Bigger and Better - Day 1 (May 2007) Event Cache

Bigger and Better - Day 1 (May 2007)
DATE: Saturday 26th May 2007

Firstly we'd like to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who came along. We were expecting about 50 people and the turn out was spot on with 48 people (with 4 people at the last moment not being able to make it). Ill keep it short and simple so below are the interesting statistics for those who want to see it all and the positions of all the winners.

For those of you who want a list of the TB numbers, please drop me an email and I will forward you the list of numbers that you can discover. Please give me a short while to get this in order. You can drop an email to "geo@crystalfairy.co.za" with any comments (positive or negative) so that the next event can be even better.

Finally a BIG thanks to "Mazda Adventure Zone", "Toit's Motor Group", "Ananzi", "African Stuff", "Garmin", Tracks 4 Africa" and "Forever Resorts" (in no particular order) for making this event possible and for sponsoring all the incredible prizes.

We thought we would share a few "phobias" with you from the results and the team names. (Just for fun)

Keep your eyes open for the next one (In September - In the Magaliesberg) and until then have fun geocaching.

This is the event you have all been waiting for !!!

The co-ords listed are NOT THE FINAL the co-ords (but reasonably close) which is where everyone will meet and start the event from.

The race is going to be filmed by Mazda Adventures (Mazda Adventure Zone, Monday nights at 9pm - SS1).
Quite a few sponsors have already committed some excellent prizes including a GPS Unit from Garmin.

Keep watching this space for more useful information and hope to see you there...

Diarise NOW so you have no excuses for not being able to make it.
We are hoping to make it a weekend get-away (but you will be able to enter for the day only and not be required to stay over)

We hope to have this event more streamlined than the last one
and more coverage than the last one and even bigger and better prizes..

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.

We have been provisionally promised some nice goodies from the geo-caching guys at GroundSpeak, but what we get is highly dependent on the number of teams entering and the number of people participating. So please if you intend to join us, post a "Will Attend" log as soon as possible.

In order to streamline this event (The Better Part) we ask that when you post your "Will Attend" log, would you please drop an email to geo@crystalfairy.co.za containing the following information.

Name of Team:
Member 1:
Member 2:
Member 3:
Member 4:
Member 5:
Email Address (for all correspondence):

There are going to be TWO events in fact. The second event will be published shortly and will follow the previous event on the Sunday.

The first event will be made up of a number of caches (at present we have hidden 12 caches, comprising of Multis and Traditionals as well as about 20 scavenger points). Hopefully by the day we should have almost double that.

The second event will require that you bring along your OWN cache (it can be a Micro or a Traditional Small, Medium or Large cache) and you will be asked to hide it yourselves after the first event within a certain area / radius of warmbaths. Once you have hidden it all the points will be colated and eveyone will get to search for each others caches the following morning. Prizes will be given out for the best cache (in terms of well hidden, clever, interesting, views etc) - See second event for more details.

Those who wish tostay the night (or weekend) are more than welcome to do so. Warmbaths have generously offered theiraccommodation at a 20% discount for all competitors as well as a 50% reduction in their entrance fee (R20 per Adult and R10 per Child). Please book directly with the resort as soon as possible to ensure you get accommodation. For those of you who prefer camping or other venues, click here to see a list of accommodation venues in the Bela-Bela area.

Finally entrance fees. We have decided to work on a R50 per person entrance fee on a sliding scale as follows
1 person - R50
2 people - R95
3 people - R135
4 people - R170
5 people - R200

In order to get this discount you WILL BE REQUIRED to pay in advance (Bank details below).
If you arrive o n the day you WILL be charged R50 per person irrespective of number of people in your team.

If you ENTER BOTH EVENTS then the price per person for the second event is R30 per person, otherwise on the day it will be R50 per person.
If you wish to enter ONLY the SECOND event, the entrance fee in advance will be R40 per person

eg. There are 4 people in TEAM OWL (2 adults and 2 children). They wish to enter both events. So the entrance fees will be as follows :
4 people - R170 (for the first event) + R30 * 4 = R120 (for the second event). TOTAL : R290. Please note that on the day they will be charged R60 entrance fee into Warmbaths (2 adults at R20 and 2 children at R10).

Please deposit your payment (which secures your place in the event) into
ACCOUNT NUMBER:9013338503
BRANCH: RIVONIA (509955)
BANK: ABSA BANK

It is CRITICAL you use your team name as the reference number.
Once payment has been made please email proof to geo@crystalfairy.co.za along with the name of the people in your team and at least one contact number (Cell Number) and one email address.

We have managed to secure so far prizes over the value of R15,000 and growing daily. Some of the prizes to be won are listed below
Garmin GPS, Forever Flashlights (No batteries required), Maglites, Binoculars, LG KG800 Cell Phone, Caps, Tracks for Africa GPS Maps, African Road Atlas plus much much more

Well we have 17 confirmed teams at this point and growing slowly. Please DO NOT FORGET to organise accommodation for the Saturday night IN ADVANCE or you may not be able to get any on the day.
The sequence of events are as follows..
8:00am - Arrive at the event. You will be told by the Aventura staff where to go
8:00am - 9:30am - Payment taken / Registration / Waypoint GPS Upload / Geocoin and Travel Bug Dropoff
9:30am - 9:45am - Briefing (Probably about 15 minutes in length)
9:45am - First team leaves (Please note teams will leave on a FIRST COME FIRST LEAVE basis - So arrive early)
2:45pm - Least team arrives back (Possibly earlier)
2:45pm - 3:45pm - Results correlated / Marking / Sorting / Admin etc - Good time for teams to have lunch and drinks
3:45pm - 4:00pm - Prize Giving

Come on - Round up those last few teams, pay your entrance fees in advance, sort out your accommodation, find the cache called "GAUTRAIN VIEW" - For Bonus points and well see you there!!