Riviersonderend's First Cache Traditional Geocache
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Riviersonderend's First Cache
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The first cache in Riviersonderend!
Riviersonderend is a small farming village with a peaceful rural atmosphere, situated on the main Garden Route between Cape Town and Mossel Bay on the N2 - 160 km from Cape Town, and is surrounded with farms.
There is uncertainty about the origin of the name Riviersonderend.
Willem ten Rhyne, who visited the cape in 1673, referred to the river, with it's source in the mountains, as the "sine fine flumen" ("river without end").
In 1707 Jan Hatogh, a horticulturist employed by the Dutch East India Company and a seasoned traveller, referred to the river as the "Kanna-kan-kann". This word was possibly derived from the Hessequa word "Kamma-kan Kamma" which, roughly translated, means "water, endless water". The Hessequa were a local tribe of herdsmen.
Thus the believe that the name of the town was derived from the perennial Sonderend River at the foot of the Sonderend mountains. Riviersonderend, or "Rivier Zonder End" as it was known in earlier days, was established in 1923 when Miss Edith S V McIntyre sold the farm Tierhoek for 6000 pounds to the church council of the local Dutch reformed Church when the congregation was established.
About the cache:
Many people take a stop at the local gas station because, well, there aren't that many around here when driving along the N2.
The stash is hidden about 100m behind it (street, no bushes).
Contains the logbook and a pencil, no room for anything else.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Fgnaq jvgu lbhe onpx gb 'qnatre', gnxr gjb fgrcf sbejneq ra svir fgrcf yrsg.