Taoroa Hall (Manawatu) Taoroa Junction, North Island, New Zealand
By
skindo on 15-Sep-12. Waypoint GC3WWNP
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Logs
Heading Taihape way to target some geocaches needed for Challenges and other lonely caches. This is one of those.Inspected all the rocks I could find, but no cache to find
It's been a while since this was found, and nothing was in place today, either the original or the replacement. Lovely spot, though.
8 August 2021 11:37. Another quick find, and the cherry tree was in bloom! Tftc skindo
No sign of the hint object, but barefootguru's replacement 200 ml Sistema cache was a quick easy find. TFTC
Seems to have gone… or I’ve gone cache blind. No obvious hint object but possible disturbance where it may have been. Replaced with permission at post just to right of ‘T’ in fence. TFTC!
#7630. We are heading north on holiday. I had approval from the family to do a few caches on the way provided they were park and grabs. This one was off on a side road but the family seemed OK with the diversion. Good to find another skindo hall. Must be getting close to a full set now. The cache was quickly found after checking the hint. Signed the log and returned the cache where found. Thanks skindo for the cache.
Yay school holidays! Time for a road trip with my friend Ethness. I flew from Christchurch to Wellington. The idea is to drive up to the top of the North Island and back. We planned the trip ages ago.
Thanks skindo for placing this geocache 7679 find for me. A beautiful spring Vista. Blossoms and lambs galore.
Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland.
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Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.
Thanks skindo for placing this geocache 7679 find for me. A beautiful spring Vista. Blossoms and lambs galore.
Sadly there was no large event in New Zealand in 2019 but there are a few Mega events planned in Australia. New Zealand will have another large event in 2020 in Auckland.
======== NZ Mega 2020 ========
Planning for the NZ Mega 2020 event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. Thanks for hiding this geocache.
A quick find off State Highway 1. The school holidays are here and NosyNel and I are on a road trip north - to the far north. TFTC.9
***======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***
Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:
* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!
Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!
***======== NZ Mega 2020 ========](http://nzmega.com)***
Planning for the [NZ Mega 2020](http://nzmega.com) event is well underway. It will be held in Auckland over Labour Weekend, 23 to 26 October 2020. It's going to be a massive celebration of geocaching:
* 20 years of geocaching worldwide.
* 20 years since New Zealand had the very first geocache hidden outside of USA.
* And it's 2020 - all the 20s!
Talk to your geo-friends and start planning to be part of [this event](http://nzmega.com) - you won't want to miss it!
On my to Rotorua for ten pin bowling tournament, detour into this area to find some caches. Cache in good condition. Thanks skindo for the cache.
Sorry we had forgotten to log this cache way back in september it was due to a friendly geocacher talking about caches that brought it to our attention we hadn't logged any aches from our lovely weekend away so todays the day. Cache was all good here we signed the log and placed it back exactly where we found it. Thank you for the lovely adventure and the sights i the area its lovely so worth whilegoing out of our way to get this cache. lovely area to explore. no traffic today around these quiet roads. thanks again TFTCno muggles around
We decided to go for a drive today and Dad ended up here as he wanted to have a look at the Canyon not realising it was no longer going. Such an interesting area, it was such a nice day but to get this cache was easier than we thought as we pulled up the hide looked straight forward. a nice clean log to. Signed the log and then back to the car, I was getting tired now and needed something to drink. TFTC
11.20am
Road trip to Manawatu this weekend.
Started out with four of us going then someone bailed a few hours before we were due to leave.
Collected NZ Flossy, arrived in Rotorua to collect the Squirrel who had misread info, thinking we were going for the day only so quick change, more clothes gathered and off south we went.
Plan was to start about Waiouru and see how far we could get before stopping for the night.
We travelled roads that none of us had being on before. Lots of different caches, some that hadn't been found for over a year and a couple that had DNF's but we found and even one that we had to turn into Spiderman to collect.
Great first day and stopped in Marton for the night which is an interesting town. SLTFTC
Road trip to Manawatu this weekend.
Started out with four of us going then someone bailed a few hours before we were due to leave.
Collected NZ Flossy, arrived in Rotorua to collect the Squirrel who had misread info, thinking we were going for the day only so quick change, more clothes gathered and off south we went.
Plan was to start about Waiouru and see how far we could get before stopping for the night.
We travelled roads that none of us had being on before. Lots of different caches, some that hadn't been found for over a year and a couple that had DNF's but we found and even one that we had to turn into Spiderman to collect.
Great first day and stopped in Marton for the night which is an interesting town. SLTFTC
With Gap (of Fap and Gap), and NZFlossy... Heading South and hoping to get a big jump on the Mythical Creatures souvenirs.
There had been some talk of a mission into the Manawatu-Wanganui Region during the week. I hadn't paid much attention to any of the planning conversations, and only discovered this morning that this was going to be an overnight trip. I had to hurriedly pack a few things... The beauty of travelling a long distance is that you can spend a lot of time chatting... that definitely helps to pass the time away. The problem for us is that we have cleared most of the driving route of caches, so our first stop was in Waiouru - 2.5 hours away from home...
