GET HOOKED ON THE WESTCOAST
Please treat these containers with great respect as some of them are very fragile and please put them back where and how you found them so that other cachers have the same experience finding them.
This trail should only be attempted with only a 4x4 or high clearance vehicle with at least diff lock.
Do not attempt to drive here with a normal car as you will get stuck and some places the rocks are only 4x4 terrain.
This trail is in the GROOT PATERNOSTER Private Nature Reserve, all caches is on the public road running through the private Nature reserve and one does not need to go off the road to find the caches.
Please look out for the animals in the reserve and please look after our precious planet.
Here you will find tortoises, chameleons, and snakes easily crossing the road, so please keep an eye open for them.
In summer please be very careful of snakes in the area.
Saint Helena Bay (Afrikaans: Sinthelenabaai) is a settlement in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Nicknamed by locals as Agterbaai, the town is located on the shore of the bay, from which it derives its name and is approximately 150 km north of Cape Town, South Africa. It surrounds the towns of Vredenburg and Paternoster, and is located across the bay from Laaiplek.
Saint Helena Bay is the only area along the South African West Coast where the sun rises across the bay. The reason for this is its unique location, where by the town itself faces north east and almost north.
Paternoster (pronounced /ˌpɑːterˈnoster/) is one of the oldest fishing villages on the West Coast of South Africa. It is situated 15 km north-west of Vredenburg and 145 km north of Cape Town, at Cape Columbine between Saldanha Bay and St Helena Bay. The town covers an area of 194.8 hectare and has approximately 1883 inhabitants.
The origin of the name remains unknown. Many people believe that the name, which means ‘Our Father’ in Latin, refers to prayers said by Catholic Portuguese seamen when they became shipwrecked. It appears as St. Martins Paternoster on an old map of Pierre Mortier. Other people believe it refers to the beads that the Khoi tribe wore that were called Paternosters
