The idea of this cache is to take you along one of the most scenic paths in Silvermine! It is a beautiful walk starting at the top of Blackburn Ravine (location of "Sentinel View" cache) and ending on Noordhoek Peak.
One should walk up from the carpark towards Constantiaberg along the jeep track, and make your way towards the Sentinel View cache, turn off to the left before the cache at the end of the gabions (rocks packed in wire).
Follow this path straight all the way to the cache! It's as easy as that!
After the cache, one could follow the jeep track in an easterly direction back to the carpark (so as to walk in a circuit and not double back on yourself).
This walk is not very tough, but it is very worth-while! Please take this path to the cache, and not another route, it will really make your day!
If you want the GPS track, drop me an email and i'll gladly send it your way!
Enjoy!
On 11 July 2006 Mike Golby went in search of this cache and made a remarkable discovery! If you thought that the sentinel view cache just down the way is old.... then read this!
This is a piece taken straight off Mike's Blog at the time
Here's what he had to say:
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"........On February 2, 1928, Professor Walter Swanson and his friends, Alfred and Violette Clarke, took a walk on the Silvermine mountains, part of the Table Mountain chain.
The walking party probably took the train to Retreat on the Cape Flats, strolled to the foot of the mountain, and walked up along the untarred Old Cape Road. I assume they turned off towards the reservoir — built 30 years earlier (in 1898) to water the people of Cape Town — before climbing to their destination at Noordhoek Peak, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
A Cape Town notable, Swanson was a member of the Royal Academy of Music. A multi-talented viola player, a former member of several London orchestras, and the Professor of Violin at the Grahamstown College (Rhodes University), he went on to become a renowned composer and conductor. A member of the SABC for about 35 years, he presented many of the public broadcaster's early 'live-to-air' orchestral concerts broadcast from its Cape Town studios.
From Noordhoek Peak, the musical professor and his companions would have found most of the Cape Peninsula lying at their feet. To the south, the villages of Fish Hoek and Simonstown would have been clearly discernible and, to the west, Kommetjie and Noordhoek. Chapman's Peak and its coastal drive, opened only a few years earlier, and Hout Bay, would have loomed large immediately beneath them.
To commemorate his walk with his friends (ascending more than two thousand feet over some five miles of rocky terrain), Swanson pencilled his route details briefly on the back of his calling card, signed and dated it, secured it against the weather, and cached it atop the peak. Since that day, others have stumbled across Professor Swanson's note and, using slips of paper and a pencil now packed into an old plastic peanut-brittle jar (the Prof would've used glass), have added their two bits' worth.
I know of the good professor's trip only because, come sunrise Saturday, I found myself looking for something Larks left in much the same position. I've not met Larks, but he is, like me, a professional, and I wanted to find his stash. Larks is a geocacher, a species that 'litters' inaccessible but spectacular countryside with unobtrusive objects of interest and / or note. Geocaching? Indeed. Well, why not? I do, after all, have to air out my Budget Canon and photojournalism associate on weekends......."
Have a look at his photo of the contents of this historic cache!
