David Bowie power trail - hunky Dory (Manawatu) Halcombe, North Island, New Zealand
By marisa&kaleb on 13-Aug-16. Waypoint GC6Q5BG

Out on the back roads to find some of the caches in the area. A good day, with only a few showers, followed by a rainbow. Hardly any traffic. TFTC!!

Easy park and grab. Lovely spot on a nice day. TFTC.

It's December, and to help me achieve one of my Geocaching goals I need to log 300+ caches this month, which means an average of ten a day. As I meander my way home from Wanganui to Wellington, via the outskirts of Feilding and Palmy, I found a bunch of Geocaches, and this was one of them.Cache was found as described.---Thanks to marisa&kaleb for placing and maintaining this cache. I enjoy each and every cache I find, and it is only with Geocachers like this creating them and placing them out in the world that this wonderful game continues.[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge

Continuing on collecting some of this series, working towards a challenge, and also enjoying the rural Manawatu countryside.

After a weekend away with friends and watching the AB's win (whew that was a close one) we did a little bit of caching. Chose the David Bowie power trail, slightly disappointed at the number of MIA caches and containers in poor condition. Yay another cache still in place. TFTC

After the last hide was a dnf I was happy that this one was still there. Tftc

Easy find, close to family who never knew

42.

**14,523**
GPS had us in the middle of the road, so had four options to choose from. Finally got it right. TFTC

one day i will go to the right one first, at least i still found it, tftc

Headed out for an evening of caching. The aim was to complete the Bowie series plus a few of the Planets and Cars that we still needed to find. Got all but one of the Bowie ones. Enjoyed reminiscing about his music. Hunky Dory was one of his albums that I had at school and it’s still one of my favourites. Struggled opening some of the rusted mint tins and many of the caches had water in them however I was amazed how well the water proof paper worked. No problems signing. Thanks for the smileys. A favourite for this one as it’s my favourite album.

A nice quick find thanks.

Ms_KR and I are on our annual pilgrimage to Auckland for a family Christmas. Today we cruised around the Manawatu.

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Thanks for placing these various series of geocaches for me to pick and choose to maintain my streak of daily consecutive geocache finds - currently at 310 days... Just 55 days to go
It'll be a relief.
Replaced cache container as it had lost its lid. Damn that plastic is tough to write on.

Expanded the search and finally had it in hand, but the lid of the container is missing. TFTC

Out and about today to celebrate my birthday. A bit of a weird vibe this year, what with all the issues around Covid-19, but with Level 3 in place we had a bit of latitude so long as the Rules were strictly observed. Stay within our regions, and within 75km. Stay within our bubbles. Practice social distancing. Those last two were easy as I didn't see another person all day.

I picked out a few caches to do today that I knew would be reasonably remote, and not likely to have been handled in a while. Most of what I found today hadn't been found in at least 6 weeks, and some of them not since last year. And I had my trusty bottle of hand sanitizer with me.

This cache was one of many today where it might be prudent to update the container. These ones are good for a while, but once you get water ingress then it's only a matter of time before they fail, usually with the result of a mushed log. Most of the logsheets I saw in these cases were waterproof paper, but they are still hard to sign when soaking wet.
I also took the liberty of CITO-ing the container by removing the condom (unused) before signing the log and returning it as I found it before moving onto the next.

Thank you for placing this cache.

Stopped and visited during our Xmas roadtrip around the area. No problem locating this one TFTC. Merry Christmas and safe travels to all cachers

Quick find. Tin is missing the lid. Tftc

Rain and wind here!...TFTC

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Racing home with hungry kids

Let's start the new year with some good numbers - so power caching. TFTC

Nice to be out and about finishing off this series and singing to myself as I go
Enjoyed this small trail
Thanks marisa&kaleb

Just finishing off thus series of David Bowie many thanks

Up for the Mega for the week, had a great day in the Bulls and the sunrounding areas many thanks to the cache placer's - Bitsprayer

We are staying with family and had a surprising hour or so free so headed out this way to grab a few quick caches. Thanks for all of the power trails around here, enough to keep us busy for a number of trips to come (we just worked out we have over 100 caches still to find within 10 km's from Feilding centre). A nice quick find here with darthcacher1 and purply.

