Manawatu rail: Mugby Junction Bunnythorpe, North Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 29-May-13. Waypoint GC4CJVC

Great cache great hid on to the next one - Joss+Ange

Tftc

Minecraftlad, DandKNZ and I went out to the farm to feed the chickens. Nice park and grab. We raced off and did a great job of searching and working together. We are trying to get the cosmic quest. Thanks Seagnoid of the placement and maintenance.

CacheClaws, DandKNZ and I went out to the farm to feed the chickens. Nice park and grab. We raced off and did a great job of searching and working together. We are trying to get the cosmic quest. Thanks Seagnoid of the placement and maintenance.

Minecraftlad, Cacheclaws and I went out to the farm to feed the chickens. Nice park and grab. The kids raced off and did a great job of searching and working together. We are trying to get the cosmic quest. Thanks Seagnoid of the placement and maintenance.

The more you say Mugby the more grateful I am it never stick Great history Masson as always from the Seagnoid. Quick find with sis after a nice afternoon whacking off the cycle track (more of the Seagnoid and Etherlords) between Ashhurst and Raukawa RdCache in good condition Mihi ki a koe the Seagnoid, mo te keteroki #220

Nice easy find

Not here for me today.

Quick find on the way through.

Drive to feilding and had some spare time, Nice little hide TFTC

Tftc, didn't find it last time as it had been muggled

TFTC nice quick find on the way through. Always good to Rick of a DNF

Easy find. Watch the traffic!! Tftc

Down for Christmas with family found with kennyg22 tftc

Found with jphunt2 tftc

Quick find after accidentally coming past here on wrong road. Tftc

Great find after some looking

Day #2 of the Team SEAC extra long weekend little road trip for Labour Weekend.Parked up and got a weird look from a local who passed. After they were gone we hopped out and made a super quick find on the other side of the road. Thanks for the cache.

A small group of us from Team SEAC consisting of Keylev, Stik-A-Crane, Uncle Sam and ourselves had come down from Auckland to spend the long weekend caching in the Manawatu area. The plan was to get as many as possible. Along the way we had some great adventures, many laughs, met some interesting people and found a wide selection of caches. Signed SEAC to save space on the log. TFTC.A nice quick find here

Day 2 of our caching trip to Palmerston North area with HeMaLuDy, UncleSamNZ, Keylev, and myself, signing in as SEAC or TEAM SEAC to save logbook space. A big thanks to all the CO's for cache placement and maintenance, making this trip the success that it was.TFTC.

Quick find.Small group of caching buddies drove down from Auckland for the long weekend, and headed for Palmerston North area. Sorry for the generic posts, but we had so many caches to find.Had a great time, with so many laughs. Thanks to all the Cache owners who placed the caches.All logs signed "SEAC" or "Team Seac"

Nice easy one! Thanks

Second try for this cache and found with my son

I was on a road trip with Joey geo and we stopped at your cache I liked the magnetic paint

Coordinates changed from:
S 40° 17.040 E 175° 37.939

Coordinates changed to:
S 40° 17.046 E 175° 37.950

Distance from original: 62.7 feet or 19.1 meters.

Original site no longer suitable. Cache moved 20m.

Ready to go!!

Whoops! Too many dnfs. Will be up soon to check it out.

Couldn't find I did see that others couldn't find I did see bits and pieces of of plastic around so could be damaged.

Looks like it may have been muggled if I was in the correct spot.

Looks like this may have been removed if it is what we think it is, still love this series can’t wait to come back and do this one

Our forage to Feilding didn't start well with two DNF'S. It had been a couple of years since first looking for this cache. Not long after starting geocaching. So maybe with an experienced cacher I would have luck. So when HS and I was on our way to Feilding after attending Popmac's 10 years celebration event, we stopped. And looked. And looked some more. Zilch.

Nah

Spotted the cache as we walked down. Dropped in TB.

I do like these railway caches. All good here. An easy find. Another favourite point. Tftc

Found it!

Recognised the cache item immediately!!

As I went to open it J said ‘that’s a septic thing!’ Nope!

