Drag strip (Manawatu) Pohangina, North Island, New Zealand
By watcache on 01-Jan-18. Waypoint GC7GMT3

All in good order here. Nice view of the river close by too!

Tu4tc

Nice quick find. TFTC

Enjoying our drive "around the block". tftc and a quick find

I'm really enjoying driving these backroads of Manawatu, exploring the area and picking up plenty of caches along the way. A quick find thanks watcache

#14493

We are really enjoying exploring these Manawatu back country roads on such a stunning afternoon. The sun is getting lower now so the sun strike here made it challenging driving at times. TFTC # 20,176

**taybee** is caching again with **taybee nz** , **Flowerydaze** and **Talla64** for the day
Day 2 of clearing up the Pohangina valley
Quick find here today
same state
door to door 14 hour 510 kms
avg found time is 3 mins per cache
find caches 37 DNF 8

All in good order, sign log book as **TNZFT**
or ( **TNZ** or **taybee/nz** as *taybee and taybee nz joint sign* ) TFTC
Cache was found at **17/05/2023 @ 10:21:00 **

Out and about on a very nice country drive with Talla64, Taybee and TaybeeNZ. A 7.00 am start from Paraparaumu with Taybee doing all the driving and we certainly covered some kilometres. Lots of caches found so it was a successful day. In some areas there was a lot of evidence of flooding with plenty of mud still around - cyclone related and we had a number of DNFs. But it was a most enjoyable day. Thanks for the many placements watcache including this one.

Quick find. Taken Mystery TB to investigate. Logged as TNZFT. TFTC

On a mission to Manawatu with Floweydaze, Taybee and TaybeeNZ to pick up as many caches as time allowed today. Log signed as TNZFT to save space on the log sheet. With many logs replaced being "unsignable" and with CO's permission replaced missing logs and containers where required. Nice day after so much rain in the area, lots of evidence of heavy rain run-off water around. TFTC watcache.

Based ourselves nearby for a few days to complete some of the local cache trails.
Another great caching day with no rain, great to be on the back country gravel roads with only bunny muggles and if ROS hits one there will be no further communication from the navigator and that’s it for the day.
No problem with the find TFTC.

I was able to fit in a bit of rural caching in the Manawatu today. An unexpected opportunity to escape the concrete jungle and enjoy the rural countryside for a few hours. Easy find as cache was out in the open. Covered it up a bit before moving on. TFTC

Found it

Found

Great views from up here and the road ahead is long and straight. Cache was an easy find here, added a TB which I cannot work out a TB number from.

After a relative famine of caches for me recently due to a number of factors I planned to head to Feilding and catch up with tommygun9 for a few mutual search targets, I was in two minds of what to get up to prior though, I was keen for some fishing to maintain a recent trout-less sequence (it continued!) and settled on another trip up the beautiful Pohangina Valley, it sure does turn on the style come Autumn. I've managed to track down some/most of the Wildbore Multi finals too and was keen to cache in those numbers.
A modest haul of 11 caches up the valley and 5 more in Feilding later in the day and a good day to be out and about. Edven bumped into Edvern out at the wetlands entrance and a nice catch up with her and her husband. Thanks to all COs for their hides today.

Nice and quick to find

Mrs Rubbishparty was visiting Palmy for the weekend so decided today to explore the East side of the Pohangina valley having explored the West side last week. Started with a great walk in the Fern track then a few drivebys. Mrs Rubbishparty was driving at this stage. She made the most of the open road here which only made me wonder why we don’t all wear crash helmets when driving. Cache all fine Thanks watcache for the smiley.

Out with the lamas lol

Very nice find with woolwood9 while attending the Halloween events at Totara Reserve.
We had a great time finding caches today.
SL with names or tm/ww NZ
TFTC

Nice to get this one today, had a DNF here a couple of years ago.

Heading north with tmann421 to attend the Halloween events at Totara Reserve, picking up some caches on the way
Enjoyed the day and the finds
Signed log either with full names or tm/ww NZ
THTC

Spent the day in the area with edvern, Tramper Ted and Yeetrees after the poor weather put paid to a planned tramp. I was the only one of the group who hadn't already found this, but it was a quick find. Signed log, TFTC

Today's adventure was planned for the caches on the eastern side of the Pohangina River. I had thought about staring from the top and working my way down the river.

I can understand the local hoons to use this stretch of road as a drag strip.

Cheers for the cache.

Thanks watcache for placing this cache

It was sitting there in plain sight, begging to be found... TNLNSL Returned it tucked in between trunks with a small rock on top
TFTC

I'm on my way down to Palmerston North for a few days of caching. This was a stop along the way. TFTC.

