Mingaroa Road Kakariki (Manawatu) Halcombe, North Island, New Zealand
By 4Tees on 02-Jun-14. Waypoint GC55MRY

A quick park up and grab. Thanks for the cache.

Nice

Bit of a bush walk to get to it but easy find

Looks like a pile of stones is in the place...

Found while driving through the lovely
country side of Halcombe with goffyoffy.
TFTC

We were able to help out here by leaving a new waterproof log strip.TFTC

A nice quick find here, soon back on track and continuing our journey. Tftc

Slight side track but it was a quick find & back on track again. Tftc

Nice, easy find, tfth! We were a bit worried it may have been muggled with all the roadworks lately, but it's safe and secure.

Today I am making my way from Wanganui back to Wellington at the end of a weekend, and gathering some geocaches along the way. Some for a specific reason, and some just because. This was one of them.

A slight deviation from my usual path today as one of the specific caches I want is out in this direction. As I have plenty of time today I decided to gather up most of the other ones I passed along the way.

A nice short stop here, easy parking. Quite a bit more traffic than I expected, from all directions, but no one took any notice of me. Cache was found without any trouble. Safe and dry, TFTC.

**14,578**
A nice quick find as we rush back to town so as not to be late for the 2022 event. TFTC

We did a few circuits of the area before our gps settle enough to find a likely spot. Cache all good here. TFTC

Last one here for us before we head down to bulls for one final geocache for the day. This cache marks my 365th for the year but my actual goal is 366 even though it’s not even a leap year haha. GPS was all over the show here but found it at a likely spot. Love the smell of aniseed…..

Lovely smells! Had to move some rubbish but cache is all good. Heaps of parking. Nice to be safely away from traffic. This marks my 200th find! So i achieved my goal for the weekend. Tftc

A day trip to Nanas house. For the school holidays. While out and about and no rain thought it would be good to get a cache or two.

The gps was a bit jumpy but after some wet feet the cache was in hand. Very wet, with several cm of water in it. Dried everything off and put back in its aromatic spot

On my way south, stopping for a few quick ones kind of on the way. TFTC!!

a quick find and my last for today, tftc

A quick and easy find once my phone made up its mind. As mentioned the log is quite damp but we didn’t have a replacement unfortunately.

TFTC 4Tees!

Log very damp. Needs replacing.

Attended the Fielding event yesterday evening and today headed for Halcombe to collect some caches. Quick stop and grab. Very appropriate hint. Thanks

#7

Quick find on a delightful Sunday afternoon. All good here today TFTC

Found! Thanks

Found

A quick and easy find today. No issues with the cache.
Thank you for placing it.

Heading elsewhere but with an eye on caches such as this. These that contribute to the 360 from home towards the All Around Cacher badge award. This cache fulfils a find in the 332°-333° segment.
Simple park & grab. TFTC

Found

Found on a club cycle ride - Marton, Lees Reserve for morning coffee, Sanson, Bulls for lunch and back to the accommodation. A strong northerly but otherwise a great day. TFTC

Quick park and grab. Vinaka

Thanks for this cache, great to visit this area whilst out and about enjoying the Manawatu. Quickly found by hubby. Cache damp but signed & returned as found.

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches. On and off rain all day so not getting all of the caches. Aiming for a certain total then stopping for the day. Nearing the end of my trip now.

Tftc

Quick fine here at the end of my circular cycle. Tftc.

Found 7.45pm
Day one of our Manawatu Road Trip.
Decided to aim for caches we had missed on our last 2 trips.
Caches spread over a large area but managed to get most of our target.
Sorry but as our cache collect was big, paste and copy had to be our option.
Thanks to the CO's for all these cache placements. SLTFTC

With Gap (of Fap and Gap), and Mr Davidson (Davidson clan)... The weather was much improved, and it looked like we were heading for a cracker day. Our cache planning took on a bit of form as we spied a rather large 'S.H.I.E.L.D' on the horizon... We decided to skirt around the geoart today, and visit any hides still on the geomap. All logs were signed with our first name initial - BGH...

