Hunker in the Bunker (Manawatu) Sanson, North Island, New Zealand
By Swaybars69 on 09-Jun-13. Waypoint GC4DZMC

Hi mar1sa

This geocache was brought to my attention as being in need of an owner maintenance visit and after my previous reviewer note, there has been no owner response. The cache owner needs to check on this cache ASAP and either replace it or archive it, after picking up any geo-litter. See the [maintenance section of the Geocache Listing Requirements/Guidelines](http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#listingmaintenance).

I've added this cache to my watchlist, and I will check back in four weeks to be sure that the maintenance has been done. In the meantime, I have temporarily disabled this listing. When the maintenance is completed, the owner can enable the listing by clicking on the link below the cache name to return it to active status.

Whatever your intentions, please **post a note** here on the cache page (not email) to let us know that you are still active and maintaining the cache. If a month passes without seeing a response, then I'll assume that this listing should be archived.

Please note, that if a cache is archived due to lack of owner maintenance, the cache is unable to be unarchived.

Regards
TheCoddiwompler

Awesome spot but once again no luck. Think this one maybe needs to be checked

Several people have logged DNF on this cache. Can you please check.

What a neat site. Unfortunately came up empty ended.

No luck finding this. Plenty of mice though!

Tried this one once before with no luck. Today was my lucky day. Thanks for the placement

Very cool spot and a quick find here. TFTC!!

No luck today...

Cool spot for a cache, nice hide too! We walked in, then out, in then out then spotted it. TFTC

Heading up to Whanganui today for the 20th anniversary community celebrations event. Collecting some smileys on the way. Quick find here. Thanks

Today's "Winter Warmer VII (Manawatu)" Meet&Greet event just up the road was a good opportunity to pick up some unfound stragglers in the area with SkyCraneKid (formally known as EtherBoy/EtherLad/EtherEtc) and a friend (PrincessFaery).

This one had me searching for quite a while while SCK and PF explored the bunker. Eventually I resorted to the hint, and made the find in the second search location.

Log is full, but I found a place to make my mark.

Thanks for the history lesson Helen! (and Marisa)

Awesome spot, fun one for the whole family. Tftc

Traveling up to Wanganui today and left myself enough time to do some caches in this area. No trouble here, TFTC

Found with 3 little minions! They are loving geocaching. TFTC

I'd had a pretty slack Geocaching month so far, and was in danger of not getting my normal personal monthly goal of at least 50 finds per month, so I decided to take advantage of the balmy evening weather to go back to a couple of areas I haven't spent enough time caching around before - Bulls and Feilding.

Once at GZ, the cache itself took me a few minutes to find through the process of simple elimination. Nice hiding spot, which fooled me for a while as I didn't think the Hint would have applied here. The log is nice and dry, so was quickly signed before the whole lot replaced as found.

Thanks for placing this cache.

Quick find. Vinaka

I was pleased that geocaching brought me to this interesting location that I almost certainly never have known about otherwise. I was maybe too distracted to concentrate on finding the cache which I should have done very quickly.

I took the Battlefield Veteran trackable that I plan to relocate to the Wellington Region.

Hunker in the Bunker (Manawatu) was transferred from Swaybars69 to user mar1sa

Took bit longer than should have. It was in obvious place so should have found quicker! ! Left military tb as thought it would like the history.

Log to come later

Thanks for the cache,loved the history of this site!

Awesome spot for a geocache.

on a mission 50 caches in one day, getting to 1000 caches and getting to the oldest cache in NZ, cache 1000, cache number 33 of trip. nice park and grab,,well first part of my mission complete, had to come back to this one as i wanted a good cache for my 1000th , TFTC. shame you could not lock the door to make the whole thing a cache,FP from me

Great to explore and lovely views TFTC

Interesting little spot for a cache, parked up nearby and explored the area and found the cache. Thanks

Today was part two of my road trip home to Nelson from Auckland, after picking up my son's "new" car from Napier, taking me from Taihape to Wellington... with time to find a few caches along the way, of course. Thanks for the interesting listing. Quite a history lesson. Cache took me longer to find than it should have done. Got it in the end. TFTC, Biggles.

Cool location . Process of elimination helped to find the cache this afternoon.

That's a neat building. It didn't take long to find the cache.

Reasonably quick find. TFTC.

With lil miss ffdunewar

Nice hide, log signed container returned TFTC

Tftc logged as alex+dad

#4639. I had been planning on doing a big day out caching in the Manawatu for some months. On Tuesday the forecast for Friday/Saturday looked great and even on Wed it was still OK but by Friday I discovered you can't trust the Metservice to identify a rain band. Horribly wrong forecast with rain falling most of the day. Needed gumboots on all day long. By now I had booked a motel in Palmerston North so too late to turn back. Got rather wet getting in and out of the car to grab these caches with steady showers of rain. In the end I managed a respectable total of 65 caches. Interesting bunker. And a nice shelter from the rain. Still took me a few minutes to spot the cache even though it seemed incredibly obvious once found. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the cache Swaybars69.

