Palmerston`s Whites Junction Trail

This is my 300th geocache Hide!!!

It is a replacement for one that was destroyed by construction.

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. In the holey wall!

An historical sketch of an ancient Israelite Prophet: Amos

Timeframe:

Amos likely lived 765-755 B.C.E. during the reigns of King Jeroboam II (793-753 B.C.E.) in the Northern Kingdom and King Uzziah (792-740 B.C.E.) in the Southern Kingdom.

Family:

He was born in Tekoa, a town in Judah about six miles south of Bethlehem and 11 miles from Jerusalem in the territory of the ancient tribe of Asher. Although a native of the southern Kingdom of Judah, he worked in the northern Kingdom of Israel.

Mission:

Amos wrote at a time of relative peace and prosperity but mostly about the neglect of the its Israel's laws.