Picnic
Rock
A rocky
viewpoint just off the East Fort to Constantia leg of the
Hoerikwaggo Trail with great views – especially west towards
Hout Bay. Well worth a visit – and a
picnic!
May be
approached from:
1. East
Fort (on Chapman’s Peak Drive): Parking @ S34 03.299 E18
21.890 Trailhead @ S34 03.315 E18 21.897 (across the
road)
2.
Bokkemanskloof (nearest): Parking @ S34 1.409 E18 22.978 Trailhead
@ S34 1.437 E18 23.000 (up the firebreak)
3.
Constantia Nek (via Vlakkenberg): Parking @ S34 0.734 E18 24.330
Trailhead @ S34 0.719 E18 24.184 (into Silvermist
Estate)
4. Tokai
Arboretum (can cycle to within 300m of GZ): Parking/Trailhead @ S34
3.694 E18 24.867
Whichever
route you choose you will have the opportunity to pick up various
other caches en route.
Head for
the trail junction @ S34 2.323
E18 23.230 then take
the branch trail to GZ.
The cache,
a regular-sized pharmaceutical camo-container is hidden at ground
level under the SE end of a little (bushy) alley in the
rocks.
Enjoy your
picnic!
See http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp
for the interesting
history of the etymology of the word ‘picnic’ and
details of an extraordinary (and spurious) claim made in this
regard!