wanna cache da train? (Wellington) Paekakariki, North Island, New Zealand
By joandra on 11-Jul-10. Waypoint GC2BHKJ

As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Looks like it may've been snaffled by a muggle. Will try to get it back up and running soon.

Our first DNF for the day. Suspect we saw where it used to be as film canister sized holder there but couldn't find the cache. As there have been a few DNF's in a row may need to check and see if it is still there.

unlucky with that one at least we found the little book shop for a muggle distraction

No luck today. Checked everywhere with five sets of eyes.

Quite keen to "cache da train", but points failure occurred today. Looked high and low, but didn't find cache.

Nice Hiding Spot. Was Able To Watch One Of The Old School Trains Being Manoeuvred Around The Yard. Found Last Weekend As One Of Our Last Of The Day After Doing QE Park. TFTC

3.30pm. No one around so an easy find.
Thank you. David.

Number 2 on our road trip. Awesome hiding place. TFTC. #50 for me.

Some maintenance was being carried out here today. Luckily, GZ was out of view of the workers and I was able to quickly complete my mission.

Found it

Spotted it almost straight away, nice and quiet, between trains when I called.

When I first came to Wgtn the train only went to Paekak. I remember coming up here on train to the end of the line (I was carless) and walking to the beach.
Had to wait till train went thru as couldnt retreive cache while they were on the platform. Easy find. TFTC

A nice easy find after letting a train pass! TFTC!

TYFTC

Quick find with phillsie, great hide TFTC

Busy station - 3 trains came through just in the short time we were there. Cache find was straightforward - good container. TFTC

3 for first day so far

screwed

Found on an overcast day with my good buddy Jules.

Yaye,
Second cache found ever...

[:>]

With John and Elisabeth!
TFTC

Pleased to be looking for this one on a sunday morning. Not many people about and they were mostly on the other side. Clever hide. Thanks.

# 4762

Nice hide, we had fun doing this with a couple of muggle friends who are very intrigued! Tftc

Once we found where to park, it was a nice easy cache to find. TFTC.

Found it!

TFTC

lUisa found it

tftc

Found it!

TFTC JDW

nailed it

Great little hide but as it was late at night there was no one around and we were free to search TFTC.

Quiet here today so a quick retrieve and replace.

platform deserted, so a quick find of a clever cache, TFTC joandra

Nicely hidden cache. Thanks.

Did a stopover for this one on my way north, had to do this one because I had some rail themed trackables with me but unfortunately forgot the camera,and anyway was too early for the museum to be open. Other trackables came for the ride too (literally as I came and went by train.)
Not too long to find the cache once the GPS (sort of) settled down, had suspected where the hide would be anyway- aren't we fortunate we can still do something like this in our country without getting into trouble!
I think I must have signed the wrong page as the last log I saw was October, was surprised it didn't appear to have been found for a while but seems it has been found several times quite recently.
TFTC.

Nice camo and hide .. had great pizza for tea about 200m away from cache so looked for this while we waited tftc

We arrived just after a train had departed, so it was deserted on the platform. We were happy to search under a verandah as it was drizzling at the time.
Soon tracked down the cache - but took a wee while to replace "just right". Nice wee hide.
TFTC.

#2715. Nice historic station. TFTC.

Easy find on a deserted platform. Pity the museum wasn' t open. TFTC

Enjoyed visiting this well preserved historic station - neatly hidden, thanks.

thanks

just passing by, nice place,

Nice cache, those trains go past fast when they are not stopping.

Bitsprayer

All quiet today - TFTC.

Nice quick find around dusk with no-one about. Sneaky hide. Cheers Gav [9291]

Thank you for the nice and clever container!
Easy find!

Called by on the way home. No one around so found no problem. Good idea for a container. TFTC

Our only find for the day as the battery on the GPS died. But the sun was shining and we at least got this one - which was a clever hide. TFTC

Cool cache! TFTC. First find on a beautiful day at Paekakariki

No chance of caching the train today as they weren't running, so I just had to cache.
TFTC.

TFTC

Awesome! I like that trick

On a nice day out in Paekakariki, we found the cache easily. TFTC

No trainspotters or passengers due to bus replacement made for a quick find. TFTC

TFTC, on the way to Wellington and far away to South Island!

nice cache . on way to north island trials champs many thanks

You got it right in one, joandra - Big Fuzzy is BOTH a self confessed train spotter and an addicted cacher so he was in his element here! (no trains though ) TFTC

6258 No trains today... so we just wanna cache... nicely hidden, TFTC

No I didn't wanna cache da train but I did wanna find da cache...& I did! Thanks

Plenty of catching the train muggles about. No problem finding the cache un-noticed though! TFTC

Quick find of an unusual cache that blends in well.

Nice quick find. Clever hiding place.
TFTC

Final find for the day - great strike rate 8/8! Loved this cache. Got home to log it and realised that this is my 50th cache! Thanks Papakowhai6 for a great afternoon by the seaside. Sad that the local dairy didn't have cone ice creams...

nice cache and no muggles on (yet another) day when buses were replacing trains. congrats to bookalele on finding her 50th cache

Happy New Year. Clever hide. TFTC

TFTC. CLEVER HIDE had us going for a while.

Quick find before lunch. will have to come and take a look once the museum is open. Tftc

Very quiet here today for some reason... popped by on our way to QE park for the afternoon. A quick find by Mr. Paua Ranger. Merry Christmas and TFTC!

Muggle free here today. No trains, it's a weekend of buses instead.

Made the find, signed the log and rehidden safely as found. All in order here.

TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

A tricky little hide. All quiet on the plateform this evening. TFTC

Spotted straight away. Great hide, and relocated before some local muggles arrived. TFTC

Found while cruising around Wellington

TFTC

Rainy

I love these old buildings, great to see there's a museum here which we'll have to come back to some weekend. TFTC

Quick easy find. No Trains around or muggles catching them.TFTC

Cool as man. TFTC

Gr8 to see some old stations surviving, walk down memory lane. Station deserted. No trains in sight!! No passenger to get in our way. Gr8 hid. Easy found as didn't have to use stealth. TFTC Awesome book shop if you are into NZ history.

1 of 5 for the day after softball at Onepoto Park with the kids and on the drive home. have a train tb, no room to leave but took photos on visit TFTC

yippee 500 finds. nice hide. TNLN. TFTC SL.

Had to wait for a train to arrive and leave, before I could do my caching business TFTC

Cache all fixed up and ready for the next train spotter

Thanks to last cacher for the heads up. Need to do abit of glueing. Will replace it soon...

No-one at GZ today when I visited, so it was easy to find the cache. Only problem is that I don't think the container is in it's original condition as we found some obvious parts to it on the ground and not sure how it fits together. SL TFTC

Cool cache. Found with SAROC. TFTC.

An empty platform made for an easy find this afternoon. Buses had replaced the trains so we had the whole place to ourselves. TFTC. (Found with Kiwileo)

Quick find with no muggles - TFTC

I was the only mug walking around in the rain. Made for an easy retrevial.

Train crash just up the line due to a slip caused by the heavy rain.

Why not catch the train at least no-one else was waiting so that made retrieval easier...

Nice quick find after walk around the wrong side. No one around so quick retrieval. TFTC

A lovely old station and nicely painted up too. No-one about ,and a quick find.
TFTC

This entry was edited by ADV on Sunday, 19 September 2010 at 02:56:41.

Quick find on a quiet Saturday afternoon. TFTC.

Last stop on the way back to Wellington. Didn't have too long to wait at the station before catching sight of the cache and a northbound freight train.

Good hide - took me a while inbetween one train coming and another going and the GPS pointing here , there and everywhere. TFTC #1534

Trains not catchable again today so waited in vain at railside so signing a cache log seemed the only sensible thing to do. T4TCSL

Miserable weather has stopped us stopping at this one for some time but lack of train service today made catching the cache a breeze. TFTCSL

#58 - Whew! Didn't think we'd find it when our GPS started jumping around! At one point it told us we were standing in the middle of SH1. However, a second pass around the station revealed what we were looking for . SL TFTC!

#1501. Found the station car park, but no passengers on the platform. It's "train replacement" buses today. So no muggles, and everything at the station was closed. A freight train came through though. TNLNSL. TFTC.

quick find.No muggles around.Thanks,