As time was getting away on us, we turned our attention to finding lodgings for the night. Since Marton was our closest option, we turned in that direction. Do we have time for a few more caches? This roadside stop should take a couple of minutes. A quick find among the fennel. TFTC.

Day 2 of my road trip for WENZ Mega. Flew up from Invercargill to Wellington yesterday and will end the day in Wanganui.
The local CANZ cache is now off my to do list so time for the last leg for today. My cheap rental hadn't as much get up and go as my usual car, and with a few cars behind me decided here was a good spot to pull up and let them past.
Signed the new logbook placed a few finds ago. Decided this wasn't a throw-down (I avoid them) as the previous logbook, in its dry but distressed state was in the new container.
Thanks for the smilie 4Tees.
2283 15 October 2018 15:45

Good find by the kids.

Container in a terrible state as both the top and bottom had rusted out.
Replaced container and log and put back in the original position

This geocacher reported that the container is damaged.

#10,112. Park and grab in Halcombe. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache lid was broken and the contents quite damp inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Managed to stick the lid back, but it can probably do with a replacement.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to the 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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Stopped by for a quick park and grab on way home to Rotorua. Kids watched a calf being born in paddock across the road a bit early for a calf I thought oh well.

Stopped by for a quick park and grab on way home to Rotorua. Kids watched a calf being born in paddock across the road a bit early for a calf I thought oh well.

Quick find

#4644. 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. Raced over for a quick find. Bug caused a double take. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for the cache 4Tees.

Very local for us, collected whilst collecting litter

TFTC, quick find on a wet dingy day.

Stopped off on my way to Lake Wiritoa for a kayak race.
A quick stop and find.
Nice hide.
Thanks.

Thanks for the cache..

On a weekend mission with Cats&Dragons, for a bit of a numbers run along the new trails around the Northern Manawatu area, and anything else along the way. As usual these types of trips mean maximizing caching time and minimizing sleep time. So with a 2am start time Saturday morning we left home and headed South, and not getting back home til 8.30pm Sunday night. Some numbers for the trip as I know we all like caching stats are:
* 1450km traveled.
* 286 caches found (192 on Saturday, 94 on Sunday) with only 3 DNF's
* 4 hours sleep
* With a 3 hour each way drive to the Caching area, so about 32 hours of caching in the 42 hours we were away at an average of nearly 9 caches per hour, this isn't including stopping for fuel and coffee!!!

So a huge thanks to all the CO's for the placements, and for the reason to see some more of our wonderful country, we saw some pretty amazing places. Sorry for the copy and paste logs. We signed the log books HKCD, or HKCBC&D.

On a variation of route from Palmerston North to New Plymouth and a few caches on the way!
Quick find after the power trail.
TFTC

Another afternoon of caching, beautiful day and lovely scenery. No GPS unit to work with, only description and clues to use. Found it, yay! Need to be careful, steady traffic, stealth required. TFTC

Too easy

A quick find and the first cache of the day. TFTC

Found with Polargirl while finding the car/colour caches around Halcolme

Teeps totally wouldn't even touch this one with a barge pole. Mum saved the day. TFTC.

Love the bug . Wife got a bit of a shock.SL TFTC

Nice quick find. Tftc

Something really smelly around GZ had to rush the find!...TFTC

Sanson to Fielding
How do you take 4 hours to get to a place that a local has told us should only take about 10minutes.
Thats easy, when your out searching for flashy motor cars, along farming country roads while completing not a power trail,but as I would have called it a TributeTrail to David Bowie.
This was great way to see the area.
Thanks for placing this cache 4Tees

A nice reason for a short trip to Manawatu County from Marton. However, since I rode my bike, the fierce winds were quite taxing on my way back.

The travelling fox is exhausted, but satisfied. =~_~=

I had parked the caravan up in Marton and travelled over to North Fielding to pick up as many caches as I could.

Cheers for the cache.

Well bug (ger) me

Quick stop

Quick find

A nice quick easy find - Tftc

A quick find today while on a road trip to Taihape. TFTC

On my way to Palmy North and thought I would grab some drive bys on the way. Decided to take a small detour to do this road circuit and pick up the small power trails here. Thanks.

It turned out to be bigger than I thought - in fact giant! Traffic certainly motors fast past here. tft- interesting-c.

