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The Cache is a nano and is easily accessible from outside the resort. It is fastened with a screw and you cannot remove it. Just unscrew the lid to get to the logsheet. It is placed out of the sight of the Cashier and security guards, but don't be too comfortable.
170 years after the rich fresh ground water supply of the Fountains were the reason for the first white settler establishment in the beautiful valley; 25 million litres clear pure spring water still flow strong out of the two springs every day. These two springs are the reason why the great city “Pretoria” was establishment those days. When Pretoria’s first inhabitants clustered around the Fountains, their water supply once fed the Mighty Apies River running through this valley of fertility and abundance. In the eyes of the passers-by, Fountains Valley is notably a valley of trees. Listed here are some of the more common species found here: Acacia Caffra (Cat thorn), Carissa bispinosa (Num-Num), Combretum holosericeum ( Rooibos), Cussonia paniculata (Kiepersol), Dombeya rotundifolia ( Wild pear), Gymnosporia buxifolia (Pendoring), Ilex mitis (Whitewood), Ziziphus mucronata (Buffalo thorn), Halleria lucida (Wit olienhout) and Rhus lancea ( Karee).
The most noticeable argeological material in the Fountains Valley is the remains of probably the first house in Pretoria of Lucas Bronkhorst and his family. Several black tribes also lived in this valley long before Lucas Bronkhorst and his family came, but after the domination of the Zulu kings, Shaka and Difaqane, no black tribes established in the valley any more. This part of the farm Groenkloof were allocated to Lucas Bronkhorst presumably in 1841. After Bronkhorst death, the farm was sold to HJ Frames for £1.250 in 1874, and was sold again in 1878 to Jesse Jeanes for £7.250. At that stage, however it had been realised that this farm, and in particular the two springs, should be public property. Therefore in 1883, the Supreme Court ordered Jesse Jeanes to transfer the farm to the Government. Jeanes lost on the transaction, because he was paid only £4000. On 25 February 1895 a proclamation was signed by President Paul Kruger and a portion of the farm Groenkloof including the Fountains Valley became the first proclaimed game sanctuary on the African continent.
The overwhelming popularity of the Fountains Valley emerges it as a choice venue for open air recreation and outdoor rendezvous. Today it is managed as a public resort with a swimming pool, caravan park, restaurant, mountain bike trails, hiking trails, wild game, bird watching, game drives, youth camp, lapa’s for private functions, miniature train rides, barbecue’s, children play areas, kiosks, etc. Entrance to the play park and the northern side of the resort is free, but to the swimming pool in the accommodation zone one must pay R 25.00 per person, 13 years and older, R 15.00 per child, 7 tot 12 years, R 9.00 per pre-school child, and R 16.00 per pensioner (any age), retarded persons, or persons 60 years and older.
The cache is a magnetized nano, and is placed at a safe place away from the very busy entrance road as muggles are always around this area. You still have to be very careful when you retrieve and place the cache as this is a high muggle area. First to find prize was won by GLIDER SLIDER who was rewarded with a complimentary ticket for a family of six to get one free entry at any of the Tshwane Municipality’s resorts, nature reserves or swimming pools.
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