Nice and dry inside

-1 TB

Spent the morning at the boat ramp doing some tuning so it was my turn for an activity this afternoon - caching! Haven’t been out Feilding way cache hunting in quite a while and somehow still have 20+ TBs to distribute from my Christmas/Jan holiday so off we went

TFTC
C&J

Having been up visiting family in Wanganui on Saturday morning, I was now making my way (the long way) back to Wellington before the rains came. There were a few new caches out this way, and when I looked at what else was around I spotted another in the great rail series that currently spans the lower North and upper South Islands. Always good to sign the log of another of these, so I made my way to the location and instantly spotted the recognisable hide style. Cache was all good here, safe and dry.

Thanks to the Seagnoid for placing and maintaining this cache.

I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's like this placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.

Must’ve had an old hint stored — which didn’t make sense, but hide was a familiar sight, thanks the Seagnoid

First cache of the day. Out with Itchyfeet2920 finding 50 today.
Kia ora rawa atu for the cache the Seagnoid.

NZ_B and I are spending the day around the Fielding area with a goal to get over 50 caches in a day for a challenge. After starting with a DNF it was nice to come here and see the trusty cache style favoured by The Seagnoid and get one under our belt yah. TFTC The Seagnoid.

This helped our mission to clear out a small chunk Feildings caches today and will be coming back to finish the rest another day.

Nice easy fast find we were thinking is was going to be a fake sign until got to GZ.
I wrote in the log and concealed it carefully back as found,
TFTCSL Thanks the Seagnoid for this Traditional cache!


Found on 1 October 2022 2:55 PM

237th find



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All good now

Having driven yesterday from the Hutt Valley to Palmerston North to attend Etherlords birthday celebrations (joint with the Clans housewarming), a few of us (Myself, Etherlord (with 1 GeoKid in tow), and the Seagnoid) decided on a spot of afternoon caching after a fantastic morning of board gaming!

Our first stop was to perform some maintenance on this very cache, and I was lucky enough to be the first to sign the fresh log.

I love reading about the history of these railways, and with this one in particular the possible link to Charles Dickens' novels. The refreshments rooms sound like they would have been an interesting place, but I'm not sure how they would cater to today's dietary requirements...

Went to the house warming for Etherlord clan and just as I arrived to the house I was pulled along on a maintenances trip for the singnoid so of course we stopped for a few catches a long the way

Nice easy find, tftc

Replaced container - all good again!

Quick find when you know what
Lid is cracked so a bIt damp

Cool place to stop for coffee. Nice find by roadside.

Spent ages hunting for this last time. Now that I have gotten a bit more caching experience I spotted it instantly. Great hide in a busy location. Tftc and Happy New Year!

Quickish grab between the seemingly never ending stream of vehicles.
SL
TFTC

Quite some junction here but not a busy one . The compass didn’t want to play ball so I covered a bit of ground before zeroing in on a familiar hide.
TFTC

It’s a amazing what a little geocache knowledge can net you!

It’s great to get this cache as Bunnythorpe is my home town.

Spent a while trying to find it but no luck

Clever hide found after a bit of thought. TFTC.

My second attempt at finding the one and today was my lucky day had this in hand in no time. Thanks for the find.

too much rubbish

Day 53 of my TA adventure...
Merry Christmas...
Nice easy find as I have found similar ones of the Cos in the south island ..log signed bcd tftc

Grabbed this one while on our way to Auckland with a stop over in the area. Seen a few of these cache containers over the last 6 months after being stuck in NZ. Thanks CO for the cache.

Good find

Out on a weekend caching trip with Buttels with the aim of picking up the SHIELD and 20/20 series and mostly solved puzzles along the way. Quick find today. T4TC

Nice easy cache on a Friday evening. Found with Crystal Fairy. TFTC

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Awesome first find

Did not find this one today

Firecracker of a find..

Heading towards Feilding to tidy up a few finds.
Quickly found and signed

Slow cross country journey to Whanganui for work. Caching today in Ashhurst and on to Fielding. Having cached in Blenheim a couple of months ago certainly helped with finding this one. The Seagnoid special. Thanks

I’d driven past the other day on my way up the Pohangina valley and realised there was yet another Manawatu Rail cache **here**. And this being almost the geocache nearest to home and I need one to continue my streak of consecutive daily geocache finds, I came here today.
How many of these have I done previously? One more now. Same, same hide mechanism. Very clever. Can’t work out the relevance of the hint though. All good here. TFTC

Hint was from an earlier hide. Now corrected (removed, not needed)

Found 10.10am
Seems to be a never ending rail series to find. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... We were really keen to log a Leap Day Event cache and collect the souvenir, but our nearest was the camp-out at Awhitu. We have already cached in that area and wanted to use our time a bit more effectively, so we reasoned that a trip south would be worthwhile. There were three events in the Manawatu region. Road trip...

