Peep-O-Day (Manawatu) Rangiwahia, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 19-Nov-11. Waypoint GC38014

Heading north with tmann421 for a couple of days.Targeting the S.H.I.E.L.D series.Passing here so stopped to sign log

I loved finding this one as it is located on my very own farm, in our cow paddock. moving out to masterton soon but this is probably one of my favourites due to location!!

tftc!!

Nice easy find tftc

Interesting name for a road! TFTC!!

I'm visiting New Zealand for a tour around the country . I have already visited many places on the North Island. While enjoying the sightseeing I also visit some caches. This is one of them. Thank you for showing me the place and thank you for the cache . Greetings from Switzerland .

Yesterday we found 100 caches and today we are aiming for another 100 so we are off in search of mostly S.H.I.E.L.D caches with the odd one or two thrown in that we might be passing. Please excuse the mostly cut and paste logs, we are on day 7 of a 9 day mission around the Wairapa and Manawatu in which we found over 600 caches, its getting hard to remember exactly which one was which. Thanks for placing Skindo

#14543

Great to sign off another skindo cache as we pass by on a S.H.I.E.L.D mission today. TFTC # 20,227

I came. I peeped. I saw. I signed, and I was so focused that I forgot to look for Ruapehu, but it was a grey day. Thanks Skindo

A nice quick find. No sign of Ruapehu today. Thanks for placing your cache.

Ms_KR and I were in Auckland for a few days visiting family, and now we are on the trek home. We left Ohakune @ about 0900 and got into the Wellington camping ground just after 1730. We had at different times during the day, wind and rain but mostly overcast skies. A great day for a cruise.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. .

There is no good view today, but it is a nice stop anyway.

We had many beautiful views of the mountains today, and took numerous photos. We were in the area finding the S.H.I.E.L.D. series and grabbed the trads along the way. A nice quick find here

We saw the new power pole and were all ready with a replacement cache… but discovered the habitual spot was blocked by the old container… the power crew must have restored the cache Thanks skindo! Our group initialled as Ⓑarefootguru Ⓣaybee Ⓓenomynator Ⓣaybee nz.

Yes, we did have some excellent views of Mt Ruapehu and Mt Ngaruhoe - TFTC Skindo!

Quick find. Logged BTDT. TFTC

**taybee** is caching again with **barefootguru** , **taybee nz** and **denomynator** for the day

time to finish the S.h.i.e.l.d series off pick up on the way
quick find today

All in good order, sign log book as ** BTDT ** TFTC
Cache was found at **15/10/2022 @ 13:15:00**

Quick park and grab, TFTC!

Quick find here today thanks for the cache

Out caching with xsaveya and watcache today nice easy find cache all good nice and dry

On a mission with Flowerydaze to finish off the SHIELD series in the Manawatu. Lovely scenery here enjoying spectacular weather, although a little too hot at times. This one just happened to be on the way back to base after a long dusty road. Thanks Skindo for the cache

Talla64 and I have been in the area finishing the SHIELD series. We stopped to grab this one while passing. Thanks for placing a cache here skindo.

A skindo cache. Now there’s a blast from the past. Well away from the Wairarapa too. I do like the road name. I wonder how Mr O’Day got to be called Peep.
TFTC

Had solved a puzzle but can't read my writing and have no idea what it is as I solved it awhile ago. Thankfully all is not lost and this cache at hand to find. Tftc

Enjoying the views as we travel along these roads. TFTC Skindo.

Easy find today. Nice countryside views on a lovely sunny day.

#1642. Yesterday was S.H.I.E.L.D day #1. Today was day 2. I had started solving this Geo-art series in 2019 but never made the time to start collecting. Yesterday, I knocked 22 of them off, with no DNF’s. Today another 14, with 2 DNF's. A great series.

Having driven up from Wellington in the rain on Monday, it was nice to wake up again this morning at our B&B in Halcombe to more sunshine, same as yesterday. With GB Leader along as navigator and occasional cache spotter, it was back on the back roads again, after a lovely coffee at the iconic Rusty Radiator café in Halcombe.

