Jockey Smurf (Manawatu) Bulls, North Island, New Zealand
By marisa&kaleb on 07-Nov-16. Waypoint GC6WPQ0

cache has done its dash - time to refresh the board

Nice hide. Tftc

A quick find in the sunshine. Birds are happily singing. TFTC

Thanks for your amazing cache.

Found by nana - whole family out today - sent boys running to the next one tftc

not there and not there, but it is there, only so many places it could be, tftc

Nice hide. Took me a minute to click. Lots of holes to look in. TFTC

Had wanted to do this trail since.....well...since it first came out...but life had other ideas. We finally got our chance and thankfully it wasn't too hot as we took a day to follow these trails. So great to finally knock them off! only 3 DNF's....thanks for the time spent putting them down. Seems most of the day we were following in the footstops of a fellow cacher from Wangas.

Second find of the day from our toddler. He was even more ecstatic than the last cache he found.

A big spider was guarding the cache site but we managed to conceal again without disturbing it.

TFTC marisa&kaleb!

Had the day off work and so pleased to be back geocaching after Covid level 3 and 4. Headed out towards Bulls. Managed to find all but 3 of the Smurfs. Lots of temporary electric fencing alongside the road side did limit some access. Will keep an eye out for the ones that got away today. Thanks.

Another clever, well thought out cache, thanks.

Day two of my road trip from Auckland to Nelson in my newly acquired convertible cachemobile. Finding a few caches along the way. After checking into a motel in Bulls where I decided to stay for the night, I took advantage of the long summer daylight hours to go out a find a 'few' more caches. I headed for this area as it seemed to have a few trails of interest. After completing the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Trail and the Herbs and Spices trail I was back onto the Smurf trail at last. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. If anything stood out for me, I'll mention it. TFTC, Biggles.

busy road , cleaning up the area of a few caches.

Nice hide. Vinaka

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.

This turned out to be my third 'series' of caches I attempted today. The Smurfs were something I remember growing up with as a kid, although it was more my brothers thing than mine. I always felt sorry for Smurfette, as the pressure of being the only female must have been intense lol!

I apologise for the generic posting but generally I found all the posted co-ordinates and associated Hints to be good (unless otherwise stated), the containers themselves to be ok and the logsheets to be either fine or at the very least (if a bit damp) still signable.

I'm actually left wondering if this one is mis-titled? I distinctly remember a Jokey Smurf, but not one that rode horses! Jokey Smurf's jokes always backfired on him, and maybe the CO has been the victim this time lol.

This one was a straightforward find, exactly in line with the Hint, so was signed and returned quickly before shooting off to the next one

Thanks for setting this series up.

Found it.

I am working and staying in Feilding for a week or so at the moment. The place where I'm spending most of my time has no wifi and the mobile phone coverage is dodgy to say the least. However, I have decided to come out to this area for my daily fix of geocaching. It's not too far to drive on the company's motorbike and I need some time away from the working environment anyway.

Sadly it is over a week since I found this cache and I remember very little about it, although I know that it was getting quite dark when I got this one and I'm not sure what sort of job I did writing my details on the log sheet.

All the caches I found were in reasonable condition (or better).

Thank you

Cherrys Rule

TFTC heaps of ants at this one!

Log in good condition. Quick easy find with ellenem1985

Soooo many ants!

There seemed to be an ants nest right here. The cache is smothered with them. Luckily did not get bitten but they will have to make a new home. TFTC

Day 3/9 of our New Years trip up to the North Island. This was find #39/100 for the day and #108/526 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, Railway stations and anything else along the way until we came in to finish the KAS trail we started in Oct 2016. A nice quick find here. The cache was antville. Yuck! Thanks for the effort involved in placing and creating this cache for all of us to enjoy.

Great little hide here
Soon located and log signed

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

Heading to Wellington Mega a day earlier with Squirrel Nutcase and NZ Flossy a day earlier.
Out to collect caches that we have previously passed.
So sorry cache owners, we had a fairly large find today so it's a copy and paste day.
Thanks everyone for their cache placements that we found. SLTFTC

WENZ Mega Weekend is almost here... Motoring south today with Gap (of Fap and Gap), and NZFlossy. Our intention is to cache our way to our accommodation in Lower Hutt... The big news of the day is that Highway 1 is closed at Pukerua Bay. A truck crash and chemical spill have shut down all lanes coming to and from Wellington. We have plenty of caches to find to keep us occupied, but this could be a long wait...