On a road trip with Team BOP, having a blast and gathering a few smileys along the way. Please excuse generic logs in advance. Many Thanks to all you cache owners for the placements. Cheers

11.55pm
Travelled to Manawatu area with BOP members for the weekend.
All logs signed as Team BOP.
Generally caches were good and all but 2 found.
Thanks to cache owners for placements. SLTFTC

Signed Teambop. Came down to Fielding for the weekend with Philip.Perry, Tnxpro, Nzflossy, McJandals, Squirrel Nutcase and FapandGap . Staying at a farmhouse down the road from here.


Tftc

Road trip time! This weekend Team BOP consisted of Davidson Clan, TNXPro, Squirrelnutcase, FapAndGap, McJandals, NZFlossy & myself. We'd had this trip on the cards for a while but only recently had we locked in all the details. We were off to central Manawatu and we had a very narrow list of ‘must gets’ so this trip was essentially a numbers mission. We had a great time and managed just over 200 finds. Most of the caches were found quickly and in good condition thanks to accurate coords and straight forward placements although we replaced a lot of logs and a few containers as well. A huge thank you to the CO’s as this was a beautiful area to visit and there was certainly an abundance of geocaches!!

Team BOP were still going. Its well after nightfall and we have now been caching for 16 hours. We passed 140 finds for the day and we were still powering on!
Tired but still Hunky Dory!
TFTC

Team BOP on tour in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region... With Gap (of Fap and Gap), (Mr) Davidson clan, McJandals, NZFlossy, Philip.Perry, and TNXPro.

This weekend had been in the pipeline for ages. It was always going to be a mission for various team members to get coordinated leave passes... We secured accommodation in the rural heart of the Manawatu. This placed us well within reach of a massive trail of caches... We travelled in one vehicle, so our journey was filled with lots of laughs, and good times... Fortunately, the majority of caches were in place and were fairly quick to locate - thanks to straightforward hints and great coordinates. Many of the caches had not been found in a while, so containers were waterlogged, and logbooks were wet... Thank goodness for waterproof paper. A huge thank you also, to the various COs who made our weekend worthwhile...

Cue the music. TFTC.

On a road trip with Team BOP to Feilding. Set off Friday night and back home Sunday. Lots of caches and lots of laughs with great weather and great scenery. Thanks to all the COs for giving us a awesome trip

#10,180. Returned to complete the David Bowie power trail series on Makara Road in Halcombe. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Found after a short search – at about 9 metres away. The cache was in good condition, with the weather proof paper doing its job well. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

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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(# 4534). Came up to the Manawatu to grab some caches on a nice fine winters day. There must have been a lot of rain recently as everything is waterlogged. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

We have been fans of David Bowie's music throughout the many changes during his long career, and are familiar with all but a couple of the songs used in this series. So we were keen to pick up this trail this morning before heading back home to Auckland. We had the promised quick Park'n'grab finds at almost all of them. Thanks

I had some spare time while in town visiting some of the rellies, so I thought Id do a few of the easy drivebys in the area. I had a great day and grabbed a heap of caches. Lots of damp and wet caches, but not surprising given the weather. I did find some that had been replaced, but found the original nearby. Signed one or the other depending on which I found first. Thanks to all the CO's for a great day and apologies for the generic log.

We hadn't intended to do any geo caching today, but after doing a bit of shopping in Palmy and then dropping young Rattll off at the airport, we found we had an hour or so spare before we could pick the dog up from the kennels, so figured we may as well chip off a little more of this series. So we finished off the 10 left on this road.
No problems with any of the finds, although some of them were full of water, so we did our best to dry them out.
Thanks for adding to our smiley tally marisa&kaleb.
I'm not really familiar with this song

Yes! Another one of the earlier songs,but it's getting late in the day and the light is starting to fade, time to head home soon...

We found it.
Log signed as 'IE'. TFTC.

I needed to get out of the house today so went on a wee little trail. Sorry about the genetic log, most of the eclipse tins were rust and hard to open but were in reasonable condition. Thanks for the caches, was a great drive.

A quick easy find in this David Bowie series. As most of the logs were wet, we took a towel to each one. TFTC

Found and signed

Have dropped off travelling companion spudnz and I still have a little bit of energy (and petrol) so might go and grab a few m&k caches whilst the mood takes me. I'm hoping/intending to get up to tripe figures of their caches for an up-coming Challenge cache placement that I also should qualify for before setting.. . . . . . . Grabbed some cars, colours, Bowie hits, planets . . . .