Some great scenery along the way - saw lots of trees, birds & animals, and a reasonable amount of traffic.

As it's starting to get dark, this will be the final find of today, at 5.08pm. Back to civilisation now - Whanganui to be precise.

Tftc.

Managed to get the afternoon off work and on such a beautiful days headed out for some caching. Quick grab because turning off to finish the S.H.E.I.L.D challenge. Realised I didn’t have a pen, hence the photo. Thanks Skindo for the smiley.

Found with the assistance of my Geobear.
In town for Bike the Boulders, awesome bike event, 10/10 would recommend

#12 for the day. Faint view of lower reaches of Mt Ruapehu

Took a wee while as the road was quite busy today Tftc

Found it. Full log later...

A long weekend trip away with Philip.Perry McJandals and Nzflossy we did alot of driving amd cache finding this weekend .
Tftc

The crazy Labour Weekend plan is now in full swing. McJandals, NZFlossy & Davidson Clan are joining me for 29 TMGT Caches, the Shield & Stickman series and what ever we can find in between. Almost all the caches were found quickly and in good condition with exceptions to those not equipped with water proof paper... some were unsignable and some we were able to replace. We’ve signed individually or as TeamBOP for expedience. I’m using a Cachly logging template so it's mostly cut'n'paste but I genuinely appreciate the work put into these caches. I’d also like to acknowledge watcache, mar1sa & the TMGT volunteers who have given this trip focus, and all the other COs who have made this trip such an adventure - TFTC

**Trip Stats:** 1 car, 4 Cachers, 90 hrs, 16hrs sleep, 2481Kms, 29 TMGT finds, 238 total Geocache finds.
**Route:** Tauranga - Rotorua - New Plymouth - Whanganui - Palmerston North - Wellington - Napier - Gisborne - Rotorua - Tauranga

With no mega this year, a plan was hatched with Team BOP to come to the lower Nth Island to get some numbers knocked off, so here we are and loving it!! I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. It’s 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 caching weekend with McJandals, Phillip Perry, and Davidson clan. After staying the night at a Airbnb we got on the road early to pick up the Shield caches. Enjoyed the puzzles and then collecting them as a team - Team BOP. Lots of fun and laughs on some back roads and even picking up a few extras. Thank to the COs for bringing us here and creating some great puzzles and caches Nice to do a few extras with the Sheild . TFTC

Road trip yeah!

Recently friends of mine moved to Northland, only they had too many vehicles and too much stuff to take themselves. The solution? "Hey John, fancy driving one of our cars up north for us and making a long weekend of it?"
So now that I have arrived I can get a chance to catch up with all my logging for my journey which allowed me to clear up a few caches I've wanted to get by taking a slightly convoluted route, and grabbing whatever other ones I decide to stop at, but then hey, isn't that what road trips are all about?

I haven't been on these roads since my mad couple of days back in December when looking at the nearby SHIELD series of caches. I remember how tight and twisty these roads were, and I was very glad to hardly see any other vehicles today. Stopping near GZ, the cache was a very quick find. So with the appropriate caching admin taken care of, I was back on my way again, with that warm feeling you get when something is finally completed.

Thanks for bringing me here, which I surely would never have done without the incentive of finding a cache.

Out on a sunny Autumn afternoon with geodatum, stardust718, and pgcnz to do a large chunk of the S.H.I.E.L.D puzzle caches and decided to stop here for a quick bite to eat for lunch before heading onward. Didn't take too long to find the cache and thankfully the road was quiet today with only a single car passing the entire time we were stopped. TFTC skindo.

Logged while on a road trip with Team G.A.S.P. to log part of the S.H.I.E.L.D series. Thanks Geodatum, Mr All7ofus and Stardust718 for a great day out. Quick bite to eat with fantastic views.

