Fish Hoek

Along the False Bay coastal road to Simons Town lies the placid town of Fish Hoek. Most of the residents are retired, but it still has a busy main street with market stalls competing with shoppers on the pavements.

The long Fish Hoek beach is one of the safest in the Cape for bathing and bodyboarding and, when the wind picks up, hobie-cats and windsurfers take to the waves.

From July to October whales come into Fish Hoek bay and loll around just 50 metres from the shore in preparation for mating and giving birth. Huge schools of dolphins are also sometimes seen.

To prohibit the raucous, thirsty sailors from stopping here for a drink on their way to Simon's Town navy base, the original 1818 farm was granted only on the condition that there was no public wine house. One hundred and eighty years on there is still no liquor store and any pub that opens up seems to go out of business very quickly.

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