You can find the cache without your GPS by following the clues provided.
Or, just use the GPS to find it.
Or, use both 
Note that the cache contains two logbooks - the smaller book is for geocachers and the large logbook is for letterboxers. The rubber stamp and pad are NOT trading items! Please leave them in the cache!
If you wish, you can sign both logbooks.
BLACKSMITH LAPWING
Vanellus armatus
Bontkiewiet (Afrikaans)
iNdudumela (Zulu)
Blacksmith Lapwing
Description
Blacksmith Lapwings are very boldly patterned in black, grey and white, possibly warning colours to predators. It is one of five lapwing species (two African, one Asian and two Neotropical) that share the characteristics of a carpal (wing) spur, red eye and a bold pied plumage. The bare parts are black. Females average larger and heavier but the sexes are generally alike.
Distribution and habitat
Endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, occurring from Kenya through Tanzania to southern DRC, Angola and Zambia to southern Africa. Within southern Africa it is common in Namibia, northern Botswana, Swaziland, South Africa and western Mozambique. It generally prefers moist, short grassland, mudflats around dams, sewage pans, lakes, rivers, estuaries, salt pans, road verges, sports fields, airports and heavily grazed areas.
Predators of chicks and eggs
African harrier-hawk
Gymnogene
Pied crow
Gulls
Coots
Jackals
Movements and migrations
It can be sedentary, nomadic or migratory depending on environmental conditions, as for example in particularly dry years it often moves from arid regions to areas with more rainfall, vice versa in high rainfall years. It is mainly sedentary when breeding, while it is often nomadic in the non-breeding season.
Food
It eats aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates, doing most of its foraging early and late in the day, standing still while intently scanning for prey; once spotted it dashes forward to pluck the animal from the surface of the ground or water. It also searches for insect larvae in dung, sometimes trembling its foot in shallow water to attract prey to the surface. The following food items have been recorded in its diet:
Invertebrates - molluscs, worms, crustaceans, insects
Breeding
Usually a monogamous, territorial solitary nester, although polygyny is rarely recorded.
The nest (see image below) is a simple scrape or hoofprint in the ground, usually lined with vegetation, stones and mud flakes, often placed close to water. If the ground is wet the nest is a more substantial mound, to reduce the risk of flooding destroying the eggs.
Egg-laying season is year-round, peaking from July-October.
It lays 1-4 eggs, which are incubated by both sexes for about 26-33 days, typically in shifts of about 20-80 minutes.
The chicks leave the nest within hours of hatching, after which they remain within 10 metres of their parents, so that they can warn their young when predators approach. As times goes by they gradually range further away from the adults, fledging at about 40 days old and usually becoming fully independent about a month later.
Threats
Not threatened, in facts its range and population dramatically increased in the 1900s.
The Cache
Directions:
From the given parking co-ordinates.
- Take the Mpiti Trail (Black & Blue markers).
- At the trail junction take the Longshadow Trail (Blue) which bears right.
- You will pass Point P (painted on a boulder to your right) about 720m from the start.
- Continue along the trail for about another 195m.
- Look for the rocks right at the trail as per picture below.
- The cache is hidden about 4-6 m to the left, towards the Molweni River.
These boulders are very close to the cache location
Please replace the cache exactly as found and add enough camouflage to prevent accidental discovery. DO NOT COVER THE CACHE WITH A ROCK OR STONE. USE TWIGS AND LEAVES ONLY!
There is a nominal charge for parking - holders of Rhino cards are admitted free.