Venus Pool Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/3/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A short walk and rock scramble along a spectacular part of the Cape Point False Bay coast inside the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.

The Venus Pool is a large tidal rock pool formed by the waves crashing over the flat sloping slabs of rock found along this part of the coast, especially during incoming tides and spectacularly so during stormy weather. The water in the pool can become significantly warmer than the sea especially if it has been warmed for a few hours by the sun. Whether it is warm enough to bathe is a matter of opinion and experience!

This part of the coast loses the sun particularly early as it is overshadowed by series of three mountains (Paulsberg, Die Boer and Judas Peak) rising dramatically from the sea. So make it a morning or early afternoon visit if you want a walk in the sun.

Park at the Booi se Skerm parking area S 34 18.334 E 18 27.743. From here follow the tar road from the gate/barrier north along the coast passing en route the Booi se Skerm (Booi’s Shelter) a small series of caves in the incredibly weathered limestone cliffs above the path on the lower slopes of Kanonkop.

At S 34 17.815 E 18 28.001 at the Paulsberg sign board, explaining about MPAs – Marine Protected Areas, the tar finishes and the ‘trail’ begins. Depending on the sea conditions, choose whichever level of rock slab is the most convenient. At some stage you will need to move to a higher level anyway as the slabs all seem to slope down to the sea.

The cache, a small pharmaceutical camo-container, is hidden towards the end of the easy access section of the trail a few metres up the hill slope under a bushy shrub.

For some amazing pictures of The Coves, an inaccessible series of sea caves and hidden coves at the foot of steep slopes and sea cliffs beyond the cache area and about 1km north of Venus Pool, see (visit link) One of the pictures shows a strange rock doorway leading into Die Boer mountain. The caption says that is an alien portal peopled by the Giant Flying Lizards that run our world from their bases beneath our international airports!

Although it is apparently possible to scramble along the slabs towards The Coves, it is a dangerous and treacherous route which should only be attempted with extreme caution in the company of an experienced local guide . . . ‘any assessment of an extended walk is likely to underestimate its difficulty. Cliffs, coves, crags, boulder-strewn beaches and sheer drops meld and merge to an illusory conformity from Venus Pool to Judas Peak’ . . .

See (visit link) for more interesting information and great pictures of the Venus Pool and nearby coastal area.

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