Dodged the traffic and ran up the camber to the spot a quick find without a bite TFTC

Something died here. Stinks.

Horrid smell at this site

found yesterday tftc

#1856 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)

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

Park n grab

Another nice simple one to get me on my way.
I get the feeling GeoCache fever is going to get me!

Found it. Fun fact, i worked on the farm that is next to wear this cache is hidden for 3 years. 2009 till 2012. Tftc

Doing a cache raid today have team up with the [Blue]the [Red]W[/Red]andering dragon [/Blue],[Blue] [Red]I[/Red]nfoferret[/Blue]and [Blue][Red]T[/Red]aybee nz [/Blue] the main arm of the cache raid is to 1 Have fun and we did have fun
2 To qualify for the 142 in 24 challenge all hid but [Blue][Red]T[/Red]aybee[/Blue] did back in june
3 To crack the 3000 cache barrier for [Blue]the wandering dragon [/Blue],[Blue]Infoferret[/Blue]and [Blue]taybee nz [/Blue] all did this
4 To crack the 3200 for [Blue]taybee [/Blue] miss it by 27 cache
5 [Blue]taybee nz [/Blue] over take [Blue]taybee [/Blue] found count he miss it by 12
6 to get CANZ at halcombe and a Nigth Cache at foxton

Stats for the day
time door to door 15 hours 30 mins
Kms total was 424km work out to be 2.58 kms per cache
caching time was 11 hours 13 mins time between caches was app 4 mins per cach
As I have done 90% of the caches already i was the driver [Blue]taybee nz [/Blue] was find of must of the caches [Blue]the wandering dragon [/Blue],[Blue]Infoferret[/Blue] was sign the log books Must of the log's were sign as[Red] WITT[/Red]
Cache was find at 17/01/2016 18:10 Found: GPS > 2016-01-17T05:10Z

TFTC

[?] Found with taybee [?] Sign log book as WITT

Found as part of Team WITT on an epic caching mission. TFTC

Cache # 2,993 - part of a massive 13-hour day, doing a blitz around Palmerston North wider area with team WITT (Wandering Dragons, Infoferret, Taybee and TaybeeNZ), ultimately resulting in 160 caches for me. The KAS trail was the heart of this effort, but we continued on past that to a number of points further north in Halcombe and Feilding to get our numbers up. TNLNSL. TFTC!

Out on a sunny day to tackle some Halcome caches.
Picked up this quick grab along the way.

second or the day off to halcome

[green] Off to one of the most important geocaching events of the year, the Rattll Christmas Barbecue event. And naturally, I am taking the long way there, with Haydn.seek for company. On top of that I am wanting to hit a new record, 2000 cache finds in a year, and I only have about 40 to go.
So down the back roads. Thanks for the cache!

Quick find on our 2 day road trip from hawkes bay. Tftc

We decided to make the most of a particularly mild July afternoon and go for a geo-drive. This was the first find of the afternoon, thanks for this drive-by 4Tees.

A quick find on an afterboon's caching in the area after the morning event cache near Sanson. Signed log, TFTC

Found it, our first search!

nice and easy find today

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.
A quick and easy find. Thanks for placing a cache here.

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

Quick signing then onward. Tftc

Out and about the Manawatu for a day's caching. A great day for it and a most enjoyable tiki tour around the back blocks.

TFTC 4Tees

Cute cache.

Thanks 4Tees for this cool cache, Jnr found it and was very pleased with his find, and loved the camo!

Enjoying the rural excursion around Kakariki on a lovely sunny day, thanks for the cool cache.

Nice quick find, on a fab sunny day
TFTC

We decided to go out for a drive and collect a few caches, as it was a very nice day,
This was our second find of the day and took us a few minutes to find the right spot, TFTC
Found with jesso22 sorry about the late logging

This was our second find of the day. Hadn't had a chance to update the GPS so we were using the phone today, bit dodgy gps and a terrible screen to look at on such a bright sunny day, so at first we looked in slightly the wrong place. Pinpointed it eventually and made the find easily. I like the camo, thanks for the cache!

Very quick find - cool camo - tftc