Another Leap Day marked and confined to history - Now it’s time to head home to some normality, but not before we visit a few more caches along the way... After straying off course (to visit the Longburn rail cache), we managed to find our way to Bunnythorpe. It was great that our next find should also be a Manawatu rail cache... Mugby Junction - It could have been so much more... This was a good hide, but we’ve seen its type already this weekend. Thanks the Seagnoid and TFTC.

Cool lil hide tftc

Found with gavgav2889 TFTC

Found on day 74 of our TA thru-hike, on the way through Bunnythorp. Fairly quick find here, despite the tricky cache. There is a GREAT blackberry patch just north of here on the TA approaching the transfer station!

Cqnt find

**12,130**
The race was on between the Geckoh to locate this one, but it was Mrs Geckoh for the win! TFTC

Tricky!

A big mission to the Manawatu day today, picking up a variety of cache types for an internet-based challenge.

It took a while to locate this one as the GPS kept pointing me into the substation, but with a bit of investigation, eventually got my hands on the cache, and that's Bunnythorpe cleared out. TFTC

Quick visit with the kids to aunty Ag's. Decided to find a few. Good fun. Thanks

Stopped and visited while on a roadtrip south to attend an Auto-Trail motorhome rally. No problem locating this one TFTC.

The crazy Labour Weekend plan is now in full swing. McJandals, NZFlossy & Davidson Clan are joining me for 29 TMGT Caches, the Manawatu Shield & Stickman series then whatever we can find in between. The sun had set long ago but we had the place to ourselves so it was a quick find here. Cheers Seagnoid - TFTC - 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

. Day three on a road trip with Team BOP. Just popped down from Palmerston North for some TMGT and a few others Lots of fun with McJandals, Phillip Perry and Davidson clan visiting some great spots. Really enjoyed these caches and the history. Thanks to the COs for putting these out This one was very close to our accomodation and picked up late. Loved the cache containerTFTC

Day 3. Targeting TMGT today. 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

Staying in Bunnythorpe tonight so grabbing a few caches while we are here. With McJandals Nzflossy and Philip.Perry signed teambop.

Quick find of this cheeky, clever hide. Now should have all the clues for the challenge. TFTC

Maintenance visit - all good here.

Dnt

Very messy area with lots of broken glass. Be aware

Nice hide. Thanks

We had not to wait to log this box. Quick find.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

We found it easily. Cache is in good condition.
TFTC and greetings from Austria

Found today with the help of TwigNZ, TFTC

A fantastic day to be out on the road caching, especially when you making your merry way to attend a great BBQ knowing you'll be catching up with plenty of good folk from the wider Manawatu-Wanganui community.

I was on my way to fulfill a promise to climb a tree in Feilding to search for an elusive cache, but left early enough to be able to grab a few others along the route as I'm still working my way around parts of the Manawatu that I have never been caching in before.

It was a quick find at GZ, thanks to having encountered an identical hide on a previous cache from the same series. All was fine with the container and log so once the appropriate caching administration was completed the whole lot was replaced as found and then it was back to the car to carry on towards Feilding.

Thanks for placing this cache.

In the Manawatu for the long weekend as Sunday will be spent heading up Rangiwahia Hut to get Ruahine for the Old School North Island Challenge. Saturday was spent exploring and collecting caches along the way. TFTC

having done quite a few of these it was a quick find, tftc

Possum spotted the cache from nearby so it was soon in hand. TFTC.

Tftc logged as sad

On a caching trip to the Manawatu as I had to get out and get some fresh air after being in the office all week. Started off in Ashhurst and made my way west to Feilding. A quick find in a clever hide given the open location. TFTC

(find # 4185)

Nice hide tftc

You have agreat knowledge of the local railway net work.....finding this cache was just like a ftf...all pristine...log book and all...thank Seagnoid for the well constructed novel placement welldone

The metropolis of Bunnythorpe! No body waiting to get out here but some railway workers just down the road busy looking busy. Cunning hide here. Log book dry. Thanks for bringing us here TheSeagnoid