Balcony view

This is the view i get from my balcony onto our courtyard. The water feature makes such a nice sound that just fills the air and calms u down...

BP ultimate rally

Congrat's to my cousins husband, Craig. He came third, hitting a podium position, in his class in the BP ultimate national rally held recently in Cape Town. It was his first national race too!

Well done Craig!

I say it looks like?

Ok... I say it looks like...... Well.. I have a few ideas... But... What do u think it looks like? Leave yr ideas in de comments... The one that best resembles the image could win a thousand rand!

Toy boy...

How does 1 kid fit into a box of toys?

...

... Easily ;)

Geocaching! & Twitter

How cool is this...



AND



state that you found a cache on www.geocaching.com... and it automatically updates your www.twitter.com account that you've found a cache and gives relevant information!
pretty sweet!

of course... you have to link your geocaching profile to your twitter profile!

I also heard news that twitter will soon be making their tweets geo-taggable... i.e. Get to know WHERE you friends are tweeting from! Should be pretty interesting to use that feature and see where the celebs are hanging out!


Happy Caching!!!

Geocaching! getting started...

So.. you've read my post about geocaching...



you would like to know more...

ready further...

I stumbled across Geocaching back in 2005 and thought it interesting but didn't have a GPS at the time! now I realise.. you don't really NEED a GPS... but never-the-less...

A public holiday was dawning upon me and I figured that I'd like to take my seriously HOT girlfriend out and about and do something different! I had just recently aqcuired a really awesome phone... C702! and it has GPS on board.

I remembered about geocaching and looked it up.. signed up and went out the next day (the public holiday) to go find our very first cache! needless to say, I had NO IDEA what I was even looking for.

The closest cache that I could find(with my limited knowledge) was panorama medi-clinic hospital in Cape Town(GC1TMQ3)... so off we set.. two adventurers not knowing where we'd end up. We arrived at the place... I checked on Google maps as I didn't have geocaching software on my phone yet and got to the location and started searching... and searching... and well... not knowing what to look for, didn't really help! we were looking in the tree... around the tree... practically under the tree... all that it said was that it was a micro cache! (whateva the hell that meant! ;)

FORTUNATELY!!!! as we were about to leave the location I spotted a lady moving closer to the location and also started looking in and around the tree... I carefully aproached and asked if she knew about geocaching...

It turned out that we met Battlerat and Pussycat! Two experienced and seriously friendly geocachers that thought they'd quickly do this "simple" cache! and they explained the ropes to us and what a micro cache, a nano cache, TB's (aka traceable bugs), FTF (first to find), event cache's etc... etc... etc... Battlerat and Pussycat had already found over 800 cahces and have done so all over the world!

Micro cache example...

Micro caches are magnetic.. so watch out.. they can be stuck onto anything metallic and are very small therefore not easily noticeable. Open them up... write your geocache username down and wala... you've logged your find. Go onto www.geocaching.com and log your find! add a little story and upload a pic for your friends to see! (if you so inclined)

Traceable Bug example...

Traceable Bugs are cool. They travel all over the WORLD! They have different names and get up to all sorts of mischief! They traceable so if you find one... take it... log that you've taken it and hide it into another place and then sit back and watch how ppl find it and move them around!

Traditional Cache Example...

Traditional caches are as they say... traditional. Tin, or palstic container that has a few arbitrary item in them. The rules are simple!
If you take anything out... replace with equal or higher value! Log your find and place back in the original spot! clean up the area around (if it's dirty) and you've managed to do your bit of good while getting out and enjoying the view or scenery that is associated with traditional caches.


Well, needless to say we got into geocaching and really really enjoying it! We did our first event cache two weekends back and it was a really awesome experience! the pic can be found here...

Want even more info... read the next post...

Happy Caching!

Geocaching!

SO! you might've heard about it... You might've stumbled across it... or maybe this is the first time you even hearing the word...

GEOCACHING!!! well.. this post is here to... help you find your way... ;)

Firstly... what is geocaching?
well.. here's the official intro at www.geocaching.com...

Geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing) is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache's existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS device can then try to locate the geocache.

Secondly... Why the word geocaching..
well that's simple...

Geo: as in geographical...
Cache: as in a cache of arms... or a hidden cache of sweets.. or... well, look it up in the dictionary... it's there... I promise ;)

Thirdly... How much will it cost me!
This is the nice part... it's absolutely FREE!!!

okay, nothing in this world comes FREE as somewhere someone has to maintain the site and the caches. So there is an option to upgrade to a premiere account.. but it's an option and your free membership does not expire!

Fourthly.. What do I need to have in order to cache!

This is a free-for-all sport and you literally just need to get out there. Be that walking or with your car/bicycle/helicopter etc. What tools do you need... well, a GPS enabled device does help!

BUT...you don't HAVE TO HAVE ONE!

I'm using my Sony Ericsson C702 cellphone to do geocaching and it works really beautifully. Nokia phones are nicely supported with trimble's geocache navigator and if you fortunate to own a Garmin or Tom Tom or similar device... well...they have applications that you can use with www.geocaching.com to find your way to your nearest hidden treasure.

BUT, that's not the only way to do caching... by simply going online, getting the co-ordinates of the cache and looking it up on google earth or google maps... you can easily print the map and go searching for it. It does make it bit harder but malo mystery does it very successfully!

What is the hype about geocaching...

Basically, anybody.. young or old can do it!
You don't need to much.. not even too much time! nor knowledge!
and you get to places that.. well... are really beautiful! places you'd never normally go to! and you get to meet a bunch of really awesome ppl. If they doing this sport.. they will definitely not influence you life negatively!

for more info.. read the next post on my blog... or go to THIS page to get more information and to get started. There is so much more to Geocaching... multi cache's... event caches... geocoins... trackable items! and the list goes on...

here is a pic of an event cache we recently attended... click here

Happy Caching!

My first Geocaching event!

And so it is proven! Capedoc's shoulder is truly better, now that he is able to twist and turn to find the elusive stash!

It was really awesome to meet the faces behind all the names that i often run into whilst logging my finds.

For those more interested in the high-tech, fun, treasure hunting game. Check out www.geocaching.com

If you want to see a local cache of news... check out capefinds (cow and chicken's blog ;))

The perfect shot

The ambiguity in this is that the composition is well balanced, everything is in de pic. and Adriaan also hit a perfect shot... Fading to the right ;)

Test lights

Led lights for testing purposes ;)