Sunday 2006/07/30

South Coast Meander Caching Day

Sam and i meet Whostops, his 2 kids and Part 2 of QFC In Pinetown shortly after 09:00 after haveing been at church teaching Sunday school. We left straight away for the south coast, fortunately for us Whostops had his Peugot 407 with him which made the trip comfortable, with this huge sunroof that retracts the whole length of the roof.

First stop was Sanlameer a lovely coastal town where many of our up country people come visit whilst they are on holiday. Sanlameer GCKQ78, the cache was nothing special. It was in a little cave about 3x3 m with the cache hidden right at the back behind some rocks. The cache contained the usual cache goddies. As we were arriving at the cache my wife Sam had a small mishap with a rock, she took a step and then there was nothing and hit the dirt bashing her leg, chin,elbow and whatever else made contact with the rocks.

TIM, BRANDON, SAM SANLAMEER CACHE

From here we went to SKI BOAT CLUB GCV95H not a bad one also situated along the beach the co-ords were out by abiut 7m so it made looking for the cache that much more chalenging with all the vegitation, rocks and grass. There were 5 of us looking for it so it did not take long for someone to locate it. A Micro hidden somewhere with a 7m difference not easy.

WHOSTOPS,STEPH,BRANDON,BATS,SQUIRREL

Next stop would be THE WAFFEL HOUSE (GCV8C6) which is a multi cache and you get to eat the best waffels i have ever tasted. On arrival at the cache we sat down at the table and proceeded to order, when all of a sudden Jeremy dropped the vinal blind with a craching abng that had everybody jumping in there seats and probably swearing us, but hey who cares we were having fun. Whostops found the cache and brought it to us and Brandon and i had to find the location and hide it so abit of reverse caching took place.

THE WAFFEL HOUSE.

Next stop ORIBI GORGE (GCV95D) Now this is another one of those fab caches in a sprctacular setting mixed with abit of an adrenilan rushdone with good company. Yes this is gorge swining nothing to hecktic but good clean fun. The cache is set down a rocky path covered in a green canopy of trees, the cache contained some worthwhile goodies but even if it did not the venue more than makes up for it. After finding the cache we stopped off where they do the gorge swinging to enjoy a beer and look and some people swing. I was not to happy with the price and thought one can do alot more exciting thigs with R350 like caching.

Next stop was Sophia,Nadia and Juanita's Food for Thought (GCRRN9) NOW THIS WAS A BUGGER TO FIND. It wasa nowhere near the posted co-ords but 100m away. We looked for over 30min behind every aloe tree and could not find it eventually we gave up and were leaving when Sam said lets just check this last one and low and behold there it was . It turns out somebody had moved it why i dont know but the main thing is we found it.

The cache was really dissapointing and we let the owner know who was not overly concerned as he has not found one cache and only hidden one in about 8 months, dont know why people like this play.