Fred's Walk #5 (Manawatu) Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand
By stardust718 on 16-Feb-13. Waypoint GC4688J

I am no longer able to maintain this series. Seven years ago, when these were placed, the walk way was largely just a bush track. It has now become a very popular walking trail. The hide location has become compromised.

Found with wizord_cp (Curtis)TFTC

Over shot what tree at first foud it in the end

Nice find, chach 3 and 4 no longer on the map

Great spot to hide a geocache. Tiny bit wet

Found it but forgot pen

Tftc was hard to find at 1st but spotted it laying on the grass so put it back..

Found with gavgav2889 TFTC!
Cache was in plain sight sitting on feild, have put back where it belongs all dry and well

Yaaa

Found. Vinaka

Easy find

Nice and easy thanks

Found 24-8-19 nice easy one.

Another cache found for the Mystery at the Museum Challenge, Cache all dry, signed and replaced as found. TFTC

Quick find

Quality

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.

Quick find . TFTC

CO check - found it on the ground, dry inside. Replaced in its hiding spot.

Found it thanks it was easy

Well hidden

Not well hidden so super quick find

No go

Jumped the little ditch to get to the tree and the cache was soon located. TFTC

Very cool

Done

Cache check. uh oh, it's missing. Cache replaced.

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

A quick an easy find

Thanks for the cache

#10,316. Since our DNF here in April this year, we were pleased to see the cache had been found by ThatWeirdGuy04 and TwigNZ. So we returned today to Kelvin Grove in Palmerston North for another look. GZ was all quiet on this Saturday afternoon … but the grass area was pretty boggy. The immediate GZ was a lot tidier today than when we were here last time. The cuttings and other debris had been removed. The cache itself was a quick find this time. It was in good condition. Although the log book was slightly damp, it was ok to write on. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to this site, and …

.T h a n k s. .f o r. .t h e. .c a c h e.
.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

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Found today with the help of TwigNZ. TFTC

My lad and I were up in Palmerston North again yesterday evening for a games night with friends, and were staying over so figured that today we would do a bit of caching here to make a real start on achieving the 100 finds needed to complete the Hidden Creatures challenge.

With this in mind, I had planned to do this series, even though 1 of the caches is currently temporarily disabled. Luckily for me, the CO was kind enough to supply us with the code that we would have obtained from the missing cache, so there was then nothing to prevent us from finding the final 7th cache.

Having parked up near the start of the track, and with a heavy dew on the grass, we set off. As it was reasonably early on a Sat morning, there weren't many people around which allowed us to find these caches without having to be super stealthy.

This one was our fourth of the five required finds for today. As we walked along the track we could see two Hint objects near each other so figured it should be a simple search. As I'm logging this now, I see that there have been a series of DNF's prior to our find today, but it was an easy find for us, so not sure why the previous problems. The log sheet is in good order, and was signed and the code noted prior to returning it all as found ready for the next finder.

Thanks for the cache.

No find here

Either the lawn mower man has mowed over it, but CNF

Walked over here after finding #4. But alas we didn't find this one.

Found the tree and had a really good look, but couldn't find the cache today.

3rd found today. Still finding #3 hard though. Time for #6. Good thing the grass has all been mown lately!

Container was missing. Has been replaced.

Found location but no cache there

Not as obvious as we thought. Fun find

First find with the sapling. T4TC

Good find thanks

Nice find in a cool little park. Tftc.

Three fools out caching on April Fool's Day. Our first find.

Went to check on this cache. Couldn't find it so replaced in the same location.

Was a nice find with a friend on a walk. TFTC

This cache was attempted as part of the Palmerston North leg of our "Road to 6,000" Extravaganza for 2016.

A quick find.

#5707

The country in the middle of town

No coords so took a guess.

I had been in Palmeston North for a couple of days for work and decided to try and grab a few caches before I left. I didn't have a great deal of time but saw this walk on the map and decided it would be a good opportunity to stretch the legs. Cache was a little exposed so I tried to tuck it away a little better than I found it.

Found but no coordinates :/

Found while on a caching trip to the area. TFTC

found it, but not well hidden stuck out really well

Quick stroll to GZ. But muddy underfoot. TFTC

Awesome! No coordinates though

Found but couldn't see the value of D anywhere. Still, not hard to work out, I guess!

