52 On 52 - Whangaehu Hall (Wairarapa) Whangaehu, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 27-Mar-10. Waypoint GC25MN5

Isis58 and I are on our way from Masterton to Dannevirke today in the hope of picking up as many 52 on 52 and Viking caches as possible. I apologise for the cut and paste logs, I was doing the driving and didnt have much time to make any notes at each stop. Thanks for the cache Skindo

#14204

I thought I had my hand on a nice large cache container but that was short lived when I realised it was a rat trap! Paddle Chick had another go and brought out the correct container. TFTC # 19,913

Nice easy find. Tftc

Ah, classic skindo and his halls. A replacement tin cache here but all good and replaced as found after signing.

It's International Earthcaching weekend and I am 'bach' so have a free rein on what's optional, ding dong. I have had a plan for a while to knock off my remaining 52 on SH52 caches and that seemed viable, via Castlepoint for an EC. However, just South of Pongaroa the road is missing, so a new route home was needed and Rimu Road came up trumps. Quite a few skindo caches were found, and much enjoyment was had, cheers all COs. Almost 70 finds for the day, Ad Labs included, so all was good.

No one here today, very peaceful but and so easy to look around

Was out in the area just poking around and taking photos when I realised there was no one at the hall, unlike each time I have driven here to try grabbing this cache over the years. I managed a hasty u-turn, popped my name in the log and continued on. TFTC

Reasonably quick find. TFTC

Day 2 Cache 3 today, but 46 all up for my mad mission to the Wairarapa for the 100-10-7 Challenge. Ethness has offered to drive again today. A big skindo day planned – a first for me.
We moved rat trap and could not find original. Have cleared debri and replaced away from the rat trap to keep the skindo's going. TFTC and series Skindo.

Bait station was all I could find, didn’t feel like it was worth scrabbling around much further as it’s just old crockery under there.

Only found a bait station

Searched for ages. Checked the GPS co-ords with 2 phones. Found a rodent trap, I'm assuming the cache is not in there as it requires a special key to unlock it. Saw previous comments about it being near the trap, used a torch but nothing there but stones and broken glass.

Working in Masterton for a week. Headed out in the evening to collect a series of caches along this road. Surprised how well some of the caches have done despite being many years old. Several vents to check but got there in the end. TFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)...

We have been planning for Queen's Birthday weekend for some time - routes and caches were identified and mapped, and Gap solved a whole lot of puzzles in readiness for this adventure. We scoured many online logs and took note of the condition of the caches and their logbooks. We determined to replace any containers and logbooks where there was a dire need - This is not usually our habit and is quite time consuming; but we are enthusiastic cachers and believe in doing our bit for the wider caching community...

When nightfall arrives in winter, it comes quickly. By the time we pulled into Masterton, it was dark and rain was falling. We had no trouble finding our accommodation on the outskirts of town. Masterton seems to be quite a compact little town in the car headlights... After dinner, thoughts turned to continued caching... The iPhone gps took us on a small tour around the hall before settling down. Not the easiest retrieval in wet conditions. Nevertheless, another 52/52 to cross off. Thanks Skindo and TFTC.

Day 2 of our Road Trip
Early start today, weather fine but very cold.
Heading south we detoured up side roads, some sealed some gravel.
Caches like yesterday that needed log sheets replacing as they were so wet we couldn't sign them. Just as well we bought new log sheets and bags with us.
The huge numbers of caches in this area we know that we will have to return on another trip.
Always great to visit new areas. Thanks for the cache placements. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)...

We have been planning for Queen's Birthday weekend for some time - routes and caches were identified and mapped, and Gap solved a whole lot of puzzles in readiness for this adventure. We scoured many online logs and took note of the condition of the caches and their logbooks. We determined to replace any containers and logbooks where there was a dire need - This is not usually our habit and is quite time consuming; but we are enthusiastic cachers and believe in doing our bit for the wider caching community...

When nightfall arrives in winter, it comes quickly. By the time we pulled into Masterton, it was dark and rain was falling. We had no trouble finding our accommodation on the outskirts of town. Masterton seems to be quite a compact little town in the car headlights... After dinner, thoughts turned to continued caching... The iPhone gps took us on a small tour around the hall before settling down. Not the easiest retrieval in wet conditions. Nevertheless, another 52/52 to cross off. Thanks Skindo and TFTC.

