St Albans (Wairarapa) Tauweru, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 27-Mar-10. Waypoint GC25MPH

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Logs

09-Mar-17
!
 
04-Mar-17
Nope. Gone.
 
04-Mar-17
Found it with hubby hi.steaks & kahuteratanga
 
04-Mar-17
Nope. Gone.
 
04-Mar-17
DNF my bad earlier comment was meant for another cache
 
04-Mar-17
Not here. And i now stink.
 
11-Jan-17
A nice little rural church but no cache to be found. I checked the three hint objects nearest the coordinates, all without success. I even excavated most of a malodorous deposit nestling in on of them, but still no cache. Unless the coordinates are way off I think this has probably gone.
 
03-Sep-16
After 90 finds there had to be a DNF some stage. Today was that day. Normally skindo caches have good coordinates and there was just three possible objects to search around. I checked each of them at least 3 or 4 times at various levels and in every hollow or hiding spot I could see. Nothing. Not even in the septic pond under the bird nest. Guess I may have missed some tiny little crevice but for a D1, it was tricky. Another day.
 
21-May-16
Found on my way to Castlepoint during a day of geocaching and ingressing. A beautiful little church and a nice quick find.
TFTC
 
07-May-16
Another cute rural church. Tftc
 
28-Mar-16
Mr5: "great hiding place!". What a cute church, lovely spot.
 
30-Dec-15
Nice quick find tftc
 
10-Aug-15
26th of the day. This is why I like geocaching - finding hidden little gems like this! TFTC.
 
15-Jul-15
Lovely spot.
Mahalo from Hawaii
 
10-Jul-15
Thanks for the find. Found it with Tu2 Tracker.
 
13-Jun-15
On a geocaching trip over the Wairarapa.

What a lovely old church.

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

TFTC
 
20-May-15
The nearby house was watching us with this one so it was here we decided to only night cache further away from houses.
With this cache I set a new personal single day caching record as the old one was 100 and this is cache 101. I would go on to finish the day on 125.
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.
 
20-May-15
Cache no.108 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!
 
20-May-15
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.

The sun had well set by this stage. I felt very dodgy searching for this one by torch light. A nearby house was watching what we were doing. Still, a quick find made by the team here. Signed as Team SHAT-ner
Thanks for the cache and the smiley.
 
20-May-15
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
 
26-Feb-15
This is a very beautiful church, very similar to one behind Martin. Maybe at Beaconsfield... same architect I guess. There was no log book in the cache so I replaced it with a water proof strip log and left it upright so hopeful it will stay dry..... thank you for bring us to this church which we didn't know existed.
 
09-Feb-15
A quick find on my Wairarapa trip. Love these country drives and the churches. TFTC
 
12-Jan-15
Lovely little church. Shame it has to be locked.
 
19-Sep-14
Nice spot for a cache. Shame about the neighbours small dog that yapped & yapped & yapped & yapped the whole time I was there TNLNSL TFTC
 
15-Jun-14
Continuing the winter season of caching on a very pleasant Sunday.
This proved to be a quick and easy find. A hidden away gem worth detouring from the main drag (so to speak!).
All in order, log signed, safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too Big Grin
The Turtle strikes again!
 
04-May-14
Sunday morning is not the best day to visite
 
29-Mar-14
Biked out to tauweru to grab a few caches. Tftc
 
23-Mar-14
Nice area, thanks for the cache
 
22-Mar-14
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! Big GrinBig Grin
 
22-Mar-14
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 Wink. 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
 
22-Mar-14
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.

Another pretty little church encountered along our journey. Smile

TFTC!!! Big Grin
 
22-Mar-14
This cache was found as part of a marathon weekend of geocaching with alpenmilch80, mike-miss and funkymunkyzone - aka "Team AMFV" It was a full on weekend of non-stop caching, mostly on windy gravel Wairarapa roads!

I had flown down to Wellington on Friday, then met up with the others first thing Saturday morning. We loaded up a Toyota Yaris rental car, then slowly made our way back up to Auckland, arriving late on Sunday night! The poor little car certainly got put through a lot!

