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Join us on TikTok, Submit your videos today!
We're thrilled to announce that we're starting a brand new TikTok account! Our team has been hard at work brainstorming creative content and ideas to showcase geocaching in South Africa and engage with our community. But we know that the true magic of TikTok lies in its interesting content, and that's why we want to hear from you. We're calling on all our fellow cachers to submit their own videos for a chance to be featured on our TikTok page. Whether you're a park and grabber, an earth Cacher, a puzzle solver or a lover of the high D/T ratings, we want to see what you've got! Show us your favourite caches, your funniest moments, and all your caching adventures. Here's how to submit your video:
We'll be reviewing all submissions and featuring the best ones on our TikTok page. Plus, we'll be giving shoutouts to the creators of our favourite videos, so don't forget to include your handle in the video description! We can't wait to see what you come up with. Let's make some TikTok magic together! |
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![]() Because sometimes, for some people, it is about the numbers… Here is a summary of South African Geocaching activity for January:
1,182 Cachers found a total of 5,168 caches during January. 44 Cachers placed 120 new caches during January. The number of Cachers who found at least 1 SA cache in the previous 12 months is 8,421. The number of Cachers who placed at least 1 SA cache in the previous 12 months is 213. The total number of active South African caches at the end of January is 15,695. Top Dogs
![]() ![]() Note: All the above statistics include all South African caches on the geocaching.com database, which doesn’t include Adventure Labs. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Day two was spent driving to Kelowna stopping at Summerhill Estate Winery for wine tasting. ![]() Day three was spent travelling to Banff National Park. On entering the town there is a massive sign Banff. There is virtual cache here which requires a photograph of you standing in front of the sign - Banff Sign Virtual GC88Z5A. We had to wait in line for our turn for the pic and each time we passed the sign there was a queue waiting their turn. ![]() Day four was spent exploring the area. We opted to take a morning tour to Johnston Canyon which presented great views - Johnston Canyon - Lower Falls GC1BAPY. In the afternoon we took a gondola up Sulphur Mountain to enjoy the great 360-degree views. Then it was a climb up a long board walk to do the virtual cache - Sulphur Mountain GC134E. ![]() Day five was travelling to Jasper National Park. The scenery really became exquisite on our tour now travelling in valleys between the spectacular mountains and over passes. There were now many blue lakes and glaciers on the sides of the mountains. The first lake we stopped at was Lake Louise. It is said to be the most photographed lake in the world! What a sight to behold with the water being blue with a glacier above it on the mountain side! We soon found out why so blue by doing - Why is Lake Louise Colourful? GC6271J. The next lake we stopped at was - Peyto Lake Viewpoint GC32FFX. It’s hard to believe how blue theses lakes are! ![]() ![]() The next stop was at an amazing waterfall - Athabasca Falls Earth cache GC2BB27. After seeing all the glaciers, we got this incredible experience to travel on a massive Ice Explorer all-terrain vehicle to the Athabasca Glacier, a 10,000-year-old sheet of ice, which you can walk on, feel and drink from the glacier. The day was action packed as we took a raft excursion with unique views of Jasper National Park from the water on a scenic float trip down the Athabasca River with its rapids! The day ended with the cache - Welcome To Jasper YLHDAB GC1JTNW. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the day was rainy, and we could only take the gondola up as far as it went. We had hoped to take a chair lift to the top of the mountain and walk over a gorge on a glass bottom bridge. However, we could do the Peak to Peak gondola in a glass bottom unit, this being quite an experience. In spite of the rain we managed one cache on top of the mountain - RELICS: Whitebark Island GC89KQ7. ![]() ![]() ![]() Day twelve saw us taking the ferry back to Vancouver and a flight to Toronto. So ended our bus tour of the Canadian Rockies that more than lived up to our expectations. ![]() ![]() ![]() We took many excursions to explore the falls and surrounds including a boat trip just below the falls into the mist as the mighty waters tumbled over the falls and could observe the erosion that has taken place - Falls Erosion GC5G8XQ. We also walked the tunnels behind the falls - Journey Behind the falls GC8BTNR. It is incredible to see the volume of water flowing below the falls - Niagara Rapids GC7Z3A9. Finally, it was on to the whirlpool which we viewed from overhead in a cable car - Niagara Whirlpool EarthCache GCN6M2. It was time to head back to Atlanta after our five week incredible trip. We are deeply indebted to our daughter, Janice and her partner, Tino for arranging and taking us on this once in a lifetime trip; something we could only have dreamed about. ![]() Before returning home to South Africa we drove to Florida, Brooksville area to visit Deanna’s sister and husband for ten days and once again we were able to do many caches. Coming from South Africa we noticed a giraffe geo-art series made up of 90 caches. Having solved the puzzles we set out to find the caches. Unfortunately, quite a few were missing and could only find 76 of them, starting the series with - 01 Giraffe GC70YFH. There are many series in Georgia placed around 2015 but due to a lack of maintenance we DNF’d quite a few. One of the best ALCs we did was in Brooksville, which took one to beautiful well-painted murals that covered entire walls on buildings - AL5QLR Brooksville: Historical Perspective through Murals. We visited many memorial cemeteries in the USA to find all of them kept in pristine condition. SA could take a leaf out of their books - Bring Flowers GCGDXH. ![]() ![]() Then, finally being huge fans of Survivor we could not resist doing the geo-art series Survivor based on the TV Series. We are pleased to say we overcame all the challenges being attacked by a nest of yellow jackets (similar to our paper wasp) receiving many stings, counting over eighty chigger bites on Norman and being bitten by swarms of mosquitoes. We were able to find all 45 caches and celebrated at the final tribal council Survivor Geo Art #01 - Sole Survivor GC5Y860. We are safely at home with many pictures and bring with us some wonderful memories of a perfect holiday. We hope you have enjoyed a virtual tour with us. |
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New Souvenir: Signals Labyrinth #6 Dragon's Lair
![]() A quick summary of how this souvenir series works:
The final challenge is upon us - help Signal escape, the Dragon's Lair! Find the ham, the dragon's favourite food along the way to earn yourself bonus points. Remember that if you've earned all the previous souvenirs then you will also earn a bonus souvenir once you've completed this challenge. Points breakdown:
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CITO Season 1
![]() For all the newbies out there let’s explain what a CITO is. This is your chance to give back to the environment! It can be in the form of cleaning up your local park, removing alien vegetation, picking up litter on the beach, etc. and for this GCHQ rewards us with a digital souvenir.
Our GoSA chairman has challenged the South African community to host 20 CITOs during the period Nov 2022 to Oct 2023. So far, nationally, we have had XXX with XXX province leading the way! So, this is an official challenge to all cachers in South Africa – please chat to your community and arrange to host at least one event in your province this CITO season. Oh, and please send us some pics ![]() |
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Current Souvenirs
Souvenirs are virtual pieces of art that you can earn, discover, and display on your profile page. They are associated with a particular location, task, find or event and may also be bound by time.The souvenirs that are currently up for grabs are listed and pictured below:
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![]() They are your local go-to people, so keep their details for future reference |
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