ALL ABOARD (Northland ) Dargaville, North Island, New Zealand
By butchie bum and Max on 16-Dec-15. Waypoint GC6888Y

Walking the town. Nice quick find. With Kaz53

Nice wee hide. Log a bit fragile but still hanging in there

Cool little find! Our first ever in fact. Paper is very soggy!

Sure hanging low. Second time lucky. Nice view of the old railway yards. Great spot, thanks

Out caching with govtfunded today. We had looked before but not logged a dnf. Had a little help from a local who knew what we were after. TFTC

Cycling the trail, rump getting a bit sore, stopped to admire the station, quick find

Found it! Great little find

Good little find Paper is getting wet though

Second time round. Seemed easy. Thank you

Shame passenger trains dont come up here now tftc

No access sign looks new, but not sure I believe the station is still in use. TFTC

Thank you

We found it. Thanks for the Cache

Cache is still here! Was found lying on the ground. Metal ring rusted and broken so will need replacing. Signed and put back. Thanks for our first cache in Northland

3rd DNF in 2 days.

No joy here today.

Thanks!

Nice rasy find on a random trip to Dargaville with my muggle brother from Timaru thank you for placing this cache for me to find

Quick park and grab, would love to come back and do the Rail Tour one day.

TFTC

Nice quick find, Nice to get a bit of history, too. TFTC

Not really sure about this one. Thanks anyway.

Thanks for this cache, butchie bum & Max.
It took ages for my phone GPS to settle & I should’ve just used geo-sense, anyway I eventually found it.
I’m on a bit of a GeoTour road trip; have had a pleasant couple of days in Dargaville before heading north.

#11,594. I am making my way back south to Whangarei and the day is starting to run out now. Lucky last for the day. The sun has set now and I am getting hungry. Parked close by and this place was deserted. Had a quick look around at this little station then headed to GZ and found the cache in the first place checked. Signed the log and replaced the cache as found. Thanks butchie bum and Max for hiding it here.

Today I went on the Dargaville Rail Carts tour to Tangowahine, what a great journey. At the end I managed to find this cache (& were able to show my work colleagues the sorts of things I have been looking for). TFGC

Too wet today

Too much rain to get on my knees

Too much rain to get on knees

Nice hide. Quite day, great cache weather. Tftc

TFTC

Strolled along to GZ and made a quick find here.
Travelled up from Dunedin for my first Mega event and wanting to sign off some geotour caches as well in Auckland and Northland.
Thanks for the cache, butchie bum
#3087

After a nearby DNF it was nice to walk along to here, get down to business and make the find. Cheers b b and M.

Our last day in the region before heading South today, and back home. Then tomorrow we're off for part 2 of the holidays in Taihape and Palmerston North with our daughter and her family. I wanted to head out Dargaville and Kai Iwi way first before leaving though and added some more kms onto the car's speedo!

Work is finished for the year and it's time to head to Northland for a few days prior to Christmas. Primarily to see our son and his partner and our grandchildren and also a bit of a beach break at the work bach. A good few days away, and a few caches found, thanks to all COs.

Found after a second visit I was fix on the building first-time.

Great to see these places TFTC

On a caching trip to Dargaville to do some cache maintenance and get a few caches along the way. I put a call out on the Auckland Geocachers group to see if anyone would come and keep me company on the drive as it can be a bit of a drag to do a big drive by myself. Fortunately Jag50, Merlot58 and Team Welsh agreed to come so a full car made our way around.

Nice and quick find for Merlot here - I had wandered back to the car to get a replacement logbook as we thought for the logs that it might be full but the last finder or so had replaced it so all good here. Thanks for the cache - quite an interesting spot here.

We were thinking we would have to add a new log here but thanks to the previous finders we had a nice new log to sign our names on

Nice easy find

On our caching journey up to the north with EyeSpyBen to sort out a few more caches and a couple of series, many miles driven over many days and many caches found, not to many dnfs
but lovely weather, Thanks to all the cache owners for the placements Log Book Full

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

Qwesy.

Logbook full, sodden and shredded. Replaced. CO contacted.

Unable to find spoke to a local who knew where it was but is not there

Found no probs but bit damp and log full

Berrydehamster and me are travelling in New Zealand for three weeks. We cross the country from north to south and back again by campervan, see a lot, do a lot, visit lots of places and meet a lot of people. It’s nice to be here and we have a great time.

As both of us are geocachers, we find a lot of caches on our travels. This is one of the caches we found. Thanks for your cache, butchie bum and Max, that helped give us a wonderful time here.

NLBokkie and I are going on holiday to New Zealand for 3 weeks. In Auckland we rent a camper. We start on the North island and driving to the south to make the crossing to the South island. Here we make a round and then take the boat back to the North Island. A long trip, but a very beautiful one! We do and see a lot on our way.........…

In addition to being a tourist, we are also going to cache along the way. The virtuals and earth caches are often on tourism places. If we have a long day of traveling, we stop for some caches.
It were great weeks!

Having a couple of days in Dargaville many thanks to every one who put out the caches taking us to places we would not have visited.

