Glencairn Overview
The cache, a small plastic camo-pot, is hidden up on the hillside overlooking the end of Glencairn valley. There are good views to the north across Glencairn wetlands (location of the multi-cache GC255FY: Glencairn vlei) and the small Glencairn beach to Else's Peak and to the east across False Bay.
To reach the cache: Turn off the M4 (Main Rd) onto Warner Way @ S 34° 09.894 E 018° 25.894 and proceed upwards straight across the first junction onto Whyte's Way. Follow this road as it twists upwards to the parking at the end @ S 34° 09.729 E 018° 25.728. From here head straight a short distance then upwards along a faint trail some 50m or so to the cache location - some prominent rocks to your right as you climb up. Scramble up to the top of these - the cache is in a hole in a gap in the rock you are standing on!
'Among the early visitors to Elsje's River valley were the famous astronomer, Sir John Herschel and his wife, Maggie. They drove down to Farmer Peck's Inn at Muizenberg in their coach from Claremont one April day in1835. At the inn they mounted the horses they had sent on in advance and rode along to Kalk Bay, then Fish Hoek and on to Elsje's Baai. Here they turned up the valley and followed the river.
Sir John remarked in his diary that the 'invisible river was only proved to exist by a stripe of garden ground in a ravine caused by it'. They ascended 'a dreary and rocky waste where, however, in sheltered nooks Captain Wolse (?) and Mr . . . and Mrs . . . (his . omissions) have got 'places', ie. houses, with a few stumpy oaks and firs. Near Mr . . . . 's (his omission) noticed immense numbers of beautiful green sugar-birds which haunt the rich scarlet ?hlomis leonurus (this is a mis-spelling of phlomis leonorus which is a synonym for Leonotis leonurus or wild dagga).
Beyond the pass a few wretched huts forming a kind of village of Hottentots and Malays and then after leaving on left the descent to Simon's Town and a fine view of the Bay - descended on the West side into a Table flat the most barren, rugged and desolate it is possible to imagine. Yet the distant Atlantic gives it a grandeur and two lonely houses (at one of which we 
stopped) recall human associations and there is a wagon track.
Here saw a regular Bosjesman and Boy. Very short and small. Matted crisp-curled hair coming over eyes - desperately high cheek-bones and most ugly face! Both were lying only not asleep by the road when we passed - Both ditto ditto when we returned two hours after!! - Maggie took some rest and some bread and cheese at the house of . . . (the Mistress was out and the key not at first to be had, but she returned tired from a walk). Received hospitably, house room and washing basin (and very clean towels) allowed me, who had been bulb-gathering Antholyza (see here) but she (the Mistress) nor her slaves could speak English nor understood my German - so, no communication'. (extract from the history page of the link below).
For more detailed, varied and interesting info on Glencairn, go to the Glencairn Education & Environmental Support Enthusiasts (GEESE).