TechnoNut

I have recently discovered that some SA District Municipalities have had their borders changed. Some have also been renamed, and these boundaries and names no longer agree with the names used by GSAK. e.g. Alfred Nzo (Eastern Cape) now extends to the sea, and instead of there only being one cache in that "county" there are now at least three (two of them mine). There are other changes as well. Does anyone have access to the boundary files for the SA District Municipalities - either shapefiles or gpx files. I will do an update job and send to GSAK. PT

So ....... What happened?

Just in case you guys don't know about it (or haven't heard) ... MEGA South Africa has been published see: MEGA South Africa - GC3B0EJ Please register your "Will Attend" log with total number attending (including family, non geocachers etc).

Bingo . Take it away Wayne ....

OK, here I go with another one ... Where am I?

Makiti GC17F5D ??

Got it in 1 . I would also have accepted Oribi Gorge GCV95D Take it away Grant ... , all yours.

CLUE South of Durban, North of Port Edward. (both of today's answers are incorrect)

Another 'nope', another 'sorry' Waiting to see the answer now! Still no takers? I will give a clue in a day or so ....

It depends what your definition of inactive is. What if we defined "active" as having found at least one cache in the last three (or six) months? What would the number of active cachers be then? For three and six months? PT

Another 'nope', another 'sorry'

Nope, not that one either

Nope, sorry ....

OK, here goes ..... I will accept any of the two caches close to this location.

How about http://coord.info/GC20ZC3, THE BIGGEST TREE IN SOUTH AFRICA? (thanks to Google, Mapsource and some intuition )

Always wanted to contribute to this prestigious topic... Think there is a problem with Spain - finger trouble in # of caches

In this post is a table containing a list of caches in KZN by D/T rating - as at 11 January 2012. I have also inserted a list for the "near to Durban" caches (Ethekwini, iLembe and Umgungundlovu). Looking at the data is is very obvious that we are missing some D/T combinations, so achieving a full grid is impossible without some serious travel. Now it would be really great if KZN cachers were able to log the entire grid right here in KZN. And it would also attract other cachers to our province to tackle these missing D/T ratings. Where there is only one of a particular D/T rating it means that the owner of that cache cannot complete the D/T grid as he can't go and find his own cache, so we need more of that D/T rating. In fact at least three of each rating is ideal in case one gets archived. So, here is my challenge for 2012! I will give a prize of One Year's Premium Membership (or an extension to your existing Premium Membership) to the best new cache placed that fills or extends the red cells, so that by the end of the year we can ideally have a full D/T grid available in KZN. 2012 D/T Challenge Rules The cache must be a new listing, and must be placed in Ethekwini, iLembe or Umgungundlovu (Durban Functional Region, PMB Functional Region, Near North Coast (up to the Tugela)). The cache can be any physical type, i.e Events and Earthcaches are excluded. The words "2012 D/T Challenge" must appear in the Cache Short Description. The cache must have one of the ratings highlighted in pink in the table, preferably a rating where zero or only one exists. Cachers living anywhere in South Africa are eligible. However a verifiable local maintainer must be appointed if the cacher lives outside of the districts mentioned above. I may use the opinions of other cachers (at my discretion) in determining a winner. The judge's (that's me) decision is final and may not be appealed, discussed, condemned or disparaged . A decision will be made by 15 January 2013 and the award made at an event after that date. These rules are not exhaustive as crystal balls are in short supply. Use this web reference to rate your cache placement: Rate a Cache As always - comments are welcomed. Let's go and have some fun. PT

Very very neat. 10/10

Five cachers, all on the same day, 2011-03-26, found 144: BAKGAT, ScottScott, TechnoNut, Tinkerbell-GP and gerhardoosMPsa. (I have not checked them for duplicates yet.) Wazat was also in that group of madmen That I reckon is still the SA Record for "Traditional / Conventional" (i.e. not Power Trail) caching.

Here are the Placed Stats for KZN ....

Thanks CH

If it was Palmiet, Stainbank or a local reserve I would agree. But this is about a 200 km round trip, to be done twice - lots of (expensive) motion lotion. PT

I would say - all together ....

Egypt 3 Kenya 1 Morocco 3 Namibia 4 Swaziland 1 SA - all others

I have done some stats for KZN, for CY 2011. There have been 343 placements since 1 January (excluding event type caches). That is a whisker more than 1 per day. Six have been archived, and 13 are currently disabled. Statistics by owner, type, size, location, month etc are in the attached graphic. Owner stats are for those placing more than one cache. 24 cachers placed one cache. PT