You can either watch it on TV or you can experience it for yourself. The choice to immerse yourself in the playground of the Cape is easy, affordable and accessible for novice adventure seekers or hard core adrenalin addicts. The Cape Point Route spans 2 coastlines wrapped around a National Park and runs from HoutBay along the Atlantic Coastline to Cape Point itself, then back along the False Bay Coastline to Muizenberg.
The Cape Point Route is well aware that its’ natural resources and its local people with their hospitality are unsurpassed, but the secret lies in the action. With dramatic mountain ranges, and long ocean fronts, this is the stuff that you see in the movies. So couch potatoes keep watching the screen and everyone else can come and play.
Hop on a bike and do it with wheels - road or mountain bike the entire Cape Point Route (or part thereof) with the wind in your hair, mountains on one side and sea on the other. It beats National Geographic even on a plasma screen! One of the top picks is a meander of anything up to 45km through Cape Point Nature Reserve, an easy ride along a network of tarred roads at the southwestern tip of Africa. And a great moderate to difficult ride, but not too technical takes you about 30km through Silvermine Nature Reserve. For visitors bike hire is available at Noordhoek Farm Village, at the southern end of Chapman’s Peak Drive. Grab some refreshments for the trip from the farmstall or come back afterwards for some pub grub.
Aqua action abounds for waterbabies. Scuba dive into the ocean depths and discover huge kelp forests, reefs and ghostly shipwrecks. For braver souls shark cage diving is one of the ultimate adrenalin rushes. For a more leisurely look at the sharks and the seals and the whales and the dolphins there are boat trips to Seal island in the middle of False Bay. Get a bigger rush on a high speed hobie cat in False Bay and feel the salt spray as you fly past Ark rock and Roman Rock lighthouse – the only lighthouse on a rock in South Africa. Experienced windsurfers should try Kommetjie for world class windsurfing and one of the biggest drops in the peninsula.
For a sensational penguin viewing experience head to Simon’s Town waterfront and sea kayak south from the harbour to Boulders Beach to see the penguins from the water. Seals will wave their flippers at you and the birdlife is astounding. You don’t have to be a professional – the sea kayaks are stable and safe.
For more info on where to stay, eat, shop and play, contact the Cape Point Route on 021 782 9356 or visit our website www.capepointroute.co.za
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