Manawatu rail: Manchester Sawmill Aorangi, North Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 29-May-13. Waypoint GC4CM43

Headed up to PN with tmann421 to attend an Event and picked up a few caches while we were there.Nice quick find.Signed log tm/ww NZTFTCBoth log and container totally drenched.Could do with some attention

26/4/24 found it got a bit wet

Woot!!! Careful of the ankles!!!

Tftc the log book a little wet.

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing your cache. Ms_KR and I are on the road again, up "North" to visit family an friends. Today was a bit of a cruise around Feilding, weather reasonable, caches too!Occassionally signed MK+KR on cache logs, and apologies for the generic logs.Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches.

For some reason some muggles congregated nearby when I first came past, so I sorted another and returned later when the coast was clear. TFTC!!South Australia is the place be for GCA1DNA - MEGA - February 29th, 2024 in Adelaide! Hope to see you at The Great Leap Forward!

Day #3 of the Team SEAC extra long weekend little road trip for Labour Weekend.This was our first cache of the day to start us off and a nice quick find...lets hope they are all like this one!Thanks for the cache.

And a click of the fingers it was a new day of caching and shenanigans.....one of the group suggested we head North from Palmerston North for a spot of caching, and it was a very good suggestion..... Day 3 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.

1st of the day.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 quick find tftc

Found!

A good hint here lead us straight to the cache. Tftc

Out on our geocaching weekend, quick find here. Tftc

Quick locate after waiting for muggle cyclist, who turned around as soon as she reached me Fun to imagine the sawmill here, and intriguing read. Cheers the Seagnoid

Decided to stop by the nearby creative cache and these were on our way there. Haven’t had a cache for a while from all of that nasty flooding/weather, nice to see its back to normal. Last cache if the day!
I wrote in the log and placed the cache carefully back as found, TFTCSL. Thanks the Seagnoid for this Traditional Thanks for helping us get one step closer to our next milestone.

Found on 20 February 2023 at 6:59 PM

#518th find

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Beside another ‘now no longer there’ railway line in the Wairarapa, oak trees were planted to be used as sleepers when they had grown to a certain size. As they were never used they are great places to sit under for a picnic or just to cool off under after a walk or bike ride on a hot summer’s day.
Out with Itchyfeet2020 finding 50 caches today for the DGSc challenge in the West Coast. 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. Our journey led us here. Fascinating reading thank you. Hard to imagine massive totora stands and railway sleeper mills now.

It's been an interesting day of geocaching today, complete with three 'failed to be fast enough' to be first to find, one successful first to find, four did not finds, twenty two successful finds, multiple 'can I help you's as I was searching, and a dead car battery with the rescue coming from a fellow Geocacher (it is so much easier to tell someone where you are stranded when you only have to give a GC code).

This was my ninth cache of the day. I always enjoy the information in the railway caches by this CO, and there are a lot of them, in multiple cities, and in multiple islands. One day I will find them all.

Thanks to the CO for placing and maintaining this cache.

I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with CO's placing them and taking care of them that this wonderful game continues.

Found it

First find of the day! Master Four was more fascinated by the snails on the cache. TFTC!

Due to the postponement of the Auckland Mega, Buttels and the Crystal half decided to use the dates planned for the event to do some caching between Wellington and Palmy. Quick find. Thanks for the cache

It sometimes amazes me where railways ran. Fairly step ground too. Was with Crystal Fairy as we headed up to Palmerston North for a weekends caching. TFTC

Tftc. Last find for the day. That makes 10 today, pretty happy with that for a little afternoon road trip. Nice little bit of history here.

Nice quick easy find on my way to work. Thank for the hide.

Out on a caching expedition with TharntheHalken around the Manawatu. Quick find, all good. Tftc!

Found with matagouri on a new year caching trip to Feilding. Tftc.

A quick find after a long day caching in the region. 68 caches and no dnfs. A great day. TFTC

On our way to the Halloween Community Celebration and decided to clean up a few on the way. Quick find, all good TFTC

Heading back to the East Coast after a week of work in Whanganui. Thought I would make it a leisurely trip and collect a few smileys on the way. Enjoyed a bit of biking on some back country roads. Cache all fine. Thanks

Nice quick park & grab & good parking
SL
TFTC

Well that has to be the fastest I have ever done a Park & Grab, all by myself in the MIOW mobile, tftc Seagnoid

Grabbed this cache on the way home from work. I had intended to get “Behind the Barrier”, but that GZ is a bit of a mess as someone has driven their vehicle right through the barrier, moving it well Behind!
Not sure what the previous finder’s problem was. The coordinates are accurate and there could only be one place for the geocache. All good here, but for the snails.
Not logged until now due to pressure from fellow geocachers' interpretation of the Covid-19 coronavirus lock-down rules. Thanks for keeping your cache active and thanks for the cache.