This was a rest stop for us before heading out on a SHIELD mission. Didn't take long to locate the cache.

Today I joined forces with geodatum, all7ofusnz, and pgcnz to form team GASP. Our mission was 46 SHIELD caches and a few extras along the way to bring my total for the day to 51 caches found. It was a very successful outing with 3.5 hours caching time and only 1 DNF (a traditional on the way home).

This was the last one for the day after doing quite a few of the SHIELD caches. Time to head back to the diesel bowser and then onto the snail shell.

Cheers for the cache.

This was one of the caches not on the sheild trail but here at the very obvious placement there no cache so we put in aa new pill bottle as there had been several DNF previous also.. What a totally unexpected day and it was just great! Even the weather was right… no wind no rain and yet the light recent rain had dampened the roads so we didn’t get covered in dust. Ideal!
We visited about 63 caches leaving about 26 to go before time ran out on us, so these will have to wait for another visit some time in the future. I found them a little disconcerting- in that I expected them to be in a sequential run but this was not the case but with guidance we traversed all the correct roads etc for the caches that we did and also visited one Trad. Signed another new cache yet to be released and located a multi on the route home. So a very fruitful day of laughs and great company- thank you to the two of you.

Found while out doing the shield series
many thanks

Had no luck here at all and notice that it has not been found for some months which is surprising considering how many cachers must have passed this spot recently. Either they had already found it, didn't stop or they have not logged a DNF for of course it is there and we just haven't found it.

Off on a drive to Palmy North, grabbing some easy driveby's on the way. Thanks.
Log very Wet, difficult to sign, but did my best.

TFTC. GSEL had better eyesight than I did for this one! All in good condition, and the views were amazing..

#3959. I headed north today with Infoferret and her two boys to attend the two events held at Renfrew Rd and up at Rangiwahia hut in the Ruahine Ranges. It was great exploring this part of the Manawatu region. On the way home to Wellington now and time to stop and pick up a few caches. Parked nearby and admired the great views. Interesting name for a road. The cache took a few minutes to locate as we missed it on the first sweep. But a more careful feel in the long grass soon had the container in hand. Signed and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here skindo.

Quick easy find once I uncovered it from the grass. Tftc!

Traveling back from Mangaweka,a quick find and a good cache. TFTC!

On a weekend mission with Cats&Dragons, for a bit of a numbers run along the new trails around the Northern Manawatu area, and anything else along the way. As usual these types of trips mean maximizing caching time and minimizing sleep time. So with a 2am start time Saturday morning we left home and headed South, and not getting back home til 8.30pm Sunday night. Some numbers for the trip as I know we all like caching stats are:
* 1450km traveled.
* 286 caches found (192 on Saturday, 94 on Sunday) with only 3 DNF's
* 4 hours sleep
* With a 3 hour each way drive to the Caching area, so about 32 hours of caching in the 42 hours we were away at an average of nearly 9 caches per hour, this isn't including stopping for fuel and coffee!!!

So a huge thanks to all the CO's for the placements, and for the reason to see some more of our wonderful country, we saw some pretty amazing places. Sorry for the copy and paste logs. We signed the log books HKCD, or HKCBC&D.

Quick find on a scenic drive home. Surprised to have such great reception on the cell phone.

A quick find while exploring some back roads while on way south. TFTC

Quick park and grab on way home from the Mega. Tftc

Quick find while heading up country to the 2016 Mega. Thanks for the cache.

10024
Wow - our first stunning view of Mt Ruapehu. It was a good job we had this good view as by the time we arrived close to it the cloud had descended. TFTC

Tftc

Another find on the great north summer roadtrip with the Banians- a week of travel from Wellington to Auckland via Napier, Wairoa, that secluded road between Wairoa and Rotorua, and almost the Coromandel peninsula.

Excellent view of the clouds, not much else. TFTC

Found on our road trip to Auckland for a wedding, taking some back roads.
Redants found the cache while I had a look for Mt Ruapehu, no luck but I did find a plaque over the fence. TFTC.