Today starts with daylight saving coming into effect which really means an extra hours caching, yay. I told my daughter I would be up and out early and was true to my word, was in the car and gone at 0600 just as light was breaking. I had a few targets for the day; do the zig-zag/ridge road power trail in Pohangina Valley with caching buddy spudnz, try and grab a D/T for my second lap around the track, try and get finds by a certain Manawatu cacher up to 100 finds for a Challenge cache I'm planning on setting, a big day is planned today. I ended up in triple figures, and even finishing at 4.30 while the day still had light in it, virtually unheard of. Still, 7 hours caching can take it out of you! Thanks to all of the COs whose hides I found today; some awesome caches out there and not easy to maintain for others - well done everyone

Have eventually got around to spending an afternoon in the area cleaning up some of the cache trails here. A quick find here like most of the rest of them. Signed log, TFTC.

On a wee trip down to the area doing some mini trails, this one fell within range, so we grabbed it while passing. Signed 2BB 1BB for 2 Bulbars and Blenheim Bear. Mission accomplished, this one is a wrap. Thanks for the cache from Blenheim Bear!
This cache posted with CacheSense for Android.

Out on a road trip this weekend with Blenhiem Bear. It was raining as we left home and rained all the way to Turakina then cleared and at the first stop it was sunny and very warm (thank you)
We had a great time and saw many friends names as we signed the logs all logs signed 2 BB & 1 BB for 2 Bulbars and Blenhiem Bear
Thanks for placing all these caches and we enjoyed cruising around the back country

I found everything to be Hunky Dory here today.

This was always going to be a bit of a caching trip in the company once again of HKCB. Having though about it and done a fair bit of planning over the past couple of weeks this was a chance for a reasonable clean out of an area that we don't normally get to. So with families in mind, rather than setting out on the Friday evening we left home at 2am on the Saturday morning to make our way south before either the heat of the day or there was too much traffic on the road.

Some stats for the weekend
- Distance Traveled = 1457 kms
- Petrol = 3 x Fills
- Time Away from Home = 42 hours
- Straight Driving Time = 6 hours
- Sleep = 4 hours
- Caches Found = 250
- DNF's = 3

So after a straight forward drive down here this was the first that we located of what was going to be a very long day, and followed by another very long day.

While I apologize that these are 'copy & paste" logs, I would just like to say thank you to all the CO's that have have put out and maintained these caches for us out of 'non-locals' to find. It was a great weekend and we traveled though some amazing countryside.
A key learning from the weekend was that a Mazda CX5 is not designed to ford rivers.
So thank you for the placement, thank you 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.

I had another opportunity to pop out and try to grab some more of these power trail caches just north of Feilding. I didn't realise until I got to the first cache that today is in fact Friday the 13th and unfortunately for me, the day didn't end as well as I would've hoped. Nearing the end of my trip (only four caches left to find) I somehow managed to jam my finger in the car door. With my finger throbbing in pain and blood leaking everywhere, I decided to retire hurt for the day. Leaving the rest of the cache for another day.
I was surprised at how quiet the roads were and was only passed by one muggle looking at me suspiciously.
Another quick and easy find here.
Thanks for the cache and the smiley.

It wasn't so much a case of “Trains and Boats and Planes” today, more one of Cars and Songs and Colours, with the odd Planet thrown into the mix. I enjoyed a nice day in the country with the sun on my back. Cheers and thanks for all the caches. TFTC

Today, along with D6NZ, we were attempting to get ruby in a caching feat by logging 120 caches in a single day. Unfortunately I had already done the Ohakea run, D6 some of the ones south of sanson, and jointly many around Halcombe so we needed to venture a bit wider than was ideal but we were up to it.

At a this point in the day we were making really good progress (find number sixty five), having finished the run of dwarfs, smurfs and herbs, only losing about an hour travelling to the nest of colours and cars. While here we were able to continue with Mr Bowie, a series we had eaten into on a previous occasion, when we did not see ourselves going for a targeted number on a given day (more fool us).

All in all a good day, lots of scenery, lots of roads both sealed and unsealed that we had not been on, and largely thanks to M&K.

Cheers

Planned a days caching around a goal of logging 120 caches today to obtain a ruby feat. Unfortunately some of the runs available I had already eaten into during normal
caching days which meant I had to target a few trails with 50 or more minutes travelling time between them, chewing up precious daylight hours.
Left home at 6:30 got back well after 9pm. it was a long day.
I targeted three areas, Bulls, Feilding, and Himitangi.