Friday: We have had our eye on these multiple hides to the south of Bulls. It's nice to be able to visit in great weather and with pleasant rural views. We especially enjoyed this section of the trail. We were able to get out of the vehicle and walk between several of the hides, and take in the idyllic scenery. TFTC.

On my way to the mega with Squirrel Nutcase and Fap and Gap. Having lots of fun and enjoying the ride and the scenery. It’s what I love about caching - great company and visiting great places. Thanks to all the COs for all their caches Hopefully we see some of them at the mega this weekend TFTC

A fairly quick find of another Smurf. TFTC

11.50am. Easy find.
Thank you. David.

I have been up at a work conference for the last couple of days up in Auckland area and decided to head back down to Blenheim via another stop-off and meetings at Bulls and hence I found myself landing at dark o'clock and in the pouring rain at Palmy North. I cleared nearlly all of the available caches from this area just under 4 years ago as I left to go to (sometimes) sunny Marlborough but there have been a few new ones appear since I left, and this was one.
With the welcome hire car collected I located my hand torch, filled my accompanying empty milk container (for a later cache) and made my way for a modest 4 finds for the evening prior to checking into my luxury accommodation.
The next day was head to Welly day in the hire car and after a morning of wquick-fire, but real useful meetings I needed to head South to catch a flight home. Time for a quick half-hour caching and managed to grab a few more Mar1sa caches, to add to the total. All were good, replaced wet logs with RITR paper for a couple and cleared another sequence of dwarves and smurfs (or is that smurves?) All good and T F T C m
An the rain mostly held off, though the ground was soooooooo wet.

My bag, jacket, and food have been stolen the day before from the car, but thanks to Popmac I had batteries and some cache to keep myself busy until the flight in the evening. So that's what I did! I decided to find as many as possible with the petrol I had and driving without the driver side window. It did rain and hail some in the morning, but then it cleared up and it was all good except the wind! Thanks for all the caches along the way that helped me keep my sanity TFTC!!

Another smurf quickly found by hubby. TFTC

Out and about with Taybee, Taybee NZ and Team Geocacher Mr. T finding caches. The plan today was to get 50 or so finds towards the Hidden Creatures Souvenir Challenge. For most of the day we had fine weather, but for some of the time it was rather wet. This did not dampen our spirits. To save space (and time) the logs were signed TB/NZ/FD. Thank you to all the COs for placing the caches. My apologies for the generic log.

TFTC
[?] Found with ***taybee*** and ***Flowerydaze*** Sign log book as TB/NZ/FD

**taybee** is caching again with **taybee nz** and team up with ***Flowerydaze***
The plan for the day was to get 50 or more finds for the Hidden Creatures Challenge,
410 km's road trip , 11 hours in total on the road , 50 found's , 6 DNF for the day
(56 caches done in 8 hours. avg time for each caches was 8.57 mins)
we had a great day caching thanks to all COs for the Caches

All in good order, sign log book as **TB/NZ/FB** to sale space and time TFTC Log by Gsak
Cache was find at **2018-06-30 11:15:00**

Tftc nice easy find logged as sad for short

I had to wait for a truck to go past before reaching for this one. 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. 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.

Another day geocaching while at Scotts Ferry camp site many thanks

A day's caching around the Manawatu. Very pleasant day out, nice weather and plenty of caches to find.

TFTC mar1sa

Very quiet around here, nice!...TFTC

A morning geocaching with JonoS, Haydnseek and myself. A cold wind blowing but the ground was dry and it did not rain. A few DNF but the rest with straight forward finds exactly where we expected to find them. Thank you for bringing us to this area.
TFTC

A morning out, geocaching with MJMNZ & Haydn seek. Only a few cars, but none to worry about. Weather colder than I thought, but no rain! Found most of those we zero’ d in on – BUT some DNF. Bother.
TFTC

I set out early to meet up with Jono and MJMNZ at Bulls but on the way decided to check on some of my own caches and do any required maintenance. Happily all was well with these caches and even the one i had taken a new container with me i decided was best left as it was as it blended beautifully with the surrounds as it was. We had a fairly successful day with just 4 DNF except they were all at the far end of the journey and the roads we were to travel on. MJMNZ had packed us a morning tea with lovely shortbread and then a lovely croissant and ham lunch etc etc all very welcomed after an early morning start. All the roads were tar sealed which was pleasing.
A fav point for the series.
Thank you for this series of cache M. and another little string of happy faces. Thank you.

Easy park and grab

We couldn't see any horses for Jockey Smurf to ride.

Log signed as 'IE'. TFTC.

Out and about with EthNZ. She's driving, I'm riding shotgun. TFTC!

Looked there, there, there, there. Hmmm no cache. Looked there, there, there, there. Hmmm no cache. Maybe it's somewhere near the fence. Nup. Turned to head back to the car. Oh this one is different. Wondered why, but happily signed the log then headed back to the car. TFTC .

A great morning with lil_taurus following the trails... Thanks for the tour around the area M&K.. Thanks for the cache..

Time for another geocaching trip with my matey 2 Bulbars, having just lost our good geocaching buddy Priceless Time (Michael Price) we decided that the best thing we could do was a weekend out caching in his memory. RIP Priceless, our thoughts are with you on your caching journey. So, after a quick drive down from New Plymouth we got into the caches: on Day 1, first to the west of Bulls then to the East and South finally into Fielding for the night and a few urban caches. Day 2 work our way back north and east to the CITO at the Rangiwahia bush track. Then back out to civilisation and home. So for this one it’s mission accomplished, this one is a wrap.TFTC! Blenheim Bear
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#9086. Another park and grab on Sandridge Road in Bulls to continue on this series. GZ was all quiet when we visited. Quick find. The cache was in good condition, all thanks to the weather proof paper inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.

“Jokey Smurf”?

Thanks 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.

#3838. I had the day off work so decided I needed another road trip to wrap up a very busy month (of geocaching). I am working on the DGSC challenge and foolishly decided to go for the bulk find elective which needs 1500+ cache finds in the year. But one month needed 300+ finds and I was close enough to that target in March so went for it today to get the remaining 61 caches I needed. And so onto the next Sanson power trail: The Smurfs. Have to say while I know what a smurf is, I have never watched their show on telly. Never mind. If they are into hiding caches I am a happy Tailor smurf! Nice quick find here. Signed and replaced the cache as found. Thanks for hiding it here.

Called here as part of a day's caching in the Manawatu area in fine warm weather. After lunch at Bulls I headed down towards Scotts Ferry where there was an abundance of caches to find along the way. Another quick find here. Signed log, TFTC

Carrying on from some good finds on the Snow White series this was another fun themed series by marisa&kaleb which made for an enjoyable morning visit to the area, a quick find thanks to the spot on co-ords.

TFTC

Well this is the last of the series for us to log we have really enjoyed collecting them signing the logs. TFTC Marisa & Kaleb.
Character
He is a jolly yet mischievous village prankster who likes to get a laugh out of seeing his fellow Smurfs fall for his practical jokes, usually at the expense of their patience with him. His most common prank is the exploding giftbox that he usually gives to an unsuspecting Smurf. He never likes it though when a practical joke is being played back on him.

Although in the comics he occasionally pulls other pranks, some of which require a large dose of patience and the curiosity of other Smurfs, Jokey's tricks have on occasion saved the Smurfs from Gargamel and Azrael, as well as other enemies
While he has no known "Best Smurf Friend", Jokey does share good friendships with certain Smurfs. He also likes Smurfette to a great extent, as shown in "Don Smurfo" where he dressed up as Smurfette's favorite book character because he was sorry that he made her feel bad at the start of the episode.
Jokey boom.
Karma can be a cruel teacher...
The Smurf that always gets on Jokey's nerves, no matter what, is Brainy. Everytime he attempts to give a gift for Smurfette, Brainy will always come in and either stop him or smash the gift. Whenever Brainy tries to stop him, Jokey will give him the gift instead, and it always ends with it blowing up in Brainy's face.

Apart from Baby Smurf in the cartoon show, whom he usually gives nice presents to, no one is safe from Jokey's jokes. He even gives his exploding boxes to Peewit or an unsuspecting monster
Role in the Village
Jokey spends his day giving the other Smurfs his exploding gifts or planning any new pra
Curiosity smurfed the cat...
Jokey's pranks will get him in trouble at times, even with the other Smurfs.

The main flaw in Jokey's character is his frankly terrible sense of tact, since he pulls pranks at the most inappropriate moments. For example, in the comic book version of the Astro Smurf adventure, when the whole village is working to get the rocket to the dead volcano, Jokey starts ranting about Astro Smurf, who was being kept asleep with a potion, about to wake up when the others race towards him with the potion. Jokey laughed in their faces for falling for it, which then prompted them to leave him with a black eye.

In King Smurf Jokey presents Hefty Smurf who has become the captain of the guard with one of his exploding gifts, prompting Hefty to arrest him and bring him towards King Smurf to face Justice. King Smurf took it all in good stride said it was a good joke and send Jokey along his way but before he went Jokey gave King Smurf a present. And was promptly thrown in jail after it exploded in King Smurf's face.

In one occasion with the Smurfs having discovered the Kaplowey Scroll and the said word that would make stuff disappear, Jokey thought he was being helpful in getting the other Smurfs to laugh again. However, the "surprise" prank he pulled on Grouchy made him so angry that it caused him to say the magic word in a fit of rage, with deadly results:

Papa: (Seeing what's about to happen) GROUCHY, NO!

Grouchy: KAPLOWEY! (Jokey vanishes)

Papa: JOKEY!

Grouchy: Oh no! I HATE ... (In a sad tone, regretting what he just did) ...myself.nks. Jokey is also a "Master of Disguise", taking up roles like "Don Smurfo" and "The Masked Pie Smurfer"

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.

Visiting from Marlborough, thanks for this series.

Spotted quickly. Tftc an smiley

Tftc

Amazing what is hidden on these roads. fun to find

A blustery day but it's long since time we got back into caching after shifting into our new home. We love our home SOOOOOOO much it is hard to drag ourselves away from it - even to go caching! However, we recently purchased a new (second hand) geocaching wagon - 4wd Toyota Rush - in yellow to suit our geocaching name lol - that we simply had to get back I the game to justify the expensive purchase lol. If you see us out please give us a toot. We are not hard to miss now. So off we set, with mum - CNAH - to collect enough to get past that 2,000 magic number. We had a great afternoon with success at all but two. Disappointed to see that many had missing plastic bags to keep the logs dry - which we know Marisa would have put them in when laid. Sadly we had not brought any with us or we would have replaced them. A good run with not much traffic and grateful for the fact they had good areas to safely pull off. Many thanks Marisa & Kaleb for taking the time to place these which has helped us quickly boost our numbers.
A quick find at this one. No problems. TFTC

I think this is the cache I initially thought may be missing... until I thought about things a bit more.

This cache was attempted as part of the Palmerston North Power Leg of our "Road to 6,000" Extravaganza for 2016.

A quick find.

#5856

Apologies for the generic log — Team B&D are up from Wellington to do the 142 caches in 24 hours challenge. TFTC and a great set of power trails up here!

A nice early start this morning for tmann421 and I. A full day of geocaching ahead and making our way to the annual Rattl Christmas BBQ at lunchtime. Enjoyed this quick fun series and the back country roads not often travelled. TFTC and the series marisa&kaleb

Found with barefootguru as part of the 142 in 24 hour cache challenge (GC5EAAX). Sorry for the generic log. TFTC

*Thanks marisa&kaleb for the trail of good fun quick caches!*
Soon spotted this one in good condition, while driving around the area with Just-Lookin. SL TFTC

Had some business out of town so that done looked to see if I could find Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs, do a Smurf Head Count and check out some erbs. Ended up being quite a successful few hours and managed to find most, along with a couple that are not part of these series. Ended up with one DNF, which has previously been reported as missing.

Thanks for taking the time and effort in putting these series together marisa&kaleb - much appreciated. Also apologies for the cut and pasted logs...