The murky cloud lifted enough for us to catch a great view of snow-capped Ruapehu in the distance... We wonder if the local communities still use these facilities... It's been a while since this hide was visited. A quick find. TFTC.
There had been some talk of a mission into the Manawatu-Wanganui Region during the week. I hadn't paid much attention to any of the planning conversations, and only discovered this morning that this was going to be an overnight trip. I had to hurriedly pack a few things... The beauty of travelling a long distance is that you can spend a lot of time chatting... that definitely helps to pass the time away. The problem for us is that we have cleared most of the driving route of caches, so our first stop was in Waiouru - 2.5 hours away from home...
The murky cloud lifted enough for us to catch a great view of snow-capped Ruapehu in the distance... We wonder if the local communities still use these facilities... It's been a while since this hide was visited. A quick find. TFTC.
On a road trip with Gap (Of Fap and Gap) and squirrel nutcase heading south for them to get some new caches. I haven't done anywhere as many as them so I got a few extra picking up ones they already had. I have never been out this way before and loved the beautiful scenery - Near the cache we got a good view of the mountain with a lot of snow on it. Cache all good and not so lonely now TFTC
This was always going to be a bit of a caching trip in the company once again of HKCB. Having though about it and done a fair bit of planning over the past couple of weeks this was a chance for a reasonable clean out of an area that we don't normally get to. So with families in mind, rather than setting out on the Friday evening we left home at 2am on the Saturday morning to make our way south before either the heat of the day or there was too much traffic on the road.
Some stats for the weekend
- Distance Traveled = 1457 kms
- Petrol = 3 x Fills
- Time Away from Home = 42 hours
- Straight Driving Time = 6 hours
- Sleep = 4 hours
- Caches Found = 250
- DNF's = 3
So after a straight forward drive down here this was the first that we located of what was going to be a very long day, and followed by another very long day.
While I apologize that these are 'copy & paste" logs, I would just like to say thank you to all the CO's that have have put out and maintained these caches for us out of 'non-locals' to find. It was a great weekend and we traveled though some amazing countryside.
A key learning from the weekend was that a Mazda CX5 is not designed to ford rivers.
So thank you for the placement, thank you for the cache.
Some stats for the weekend
- Distance Traveled = 1457 kms
- Petrol = 3 x Fills
- Time Away from Home = 42 hours
- Straight Driving Time = 6 hours
- Sleep = 4 hours
- Caches Found = 250
- DNF's = 3
So after a straight forward drive down here this was the first that we located of what was going to be a very long day, and followed by another very long day.
While I apologize that these are 'copy & paste" logs, I would just like to say thank you to all the CO's that have have put out and maintained these caches for us out of 'non-locals' to find. It was a great weekend and we traveled though some amazing countryside.
A key learning from the weekend was that a Mazda CX5 is not designed to ford rivers.
So thank you for the placement, thank you for the cache.
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.
* 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.
#7312. It turned out to be a sunny day for exploring Pukeokahu Road. A nice small glimpse of Mount Ruapehu from here. Good spot to stop for a lunch break. It was all quiet at GZ when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.
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A mid-winter trip to Taihape to say farewell to family before we move South to Blenheim for the next step of our New Zealand adventure/life. There were 6 caches in and around these back roads that I'd missed on previous visit and with a spare hour or so on my hands decided to increase my skindo finds by a cheeky little half dozen after quite a few bumandworker South Island caches had overtaken my previously large amount by a single cache owner. Weather played ball and I avoided the occasional showers and kept toasty warm in the car too. Some wonderful scenery around these parts which aren't travelled that often unfortunately.
Found easily enough under the hint item, replaced as found
T F T C skindo
Found easily enough under the hint item, replaced as found
T F T C skindo
I wonder how many of these small community halls there are around NZ. This one had the strange smell of possum. Loved the posts for hitching horses. T4tc
I hadn't planned on detouring this far off the main road , but as I was a bit ahead of time I decided I'd grab a couple of extras. Another Hall visited and ticked off the list TFTC
A good excuse to drive the roads less traveled. The school reminds me of the book by R L Bacon " In The Sticks"
Mis-read my own writing when putting the co-ords in & ended up by the school. Soon realised my mistake & a quick find after that. TFTC
A hall with a view - over the surrounding countryside, as well as Ruapehu which was looking magnificent against the blue sky.
TFTC.
TFTC.
4976. Ineresting to find a hall (and school) so far up a back country road. Not many halls escape the eagle skindo eye! TFTC.
7541
Spotted GZ on arrival, parked so as to almost be able to reach it from the van. Just as well it is a resilient container! TFTC
Spotted GZ on arrival, parked so as to almost be able to reach it from the van. Just as well it is a resilient container! TFTC
#3 F.T.F for the trip.
Abit of searching to get this one in hand, but found in the end.
Thanks.
Abit of searching to get this one in hand, but found in the end.
Thanks.
