essa provides a forum for the conceptual & physical exploration of southern african
Essa was established in 1988 and runs great trips and expeditions throughout southern Africa, as well as further afield. We hold a regular meeting on the first Tuesday of the month at the Cricket Pavilion Johannesburg Country Club at 7:00pm. We are open to all, and the society encourages ideas on exploring, as well as organising a great variety of trips for like minded people.
If you wish to join ESSA or subscribe to it's mailing list please visit the Join page.
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HEY EVERYONE!!!!!
Fluid are selling some of their stock at less than half price. The boats normally go for R6500 to R7500 and now they are going to ONLY R2280.
I will make up an order list quickly so let me know what you want (size, color, model).
BUT you will need to pay them directly. I am expecting quite a few of you to be interested and unfortunately I am not going to put a order of this size through my accounts
Richard Feher has realised a boyhood dream by completing his bike journey from Cape Town to Cairo. Richard's journey began back on 1 September at the offices of the Chris Burger Petro Jackson Fund in Newlands, Cape Town, and finished when he crossed the Nile into Cairo on 12 November.
Here is his final entry, posted on 12 November:"At 13h30 I crossed the Nile arriving in Cairo.
"It’s been my boyhood dream to cross the African continent on a motorcycle since almost losing my life on one 20 years ago. That accident kept me out of reach of some goals.
Note: This is a open invite and you can bring everyone you knowIf you miss this date, don’t despair. You can go by yourself as this happens almost every Sunday. Hi everyone. I know that many of you are interested in scuba diving.Here is an opportunity to try it out for free and have a good go at it as well.
Special Pretoria Meeting!
We are hosting a special talk for all our Pretoria members and hope you will bring a friend along to make this a remarkable evening.
We have asked Mike Blyth of the airplane factory to talk of his recent adventure of his circumnavigation of the world in his prototype plane the Sling 4
You will also be able to sign up for Essa and meet some of the many other Pretoria members.
Karen Hauptfleish has a dream of climbing the highest mountain in every single African country. She has previously regaled us of her tales in Southern Africa , of peaks disputed and maps discredited. Tonight she tells us of her travails in West Africa as she bags her West African peaks.
MILLENNIUM EXPEDITION COMPETITION
The spirit of exploration and enviromental conservation, a core tenent of the Society, is as alive in this century as it was in the last. To prove it we ran a competition during the year 2000 to find an expedition worthy of our support. Did we find it !
The results have been announced and we wish the winners the best of luck in the artic wastes. We are proud to be associated with Lukas Grobler and are sure that his incredible drive and determination will make this a first for a South African.
Winner (R10 000)
Most of the Aconcagua team made it back to SA safely yesterday. Lorna remains in Argentina to climb other mountains and spend some time in Patagonia. The trip in brief: - our route was fantastic - we even had the camps to ourselves for the first 2 nights, and the 'False Polish' route proved to be both tough, scenic, and much less densely populated than the normal route on the way up, while the normal route provided welcome human contact and a different perspective on the way down.
146 Kilograms of luggage "I am sorry gentlemen, we will have to charge you for excess luggage". 6:30am in the morning, Paul and myself dig deep into our charm reserves and after 20 minutes are oh so close to the desk clerks turning a blind eye on our excess, they were fascinated by two blokes trying to get on a plane with an inflatable canoe (Croc), paddles and accessories but then senior management arrives and no way we are getting away with anything ( unless we pay a generous spot fine that is ).
Coming of Age on the Mzimvubu
A story of source-to-sea by Joey Monson
by Graeme McFerren
Or, Through Binga To Binga
There had surely never been a trip quite like it, even in the long history of Zambezi exploration. The bare outline, for anyone who hasn't heard yet, was a follows. Three of the Explorer rafts shot the world-famous white-water Stretch,
from below Victoria Falls to where the Zambezi gives way to Lake Kariba at Deka Mouth (Stage 1). At Deka, outboard motors were attached to the rafts and a cruise across Kariba began (Stages 2 and 3). One motor and one raft were
The N2 crosses the river near Quimbu and served as a good put-in. with 209km to the mouth of the Umzimvubu, and with the fairly rough Umzimvubu trip still fresh in our minds, we felt pretty apprehensive. To put ourselves a bit at ease, we recced the sections both above and below the Falls, as these were the steepest parts according to our river profile. In the first few days, however, the river was kind to us, allowing us to first find our feet. The gorge was beautiful & lush, liberally sprinkled with shining yellow acacias. Bird-life was ample.
Our latest blog features Katja as she cycles from Cairo to Cape town
http://explorationsociety.org/drupal/blog/25
Sanjay travvelled through Asia, and you can follow his entertaining journal here
http://explorationsociety.org/drupal/blog/34
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