Another outing with MJMNZ & haydn.seek. Weather looked daunting, but no rain – only wind! An enjoyable day with good company.
TFTC

The weather was right and all was planned..It was an early start as We met at the big town of Halcombe at 7.45 am and then proceeded along Stanway road picking up geo caches along the way, all except Tweet Tweet..... Grrr. but as my foot was not totally healed from Turangi Gaol expedition, it was decided to give that climb a miss so another time! The Puzzle caches were first along this route and then onto the David Bowie Trail, this being the first. Although we did find some of these DB caches up to 10m out sometimes but mostly the hint sufficed luckily. I do find caches that all start with same words difficult on my Gps as it is so easy to get muddled! We then turned into Makara road and located caches along here , then headed to locate some more of the Car trail and then onto some more of the planets- before MJMNZ's tyre got a puncture but with Jono's expert help and the help of a local farmer all was temporarily Ok for us to proceed into Feilding.. Air in the tyre and then it was time to find a café for a much need drink! before splitting up and returning to our own cities. altogether we had great morning and found a satisfying number of caches so many thanks for these trails and all our smiley faces.

Early start meeting in the middle of Halcolm at 8 am !!
Out for a morning of geocaching with JonoS, Haydnseek and myself.
No Rain lots of wind and long grass with the spring growth. At times grass waist high. David Bowie caches harder on GPS as the name comes first so more difficult to find the name of the cache. All in all a good fun day apart for a puncture (a new tyre needed$$$ as a big nail in the tyre and Jono changed it with the help of a local farmer. )Thanks for placing this series

#2666 More to follow.

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Hunky Dory
For other uses, see Hunky Dory (disambiguation).
Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Hunky Dory.jpg
Studio album by David Bowie
Released 17 December 1971
Recorded June–August 1971
Studio Trident Studios, London, England
Genre
Glam rock art rock folk rock
Length 41:50
Label RCA Records
Producer
Ken Scott David Bowie
David Bowie chronology
The Man Who Sold the World
(1970) Hunky Dory
(1971) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
(1972)
Singles from Hunky Dory
"Changes" / "Andy Warhol"
Released: 7 January 1972
"Life on Mars"
Released: 22 June 1973
Hunky Dory is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, recorded in mid-1971 and released by RCA Records that December.[1] It was his first release through RCA, which would be his label for the next decade. Hunky Dory has been described by AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine as having "a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class".[2]

The album has received critical acclaim since its release, and is regarded as one of Bowie's best works. Time chose it as part of their "100 best albums of all time" list in January 2010, with journalist Josh Tyrangiel praising Bowie's "earthbound ambition to be a boho poet with prodigal style".[3] The style of the album cover, designed by George Underwood, was influenced by a Marlene Dietrich photo book that Bowie took with him to the photo shoot.[4][5]

Contents
Production Edit

With new bass player Trevor Bolder replacing Tony Visconti, Hunky Dory was the first production featuring all the members of the band that would become known the following year as Ziggy Stardust's Spiders From Mars. Also debuting with Bowie, in Visconti's place as producer, was another key contributor to the Ziggy phase, Ken Scott. The album's sleeve would bear the credit "Produced by Ken Scott (assisted by the actor)". The "actor" was Bowie himself, whose "pet conceit", in the words of NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, was "to think of himself as an actor".[6]

Style and themes Edit

Musical biographer David Buckley said of Hunky Dory, "Its almost easy-listening status and conventional musical sensibility has detracted from the fact that, lyrically, this record lays down the blueprint for Bowie's future career."[7] The opening track, "Changes", focused on the compulsive nature of artistic reinvention ("Strange fascination, fascinating me/Changes are taking the pace I'm going through") and distancing oneself from the rock mainstream ("Look out, you rock 'n' rollers"). However, the composer also took time to pay tribute to his influences with the tracks "Song for Bob Dylan", "Andy Warhol" and the Velvet Underground inspired "Queen Bitch".

