False Bay
Warmer water, fishing harbours and penguins, along the coast the railway line still follows.
Guides to this part of the city
What to see
Steenbras Nature Reserve
Steenbras Nature Reserve protects roughly 8 400 hectares of Hottentots Holland mountain catchment above Gordon's Bay, off the R44. It combines the…
Clarence Drive
Clarence Drive is the R44 as it runs from Gordon's Bay to Rooi-Els along the eastern edge of False Bay, held between…
Gordon’s Bay Harbour
Gordon's Bay Harbour is a small recreational harbour in the eastern corner of False Bay, sheltered behind a breakwater with the mountains…
Kalk Bay Harbour
Kalk Bay Harbour is a compact working fishing harbour built into the middle of Kalk Bay village on the False Bay coast.…
Boyes Drive
Boyes Drive runs along the mountainside above Muizenberg, St James and Kalk Bay, high enough that False Bay becomes something you look…
Wolfgat Nature Reserve
Wolfgat Nature Reserve protects 262 hectares of limestone cliff, dune and coastal strandveld on the False Bay shoreline at Mitchells Plain, between…
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve
Harmony Flats Nature Reserve is the smallest reserve in the City of Cape Town network and one of the most significant. Its…
Edith Stephens Nature Reserve
Edith Stephens Nature Reserve protects 39 hectares of seasonal Cape Flats wetland at Philippi. It began in 1955, when the botanist Edith…
Things to do
Cape Point & Seal Island Eco-Cruises
Boat-based False Bay sightseeing from Simon’s Town, running north to Seal Island for the Cape fur seal colony or south along the…
Stand-Up Paddle to the Penguins
Guided stand-up paddleboarding sessions on the sheltered False Bay side of the Peninsula, launching from the Simon’s Town Boardwalk Centre for either…
Surfing
Surf lessons at Surfers Corner, Muizenberg, run from shopfronts on the beachfront. Board and wetsuit are included, and the wave there is…
Stand-Up Paddleboarding
Stand-up paddleboarding sessions on the sheltered canals at the V&A Waterfront and guided open-ocean paddles along the coast. Boards, paddles and buoyancy…
Golf
Clovelly Golf Club
Clovelly Golf Club sits in the Silvermine valley behind Fish Hoek, reached down a narrow suburban road that gives away little about…
Strand Golf Club
Strand Golf Club sits between the Hottentots-Holland range and the sandy shores of False Bay, and describes itself as striving to be…
Simon’s Town Country Club
Simon's Town Country Club sits on the slopes above False Bay in the historic naval town at the end of the peninsula,…
Walking
Everything else in False Bay
Live Bait Kalk Bay
There is a sun deck for eating outside. The cooking is simple, with wood-fired flatbreads, mezze-style plates and sushi alongside.
The Commons
Johann Kotze Yoga
Beach Yoga, Rise Yoga
Surf Lessons and Surf Camps, African Soul Surfer
Kalk Bay Caves, Caving Kalk Bay
The Majestic Spa
The Urban Spa at 55 on Main
Surfing
Surfers Corner at Muizenberg is where most people in Cape Town first stand up on a board. The wave is a long, slow, sandy-bottomed beach break that reforms all the way to the beach, which is close to ideal for learning. Lessons are run from shopfronts on the Muizenberg beachfront, a few minutes’ walk from […]
Stand-Up Paddleboarding
The canals inside the V&A Waterfront are the easy way to start: flat, sheltered, and short enough that an hour is plenty. You paddle past the working harbour and under the bridges with the city on both sides. Open-ocean sessions are the other end of it, run as guided tours along the coast when the […]