Another good spot to check out

TFTC

Nice quick find. An interesting old engine in the yard.

Found on my trip north enjoying the caches in the area

After the long hike at Dome Valley on Saturday, I drove up to Dargaville to stay the night. I was too tire to go out when I arrived, so I came here first thing in the morning. I followed my GPSr for a few minutes before I expanded my search and spotted the cache on the fence. TFTC.

Spending a few days in the north moseying around in the camper. One for Mrs S here. Curious obviously the train tracks are not used any more but the station is very well preserved. I guess there is a reason for that somewhere.

Thanks butchie bum and Max.

Missed the trains, but found the cache on our way back home. TFTC

First time in Dargaville should have brought some kumeras here TFTC

Sadly no signs were out showing when this facility was open.

Zweitletzter Tag mit Heckenstürmer in Neuseeland. Morgens die Koutu Boulders bestaunt. Da hat es echt ein paar Prachtsexemplare mit dabei. Danach einen kurzen Abstecher zum South Head bei Omapere gemacht und anschliessend noch eine letzte Wanderung um den Lake Taharoa gemacht. Einfach genial die blaue Farbe des Wassers.

Greezs from Switzerland

Day 29 in Newzealand. Today we drove from Rawene to Paparoa.
A very beautiful Country with lovely places. We were able to find nice Caches and See Lots of beautiful places.
Thank you for showing us this place.
Tftc

rainy day in dargaville with Findbobi -still we found some caches

Good day for caching on our holiday with Kaari74

Thank you! I sent a pic of the container to my mum and she thought it had 'cocaine' written on it! Poor lady probably wasn't wearing her glasses. cheers

I'm from Switzerland and spend 4 months in New Zealand on vacation. Found this cache after a few minutes search, thanks.

Hi I`m Swiss too and we searched and my mate spoted it before me .Thank very much !!

Found it by Ben and Aaron

After doing some shopping in Dargaville, we set about rounding up all the caches in the area, we don't normally clear out a town but we managed to today!! Another success here, everything all good, thanks

I found this Cache after shopping in Dargaville. Took ne a while to sign the log due to the fact that the rail just arrived back at the station.

On our way to an event at Bayleys Beach tonight but still time to capture a couple more.
Stopped off here. The hunt was on here going round this building before finally snagging this elusive one. Cheers
Monday - New Years Eve - day seventeen - Whangarei - Dargarville - Whangarei today in Toby. Zara gets another rest. So lets go exploring!!

Its another epic 3+ week geocaching adventure with The Seagnoid, Zara, Toby and William to the Far North. What an amazing place to explore. Lots of walks, gravel roads and sand. Lots of amazing trees, beaches and interesting POIs. Lots of kilometers traveled by vehicle and foot. Vehicle breakdowns, making new friends and catching up with old friends and family. Snagged a couple of FTF's, lots of lonely caches and the odd event along the way. Lots of cache maintenance and replaced caches on this trip. But what an incredible adventure!!. Thanks to all the CO's who have made this trip so memorable..

Interesting place. Engine sheds made out of containers, yet a full size railway platform. I wonder what the carts here look like? The place seems closed down.

Day seventeen of an awesome, tiring, long, three week holiday geocaching with Taybeedragon in the upper north. Taybeedragon and I scooted over from Whangarei this morning, especially to visit the kauri museaum, then back to Dargaville for a sundown event and back back to Whangarei for bed and a sunrise event. The whole trip comprised of hours of walking on sand, sliding down sand dunes, hundreds of kilometres of unsealed roads, car breakdowns, paddling out to islands, lighthouses, dolphins, goats, events, FTFs, weird boulders. You name it, we saw it. Lots of bisons, lots of cache maintenance, lots of sunscreen. A month is enough. I am glad to be back home. Except that now I have to write up my trip. We averaged just 20 caches per day, but that is still a lot of logging!

Happy new Planetary Orbit from the Seagnoid!

Today we had a trip around Dargaville, thereby visiting many locations especially the near Kauri forest, and looking for caches, too. On this trip we searched, found and logged a lot of caches. The weather was good all day long, but it got more and more cloudy in the afternoon.
Almost no muggels observed us as they had other things to do than observing harmless geocachers.

Thanks to 'butchie bum and Max' for showing us this location and for the fun we had at 'ALL ABOARD (Northland )'. The search we had here today didn't take too much time.

Greetings from Germany and hope to see you soon in the forest.

TFTC says H_M_A @ 18. November 2018 @ 08:32 Uhr @ [#12546](https://coord.info/GC6888Y)

TFTC....On a road trip across New Zealand and enjoying this area, visiting from Sask. Canada

Found with FMZ, Gorby and Lostcourse on a day trip caching up north. TFTC

Left Auckland with Gorby, Lostcourse and 404 about 3am this morning and headed north to do a big loop around the Kaipara and a bunch of rural back-roads before heading home. Lots of great countryside and views, interesting caches, better than expected weather, and great company. We drove past this one earlier but there were muggles about so headed off for some others before coming back. This time the coast was clear and the cache quickly located. TFTC!!!

