GC34PRT Gateway to Vaal Dam (Traditional Cache) in Free State, South Africa created by ThomasfamilyZA and BrendsZA

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A cache by ThomasfamilyZA and BrendsZA Message this owner

Hidden : 9/24/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Deneysville is a small town on the banks of the Vaal Dam in the Free State province of South Africa, and often called the Gateway to the Vaal.

Deneysville was built in 1939 and named after Deneys Reitz, writer of Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War and son of former Orange Free State president Francis William Reitz.

Deneysville is the largest town on the Vaal Dam and is situated on the Free State side of the Vaal River. Less than 1.5 hours from Johannesburg and just a little more from Pretoria, with easy access to the water for boats and fishermen and four yacht clubs that hold regular sailing races at weekends. Two of the most well known races are Keel Boat Week held at Deneysville Aquatic Club and Round The Island Yacht Race which is held at Lake Deneys Yacht Club and recognised as the "inland yacht race with the most yachts in the World".

In 1937 "Canopus", a S23 Empire Class flying boat delivered more than 1 500 kgs of mail to South Africa and soon after this Deneysville could boast of having the first international airport. With the lack of landing facilities across Africa, British Imperial Airways used the S.23 to fly passengers and mail to South Africa using waterways to land and refuel. They remained in service until 1947. Later a new plane, the Solent, was used on the South African route until 1950 when they were replaced with land planes and the Vaal Dam was no longer used as an airport. The first sailing club, Lake Deneys Yacht Club, was formed by the Empire Airlines crews and their burgee has the speedbird logo which was still used by the later BOAC airline.

The cache is a magnetic nano.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oruvaq ba gur yrsg nobhg bar naq n unys zrgref hc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)