Today was a numbers run over to the Wairarapa to mainly boost my finds for May, as they've been sorely lacking. I had a couple of missions I wanted to achieve - finding the remaining 250 finds in a month caches (even the ones I haven't yet qualified for), and to attempt to get Skindo's 1000th. I also wanted to visit some locations in the Wairarapa that I've never been to before (even before geocaching). In 12 hours I managed to find 53 caches, including 25 traditionals, 24 puzzles and 2 multis. I also signed 5 challenges, pending future qualification.

I looked in a couple of locations before finally putting my hands on the cache. I'm glad I hadn't read the previous logs as it would have taken me longer. I didn't spot any trap. Funny how a lot of these country halls have a tennis court that hasn't seen any balls for decades. All good here. TFTC

First for the day - nice easy one. Shame these old halls that would have once been community hubs are not fully utilised any longer. The swallows enjoy the peace though.

16.45: On the way from Dannevirke to Martinborough. Our last cache for today. We had to use the hint to turn this one into a find. Be careful when grabbing around: the trap is still there. The hall appeared as if it has not been used for quite awhile.

Weather: overcast, drizzle is gone, windy, 14°C;
Wheelchair: no problem at all;
State: all good.

Thank you!
Oliver+Gabi

Thanks for the cache.

A beautiful clear spring day and perfect for a wee 50 k bike ride up the Whangaehu valley. Have been past this hall a couple of times but always seem to be muggles around sitting in their vehicles talking on cellphones.On way back coast was clear and soon had cache in hand.Sad to see the tennis court at the back of the hall in wrack and ruin now.

We are on another road trip and this time its from home to Masterton and return taking in a lot of the back roads around the area on the way back as we had more time to spare after attending the CITO at Henley lake in Masterton. our first adventure off the main road was east of Masterton and we found it very interesting as we planned to go through Mauriceville then head back to Ekatahuna. the road was good and wide for the campervan but in most places we couldn't pull off much but as the traffic was very light it wasn't a problem.

Lots of old broken items in vicinity; found with help of recent log. Thanks skindo!

dropped of tb Mary hydes treasure- fish!

A good cache,well hidden under a rodent trap!A group effort by team PHETT.TFTC!

Cache number 31 of 56 (find number 29 of 50 for me) on a road trip from Palmerston North to Masterton (via Pongaroa and SH52) with some like-minded individuals collectively know as Geocachers!

We ascended into the clouds at the top of the Pahiatua Track, and then it was clear for the rest of the trip until we returned back over the Track where the fog at the top gave less than 20m visibility

Took me a while to locate this, given that someone has added some additional coverage on top... a rodent bait station!
Once this was relocated, we signed the log and haydn.seek added a TB.

Log signed as "Team PHETT" (PJMacNZ, haydn.seek, Etherlord, TwigNZ, and ThatWeirdGuy04)

Found today while out with PJMacNZ, Haydn.seek, Etherlord Clan and TwigNZ. Quick easy find. Log signed as "Team PHETT" (PJMacNZ, Haydn.seek, Etherlord, TwigNZ, and myself)

Thanks For The Cache

Today my son (ThatWeirdGuy04) and I were lucky enough to be invited to tag along with PJMacNZ, Haydn.Seek and Etherlord Clan on a day trip around the Wairarapa.
We knew it was going to be a long day, but we were hopeful that we would get to find quite a few caches along the way, especially of the Mystery variety which we decided to concentrate mainly on getting.

The weather was kind to us, meaning we were able to spend time out of the car finding the caches and making running repairs to quite a few of them, mainly due to waterlogged log sheets and damaged plastic bags. Anyone finding these caches next in a good condition have EC and HS to thank for providing the requisite items.

My apologies for the generic log entry here, but the volume of caches found today makes it the best way to get everything done. With a small few exceptions, most of the caches were a relatively straightforward find, and in every case the logsheet was signed as Team PHETT for all 5 of us before the cache was replaced exactly where found.

Thank you for placing this cache, and giving us the excuse to have a grand day out.