It took some time to find the little box. Thanks for the cache!

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Took a little while to find since my GPS was well off! Logged as Re13 tftc

I am making my way north of Dargaville, this afternoon, to visit my parents. Nice to find some hides along the way as it really helps to break up the trip. I thought I would find a few caches around Dargaville before making the last push towards my ultimate destination. This was my last cache of the day. I parked up near GZ and got to looking. The GPSr was pointing one way, but I followed my nose, instead. This proved a wise choice as I found the hide in the very first spot I checked. Though I had to wonder why there was cattle on the other side of the tracks...anyway cheers for the cache placement!

Easily found tftc

Nice easy find out n bout with the kids tftc.

Quick easy find. Early morning so no one around.

Got it. Railway looks quiet today. TFTC

Cheers for bringing us here! This is the coolest little railway station ever!! Nice quick grab

Hi there butchie bum - after arriving in Dargaville yesterday we decided a day caching and seeing the sights was in order. We visited the Museum first (after brunching at a bakery) then looked for a few more local caches. SL. The container and log are both in good condition. Thanks to butchie bum for this cache - our find #5228

Was out and about with the CO today...helped out by checking her cache!
All good here..thanks butchie bum and Max...

A quick find, while on the way into a customers. Another week long visit, and the only cache on this trip. Or so I thought at the time. After here, I got seconded up to Kaitaia then back home to Hamilton. I believe making this the furtherest distance I've DRIVEN and cached in one day

TFTC butchie bum, the cache was found in good order Signed, sealed and returned to GZ. 1 find(s) of 4 today, making this find #1647

Passing thru Dargaville, so just had to stop off to look for a cache. With the good description and experience of the CO's previous hides, cache was quickly located. log signed and replaced without being observed by any muggles. TFTC

Waited for train but it didn't come today! Nice to come here. Dargaville is a busy little centre these days. Thanks for the cache.

A nice quick find and sign thank you BB and Max for the great placement it great to see these historic places

There was a lot of fencing off going on around this old station but the cache was easily found on a fine morning in Dargaville where we stopped for coffee and a few caches
Thanks

This weekend was a road trip to the Cape. With the large number of kilometres to drive, our first stop was going to be Dargaville. So first it was an event in Rotorua, then Hamilton before getting to the North. Picked up Bruce on way and met Hemi at the event. The rain was fair pouring down and was hoping it might clear as we went.
11.20pm - Went to wrong side at first. SLTFTC

Away with Fapandgap and squirrel nutcase from Rotorua after self evacuating the BOP nice quick find here tonight after checking into motorcamp thought we would get a few caches before bed.
Signed log BGH.

With Gap (of Fap and Gap) and Mr Davidson (of Davidson clan). Signed most finds as BGH... Come at us Cyclone Cook...

Heading to Northland for Easter... While the latest cyclone was bearing down on the country, we were blissfully heading away from the mayhem. As we got further north, the weather calmed to the point that we began to doubt and question all of the 'reported' hype. At least the dire weather warnings kept sane people at home, and we had a clear run up the motorway...

Time was getting away on us, so Gap decided to bypass any further caches until after we were settled into our accommodation. We stayed in an interesting location. Our room was an old, re purposed shipping container. Once we were sorted, it was back into the night to find some of the local hides...

We were worried that this one might be fenced off. A closer inspection and this one was in hand. TFTC.

Got this one pretty quick on our trip around town to collect the caches. Collected just as the "trains" arrived. TFTC

Nice wander around a very quiet Dargaville today! Bit of drizzle, then the sun came out and had some power behind it! TFTC.

After I've arrived from Auckland, I went into the village to find some caches. When I arrived here, a local was working a little further down the road. That makes me extra careful, because I don't want to spoil anything for others. But I obviously didn't use my stealth mode in the right way, since after just two minutes the local started asking a question in the distance.
"You looking for the cache, mate?" He showed me the right place, so I could sign the log sheet in a blink. It's a nice way to get to know locals!

On our way home to Papamoa & just starting to drizzle so caching may get a miss from here on.Easy find,thankyou.

Found this one while on a holiday from our home in Whangamata. TFTC

Visiting Dargaville for a cycling weekend. Finding the cache was a bonus. TFTC.

Nice straight forward find here, no one going for a ride but would have been interesting to see. TFTC

Quick park n grab. Thanks.

After a short search, we got the box easily. TFTC

Found it together with pijotre.
TFTC

This could have been tricky but I walked straight to it, thanks to recent spraying clearing the long grass. Greetings to butchie bum

We are on our way from Auckland to the north. The landscape is very varied and the streets go up and down. Of course, we had to sign the one or the other cache, of course. A nice area.
Many thanks to the owner and many greetings from Germany the Moorhelmis

Found after a fun day on the Rail Carting experience along the historic Northern Wairoa River and through farmland. Had a quick look before our tour but no good. After returning Kiwiscot quickly found the hide. Heaps of fun had by all. Would quite happily recommend the experience. If stuck the staff are in the know. TFTC