This cache is named after one of the interesting and unusual fish you’ll find in Gordon’s Bay.
The Kolstert (Dassie, Blacktail bream or Sargo) is an active fish that inhabits the surf zone, but they may be found down to 50 m.
They consume small crustaceans, mollusks and some seaweed and coral, using their strong jaws to crush shells. Individuals can reach 45 cm, but average 22 cm.
Kolstert fish are “protandrous hermaphrodites”, starting out life as males, and some becoming female later on.
The cache is located on the Danie Miller Hiking Trail. The trail has a wide variety of indigenous plants, small streams, and is a contour walk which follows the contour above the top houses along the length of Gordon’s Bay just below the anchor. The trial is about 2.9km long and takes about 2 hours to walk, one way. It starts at Aurora drive and ends near the end of Suikerbossie drive.
In the late 1980’s Danie Miller was the mayor of Gordon’s Bay and built the trail with the help of his two daughters, Chanel and Lisa. He called it the “Mayor’s walk”. In later years the Gordon’s Bay municipality decided to rename it the “Danie Miller Trail”. The trail was incorporated in the Kogelberg Biosphere and is controlled and maintained by the Biodiversity Management of the City of Cape Town.
The trail has no entry fee, and can be accessed at any time.