Am a bit late with this week’s post 
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Here’s mine for this week.
I can just shake my head. Not surprised considering the week I had – didn’t take ANY pics. Nothing. Nada.
Therefore this pic was taken today. I hid some snacks in a toy money tin and watched Amelia try to open it.
Is he Man or Monster...
Only one postcard for this week, but this one is one of my favourite – which surprised even me. Cause it’s not a landscape, or a historical site or legendary battle field; it is the first issue of The Incredile Hulk.
When I was a kid I used to read Archie comics :blush:, seriously. Jughead was my favourite, and secretly I wanted to be Betty although I was probably more of an Ethel. And before Archie I read Casper, Wendy, Little Lotta, Little Audrey – you know, Harvey comics. So I was never into Marvel comics and vaguely knew of some of the characters.
Then Xmen (animated series) came to tv ; I became a Wolverine fangirl *sigh* but still didn’t read the comics. But I knew of a lot of the characters and later on the feature films hooked a whole bunch of new fans.
But even in my ignorance, I knew that Hulk is supposed to be green – so what gives with the grey tones one on the postcard? Can you say thank you google.
Id whoops
The Wiki says: “In his debut, the Hulk was grey because Lee wanted a color that did not suggest any particular ethnic group. Colorist Stan Goldberg, however, had problems with the grey coloring, resulting in different shades of grey, and even green, in the issue. After seeing the first published issue, Lee chose to change the skin color to green. Green was used in retellings of the origin, with even reprints of the original story being recolored for the next two decades, until The Incredible Hulk vol. 2, #302 (Dec. 1984) reintroduced the grey Hulk in flashbacks set close to the origin story. Since then, reprints of the first issue have displayed the original grey coloring, with the fictional canon specifying that the Hulk’s skin had initially been grey.” Incredible Hulk 1, May 1962
So now you know.
On this site there is an updated version of the cover. Which do you prefer? I;m a sucker for pretty things, so I like the new one 
Off on a tangent: Lunameower (Shannon) confuddled the ID# a bit – so I used Postcrossing’s Ask for Help section. A day later I had the correct Id! Great job guys, thank you.
Our main problem here on the platteland is that there are so few caches in our area. Seriously, only 4 within 50km radius of which 1 is now disabled. The only way to get more caches is to spread the word and hide some of our own.
So I’ve been planning and buying and scouting and finally we decided to hide one close to Meulsteenberg, since it’s within in driving distance if it needs maintenance. It’s on the N7 that is the main route to (eventually) Namibia and thus a lot of tourists will pass it – meaning some geocachers will too.
We visited the farm last Sunday to drop Amelia off at her grandparents. Quick detour to crazy store en route for me to get some pens; ended up getting pencils cause the pens were just too expensive. And not just regular pencils; those ones with the many tips that you put the blunt one at the back and a sharp one pushes forward. A pink one at that; I think. Could be an orange one – definitely maybe orange. Plan was to hide the new cache on the way home. I laminated the little caching blurb with contact, got the loot ready and tested the lid of my container – plastic lunch box. That’s when I realized that I didn’t get a log book. Boer maak ‘n plan and I costructed a makeshift one from an old notebook.
I had planned to hide it by the only trees you will get for 100km, but the site was filthy. Truckers were using the ruins on an old shack as a toilet (and who knows what else) The little picnic area is in dire need of paint and a good scrub. And there will be a high chance of muggle looting. So Henk suggested we drive on a bit. Maybe we will find a better place – and we did. Closer to Bitterfontein than Garies. On a slight hill where you can get a good view of the area, and you can see Meulsteenberg from up there. Henk scrambled to the hidey place (I was wearing sandals for some non practical reason) while I found the easier route and took down waypoints. Henk also took the most craptastic picture in the history of cell phone pics. I only saw this when we got home though. * sigh*
You can see Meulsteenberg!
Back home I submitted the new cache, edited it what feels like 20 times. And then the wait began. Monday morning quick sticks it was approved and I got some links from the moderator with tips to caching in Africa. After reading the guidelines I feel that our attempt could have been better. I could have done a bit extra moeite with the cache. Let’s call it a learning curve. (There is no English word for moeite… and trouble just doesn’t cut it). I added some info about a special little succulent (plant) that grows ONLY on that berg; and it is thus named C.bilobum ssp.gracilistylum SB.784 Meulsteenberg.
So here it is, our first cache You can see Meulsteenberg!
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Gorgeous day yesterday. Henk wasn’t working. We packed lunch and headed to the sea. Dirt roads meant we had to take the bakkie; my nerves we’re shot what with Amelia sitting on my lap and not in her car seat – bakkie only has 2 front seats. But she slept a bit along the way. She loved the water, even though it was freezing! No sand on this beach, just hundreds of thousands of millions of broken shells.
You will not believe how much paperwork I have to catch up on.
So I’m also a bit behind on the blog as well.
Apologies. Normality will be restored soon.
Had to go to Vredenburg to train on another chemistry instrument and to also swop intstruments with their lab. Coming home today I decided to take the secondary back roads through a few will-never-visit-otherwise dorpies and hunt down a few caches.
'The Fish house'
First stop was Berg River View (Western Cape). The clue ‘Don’t get in a knot over this one!‘helped a lot. Although I did start off with looking in some not-so-obvious places. Eventually found it. Borrowed a pencil from some friendly muggle ladies (cause I left my handbag in the car) , I told them all about this treasure hunt cause they were right next to the cache!
Enjoying the view from the stoep
Quite chuffed that I found it cause it was a dreaded micro cache.
The water of the Berg Rivier was a bright shade of blue – almost turquoise.
I didn’t stop for bokkoms, not too fond of them Hit the road soon-soon navigating to the next one.
Berg Rivier
Misleading bit of tarred road to Aurora
I was a bit weary taking the route to Aurora cause it’s a dirt road; but it wasn’t THAT bad. Still had some stretches of sinkplaat though – at least no big rocks. Google maps guided me to the quaint little dorpie. Typically the main road through town is tarred. The town is almost just a church, pub, and post office – I’m assuming there’s a post office since I didn’t see it.
An unexpected find leads you to a pub run by Helmut. Clue mentioned all the copper pots. GPS acted up a bit inside (at one point it told me to 36m south, lol.
After snooping around a bit I found it… in an unexpected place of course. Traditional cache so I swapped some swag.
Biggest building in town
By then it was getting late and I was missing home, but still stopped for a quick look-a-round at PEARSHAPED OR ROUND?, but didn’t find it. Although I admit that my mobile’s battery was f-l-a-t and there wasn’t any signal to read any info on the cache online. And I wasn’t wearing the right shoes either. Turns out that the previous log didn’t find it, so I’m glad I didn’t search too long. Plus I needed to save some battery for using google maps to get back to a more familiar route.
The drive was stunning. The road winded around scenic rock formations and still green veld. Saw quite a lot of road kill; then as expected more than a few falcons. I don’t know my birds of prey at all, so anything not resembling a crow or pigeon and looks sort of like a little eagle, I call a falcon – could have been a kestrel too.
