Exactly 3 months to go to the official opening of Mega 2016 at the Wild Fig in Cape Town. The plans are all coming together and everything is on track for a fantastic weekend. There are many activities planned for the week before the Mega, on the Saturday and Sunday, and some activities for after the Mega as well.
Tickets are available on the Mega Event website as well as T-shirts and the attractive Mega geocoins. There is also a raffle for a Garmin eTrex Touch 35 donated by caching.co.za that will be drawn at the Mega on 1 October. Buy your tickets here. For the latest breaking news for Mega 2016 you can like the SA Geocaching Events Facebook group or follow the @GeocacheEventZA Twitter feed.
On 30 August 2001, Geocaching.com Founder Jeremy Irish activated the world’s first trackable, TB1 and thus began a game within a game: trackables. Today there are more than 2 million trackables traveling around the world - making friends, creating memories and patiently waiting to complete their mission.
On the 15th anniversary of trackables, Groundspeak are hosting a worldwide trackable race featuring the reincarnated Deadly Ducks and you are invited to enter!
The race will begin 20 July 2016 and end on 20 August 2016, but you need to register your racer by 17 July. Get all the details about the race and how to enter here.
The updated framework for Challenge Caches has been finalised, and new ones can be created again. Find out more about the new guidelines and listing requirements from the Geocaching Help Centre.
Last chance to submit your film as entries close on 1 August 2016 for the chance to have it viewed by a worldwide geocaching audience. Find out how to enter your movie.
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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Geocachers tend to make things a little more interesting, and one way to make things interesting it to have a Travel Bug or Geocoin race.
The idea is to release a lot of travel bugs and allow them to hop from cache to cache and then keep track of which one gets the most distance or the most points.
South Africa has hosted many TB races over the past few years.
The 1st race was hosted by Africard and was won by Whostops.
The 2nd race was hosted by Globalrat.
The 3rd race was held in 2007 named "There could only be one", and hosted by QFC and Noddy. The race was won by a TB named "Rupert Rex", and is / was owned by Tricky Vicky.
The 4th race ..... (is a mystery at this point)
The 5th race was held in 2009 with the name of "The 2009 Great South African TB Race" and scored by team "cincol", with the web site hosted on sageostats.co.za.
The 6th race was held in 2011 and focused on photos of the photos of the TBs wherever they went, and was hosted by BruceTP on http://www.pantland.co.za/2011Race/Home.html
The 7th race was held in 2012 and the kick-off was the 2012 MEGA event. Scoring was done by BruceTP. There were two difference races, and the rules are available on the event page that started the race.
The 8th race was held in 2014, and only open to people living around the Port Elizabeth area, and was scored by team "Bremar Josrut"
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