Cape Maclear and Cape Point, Fairest Cape of all.

Fairest Cape of All: Cape Maclear & Cape Point.







		Cape Point Tour.




The cliffs at the southern point of Africa, towering more then 200 meters above the sea, consist of three clearly defined promontories - Cape of Good Hope, Cape Maclear and Cape Point.
The above picture was taken, while standing on the Cape of Good Hope. The point that is closest to us is Cape Maclear. If one looks carefully you will see the old lighthouse on the top of Cape Maclear. The point furthest from us is Cape Point. About three quarters down, from the top of the Cape Point mountain, you should notice the new lighthouse. The bay between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Maclear is Dias Beach.
	Early European seafarers who circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope in the fifteenth century include the Portuguese explorers, Bartholomew Dias and Vasco da Gama. Their journeys led to the establishment of the Cape Sea route to the East.

	In 1488 Dias rounded a Cape in weather so cruel, he named it the Cape of Storms. It, however, gave promise to the long-awaited passage to India and was welcomed in Portugal as the Cape Of Good Hope.

	In 1580, Sir Frances Drake described the it as "The most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." The Cape of Good Hope is popularly perceived as the meeting point of the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans; the cold Benguela current on the West coast and the Warm Agulhas on the East coast. Geographically the Indian Oceans joins the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean at Cape Agulhas. The above picture is taken from the Cape Point mountain. It shows the Cape of Good Hope stretching into the vast blue sea, the white stretch of sand is Dias Beach.				Cape Point Tour.
					Cape Point Tour.


	Some of the information on this page from the Cape Peninsula National Park, Cape of Good Hope Brochure.



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Fairest Cape of All: Cape Maclear & Cape Point.