This cache is placed on the saddle between Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain near a massive boulder called Saddle Rock or Breakfast Rock. The shortest route is up from Tafelberg Road via the Saddle Path (S 33 57.311 E 018 25.468). There is a cache on the way up Far from Halfway, one near the Pulpit in the Saddle overlooking Newlands and the Southern Suburbs For the View and one on top of Devil’s Peak van Hunks' Cigar Lounge all worth a visit.
There are many variations of the legend of van Hunks, but generally the story is as follows:
Van Hunks a retired sea captain lived on the lower slopes of Devil’s Peak, earlier known as Windberg. His fastidious wife refused to allow her husband to smoke his pipe in the house and thus his favourite spot was near what we now call Saddle or Breakfast Rock in the saddle between Devil’s Peak and Table Mountain.
One day our man was minding his own business and enjoying the beauty of the fynbos and the view below when he was approached by a caped and hooded stranger carrying a pipe. They soon got into conversation about worldly things and particularly smoking. Then, for reasons that only highly competitive men might understand, the stranger challenged him to a smoking competition and van Hunks accepted. He divided his stash into two and they started puffing away. They smoked for the rest of the day and part of the next and as a result a massive cloud bellowed out and covered the whole of the saddle and the top of the flat Table Mountain. Eventually green in the face the stranger admitted defeat, at that his cape fell off his head and van Hunks was shocked to see horns on the top of his head. He realised that he had been smoking with the Devil himself and had won! The Devil was not too happy being beaten by a mere mortal and with a massive bolt of lightning and the rumble of thunder they both disappeared, never to be seen again.
The legend thus goes that when the South-Easter blows and the cloud again covers the saddle and Table Mountain, van Hunks and the Devil are once again in a smoking competition.
The cache is a small screw-top container with little room for trade items.
