3, 2, 1 Go!2020 Festivities Feasting on the Trail
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.
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.
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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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.
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 They had been allocated one of 4,000 unpublished new Virtual Caches that had just been released worldwide.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You can read more about the history of Virtual Geocaches in South Africa in our website article here (which is probably out of date already at the time of publication of this newsletter), or search the geocaching.com website for your nearest new Virtual here.
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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 (World Wide Flash Mob #12) is scheduled for the 13th June 2015. Check the website to find a flash mob near you.
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.
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.
We will let you know more as these events are planned
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.
The 2016 Cape Town Mega planning team has got things under way for a Mega event from 1st to 2nd 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.
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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