Adventure Racing World Series
presented by Numa Sport Optics

According to Fred, the CP is located on top of a dune. It has been placed at a trig beacon (Trigonometry Beacon; used for surveying and map making). In South Africa our trig beacons have a painted white concrete base and a black metal top (see photo of a trig beacon North of Johannesburg). They usually, but not always, mark heighest points in an area. They are often very visible (they're quite big), especially on top of a mountain; I make a game out of spotting them.

But this sand dune beacon is missing its black head, which has rusted off.

The dune itself is vegetated; thick dune scrub that obliterates visiblity and probably reduces the racers to crawling like little animals through it.

5th placed team Lafuma-Sport2000 said that locating this CP was a nightmare. In fact, the team got separated in the dense vegetation, losing one of their members for a while. They also lost time and could have lost their placing to McCain Adventure Fanatics.

You're likely to see a lot of action happening in this area on the tracking, especially when the big middle bunch of teams comes through. Places could change a lot; but a group could also benefit from having more people to locate the trig faster.