We took flight on the Planetary Pursuit today, off to the Wairarapa. We had this trip already in the pipeline so now was a good time to do it - first down to Masterton and out on the Te Ore Ore Road, up through Bideford to Route 52 and looping back down to Masterton again.
The weather was perfect and we got some glorious views. A childhood friend of Mrs G's had come from Bideford and about 55 years later geocaching finally took her to see the area.
We aimed for 26 caches and got them all, we replaced a couple of lost caches and a few wet logs with waterproof paper. All in all it was a successful journey and a good help along the way in our pursuit of the planets.
We found the cache here as per the hint, but do be careful where you put your hands - there is a lot of broken glass in there as well as a black plastic box that has a warning it should not be touched as it is blood thinning rat poison! Mrs G had already pulled it out (only then could you see the label anyway!) so hurriedly returned it and then washed her hands. TFTC

Quick find at GZ. All good at GZ.

Thanks for another smilie.

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Thanks to the Cache Owner who has gone to the trouble of creating this cache, determining the coordinates and then averaging them to make sure they are accurate, placing the cache and registering it online for our enjoyment. Without Cache Owners doing their bit, there wouldn't be a fun hobby that we all love - so again a big THANK YOU. For our bit, all we need to do is find and log the cache that was carefully placed for our personal enjoyment. As we log it we should consider that the Cache Owner also needs to maintain it - when the log sheet fills up, they must replace it. When the container becomes full of water, they need to empty it. When the container is broken, they need to repair it. When it goes missing they need to find or replace it. Well..... the great news is we can do our bit too - make sure your log doesn't take an entire page - just a name and date. If full of water, empty and dry the cache as best as possible. Be careful when handling the cache and make sure you replace it where you found it. If it has a bag, seal it. Just remember - the Cache Owner showed respect to you by placing the cache - please respect them and fellow cachers that follow you by being careful with the cache. And if you have a spare log sheet and the cache you are at needs one, please leave it behind. Finally, if the cache does need maintenance, please let the Cache Owner know - you can log a Maintenance Log or you can drop a line to the Cache Owner. Above all - have fun and remember the Geocaching Code.

Out dillydallying around Wairarapa picking up some puzzles and a few traditionals and this one beckoned as we drove by (out this direction to get the 175 degree East Longitude Challenge we qualified for a while back. Such a cute hall. What a shame the maintenance is not kept up at the likes of these places. The old tennis court out the back has wasted away. It was a quick find here and we stayed and ate our picnic lunch in the sun. TFTC

another one down TFTC

Off for a trip to Masterton from Hastings with our main aim being the the 52 on 52. In the end it took us a little over 8 hours with only two of the series that we didnt find, and picking up na few off the trail as we went. Although most were in good condition there were some that were wet and some that were just mushy logs impossible to write on. TFTC

Driving from Hastings to Masterton today. Route 52 seemed to be well signposted - find next closest!

A classic skindo cache, good to tick off another country hall. Neatly hidden in a dry place, thanks skindo.

#2637. I have been planning on another big day over in the Wairarapa for quite a while. But a series of wet weekends put paid to that idea. But today dawned bright and sunny. So at last a chance to pick up a few solved puzzles and challenge caches, as well as a scattering of traditionals. Parked near the hall. All quiet here today. What would geocaching be like without a skindo hall? Soon found the cache in the first place checked thanks to the helpful hint. Signed the dry logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

Found. Number 100!

Easy find - nice spot. Tftc

Nice quick find. TFTC

quick easy find liked the spot tftf aroha and happy caching

Easy find right where the hint said it would be. TFTC

Quick find with Wafflekitties, TFTC

After going the stump cache not so nice going onto my legs tftc

Took a bit but we got it. Tftc

Took a while to find the right spot for this one but got there in the end tftc

5th of the day. This was a surprise cache. I only pulled into to stop and check how far I was away from another cache and luckily there was a cache there. Took a few circles before finding it. TFTC.

Found it

On a geocaching trip over the Wairarapa.

A quick find. Cache in good order and log nice and dry.

TFTC

If i was out at the puzzle cache and had to go past a Hall ..well of course there would be a skindo cache here!!! quick find thank you for the cache and another smiley face.

The correct spot was identified by SpudNZ using the car headlights and then the actual cache was quickly found.
T F T C Skindo.

