Hello from a heating up Bloemfontein which should be ready for your arrival at my braai next month. I just spent lunch with a local journo who wants to do a story on Geocaching in the city. I found that he had been put on caching from social media. I'm sure many of you get sent exciting videos from muggle friends who finally get it. It helps that there's the additional authority given by the algorithms, I mean, it it's on the feed, it means that you must enjoy it.

So the next mission will be how to galvanize that energy into our local media.

We also need to get planning on the AGM for this year. It's usually end of September or early October. Last year we had Cape Town. Where should we host this year? We've been increasingly successful with the remote participation. That was even translated into our successful remote pub quiz evening. Thanks so much for all who attended. That was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to our next awesome national remote event.

Finally, thanks to team Trev and Danie, our stats dudes. They've added some interesting stats to the regular ones below. You'll also notice that we're back above the 15k mark in terms of caches in the field. Well done to the community!

This Month's Caching Series
Scuba Caches

One of the trick questions in the quiz related to scuba caches. Did you know we had a few in the interior too?

Code	Cache Name	Placed By	Cache type	Placed	D	T	Province
GC4A3A1	Clan Stuart wreck	family Behrens	Traditional Cache	2013.05.31	4,5	5	Western Cape
GC16A1F	D(r)ive the Bus	Team Ginger	Unknown Cache	2007.09.29	3,5	5	North West
GC77YWK	M²C²D's Mindbenders  - A Tribute to Shongweni	M²C²D	Unknown Cache	2017.06.25	3	2	Kwazulu Natal
GC65R5T	Pool of Mermaids	Monti's Adventure	Traditional Cache	2015.10.25	1,5	2	Eastern Cape
GC45Q91	Couga Dunes	Tumble Weeds	Traditional Cache	2013.02.10	1,5	2,5	Eastern Cape
GC7T50T	Black Eagle GeoArt BE14 - Pirate Treasure	Takbok_99	Unknown Cache	2018.07.04	3	2,5	Gauteng
GC7TBR4	Black Eagle GeoArt BE61 - Dino’s looking for Homes	JulomiFli	Unknown Cache	2018.07.09	4	1,5	Gauteng
GC4XC7G	Bird Rock	FireflyAfrica	Traditional Cache	2014.01.22	2	5	Eastern Cape
GC7GKT5	Second Pothole Warning	Fish Eagle	Traditional Cache	2018.01.01	1,5	2	Mpumalanga
GC9V4JZ	A bonus for Vink.	PieterM	Unknown Cache	2022.05.23	2	1,5	Western Cape

Thanks to all who partook around the country. It was tremendous fun. Congratulations to our top 5 and now we all know that {these brackets are called braces}

 

Feature App of the month
Apps make our lives better and whether you're using the official app, C:Geo, Cachly or whatever your poison, there are so many other apps to make geocaching better, even if they're not designed for geocaching. 

This month, we're looking at Puzzle Sidekick

When you're in front of your PC, it's not a problem. When you're in the field however, it's a different story. An app that has the capabilities of the Geocaching Toolbox all at your phone's disposal to quickly decrypt field puzzles is a winner of an idea and that idea is right here. Pity it's only for iOS.
 

They are your local go-to people, so keep their details for future reference

Eastern Cape	FireflyAfrica (Jonker Fourie)	082 889 2459
Free State	Uncle Chem (Richard Chemaly)	072 431 7131
Gauteng	Leon St (Leon Stoop)	071 330 8435
KwaZulu-Natal	M²C²D (Mark & Ceinwen Oosthuizen)	M 083 324 6176 C 083 324 2167
Limpopo	Boats007 (Willem Botha)	082 463 3700
Mpumalanga	Bouts777 (Gerhard Botha)	082 876 3572
North-West	Team Tip Top (Hansie & Zaneta Van Huyssteen)	H 082 753 8082 Z 083 258 5926
Western & Northern Cape	SKATTIE@1 (Elize Louw)	074 138 6360