Drovers Memorial Hut - Pukeamoamoa (Hawke's Bay) Crownthorpe, North Island, New Zealand
By amyjae on 14-May-16. Waypoint GC6HNWW

Found But the log is completely fullI write my name between other names

Considering the amount of silt and debris in the fence, I'm surprised this cache has survived.

Log is full, can please be replaced. Unfortunately I did not bring one with me

Lovely drive. In 3 weekends I have now found all 3 huts. Sadly this is the least well kept but glad to see it appears undamaged from last years cyclone

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 67 - Hastings, Hawkes Bay - National Park, Tongariro, North Island, Nov Zland (asi 220 km) Rno jsem v ostrm slunci a 25C vyrazila na cestu do vnitrozem do Nrodnho parku Tongariro. Cesta byla klikat, pomalej a scenic. Opt Hobitn vude kolem a malink obce jednou za 50 km. Nikam jsem nespchala, v klidu si jela, kochala se a obas zastavila u keky, vtinou u njakho pamtnku. Jeden byl obzvlt truchliv, vnovan nejvtmu zlandskmu vlakovmu netst, kdy povode smetla most pes eku a vlak nestihl zastavit a kompletn vykolejil a vagny byly rozmetny na kilometrov vzdlenosti. Zahynuli destky lid a jet to bylo na vnoce. la jsem se tam projt i na vyhldku na most nad ekou a vybrutila tu multike. Tm u dn dn spotan multikee jsem tu nebyla spn, ale tady jsem po chvli oblzn zarostlch padlch kmen keku podle hintu nala. Jak jsem vkov stoupala, zaalo se ochlazovat a pily i pehky a naveer v Nrodnm Parku u bylo jen 15C a dost mokro. Mm tu pronajatou na 2 noci takovou minichatiku v bushi, tak snad z n ztra vylezu do slunenho rna. Chtla bych jt na prochzku po stopch Bilba Pytlka u Osaml hory, neb tady pobl se film natel. Park je znm zejmna sopkami a Osaml hora je jednou z nich. Tak uvidm, bude-li siln detivo, budu spt.In the morning I left Hastings in sunny and warm weather and in the evening I arrived in the cold and rain of the Tongariro National Park. The road was nice and scenic, so I stopped at various monuments and railway bridges and hunted for caches. I had several DNFs today and some caches were wet and logbooks were full. Still, thanks to all owners for their caches and greetings from the Czech Republic.

Found

Good clue

Hint helped for a quick find.

A bit of a sad story but what a great thing to go. Quick find on our day out.

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

Nice and easy thank you.

Found it quickly, although log is full but was able to find the last tiny bit of room, but nothing to replace with sorry. Cheers

On our trip thru New Zealand we stopped for searching finding and logging this geocache.Thanks for placing it.Greetings from team Camperfietser

22 October 2023 12:26 The lads were orienteering, so while their race was on, I went for a drive. Glad of a quick find here, a fascinating bit of history.TFTC amyjae for placing this cache, number 13064 for me.

Today my partner is visiting her girlfriend in Napier, so what's a 'spare-wheel' man to do, but go geocaching
Came up to do the Sherendon geocache as this has really been the first opportunity since Cyclone Gabrielle in February closed the Napier-Taihape road.
Damage is still very evident even today.
It's good that this geocache is a bison as the location according to the hint meant it's been under a metre of water and mud - still evident today. It's obvious from the hut being full of debris, and being fenced off, a closer inspection is not possible.
Thanks for hiding and maintaining.

Found it

Interesting stop, would have been very cool if able to access the hut! Tftc ️

On my way to Tongariro in the rain, the whole day, I found some caches.
Thanks.
Very bad for parking.

A quick stop on our way through to Napier. Stopped to do our recycling ️ while we were at it! Neat location, TFTC!

Qwezy tftc

Great find- 1st on today’s adventure. Many thanks - wouldn’t have spotted this if it wasn’t for this crazy hobby!

#670 Quick find on a sunny winters morning! TFTC

Quick find with the family. TFTC

Good hide! Thanks for the cache.

Tftc

Raining afternoon drive. Young fella found it after a wee while

We found it

Headed out for an evening of caching along the Taihape road. Sadly it wasn’t my most successful outing as I had 4 finds and 4 DNF. Still I did get two swims in this boiling weather so pleased to have got out. This was the first find and reasonably straight forward. Cache and log all fine although I’m sure I got an electric shock from the fence. Thanks for the smiley.

TFTC

Yay

First of only a couple of stops and parked opposite and walked over. Found exactly as described in the hint and read the plaque.

On the road at a good time today and with no real target to meet at the far end except for sometime after lunch it was a leisurely admiring view. Still some snow lying in places along the way and some good clear day views too.

The weekend is here and for a change I've got a four-dayer planned with a trip across from Taupo to Napier to have a couple of nights in Havelock North and local area, followed by a trip back across the Napier-Taihape Road to stay at our daughters for a day before watching the football on Monday and then Coming Home, he's coming home, capperz is coming home (football didn't as it turned out! Well done to Italy.
A few nice caches found, not huge numbers so quality rather than quantity. A few more of the PWGT caches as well as some others here and there, thanks to all COs.

Passing by today and stopped for a quick find as described, all safe and dry TFTC

Found on the way back from an orienteering event. Interesting spot that we wouldn’t have seen otherwise. TFTC

TFTC!

Such a good clue i crossed the road with out my gps
good bit of history
As we went on our journey from home to Taihape then on through the gentel Annie to Napier then explored Napier area before heading home again.

Found while on a North Island motorhome trip from Blenheim. Great piece of NZ history. TFTC

Down with the MG Car Club to drive the Gentle Annie Road. Great to stop at this interesting location. Thanks for you cache here amyjae.

