Geocaching

A couple of weeks ago the Port Elizabeth cachers spent the most amazing weekend at Welgelegen Camp on the Cockscomb Road outside Uitenhage.  We enjoyed lots of hiking, lots of caching, lots of laughs and lots of celebrations.  Welgelegen Camp normally caters for groups so it was the perfect location for the PE cacher's first big weekend event.  Well done to PumTim and Kitchenboss for organizing as well as all the other cachers who had a finger in the organizational pie and attended.The…

Two weeks ago during the Port Elizabeth geocachers' Welgelegen Camp getaway I had the privilege to log my 1000th find.  The cache was located on a farm dam where we relaxed a bit between all the caches we had to do during the weekend.  On our arrival at the dam the cache was spotted immediately where it was floating right in the middle of the dam.  If you look carefully at the picture you will notice the little yellow spot in the…

Geocaches come in all shapes and sizes but more often than not its a fairly plain container cunningly hidden somewhere interesting.  The PE cachers have been stepping it up lately and more and more interesting containers are seeing the light of day, but every now and then something really wows you.  Cacher Seekoei NMB has been doing a series of novel caches over the last year or so.  One of them was this alien's head placed at... No, I'm not going to tell…

Geocachers seem to find themselves up trees quite often.  Just looking back at the last year I've been a good 8 meters up a huge old Pine Tree, out on a limb of a Coral Tree in near gale force winds and crawling along branches in Wild Fig Trees.  Heck, Wild Fig and Coral Trees are very popular cache locations and a little while ago I received a PAF (that's when one cacher Phones a Friend who has already found…

Have you ever driven down the road and saw a random person on a ladder against a street light pole? Or up a random tree for that matter? It does look suspicions but at the same time it doesn't quite look like they are up to no good or doing anything wrong.  You are probably right.  But what could they be up to.  Well, in most cases, they are probably Geocaching, specially if they are trying to look as nonchalant and inconspicuous…