Zambesiboy Returns #3: Crack Pot!
The cache, a small flip-topped black-taped tube (ie. cache ‘pot’), is hidden in a crack at the top of a sheer rock face – but is not difficult to access.
This the third of a series of 3 caches placed to celebrate the brief May 2017 return to SA of the celebrated Zambesiboy – whose legacy of Cape caches continues to provide entertainment, interest, challenge . . . and fun.
At this location, as throughout the whole of this classic trail, there are fine views . . . to the SW (towards Hout Bay & Kabonkelberg) to the SE (towards the cliffs of Constantiaberg) . . . to the NE (up the trail – towards Vlakkenberg).
See GC7G8AC Zambesiboy Returns #1: What a View! for background info and waypoints.
Crackpots include:
1. An unconventional, wildly imaginative, eccentric, crazy or foolish person, a kook, a colourfully strange or odd person . . . or a Trumpie!
Synonyms (nouns & adjectives) include odd, whimsical, crank, crazy, cuckoo, psycho, screwball, lunatic, loon(y), fruitcake, kook, live one, nut, nut ball, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter
It is a shortened form of 'cracked-pot', which splits into its constituent parts, cracked and pot.
Cracked: this is a shortening of 'brain-cracked' (or ‘cracked-brained'). 'Cracked' simply meant 'impaired'; 'faulty'. Both of these terms were current in the 17th century.
Pot: in the Middle Ages, 'pot' was used to mean 'skull' or 'head'
So, a 'cracked pot' was a 'faulty head' and crackpot is synonymous with our more recent terms
'numbskull', 'blockhead', 'brain-dead' etc.
2. A crack cocaine addict (synonym for ‘crackhead’ )
3. A village in North Yorkshire UK and the home of Crackpot Cave (see here) which has a fine example of a ‘column’ where a stalactite has joined up with its stalagmite (see Gallery photo)
4. Various bands: an eccentric Australian band – listen here, a Greek pop/alt-rock/punk band – listen here and an American ‘hook-filled garage-pop rock band with sturdy vocals, dynamic pacing and guitar crunch’
5. A track by Polish prog-rock band Tune (listen/watch here)
6. A DC comics character – a member of the Blasters team of super-humans, Amos Monroe was a self-professed African-American con artist from New Orleans, United States. If he remained calm, he could cause people to believe nearly anything
7. A US beer from North Carolina (see Gallery)
8. A 1977 novel by US author Ron Goular, a 2008 novel by Canadian author Adele Wiseman and an award-winning 2011 childrens book by Fiona Trembath . . . and others