Scotts Ferry Road (Manawatu) Tangimoana, North Island, New Zealand
By nzcoozer on 09-Dec-07. Waypoint GC17W2Z

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spent some time looking under/around... and have the scratches to show .. must remember to wear long sleeves... not a find for us

Spent a extra ordinary amount of time at this one.GPD kept bringing me to the same spot but the hint doesn't seem to match up and nothing found at all

great spot. we took our mums for an easter day out and they liked it here. very quiet today

A quick diversion off SH1 to grab this one and another in the area. Took us longer than it should have, not sure the hint applies anymore! Great to learn about the history of Scotts Ferry. TFTC
- Tempest Mountain (MT)" Green Jeep Travel Bug

went back and put in tb

easy found picked up travel bug code unwze7

Easy find the back was a little hard on the knees but the turtle made it worth while.
-Turtle TB
+Diabetes TB

Found with NZMamma. TFTC

A nice little tiki-tour down the road and a fairly quick find. Cheers Gav [4781]

nice easy find. Drove up, jumped out of the car, found the cache and back to the car.
- Hippo TB and NZ bag
+Coastal Cruiser Turtle TB and Xmas Celloptape

Found as part of my three week caching trip from Wellington to Auckland - # 272. The rental with the clearance of a Dachshound wasn't too keen but got there OK. Thanks.

Took me a while to find this one TFTC

No problem finding this cache, Left Hippo TB took nothing. TFTC

Found with tmann421 and Hugo the dog. Quick find, SL, TNLN, TFTC.

23:00 I did have to get out of my 4WD but only just... Great spot.

Easy for me to turn around on beach. Imagined the ferry waiting just over the water. Cheers, GC

The reccent rain left a few big puddles along the gravel road but we managed to get around them without having to worry about the lack of cell phone coverage and not being able to call road side assistance! This was the last cache of the day, the sun was low in the sky and the wind had picked up with quite a chill to it. Mr. Iarekt braved all this again while I stayed with Mss. Iarekt (now snoring cutely like only a worn out 3 year old can) in the car. The "tree/bush/fennel" was much smaller than expected but the cache was successfully located with help from a previous log.
- bag + glo sticks and pencil case

Found in the rain. Thanks!

Good spot

Yes back to Tangimoana, and yes found the reason why I totally stuffed up, but I aren’t blaming anyone, it was totally my fault for not paying attention to what was happening, on well, found cache quickly without too much effort, not sure if you can class this plant as a tree, its true name is fennel and it is a pest of a plant , use to spend ages trying to get rid of it off the farm, was a pain in the butt, but that’s ok, still a nice spot though, thanks for bringing me here, TFTC TNLNSL (827)

Why is it with a DNF that when you do find it you can't understand why you didn't find it - does that make sense? Don't know if the previous finder helped by disturbing the hiding place or whether it helped now I knew what Toi Toi was or maybe the hint just made more sense to me after a week thinking about it! Drove up, walked up, found it - literally that fast and easy.
TNLN TFTC
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Logged Leepinlzrd GeoCoin in and out to assist in its mission.

Still no better luck. I'm afraid being a visitor I don't know what Toi Toi is but I got cut to ribbons by pampas grass which is where the co-ords took me. It's no fun caching when you get hurt doing it.
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Hmm lots of cuttty grass ... Returned to the car and checked the hint, which is very precise and accurate, so quickly found without a scratch. A different perspective for viewing the Rangitikei river which was very placid today. A pity there is no quick way (i.e. ferry!) to get to the cache just across the river. Thanks nzcoozer, this was a good day out.

[This entry was edited by edvern on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:10:27 AM.]

I stopped in this afternoon and the cache was still there, but was in the toi toi. I swapped the old cache with a replacement that I had with me. I have updated the hint.

Sounds like the cache might be missing.

Hmmm no luck with this one.

Bitsprayer

Unfortunately not an easy find for me. We pretty much trampled the area flat looking for this one to no avail.

Found after walkway cache,
TFTC

Suggest cachers take care if they have children with them as there are some dangers in getting at this one. In fact I ended up doing itmyself as I was uncomfortable with my kids doing it. Check out the estuary and all the washed up logs by the boat harbour on the other side of the settlement. TFTC
- Toy car
+ RATTLL stonefish

Nice easy find - couple of minor injuries!
- Skeleton
+ "Slimmers Toothbrush"

TFTC

nice easy find. Lots of muggles swimming in the river.
Took out rubber & marker pen, put in pet rock - lion cub, & "well done" badge.

A nice warm day to be out caching with the kids, well hidden from sight
TNLNSL TFTC

Nice dry spot for the cache in an area which must have been surrounded by flood waters at times.

No No not the cutty grass !!!!!!. Spoted quickly retreived slowly. TNLNSL
Thanks NZCoozer
Cheers TT

This must of been the place to come some years ago, old toilet block nearby, no major dramas in the find, no one about, interesting area, thanks for the placement.

Interesting bit of history. Quick find even in the absence of the cache notes which I left at home
TNLNSL TFTC

0940 Ronbu
A relatively easy find (with hint) This cache brought me to another spot with a fair amount of history. -Nil +Ty the Hummer Travel Bug. SL TFTC

Found this one rather easily as it well and truly visible. The river flow must have been greater a century ago as at the moment one can wade it without difficulty. Left the cache rather less visible. Thanks for the hide!

Quick find on a lovely Friday afternoon. Have been interested in this one -a replica of the ferry is just across the river, and a Scott descendant is a neighbour -may place a cache there when I get the chance (it's somewhat more distant by road). -Wheres U Bean TB, + superpenguin. Thanks NZCoozer.

[This entry was edited by Boogie-O on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 3:39:51 PM.]

Nice spot - just logging in Wheres U Bean? travel bug for TreMichLan. Was actually placed on Jan 3, sorry!

#1082
Quick find, hard to imagine this area was heavily flooded once.
TNLNSL, TFTC

Good find and interesting locale. TFTC
+ Travel Bug
- Sashlock

Found with team cacher Sweet P on a beautifully fine and warm summer's day
TNLNSL - TFTC
The Turtle strikes again!

Easy Find on a very warm Sunday afternoon
+ Hercules' old man
- chewbacca
TFTC

Drove further than we needed before turning on the GPS, had to backtrack. Surprised a couple of horse riders on the beach. A flattened track to the cache showed us the way, the bush has a rather nice smell, sort of aniseedy. Nice quiet spot. TFTC.

Almost a drive up cache. Great track in. Hard to imagine this whole area under flood.
Love the log book.

0paco0 & the Cache-Dogs found it.

Aaah, the dogs loved this place. I thought the cache was very well placed.

OUT: hackey-sack
IN: black whiteboard marker

TFTC

this cache has been visited a few times today with the obvious flattened grass . cords spot on again thanks nz.
- deck of cards
+ globe keyring
+ star wars figger
+ empty bullet shell

found around midday,nice quiet settlement,cheers for the adventure!
-sd card
+hacky sack
+dragonball z figure
+orange skeleton
TFTC!
MORTAL3!

Another FTF today for us, TNLNSL TFTC

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