Manawatu rail: Sanson Sanson, North Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 04-Dec-13. Waypoint GC4Q3E6

Tftc park and go

I'd say you managed to find out a fair bit about Henry Sanson! I did have a look for his picture and final resting place online but came up empty.Cache in excellent order. Love the colour!TFTC Seagy ,';*={thanks}-*;', ,;:*(thanks}:*;*:{thanks}*:;, ,;{thanks}:;:*{thanks}:;:{thanks);, `;:{thanks};:{thanks}:;{thanks}:;' `*&;:{thanks}:;:{thanks},:;&*' `-+;:*{thanks}*:;+-` `-\\\||///-' __ \\||// __ / `------' \ | }-(______)-{ | \___/ |||| \___/ /_, |||| ,_\

I was doing some work for a client today and as they were retired we discussed geocaching while having a cuppa. My client said he has seen one of those containers on the ground while taking the dog for a walk and had it in his shed. He went and got it a nice container with logs in it. He told me where he found it and I was quickly able to determine it was this cache's container we had. I took the container back and placed it in the same place as the new and blank container was. I have the new/blank container to give back to the CO at some stage in the future. This was a strange find today, not often you find the container is someone garage. Thanks for all the work setting up these rail caches.

Cache replaced. All good to go again.

Stopped & looked but nothing.I checked previous activity & found it has been mugged and not yet been replaced.Sadly my one miss for the day

Container has been muggled and needs replacing. Only log sheet left.

Decide to head north today to get away from the miserable Wellington weather. Most of the day was reasonably warm, but occasional rain and strong winds. On the whole the containers were great (2 or 3 inside each other) with dry logs, but the locations were mostly "throw me down" locations with very poor parking (if any) and lots of lunatics in this area driving down side roads at 100km/h+ speeds. After seeing the previous DNF I thought I'd have a quick look. I found the log lying on floor without any container. I logged my name and returned to likely spot, but definitely requires maintenance.

No luck

Thanks

Very cool but the coordinates were a bit off. Great hiding place as well.

Easy find just a stop and log

Good find with Tokerau

Found while on a Geotour with JR.

Easy find after Cream Horns at Viv's! Forgot a pen. TFTC

Found it with TrueMurphs but didn't bring a pen! TFTC

Today we were leaving Whanganui heading towards Lower Hutt. We grabbed a few caches on the way.We had got to the point in the journey when we decided we needed to get moving, so we planned not to find any more until we got nearer Lower Hutt. However we saw this one with its last log. No caches found, obviously couldn't find this one so did a NA log claiming the cache has been stolen !!!!It is there - found straight away, signed and replaced I am sure the CO did take the previous log with a pinch of salt but will be able to eliminate it now (OM log) on seeing oursTFTCTim and Viv - ddm

Stolen

Awesome findThanks

Heading north to Taranaki with rattll. Stopped for the night in Sanson, found while out for an evening stroll to take the air... OK, we were specifically out looking for a cache or two. No problem finding this one. All good in container. Tftc, TS!

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.This was day 5 of our trip and we are on our way north towards home, just a few more caches on the way.A nice quick find here.

Day #5 of the Team SEAC extra long weekend little road trip for Labour Weekend and we are heading in the direction of home now but of course there is always time for a couple more hee heeThis was a super quick find as it was on the floor in the open....oooops.Thanks for the cache.

A great place for a cache and many thanks for giving me a smiley for the challenge streak.

Matariki weekend and a team of us from BOP have ventured south for a caching weekend. The team consists of TNXPro, NZFlossy, McJandals and DavidsonClan. Logs signed as Team BOP.
Weather cold wet and windy but that won’t stop us on our mission.
Ngā mihi for the cache hides.

Found

Quick find, took back to the car to sign as there was so much traffic. Placed back then realised I was being watched by a man in the yard!
I hope it hasn't been compromised?
TFTC

Found it
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Third of the day! Busy road to stop on!