Beaut day mothers choice

Family playing managed a stealth aproach successfully TFTC

A good placement. Retrieved it despite some muggles playing nearby. tftc

Tftc.

as per maintenance log

Replaced the cache today. However, I neglected to write the number on it for the puzzle. Don't worry, you'll be able to figure it out as you go. I'll get back sometime and write on the container and log sheet.

Need to replace this one. will get there in a week or two and do maintenance check on the whole trail at the same time.

This cache will need replacing, as per my find log.

Vistra and I had headed down to to Manwatu for the weekend, we both wanted a high number weekend and I was looking forward to meeting some of the locals as well.

Thank you to all the CO's for their placements some nicely placed, clever and tricky hides, so a great variety This needs maintenance, looks to have dropped out of its hide and be chewed up by the lawn mower, managed to find the lid in 1 piece and get the number but the conatiner was in bits. TFTC

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I traveled down to Palmerston North for a 3 day geocaching weekend to give my numbers a bit of a boost, as I head towards my next caching milestone. I decided to fly there and back and pick up a cheap rental car for the weekend. The weather was perfect and I had a great weekend down there.

I joined up with yorkshirekiwi83 again today for another day of caching, before our flight out this evening. After a day of caching around the city, Bunnythorpe, Ashhurst and the gorge, we returned back to the city to pick up a few more caches in the evening before our flight. We decided to tackle the Fred's Walk series of caches - it was a nice little walk to end the day. As we began our hunt for this one the neighbours yelled out what we should be looking for. The cache wasn't there, but we did find the lid (with the code) and part of the container that had obviously been caught by the lawnmower! Put the lid and bits together in the tree and added a sheet of paper - but this cache will definitely need replacing. TFTC!

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Couldn't locate.

This was lying out in the open when we found it so tucked it back away. TFTC

Was uncovered, so tried to hide a bit better.

Found it quickly signed and replaced ans on to the next ..enjoying this and the walk tftc

This one was pretty much wide open. Not much cover to hide under as the tree has had the weeds sprayed. Quick easy find for the kids.

Read the sign at the start of the reserve & was wondering where the wetland was :/

Five down, one to go. Very enjoyable!

First of the hides we went for, as I missed the part about the secret last one O_o
approached GZ, and had to pretend to take pictures and take about drainage, while Mr muggle and his dog passed us by.
Shortly after cache was ours and log was filled.
Cheers
~G

I was on a day trip with my mum (SunnyBunny64) and Nickhbnz and his son Lucas. TFTC

2 adult cachers and 2 geo kids on a road trip from Napier to Palmerston North seeing how many caches we can log on our way! It was quite squelchy and boggy in all these areas. The kids raced off and one of them spotted it on approach so we quickly signed the log and took off to the next one!

Quick find just before Dark. TFTC 38th find on our roadtrip to Palmerston North.

No muggles around so made for an easy find - tftc

Thanks for the cache, it was a fun cache to find.

The cousins found it!

nice easy exactly where it said it was.

Quick find on a early morning walk. Tftc

CO check: completed this walk with my toddler in the mountain buggy. Cache was almost in the correct location (thanks numptybum). Logsheet was damp so replaced this and re-hid cache. Please ensure it is securely in place before leaving so it can withstand Palmy winds

Easy find as out in open. Tried to hide as best I could. TFTC

Out caching with NZ1. A quick easy find. TFTC.

Found with SPUDPN. TFTC

TFTC, enjoyed getting the series today with LCBuilder

Thanks for the cache!

Found with the help of JnrSS who took a marble and left 2 gems. Thanks for the cache and the walk - I will return to do #6 and the final another day

Up here for a week on work commitments, any spear time was caching with Geco72.
TFTC

I had never seen this park but now that i have i think its great

Quick find thanks

Tftc

1 more to go

Find number 3! I love this sport! Thanks.

Yeah found it on our second attempt

After last year's unsuccessful search for this cache, I quickly found it. TFTC

All good. Kids played on a swing by a tree nearby while we hunted down the cache. Getting closer to the end.....So dry despite the sign mentioning a 'wet land'! TFTC

GPS off

Another quick find (a good thing as the sun was beginning to burn off the cloud cover). Thanks for the smiley.

Didn't even know this bit was here, thanks!