No trouble here. TFTC

found bunker
fun day out with friends

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

A quick find.

#5826

Another Saturday trip planned by D6NZ, this time starting at the Rangitikei river bridge in Bulls and skirting inland to eventually pop out on the northern side of Fielding.

KButterflyNZ yet again was the one to lay her eyes on this cache. We all signed the logged then moved on down the road.

Cheers Sway.

Stop by and pick up the one on the way to Fielding

My 10,000th find and another nice quick one while heading home from the MEGA with tmann421. TFTC and thanks to tmann for helping me acheive this cool milestone

Found while having a caching trip to the area. TFTC

No difficulty locating this one. Thanks.

Great place, took a little longer to look than it probably should have!

Looks more like a chicken coop, than a bunker?? Thanks.

3rd find today. Found with Bulbousbanana. TFTC

Took way longer then it should have ☺
3rd one of today with Lyzettalilly tftc

Love the history lesson....thank you

Loved it!

#1848 As i was picked up just after 4am to head to the Manawatu I realised this was not going to be a dot day. This was an attempt to get 270 caches in one day. There are a couple of great circuits in the Manawatu that will help work toward this goal so thanks to the CO's that have placed them for our enjoyment.

Thanks also to my partner in geo crime and driver for the day Yetrees. Without an able driver an attempt such as this would be impracticable so thanks for enabling it.

Thanks to all the CO's for their contribution to my smilie tally.

It is forecast to be a long day geocaching, hoping to make the 270 target. To be honest I'd be pretty happy with 200, however why not go for the Emerald badge (see project-gc.com)

Found with Criostal. Missed this the first time so always good to get rid of those DNFs! TFTC.

Criostal. Tftc

Great Sunday drive around the manawatū and rangitikei area. TFTC. Happy hunting

Cool bunker

Found while out for a Sunday afternoon ride on the bicycle

Good fond

Mr five year old lived the treasure!

Mr five year old lived the treasure!

Mr five year old lived the treasure!

Mr five year old lived the treasure!

Found this one on the way back to Marton. It was in the last place I looked.

Cheers for the cache.

We cached our way up from Porirua this morning then completed the KAS Trail, and the caches around the Ohakea Airbase. By that time the sun had set but we wanted to find 2 more caches ro take our tally to 150 for the day. We stopped here on our back from S @ Sanson. It took us a little while to spot the cache and we were very pleased to do so. A new personal best for caches found in a day. Thanks.
Now it is time to drive into Sanson and Hunker down in the caravan park.

Mission not accomplished, this one is a bust but TFTC anyway! Couldn't find it Blenheim Bear
This log posted with CacheSense for Android!

First cache on the route planned today with jesserfly.
Was hesitant due to the prior dnf comment.
But located immediately.
Cool little shelter very echoing inside and rustic from the outside.
Cheers
~G

Visiting Ohakea this morning to watch a fitness comp. Took a detour to get back to Ashhurst and picked this up on the way. Great history & nice to see the guard house still standing. TFTC

Great location for our first geocache find. Can't wait to explore more!

Love this spot for a cache. Cool hide. Tftc

With an unexpected week off work, it was time for a geocaching roadtrip. I called Bchefj&p and they were also available for a mid week trip. We left Hastings at 6am and departed for the Palmy area with the main mission for today being the KAS Power Trail, and any others that we might be able to grab while we had day light. I ended the day having found 168 caches and DNFed on only 3. Thanks to all the CO's for their placements.
#160th find today Great piece of history that I wouldnt have discovered if it wasnt for geocaching. Thanks for the research and the placement.

A mission was needed to complete one of the last few licence challenges on Rangitoto Island, so a passing comment to C&D at an event and this mission was soon planned. We nearly achieved what we set out to accomplish, with only 1 more cache to find to complete the challenge but that was due to miss-reading the fine print on the challenge page.

So with the mission lasting 48 hours we amassed a great set of numbers, 317 caches found, just over 1200km travelled, about 7 hours of sleep, C&D finding his 180th earthcache, completing the KAS powertrail in under 3 hours and finding numerous amazing geocaches. A lot of fun was had along the way, and some great memories were created. A big thanks to everyone for placing all the caches along the way, this mission wouldn't have been as much fun if they weren't there!

If there was a fallout I'd know where I'd be heading if I'm in this area when it happened. A quick search revealed the nicely hidden cache, thanks for the hide.

