As Signal continues to celebrate geocaching around the world, our favorite frog will be visiting Canada to cache like a Canadian and celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. As part of the celebration, you can earn the Canada Day 2017 souvenir by hosting or attending an event on Saturday, July 1 or Sunday, July 2, 2017.

We’re excited to join Canadians in celebrating their birthday this July, and we hope you’ll join us! Join one of the South African events, find out more here.

How do the numbers of cache types in South Africa compare to the rest of the world?
I compared the numbers of the major cache types in South Africa with their prevalence in the whole world. Based on the total number of active caches in South Africa, the following graph shows the result:

What this means is that we have fewer multi-, letterbox, mystery and Wherigo caches than our total number of active caches would suggest. (A quick remark about Events: This comparison only considered active caches, i.e. future events that have already been published. I suspect this could be seasonal, and that the time of the year counts against us.)

This is compensated for with more than average numbers of event and EarthCaches. EarthCaches especially are almost three times as common here as in the rest of the world.

To get in line with the rest of the world, we need the following changes in cache type numbers:

The oldest active caches of each type in South Africa: