GoSA Grapevine December 2019 - Feasts and Festivities

3, 2, 1 Go!
2020 Festivities
Feasting on the Trail

3, 2, 1 Go!

Groundspeak has released a new souvenir challenge for the final countdown to 2020. All you need to do is find a geocache, or find an Adventure Lab cache, or attend an Event Cache, on each of 6 different days between 11 December 2019 and 1 January 2020. Find out all the details here.

2020 Festivities

Geocaching is what you’ve made it. Entering into the 20th year of geocaching, Groundspeak wants to celebrate what’s most important: this community-driven game, and during 2020 will allow eligible geocachers to apply to host Community Celebration Events in 2020. These events will enable cachers around the world to commemorate the 20th anniversary of geocaching with a new icon and souvenir.

This cache type was originally known as the Lost and Found Event Cache. It was created for events that were hosted by geocachers from April 30, 2010 to May 3, 2010 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of geocaching. Just 362 Lost and Found Events were held, so a very limited number of cachers earned the icon.

To find out more and apply to host one of these events, visit the Geocaching Blog here.

Feasting on the Trail

If you are on the caching trail frequently, it may get quite expensive. Taking into consideration fuel and accommodation, costs can rise up quite swiftly. Factor in food and you may end up forking out enough to make you second guess a trip altogether.

While there’s little you can do about fuel and if you’re camping, it doesn’t really get much cheaper, there are some cheap hacks you can pull off to feed a family of four for under R100.

1: Hacked Sandwich

Perfect for when you’re actually on the road and don’t want to stop for lunch, the trick here is to find well priced French bread, which you can usually pick up for 10 bucks a loaf. Depending on the cost of the bread, you can spend the rest of your budget on things to put in the bread

Bread: R9.99
Ham: R24.99
Spread: 12.99
Cheese: R29.99
Total Cost: R77.96
(Special cheat: substituting the ham for cucumber is not only cheaper but, in my opinion, more delicious)

2. Pasta Salad

I always feel like I’m cheating with this one because pasta is so versatile and cheap but hey, we’re on a budget here, cheating isn’t a factor. You can easily get 500g of pasta for 15 bucks if you’re willing to skip the fancy names and bowties and then you’ve got a lot of options in terms of what you put in it. Personally, I like to go with
500g no name macaroni: R10.99
200g olives: R18.99
Green pepper (it’s cheapest): R9.99
Chopped onion: R6.99
Block of feta: R15.99
Cucumber: R9.99
Total Cost: R72.94
(Special cheat: If you have a little extra or you just have the following laying around, smash them together for a delicious dressing: olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper)

3. Breakfast buns

Truth be told, you can do almost anything with bread and if you get yourself a pack of buns, you can work wonders (even better when they’re still stuck together because then you can cut the whole unit open, stuff it and place it in the oven like some sort of makeshift pie).

12 buns: R19.99
Small spread: R12.99
Large eggs: R39.99
Deli ham: R19.99
Total Cost: R92.96
(Special cheat: anything with cheese can be improved exponentially with oregano. Also if you don’t have cholesterol problems…or maybe you have some turmeric…you can splurge on some cheese)

4. Uncle Vanya’s Soup
There is a story Boris tells about Uncle Vanya:

"He not know how to cook very good. Actually he not know how to cook at all.All his life, mama be cook for him but this one day, mama not feeling good. Mama is sick in bed and she say to her only son, “Vanya, you need cook food for me” but you see Vanya not know how to cook anything.

So he go to kitchen, find some beans, throw into pot with some water on top and set to boil.Once water start boiling, Vanya go back and say to mama, “I have made soup” but mama say, “Only beans? No no! That is no real soup”

But Vanya want to help. He go back and he remember, carrot is ready in garden, so he put it inside as well.

Go back to mama but mama say, “No no this is no soup.” Mama been cooking so many years for Vanya, she know exactly what is best but too weak to help.

So he go back, find some potato in house, cut it up and throw it inside…not exactly knowing what he is doing but this time when he return to mama, she is asleep. Instead of waking her up, he go back. He start adding new components, things he find in garden like onion, fresh peas, bay leaf and salt for taste.

