Tha cache is situated on the farm, Warmwaterberg. The history of the farm and the hot spring, which is situated thereon, is closely interwoven with the history of the Le Grange family who today, five generations and 119 years later, still remain in control of the property.
In 1748 a choice and round “loan farm” called Uitvlugt (or Het Vlugt), about a third of the way from Barrydale to Ladismith in the Klein Karoo, was registered to Gideon de Jager. The first to make mention of the hot springs in his writings was William Paterson.
A network of joints and fractures control the infiltration, recharge, storage and flow of groundwater in the competent sandstone units. Fracturing may extend down to several hundred metres with deep groundwater circulation common - thus leading to the heated water.
This cach is situated at a point where hot water exits the ground from a cave and flows as surface water from this point.