Big Saddle (Wairarapa) Tinui, North Island, New Zealand
By
skindo on 20-Jul-13. Waypoint GC4GNAK
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Logs
#11,992. Boxing Day. Do I head to the discount sales at the malls or go geocaching? Difficult choice - not. Left home by 8am and headed over to the Wairarapa. The sun in Wellington disappeared as I crossed the Remutaka saddle. But weather has improved as the day lengthened. Stopped here to grab this old archived cache. No idea why I didn't stop here previously when it was still active. After checking out one wrong spot I headed back to another and found the container lying in a pool of water and mud. It looked quite sad and neglected. Everything inside was soup so I drained that out and put in a fresh logsheet and plastic bag. Signed the new logsheet and replaced the container in a slightly drier spot at the hint location. Thanks skindo for hiding it here all those long years ago. Now onwards towards the coast.
(# 6625). A trip to Castlepoint and Riversdale Beach primarily to get the Adventure Lab caches. Got some others as well. A quick find. Everything in order. Thanks for bringing me here.
Have been poking around all over the area, grabing the odd cache here and there, many thanks to all the cvache placers - Bitsprayer
Doing some cycle touring in the Wairarapa Region. Stopped on the way from Castle Point to Masterton at the top of the hill. Thanks for hiding Skindo.
Day 10 of our NZ trip. On our way back from Castle Point. Easy find. TFTF Greetings from
Quick find, decided to grab on our way from Castle Point to Hastings to visit friends for New Years. Tftc
After the 2018 WENZ Mega event
mr and mrs went on a Wairarapa tiki tour, and after staying the night at castlepoint and exploring we made our way back towards Masterton picking up caches along the way, finding this cache - logged as MM78.
Tftc
mr and mrs went on a Wairarapa tiki tour, and after staying the night at castlepoint and exploring we made our way back towards Masterton picking up caches along the way, finding this cache - logged as MM78.
Tftc
Heading back to town from Castle Point; there was muggle activity nearby on the way out but all gone by the time I was driving back.
Quick find; thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, skindo.
Quick find; thanks for placing & maintaining this cache, skindo.
After a beautiful warm, calm sunny Sunday, I visited here on a quiet Monday morning as the cold rain came down. Cache Ok.
TFTC
TFTC
On a lovely weekend away in Castlepoint I found this with Tharn the Halkan, Jaeh68 and rikjwells (and a couple of non-cachers who enjoy finding caches!). Thanks for this cache which added to the weekend fun.
Found this one with the TePanipi crew on our joint family holiday to Castlepoint. Thanks for your hide!
Found this cache with thebigflax whanau while we were on a joint family holiday to castlepoint. Thanks for the mint cache
Easy found at a short stop.
Thanks For The Cache and many greetings from Germany.
Thanks For The Cache and many greetings from Germany.
After a major road trip of 750km down to Masterton for the Wings Over Wairarapa air show the weather unfortunately caused both days of the show to be cancelled. However the start of the week was to be our "tourist" time to see some of the Wairarapa sights and the weather has improved to give a cloudless summer's day for our drive to Castlepoint today. Also great weather for a bit of caching with the aim today to break the 500 cache milestone.
As we drove out to Castlepoint we kept a check on roadside caches which had a reasonable place close to the GZ to get the Falcon off the road safely. After the "little saddle" we made a higher climb to get to the "big saddle" cache which also quickly located and the log signed.
As we drove out to Castlepoint we kept a check on roadside caches which had a reasonable place close to the GZ to get the Falcon off the road safely. After the "little saddle" we made a higher climb to get to the "big saddle" cache which also quickly located and the log signed.
Travelling around looking at our wonderful home land.
Weather has been inclement but this has not dampened our enthusiasm.
SL. TFTC
Weather has been inclement but this has not dampened our enthusiasm.
SL. TFTC
One of 20 caches located today, mostly between Masterton and Castlepoint. Straightforward find. Log is a bit damp. #1411. TFTC.
A weekend away with the family, visiting various spots in the Wairarapa, so what better to do than nab a few caches that happen to be on the route. Mostly good weather and the roads not too busy made for some good caching.