We had 21 of marisa&kaleb's caches on their new trails to the west of Bulls still to do, so we set off today to gather some herbs and then visit some friendly smurfs. It was drizzling steadily as we headed out, but held off fairly much all the time while we were caching. We used to orienteer often in the pine forests out this way, so coming here is a bit nostalgic too.
No problems with this straightforward find. As befits Jockey Smurf, he keeps a tidy turf on his berms! TFTC

A quick find here. TFTC!

Spent a pleasant couple of hours here this morning. Got pretty much all of the ones I planned to get. TFTC

After missing the last one this was easy to jockey in to position TFTC

Thought this hint might have refered to a TV programme back in time. No horsing around to get this one. tftc

Today, along with D6NZ, we were attempting to get ruby in the "Daily cacher" feat by logging 120 caches in a single day.
There were a number of trails in the area that we had already eaten into, so while we could hit pockets we lost precious time travelling as we ventured to each new hot spot. Today we planned on west of Bulls, north of Ohakea, skirting Halcombe and Fielding, then topping it off south of Himitangi.

Ten percent through with this one being number 12. No joke.

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.

A quick find while completing the Snow White, Smurf and Herb series. Thanks for the series. TFTC

#2724 More to follow.

In the area hunting down 200 plus finds today as a group, so finding trails was a great help for the goal.... we managed a cool 206 today final count, so target achieved.....

Signed in as SEAC to save logbook space.

Spent the time between caches on the trail working out which of us was each smurf.... very interesting conversation this was...

TFTC.

In the Manawatu for the weekend with some caching buddies- Uncle Sam, NZTravellers, Stik-a-crane, HeMaLuDy. The goal was to find as many of the caches in the area as we could in the space of a day, and we all had a blast jumping in and out of the cars, racing each other to the caches, and laughing and joking along the way, and in we general had an awesome weekend down here.
After a while we started playing "musical cars"- and would race each other back to the cars in order to vie for prime position.... or just to pip someone else at the post..... it was rather hilarious, mainly because of the creative ways of piling into cars or sneaking in just before someone else when you knew they were aiming for that seat. One or two people may have accidently (or not so accidentally) have got sat on!!!!!

For this particular series, we had fun assigning smurfs to some of the members of our group, according to who we thought was most like that particular smurf character.... we had a bit of debate with "Jockey Smurf", as there were a few in our group who take part in sporting activities, but all 3 of the HeMaLuDy boys are soccer players, so I think this title went to one of them!

Log signed as Team SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) in order to save log space.
TFTC!

A group of us were down from Auckland for the weekend in order to complete some of the power trails in the area. Logs were signed with team SEAC to save space on the logs. Caching today with darthcacher1, purply, stik-a-crane, UncleSamNZ, NZTravellers, NewlynFam. We travelled to the furthest cache (basil) first and worked our way back to Bulls. A nice quick find here, helping us towards 140 caches in 13 hours (including 5 local FTF's). Thanks for taking the effort to place these power trails.

Our team from Auckland wanted to do a major day of caching, so headed down to Foxton area for a massive day. We got about 205.

Very sorry for the generic logs, but when doing so many in one day very hard to make notes on each.

But a big thank you to all the cache owners for putting out all of the great caches we visited.

Logs signed as either “Team SEAC” or “SEAC” – South East Auckland Crew.

A group of cachers from Auckland spent the weekend in the Manawatu. We went by the name of SEAC (South East Auckland Crew) had heaps of fun running around the district squashed into two cars. Thank you for the wonderful caches. Sorry for the generic log, we had a huge day and collected 206 caches in 14 hours! TFTC!

After spending the morning prepping my bathroom and laundry for painting, I decided to reward myself with an hour or two of caching. Decided to head to this new trail that went live yesterday. Sorry for the cut and paste logs, all caches were easy finds and coordinates were pretty much on the money. Thanks for the new trail.

What does a jockey smurf ride? are there little smurf pony's or does he ride something else?
No problems making the find here with Popmac.
Thanks for the cache marisa&kaleb & the joint {FTF}

Morning tea time - the phone birdie whistled ... Wow, 31 new caches in Bulls area. Quickly downloaded onto GPS and off. Morning tea not important at a time like this. Quickly found a blank log for another Joint [FTF] with rattll. Thanks marisa&kaleb for the cache & new Smurfs Trail.

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