#02 Welke Taal ? Greytown Community, North Island, New Zealand
By Nosynel on 07-Apr-24. Waypoint GCANZWD

Out for a drive making a Palmy-Wairarapa loop for an EarthCache souvenir, and other random gatherings along the way.They all match the hint! Quick find though. I managed the retrieve in bare feet didnt need to break out the snowshoes or skis

**taybee** is caching again with **taybee nz** for the dayQuick find here today All in good order, sign log book as **taybee (** *joint sign* **TB/NZ** or **taybee / nz )** TFTC Cache was found at **25/09/2024 @ 10:19:00**

Day 2 of 2 of getting 50 caches in a day aswell as trying to complete the 100,10,7 challenge. This time it was only me and dad but everything went off without a hitch and was a successful mission. TFTC

Paddle chick and I are hoping to finish with a beautiful golden apple on out map by the end of the day. We saw this one on approach so a nice quick park and grab here. TFTC Nosynel # 22,667

This is our last day in the Wairarapa so our goal was to complete the apple geoart. I apologise for the copy and paste logs for most of them, as I was driving I didnt have much time to make notes in between. There seemed to be two types of apple in this trail, the one that was a very quick park and grab or one that took ages. But thats ok you can't expect them to all be easy. Thanks Nosynel#17262

We made a trip from Auckland with Team Welsh to find the two new Wairarapa geoarts. Yesterday we found the Nifty Swifty's on a fine winter's today. Today was the turn of the Apples, and we were not so lucky with the weather, but we still managed to find them all. Most were straightforward but there were more than a few that needed everyone to search. We had made a plan to collect all the Apples with the least backtracking, and best parking, and it worked well.Easy enough to translate the text, but it took a little longer to sort out the cipher. Thanks.

We were on a caching trip with KC to sign off all the solved puzzles in two geoart series. Today was the turn of the apple. 100% find rate today = a good days caching. Mrs KC did all the driving, Mr TW and Mr KC did most of the hopping in and out and when it was on the right side of the road, I did the honours. We soon got into a rhythm and although some caches were trickier than others to find we found them all. ***This puzzle caused some trouble with the solve so its always good to have someone else to bounce ideas off and it worked in this case***

I headed over the hill today to find the balance of the Apple Series. 16 left to get pleased to say I was able to find them all, so the GeoArt is complete. Thanks to everyone involved in setting up this enjoyable series. Took a while to solve. Only a short time to find. Cheers and TFTC

Headed over the hill again today with tmann421 to gather the remaining apple caches.Left Waikanae at 0630 in the dark so we could make the most of the daylight hours in the Wairarapa.Enjoyed the finds some taking longer than others to locate, but all that were attempted today were found.Signed logs tm/ww NZTFTC

Nice to be back after the rest of the Apple Munching Series of caches with woolwood9*We left home again just before 6-30am so we could have plenty of daylight on the trail!*Some finds were quick but many did require a bit of searching to locate.SL *tm/ww NZ*Thanks for the another great day out.

This is the third visit to the Wairarapa for Talla64 and me in an attempt to complete this interesting Apple geoart. We chose a perfect day to come over from Kapiti, no wind, no rain, and we had a most enjoyable drive around the countryside. It being the third visit we know it well now!The puzzles were very varied which made the challenge more interesting - some were easy some gave me sleepless nights.Thanks very much for the puzzle and the cache Nosynel. Oops, I think we might have put the wrong month on the log!

Well Flowerydaze and I find ourselves in the Wairarapa once more on a near perfect day for finding the geoart caches.... for the third time, we are getting to know these roads quite well now and the pleasant countryside. Thanks to the CO's who contributed to these entertaining puzzles and of course NZ_B.

**21,266**This puzzle had given us a bit of grief thankfully we got there in the end. When it came to the cache find Mr Geckoh was the one that chose the right hint item to search so found the cache and was left to sign it off as Mrs Geckoh made her way back to the van. TFTPC

Came over from Wellington for a day to have a very successful blitz on my 18 remaining unfound caches in this series. This puzzle needed more than one brain to solve it and the cache was a quick find. Signed log, TFTC.

Up bright and early (7:30am) for a bash at all 75 caches with Bruzie (Signed log as BC). Managed 73 of the 75 as we couldn't solve one and didn't have the appropriate kit with us for one up a tree. Finished and back home before 5pm including a good 45 minute lunch in the middle of the day in Martinborough. Thanks for all the puzzles (some really simple to some excruciating mind boggling) and the finds. Found hanging by quarter round post.

A pleasant day to be driving around then semi-back blocks of the Wairarapa. This is a fun series of a variety of puzzle types. Always good to pick up trails when they are fresh, so picking up 56 of the solved ones today. I'll be back for the trads and straggler puzzles. Thanks to everyone who was involved in setting up the caches.TFTC Nosynel

It's apple scrumping time! A day trip over to skindo/swifty/apple land to clear as much of the new geoart as possible, in the company of CrystalFairy. Thanks to The Apple Munching Crew for the caches, and of course NZ_B for organising. Logs signed as BC.Is it triangular or quarter?All good here, and thank you to Nosynel for the placement of your Mystery Cache.Find #6830 at 26 May 2024 3:11pm

My day started out in Wanganui, as my weekends often do, and as I left I only had two caches to get as requirements for two individual goals. But as the day progressed I achieved so much more. I got my two goal caches, and I successfully avenged four previous DNFs around Feilding, and I completed the Apple Geoart in the Wairarapa. What an excellent day of Geocaching.Did you know, that the Wairarapa is now the Big Apple of New Zealand.Having spent some time over here when this excellent Geoart series was released, I only had a handful of the puzzles left to solve. So that is what I have been doing, and just a few days ago I finally solved the last one. Today I made a spur of the moment decision to come home this way so I could complete the finding of the series, and now I have.And here is it, my last find to complete the Apple, and also the last puzzle I solved. This by far took me the longest. Funnily enough I had the exact right idea for how to solve it early on, except I made a bad assumption that stopped me from pursuing it all the way to the end. If I had, I woulda got there a lot sooner.---Many thanks to NZ_B for the huge amount of thought, care, and effort that has gone into creating this beautifully put together geoart, and to all the cache owners and reviewers (from all over the world) of The Apple Munching Crew who contributed their time to the effort. A fantastic addition to the New Zealand geocaching landscape.[DGSc-Bulk] tagging to help me generate a list for GC30AD8 - DGSc Challenge.

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