TTFC
TTFC
Cache # 3,272 - a very quick find on the way back home from Castlepoint today with Violet Butterfly and Astro Hunter. All good with the cache. TNLNSL. TFTC!
Consecutive caching day # 1,162
Consecutive caching day # 1,162
Did today with The Wandering Dragons and Astro Hunter as bid farewell to Castlepoint. Thank you.
Cache # 1,172
Cache # 1,172
Did today with The Wandering Dragons and Violet Butterfly. All nice and dry. Thanks!
Cache # 639
Cache # 639
#8206. It was good to return to Castlepoint – one of our favourite places on the Wairarapa coast. Stopped off Masterton Castlepoint Road in Tinui on the way back. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.
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Found on my way to Castlepoint during a day of geocaching and ingressing. Last find of the day as I got totally frustrated with my caching app. I will be back another day to complete this road.
TFTC
TFTC
A day on the road in the Wairarapa. Looking around fence posts, under braces and in odd places like that for caches. Success here as we made our way to Castle Point for a visit.
Cache was a straightforward find. All in order; log signed, safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!
Cache was a straightforward find. All in order; log signed, safely re-hidden.
TFTC found with team cacher Sweet P too
The Turtle strikes again!
Down fro the Hawkes Bay for the weekend. Decided a trip to Castlepoint was good way to spend the day. TFTC 
23 January 2016 17:30. TFTC, we have driven past this several times already this weekend, so I persuaded the driver to stop so I could tidy this one up. As usual, I looked in the wrong place first!
on a caching mission with my niece hitting the Skindo trail today aroha and happy caching tftf
Nice partner to go with little saddle. Found in the first place we looked. TFTCSL
A wet and blustery day in Castle Point, but as always, spectacular.
A quick find with TregearP on our out to Tinui Hall.
All in good order, TNLNSL, TFTC.
A quick find with TregearP on our out to Tinui Hall.
All in good order, TNLNSL, TFTC.
On a geocaching trip over the Wairarapa.
A quick find. Replaced cracked container and log sheet with CO's permission.
TFTC
A quick find. Replaced cracked container and log sheet with CO's permission.
TFTC
Quick find on the return home from Castlepoint while young Robin's nappy was being changed!!!
TFTC.
TFTC.
Over to Tinui for a lunch. And another look around here and complete the. Hall cache so I could find the two saddle caches on the way.. thanks
The final for this little road trip today but may still have the energy for a walk at Castlepoint for a couple we haven't yet logged....but I'm not re climbing Castle Rock again on this trip.
I got to the top, thought there must be a cache here... Sure enough! The road is quiet tonight.
Stopped here today while on my way to spend a bit of time in the area. A qiocl fomd om tje forst [;ace cjecled/ Sogned log, TFTC
Had to give this one a miss on our way out to Castlepoint as there was a logging truck here, but found it quickly on our way back home -tftc
There was a car parked a little further down the road, but out of sight of GZ.
Left a pet rock - a duck. TFTC
Left a pet rock - a duck. TFTC
My 50th cache, a wee mile stone. Thank you! Easy find, bit uncomfortable when trucks/cars drive past as you are so far out there and it would no doubt invoke curiosity in any passing car seeing you crouch beside a fence 
Soon found this cache on a quick trip out to Castlepoint.
Very sunny hot day.
SL TFTC skindo
Very sunny hot day.
SL TFTC skindo
On to Martinborough from Castle Point. Another great holiday day. Thanks for the hide.
Surprised to be only the second finder - and its been published for over a month, oh well, no problems 
. Quick find this morning while heading out to Castlepoint for work. TFTC
. Quick find this morning while heading out to Castlepoint for work. TFTCYay!! Another FTF, quick find. Had planned to come to this area last Saturday for FTF's, but had to return home..... With seven additional new caches in this area, I planned a big day today in Wairarapa. Sixty caches for the day. TFTC.
This entry was edited by Popmac on Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 06:03:07 UTC.
This entry was edited by Popmac on Thursday, 25 July 2013 at 06:03:07 UTC.
