Preston Road Two Maniototo Community, South Island, New Zealand
By U.N.C.L.E. on 21-Dec-21. Waypoint GA25786

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	Traditional
Container:	Small
Coordinates:	S45° 9.777' E170° 18.097' (WGS 84)
	59G 445112E 4998710N (UTM)
Elevation:	393 m
Local Government Area:	Otago

Map

Whodunit Difficulty

Description

Despite appearances to the contrary, Preston Road is a legal public road. It is signposted from SH85 a few kilometres east of Kyeburn. The other end is on Mundell Road, which is signposted from SH87, also a few kilometres from Kyeburn. It is listed in at least one 4x4 guidebook so that provides an indication of the type of road.

To help keep you on the right path:

SH85 end of Preston Road.

Zero tripmeter

0.3 kilometres Cattlestop

0.9 Cattlestop. Shed on R.

1.1 Turn R through gate. Track deteriorates.

1.5 Gate. Track turns R to follow fenceline.

2.6 Gate.

2.8 Small rise. Fenceline on R.

3.6 Gate. Fenceline now on L. Track now ruts through long grass.

4.3 Gate. Intersection with Cemetery Rd. Veer left (Preston Rd signposted). Surface improves.

7.5 Haybarn.

7.9 Ford.

8.3 End. Mundell Rd. Go R to SH87.

Obviously, if travelling in the opposite direction, make the appropriate adjustments.

Cache is a straightforward find. Small snaplock. BYOP. Please re-hide carefully.

Cautions: Ford probably impassable if there has been heavy rain. If so, use Cemetery Road as a bypass. Cache can be walked, run or MTBed to. Track great for trail/dual-sport or adventure-type motorcycles. Probably not suitable for two-wheel drive cars even in dry conditions due to ground clearance issues. Possibly OK in a soft-roader with good clearance. Piece of cake in a 4x4. Judge the time of year and recent weather carefully and make a call. When the Preston Road caches were previously published on a different platform, a cacher seeking them had to have their 2WD car towed out by tractor - you have been warned!

Hints

Tngr Cbfg

ROT 13:	ABCDEFGHIJKLM
	NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Decode

Logs

20-Mar-22

daywalk

We have been trying to find a suitable occasion to visit this series of caches along Preston Rd. Not with a heavily laden car going away for a holiday - we probably need to do it with bikes - not in winter - not when it's been raining... oh blow, they've been archived... hold on, they've reappeared and the original logbook is still there. So a day out was planned. Just Mr & Mrs D, with bikes.

We came via the Pigroot and drove up Cemetery Rd. Parked at the corner, onto the bikes, 750 m to PR2. But a 750 m that was very rutted - even the farmer has obviously driven onto the paddock beside the road to avoid it. It would be a real mess in wetter weather. Our conclusion is, avoid driving this 750 m unless you have a proper 4WD.

Easy find at GZ. Except, it's not the side with the electric fence battery! Signed our name, wrote the new cache code onto the logsheet, signed our name again!

And a connection with Goodwood - The Anglican St Paul's Chapel of Ease (built in 1862, deconsecrated in 1978 and demolished in the early 1990s). Current cache there is
[https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4YZNM_laid-to-rest-otago](https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4YZNM_laid-to-rest-otago)
Many of the people buried at St Paul's are Prestons, who farmed at Centrewood. They also had a larger sheep run in the Maniototo, which explains some of the headstones... and the Preston family's Maniototo run was Longlands Station on Preston Road!

21-Dec-21

U.N.C.L.E.

This cache was previously listed on a different platform (from where it has been archived for several months). The log sheet currently carries entries from this time. It will be replaced asap. In the meantime, the first to log this cache after 21 December 2021 is the FTF for this iteration of the hide.

21-Dec-21

U.N.C.L.E.

In place and ready to go.