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  • Virtual Rewards 1.0
  • Virtual Geocaches

    Virtuals are a special geocache type where there is no physical container hidden and they are more about discovering a location rather than a container. This cache type was grandfathered in 2005 and no new virtuals could be created since then.  On 24 August 2017, Geocaching HQ announced Virtual Rewards 1.0 where approximately 4000 geocachers had been selected and given the opportunity to create a new virtual cache.  Read about it on the blog and listen to the podcast here. In May 2019, Geocaching HQ announced another opportunity for new virtuals to be placed - called Virtual Rewards 2.0.

    South Africa was home to very few virtuals and before August 2017, there were only 7 in the country with 1 in Nelspruit and the others in Cape Town.

    Geocaching was still in its infancy in South Africa when virtuals could be created and there were only 14 virtuals created and published with 7 subsequently being archived over the years. Interestingly, 13 of the virtuals were placed in the Western Cape with no other provinces besides Mpumalanga having ever had a virtual geocache.

    During Virtual Rewards 1.0, 22 new virtuals were placed in South Africa. Eight in Cape Town, three in Port Elizabeth, one in Pietermaritzburg, one in Durban, three in the Kruger National Park, two in Pretoria, three in Johannesburg and one in the Drakensberg. Virtual Rewards 2.0 has resulted in 13 new virtuals less than a month after the Virtual rewards were given! We now have 49 virtuals in South Africa and 1 in Lesotho.

    Virtuals created 2002-2005
    food for thought GC31AA
    Tombstone Gulch GC3E5D
    Paul, Venus and the Titan GC3E8F
    Historical Series - Underground Virtual cache   GC4160
    Stairway to heaven or Just a Nuisance GC42DC
    Historical Series - Harbour entrance GC43FA
    Tableview 4x4 GC5042
    Lightning Conductor? GC51A0
    Sea Point Contact GCA538
    Sea Point Historical 1 GCAF35
    The Virtual Triangle GCBB06
    Thomas Bain GCG8D4
    West Fort GCGA10
    Kloof Nek Cannons GCGA0Z

     

    Virtual Reward 1.0: Virtuals created 2017-2018
    Lighthouses of Algoa Bay GC7B9CE   Port Elizabeth
    Shark Rock Pier GC7B9ZV Port Elizabeth
    The Cenotaph GC7B801 Pretoria
    Cape Light GC7B71M Cape Town
    kruger park excursion GC7BA5A Skukuza
    Jubilee square GC7B96X Cape Town
    Company's Garden GC7B764 Cape Town
    Cape Town/Table Mountain Virtual Reward   GC7B84E Cape Town
    Into 7th Heaven GC7B8X0 Cape Town
    Route 67 - The Campanile GC7B9NH Port Elizabeth
    ABW - The Guardian GC7B72D Pietermaritzburg
    Moses Mabhida Stadium GC7B8TD Durban
    Mlondozi GC7BA00 Kruger National Park
    Virtual Reward - The Sitting Monk GC7B72K Drakensberg
    Constitution Hill GC7B718 Johannesburg
    Clock Tower GC7BA18 Cape Town
    Virtual Reward: Madiba Jive GC7B67T Johannesburg
    Irene Concentration Camp Cemetery GC7B6N6 Pretoria
    History Rediscovered GC7B90R Johannesburg
    KNP - Punda Maria: Virtual Reward GC7B76T Kruger National Park
    South with Scott GC7B91V Cape Town
    Full Steam Ahead! GC7B6W0 Cape Town

     

    Virtual Reward 2.0: Virtuals created 2019-2020
    Fort Schanskop GC892F3 Pretoria
    Sokkies73's Castle of Good Hope GC89278    Cape Town
    Alex's Virtual - Weltevreden Park Cemetery GC892P2 Johannesburg
    Shaka - King of the Zulu's GC890R8 Durban
    Pilanesberg National Park GC892HR Pilansberg
    The Southernmost Tip of Africa GC890M7 Cape Agulhas
    Sizonqoba – Together We Triumph GC89157 Drummond
    Umhlanga Whale Bone Pier GC890F4 Umhlanga
    Noon Gun - Virtual Reward 2.0 GC891F2 Cape Town
    The age of the Sail - Prester John GC891BJ Port Elizabeth
    Don’t be trigged! GC892F7 Port Elizabeth
    Seal Point Lighthouse GC891XJ Cape St Francis
    Cradle of Humankind  GC88Z9E Sterkfontein
    The Harties Cableway GC891J8 Hartebeespoort Dam
    Music in the Berg GC892TB Drakensberg
    Hapoor Dam GC8915A Addo Elephant National Park
    Water, water !! GC88ZM3 Midlands
    Letaba's Elephants GC88Z80 Kruger National Park
    Green Point Urban Park GC892HP Cape Town
    Mandela at the Donkin Memorial GC891GD Port Elizabeth
    O.R. Tambo International GC892A2 Johannesburg
    Caves on the Beach GC892JN Helderberg
    Capital Views GC892R0 Pretoria
    Die Bo-Kaap GC88YZF Cape Town
    The Tsitsikamma Big Tree GC890TH Tsitsikamma
    Kaaimans Train Bridge GC890AW Kaaimans River
    Oh Paquita ! What happened to you ? GC8920P Knysna
    The Lighthouse Cave GC88ZRW Mossel Bay
    Where the river meets the sea GC89244 Tsitsikamma
    Paul Sauer Bridge GC88ZX9 Storms River
    Ballito Kwadukuza – We will remember them GC88ZWE   Umhlali
    Port St Francis GC89250 St Francis Bay
    Spy Hill GC892QD Padfield Park
    Suspension Bridge GC892J5 Oudtshoorn
    Kardinal Hangbrug GC891PM Stellenbosch 
    RSME GC88Z4W Roodepoort
    Apartheid South Africa GC891FE Cape Town
    Commodore II GC88ZCM Milnerton
    Sani Pass (Lesotho) GC890BK Sani Pass
    Golden Footprints GC88Z4Z East London
    TSHOKWANE GC88ZHM Kruger Park
    Transporting through History GC890QK Johannesburg
    Virtually the Top of Africa GC890RX Johannesburg
    The Breakwater Prison: Punishment & Graffiti GC8922G Cape Town
    RHINOSAUR GC891T2 Cape Town
    Africa’s Longest Promenade GC8924K Durban
    Wood's Cycad GC89251 Durban
    Nlanguleni Picnic Site (KNP) GC88ZQ6 Kruger National Park
    Joao Albasini GC88YZW Kruger National Park
    The Old Fisher House GC88ZC8 Langebaan
    The Munro Drive GC890D4 Johannesburg
    Two Landmarks GC88ZZE Cape Town
    Jocks's route - Jock's birthplace GC890DK Kruger Park
    Paternoster GC890MG Paternoster

    HIghest Viewing point of the Van Standens Bridge

    GC89076 Woodridge

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