Atlantic Seaboard
Sea Point to Hout Bay. Cold water, warm rock, and the coast road that most people remember longest.
Guides to this part of the city
What to see
Prestwich Memorial
The Prestwich Memorial on Somerset Road holds the remains of people exhumed from an unmarked burial ground a few streets away, uncovered…
Green Point Lighthouse
Green Point Lighthouse is the red-and-white banded tower standing on the shoreline at Mouille Point, first lit in 1824 and still in…
Clifton Beaches
Clifton is a sequence of four small Atlantic coves, known as 1st to 4th Beach, separated by granite boulders and backed by…
Victoria Road Atlantic Seaboard Drive
Victoria Road runs south from Camps Bay to Hout Bay with the Atlantic on one side and Table Mountain's western wall on…
Llandudno Beach
Llandudno Beach is a single curve of sand at the head of a granite cove, closed in by enormous boulders at both…
Camps Bay Beach
Camps Bay Beach is Cape Town's most accessible big Atlantic beach: one long, open sweep of pale sand with the Twelve Apostles…
Twelve Apostles
The Twelve Apostles are the chain of peaks and buttresses forming Table Mountain's western wall, rising above the Atlantic Seaboard between Camps…
Hout Bay Harbour
Hout Bay Harbour is Cape Town's busiest working fishing harbour, set beneath the Sentinel at the western end of Hout Bay. Fishing…
Walking from the coast
The Pipe Track
The Pipe Track is the path built to service the water pipeline running below the Twelve Apostles, and SANParks measures it as…
Tranquility Cracks via Corridor Ravine
Tranquility Cracks is a hidden maze of deep sandstone fissures high on the Twelve Apostles section of Table Mountain, filled with cool…
Corridor Ravine
Corridor Ravine is a hidden gem on Table Mountain's western slopes, ascending from the Pipe Track above Camps Bay into a lush,…
Kasteelspoort Trail to Diving Board
Kasteelspoort is one of the most popular routes up Table Mountain, famed for the iconic Diving Board — a dramatic overhanging ledge…
Chapman’s Peak Summit
A moderate but steep hike to one of Cape Town’s most iconic viewpoints, above the famous Chapman’s Peak Drive. Around 5 km…
Things to do
Seals at Duiker Island
Short boat cruises from Hout Bay harbour around Duiker Island, home to thousands of Cape fur seals. Boats circle the island and…
Scuba Diving
Try dives and guided dives from centres at the V&A Waterfront, Simon’s Town and Gordon’s Bay. A try dive runs theory, a…
Snorkelling
Guided snorkelling in the kelp forests of False Bay and the Atlantic seaboard. Wetsuit, mask, snorkel and fins are supplied, no certification…
Freediving
Freediving courses and try sessions in Cape Town. The entry-level course runs two days across theory, pool and open water, with a…
More about this area
Everything else in Atlantic Seaboard
Alila Yoga
Alila Yoga is on Westerford Way in Hout Bay, and it is built around two things that usually live in different buildings: a yoga studio and a wet terrace with a sauna and cold plunge. That shapes how it sells access. A dry drop-in covers the yoga class alone. A wet drop-in covers the same […]
Velocity Gym Hout Bay
SWEAT 1000 Sea Point
SWEAT 1000 is a fifty-minute group class rather than a gym, run on the third floor of The Point on Regent Road in Sea Point. The format combines treadmill work with weights and bodyweight stations, and the whole thing is coached from the front, so you follow the room rather than plan your own session. […]
Horizen Gym
Horizen is a small strength studio on Main Road in Sea Point, a few minutes from the promenade. It is built around barbells, racks and coached group classes rather than rows of machines, and it makes a point of being a place where beginners are not left to work it out alone. For a visitor […]
BUC Fitness Club
Adventure Diving, Two Oceans Aquarium
Penguin Experience, Two Oceans Aquarium
Bean to Bar Experience, AFRIKOA
Daily Boat Trips, Waterfront Charters
Seals at Duiker Island
Duiker Island is a low granite slab a few hundred metres off Hout Bay, and it carries thousands of Cape fur seals along with cormorants and gulls. It is not a breeding colony. Most of the animals hauled out there are young males, waiting out the years until they are big enough to hold a […]