Makotuku Hall (Wairarapa) Ormondville, North Island, New Zealand
By Skindo on 18-Mar-12. Waypoint GC3ETMJ

A great spot and super quiet! TFTC

Place just down the road is surprisingly busy.

Returning back from working in Gisborne and breaking the trip up by staying at my best friends place up the back of OngaOnga - her place is a big old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere surrounded by bush and a stream, and it is my recharging stationCache was quite visible so Ive rebraced it so its not so exposed. But its still in good shape (thanks to previous logger )Judging by the smell of the big bbq at the Black Dog pub neck door, this has replace the Hall as the centre of the community. How times change Mihi ki a koe mo te keteroki #383

As mentioned, this one has been missing its lid for a while. I happened to have a spare container with me, so have replaced it with a newer version. The pub next door was surprisingly busy. Mostly with the Harley riders that passed me at the previous cache

doing a road trip with 2 bulbars to collect a few Viking puzzle caches stopping in the Domain tonight found cache nice and dry even lid missing of jar tftc

Easy find on our drive around the area...TFTC

First find of the day! Tftc

I'm on a wee road trip to southern Hawkes Bay (or is to northern Wairarapa?) on an attempt to clear the Vikings Geoart, with a bit of freedom camping down at the coast. (Apologies for the generic logging)Today it's clearing the second half, starting from Prangahau, up over Te Uri Road and then back home down through the Wairarapa (where there's a couple of new challenges to grab on the way).Lid broken but log sheet still dry.All good here and TFTC.Find #6299 at 9 January 2024 10:40 am

Didn't take long to find once we searched in the correct location. Tftc

Love these old halls, found after looking in the wrong place to begin with.

A quick easy park n grab. The lid is disintegrating and could do with a replacement container. Sorry we didn't have one. Thanks for the cache Skindo

#14308

Yet another country hall signed off as we pass by today. TFTC # 20,017

with a good hint and lights we soon had cache logged.
TFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)… We’re on a big Easter weekend excursion visiting Vikings and anything else in between.

Easter Friday: After dinner at a local takeaway, we headed north again to tackle a loop of caches outside of the Viking trail… All was quiet at the town hall tonight. A quick find by torchlight. Thanks Skindo. TFTC.

Nice little hall, but no name on it....hope it still gets used.

On way to ormondville tftc!

Been at a family gathering last night, picked up this cache on the way back to Dannevirke and home. Quick find, all good. Tftc!

I enjoy driving some of the back roads. Had a look at some of the names on the war memorial. Thank You for the cache.

Found Anya and Esme

Found this cache while driving to P.N. along this back road. Saw cache as I was walking to GZ. After signing log, placed cache back as found and covered as much as I could. Cheers

Quick find here. Cache all good.

My partner & his brother have been looking into their family history so we decided to go for a wee from Ashhurst. They found 4 names on the war memorial and found some history from the Black Dog pub!! So glad to find this cache here right next to our car!! TFTC

Rick-a-mortis was here OZR3RZ

Thank you for making take a detour to find this cache

We crossed to the ‘other side of the tracks’ for this Thanks skindo!

Quick find, thanks Skindo!

No probs here-tftc

I decided to use the opportunity of having a quiet few days off work over Xmas to drive over to the Hawkes Bay in order to be a cacher in that region for the first time.

It only took a moment of hunting around before I made the find. Cache was nicely hidden away in accordance with the Hint. On opening the container, there was nothing untoward found with the log, which was signed before the whole lot was replaced back where I found it.

Thanks for setting this cache up, and I wish you a happy and prosperous 2021

Good quick find

Nice quick find, tftc

Today was the day for a big adventure out to Ormondville by a roundabout way of getting there signing off a few caches on the way.

Where else would it be.

Cheers for the cache.

Cache was all good, tftc Skindo

Quick n Easy PnG. ThanksFTC

Deviated from our usual route home around SH2 to visit Ormondville and some caches. So surprised to find a cafe next to the hall. Also a lovely monument. Favourite from us. Thanks Skindo.

A classic Skindo hide in a cool out of the way place.

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area. Nice weather today

We are away in our campervan just cruising the manawatu to Waiarapa then on to Hawkes Bay and return. During our tour we enjoyed travelling the quiet roads away from the main state highways. we enjoyed the bike trails around the Napier to Clifton and the inland trails up to Hastings and beyond, many of these trails of course were extra special because they had geocaches placed along them. Many thanks to all those who look after the caches. We hope you enjoy the same when you come into our area.
Sorry about the cut and paste if you have more than one geocache that we had found

dropped off a trackable here today, thanks

Decided it was another good day to go looking for caches, plus needing to find a cache to welcome in the new year was a must do as well, packing up our bags and a picnic for some stage of the trip and headed for some caches started our journey back to Danneverke where we have been staying for the past week, quick easy find, signed the log and replaced back exactly where found. thanks for the cache.

Quick find No doubt where it was =)

Found at 18:58 - #8463 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

Down in the area for a rest with friends and for some caching. The are some interesting caches to be found. TFTC

I like visiting all your Hall caches. The building are looked after by their communities and well used. TFTC

#5837. Day 2 of the mid-winter road trip into the back blocks of the Wairarapa and southern Hawkes Bay. The team (Ethness, Infoferret and I ) camped overnight in Dannevirke (OK it wasn't really camping as we all had comfortable beds and it was inside a nice motel). But it was base camp for the night. After a number of new caches were published overnight the team got sidetracked and seduced by the chance of a series of first to finds over by the Manawatu Gorge. But the whip was cracked and the team dutifully headed off east to pick up more skindo caches. Another rural hall. Certainly found a lot of these over the years chasing skindo caches. Had no idea they were so common. Nice quick find here. Signed the logbook and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the cache skindo.

