlord and the Seagnoid. A nice and easy find.

Slightly longer find than it should have been with Etherlord and Ayjay. Ayjay hadn't seen this style of cache before, and it was in his section of the area. Whatever, we found it.

found with The Seagnoid and AyJay on day two of our 60+ cache weekend
AyJay was well versed with Oenpr style caches after completeing the A Bracing Drive series, but this one was new for him. a re-search of his area revealed the goods.

This was a nice quick find as I made my way back to the Hutt Valley from Woodville. TFTC.

A quick find while passing today. Signed log, TFTC

A quick find in the dark while out doing the new brace series TFTC

Thanks for find

COOL CACHE SKINDO 20/23

As soon as I saw 'Magnetic" I thought it might be one of these. Thank you.

Casually had my 'photo taken'. Cheers for the toot. TFTC. Found with lillianavess

GPS makes a good camera.

Was it a fellow Geocacher that tooted?

found with Danielle TFTC

Found as part of an an epic adventure in skindoland which resulted 131 finds. TFTC

Quick find. TFTC

TFTC

Tftc

Another quickie on the roadside. Heading homewards after the Route 52. TFTC.

A quick stop and grab on my way to the South Island. TFTC

Quick find here at Rock Road. Didn't even have to Lock the van. Thanks.

# 4406

Found on bit of a Wairarapa cache clean up tour.
TFTC.

Good co-ordinates made for a quick find on our way south. TFTC

Love this type of cache. Very busy road and some muggles with car toubles near by, but got it anyway. TFTC