Later mama wake up and realise house is not burned down after all. But instead, nice smell of soup is filling the air. And of course, a big pot of soup as well."

So the moral of the story is that you can put anything in soup, mix it up and it will taste good. I usually go with
1kg frozen veggies: R29.99
Stripped chicken breast: R34.99
2xchicken/veggie stock: R7.99
Chopped onion: R5.99
Crushed garlic clove: R5.99
Diced green pepper: R9.99
Total Cost: R94.94

(Special cheat: Watch this video where Boris explains Uncle Vanya’s soup and also gives other cheap meal tips)5. Blueberry Banana Pancake

For those of you looking for something sweet, this makes a satisfying 6 pancakes so if there are two hungry ones in your tribe, they can have extra.
1 cup flour: R4.99
1 cup milk: R7.99
2 tablespoons sugar: incidental but a 250g bag will set you back R6.99
1 teaspoon baking powder: incidental but a 50g bag will set you back R7.99
Pinch of salt: incidental but a 250g bag will set you back R5.99
1 banana: R6.99
½ a cup of blueberries: R29.99
1 egg: incidental but a box of 6 will set you back R13.99
6 teaspoons of baking margarine: You can get a 1kg brick for 29.99
You will need to combine the flower, baking powder, sugar and salt then carefully whisk in the egg and milk. Pour some of the batter onto a heated pan and drop in some blueberries and chopped banana.
Total cost: R114.91
(although this is based on buying more ingredients than you need given larger packaging sizes so you can make it multiple times which will bring the average price down)

(Special cheat: As with all pancakes…add some syrup, also replacing the margarine with ghee makes a world of difference)

Well there you have 5 meals you can make for the tribe on geocaching adventures under R100 bucks. I am sure you have your own recipes so share them with us on our Facebook page. Looking forward to reading the Geocachers’ Cookbook!
Article submitted by Uncle Chem

YEAR END GEOCACHING EVENTS

There are already many year end events being planned across the country, you can get the details from the Events page on our website.

One event we have to highlight is the Nothing GRANDER than a day on the MEANDER event planned for the 15th December in the Natal Midlands, which sounds like a really exciting full day of geocaching for those of you that are able to join that. We know quite a few of our committee are planning on making it to that, even from Johannesburg.

The Bay Cache Bash

Finally, remember that the Eastern Cape community is hosting the next big event in September 2020, and GC8G0ZR - The Bay Cache Bash has already been published and achieved 136 Will Attends at the time of this newsletter going to press. If you want to join a fun filled weekend (if not longer) with fellow geocachers from across the country, start planning your trip now, you have plenty of notice.

Cache of the Month

December's Cache of the Month called for general nominations again. We are proud to announce Up the rabbit hole as the COTM this month. A unique location, with every premium cacher who has logged it awarding a Favourite Point, earns this multi-cache the December award.

Next month we will be looking to award the Cache of the Month to the best geocache placed during 2019, so it must be a cache that was hidden and published in 2019. Please send your nominations to .

Mega Merchandise

The GoSA Store still has some Jozi Jol Mega 2018 Silver Geocoins for sale, you can place your order online. We also have some stock of geocoins from the previous Mega events available. There is also very limited Jozi Jol Mega 2018 stock left, check the GoSA Store for details of what is left in stock.

We are always on the lookout for photos from events or cool caches, as well as any fun, interesting, unusual or exciting geocaching stories to share with the geocaching community. If you want to share yours, send it to us by emailing it to our webmasters.

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Welcome Back
2019 Statistics
2020 Festivities
Meet ChrisDen

Welcome Back

We hope everyone in the geocaching community has had a good break and been able to find lots of caches wherever they may have travelled to. If you didn't get away, we hope that at least you managed to find lots of caches.

We see that Stats Guru Danie has started publishing all his analysis of the caching stats for 2019, and there seems to have been quite a reduction in the amount of geocaching happening, both with new caches being placed, and finds happening being at their lowest levels since 2016. You can see all the stats here on the geocaching forums.

2020 Festivities

These events have been allocated out now, and the full list of events already published is available at this link. Check back here regularly to find one near you.

Meet ChrisDen

This month our feature article is about team ChrisDen, who currently have 9 765 finds, 299 hides, and according to CacherStats are ranked 4th in South Africa.

GOSA - Please tell us a little more about yourself/yourselves, who you are and what you do when you are not caching?
ChrisDen - Denise and I are in our 60's and have been married for 40ish years. I retired a few years ago after working for the same firm for 37 years. I was a professional Chartered Accountant. Denise, unfortunately, will never be able to retire from her work as the homemaker. We have two married children who live overseas and three grandchildren. We keep ourselves busy by travelling extensively, both locally and overseas. We cache as a team as we both enjoy it. There are very few caches that we have found where only one of us was present.

GOSA - When and how did you get involved in Geocaching?
ChrisDen - We have been caching since January 2013. We were first told about caching by a friend. My immediate reaction was that it sounded stupid as I had a mental picture of going to the coordinates and seeing a large container. I had no idea what ingenuity went into the hobby. We then attempted a cache using a Garmin Nuvi that was in street mode so took us to the point on the road nearest to the cache. Of course we had no idea where to look. We went home and then used the app to find a cache 100m from our house. Then we were hooked.

GOSA - What has been your most memorable find?
ChrisDen - There are lots but when asked this question we normally immediately think of Mission 9: Tunnel of light - GC1169. To get to the cache you have to walk 3.6 km in an old train tunnel. Awesome experience. Another that I must add is Sentinel View GC185

GOSA - Can you tell us about some of the interesting places Geocaching has taken you to?
ChrisDen - Phew, once again we have been to so many places as a result of geocaching. We use caching as our tour guide. The memorable places include the Oregon forests in the USA, the top of the Koffiebus mountain near Steynsburg, the tip of South Africa in the Kgalagadi Nature reserve. We have even found walks and parks in our home town that we did not even know about.

GOSA - What is your favourite cache type and why?
ChrisDen - Earth caches. The geological history of earth is fascinating and this cache type has increased our knowledge significantly. Our favourite containers are ones that are hidden in plain sight. It takes skill to hide those sort of caches so we appreciate them that much more.

GOSA - What is your greatest Geo-Achievement?
ChrisDen - We do not think in these terms. Caching is a fun hobby. It is sort of like asking what our greatest travel achievement is. There is no real answer.

GOSA - Have you set yourself any Geocaching Goals?
ChrisDen - As an accountant there is always some stat that we are chasing. Calendar loops, DT matrix and so on. Currently we are filling our 6th calendar loop.

GOSA - Which caches are on your bucket list?
ChrisDen - Match Stash - GC4D is top of the list. We need a cache placed in August 2000 to complete the full house of finding a cache placed in every month since caching started. There are only three other August 2000 caches and they are in the USA and we are not going back there in a hurry.

GOSA - Do you have any hints and tips you could share with the rest of the caching community?
ChrisDen - I have lots but lets keep it to the main one. Play the game the way you want to and do not worry about the way others play the game. If you worry about others you will remove the pleasure of the game. This is the best advice I can give any cacher.

The Bay Cache Bash

Finally, remember that the Eastern Cape community is hosting the next big event in September 2020, and GC8G0ZR - The Bay Cache Bash has already been published and achieved 166 Will Attends at the time of this newsletter going to press. If you want to join a fun filled weekend (if not longer) with fellow geocachers from across the country, start planning your trip now, you have plenty of notice.

Cache of the Month

January's Cache of the Month called for nominations for the best cache of 2019. We are proud to announce that GC84KPK - The Nest TB Hotel, created by DAandDI, has won this COTM. This cache is impressive for the great attention to creative detail that went into the creation of the cache. It is a must visit stop over for any weary traveller (TBs and Geocoins) on their adventures travelling from cache to cache. .

Next month we will be looking to award the Cache of the Month to the best event that took place during 2019, so it must be an event that happened during 2019. Please send your nominations to .

Mega Merchandise

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Virtual Festival
Mystery at the Museum
Cache of the Month

Virtual Festival

Several South African geocachers got the news on 4 June that they had been randomly selected to receive a Virtual Reward from Geocaching HQ! They had been allocated one of 4,000 unpublished new Virtual Caches that had just been released worldwide. Virtual Reward 2.0 had just happened, and in the process allocated about 40 new Virtual Geocaches (by our rough count on social media) to South African geocachers who had qualified for the random selection process by being an active geocache owner with more than 25 favourite points.

Many new virtual geocaches have already been published across the country, from the Kruger National Park to Cape Town, and there are sure to be many more over the next few months.

You can read more about the history of Virtual Geocaches in South Africa in our website article here (which is probably out of date already at the time of publication of this newsletter), or search the geocaching.com website for your nearest new Virtual here.

Mystery at the Museum

https://mysteryatthemuseum.com/ for the Breaking News!

Cache of the Month

June's COTM theme is the best multicache. We received many superb nominations and we are pleased to announce Intersect 2.0 (GC548HP) as June's best multicache. The number of favourite points and comments in logs speak to how impressive this multi is. Be sure to make a plan to find it if you haven't already.

As we have done since May, the next couple of months we will be focusing on all the different cache types. July's COTM will be for the best Mystery cache. Know of an amazing cunningly thought out puzzle or a mystery where both the puzzle and hide are amazing? Please email us at to submit your nomination.

Mega Merchandise

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Join a CITO event for the 13^th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend.
Need some advice on puzzle caches?
Find out about how a geocache caused confusion amongst the locals!

International CITO^® Weekend

Cache In Trash Out (CITO)^® is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the worldwide geocaching community.

Since 2002, geocachers around the world have been dedicated to improving parks and other cache-friendly places. Through these volunteer efforts, we help preserve the natural beauty of our outdoor resources! Geocachers around the world celebrate International Cache In Trash Out weekend annually by hosting and participating in Cache In Trash Out Events in their local area. Events might be focused on litter clean-up, removal of invasive species, revegetation efforts or building trails. Together, we make an enormous positive impact. Did we mention that we also have a bit of fun while we're at it?

The 13^th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend is scheduled for April 25 and 26, 2015. Find a nearby CITO to attend by visiting the International Cache In Trash Out Weekend page on our website.

Pi Day

Did you get your Pi Day souvenir on 3.14.15? The photos from the events are now on the website.

Other upcoming special geocaching days include:

15 Years of Geocaching over the weekend 2 and 3 May 2015. Find a geocache or attend an event that weekend to earn another souvenir. Learn more here.
Annual Tswaing Crater event over the 17-19 July weekend.
International Geocaching Day on the 15 August 2015. We will provide more information as these events are planned. Gauteng has already organised their event for the day.

Puzzle Caches

At some stage every geocacher gets frustrated trying to solve that one impossible puzzle. We have some basic puzzle solving hints and tips in our Geocaching FAQ.

Mega 2016

Follow the Mega Event Facebook group, SA Geocaching Mega Events for more details and to stay up to date.

Muggled!

GC58HAC OWL NEST. was recently the subject of much confusion when some locals spotted the weird contraption hiding in a tree.

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015

Somebody put this in a tree here in Tweni and was seen doing it, I went there and can't work out what it is for and don't want to remove in case it is an experiment or some research project.
The piece of fishing line is not a noose and is fixed both sides, the tape measure is inside the tube.

Regards
Alex
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Date: 08 January 2015 07:56 PM

No idea Alex unless the tape measure is a noose on the inside of the tube, trap tree hyrax or genet?

Interested to see if others know other ideas.

All the best
Geoff
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Date: 09 January 2015 07:45 AM

Hi Alex ,
Best guess is that it is a housing box of sorts , possibly tree dassie.
If you can find out who placed it there it would be worth while asking what its for.

Sorry I cant be of more help.

Kind regards
Piet
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Date: 09 January 2015 10:02 AM

Hi Alex

I've never seen anything like this.

My thoughts are that it looks specifically designed for a purpose - and seems too complex to be a trap used simply for catching bushmeat. If its a trap its designed to trap something in particular - either because the target is a high value muthi or a research subject.

Projects that catch indigenous wild animals should be registered with Ezemvelo so perhaps contact them to ask. And otherwise leave a note on or near it to get them to contact you. I'm sure if its legit then they would benefit greatly from Umtenwini Conservancy's awareness and support.

