#23 Folktale Greytown Community, North Island, New Zealand
By Nosynel on 15-Apr-24. Waypoint GCAPB12

On the face of it, there is nothing difficult about this puzzle. However, it is presented in a way that fooled me and it took somebody else to give me a nudge to get on to the right track. At Ground Zero, the grass was very long and I wasn't prepared to put any of my car wheels of the road in case I had trouble with unseen hazards. I was ready to jump in my car to drive off to clear the road if somebody was approaching, even if it meant taking the cache with me and returning it later. However, it wasn't an issue and I was able to quickly complete my mission.

**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 @ 10:52:00**

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 back out and about in the beautiful Wairarapa countryside with the goal of having a lovely golden apple on our map by the end of the day. While its still not recognisable, it is taking shape nicely. TFTC Nosynel #22,675

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#17270

I needed a cache to fill a mystery dot day so decided on this one. A quick find at gz - thanks for setting up and maintaining.

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.All was not as straightforward as it seemed with this puzzle. Once we had figured out what was required, we enjoyed completing the puzzle. TFTC.

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.***Got there in the end with the solve on this***

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. I had some help working one out. Cheers and TFTC

#15,231. We enjoyed solving this challenging yet seemingly simple puzzle based in Tauwharenkau. Park and grab at the final GZ, where it was fortunately all quiet at the time of our visit. Relatively quick find. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside. Took nothing, left nothing, signed log.*Thanks for the puzzle and geocache placement, and for bringing us to this 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.*---### LET US HAVE A BLOCK PARTY!!! ###On **May 3rd, 2025**, we will be celebrating 25 years of geocaching in **Rotorua, New Zealand** with a special **Block Party** event. Join us to celebrate 25 years of this amazing game, and that the very first geocache hidden outside of the United States, 25 years ago, was hidden here in New Zealand.You do not want to miss this event, so check out the ["25 Years of Geocaching NZ! (GCAKR25)" event page]( https://coord.info/GCAKR25) and [event website](http://25years.geocache.nz) for more details, join the [facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/924894455969387) group, and sign up to the [email list](http://25years.geocache.nz?p=4) to get updates...If you intend to come, please make sure you get your ["Will Attend" log]( https://www.geocaching.com/live/geocache/GCAKR25/log) onto the page as soon as you can in order to assist with planning the first ever Block Party in New Zealand.**Happy caching and we will see you in 2025!**---

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.

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

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.

Another interesting and enjoyable puzzle by this CO. 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.

**21,233**This puzzle gave us a lot of grief but in the end a team effort cracked it. Mr Geckoh could see the cache as he exited the van so a nice quick find here. 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 the help of a second brain to solve, however 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. Once there it wasn't even a step out of the car to the cache.

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.Didn't expect that around here.All good here, and thank you to Nosynel for the placement of your Mystery Cache.Find #6824 at 26 May 2024 2:31pm

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.An interesting puzzle that I failed to see the solution initially, but it came to me a few days later. ---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.

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

I have been on a whirlwind trip around the North Island, and my last stop is Lower Hutt to stay with The TwigNoid (TwigNZ & the Seagnoid) before boarding the ferry tomorrow morning.TwigNZ messaged me earlier in the day to see if I wanted to nip over the hill to grab some Apple caches this evening! "Of course" was my reply. What I didn't know was there was also a solar storm and the Aurora Australis was out. Such an amazing thing to see, and got some awesome photos.Thanks for the cache. A joint {FTF}.

Ever since this geoart came out I have pretty much ignored it. Then just in the last couple of days I got stuck in to solve, well, some of them. This one was a little tricky getting the translation right, which I assume was the problem that everyone else had, thus it was still waiting its first find.But we got it solved. And as that darn bear was due any hour now, we waited till she arrived then headed over the hill. Awesome photos by the bear of the Aurora Australis, but my camera couldn't cope, so none from me. We actually went on to find a number of caches, but I decided to keep with the theme and save them for a 100/10/7 day, so I am only claiming the empty logbooks. This one seemed to be 17m out, but so was every other one we hunted. Could the solar storm be affecting GPS? You know, that actually might be a thing!{FTF} with TwigNZ and ThatDarnBearLater caught up with NZ_B for a Aurora viewing, at the time when it would be peaking, but alas the cloud cover also peaked so we say nothing then. Not a sausage. Zip, nada, ziltch.

Joint {FTF} @ 20:30 with ThatDarnBear and the SeagnoidEver since this Geoart series came out, just 2 days ago, I seem to have been spending an awful lot of time staring at pictograms of apples! And when I'm not staring at them, I'm thinking of them and other apple-related topics such as this one.This afternoon my flatmate, the Seagnoid, and I were being visited by ThatDarnBear so we decided to pop over the hill to try to get a FTF or two, as well as any other caches of this series that we happened to be passing, before catching up with NZ_B in order to try to see some of the predicted solar storm. We were successful on all counts there This one was a quick mostly-solved on the day of publication as a collaborative effort with YetiNZ and NZ_B, but we couldn't quite figure out the last piece of the puzzle on the night so it got pushed to one side, for more work later. Driving towards GZ, there was a tremendous feeling of Deja Vu as I had driven up and down this road a couple of times claiming finds on the day of publication. No issues to report here with the nice clean logsheet now adorned with our 3 names.Thanks for putting this cache out, and helping to make the Wairarapa more interesting for caching again.

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