Richards Bay Dolosse Traditional Cache

Visit Alkantstrand Richards Bay and look beneath the dolosse

The town of Richards Bay boasts the country's largest harbour and some of its most magnificent wetland scenery. It started out as a makeshift harbour set up by Sir Frederick Richards, a Commodore of the Cape, during the Anglo-Boer War of 1879. The town was laid-out on the shores of the lagoon in 1954 and proclaimed a town in 1969. The South African Government decided in 1965 to build a deep-sea harbour at Richards Bay with railway and a oil/gas pipeline linking the port to Johannesburg, about 180 kilometres north of Durban. Construction work began in 1972 and four years later, on 1 April 1976, the new harbour was opened.

Extensive use was made of dolosse (branching concrete blocks weighing up to 30 tons) to construct the two breakwaters (2400 meters long in total) protecting the harbour entrance. The dolos is a South African invention in which interlocking blocks of concrete are used to protect seawalls and preserve beaches. Due to it’s three-dimensional shape and the spaces between the solid concrete pods, a dolos does not resist the power of the ocean but dissipates the energy of the waves. Furthermore, as dolosse interlock loosely with one another, they jointly form an interconnected superstructure that rocks and rolls with the sea.

Read the interesting story of Aubrey Kruger and the invention of the dolos 

https://www.buffalocitytourism.co.za/post/the-real-story-about-aubrey-kruger-and-the-invention-of-the-dolos?fbclid=IwAR0M5iJqWqAeK7Dh9xULILezCjbaSlRdfJcuSiQtDGPV7iTzldsx3iGP09Q

Look for the cache beneath a dolos. More to the south between the beach and the middle pier road.

Please put the cache back exactly as found to preserve it from muggle eyes.