1 July 2018 10:46. Thank you for another classic hide.

Found while out with nz1.
Passing this way to pick up items up the road.
Cache in good order Tnlnsl TFTC.

Found while in the area with GLAD-NZ. TFTC

Another quick cache between showers. TFTC

I am out this way at schools and so after school or lunch i can pop out and locate a nfew other caches around in the area, Today being such a lovely day it was a drive out to ormondville but not enough time for the multisso they can wiat until later in the week... I took a photo of the monument here which i will log also. thanks for these caches around this way.

#13866. Good to do another skindo hall cache. Surprised to find a pub nearby (in such an out of the way place). TFTC.

Day 14 of our North Is trip, time to leave sunny Hawke's Bay (now that the sun is shining ) and head for Wellington.
Wow, that is one impressive memorial for such a tiny settlement. Quick find. TFTC.

Great find! Thanks Marisa & Kaleb for the cool trade!

Leaving late today which normally isn't a very good idea when trying to cover the wairapa it was a 10am start with a 6.30pm finish, big thank you skindo I have covered most roads in the wairapa thanka to your caches today I was flying solo and had hope to get about 30, thanks to the weather that didn't pan out later in the afternoon so had to come back through weber which is quite a long drive even when your not stopping for caches.

Pretty easy find on a detour through to Napier. TFTC

Enjoying being out here exploring today - tftc and a quick find

Spent the night at camping site, which was idyllic as we were all alone, and then came here first thing on the morning to collect this one. Nice easy find. TFTC

Lovely place tftc

Quick. Easy find. "Interesting" area. Tftc bak on the land flight to palmy w the purple goose

Quick find. Tftc

Another Skindo cache caught. Tftc

Accidentally took a wrong turn which lead us to this spot. A quick park and grab then back on route to our destination. TFTC

Stopped to pat the very friendly calves. So cute. TFTC

Sign log and cache in good order See taybee Log as we did it at the same Time
TFTC log by Gsak

taybee nz is back caching with taybee again easy found today thanks
Sign log and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

Nice little area. Quick find tftc

Tftc such a quick park and grab

Awesome lol. Could see it from the car.

A quick easy find, spotted from the car. TFTC

Found this one today. Quick find and quick visit. This looks like a well used hall. Signed log today.

Thanks for the cache Skindo.

Went to lots of events in this hall in my childhood. TFTC.

A classic hall on a back road - very Skindo.
T F T C.

pretty easy find.

What do you do when you find you have a surprisingly free weekend.... Plan a caching weekend away of course! After loading up the car very full, Tommygun9, Veebee001, yuyito_lindo and I headed off to Havelock North for the weekend to collect some caches and enjoy the sites.
Quick find here. TFTC

Continuing with the winter series of caching, and now for the shortest day of the year.
Now on our way to the Bay.
Gentleman 2 and 6, ladies a plate.
Cache find proved to be straightforward, all in order; log signed, then safely re-hidden. Just as you do.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!

EASY FIND.TFTC

On a mission to find 50 caches in one day all at least 1 km apart. Left Hastings in the morning and collected the required 50 by the time we had reached Masteron. Mission achieved. Thanks for placing this cache and enabling us to complete our mission.

Part of the mission with Team Welsh to get 50 caches 1 Km apart. Interesting spot. t4tc

Found on my way home from a function in Hastings this afternoon. Thanks for the cache.

First find today
Tflc

Another "hall" cache to add to the collection.
Left a pet rock - a hippo. TFTC

Stayed overnight in the domain and went for an evening stroll around town to pick this one up

A straightforward find. Used to live in Dannevirke, but had never been this way before. TFTC

Quick find with not a muggle in sight TFTC.

Took a wrong turning back at Ormondville so came down here to turn around. TFTC.

Another quick stop and swift find. Thanks Skindo.

Of course there would be a skindo hall cache to be found on my travels today. As others have said, the nearby memorial is neat.

A quick find after dinner

Tftc

12175… A nice memorial @ Makotuku Hall, TFTC.

Another nice find as we check out some of the many Masterton and Tararua council gravel roads - although also some nice none dusty tarseal ones as well. Some great countryside through this area, and fortunately very little traffic. TFTC

Our 3rd of 22 caches today. Another quick find in an interesting location. TFTC.

Easy find in my home town for ANZAC day, TFTC

TFTC, fun find on ANZAC day with my partner in crime

Easter weekend ramble towards Norsewood to do some cache maintenance. Nice quick easy find. Thanks Skindo.

Interesting monument next to the hall. TFTC

nice easy find

Nice and easy. Top Cache.

Quick find, such a nice rural hall. Weather was perfect for geocaching!

Another skindo country hall ticked off

This was a nice place to stop off. Another Hall down. TFTC

A nice memorial and spot for reminders of days gone by, somewhere probably not visited so often any more, so nice to know that because of this cache a few more are able to see it. Great backdrop view of the snow on the ranges today.