Thank you for a nice easy cache on our long beautiful drive the long way around from National Park some magnificent views on our journey.
Heading to Napier before Wellington and than home to Australia.
TFTC AnsMisty

During our roadtrip through New Zealand I found this cache "Drovers Memorial Hut - Pukeamoamoa (Hawke's Bay)" from amyjae on 9 maart 2020 13:57.

No need to climb the fence .

Groetjes/Greetings and TFTC from a Dutchman (a long way from home, but home is here the heart is, on the bus).

Out toki touring with muggle friends, asked driver nicely if we could stop for a couple of minutes for me to find cache, after a short search, cache found and log signed. When back in car, questions were being asked on what caching is all about. Not sure if they will start geocaching. My first cache for 2020. Cheers

Not very keen on the crowds for the Santa parade, i decided to skip town and go for a little drive instead. Not much traffic and a quick find, TFTC!!

First stop on our way to Waiuoro. Quickly found. TFTC

Found quite easy as we were passing by

Quick roadside find. TFTC!

An interesting memorial. Never knew memorial huts were a thing until this cache. TFTC

#6981. Shortest day of the year. So little time to geocache in daylight. I am heading north to a family reunion and stayed overnight in Hastings. After a sunny day yesterday, the rain came down overnight but remarkably the clouds cleared up again soon after breakfast and it was time to find a few caches. Too many muggles around the first few caches I tried for in the city. Time to head to the countryside. At the last cache I found, I looked at my list and it said Drover Memorial Hut. This one seemed to be in a different direction to where I thought i was heading but oh well, time to follow the GPS. Only after discovering the cache did I realise there are two caches in the region with much the same names. This one was worth checking out however. The cache was a nice quick find. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks amyjae for the cache. Nice bit of rural history.

found this way back in June 2019, just found my logbook that I had them all written down in, was a big trip from Hawera to Tauranga and then down to Hatings and then Home

replaced serveral logbooks on my travels

hope everyone has as much fun as I do caching

cheers
Rick OZR3RZ

Found the cache with the geogary’s

T FTC with Team Duffin

We found this in March 2018 while driving past but forgot to log it. This time we were biking through from Taihape with a group of tramping club friends and wrote in the log again. The cache seems to be dry and while the sheet is quite full, seems to be in good order otherwise. TFTC

Tftc,glad to see drovers recognised

On a short trip to HB with tmann421 to hunt some caches
Nice quick drive by

Quick trip away with woolwood9 for some geocaching.
No problems with making the find here.
SL TFTC

Found with cache mate Tigatat2 on the way to somewhere. Signed jointly with TT2M.P
Tftc

Travelling to Hastings from SH1.
Busy road at 5pm on a Friday afternoon. Great to have a cache here as like many travelers we would have driven by without a 2nd thought. TFTC
Jointly signed with My.Precious with our combined name TT2M.P.

Found a couple of weeks back on a very hot Sunday & forgot to log-tftc

A nice and easy one. TFTC

A nice easy find. TFTC.

Quick easy find have driven past here many times for years and not noticed it tftf

Quick find on the way to Napier by nearly perfect weather. We say TFTC and greetings from Germany.

Great weather today as we make our way over Gentle Annie for the first time trying to get some caches along the way. This one was found quite quickly. Thank you for placing this cache and bringing our attention to this little hut.

Super find, thanks for the information to bring us here. RIP TFTC

Going for a drive to hopefully find some snow thought I'd pick up Afew caches on the way. Found the cache but had no log in it, have put a bit of paper in it.
TFTC

A quick easy find, with the precise hint, at this well-barricaded memorial building.. TFTC

Nice drive in the country...found it...T.J.D

Was heading back to Palmerston North for the night after spending the last two days in the Hawkes Bay for work. Was going to take the normal route back South but had a few things that I needed to do so I decided to try another route back South.

This is the second time that I have being on this road the last time I was on this road was with Mrs Yeetrees on a road trip just over 2 years ago back in 2014 and we had managed to pick up most of the caches along this route.

Two years later and I soon found out that there was a few more caches along the Gentle Annie, what a surprise [B)][B)], it was too be expected. Wasnt quite sure how many new ones that were placed between here and Taihape but I knew that time would tell.

This was the first cache that I decided that I was going to pick up today, as I neared GZ I spotted the hint object and was able to pull over to let the fast moving traffic pass without any issues. I was glad that I was hading West as the cache was on the correct side of the road for me.

Walking to GZ and knowing approximately where this cache was going to be it only took me a few seconds to find the cache in the first spot that I looked. Signed and replaced the cache back as found, what a nice spot for a cache, would not have realised nor know about this spot if it was not for caching. Thanks for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this historical spot, TFTC TNLNSL (11131)

The last cache on the road from Turangi for TreearP and me as we also wanted to buy some wine over in the Havelock region. Thank for motivating us to stop - view the hut and read the memorial plaque.

All in good order at the cache, TNLNSL, TFTC.

Last one on the Gentle Annies road, a lovely drive through from Taihape and nice to see the tribute to one of the old Drovers.

Nice easy find on the way to the Cameron Reserve.

Found this a few days ago on my way from Napier to Auckland via Waiouru. Nice to have a few more caches out this way. TFTC

TFTC

[FTF] on a gorgeous HB day. We knew about the other drovers huts but not this one. The sheep on the way out here with white bodies and black heads are a bit gorgeous. I thought I lost the log when I opened cache but lucky I just hadn't looked properly. Thanks for the cache in a lovely little spot

Published

Speeling mistakes in name

Thanks Kenny. Title of cache is written exactly as it appears on the Drovers Hut sign. I will look into it.