Cheers
Shane
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Date: 12 January 2015 11:52 AM

Hi Alex,
This is such a weird contraption! It does look like it is to measure something (tape measure suggests that). Perhaps leave a note in a plastic bag asking the person to contact the conservancy about it?

We used to use tubes to collect hair samples (for DNA testing) of rodents in trees and canopy walkways, but I am not sure where the tape measure comes in?

I would be interested in finding out what it is as well.

Regards,
Yvette

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Date: 2015-01-19 20:39

Hi Alex

This is one of my Geocaches called Owls Nest.

Geocaches is an International game hiding and seeking Caches using GPS Co-ordinates.

I am known as the Camo King on the South Coast of Geocaching. This specific cache has a tape measure and it's purpose is merely to allow the cacher to retrieve and replace the container with the log sheet. The tape measure is visible as ants have invaded the container and therefore unable the tape measure to retract. Nothing sinical just a way of making the find more interesting and preventing non cachers to find and destroy the hiding place. Please feel free to google www.geocaching.com to learn more about this. Currently there are more than 2,5 mil geocachers world wide playing the game. Caches are hidden daily and therefore the number varies day by day. The day i was spotted i was checking on the cache,because caches informed me the cache was faulty,:not retracting :So in geo caching terms I was MUGGLED, see by a none geocacher. ME bad.

PS: I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Regards
Howard

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Start collecting souvenirs with the Geocaching Road Trip '15

Geocaching Road Trip ’15

The Geocaching Road Trip '15 is now underway, with the first quest already open and the second one about to start.

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 quest details are available on the geocaching.com blog.

There are several events being organised around the country to support the Road Trip souvenir collection, check out our website for more details.

Share your Road Trip stories

We are looking for your fun, interesting, unusual or exciting road trip stories to share with the geocaching community. If you want to share yours, then send it to us by emailing it to us.

Other upcoming geocaching activities include:

Annual Tswaing Crater event over the weekend of 17-19 July 2015
An Earthcaching event in Barberton on 8 August 2015
International Geocaching Day on 15 August 2015. Several regions have already organised their events for the day.
- The Kite Flying event in Gauteng on International Geocaching Day is trying to reach 500 attendees for the weekend, please log your "Will Attend" so that the organisers can understand the numbers and plan accordingly.

Events

Event Caches are social gatherings of local geocachers. They are an opportunity to meet the faces behind the names and to discuss anything geocaching related. There are events happening nearly every week somewhere in South Africa. Check the website to find an event near you.

Mega 2016

The venue for the Cape Town Mega has been confirmed as The Wild Fig in Observatory, Cape Town from 1-2 October 2016. More information will be available next month, and you can also follow the Mega Event Facebook group, SA Geocaching Mega Events for the latest news and updates.

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Hit the trail with Geocaching Road Trip '15
Join in the World Wide Flash Mob

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.

Other upcoming geocaching activities include:

Annual Tswaing Crater event over the weekend of 17-19 July 2015
International Geocaching Day on 15 August 2015. We will provide more information as these events are planned. Gauteng has already organised their event for the day.

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

Two of South Africa's most prolific geocaching teams hit significant milestones in the last few weeks. Team iPajero recently went past the 12 000 cache mark, and team rodnjoan just found cache number 5 000.

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Join a Pi Day event near you on the 14th March
Visit the revamped GoSA website
Find out more about the 2016 Mega Event

Fancy some Pi?

March 2015 includes a unique opportunity to attend Pi Day events. Pi (also depicted as π) is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, and numerically is a mathematical constant equal to the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, commonly approximated as 3.14159 or 22÷7. Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed exactly as a common fraction; its decimal representation never ends and it never settles into a permanent repeating pattern.

More accurately, π to 20 decimals is 3.14159265358979323846…

March 14, 2015 at 9:26:53 AM or PM, alternatively written as 3-14-15 9:26:53, has therefore been declared Pi Day, and there are various Pi Day events happening next Saturday morning all around the country.

To find a Pi Day event near to you, visit the Pi Day page on our website.

Also look out for upcoming events to commemorate:

13^th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend over April 25 and 26
15 Years of Geocaching on May 3
International Geocaching Day on August 15

We will let you know more as these events are planned

GoSA Website

Speaking of websites, when last did you visit the GoSA website?