GPS was everywhere but got it

nice hide. Tftc

Have driven past this one many times on tramping trips into the Ruahines, but always in the van or someone else's car. Today I was the driver so I took the chance to stop on the way home from a walk up to Rangiwahia hut. Found in the company of Possum, thanks skindo.

Found on the way home from a tramp with the Wednesday trampers from the Manawatu Trampling and Skiing Club. Edvern was driving and keen to get this one so we stopped. A quick drive by. TFTC skindo.

Find #2321. Quick find during a drive around "the block". Clear day so nice views of the mountains along this route and great autumn colours on the poplar trees.

Quick find on way south for a caching trip

Yes we could see the mountains today and another place with room for car and caravan to stop.TFTC

A bit of cloud about but still good views of the mountain - tftc

Great view from GZ...Mr P even took some photos. T4tc

After a short hike in the Ruahines this morning, I stopped for a few caches on my way down to Masterton for the night. A quick find here, TFTC!

out for a ticky tour

TFTC

Found on a >41 hour non-stop geo roadtrip from Wellington to Auckland via Cape Palliser and a whole bunch of skinny winding Wairarapa roads, in the esteemed company of slieschke, mike-miss and cretti. We picked up our rental car, dubbed the Idiot Box, and assumed our new identity as Team CRT, shortly after 8am at Wellington Airport and headed north.

We first headed to Porirua Harbour to take on the resident Kiwi geo art trail before heading over to the southern Wairarapa and Cape Palliser where we visited the light house at about midnight and tried our best to avoid seals while searching for a few caches along the southern most shore line of the North Island.

We headed up past Greytown and Carterton, focussing on caching areas west of SH2 this trip. There were some highlight caches, particularly around Carterton (I think) and some way up in the hills looking over the whole area from Masterton to Martinborough.

It was daylight again by the time we hit Masterton and we decided to hit fast forward and skip a planned area (will just have to come back again!) and shot through to Palmerston North where we got back into the swing of things.

We took the back-road up to Mangaweka, discovering some really fanstastic little places along the way, like a picnic area and waterfall way down in a canyon, and then we continued via Taihape, across and up through Owhango, to get some really old caches, and then north through Te Awamutu and back to Auckland to drop off the Idiot Box at the airport.

And of course, despite it then being after 1am on Monday morning, and raining kinda heavily, slieschke and I couldn't resist driving over to the North Shore for an FTF on a cache published earlier in the evening.

Thanks to all the cache owners along the way, even if we couldn't find your cache - all part of the adventure! Sorry for the copy/paste log, but just too many caches to remember *all* of them individually. TFTC!!!

A plan was hatched for yet another extreme, fly down, drive back caching weekend from Wellington to Auckland. This time, Cretti and slieschke joined in on what turned out to be another epic road trip with myself and funkymunkyzone (our third trip this year).
We all met up at Wellington Saturday morning as i ended up being on an earlier flight to the rest of the crew. Jumped in our rental which happened to be a Ssangyong SUV this time round and headed straight to Porirua Harbour to hit the Kiwi GeoTrail. From there on, we zig zagged our way through Wiararapa to Cape Palliser, back up through Martinborough, Masterton, Ekatahuna, Pahiatua, Palmerston North, Taihape, Te Awamutu and back home to Auckland in the early hours of Monday morning.

To save time and log space, we stamped the logs as "Team CRT" travelling in the idiot box for the weekend. Lots of laughs were had over our 1500km+ / 41 hour road trip which 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!

Found in the company of Cretti, funkymunkyzone and mike-miss on a crazy Wellington to Auckland road trip in the idiot box. We traveled via the Kiwi GeoTrail in Porirua, the Wairarapa including Cape Palliser, the Manawatu, and back to Auckland via the western side of the Central Plateau. Signed as Team CRT. Despite very little sleep the weekend was a blast!

Thanks!

