1.
Background and Introduction:
This year we are aiming to hold an event in each of the seven
surrounding African states. This is your chance to have some
foreign countries on your stats and to enjoy the beauty of these
countries with the geocachers. This is the Swaziland event. There
will be four different trips during this year to cover all of these
countries.
A single person and/or one vehicle can have trouble if anything
goes wrong in some of these countries. You need to be at least 3
vehicles. In a group you are adequately covered for the majority of
mishaps. Here you have the chance to visit these countries as a
group. Details such as where to meet, what to take with, how long,
etc will be dealt with on the forum and will not be discussed
here.
Our primary
objective is to
meet and to interact with the cachers in these African countries.
We hope to learn something from them and we hope to promote
geocaching with our interaction inside this community. The number
of cachers in these countries is not great and in some cases the
cachers are isolated from the normal geocaching community. The best
we can do is to interact with them on a personal basis and to make
friends and to encourage them if needed. An event is the best
option to share your experiences, your stories and to enjoy the
African country with a group of cachers. At each and every event I
have learned something new.
It is also a time to celebrate the milestones achieved of our
fellow geocachers which achieved great milestones just recently.
There are three men on the list which both obtained the 500
milestone mark. In alphabetic order they are Bakgat, Hosta and
ScotScot. Unfortunately Bakgat and ScotScot will not
attend due to family responsibility. Last but not least we will
also have the opportunity to celebrate with team Fish Eagle their
recent milestone of 2000 finds. A 2000 finds coin award will
be handed to them on behalf of the geocaching community as a
token of appareciation of their commitment, achievements and the
input they offered to geocaching both as cachers and reviewer. Well
done on this great milestone. If you know team Fish Eagle you will
understand that this is his world and one have to go far to find a
better location than this one to do the hand over of the award.
UPDATE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES TEAM FE CAN NO LONGER
ATTEND. WE HOPE FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY AND WISH YOU THE BEST.
A secondary
objective is to
find caches in a group. We will deal with the relevant issues on
the forum as a separate issue away from this listing. The event is
the focus of this listing and not the finding or organizing of the
caches. To log this event only attendance of the event is needed
anything from 1 minute to the full period. The organizing of any
cache hunts and the gathering at the border post is an additional
bonus away from the event.
2. Event
details:
Where: At Malolotja
Restaurant. S26 8.652 E31 07.908. You can also camp here
for the weekend if needed.
When: At 09h00
for an hour. If you run late we will extend the event until
everyone is taken care off.
What: Just a
breakfast event. The breakfast is not compulsory and only
attendance to the event is a requirement to log the event. Please
complete the logbook which will be available. This is not a
requirement to log. We hope to meet with some Swaziland
cachers and we hope to hear some good caching stories with hints
(blink, blink). Please note that this is a very basic breakfast and
nothing fancy. If you need a large breakfast special
arrangement must be done for such. Indicate this in your log on the
listing and also the number of people that will attend.
3. Forum and discussion
details:
Please feel free to raise any questions or any concerns at the
following forum. Use the forum to plan for cache hunts, border
times, etc.
4. Entrance fee to the
reserve:
Entrance fee is R28 per person for RSA cachers and R22 per
person for local cachers.
5.
Trackables:
If you have any trackables please forward the tracking numbers to
the event owner so that he can compile a list of all. This list
will be forwarded to all members after the event and after
verification that they were present. This is not compulsory and it
is not descriptive.
6.
Acknowledgement:
A special thanks to teams jojo.van and Col123 for their
input and assistance to get this event listed.
7. Special
warnings:
· Please
take precautions against malaria. Consult with your doctor.
· Stay
inside the speed limit. It is 60 km/hr in town, rural 80
km/hr, unless otherwise indicated. Stay below the
indicated speed limit.
· Slow
down for any pedestrians, chickens, donkeys, cats, dogs,
children.
· Carry
you vehicle papers with you and if you are not the owner, ask
permission from owner in writing and keep the permission letter
with you.
· Consult
with your insurance broker to make sure that you are adequately
covered.
· Passports
are needed.
· Make
sure the vehicle is serviced and road worthy.
· The
money exchange rate; one unit of our money = one unit of their
money. They do accept Rand in most places.
· Please
have the ZA sticker on your vehicle.
· Carry
your red triangle with you in the vehicle.
· Border
entry fee is R50 per vehicle.
8. Team Fish Eagle
Stats:
Started - Sunday, October 23,
2005
Achieved his 2000th Cache: "NPNR Trail (8) Bats
Cave" - 23 January 2011.
Find Rate - 1.0422 caches/day
Longest Streak - 24 consecutive
days with finds from 02 February 2011 to 25
January 2011
Best Day - 48 caches
in one day on 03
January 2011
Best Month - 385 caches in January of 2011
Best Year - 469 caches in 2007
Hides: 183 caches.
9. Listing
Stats:
