Tyred @ Waitahora (Wairarapa) Waitahora, North Island, New Zealand
By skindo on 11-May-13. Waypoint GC4BV5Z

I had been looking forward to todays geocaching adventure for weeks. I love exploring the back roads of Wairarapa and southern Hawkes Bay and the gravel roads north of Route 52 are certainly in the category of "the road less travelled." I had mapped out a long trail of mainly skindo caches to find starting at Rimu Road and taking us up around Waihi Valley Road, Towai Road and Waitahora Roads. Barefootguru joined me on the quest today and we left Wellington at 7 am and reached Rimu Road at 9.55 am. We got back to Wellington via Dannevirke and Palmerston North at 9.30 pm. The weather on Friday was horrible with rain and hail showers and strong winds. But Saturday dawned clear and sunny and the Tararuas looked magic with a fresh coating of snow all over the tops and snow sprinkled over the upper beech forest, below the tops. Lots lambs in the paddocks, kowhai was starting to flower and there were plenty of birds singing for me to record for the NZ Bird Atlas.

I was starting to get tired by the time we reached this tyre cache. We tryed to find the tyres there were no tyres to be seen anywhere at GZ so it looks like its safe to retire this worn out old tyre cache. Thanks skindo for the huge effort you made to put geocaching onto the map of the Wairarapa. Cheers GSEL

RIP Tyred @ Waitahora

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We checked very carefully the three tyres remaining scattered about here. There is no cache to be found and, going by the logs, the whole site appears to have altered. It would seem appropriate to archive this one now.

The pile of clue items are no longer there and neither is the cache. can CO please check.

Suspect this one may have gone. There was only one of the named items there and a previous DNF log mentioned multiple.

Looked well for ages and could not find. Starving so giving up to go get fish snd chips in Dannevirke. We got tyred of looking in tyres.

Looked everywhere but no luck today

Great find in the dark. Log too wet to B able to sign. Tftc

Found cache easily, log is very wet though so could not sign (paper ripped when I tried) so took photo of log for proof I found it

This was perfect as we just had to change a flat tyre down the road. Thanks for a quick find. Log very wet.

Found today on a fun road trip with jodiporsche. TFTC!
Log was wet.

On a road trip over the Wairarapa collecting a few more caches this weekend. Lots of rain but managed to make this one a quick find.

TFTC

A fairly quick find after initially being distracted by the decoy. The log was damp, but usable, just. TFTC

Operation 997.
After our recent mission to the November snow I realized I was now within 47 caches of 1000. The idea was then conceived to get three under 1000 (997) in order to get cache 1000 in Rarotonga at the end of November or early December. To get these last 44 we headed to Wairarapa (AKA Skindo Land) to pick up mostly park and grabs. The planned route had 49 to allow for DNFs, of which we used four. The mission took longer than expected but it was an interesting day - from getting stuck behind cows and then sheep through to an awesome lunch in Pongaroa - all in nice weather.

Quickly moved to the suspected hide, no joy, spotted a second suspected hide and quickly ran over, again no joy, thought I'd check a likely hide and then spotted many more suspected hides, fortunately it was in the first one I looked at this time.
T F T C Skindo.

As said in Tommygun9's log below we embarked on a mission to collect 44 caches before our holiday/ honeymoon to Rarotonga. I had a lot of Skindo puzzles sitting solved so I searched out a route to collect the required number of caches- and didn't end up going past a single puzzle cache! (Oh well, looks like another mission will be needed).
Found by Tommygun9 TFTC

In my home area is a challenge cache http://coord.info/GC4642W that requires to log two caches, that are between 19970 and 20037 km apart. As the area of Dannevirke is just opposite to Madrid, I choose five caches to log here. This was the fourth of them.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Germany, Peter M.

A day in the country, eating Waiwawapa roads with the XV cache-mow-bill, sun and wind on the face. Nothing better gets this!
By this stage, tyred we were, of a different sort... will this road ever end?
Straightforward find, cache in order, log signed; safely re-hidden, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

TFTC

Headed south with C&D, for a full weekend of caching, with the first cache being found at 6.00pm Friday night and finishing with an Event in Hamilton at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoon. Both of us had certain caches we were targeting for the Geo Licence series, as well as finding anything else we driving past, or near. All up we found 165 caches, travelled just over 1700kms and had around 5 hours sleep.

All in all it was an EPIC adventure, exploring in and around the Whanganui to Dannevirke area. We found some great caches along the way and saw some great sights. Thanks to everyone for placing all the caches.

Was a bit harder to find at night, maybe we were just getting "Tyred"

A bit of a caching trip in the company of HKCB both of us endeavoring to know off a chunk of the requirements for the Geocaching License Series (different stages, different requirements for each of us), so what better excuse for a road trip.
Between 6.30pm Friday and 1,30pm Sunday I collected approx 140 caches (HKCB=155) and many of these needing to be a great distance from home, so little sleep, so much caching

Some figures for the trip were
1/. approx 1700 kms
2/. Caches mentioned above.
3/. some very memorable caches in Wanganui
4/. lots of laughter and lies
5/. 4 hours sleep

Took a second look and soon had it in hand

thanks for the placement

Took a little while to find this one (after waiting for a car to disappear in the distance).

Headed out on the first flight to Wellington Saturday morning with FMZ and Lostcourse. Relocating a vehicle back to Auckland meant we had a big caching road trip ahead of us...! We headed back through the Wairarapa towards Napier, clocking up the numbers through skindo land. Sorry for the copy/paste log as its now all abit of a blur having cached for 36 hours with only a few short naps in between. Enjoyed the drive through these rough and winding gravel roads and saw alot of interesting sights.

36 hours, 1,200km, & 315 finds made for an epic adventure! Many thanks for the cache and the perfect excuse to make a weekend of it!

Took the first flight down to Wellington on Saturday for a fly-down-drive-back-caching weekend with mike-miss and FMZ - basically a caching raid across the North Island.Team FML! for the win! We headed out of Wellington making a beeline for the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay before venturing back to Auckland. We headed through a bunch of interesting winding back roads and saw a lot of beautiful sights and historic spots that only geocaching could have bought us too. We shared the duties around and took a few micro naps when ever prudent. Saturday was my biggest caching day ever, and this February, is easily my biggest month ever. At some point along here we could start to see the lights of a town. We started to debate which one it might be. Cache found exactly where you would expect. Cheers for the cache placement!

This entry was edited by Lostcourse on Wednesday, 05 February 2014 at 22:31:39 UTC.

Headed down to Wellington for a fly-down-drive-back-caching weekend with mike-miss and Lostcourse - basically a caching binge drive back to Auckland, caching under the moniker "Team F.M.L." We headed out of Wellington as quickly as possible to get some serious caching done in the Wairarapa and Hawkes Bay before heading back to Auckland. Apologies for the copy/paste log, but we found >310 caches in 36 hours and for many it's hard to remember specific details. We headed through a bunch of interesting winding back roads and saw a lot of beautiful sights and historic spots. We shared the driving and stopped for about an hour to catch some shut eye in Pongaroa before continuing, caching all the way. Saturday was my biggest caching day ever, and this Feb, after just the first 36 hours, is already my biggest month ever. TFTC!!!

Great to see some wonderful back Wairarapa back country, heading for New years Eve at CastlePoint. Thanks for the hide.

Another fun little excursion on a nice sunny day, and a Wairarapa gravel road. Oops, mind not in gear here, took a bit of a think before I found it.

TFTC skindo!

TFTC skindo

A quick find after dinner

Tftc

With the Seagnoid on Skindo's cache trail and some others. 78 of 82 caches for today. Thanks for the cache.

[Green] With Popmac on the way home from a Gisborne geocaching / daffodil trip. Popmac grows daffodils and took a bunch to a daffodil tournament thingy in Gisborne with plans to cache along the way, and I came along for the ride. He won $100! Covers part of the petrol costs! Which helps, as we are taking the long way home.
Tyres here? Where? Ah! Quick find in the obvious place.

Nice day to be out caching - TFTC

thanks for the cache

12148… Never tyre of these awesome rural views, TFTC.

nice and easy thanks

Took awhile to find this one. A lovely view of the snow capped mountains in the distance! TFTC.

Another nice find as we check out some of the many Masterton and Tararua council gravel roads - although also some nice none dusty tarseal ones as well. Some great countryside through this area, and fortunately very little traffic. TFTC

Missed it on first pass then was a bit confused for a while before checking again and finding it.

SL TFTC

Great to be out enjoying caching with tmann421 who provided the entertainment here

thanks for bringing us here skindo

Found ok.Thanks.

Near the end of our trip had to admire the view from here. TFTC.

Yip! feeling a little tyred, so stopped to let the geo-mutt have a run around. She actually had a good stretch of the legs, as it took is a while to pin point this one.
It was sitting in a pool of water, but still dry on the inside. Tried to hide it a little out of reach of the water.
Could be a short lived cache if the area gets tidied up.
Left a pet rock - a sheep. TFTC & the FTF

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