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125 Mission summary:
SpudNZ, Hunterhillson, AtomsNZ and Tommygun9 (me) (we logged ourselves as "TEAM SHATner" to save space and time) decided to set off for a caching mission to gather a heap of caches in the Wairarapa on a Wednesday. Noting that the weather was going to be good we set off from Palmy a little after 0600 and grabbed a few caches in the dark and morning light before (having a pie and) setting off south down Route 52. We had a couple of zig and/or zags south and got to Masterton in the dark of the moonless evening. Two of our party broke through the 1000 cache mark while I managed a day of 125 finds. We got back to Palmy very late cold, tired and hungry and know that, despite the uncharacteristically fine weather, summer is definitely the better time of year for long caching missions. Thanks to the local hiders for all their caches.

Cache no.116 for the day. T f T c skindo.

Logged as team SHATner - (SpudNZ, Hunterhillson, AtomsNZ, Tommygun9) Spent the day caching out in and around the Mighty Manawatu, the Wild Wairapapa and the Bay of Hawkes, in the hope of clocking up +100 caches. As well as seeing some of the best scenic views rural NZ has to offer, we also came across a few stray sheep, a couple of rabbits, Farmer Joe, the Ram gang, some shifty goats, Farmer Dave, a pie, a cop, Farmer Ned and Farmer Ted, diggers, mud, rain, sun, fog, Farmer Jane and her trusty farm dog.. And even a few caches!

After hearing that Tommygun9, SpudNZ and Hunterhillson were planning a mission to Skindoland to knock off some caches out there I decided that I couldn't possibly be left behind to go to work for the day while they had all the fun -so I offered my expertise in solving Skindo puzzles in exchange for a seat in the vehicle. Turns out I only ended up having to solve a couple but gained a seat anyway.
Starting out well before the crack of dawn, my hope for the day was to crack 1,000 caches and under the cover of darkness I found my 1,000th cache at around 8.30pm. After coming across a major accident on state highway 2 our route home was greatly expanded and it was close to 11pm before we finally made it back to civilization and a well deserved dinner.
Thanks to all the cache owners for the caches we found today

In the wee hours of 20 May 15, Tommygun9, Atomsnz, Hunterhillson and myself formed an elite squad for a daring raid into Skindo land. Our codename; Team SHAT-ner.
We would be operating deep behind enemy lines, often out of contact range from Hotel Quebec, limited supplies and no chance of rescue, should we need one. We were horrendously out numbered. I’ve heard rumours that it was close to 300 to one.
Our mission; covertly kill off as many insurgents as we could and return home alive. We had all set personal goals for the mission; mine was to crack the 120 mark. Although, I had recently learnt that another member of our squad from yesteryear had a tally of 133. Perhaps I need to re-evaluate my goal.
Our insertion point was the North entry to Route 52, where we soon realised that the insurgents were coming thick and fast. We had to fight for every inch down that road. After 10 hrs of battling insurgents at every turn, we eventually reached our Southern most point, the insurgent stronghold of Masterton. It was the “home straight” from here. We blasted our way North as fast we could. Sporadically shooting insurgents from our windows as we went. The road was blocked near Mount Bruce so we had to make a detour back towards Masterton and take some of the back roads. I hope this wasn’t a trap. We eventually made it back over the hill to safety. I don’t think we were followed.
We did notice a few spotters located down the back roads that we didn’t clear. No doubt, they’ll relay any information back to their Supreme Leader and we’ll see reinforcements taking up defensive positions around the country side on the satellite imagery we receive.
Weeks of prior planning and INTEL gathering meant a smooth and successful mission was carried out. Against the odds, we returned home well after dark, safe and sound after a hard days work.

Some numbers for the mission:
620 km’s covered,
16.5 hrs of driving,
132 insurgents killed; of which 118 blindly follow Supreme Leader Skindo.
116 were killed on site
16 were questioned before being put in front of the firing squad.
7 evaded us.

For acts of bravery above and beyond the call of duty. In which I successfully carried out a raid into enemy territory and killed 120 hostiles or more, I am awarded the Ruby Badge. I also received various other badge upgrades as well.

Another quick find made by the Team. The sun had well set by this stage. Signed as Team SHAT-ner
Thanks for the cache and the smiley.

Riding the R52 was great!

