Welcome to ISD event. In The Shadow of the Dragon  🐉🌄

Small container with log only so BYOP

Plenty of parking available and a short walk to ground zero for a quick find. Please be careful when retrieving and replacing cache container. Give the next cacher the same hunting/searching experience.

Vulture

South Africa has 8 regularly occurring and breeding vulture species, from the southern African endemic Cape Griffon Vulture (Gyps coprotheres), to the wide-spread and wide-ranging African White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus).

Vultures play a vital role in the bush – they clean up dead and decaying carcasses and thereby remove centres of disease. They are often cast as motley, evil birds by the media but vultures have an array of marvellous adaptations that suit them perfectly to their ‘job description’.
Vultures lack feathers on their heads and necks. This is because they are inclined to insert these parts of their bodies directly into carcasses and if they were covered in feathers, these would easily become soiled. Soiled head feathers are a ‘health hazard’ and could cause infection or illness. Furthermore, preening these areas would prove difficult. Vultures are in fact very clean birds and most species will bathe regularly to rid themselves of unsanitary debris.