**12,270**
No need to explain the title of this cache - Mr Geckoh was very pleased to be able to get the van up to 100 k/hr, which hasn't happened for quite some time given the gravel roads that we have been traveling on. TFTC

Quick find. Vinaka

Thanks for the cache. Miss 9 pleased to find this one!

How fast you could go there? Quick found. TFTC

Decided to get up early this morning and try and Solve the Mystery at the Museum, having a few caches to get, I was deciding on a few options, but options being thin and far between, it was time to go to greener pastures. Having a few more caches to get in this area a plan was hatched and it was time to go and pick up the remaining caches to see if I could solve this Mystery.

After finding GC7TXKR - Wildbore 21 (Royal Mail), this was the next cache that I had on my list that I wanted to find in the Pohangina Valley, I decided to go to the top and make my way back out and make my way back out of it as then I wouldnt have to back-track.

Arriving near GZ, I managed to find a safe parking spot not too far from GZ, it was time to make my way to GZ, arriving at GZ it only took me a few seconds to find and after track down the cache in the most obvious spot.

Managed to retrieve the cache, signed and then replaced it back as found. Thanks watcache for placing this cache here and for bringing me to this spot, TFTC TNLNSL (14618). No speeding today just a leisurely pace[^]

Now it is time to make my way back to the car and to the next cache on my list another cache closer to solving the mystery. Now where to next ......

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Found today with the help of TwigNZ and Stardust718, thanks for the cache.

Signed log as Team “S T T”

Today I was out caching with my son ThatWeirdGuy04 and one of my regular caching friends Stardust718, with the aim of travelling around the Pohangina Valley to attempt as many caches as we could manage in our day, concentrating on the Wildbore series but also stopping for any others along the way or else caught our fancy.

All logs for today were signed at either "Team S.T.T" or else simply "S.T.T" as space on logsheets allowed. The weather forecast had not been the best for today, but we set of in the hope that there would be enough dry spells or at least breaks in the rain to allow us to collect enough caches to be able to complete the Mystery at the Museum event currently running through Groundspeak. After about 8 hours of caching we had collectively found 46 caches, with a further 7 DNF's, which was sufficient to enable my son and I to complete MATM.

I'm not quite sure what the cache name refers too, unless this is the local dog racer meetup spot, but the cache was a quick find here today thanks to the Hint. The cache is in fine condition so the log was duly signed and the whole thing replaced exactly as found.
Thanks for placing this cache.

I teamed up with ThatWeirdGuy04 and TwigNZ for a day of caching in the Pohongina Valley to work our way through the requirements for the Mystery at the Museum event. I'd looked at the Wildbore series when it first came out but hadn't had the chance to come out here and find them until now. We had a good day finding 46 caches in 8 hours between showers of rain. We signed the logs with our team initials - S T T or team STT depending on space. We were pleased with the condition most of the caches were in today so very little maintenance was required. The roads were however, rather narrow with the edge begin quite boggy so many of the caches we had to park away from and walk back.

A nice quick find here so the cache was found, signed and replaced.

Hadn't loaded this one onto the GPS but it showed up on the phone. No coverage so had to use the geo-sense to work out the likely spot. TFTC

Enjoying an autumn drive in the Pohangina Valley. Neatly hidden. We remember when the property across the road was a popular farm cafe. Thanks watcache.

20 January 2019 13:24. Resisted the temptation to floor it as I left, Tftc

Enjoyed driving down this valley, its a lovely area. TFTC

Enjoying a trip around the country side with 2Bulbars and watcache, we signed the log BWX.
Thanks for the placement.

That was some long straight
A FP
bit of a geocaching weekend for us and at times we joined forces with other teams so logs have been signed either 2 Bulbars, 2x, bwx depending on how many in the team had signed the log before.
The weekend started midday Friday and finished about 6 pm sunday. We didn't go too hard and stopped for sleeps and good meals basing ourselves in Feilding . The weather was good all weekend although it did rain a little bit at night.
Many thanks to all the COs who placed these caches making it possipble for us to enjoy our hobby.
I must say sorry for all the cut and paste but if we really enjoyed a cache I will add a bit at the start of the comment so you don't need to read right through.
Thanks to our driver who supplied the car and the good person who put a thermos and a few snacks in the car for us so we could keep our strength up

All good here, thanks to popmac for replacement

Found as John drove the club van and bike trailer out from Makoura Lodge and on to Ashhurst after a most enjoyable overnight stay. TFTC