Nice poke good container

A nice quick find here today. Tftc

Thanks for another railway cache!
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 7 March 2023 at 6:51 PM

#534th find

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Quick find across a slippery ditch (no I didn’t), nice collection of info, TFTC the Seagnoid

On our way out of Wanganui I filtered by favourite points to make a few finds as we head south.
With this find that’s Sanson cleaned out, for now. The hint had me wondering until I got to GZ and then out was obvious.
Interestingly the Multi took me to a memorial just across the road about the Trams that ran here.
TFTC

Nice easy find on a quick trip to sanson

We poked, it fell out, we signed and put it back ready for the next poke. All done after we had driven along the track and the grass.
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. We did as instructed, most impressively I thought and the cache came flying out. TFTC The Seagnoid, always good to visit another railway location. I enjoy reading the impressive amount of history you add.

Found on our trip back to New Plymouth

Found nice and easy on our way back home to New Plymouth

Kids were keen to go on a Sunday evening geo adventure so we set out to tick off some caches in the local area.

An interesting little piece of local history, I never would have known.

As for the hide itself, I had a good idea of where to look upon arriving but there was no need, the youngest found it in open air! Log signed and tucked back where it was meant to be. TFT history lesson and cache.

I've found a few of this series over the years as I worked in the area or just passing through. Time to tick another few off today. Interesting cap holding the log in a tight roll - very good haven't seen that before but its very effective. TFTC # 18,633

Out and about in Bulls/Sanson area seeing what caches area are around.

Yep, there are one or two, especially solved puzzles and any odd Trad.

Cheers for the cache.

Heading home after 2 weeks fishing the Tongarariro. Picking up some caches along the way home TFTC.

Easy and fun

A quick find. TFTC

One of around 20 caches located today in the wider Sanson area. Nice to have a day without rain for once, after a very wet winter to date! Relatively quick find, a nifty hide! #5272. TFTC.

My first find thanks

A straightforward find with Grubner after visiting the Sunday market. Thanks for placing the cache

TFTC

Decided to go for a drive for my birthday, the day NZ goes to red under traffic lights framework. I haven't cached for a while, so what better way to explore the country side. No need to wear must and social distancing is not an issue Thank you for the cache, and i do enjoy reading about the history and to be at the spot where trains use to travel.

Stopped in town for the night. After a walk around the town we grabbed this one.

A nice easy find. TFTC

Parked nearby for a pitt stop, so wandered over to have a look. Nice quick find here, cheers

Right, that's the end of the line from Foxton for me today. An eleven cache run - thanks! I'll be back sometime to finish the rest...

Quick park and grab. Tftc

Easily spotted. Signed log and replaced where found. TFTC.

3 July 2021 12:10. Always good to avenge a DNF even if I did get muggled by Phronimos! Tftc

Thanks for your amazing cache.
I am continually amazed at the amount of information that is made available by the CO'S.

Cute hide tftc

TFTC nice and easy find! Loves the cache

In the Sanson area today finding a few caches. This Railway Series has been very interesting. Thanks for the history lesson and the cache placements.

We decided to leave Whanganui and do some caching on the backroads in and around Halcombe and Beaconsfield areas.

This was the first stop of the day after realising we qualified for one of the CO’s challenge caches.

A quick stop here on the way. All nice and dry.

TFTC the Seagnoid!

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Just passing through on our way home from collecting the last of the PWGT Rua caches and couldn't resist collecting just a couple more. A nice quick find here even with some sort of cat boot sale thingy happening just up the road - nobody taking any notice of us. Cache nicely concealed. TFTC

I got a little surprise as the container was not what I was expecting in the series! TFTC!!

Found at 5 January 2021 2:44 pm.

I'm on a short geocaching roadtrip to Taranaki, logging my finds as I go (where possible). Will expand when I get home. TFTC

Nice hide. Thanks

Great spot learning a bit of history in the area.

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DNF

Maintenance check - all good here!

Nice one

A quick stop on may way home to Wellington after visiting family in Wanganui. All safe and dry here, TFTC.

Quick find. Vinaka

On our way back to Whanganui after collecting most of the Shield caches. Still have a bit of time and some energy to collect some traditional caches. Enjoyed reading about the railway line. Thanks

First stop on our way to a weekend in Magaweka. Nice quick find. TFTC.

This cache was missing last time I had a look for it in 2014, but it was there today.
Thanks.

Today was a scorcher! Sunday tiki tour to Sanson for coffee and epic cream horn - you know where... While the others were talking shop I went for a quick grab. Log was quite wet and had a musty odour. Dried it out on dashbord and gave it a new bag and a teensie swag of spaghetti . Lovely cache, easy find - thanks heaps!