Following the hard rock of Bowie's previous album The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of Space Oddity, with light fare such as "Kooks" (dedicated to his young son, known to the world as Zowie Bowie but legally named Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones) and the cover "Fill Your Heart" sitting alongside heavier material like the occult-tinged "Quicksand" and the semi-autobiographical "The Bewlay Brothers". Between the two extremes was "Oh! You Pretty Things", whose pop tune hid lyrics, inspired by Nietzsche, predicting the imminent replacement of modern man by "the Homo Superior", and which has been cited as a direct precursor to "Starman" from Bowie's next album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Took the wrong turning after the Mega so taking the long way home. Finding new caches in area not been for a long time TFTC

Took the wrong turning after the Mega so taking the long way home. Finding new caches in area not been for a long time TFTC

Absolutely all hunky dory with the cache found and log signed - off we go with another tune ringing in our heads. TFTC #9527

Hunky dory that's the story. Out on a wonderful day caching in the countryside and everything's just hunky dory. TFTC .

I decided to go home via National Park as I though The desert rad would be way too busy to stop for a few geocaches. My flight for Christchurch left Palmerston North at 5pm. Next I took the back way to Feilding and allowed myself until 3.30 before heading back towards the airport. just felt like some nice park and grabs and these ones were perfect. I love David Bowie music.

Heading towards the Mega. Thought it would be impolite not to grab a few on the way through. Thanks all for the hides.

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 marisa&kaleb

Last full day in NZ so obviously I went and did geocaching in the morning! 16th of the day and I realised my mistake at the previous dnf when finding this one. TFTC.

We were thankful the rain held off for us in this area, really nice drive around.
Soon found cache here. SL TFTC

A great day out with tmann421 collecting some caches in the area.
A nice quick find for us here and really enjoyed the series TFTC marisa&kaleb

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.

After spending the morning cleaning my house (have been neglecting the housework lately in lieu of caching), I decided to reward myself with a couple of hours of caching! So I thought I'd knock of a few of the recent hides just out of Feilding. Had to pass the three other caches that I hadn't found on this stretch of road as a farmer was feeding out in the paddocks. Quick find here and on my way. TFTC

TFTC!

A very pretty little valley through here and pleasantly sheltered from what was a rather cold wind blowing today despite the sunshine. All the green grass on the hills and hundreds of white fluffy lambs about was an amazing sight to see. A quick fun run along Makara Road with all caches found without any issues.

Many thanks for the placements marisa&kaleb

We enjoyed a caching expedition with edvern today to find marisa&kaleb's three new trail series: Planets. David Bowie, and Cars. The weather was a bit drizzly to start with but we hardly needed to bother with jackets most of the time and the day gradually cleared. Not surprisingly, the ground was quite mucky in places, but there was generally a reasonable spot to park which is certainly appreciated. The views were lovely, even when rain misted them out in the distance. So an enjoyable day out and we found all the caches - what more could you want from geocaching? Thank you for setting up all these caches marisa&kaleb.
This was #8 on our particular trail today. All was indeed hunky dory. There were no problems with this find and it was good to see a break in the weather, which also allowed for more appreciation of the expansive views up here. TFTC

Out with geodatum, our mission being to complete the new trails set up by m&k. We appreciated these caches being located on quiet back roads, usually safe to pull off the road, and not in view of houses. All the contents were in excellent condition with good use of waterproof paper. All were found without any problems. Most of all, this was a very enjoyable drive through back roads, many of which I have not been on before. Even though the day was drizzly at times the countryside was most attractive. Thanks very much for your efforts marisa&kaleb!

Hubby off to fetch his elderly dad for the weekend for fathers day so I got my mum to come on a caching run with me this morning. Mum drove and I grabbed. Looking like rain the whole way but held off - much to our relief. Some co-ordinates had us on the wrong side of the road but pretty much it didn't take long to suss out each one. We found everything we set out to get this morning. No muggles around. Enjoyed listening to the lambs bleating in the paddocks. I love this time of the year. We enjoyed the gravel roads as well - especially mum who got to drive them! Many thanks to Marisa&Kaleb for placing all these caches which have come at an awesome time as we have no caches for September and I want to get 250 in September to qualify for finding a cache in the Wairarapa. TFTC

Over this way to do The Bowie, Car and Planet caches before lunchtime. Was over here early and found this cache fairly quickly - signed log and left as found. Thanks for all caches in these series marisa&kaleb and apologies for the generic posts.

Damn popmac I missed out again! Quick find here. Tftc

I received notification for five new caches up this way. I went without loading onto GPS & relying on the phone. I quickly found the cache, & was pleased to see a blank log for [FTF]. Thanks marisa&kaleb for the cache.

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