**12,343**
What a beautiful home across the road!
This one took a little while to cross off all the no possibilities, in the end there was only 1 viable option!
TNLN TFTC

Beware of the snails!!!

The rail lines were obviously very busy here at one time - fantatsic that this series tells us all about it. Thanks for all the research the Seagnoid and of course the cache. TFTC # 14,919

Really enjoying touring the countryside on a beautiful day. Thanks for the smilie .

Up this way today enjoying the warm weather and the countryside. Found the odd cache along the way as well (as you do). TFTC

Quick easy find

Quick find.
Tftc

Yay we found one!!! Tftc

TFTC

Nice!

Good

Nice

Another quick find on a well maintained trail tftc

Found it

Quick found by hubby. TFTC

(I apologize for the late log but the date is still accurate, time got away from me)
Found today with TwigNZ while we were in the area for a CITO. TwigNZ and I had no trouble locating the cache and signing the log. Thanks for the cache.

Today I attended a CITO with my lad in Ashhurst, and I was also hoping for a chance to grab a few more caches around Ashhurst and Feilding that I hadn't previously gotten.

So now I was heading towards Feilding, and decided to take a route I didn't normally use in order to have a crack at a few caches local to Colyton. This was the fifth one we stopped at. On the face of it, it looked like it would be a straightforward park and grab, and indeed it was as it was a very similar find to a lot of this series I have found elsewhere in the Manawatu.

So I signed the log and placed everything back in the container ready for the next cacher

Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Great thanks

Time to head home and with our route all planned out we were going to go past another rail cache so had to stop. Thanks for all your caches we have found on this little caching trip.

Nice history in the description, thanks.

5/2019. Quick find. Lots of snails! All good tftc

I was in the area after spending a lovely weekend with family decided I needed an earthcache and some more caches to get my 60 points for the adventure thats on at present so did a detour and grabbed a cache or two down this lovely country road. Thank you for placing caches out here in this lovely rural area lots of sheep and their baby lambs in the paddocks, so cute. TFTC nice quick find here today

Nice easy find. Tftc

10.15am
Travelled to Manawatu area with BOP members for the weekend.
All logs signed as Team BOP.
Generally caches were good and all but 2 found.
Thanks to cache owners for placements. SLTFTC

Road trip time! This weekend Team BOP consisted of Davidson Clan, TNXPro, Squirrelnutcase, FapAndGap, McJandals, NZFlossy & myself. We'd had this trip on the cards for a while but only recently had we locked in all the details. We were off to central Manawatu and we had a very narrow list of ‘must gets’ so this trip was essentially a numbers mission. We had a great time and managed just over 200 finds. Most of the caches were found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and straight forward placements although we replaced a lot of logs and a few containers as well. A huge thank you to the CO’s as this was a beautiful area to visit and there was certainly an abundance of geocaches!!

Team BOP on tour in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region... With Gap (of Fap and Gap), (Mr) Davidson clan, McJandals, NZFlossy, Philip.Perry, and TNXPro.

This weekend had been in the pipeline for ages. It was always going to be a mission for various team members to get coordinated leave passes... We secured accommodation in the rural heart of the Manawatu. This placed us well within reach of a massive trail of caches... We travelled in one vehicle, so our journey was filled with lots of laughs, and good times... Fortunately, the majority of caches were in place and were fairly quick to locate - thanks to straightforward hints and great coordinates. Many of the caches had not been found in a while, so containers were waterlogged, and logbooks were wet... Thank goodness for waterproof paper. A huge thank you also, to the various COs who made our weekend worthwhile...

The cache descriptions and historic notes have been helpful in getting to know some of the locations we have visited. TFTC.

Team BOP decided that with the MEGA rapidly approaching, we need to boost our numbers so we could try for a milestone number at the Mega. I am approaching my 3000th cache but was still about 325 caches away from that. Reaching the milestone may or may not happen, but this weekend certainly was about the numbers. I had an initial target I was trying to beat and that was my highest number of caches found in one day and we comfortably beat that, achieving 158 caches (subject to confirmation, once I log them all).
The best way to do the high numbers is with power trails and out here, there is a smorgasbord of powertrails.
We loaded up the van, gathered up all seven of us and headed to our accomodation somewhere in the middle of nowhere, getting there well after dark. The location was convenient, as it was right in the thick of a power trail territory.
There was no splitting us up, as we only had one vehicle, so we all experienced the cache locations, some beautiful and some not so.
As with powertails we have done in the past, there was a high proportion of waterlogged caches, but unlike powertails we have done previously, we managed to find every cache and were glad to be able to clear out an area. Also, with powertails, comes cut and paste logs, to which I apologise for.
Thanks to all those CO's who have placed the caches out there. Without you, our fun road trips wouldnt exist. We all had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend and got home completely shattered. It was so worth it.
TFTC