Day three of my road trip from Auckland to Nelson in my newly acquired convertible cachemobile. Finding a few caches along the way. As I'm familiar with most of the Marlborough and Nelson Rail Trail caches (except the most recent ones which were published while I've been out of town) I thought it would be nice to find a few north island ones. I had just found a stumpy cache in Sanson and noticed this cache on my GPS. Walked along the road to GZ and had a look around. Checked the hint and changed my approach. Ah ha! Got it. TFTC, Biggles.

Found this one lying on the ground so returned it to its hidey hole. The log is pretty wet.

Cool little hide hole! Thanks

Good fun. Ava, William, dad.

Found it!

Found it pretty quickly! Awesome spot!

Visiting town for the New Zealand Blokart Champs at the nearby track.
Had time to kill before registration so here I am.
This was a quick find and quite possibly the first one of the Manawatu Railway series for me so far.
Youve gone to great lengths to keep us on the straight and narrow with a very informative page.

Will have to tackle the rest of them on another trip to keep on track, cos I don't want to derail my plans for this trip. I will be running out of steam as the competition goes on and I'll probably go off the rails if I cache in the evening.
I'm all punned out.
Tftc

A pretty easy find! A ‘hole’ lot of fun!

quick retreival and return. TFTC

Today the next tour with Vesperugo. It is a wonderful Region and we liked it so much to walk, explore and search the boxes. First we visit the Flohmarkt, than search the box.
Thanks to the precise coordinates we could find quick.
Many thanks to hide the box, show us the place and do the maintenance.
Löwenzahn-RLP with Vesperugo

Greeny and May give it an electric shot

Last cache for the day! From when we left home to when we got home = 16hrs. 64 caches with only 5 DNF'. Great day. TFTC

Found with Trayc.g, GigiEV and Juliusfamily. This was our last find after spending the day finding caches. Over 60 caches found today. TFTC

Interesting write up. Last cache of our adventurous day. Julius family and I had a laugh at the retrieval of the cache. 16hrs & 65 caches. Home time now. TFTC

I poked it. Trayc.g caught it.
Our last find for the day. We left home at 5am this morning to do stickman series and didn't get home till 9pm. Stopped in Sanson for a few more on the way home.
TFTC

Quick grab after nearby event, on arrival at GZ cache was on the ground, partly covered by a rock but after signing we replaced it on what we assumed was it’s intended perch as suggested by the hint. TFTC

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

For quite some time now I had been wanting to have a crack at doing all those tempting caches around the Ohakea Airforce Base, and if possible to take a drive down towards Tangimoana to check out the plethora of green dots around there too, and thanks to the great weather and a free afternoon, today became that day.

So 4 hours later, with the sun setting, I was on a roll and just wanted to grab "a few more" whilst I still could. Geocaching isn't addictive eh!

I was really hoping I would be able to find this one, as it would be my 100th find from this CO, which would make me qualify for a particular Challenge Cache in the Wairarapa (as I already had 100 finds from 2 other CO's).

I was able to park opposite GZ and saunter across to make the find, as there was actually not much traffic around at this time of the evening. The cache was a quick find, and as everything was fine with it, the log was signed and replaced quickly before finally heading off home.

Thanks for the cache.

on a mission 50 caches in one day, getting to 1000 caches and getting to the oldest cache in NZ, cache 988, cache number 21 of trip. nice park and grab,, , TFTC.

TFTC

Another quick find. Nice inner container

Nice hot day! Good find

I'm not sure how many are in this rail series but we keep coming across them, another quick park and grab. Thanks

Day 3 of our New Years trip up to the North Island. This was find #16/100 for the day and #85/526 of our trip.
Today was a numbers run of mostly PnG caches. We started in Palmy and set off to see if we could Spell, then headed up to Bulls and after that rounded up a few Smurfs, Herbs, Airplanes and anything else in the way until we came in to finish the KAS trail we started in Oct 2016. Another nice quick park and grab for the numbers here.
Thanks for the effort involved in placing and creating this cache for all of us to enjoy.

I made the poor dog walk up and down with me until there was a break in traffic. I knew what I was looking for as soon as I got to GZ which made a nice change!

On our way through this morning heading back home up north. The farmers market was on - looks great. Quick find here, TFTC