Thanks for showing me this location and the cache!
TNLN

Standard text:
Sorry for logging late...

This cache was visited by me either during the one month (February 2015) of hiking/tramping in NZ together with Bärgegumperli or in March/April 2015 while on a bicycle trip across NZ and AUS.
We/I enjoyed geocaching a lot.

Hiking
Hikes:
- Abel Tasman NP: Motueka, Kaiteriteri, Marahau, Inland Track, Separation Point, Coastal Track, Marahau.
- Nelson Lakes NP: St. Arnaud, Hopeless Hut, Travers Saddle, Blue Lake, Waiau Pass, Thompson Pass, D'Urville Valley, Lake Angelus, St. Arnaud.
- Arthur's Pass NP: Mt Brown Hut, Styx Valley, Browning Pass, Whitehorn Pass, Waimakariri Valley, Jordan Saddle, Hut Spur, Arthur's Pass, Mt Aicken
- Bridle Path
The weather conditions were great for tramping almost every single day. We enjoyed the beautiful landscape, the peace in some very remote areas and the many friendly people we met on our way or in the different huts.

Cycling from Dunedin to Auckland
It is not my first tour with this [url=http://coord.info/TB4MQE4]bicycle[/url] ([url=http://www.geocaching.com/track/map_gm.aspx?ID=3901325]map with long loading time[/url]).
Places along the route: Dunedin, Otago Central Rail Trail, East Manuherikia track, Tekapo, Fairlie, Geraldine, Oxford, Waipara, Hanmer Springs, Jacks Pass, Island Saddle, Picton, Wellington, Homedale, Hutt River Trail, Masterton, Pongaroa, road near Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, Waipukurau, Fernhill, Taupo, Whakamaru, Tirau, Hauraki Rail Trail, Kawakawa Bay, Aukland.
After one month of perfect weather (see above) I finally got what I had to expect: Some rain... And sometimes stron headwinds. That the route was not flat at all meant usually that the landscape is great .
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Cycling from Melbourne to Darwin
Places along the route: Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, Penshurst, Edenhope, Jervois Ferry, Sedan, Tanunda, Crystal Brook, Port Augusta, Coober Pedy, Uluru/Ayers Rock, The Olgas/Kata Tjuta, Mereenie Loop, Alice Springs, Karlu Karlu/Devil's Marbles, Litchfield NP, Mandorah, Darwin.
Along the coast the weather was often wet and cold. The small roads in Victoria and South Australia were very pleasant to ride despite a lot of headwind. This changed as soon as I reached the Stuart Hwy to sometimes strong tailwinds. That's why I had some "spare" time to ride a loop in the Red Centre. Further north
As in NZ i met some awesome people.
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Guess what I did while waiting for a connecting plane in Perth?

Greetings from Switzerland / Gruess us dr Schwiiz

*There are a lot(!) of caches which I did not search while on the bicycle trip. The reasons are mainly:
1. Stopping slows if one wants to get somewhere, especially on bridges where no one wants to slow down a fully loaded touring bike. Yes, there were quite a few days with >200 km on the pushbike...
2. Riding or resting next to a loaded (recumbent) bike attracts in some areas so much attention that stealth mode is not possible.
3. On rare occasions I rode during the night. If I had to do that there was no time to search for caches anyway [:-(]
4. Some places I did really not consider worth stopping for a cache... Sorry.

found while down in the area for a caching week.
Am enjoying finding all the caches

TFTC

Afternoon adventure this afternoon on way to Napier. Forth find of day. Took a bit longer than it should have but eventually found. Thanks for the cache.

The hall was not in use today.
+ a marble, nothing.

Trust the GPS instead of one's intuition and it would be an easy find.

This was the last we had time for today unfortunately. We appreciate the opportunity to find this series Skindo thanks for placing it. Our first day of fifty plus!

We left Whangaehu in Hawkes Bay this morning and were surprised to come across another Whangaehu there is also one in Taranaki

Good hide skindo

A quick easy find once we were on the correct side of the hall. TFTC

Found while on a 24 hour caching adventure with Skaga through parts of the Wairarapa - finished the 24 hours and are now making our way homewards.
A nice quick find under yet another little country hall. TFTC

#1388 Found during a 24 hour caching raid in the Wairarapa with Nic-jay- seeing how many we could find in 24 hours- 146 finds for me! Woop woop! The 24 hours is up so we're just picking up a few on the journey home. TFTC!

