White's Junction Trail currently runs from the Black Locomotive on Main Street in Palmerston North to Side Road 5 approximately 6 kilometers. The actual trail starts up on Inkerman Street - a few streets to the north!
This trail is the home of many interesting plants and wildlife, such as, woodpeckers, blue jays, opossums, herons, deer, hawks, and turtles, prairie grass, flowering spurge, trout lilies, butterfly milkweed, wild bergamot and thimbleweed.
An historical sketch of an ancient Israelite Prophet: Jonah
Timeframe:
Jonah lived from 790 B.C. to 770 B.C.
Family:
Little is known about the personal life of Jonah, except that he came from a town called Gath-hepher, Israel.
Mission:
Jonah was sent to warn the ancient peoples of capital city of Assyria, called Nineveh. He was to warn them of God's impending judgement. Jonah fled his call because these people were destroying his people. To escape his call, he boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, which was a city near Gibraltar in the southern part of Spain, as far in the opposite direction as he could get at the time. A great storm arose. The sailors concluded that the storm came on account of Jonah so they threw him overboard. He was immediately swallowed by a great sea monster. Jonah repented in the bowels of the creature and was released the third morning. He came to Nineveh and delivered his message.