Quick and easy find while with the tramping club bike ride from Palmerston North to Apiti and stay at Makoura Lodge, and now on to Ashhurst.
TFTC

Quick and easy find while with the tramping club bike ride from Palmerston North to Apiti and stay at Makoura Lodge, and now on to Ashhurst.
TFTC

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

12.30pm
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

Team BOP decided that with the MEGA rapidly approaching, we need to boost our numbers so we could try for a milestone number at the Mega. I am approaching my 3000th cache but was still about 325 caches away from that. Reaching the milestone may or may not happen, but this weekend certainly was about the numbers. I had an initial target I was trying to beat and that was my highest number of caches found in one day and we comfortably beat that, achieving 158 caches (subject to confirmation, once I log them all).
The best way to do the high numbers is with power trails and out here, there is a smorgasborg of powertrails.
We loaded up the van, gathered up all seven of us and headed to our accomodation somewhere in the middle of nowhere, getting there well after dark. The location was convenient, as it was right in the thick of a power trail territory.
There was no splitting us up, as we only had one vehicle, so we all experienced the cache locations, some beautiful and some not so.
As with powertails we have done in the past, there was a high proportion of waterlogged caches, but unlike powertails we have done previously, we managed to find every cache and were glad to be able to clear out an area. Also, with powertails, comes cut and paste logs, to which I apologise for.
Thanks to all those CO's who have placed the caches out there. Without you, our fun road trips wouldnt exist. We all had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend and got home completely shattered. It was so worth it.
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...

How fast can you go on a straight piece of road, in a van? 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!!

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

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

A nice quick find and clean log book to fill in. TFTC

Was thinking that we would have a hard find here as of the previous dnf - but it was found easily after it was replaced recently. TFTC and thank you for the replacement so we could get the smiley today.

Early morning start to find some caches on Pohangina Valley East Road before ten pin bowling later in the morning. Replace cache for the CO. Thanks watcache for the cache.

Had a good look around but no luck here for us today

We couldn't find any sign of the cache here today.

A quick find and a good cache,TFTC!

A quick easy find along an enjoyable drive. TFTC

#10,015. A nice Easter Sunday drive around the country roads in Pohangina. Pohangina Valley East Road was all quiet during the visit. Quick find. The cache was in excellent condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

Thanks for the placement and for bringing us to this site, and …

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.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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First bit of caching I have done in what feels like forever, looks like we missed the rain while we were out here and got to enjoy the back roads that we dont very often get to travel.
thanks for the placement.

Drag or strip? Make up your mind! We weren't sure which you'd prefer so had to choose what we thought you'd like the most. Look at the attached photo at your peril!
We left a pet rock a hippo.
Thanks for setting this up watcache

Great drag strip indeed. And knowing there is a cabbage tree at the end means you just can't help yourself putting your foot down lol. You just have to love those cabbage tree hides. Easy peasy which is what we need. We are hunting for caches to get to 250 for March so this run is certainly helping us. TFTC

Still find it weird to have a narrow back road like this sealed. Up north its either two lanes and white lines or gravel, nothing in between. TFTC

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. Signed as TF or Trout-fly depending on how hard it was raining, although it cleared after lunch! Thanks to all the CO's for a great day and apologies for the generic log.

I saw the notifications for these two new caches up the valley yesterday morning but being a Friday, I had to prioritise going to work instead. Checked back closer to knock off time to find that the FTFs were still up for grabs, however I decided to drive to Hunterville for that new cache instead.

This morning I woke up and check if these caches had been found yet. As they hadn’t I decided to go for a drive after breakfast. A lovely drive up the Pohangina Valley this morning.

Pulled up to the gz and the cache was in my hands in seconds. Had a bit of water in it, but as it had been placed on 1 January and we’ve had a bit of rain since than that is to be expected. Pleased to find a blank log book. Signed my moniker and replaced the cache as found. [FTF] at 8.53am. TFTC

This was too nice a day to stay home, so after lunch we headed up into our favourite valley, encouraged by a couple of new cache placements and the promise of Devonshire tea in the village to finish up with. We had decided to drive up the east side, turn across at Makoura Rd and return down the west side of the valley collecting three caches altogether.
Talking of Devonshire teas, this cache is just opposite what used to be The Pilgrim's Rest Tearooms which provided the best Devonshire scones ever - slabs of delicious fresh scone, latherings of homemade raspberry jam and lashings of whipped cream. We sure miss this place!
Anyway, back to the cache! After some hiccups with our GPS we soon had the cache in hand with a straightforward find. TFTC

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