We recently completed an upgrade of the GoSA website. The new website includes links to upcoming events, articles about geocaching in South Africa, a FAQ and Glossary to help explain geocaching guidelines and the lingo we use, and links to various useful websites and South African geocaching forums.

If you have any other ideas or comments on the website, know of a geocaching site or geocaching blog that we should add links to, or use other sites to help with your geocaching experience, please share these ideas with our webmasters by sending an email to them at
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Mega 2016

The 2016 Cape Town Mega planning team has got things under way for a Mega event from 1^st to 2^nd October 2016 in Cape Town. If you are based in Cape Town, they are looking for volunteers to help with Finances and Website Design as well as Promowear, Geocoins, Registration, Tech Talks, Special Events and Hikes, Kiddies Corner, etc...

Follow the Facebook group, SA Geocaching Mega Events for more information.

Your Input

We would love to hear from you in terms of what information you want to see on our website, and what other information we can share with you as a geocaching community.

What information would be useful to include in the GoSA newsletter?

Some ideas we are already considering are any unusual geocaching experiences from both cachers and owners, some of the SA geocaches with the most favourite points, advice on how to solve geocaching puzzles, geocaching diaries, fun and interesting statistics and advice from reviewers.

Please send all your ideas to
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Celebrate Geocaching's 15^th Birthday
Learn Geo Language from the Geocaching Glossary

Welcome to an early May newsletter. With the public holidays and short week we don't want you to miss out on the May happenings which start this coming weekend with Geocaching's 15^th birthday.

15 Years of Geocaching

This May celebrate the history of geocaching by unlocking your mission for 2015. On 2 May 2000 GPS signals were descrambled, increasing the accuracy of GPS devices worldwide by ten times. The following day, what would become known as the first geocache (now called the The Original Stash and with GC code GCF) was hidden.

8 Months later, a geocache called GCZA01 (with the GC code GC163) was hidden as the first South African Geocache on the 14th January 2001. A few days later, Sentinel View (GC185) was hidden on the 18th January 2001, and this is the oldest active cache in South Africa.

Celebrate 15 Years of Geocaching on May 2nd and 3rd by finding any geocache or attending any geocaching event (click here for details of the local birthday party events). You’ll earn a new digital souvenir for your geocaching profile. Unlock details of your 2015 geocaching mission by reading the souvenir’s description. Join the conversation with your fellow geocachers on social media by tagging #Geocaching15 in your posts. Find out more here.

13th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend

Did you do your bit for the environment and attend one of the 8 CITOs organised around the country during the 13th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend?

Other upcoming geocaching activities include:

World Wide Flash Mob # 12 (WWFM XII) on 13 June 2015
Annual Tswaing Crater event over the weekend of 17-19 July 2015
International Geocaching Day on 15 August 2015. We will provide more information as these events are planned. Gauteng has already organised their event for the day.

Geocaching Glossary

Confused when you read about PAF, OPOR, BYOP and JOMBWGH? We have built up a glossary for South African geocachers on our website. Get it all in our Geocaching Glossary.

Mega 2016

Follow the Mega Event Facebook group, SA Geocaching Mega Events for more details and to stay up to date as this gets planned for October 2016.

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3, 2, 1 Go!

2020 Festivities

Feasting on the Trail

YEAR END GEOCACHING EVENTS

The Bay Cache Bash

Cache of the Month

Mega Merchandise

Welcome Back

2020 Festivities

Meet ChrisDen

The Bay Cache Bash

Cache of the Month

Mega Merchandise

Virtual Festival

Mystery at the Museum

Cache of the Month

Mega Merchandise

International CITO® Weekend

Pi Day

Puzzle Caches

Mega 2016

Muggled!

Geocaching Road Trip ’15

Share your Road Trip stories

Events

Mega 2016

Geocaching Road Trip ’15

WWFM XII

Mega 2016

Congratulations

Fancy some Pi?

GoSA Website

Mega 2016

Your Input

15 Years of Geocaching

13th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend

Geocaching Glossary

Mega 2016

International CITO^® Weekend