Get Outdoors Souvenir

There is a new souvenir up for grabs on Saturday, the 11th of June 2016.

Initially this souvenir was only going to be available to Geocachers in the USA as it is related to a USA initiative called Great Outdoors Month. The Get Outdoors Day souvenir is part of a bigger initiative with the American Recreation Coalition and other US-based outdoor organizations to get more Americans outside during National Get Outdoors Month.

Given the interest expressed by geocachers all over the world in participating in Get Outdoors Day, Groundspeak decided to make the souvenir available to anyone who finds a geocache or attends an event (anywhere in the world!) on June 11, 2016.

Find out more here.

WWFM XIII

World Wide Flash Mob #13 is scheduled for the 4th June 2016.

There are flash mobs organised around the country for this annual event, so keep an eye out for one near you. Find out more.

Film Festival 2016

Remember to submit your film by August 1, 2016 for the chance to have it viewed by a worldwide geocaching audience. 

Find out how to enter.

Get Connected

One of the things that GoSA is trying to do is encourage geocachers to communicate with each other and meet each other.  There are already many regional Facebook groups up and running, and we know geocachers have their own blogs to share their experiences with the wider community . The list we know about is on our website, if you know of any other Facebook groups or blogs, please share them with our webmasters so we can add them to the website.

Canada Day Souvenir

More About The Numbers

How do the numbers of cache types in South Africa compare to the rest of the world?
I compared the numbers of the major cache types in South Africa with their prevalence in the whole world. Based on the total number of active caches in South Africa, the following graph shows the result:

What this means is that we have fewer multi-, letterbox, mystery and Wherigo caches than our total number of active caches would suggest. (A quick remark about Events: This comparison only considered active caches, i.e. future events that have already been published. I suspect this could be seasonal, and that the time of the year counts against us.)

This is compensated for with more than average numbers of event and EarthCaches. EarthCaches especially are almost three times as common here as in the rest of the world.

To get in line with the rest of the world, we need the following changes in cache type numbers:

• 329 more mystery caches
• 63 more multi-caches
• 21 more letterbox caches
• 9 more wherigo caches
• 6 fewer events
• 248 fewer EarthCaches
• 280 fewer traditional caches

• Traditional: GC185 - Sentinel View, in Cape Town. Placed 18 January 2001.
• Virtual cache: GC31AA – food for thought, in Nelspruit. Placed 10 January 2002.
• Multi-cache: GCGYQ4 - Urban Tag #1, in Pretoria. Placed 24 September 2003.
• Mystery: GCH26T - Reporters Riddle – Final, in Roodepoort. Placed 12 October 2003.
• EarthCache: GCPX24 - Vredefort Koepel Earthcache, in Vredefort. Placed 24 July 2005.
• Letterbox: GC12G1D - TBB'nB II, in Nelspruit. Placed 28 April 2007.
• Wherigo: GC1V8KT – Irish Quest, in East London. Placed 29 June 2009.

Geocaching Road Trip ’15

Did you earn your 15 Years of Geocaching Souvenir on 2 or 3 May 2015?  Even if you didn't, you have an opportunity to take part in the Geocaching Road Trip '15 mission and earn six other souvenirs.

After each quest begins, you’ll be able to complete it and earn your souvenir until 2 September 2015.

Complete all five and you'll earn a sixth, extra special souvenir. So get ready to hit the road because here are your quests and their start dates:

• June 19 Find a geocache with 10 or more Favorite Points
• July 3 Attend an Event, Mega-Event or Giga-Event
• July 17 Find a T5 or D5 geocache
• July 31 Find an EarthCache or attend a CITO
• August 14 Find a Mystery Cache

All the details are available on the geocaching.com blog.

Cape Town and Johannesburg are also having events on 3 July to kickstart the collection of the second souvenir.

WWFM XII

WWFM XII (World Wide Flash Mob #12) is scheduled for the 13^th June 2015. Check the website to find a flash mob near you.

Mega 2016

Follow the Mega Event Facebook group, SA Geocaching Mega Events for more details and to get the latest news and updates. The event is planned for October 2016.

Congratulations