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    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Ok I'll give a clue (or two):

     

    Mr Big or Mr Moneybags

     

    Mr ____________

     

    or

     

    ________ ______bags

     

    Hence the "you've got parts of both names right" answer I gave..

     

    BTW Like the 'Mr Waddington' idea.... hehe (maybe you were closer that you thought!)

    South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

    in South Africa

    Posted

    Games Magazine has inducted Monopoly into its Hall of Fame.

    More than one billion people have played it... making it "the most played commercial board game in the world."

     

    My question: The mascot for the game is a moustached man in morning dress with a top hat. What is his name?

    Nine geocoins for nine provinces

    in South Africa

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    Hmm that is difficult - because I would personally buy a coin because it is pretty (visually appeals to me) or it has some new/unique features (regardless of the country it comes from).

     

    Therefore I like the idea of the 'moving parts' and the puzzle effect with the provinces.

     

    How about identifying some more 'wonders of SA' nature wise... possibly it could draw foreign buyers (like the 'big 5' concept always does).

    I liked some of the ideas that was mentioned earlier...

    Table Mountain, Protea, Lion, Baboon Spider, Baobab, Namakwa flowers, Drakensberg amphitheatre, great White shark... etc.

    Maybe some ideas can come forth from this?

     

    how about a 'south africa shaped' rotating part in the middle of the 0 of the 10 years?

    ..or the SA flag (narrowed) could form the 1 of the 10.. and even move.. or have a round bar moving (like one would have in a shifting spanner) with lots of flag squares on it?

     

    I also like the idea of a flag, shaped coin as CapeDoc posted on July 21st.

     

    Can one have these coins minted anywhere as long as you paid for the GC codes to put on it?

    Have you further investigated SA/foreign sources to have this done?

    If the coin displays on some of the geocoin online shops - that would be an advantage...

     

    ok - I'll now be quiet. hehe

    Nine geocoins for nine provinces

    in South Africa

    Posted

    I don't think the vuvuzela has anything to do with geocaching. ..and neither does the WC 2010? I wouldn't bring that into it. :)

     

    I love the 'individual cois, in the shape of each province, that can be build to form SA' idea. I think that the nature aspect is great - because that still defines SA and it's diversity, and fits with what we love about geocaching - getting out into nature.

     

    If you want to add culture into it like zoeloes, calabashes, vuvuzelas, taxis, san paintings and paul kruger - that's a whole new topic.

    Do you want to do two series then? hehe why not? ;-)

    2009 Great SA TB Race

    in South Africa

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    Hey everyone!

     

    Congrats to all our prize winners!! Thanks to all the organisers and also to those who had to judge/score/rank etc.

     

    "Travel in Style" had a somewhat different, and interesting journey.

     

    It was off to a very late start (sitting in my cache box, while I wasn't doing any caching.. who knew that a wedding and building a new house would be in the cards for me in 2009?? and took up most of my week-ends with no time left for caching.. ;-) )

    So it finally started moving when we took it along on our honeymoon trip. The TB visited a few caches on route and well, even though it was dipped by its owner, I just had to let it share our journey...

    It even visited another country... but the owner forgot to take one photo of this poor bug in her suitcase to prove it. ;-)

     

    So after some special points were scored (I don't remember which month) for "Travel in Style"s dipped honeymoon trip cache visits, it felt a bit better about it's performance... hehe :-)

     

    Then it went all the way to Wellington in NZ, to visit CrystalFairy, and then it travelled all the way back to SA. That was special for us owners as well! :-)

     

    When it was announced that additional points will be scored if the bug would attend the final event, I was quite excited to get that done. Realised soon after though, that the bug was actually not in the cache where it was still logged into. Newbies had taken it and logged that they have, but they haven't logged the TB out..

     

    Sadly, this bug is now somewhere in some cacher's possession - still - I hope - and they haven't placed it anywhere and haven't responded to my e-mail.

    Unfortunately, due to 'unforseen circumstances', "Tavel in Style" didn't make it to the event... (and then, neither did it's owner).

     

    So this the story of "Travel in Style" in the 2009 SA TB Race.... hopefully, not the end.

    Where am I?

    in South Africa

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    Is this at "Plumbago 1" cache in the Faerie Glen Nature Reserve?

    ..I wanted to guess Pretoria East 001 - but looking back at my pictures of the time spent in the reserve - looks more like the tree at Plumbago 1.

    Where am I?

    in South Africa

    Posted

    We couldn't finf that cache either when we visited Kuruman.... we looked everywhere (well, almost it seems) and were cinvinced that it wasn't there - but then it had finds thereafter...

    I'll be back for the killing ... some day!!!!! Darn illusive thing! :lol:

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