the pooks

From what I gather 5 star requires special equipment ie climbing/abseiling equipment, scuba/diving equipment. As a caveat, although I am one of a small band of warriors who did abseil to find a 5 star cache I would by no stretch of the imagination have done that without support, but that is the nature of technicalities and definitions, so one needs to take them for what they are. I think they slot a boat into "requiring special equipment" but that seems like taking opportunity of a loophole, as although a boat could be perceived as special, that does not necessarily make it particularly difficult. Sounds like you have a well deserving 4.5 star there.

Lots of factors here. How restricted are you (time and terrain-wise)? What is your fancy (puzzles, mountains, family friendly etc. One way to start is to browse the area within your reach and check the (recently) new favourites feature. That will give you a good indication of what caches pressed the buttons of cachers. Durbanville has some cool puzzles, also caches in the nature reserve which one can combine with a "walk in the park" so to speak.

Cism 1k! So many milestones dropping these days, but this one is classic - on top of a mountain, a caching classic, beautiful part of the world.

Be warned. Secret agents about. Could be an inside job. GC2ZZT0

This to me is sad. We have become more and more isolated the more full of people the world becomes. We tend to relate and communicate via gadgets, but it is not the same. To some extent, I sometimes wish we did not have so much technology because I for one tend to find it an easier way out, so I tend to cut down on human interaction. So with this background I would say, you go and make your squiggle on a piece of paper at the cache or event, but maybe I am old school... Virtual in any form logging just makes the noise in your head go louder.

Trev I can load my farm XT250 on the back of my bakkie and bring it along and then we can do the bike thing! I mean the more the merrier. Not as cool as your city slicker thumper, but it does its thing (and not nearly as heavy). Or what about a MTB. This is getting interesting!

I also get 42. Interestingly, in practice no matter how big or how thin the paper you start with, you cannot fold it more than 7 times (if I remember correctly)

24th April 1775 (I mean really - to the nearest decade - that's far too vague!)

Johanna was a man?

The same story applies to the Witteriver in Bainskloof. See GC20H7Z. Also an irrigation canal dug by farmers which diverts water from the Witteriver (destined for the Breede) to the Krom river in Wellington (destined for the Berg)

Ding-a-ling Gryph7! Your go.

That was a bit obscure and not very pub-quizzy: From wikipedia: Propinquity (from Latin propinquitas, "nearness") is one of the main factors leading to interpersonal attraction. People living on the same floor of a building, or have the same religion would have a higher propinquity than those living on different floors or with different religions. Sounds a bit obvious, now that I read it again. It just struck me that I am friends with neighbours that had they not lived next door it would be improbable that I would be friends, so I thought that was a useful concept. I'll ask another one (I'm away for the weekend) Who was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known as?

Quick one - I learnt a new word the other day. A friend who likes using big words threw this word into conversation and it sounded quite useful. So what does "propinquity" mean?

Oh my goodness - a complete guess. I was thinking Lesotho and mountainous so thinking what would be unusual. And I've never been there! Now I have to think of a question...

It's flat?

Aaah, the Drakensberg. Two of us were on a hike there, a long time ago. We had the 1:50000 map with us and planned to stay in some of the caves. That was long before GPS and I recall how we searched for the caves and never found them. Then the wind and the night and the cold would catch up on us and it was frightening how quickly one would lose the ability to function properly. Putting up a tent became quite a major issue under those conditions. Unfortunately we were attacked on the fourth day of the hike - we were naive then, as such things such as safety and security did not occur to us.

The late night ramblings of a confused technophile: Back in the good old days, life was simple - I had a Magellan Explorist 500 with rather basic maps and made paper printouts of caches I want to find. There was a road map for finding your way around in the car. I had a very basic cellphone that could make phone calls and very little else, so I bought a Palm pilot for the paperless caching and that was good... I bought a camera to take photos of all the places I see, and that was also good. Then I decided to jump on the technological bandwagon and bought a smart(ish)phone (Nokia 5800). That rendered the Palm pilot redundant for the paperless part and there was also an overlap between the GPSr and phone. It is only battery life and track logs that still gave the GPSr purpose in life. The camera had also become non-essential, as the phone has a camera that works for emergencies. On a bit of an impulse I bought a second hand Garmin Oregon. Now life is getting really complicated! The phone can do what the Oregon can and vice versa. There are various versions of routable maps and paperless caching on both units. No longer does a piece of equipment have a single pupose in life. Now what do I do? I'm getting really confused and don't know which gadgets to use! The bottom drawer is getting full of redundant equipment - gadgets, chargers and connectors. I'm a bit sentimental, so I do not throw anything away, and I feel sad when something still works but is not used. This is starting to feel wasteful. The people around me got frustrated, for during the process I forgot about the most basic form of communication - talking. I think as must get back down to basics. It seemed so much simpler then.

This is becoming a huge guessing game. I don't think anyone who regularly lurks around this thread knows the answer and the pub has called for final round!

A plant or flower?

Saartjie?

That was interesting, Jors. I recall still using commas as a decimal separator in high school and university, but it seems to have gone out of fashion. Most people use a point (and so do I, these days). Regarding spaces: before the separator - makes it more readable for humans but not computers; after the separator - bad idea (in my opinion)

Now there is a lot of ducking and diving going on. This was a two part question, which is always a bit tricky. Quite a few of us had the gist of the first half correct - at least correct enough to suffice for a pub-quiz, and nobody the second. So it is really a free for all I believe. And now I am ducking because I don't have a question!

Ja, wragtig - surfing the channels and see that tomtwogates has klapped 1000. Had a look to see what cache - SS Holland? was that by plan or design? Whatever - a klompje to you tom!

geocaching.live has a facility where you can see who else who is using the application around you. But that is geocaching.live specific.

The solar (?) year is actually something like 365.2425?????? days long. Up until the jump they were working on just 365 days per year, so they were getting out of synch over the centuries. Don't know how they measured it, but the days they started sowing crops and harvesting started to change, or the sun did not line up the pyramids properly on the summer solstice (just my thoughts) They had to do the 11 day once off adjustment and now the gregorian calender has a leap year every 4 years, but not every 100 except for every 400 (if you get my drift) - all too keep in synch. Something like that?