Rosemary (Manawatu) Parewanui, North Island, New Zealand
By marisa&kaleb on 09-Nov-16. Waypoint GC6WRNH

cache has done its dash - time to refresh the board

Quick easy find. Tftc

Another quick find. TFTC

This cache took me a while to find although ultimately it was exactly where I had expected.
T F T C marisa&kaleb.

I had a dot day to eliminate (only four left after today!) and decided with the nice, albeit very cold, weather I would go for a little drive to pick up a few caches before lunch. I ended up getting nine before lunchtime pie and coffee called.

Since I live very close (and yet so far!) I always wanted to do this lovely herb trail. Thanks for placing it! Cache is nice and dry, left a little something.

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. Onto this next trail....had to break out the ice towel, it was getting pretty oppressive and we were getting hangry....so head down and keep going.....

A quick park and grab by Arcane Junior.

TFTC!

Edvern and I are thinking the passing cars might be wondering why we have stopped - mostly orienteers in them who probably know what we were up to! TFTC

Found with Tramper Ted after we had both taken part in the NZ long distance orienteering champs in the pine forest adjacent to Forest Road. Thanks marisa.

Nearly got stuffed on this one... parsley, sage, this one and thyme... geocaching's a true love of mine

Nice day out with tmann421 and blair137 hunting caches
Enjoying the trip around.
All logs and containers in great condition
TFTC

Found with woolwood9

Had the day off work. So pleased to be able to geocache after Covid levels 3 and 4. Headed towards Bulls with a detour to Scott’s Ferry and these herbs. Parked up and enjoyed the walk although got lots of odd looks. Managed to fill the whole spice cupboard. Caches all fine. 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 finding one of the Smurf trail caches I was onto a very tasty trail indeed. Herbs and Spices mmmm. With parsley, sage, and thyme - Simon and Garfunkel were really cooking. Apologies for the cut and paste logs. If anything stood out for me, I'll mention it. TFTC, Biggles.

almost ready for dinner after all these herbs.

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.

I don't actually know if this series has a name, but I will refer to it as the Seasoned Series of caches. 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 started at the furthest point and worked my way back from there. There were no muggles around so having a search around GZ was nice and easy, and it wasn't long before I was rewarded with the find. A bit damp, but a quick sign of the log and I was jumping back in the car to get to the next one.

Thanks for setting this series up.

No problem here

Another addition collected in the series. tftc

Day 3/9 of our New Years trip up to the North Island. This was find #47/100 for the day and #116/526 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 much easier find here and the supervision of some moogle teens. We left our new signature item, a Rainbow Beadtail. Thanks for the effort involved in placing and creating this cache for all of us to enjoy.

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. This section was busy with a few logging trucks moving through the area. 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 quick easy find of another herb. TFTC

Glad to see that the dwarves momma is back online and in place and I can also complete the remaining mar1sa caches down these back roads. Last time I was down here I was on a limited timeline so just grabbed the low-hanging fruit. This time I could add some flavour and add some herbs to the mix. T F T Cs mar1sa.

After rounding up some caching sheep on the way here via backroads from Wanganui, I diverted into Marton for a couple more whilst 'on the way' to Bulls. A few years ago I found Marton's first cache and there weren't many here then, now there are a few - which is nice.

Day 4 and it's a day to grab a few numbers just for the numbers. With too many late starts and lie-ins I decided to get up with the lark (8 o clock) and head out after a quick n easy breakfast. I grabbed quite a few sheep, some herbs to accompany them as well as a revisit to a couple of previous DNFs. Over 30 finds for the day and a good day to be out and about in the Spring sunshine, and occasional raindrops.
Thanks to all the CO s for their hides.
I have had some holiday leave booked for a while now and we are heading North on the ferry, along with the Cache-Qai, and off to Rangitikei to visit our daughter, her partner and our son. First time this many members of the family have been together for a few years so should be good. The plan was half day in work followed by heading off after lunch, then arriving early evening in W(h)anganui to catch up with kids. We're on the North island for a week so there will sure to be some cache found whilst in the area. My Marlborough and Tasman finds have been inching slowly but surely towards my Manawatu/Rangitikei finds but this trip will be sure to redress that balance again for a few more years I'm sure.

12.35pm. Another quick find.
Thank you. David.

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!!

TFTC another quick find for the herbal mic

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.

Quick find here today driver overshot the cache
[?] 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 10:22:00**

Tftc nice easy find logged as sad for short

A quick find on a beautiful sunny afternoon. 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.

TFTC

Thanks

Staying out at Scotts Ferry Camp ground for a few days decided to find a few caches many thanks.

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

TFTC mar1sa

Yep, found too...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. The day was quite cool when we started but as the day went on it got quite warm although if you were in the wind there was still a bite in the wind.
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.
Thank you for this series of cache M. and another little string of happy faces. Thank you.

Quick find, had to hide from muggles however!

