GC5NK13 Urban Legend (Traditional Cache) in Gauteng, South Africa created by ludewig.kai

This cache has been archived.

Knagur Green: Due to no response from the CO after the request to maintain or replace the cache, I am archiving it to, stop it showing on the listings and/or to create place for the geocaching community.

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GC5NK13 ▼

A cache by ludewig.kai Message this owner

Hidden : 3/16/2015

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a Small Cache, branching out into the park.

The fenced off area behind the Cache is a Camp ground for Scouts from the North West districts used for various activities including social events, camping competitions or Troop camps.

The SA Scout Association is a member of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the largest youth organization in the world, with a current membership of over 30 million and represented in 161 countries. Over the last 106 years scouting has been experienced by over 300 million young people.

The scout movement was founded by a British soldier, Col. (later Lord) Robert Baden-Powell who fought in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. While besieged at Mafeking, Baden-Powell organized a cadet corps of boys aged 12 to 15 to act as messengers and orderlies. This experience was later to be one of his inspirations for the scouting movement; in fact many scouting traditions have South African roots.

Baden-Powell tested his ideas by arranging the first scout camp on Brownsea Island on 1 Aug 1907 for 20 boys. The camp was a great success and proved to Baden Powell that his training and methods appealed to young people and really worked. In January 1908, he published "Scouting for Boys", a book issued in fortnightly parts at four pence each. It was an immediate success. Baden-Powell had only intended to provide a method of training boys, something that existing youth organizations such as the Boys' Brigade and Y.M.C.A. could adopt. To his surprise, youngsters started to organise themselves into what was destined to become today, the world's largest voluntary youth movement. In 1908, only 7 months after the first scout camp, a few troops in sprang up in Cape Town and Scouting started in South Africa, the second country in the world after the UK.

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