Octaginal Retreat (Manawatu) Whakarongo, North Island, New Zealand
By GBNZ on 04-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2M15R

Took a bit of systematic crawling but got there in the end. Many thanks

Nice easy find in a peaceful part of the cemetery overlooking the Ranges. Cache in good nick, dry with lots of room in the log. Rehid as found. Mihi ki a koe mo te keteroki #347

Looked for a long time but no find

We have found this one in the past but couldnt locate it today

DNF

gone

Tricky little one but we found it! Yay

Decided to get a couple of caches before the event tonight. This was on my way home from work.Went to GZ and had a long look and found it, is away from the GPS on my phone.TFTC zl2sga

Searched for ages with no luck!

Pretty hard

Of course it was the last place I looked

Took awhile to find with JustLooking and ItchyFeet. TFTC

Out caching the Manawatu, following a Popmac event today, with Justlooking00 and taybeeNZ. Took a bit of searching here, it was nice to have three pairs of eyes searching for this one. TFTC a great hide.

Up from Welly with Itchyfeet2020 and taybee nz to top up our Wheel of Challenges monthly points. A simple find when you look in the right place, lol. I'll blame it on my sluggish co-ords. Biggest piece of paper for a log that i've seen TFTC GBNZ

Fun quick find! Nice area!

Have come to Palmerston North to attend Etherlords Easter Shindig, and I need to do some caching while I am here towards the current challenge to find 100 caches in a month. I haven’t found many in Palmy so have plenty to choose from.
Out with TwigNZ this afternoon.
The cache was a quick find, using systematic searching.
Thanks for the cache.

Found with JoeyGE0. I have now made my own account and am logging the caches I have found to keep my account up to date. This is a real account. I placed the cache back as found, TFTC thanks for putting this one out! Took longer for me but was a great cache thanks.

What an eclipse!

Small

Took a few minutes of searching to locate it as there were lots of places it could be. Cache in good condition. TFTC

Found it tftc

Found it a year ago or so was VERY tricky but keep looking!

Came here to visit my Grandparents, nice to also find some caches here, took a bit of searching, tftc

Found it

Tricky one!!! Good luck to the next person!

Searched for a while , no luck this time

Stopped by today.
The Cache Creep has always been bed with this one...
Returned to its proper location. Plenty of log space remaining

Simple find once the kids stopped and thought about it more

Nice and easy hunt for beginners. Great location

Tftc quick and easy find and nice hiding spot

Lovely spot. Sadly the cache had fallen but hopefully it stays in place for the next finder.

Finally found it after many tries over the years

Very hard and you have to look high

Look up!

I looked at it. Twice. Stared directly at it. Still took me another 15mins of sitting on the ground and seeing what i could see. Finally found it years after a no find.

Came back today, and found it! (With a little help). Feels good to make sad faces to happy faces.

Had a fairly thorough search for this one but no luck!

took us like 15 min of crawling around but finally found it

Another Cache's Law instance where a random car load of people turned up to have a picnic under the trees! Why oh why? I don't like scrambling around on my hands and knees where muggles have set up camp. But my creeping about paid off and the target was secured eventually. Could have been a lot quicker! TFTC!

Stopped by today.
Cache is still in place and waiting to be found

Couldn't find it

Thanks so much!

Quick easy find. Tftc

Visiting my Son who has been a resident here for 41 years, as I live in a different part of N.Z. it's been awhile since Iv'e been here.
Found cache, signed log and placed back as found. Cheers

Clever cache!

Thanks

Stopped by with Talla64 and actually found two containers. I retrieved the first, an eclipse mint tin, which I could see a bit of when we entered, and we signed the log. Then as we were leaving, I spotted a second container - a magnetic key holder - immediately opposite. What to do? We signed that log as well and replaced it. What a spectacular view from up here; a great spot to place a cache. I'm pleased they were quick finds, it was blowing a gale and freezing cold up here. Back home now to Kapiti after a very successful caching day. Thanks for the cache GBNZ, no-one around today to witness our activities.

With Flowerydaze on a caching trip from Kapiti. 2 caches found here on opposite sides of the rotunda signed both and returned where found.
This was on our list on a very cold and windy day. This was our first trip since lockdown and it was nice to be able to get out once more. Thanks for the cash wilma677.

Visiting my parents and the kids grandparents buried here, so after leaving flowers we admired the nice view from this cache location. TFTC

TFTC!

Went back to see if my coins I left in there disappeared, looks like they have!!

Nice little cache. Left coins in there (;

I struggled at the start but only took a good 5 minutes. Great little and simple cache to find

Good excuse to visit our whanau here

Moved to Palmy for a few months and decided to keep a streak going. Today was a challenge as it was raining and the light was failing after work. So happy to find this one under shelter. Lots of options so just slowly worked my way round the octagon. Thanks for the smiley.

We didn’t find it but it was sad to see how much graves there were

Another trip up here with family members, and we visited here to check out the cache. Managed to find the cache relatively quickly, working in a methodical manner.

Finally found it this time. Yay

with good co ords this cache was soon in hand
tftc

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) and family... We ditched the family - they wanted to go to the markets and shopping, and we wanted to go caching - an easy solution...

The view from the rotunda was surprisingly expansive... There were a lot of possible hiding spots here, but the good coordinates helped to narrow the search zone down. Thanks GBNZ and TFTC.

Not sure how I came to miss this the first time! Tftc

Nice quick find. Tftc

Done

Nice

Frustrated girlfriend found after about 10min. 1st one so was pretty exciting.