TFTC. For remembrance.... which is why this herb is often found in churchyards.

I just love the perfume of this herb.

Log signed as 'IE'. TFTC

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

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

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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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#9103. Another park and grab on Forest Road in Parewanui 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.

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.

#3847. 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 Herb Trail. And a flavoursome selection it was too. Nice quick find here. I could hear a Simon & Garfunkel tune playing in the background (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7JS8mcp3c). 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 and Smurf 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

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.

Another quick find here. Tftc an smiley

Easy find TFTC

Got it!!!

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.

I soon spotted the hint object when I arrived at the cache site and made a quick find.

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!*
Fun driving around the area today with Just-Lookin.
We soon spotted the container.
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. Appropriately, rosemary is for remembrance. This was a straightforward find. TFTC

A quick find, TFTC!

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

It was a lovely day out placing caches with Marisa & kaleb placing them in careful places for park n grabs and not outside houses. Thank you for placing a cool trail out here.

Illustration from Köhler's Medicinal Plants

Flowering rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis prostratus

Rosmarinus officinalis – MHNT

Rosemary illustration from an Italian herbal, circa 1500

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) essential oil
Rosemary is an aromatic evergreen shrub that has leaves similar to hemlock needles. The leaves are used as a flavoring in foods such as stuffings and roast lamb, pork, chicken and turkey. It is native to the Mediterranean and Asia, but is reasonably hardy in cool climates. It can withstand droughts, surviving a severe lack of water for lengthy periods.[5] Forms range from upright to trailing; the upright forms can reach 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, rarely 2 m (6 ft 7 in). The leaves are evergreen, 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) long and 2–5 mm broad, green above, and white below, with dense, short, woolly hair. The plant flowers in spring and summer in temperUsage[edit]
Rosemary is used as a decorative plant in gardens where it may have pest control effects. The leaves are used to flavor various foods, such as stuffings and roast meatsate climates, but the plants can be in constant bloom in warm climates; flowers are white, pink, purple or deep blue.[6] Rosemary also has a tendency to flower outside its normal flowering season; it has been known to flower as late as early December, and as early as mid-February.
Mythology[edit]
According to legend, it was draped around the Greek goddess Aphrodite when she rose from the sea, born of Uranus's semen. The Virgin Mary is said to have spread her blue cloak over a white-blossomed rosemary bush when she was resting, and the flowers turned blue. The shrub then became known as the "Rose of Mary"
and for xeriscape landscaping, especially in regions of Mediterranean climate. It is considered easy to grow and pest-resistant. Rosemary can grow quite large and retain attractiveness for many years, can be pruned into formal shapes and low hedges, and has been used for topiary. It is easily grown in pots. The groundcover cultivars spread widely, with a dense and durable texture.Cultivation[edit]
Since it is attractive and drought-tolerant, rosemary is used as an ornamental plant in gardens
Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position. It will not withstand waterlogging and some varieties are susceptible to frost. It grows best in neutral to alkaline conditions (pH 7–7. with average fertility. It can be propagated from an existing plant by clipping a shoot (from a soft new growth) 10–15 cm (4–6 in) long, stripping a few leaves from the bottom, and planting it directly into soil
Fresh or dried leaves are used in traditional Italian cuisine. They have a bitter, astringent taste and a characteristic aroma which complements many cooked foods. Herbal tea can be made from the leaves. When roasted with meats or vegetables, the leaves impart a mustard-like aroma with an additional fragrance of charred wood compatible with barbecued foods.
In amounts typically used to flavor foods, such as one teaspoon (1 gram), rosemary provides no nutritional value.[14][15] Rosemary extract has been shown to improve the shelf life and heat stability of omega 3-rich oils which are prone to rancidity.

Fragrance[edit]
Rosemary oil is used for purposes of fragrant bodily perfumes or to emit an aroma into a room. It is also burnt as incense, and used in shampoos and cleaning products.

Another handy herb. Probably also a nice name for one of the Friesian cows ruminating in the paddock as we signed the log. tftc

Now this one goes well tucked into pockets cut into the roast lamb yum 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.

Rosemary this time. Number twenty one.

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

#2733 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.

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!!!!!

Finally we made it back to the start of the road, and this was the last cache in the herb series that we visited. Cache was found, and off we went in search of a new trail!

Sorry for the generic logs- it was really hard to remember specifics, as we ended up finding over 200 hundred caches during the course of the day. But a huge thiank you to the Manawatu CO's for putting out so many caches for us to find!
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!

Fresh rosemary with a lamb roast, into a stew or rice dish, finely chopped as a garnish. Yum! And the perfume...

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.

Another sweet smelling herb, perfect with a nice bit of lamb - yum!
Spotted the clue item & was quickly in for an easy find.
Thanks for setting up these neat little trails, & thanks for the joint {FTF} with Popmac

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 Herbs Trail.

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