The Beach at Olifantsbos Point. |
Cape
of Good Hope. Cape Point. |
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| Idyllic beach
all to yourself, situated before Olifantsbos Point,
Cape of Good
Hope. It is totally isolated from everything and everyone. The bird life on this beach is just as wonderful as the beach itself. The entire beach is littered with whalebone, ground into smooth round nuggets by the endless tides and impregnated with small pieces of beach sand, which in turn mainly consists of minute chips of shells. In 1979 these were mainly in the inter-tidal zone, being washed to and fro in the surf whereas when I last visited in January 2001 there were very few on the Beach itself but the dunes immediately behind the beach was littered with whalebone, the nuggets now about half the size they were 20 odd years ago. Whereas the road to Cape Maclear and Cape Point itself is often rather busy - after all Cape Point is the most visited Tourist Attraction in the Cape Peninsula - the road to Olifantsbos and Olifantsbos itself is usually deserted. The hiking trail along the sea front at Olifantsbos leads to this beach and in contrast to Cape Point itself is usually totally deserted. The walk to the beach is through dense Coastal fynbos and is about 15 minutes long. |
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| Two shipwrecks can be reached from the beach in this area: the Thomas Tucker which ran aground in World War II and the Nolloth, wrecked in 1965. This rocks from which this picture was taken has large pieces of metal rusted into it, no doubt from the wreck of one of the 23 ships know to have sunk along the shores of the Cape of Good Hope. If you have an interest in shipwrecks be sure to visit the Kakapoa Shipwreck on the Beach Tour. |
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of the information on this page from the
Cape Peninsula National
Park, Cape of Good Hope brochure. |
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Where to go? |
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Contact:
info@sunsetbeach.co.za |
Janthina |
Fresh
Crayfish at the Beach Hotel Kitchen. |
Kelp
Diving for Cape Town Diving. |
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