I wasn't too keen to go searching for this cache due to the broken glass and rubbish about so I was glad the hint did the thinking for me and I was soon signing the log.

TFTC

Found while doing the translation caches in the area. Seen these ones before, knew (almost) right where to go. Beware of broken glass though!

Another caching foray in the Wairarapa.
Happy to be making a quick and easy on this one.
Cache in order, log signed; cache safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

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

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 25 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!!!

First of many today

Nice little hall

[Green] Popmac rings me up, wanting to do a raid on Skindoland. We bring in super-new cacher Bright_Jun and sneak in under the cover of darkness. We left Palmy at 6am, attacked the natives of Skindoland with a relentless assault lasting 15 hours (including an hour off for tea and crumpets at the Pongaroa Picnic Event), travelling over 450km. We even had spare petrol in the boot, because there were no shops where we went. We defeated over 90 of the little blighters, not even a decimation. I bet the lords of Skindoland won't even notice.

Another hall ticked off. Another nice find.

A day caching with the Seagnoid and Bright_Jun after Pongaroa Picnic Event at Four Mile Bush Reserve in Skindoland. Quick find. Thanks for the cache.

started at 8 this morning and headed over to get 50 caches today on a loop, didnt find a couple but hubby got to do a lot of gravel road and the weather was nice. TFTC

Day out caching found about 40 total today, weather was ok and most caches found pretty quickly. Thanks Skindo

Not this time

Last leg of the trail, it's been heaps of fun, thanks for the time taken to establish and maintain the series TFTC.

Found orginally as part of phasevisitor team, now created own account, re-logging as yorkshirekiwi83.

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we left Napier and headed to Wellington, taking Route 52 and picking up the caches along the way. TFTC!

Most Christmas holidays involve a road trip of some description and this year is no exception. Today we left Napier and headed to Wellington, taking Route 52 and picking up the caches along the way. TFTC!

Found with renelm and Difool, logged as RAD to save log space, time and trees.

I am not much of a logwriter, so see renelms, and possibly Difools, log for details.

TFTC!

Another find on this end of the trails inbetween the solved puzzles

Found at 17:00 - #4431 - together with aedk and Difool - logged as RAD to save space and time

TFTC

Found on the way to more solved puzzles.

Logged as RAD together with renelm and aedk.

TFTC

Difool - #1277 - 2013-11-03@17:00 NZDT

Travelling from Rotorua to Masterton and at first unsure what way to travel. Decided in the end to go do the 52 on 52 as they seemed like a good choice on a quieter road. Enjoyed the drive, hunt and finds and despite parking being a small problem near some of the caches the road was very quiet and nothing was worrysome in the end. A lot of logs damp and some wet but mostly writable. Good effort in placing these.

Found with Sevren.tftc

TFTC. Found I could just about get telecom reception here - so downloaded a few more nearby caches just to make sure I didn't run out.....

This entry was edited by Infoferret on Monday, 28 October 2013 at 03:59:02 UTC.

Found as part of the Zissas/EthNZ substitute MEGA caching run. TFTC

Set off with Zissas for a day's caching to take advantage of everyone else being at the Mega. The hunt continues. TFTC.

first hall one. TFTC

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.

Quick find on the way past

A quick find on a days caching in the Wairarapa. Putting ones arm into a dark hole is always a bit of a worry but grabbed the right thing. TFTC

A nice evening to be out picking up a few

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Aahhh! Reminded us of home!
Beware, there is broken glass near the cache.
Left a pet rock - a swan. TFTC

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No surprise to see a hall as part of this series. The cache was exactly where I expected it to be.

Whilst cycling from Masterton to Otapawa Backpackers, we decided to check out as many caches as we could on this 75km ride. Just beautiful country with good cycling for a couple of 70 year olds. Thanks Skindo - Route 52 is an outstanding ride - we hope to do the rest sometime. TFTC

I love taking the back road like this. A day like today with magnificent weather was made for geocaching. First half I did some time ago and today the other half from Weber to Masterton was done. TFTC!

Last day of work in the wairarapa. So a few extra caches before we head back to nelson. Tftc