Team CRT - traveling in The IdiotBox - For the first time, I have joined in with the mad crew of: FunkyMonkeyZone, Slieschke and Mike-Miss in a mad 40 hr caching drive from Wellington back to Auckland.

We're into hour 31.

Find #897. Thanks for the cache. 31/08/2014 15:46

Tftc. Nice easy find. Amazing views! Wow! 24/8/14

On the road again with Gap (of Fap and Gap). Up at the crack of dawn to travel down-country to an event in Kimbolton... The things we do for an August Souvenir.

Heading homeward now and a lot of distance to cover. I wondered about this cache name, then spotted the nearby road sign. Didn't pay much attention to the views as it was starting to cloud over. The cache was a quick find, thanks to the hint. TFTC.

Needed to do an event cache to get our August souvenir challenge. Problem was, where is an event cache close by. Mrs Fap found one 300km away in Kimbleton, there appeared to be nothing closer. Phoned Squirrel Nutcas who was a keen starter so Kimbolton it was. All this way so planned to pick up a few more on the way. Left Rotorua at 6am and back home by 8.30pm with 58 caches found, not a bad day at all.

3.55pm - SLTFTC

had a run to do our this way today so thought we should carry on and get the couple that are out this way, nice quick grab very quite road. tftc

Easy park and grab. TFTC dropped a pathtag.

quick find on our day trip into the Ruahines. TFTC

A quick find after a day hiking up to Rangiwahia Hut. Cool road name ... I wonder where that came from!?!

Great view of the mountains ... cloud now settling around the base of Ruapehu.

TFTC!
with Tan1aNZ, Comandercon2 & FiddlefingersNZ

A piece of paper in the cache was much, probably the geocaching info sheet. Thew it away. Dried out the log sheet and cache container in some very pleasant sunshine. Added another waterproof log sheet as the present one is almost full. I really liked the views from here.

Heading to Taupo for the night on the way back to Auckers

Nice hide

Tftc

Great views today
Tflc

Another spectacular view. Could see only the base of the mountain. On a fine day. it would be awesome.I

Heading southward again, this time on Christmas Day and dealing with a dot day - we just had to do some caching. This was the fourth one for the day.
No great views of anything much today. It's Christmas Day and the weather looks soupy at best.
Cache find was straightforward. Cache in order; log signed, re-hidden safely, just as found.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!
PS - I recommend Christmas Day caching, fewer muggles, less traffic and more 'get around' factor.

Quick find, no views today. Thanks for the cache.

Beautiful day and could see the mountain TFTC

Easy! Didn't bring a pen though - travelling light on my motorcycle today. Second grab on a fun twisty ride to Ohingaiti.

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.

Very quick find by Broadbridges on this one.
TFTC

A quick cache find at promised location. No sign of the mountain today. TFTC !

Cache all ok

I have a house guest from the USA, and John wants to see a bit of New Zealand. What better way than to intoduce him to geocaching via some rural caches? A beautifully sunny but cool day for a drive around the country. By the end of the day John was hooked and had created his login. Alas, he could not count today's caches as he didn't have a geonick yet to sign any logs.
Searched the sign, just because it seemed a good idea, then checked down the fenceline. John found it, and we moved on to the next.

Good views of Ruapehu and Ngarahoe today. TFTC

Water in container - seems the screwtop is not waterproof any longer.

Took this route to pass through Peep'o'Day - remembered that name and Vinegar Hill from childhood trips up to the mountain. Must have been some Irish Protestants setled in the area? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_o'_Day_Boys Hadn't realised how far east the papa country extended - amazing view of Ruapehu today!

Was on my way home from the T42 MTB event an decided on a detour to get a few caches out this way. Didn't take long to locate, signed log then replaced. TFTC

Great view of the clouds but that was all I could see today.

TFTC

A quicky grab & go. TFTC The mountain was cloudy today.

Lotsa cloud around Ruapehu. Found with Jessie Car-car. TNLN