A great day to be out caching, and 160+ finds completed with drawp. Always enjoy the countryside caches best while checking out what is happening on the local farms. Thanks to the various cache owners - apologies for the generic log. TFTC

This is our Fourth day of caching in the area, just so many caches to find so will have to make another trip back at some stage, but for today lets see how many we can eliminate.

12.50pm - Great piece of NZ History. Quick find by the GAP. SLTFTC

One of many great caches found with Envy-Us on a record 160 plus find caching day in the Horowhenua and Manawatu regions. Many thanks to the CO's for the cache placements, the puzzle caches we found, the great journey we had around the many back country roads, and the many interesting places we visited. Sorry for the generic type log. TFTC.

My younger brother had a four-day table tennis tournament in Palmerston North. Rather than sit around and watch paint dry, I decided to take a caching tour of the Manawatu... Joined by Gap (of Fap and Gap).

Our last day of caching in the Manawatu... We've had such a great time visiting some heavy cache-populated trails. Now we need to find some specific caches for our current license challenge... This one wasn't on our target list, but it's one I've visited before and didn't find... No problem with Gap today. A quick find. TFTC.

Thanks for the interesting cache site Swaybars69 - I am just old enough to remember the first-hand recollections of my grandparents about WWII - and it is important that history is not forgotten so I hope the "younger generations" will read your cache and reflect on those days

nice and easy find in the dark

Out for a mega day of caching in the Manawatu with Yeetrees and Taybee. With the KAS trail under our belt we continued caching in the area with an aim of locating 145+ caches on this drive. And yes we succeeded.
Thank you for the cache here. It was a quick find by Taybee who happened to be first out of the car. TFTC

Teamed up with[Red] Yeetrees[/Red] and [Red]SAROC[/Red] for a trip to Manawatu to do the KAS series of Caches was planing to do this in the school hoildays. Will have to bring taybee nz back to do the caches same time Same Stats for the day Round trip 12 hours app 367 km's 146 caches
caching time 8 hours 15 mins 2mins 56sec per cache
easy find here thank for the history on the eara

Sign log book as [Blue]taybee[/Blue] or [Blue]tb[/Blue] and cache in good order TFTC log by Gsak

Out for a day of binge caching in the company of -gonefishing- with the primary focus being the KAS power trail then meeting the criteria for the 142 in 24 hours challenge. After escaping the showers in Wellington the day turned out beautiful and was perfect for the task in hand. Thanks to all the cache owners who provided a great variety of entertainment along the way.

Found during a day out in the Manawatu/Wanganui with Fozzmiester. Managed to mop up the KAS trail in just over 3 hours, averaging 30 finds/hour. With that many quick finds under our belt we continued on for a little longer to bring up 146 for the day. Thanks to the COs who placed all the caches we found.

My second attempt at this one. I'm sure I looked in that spot last time, but an instant find today.

TFTC Swaybars69

Had me in circles until the penny dropped. Neat little hut. Wish we could explore the rest of the bunker system. Tftc

Find number 27/30 on a road trip with team Skaga that took us to Bulls and back.
This was a cool site to visit and a nice piece of history.
TFTC

#1707 Out on a trip to Bulls and back for the day with Nic-Jay and both members of Skaga today to pick up a few caches. A real gem out in the country- a fascinating slice of history that we enjoyed discovering. TFTC!

Another great find 10th one for today

Lovely historical find. Great day out with misspiggy699.

What a great place. Have lived in the area my entire life and didn't even know this place existed. Loved it.

Great history

Took longer than it should have to find this one, but got there in the end - tftc

Cool cache thanks

Second visit to this one and found right away. Was not there last time we looked. Glad to tick this one off.

Had to drive passed this looking for a park got there on the end Great bit of history thanks TFTC

Wonder which of our noble pollies would have sought refuge in the bunker?? Great piece of history. TFTC

Picked this one up on the way past after checking out some other Ohakea caches. An interesting piece of local history. Was a quick find and signing with the resident swallow flying over my head. Thanks for placing this cache.

#6186. Interesting history write-up. It was a quick park and grab on Wilson Road. Traffic was certainly fast and furious around here. GZ itself was quiet however. Found after a short search. The cache was in good condition.
+ Robin's Golden GeoGem #1
Took nothing, signed log. Thanks for the cache.

Found it in the first 15 seconds of looking we only live down the road so we just biked there. TFTC

Quick detour on our way to Bulls for brunch. Interesting info re the bunker.

Found it after a bit of hunting, the clue helped!

I've been on this road many times and never noticed this building!!! Nice hide and thanks for the hint!!!!

Took a couple mins but then LCBuilder came up with the goods!

Found after a bit of scratching around, thanks for the cache!

Nicely hidden. Cache in the bag. Thanks for the cache. Jedi crew strikes

Nice hide. Very interesting place.