This is a cache that was created to be part of the Gauteng Power
Series (GPS). The Gauteng Power Series (GPS) was created to offer
Cachers the opportunity to achieve personal caching goals by using
Grand Personal Selection (GPS) to decide how to hunt and find these
caches, all in one day, or one by one over a period of time.
Remember to Go Physically Safely (GPS) when you Grope, Peek and
Search (GPS)
The caches hidden on this stretch of the GPS series are all
close to busy roads, not recommended for small children. We tried
to hide the caches keeping parking in mind as close to GZ as
possible, but as always please rather be safe than sorry!
Voortrekker monument View
Parking is close to GZ
Louis Johannes Tregardt (1783-1838) was a farmer from the Cape
Colony's eastern frontier, who became an early voortrekker leader.
Shunning colonial authority, he emigrated in 1834 to live among the
Xhosa, before he crossed the Orange River into neutral territory.
His northward trek, along with fellow trekker Hans van Rensburg,
was commenced in 1836. He led his small party of emigrants into the
uncharted interior of South Africa, and settled for a year at the
base of the Zoutpansberg. At this most northerly point of their
trek, unhealthy conditions began to take a toll on man and animal.
Seemingly abandoned by a follow-up trek, and distant from from
supplies and buyers for their ivory, Tregardt abandoned the
settlement, and led the party southeastwards to the Portuguese
coastal outpost at Delagoa bay. The oceanward route proved arduous
and included the challenge of traversing a section of the northern
Drakensberg. Though reaching the fort at Delagoa bay, a number of
their party contracted malaria en route. Tregardt's wife perished
at the fort in May 1838, followed by Tregardt six months afterward.
He was the only Voortrekker leader to keep a diary of his trek, a
valuable document in terms of linguistics and ethnology, besides
his observations on the weather patterns, geography and the
wildlife of the interior.
A quick and easy roadside cache, should take less than a
minute.