Boulders Beach is situated just after the naval port and picturesque village of Simons's Town. The beach is situated in a small cove, well protected from the wind by the granite boulders. This is a quaint little beach which has calm water to swim in and snorkelling is a very popular activity. It's a great beach to take a good book and laze about in the summer sun.

Boulders Beach has a very healthy population of African Penguins who have chosen the beach as their home and breeding ground. To view the penguins you will have to walk past the main beach and follow the boardwalk to the designated penguin beach. The cost to visit the beach is R15 for Adults and R5 for SA Scholars and Pensioners. (Please note that these prices are subject to change without notice).

If you take a trip out to Simon's Town, Cape Point or around the Peninsula, a visit to TOPSTONES is an absolute must! Have fun at the world-famous SCRATCH PATCH collecting your favourite tumble-polished gemstones, and see the incredible variety of gemstone products from inexpensive gift items to genuine collector's pieces at the MINERAL WORLD factory shop. Tour the Topstones factory and watch gemstones being tumble-polished and crafted into a wide variety of products.

Open:
Mon - Fri: 08h30 - 16h45
Sat & Sun: 09h00 - 17h30
(incl. Public Holidays)

Warm waters of the Indian Ocean lap onto the boulders and sands of the beaches of the eastern side of this, fairest of all Capes. Penguins dart about or collude with each other amongst massive boulders, and waves crash against the sheer cliffs of the Cape Point Nature Reserve. Tuna and other game fish shelter in coves facing False Bay. Fifty kilometres to the north, the majestic Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Helderberg and Hangklip mountains tower over world famous vineyards.

The South Cape Peninsula has its own vineyard, the very good "Cape Point" wines, nestled behind the highest peak on the South Cape Peninsula, on the dramatic Atlantic side of the Peninsula. Here, the cold waters bring moisture for the grapes and mega-swells for the surfers.

Quaint towns, shops, the best restaurants on the Cape Peninsula, and self catering holiday homes offer accommodation with the best views anywhere in the world, making this a very relaxed option for a stay in the Cape. We have our own warm water beaches, world famous nature reserve, golf course, yacht club, wine farm, restaurants, shops, accommodation, cycling/running routes, hiking and even rock-climbing. Why go anywhere else?

If you are interested in Ships and Submarines, their weapons, their equipment, the people who serve, and served, in them. The SA Naval Museum is housed in, and around, the original Dockyard Magazine/Storehouse (1743/44) which, from 1810 when the Royal Navy moved its headquarters from Cape Town to Simon's Town, was extended to become the three-storey building it is today.

Throughout the years it served ships as a Magazine and Storehouse and also as a:
Masthouse, handling masts some 36 metres long; Sail Loft; Boat Shed; Rigging Shop; Store for a Rocket Wagon and Life saving Apparatus; and, as St. George's Church.

The SA Naval Museum collection, which is continuously being expanded, includes:
Ship and Submarine models; a life-size Ship's Bridge; a life-size Submarine's Operations and Control Room; Naval Guns; Torpedoes; an Anti-Submarine Mortar; Sea Mines; Mine-sweeping equipment; Diving equipment; Naval Small Craft; Naval Uniforms; Portraits of Naval Personnel; The South African Training Ship ‘General Botha' collection; and much more...

The SA Naval Museum is a part of the South African Navy and is staffed by Naval Personnel and civilian volunteers. The Museum is supported, both financially and materially, by the South African Naval Heritage Trust and its Society whose mission it is to preserve and publicize South Africa's Naval Heritage.

Cape Point is situated within the Southern section of Table Mountain National Park, the Cape of Good Hope entrance. The Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) encompasses the incredibly scenic Table Mountain Chain stretching from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south and the seas and coastline of the peninsula.

The narrow finger of land with its beautiful valleys, bays and beaches is surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the warmer waters of False Bay and has within its boundaries two world-renowned landmarks - majestic Table Mountain and the legendary Cape of Good Hope.

The Park is recognised globally for its extraordinarily rich, diverse and unique fauna and flora - with rugged cliffs, steep slopes and sandy flats - is a truly remarkable natural, scenic, historical, cultural and recreational asset both locally and internationally.

Nowhere else in the world does an area of such spectacular beauty and such rich bio-diversity exist almost entirely within a metropolitan area - the thriving and cosmopolitan city of Cape Town. It also forms part of the Cape Floral World Heritage Site made up of eight protected areas, covering 553,000-ha. The Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas for plants in the world. It represents less than 0.5% of the area of Africa but is home to nearly 20% of the continent's flora.

The site displays outstanding ecological and biological processes associated with the Fynbos vegetation, which is unique to the Cape Floral Region. The outstanding diversity, density and endemism of the flora are among the highest worldwide. Unique plant reproductive strategies, adaptive to fire, patterns of seed dispersal by insects, as well as patterns of endemism and adaptive radiation found in the flora are of outstanding value to science.