On a road trip with Team BOP, having a blast and gathering a few smileys along the way. Please excuse generic logs in advance. Many Thanks to all you cache owners for the placements. Cheers

Signed Teambop. Came down to Fielding for the weekend with Philip.Perry, Tnxpro, Nzflossy, McJandals, Squirrel Nutcase and FapandGap . Staying at a farmhouse down the road from here. Day two.....
Tftc

On a road trip with Team BOP to Feilding. Set off Friday night and back home Sunday. Lots of caches and lots of laughs with great weather and great scenery. Thanks to all the COs for giving us a awesome trip

Found by the 11 year old thank you

#10,239. Interesting history. Park and grab on Taonui Road in Aorangi. GZ was all quiet when we were there. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. 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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a quick find, but thats a good thing, means more time to find more caches, tftc

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. TFTC

(find # 4191)

Yay! Our second find

Quick easy find, thanks

Nice easy find. Tftc

A nice quick find here with darthcacher1 and purply. One of 140 caches we found today.

Thanks for another great cache, we are making a day of it

#2912. I am heading north today to the Mega event in Turangi. So decided to go via Ashhurst and west side of the Ruahines to pick up caches in an area I haven't yet covered since starting geocaching. The day started wet in Wellington but was reasonably good in the Manawatu, just a few light showers. I pulled up nearby and spied the hiding spot immediately. Nice quick find here. Signed the dry logbook and returned the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

Nice easy find!

Was in the Manawatu for work and decided that I would go and pick up a couple off caches while I was in between meetings. I decided to go out of the main hustle and bustle of the CBD and go and get a couple of drivebys caches out in the back blocks.

This was the first cache that I had on my list that I was going to do today and it was too far from Palmerston North as the crow flies and I have being pass this area quite a few time but not down as far as Colyton for quite a while.

Arriving near GZ I managed to over shot pass GZ and realised what I had done before I went too far, decided to do a U turn and managed to drive back to near GZ, actually it was within 10 metres. Decided that I wouldn't park too far off the road as the side of the road looked like it was very wet and I really didnt want to get stuck in the grass and have to call for assistance. After finding a safe park it was a quick, easy and puddle jumping walk to GZ as I was in my work clothes and shoes.

As I got to GZ I soon spot the cache next to the hint object, was glad that the logbook was double contained as the first one was very muddy and wet. Managed to retrieve the logbook without any issues, sign and returned back as found. Thanks for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot. TFTC TNLNSL (10954)

Found while on a caching trip to the area. TFTC

A quick park and grab. TFTC

Just as night falls we are finding out last caches before heading back home to HB. A quick park and grab. TFTC

Went got some milk after that i went to find it thanks!!

Tftc

With ebgm

many thanks Tom

Tftc

Quick park and grab. Signed in my previous username

Heading over to Woodville, caching in along the way.
This one is cleary known about by the neighbors, we got a friendly call out from one arriving home.

Easy park and grab

On way past so stopped in for a gander.
Clue and co ords dead on, and I got to have a little read while Hyjynx perfomed signing duties.
All was well here, dry and in order.
Cheers
~G

Great little cache, I love the double jar idea. Thanks

Another cache found in the really informative Manawatu Rail series! TFTC

Road trip 2 weeks in a row.... Left hawkes bay at 5am. First cache for the day at 7.10am. Thanks for giving us so many caches to find.

Lovely locals

It seems like a long time has passed since I last found a Manawatu Rail cache. My objective for today was to find a good number of puzzle caches but I decide to look for the odd traditional as I traveled around. This one was easily found and was in very good condition.

Quick find. TFTC

Picking up some rural caches today and ended up over near Feilding. Weather has warmed up, sun is out - great. A quick find - TNLNSL. Fascinating history again the Seagnoid. Thanks for the series and the placement.

Quick find this morning enroute to the short multi at Colyton Hall.
Thanks for the cache and I was impressed with the waterproofing measures!

Quick easy find with rach.scott15 without doc

Tyfc

After talking to a herd of very inquisitive cows we found it

Spending some time in the Manawatu catching up with a friend, spent the afternoon exploring some of the backroads grabbing caches....first of the day and a nice quick find. TFTC

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