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From the first geocache hidden in South Africa, the reviewers who have published our geocaches, the introduction of EarthCaches and Wherigos, TV inserts about geocaching, the South African Geocoins and most prolific South African geocachers, find out how geocaching has evolved in South Africa.

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Geo-Art

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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Last Updated: 14 September 2020
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