GoSA Grapevine June 2019 - Virtual Festival

Virtual Festival
Mystery at the Museum
Cache of the Month

Virtual Festival

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 They had been allocated one of 4,000 unpublished new Virtual Caches that had just been released worldwide.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You can read more about the history of Virtual Geocaches in South Africa in our website article here (which is probably out of date already at the time of publication of this newsletter), or search the geocaching.com website for your nearest new Virtual here.

Mystery at the Museum

https://mysteryatthemuseum.com/ for the Breaking News!

Cache of the Month

June's COTM theme is the best multicache. We received many superb nominations and we are pleased to announce Intersect 2.0 (GC548HP) as June's best multicache. The number of favourite points and comments in logs speak to how impressive this multi is. Be sure to make a plan to find it if you haven't already.

As we have done since May, the next couple of months we will be focusing on all the different cache types. July's COTM will be for the best Mystery cache. Know of an amazing cunningly thought out puzzle or a mystery where both the puzzle and hide are amazing? Please email us at to submit your nomination.

Mega Merchandise

The GoSA Store still has some Jozi Jol Mega 2018 Silver Geocoins for sale, you can place your order online. We also have some stock of geocoins from the previous Mega events available. There is also very limited Jozi Jol Mega 2018 stock left, check the GoSA Store for details of what is left in stock.

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.