It was an incredibly long and tiring weekend, but great fun at the same time, with a great group of cachers! All up I found 250 new caches over the weekend and revisited a few that I had found before. Sorry for the copy and paste logs, but the weekend is already a blur! TFTC!!
 
04-Jan-14
Day 2 of our weekend out caching. First time ive been down in the wairarapa area, got around 100 over 2 days, thanks Skindo.
 
02-Jan-14
What a wonderful little church and very well maintained, favourite for us TFTC.
 
17-Dec-13
Quick find on another day caching in the Wairarapa. Thanks for the cache.
 
26-Oct-13
Another one for middle Muppet. + dinosaur - pebble.
 
26-Oct-13
Set off with Zissas for a day's caching to take advantage of everyone else being at the Mega. The hunt continues. TFTC.
 
26-Oct-13
Found as part of the Zissas/EthNZ substitute MEGA caching run. TFTC
 
29-Sep-13
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.
 
28-Sep-13
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.
 
07-Jul-13
TFTC. Actually, Mel0n got to it first. Yet another lovely little location I would never have found if it wasn't for Geocaching.
 
28-Jun-13
A nice evening to be out picking up a few

TFTC
 
28-Apr-13
A quick easy find at another nice wooden church in Wairarapa. No service today. TFTC
 
18-Apr-13
tftc
 
06-Feb-13
#3780. A nice church. All quiet today though. Good hide, but the cache is no longer an Eclipse container. TNLNSL. TFTC.
 
21-Jan-13
Nice little spot, impressed to see all the Fav's

Thanks for this, and the rest of the caches along the way.
 
02-Jan-13
#4708. Good division of labour here. Sat on a bench to work out the final coords of the multi, and do the paper work for this cache. A nice spot. TFTC.
 
02-Jan-13
A lovely little church. We lived in the suburb of St Albans in Christchurch for several years, so the name has special connotations.
I looked for the cache (and made hard work of it) while StreetWalker sorted out the final co-ords for the nearby multi. I had only just found the cache when he returned.
TFTC.
 
20-Dec-12
A quick find as we could see it as we walked up.
Left a pet rock - a gerbil. TFTC
 
12-Oct-12
A quick find for the youngest Dagg. What a lovely church. TFTC
 
12-Sep-12
The cache code is the speed that you should not exceed near this building. Another piece of ecclesiastical building.

Found the cache to be totally waterlogged and rusting and the log a sodden mess so replaced everything.

Cheers for the cache.
 
22-Jul-12
Recent bad weather had a bit oof an affect of how to get this cache, well done danielle:-) for locating it :p. Found with danielle:-) and lillianavess. TFTC
 
22-Jul-12
Wouldn't want to be putting your hands where the cache is... the hand sanitizer couldn't even get rid of the smell... Found with Matt29 & lillianavess. TFTC
 
30-Jun-12
This was well worth the visit, so much so that Mr TT grabbed his camera and started shooting. Great church. TFTC
 
03-Jun-12
Found with NZABic on the way to the beach. Cool little church.
 
03-Jun-12
Another in the CHurch series. With TEMPESTJB. TFTC
 
14-Mar-12
Nice church. Quick find. TFTC.
 
01-Feb-12
Driven past this church loads of times- nice to have an excuse to stop and visit. wikki38
 
24-Jan-12
Found while spending a couple of days caching around Masterton. The cache had a large gaurdian sitting under it so it was a good thing I retrieved rather than the other half of the team.
 
22-Jan-12
Great spot . driven past and never seen

This entry was edited by KingSportS on Monday, 23 January 2012 at 06:05:53 UTC.
 
21-Jan-12
Visited St Albans - another pleasant example of the many and varied styles of early church architecture in the region. Thanks.

# 4498
 
29-Dec-11
#8, and last, on a brilliant caching/walking day out to Castlepoint. Nicely maintained little country church. Log a bit damp so spread it out in the heat of the day on the park bench to dry out while wandering around the grounds. Nice hide.
 
21-Dec-11
This is a stunning wee kirk. Spotted the steeple as we came down the hill.
TFTC
 
11-Nov-11
1st of my 11-11-11 caches. A fantastic little church, quite different to most seen in New Zealand. Worth a favourite point this one! TFTC
 
08-Nov-11
A quick find on the way past today. Very unusual-looking old church building! A quick find - signed log, TFTC and for bringing me here.
 
04-Oct-11
Slink1 and co came over from Australia to do some sightseeing and to cache. A trip to the burbs was in order. Slink1 reckons he'll be back for more. Thanks for the cache made our mark..
 
04-Oct-11
A short holiday with my wife to this wonderful land NZ over from Australia to do some sightseeing and to catch with my mate Dunko who has been moved over here for work. We plan to do the crossing many times, enjoyed doing the cache. Thanks for the cache, made our mark..
 
20-Jul-11
7308 A nice quaint church, and our third Saint of the day… TFTC.
 
19-Jul-11
A delightful small historic church and well worth the short detour from the main road, thanks skindo.
 
20-Jun-11
I have visited this area several times for orienteering events but never before stopped in the settlement. It was a good place to have a quick lunch break.

This seems to be one of the places where not everybody can agree on its spelling. I have seen just as many references to Tauweru as I have for Taueru.
 
06-Jun-11
Find #588. One of only six finds for the day, as we ventured to out to Castlepoint on yet another caching expedition. How far we've come! We now have to travel 10km for a single cache! Smile

We set out nice and early after a bike ride around Henley Lake under the very dense mist before the sun rose. St Albans was our first port of call. We located the correct road pretty quickly, and parked up. A very idyllic little church, and the cache was located quickly. All was well, we replaced the log bag however as it was torn. A lovely spot.

Great to be in the Wairarapa. Thanks skindo. ST TFTC.
 
18-Mar-11
Finally got around to picking this one up.
Lovely little old church.
Quick & easy find.
TFTC.
 
03-Mar-11
Nice easy find. TFTC
 
28-Feb-11
Awesome little church - easy find - cheerz Jumboz
 
17-Feb-11
Great view. TFTC. SL.
 
17-Feb-11
TFTC. SL. Nice view
 
07-Jan-11
Quick find - lovely Church. TFTC
 
31-Dec-10
#3069

This was a good hide, again managed a quick easy retreival
 
27-Dec-10
Easy find, replaced as found,TFTC
 
23-Oct-10
Fantastic little church, full of character and charm. Nice quick easy find. Thanks for showing us this. NINO TFTC
 
14-Oct-10
Quick search and cache located. SL TFTC
 
05-Oct-10
lovely church
 
16-Jul-10
Another find to lift our spirits after not finding the cache at our previous stop. Quick and easy too. TFTC
 
15-Jul-10
first on a day to the coast
 
11-Jul-10
What a pretty little church. Nice easy find as the daylight was fading on a great day out!

Thanks for the cache.
 
05-Jul-10
tb drop
 
05-Jul-10
nice little detour. TFTC
 
07-Jun-10
Found while out on a caching expedition in the region. Always enjoy these wonderful country spots and it's great to see this church is still being used and maintained. Thanks for bringing me off the main road.
 
07-Jun-10
Quick find by one of the younger EU crew. TFTC
 
05-Jun-10
Picturesqe place. All the more peaceful for being off the main road. Thanks
 
16-May-10
A lovely old church, very quiet and peaceful here this morning.
TFTC
 
18-Apr-10
It certainly is quaint church.Thanks for cache.
 
17-Apr-10
A quaint little church sits in the beautiful Wairapa countryside. Peaceful, relaxing and geocaching with not a care in the world… Ah, the country life… Thanks Skindo for the cache!
 
10-Apr-10
Stunning wee church found with wallynanny & presusie. TFTC Felix!
 
10-Apr-10
A cracker - tftc
 
09-Apr-10
Lovely - Thanks for bringin us here!
 
06-Apr-10
Nice quick find on the way past. TFTC
 
05-Apr-10
What a nice church, we were very impressed about this location and love the old architectural building, found cache quickly without any issues, thanks for bringing us here. TFTC TNLNSL (1806)
 
29-Mar-10
Happy Days Big Grin FTF Big Grin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Couldn’t believe my luck. Arrived at the church at the same time as the cleaner and the Organ tuner. Had to bide my time while they opened up and went inside. A nice spot for a cache, good too see these lovely old country churches still be used and cared for. SL 1340hr TFTC
 
28-Mar-10
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