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 This month in the Grapevine – CITO time, Safety Tips & AGM Dates…...
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From the Desk of the ChairmanAs Signal moves through the labyrinth, we learned that we didn’t break a geocaching world record as we attempted to do. Personally, I’m delighted that South Africa contributed to the attempt in such an astonishing way. I had a great time with the Gauteng cachers and loved seeing the photos from the events across the country. Breaking a record is all good and well, sure. Many of us may be sad that we didn’t get there. What excites me is that we actually all got together and some found caches for the first time in years. |
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 Because sometimes, for some people, it is about the numbers… Here is a summary of the South African Geocaching activity for July:
1,226 Cachers found a total of 6,697caches during July. 36 Cachers placed 86 new caches during July. The number of Cachers who found at least 1 SA cache in the previous 12 months is 7,720. The number of Cachers who placed at least 1 SA cache in the previous 12 months is 192. The total number of active South African caches at the end of July is 16,361. Top Dogs
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 On 20 August 2022 an attempt was made to break the world record of most geocachers who found a cache in one day. The current record of 126,833 was set all the way back on 11 August 2013. After a concerted effort, the target was narrowly missed by 13%, but 112,477 geocachers still came together around the world to work towards the record. Everyone who contributed was rewarded with a new geocaching souvenir. The question that naturally followed was “What was the record for South Africa?” and “How did we fare against it?” In South Africa on 11 August 2013, 378 geocachers found a cache. The day on which the most South African geocachers found a cache was in fact on 1 January 2016, when 418 geocachers found a cache. On the day of the record attempt (20 August 2022), a total of 271 geocachers found a cache. Another related interesting statistic is “What is the most number of caches logged in 1 day in South Africa?” On 20 August 2022, we collectively logged a total of 736 caches. The South African record for the most number of caches logged in a single day was 6,762 finds on 23 July 2011. |
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Congratulations to the winners for the August 2022 Quiz from Capri Cache Store! If you don't enter, you don't have a chance. If you have entered and have not been lucky as yet, keep trying! You can enter every month, as long as you only submit one entry for the month AND you are subscribed to the GoSA monthly Newsletter.
Each month, 3 lucky winners will be drawn from the hat. Hint: Read the questions carefully ;-). 9 entries were entered into the August Quiz, with 0 new quizzers. Please chat to your geo friends and encourage them to enter this Quiz. It costs nothing to enter and it is fun too! The winners for August, are as follows: First Draw: Ninja Nano – Cayden Oosthuizen Second Draw: M²C²D – Ceinwen & Mark Oosthuizen Third Draw: Desertal – Al Weir Capri Cache Store will be in touch with each of you to get your prize delivered. Look out for next month's Quiz and try your luck! The correct answers for the August Quiz were: 1. In which year did International Geocaching Day start? 2011 2. True or False – There has been a souvenir up for grabs every year, since the first International Geocaching Day. True 3. What is the current maximum number of characters for an online log? 4000 4. Who is the current Chairperson for GoSA? Richard Chemaly 5. Which event, hosted by Groundspeak, marked the first International Geocaching Day? The 2011 Geocaching Block Party  QUIZ TIME – SEPTEMBER 2022
1.How many people are required to have attended an event to give it GIGA status? 2.When (DD Month YYYY) was the Mega Event ICON released? 3.Where did the first Mega Event (outside of the USA) take place? 4.What is the name of the team, that has found the most geocaches in the world to date? 5.What is a Geocaching HQ Lackey? We look forward to receiving your entries for the September Quiz! Please follow all the steps below to participate and please encourage any of your geocaching friends who are not on the GoSA Grapevine mailing list to sign up so that they too can enter the competition. Please use the following link to subscribe: https://www.geocachingsa.com/ |
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Safety while Geocaching
With the unfortunate incident of a Geocacher being mugged and injured while caching in Bloemfontein recently we thought it would be a good idea to re-share some safety tips from our website. Please also have a read through this extensive Safety Guide that was put together for the KZN Mega some years back – thank you to Carbon Hunter for sharing this. Like most outdoor activities, Geocaching carries an amount of risk. You will often see on cache pages that there may be some risk involved in doing this cache and that you do so at your own risk etc. There are numerous aspects which come in to play such as activity levels, your own health status and especially where you will be caching. It is this last aspect in South Africa that is especially important as we have certain challenges that other countries do not have, they have their own again such as snow storms etc. Our challenges in South Africa include our lovely but sometimes dangerous African sun, dangerous animals, dangerous unmarked areas and lastly but not least our crime rate.
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