?????? Off on another adventure with Team BOP to the Manawatu on a long weekend Great weather and company And lots of different types of caches Day two ???? Using this template but will try to add add individual notes as we go Thanks to all the COs for providing the caches and fun ??????

What to do on a long weekend. Organise a trip to the mighty Manawatu So here we are. Team BoP on a mission. Cheers for bringing me here. Day two of a great trip. I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. Its just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these cache. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

On a weekend road trip with Philip.Perry, McJandals and NZFlossy down to the Manawatu. Day 1 we are hitting the 20/20 series then not sure what we will be doing. Day 2 today we are geocaching around Palmerston North doing a few puzzles , lab caches and Traditional caches in between.
Signed logs TeamBOP.
Tftc

Team BOP back together after a 3 month hiatus - this time hitting the Manawatu with our sights set on some Labs, some geo-art & everything else that crosses our path

We’ve signed our logs as Team BOP to save time and log space and have thoroughly enjoyed the journey so far. Pleasantly surprised that very little maintenance has been required and that most caches have been found quickly & without fuss.

While I am cut&pasting these logs using the Cachly ‘text template’ I do genuinely appreciate the work put into these caches, particularly some of the puzzles. Cheers and TFTC

Hard one. Four of us looked at every bit of metal for it to magnetically attach to but didn’t find it sadly it

What a huge place to discover. I always enjoy caches in these kind of places. Cache in good order. Tftc

Yay finally got to tick this one off the list found with Cmarie tftc

TFTC! Found with Gavgav2889

It's Saturday and I'm reviewing my geocaching week thus far before planning what to do after I finish work around lunch time. Hmm I'm missing two days from my current streak of consecutive daily finds.
This is one of the missing days. I started at the wrong end and hence found it after searching 88% of the structure. Signed the log, took my memories photo(s), and then a friend rang me for assistance on a puzzle cache seeing as I was the Last To Find it a couple of months ago.
After sitting chatting for a while I completely forgot to log the Found It log. No matter, I do so now.
This is day 282 of my Streak and find number 2978. Getting close to that magical 3,000th cache which is an exciting milestone, while my streak is becoming a bit of a millstone . Last year I managed 186 days before I ran out of caches to find. Still got a few to find here in the Manawatu. TFYC

Nice day, visited my mother and found the cache too. Thanks

Cache has been replaced

Etherlord clan have kindly serviced this cache in my absence.

Will have a check on this one soon

DNF

Dnf

Didnt find

Dnf again

Quick find

Solid hiding. Many possible spots

Out on a sunny day to collect some caches, some are puzzle caches that we have solved. Sunny start to the day, set off at the park. Following the fun climbing the tree in the Linklater Pines, we went to do Fred's Walk.

Took about 5 mins for two of us. Probably did not need to be as thorough as it was not a nano. TFTC

Good found it in 5m

(# 5115). Today is a trip up the way to grab some Palmy caches. The weather was kind so an enjoyable day all up. Eeny meeny miney moe, I wonder where it is hidden. Everything in order. TFTC

Yay found it! My first magnetic one

So many places this could have been hidden but we found it quite quickly. TFTC

We decided to visit my Great Grandparents and Great Great Grandparents for Christmas so decided o grab a cache at the same time. This was a quick find cache was all log okay also signed the log and placed it back exactly where we found it. Thank you for placing a cache here. a nice spot for many reasons. TFTC

It's been quite a caching weekend for me. I was hosting a Geocaching event here in Palmerston North on Saturday evening, so came up on Friday after work to stay over with friends. They kindly put me up a second night too, which has allowed me to spend today getting out and about to clear up some caches I've not attempted before as part of a very leisurely journey back down south again.

I've looked at this cache a couple of times before, but was always put off looking for it due to the numerous DNF's logged against it. But I recently looked again and saw that a replacement cache had been placed so it was time to make a grab for it. Being a Sunday morning, the whole park was very quiet which allowed me plenty of opportunity to be able to search around GZ without having to be super stealthy.

As it turns out, I only needed less than a minute to find this one, which is in good condition. So it was a quick sign of the logbook, and then replaced exactly as discovered and I was then on my way to my next one.

Thank you for placing this cache, and bringing me to yet another place I haven't been to before.

On a long trip down to the mega with Lis's crew. So for me it good for numbers and favorites caches. With several stops and a lot of caches and several souvenirs up for grabs the trip was the perfect opportunity to get my numbers up and get some challenges that I have qualified for.

I used to live in Palmy many years ago. I'm passing through on my way to the Mega in Wellington with thegreatauk. We're staying with some old friends of mine just down the road. This area used to be out in the country so it's all very different. With two people hunting we made a quick find of this. Thanks for the cache

I have set myself a goal to get the requirements for the mystery cache The well-rounded cacher challenge (Manawatu) This requires me to get 25 badges 5 of which need to be gemstone badges. So each time I now go out caching weather it is by myself or with fellow cacher I will try to get a least one cache that will help me get closer to my goal

Decided to go to Palmerston North today to do a bit of geocaching while I'm there, needing to get at least one cache for a dot on my calendar matric but aiming to get about ten caches which shouldn't be too hard to get

This will be the last cache of the day as my phone is going beep down to 14% battery life I haven't made it to ten caches my own fault I forgot to put the phone on charge the night before

The cache wasn't too hard to find

Thanks for the cache

Great to turn a blue face into a yellow! Thanks for maintaining this cache in a peaceful spot. I may have signed log 1/9/18 instead of 1/10/18.

Replaced container and log should be a bit easier to find now.

Found with momma, poppa and the family

Found with momma, poppa and the family

found with the family