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    Geo-Art is the placement of geocaches so that it forms some kind of symbol or picture.  In the urban environment it usually makes use of puzzle caches so that the geocache container does not have to be hidden where the initial coordinates are listed, allowing the owners to fit the pattern into the area, and hide the containers nearby.

    Updated GeoArt

    The first Geo-Art in South Africa was placed in August 2012 and called 'Our heart is in PE' series, consisting of traditional caches in the flower reserve just outside Port Elizabeth, with the 'Question Mark' following a year later in Pretoria over the Waterkloof Air Force base. A month later in Oct 2013 the 20 caches spelling out the letters 'PE' were added to the South African landscape. Before the year was over the town of Hermanus got its signature added with a whale consisting of 20 caches. It took almost another year before the next item was added, again in PE, with the Love PE series. The geocachers of Pretoria joined forces and about 15 teams brought 86 geocaches to life spelling out the word 'PRETORIA' in March 2014.  KwaZulu-Natal then published their first Geo-Art with the ABC Trail just south east of Pietermaritzburg in February 2015 with the Hill Lighthouse appearing in Port Elizabeth also at that time.  During 2015, the Western Cape also added their Arrow van Parow Geo-Art in February, the Sunningdale Mystery Series in November and the Puzzler's Revenge Geo-Art in December.   January 2016 saw the Orchestra Geo-Art appear over Durban harbour. 2017 welcomed a dodo egg in East London, an anchor in Gordon's Bay and Icons Geoart in PE. 2018 saw plenty of activity: the Horse Geoart, the Kogel Bay Bullet, GEO-EYE, Emoji, Maitland Coast NR, Tswaing 10 Years, Helderberg Grapes, Black Eagle and the Jozi Jol J Geoart popped up on the map.  2019 was a slow year with 051 and smiley making their way on to the map.  So far 2020 only has one Geoart with KJ published in June.

    Name Placed Number of caches General Location
    Our heart is in PE Aug 2012 8  Map
    Pretoria Question Mark Aug 2013  10  Archived
    PE Oct 2013  20  Map
    Respect the Locals
    Nov 2013  20  Map
    Love PE Aug 2014  12  Map
    Pretoria Mar 2014  86  Map
    ABC
    Feb 2015  51  Map
    Arrow van Parow
    Feb 2015  11  Majority archived
    The Hill Lighthouse Feb 2015   37  Map
    Sunningdale Mystery Series
    Nov 2015  9  Map
    Puzzler's Revenge
    Dec 2015  9  Map
    Orchestra Series
    Jan 2016  26  Map
    Dodo Egg
    Mar 2017  20  Map
    Gordon's Bay Anchor
    Aug 2017  25  Map
    Icons
    Oct 2017  9  Map
    Horse Geoart
    Jan 2018 29  Map
    Kogel Bay Bullet Feb 2018 29  Map
    GEO-EYE
    Apr 2018 45  Map
    Emoji
    Apr 2018 26  Map
    Tswaing 10 Years
    Apr 2018 10  Map
    Maitland Coastal NR
    May 2018 20  Map
    Helderberg Grapes
    Jun 2018 18  Map
    Black Eagle
    Jul 2018 63  Map
    Jozi Jol J
    Sep 2018 7  Map
    051 Sep 2019 29 Map
    Smiley Sep 2019 7 Map
    Alfa - in Elgin Alphabet Dec 2019 26 Map
    KJ Jun 2020 31 Map

     

    To see Geo-Art from around the world, visit this Pinterest page.

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