Africa · Illustrated record
Windmill Beach
Simon's Town · South Africa
The short version, from the cited sources
A quiet cove tucked between enormous weathered granite boulders on False Bay, with kelp visible in the clear cold water. It is a well-known shore-entry dive site and penguins from the Boulders colony pass through.
- Country
- South Africa (ZA)
- Region
- Africa
- Sand
- Pale
- Water
- Cold, clear and kelp-lined
- Administrative area
- Western Cape
- Timezone
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2018-12-05
Names in the record
Windmill Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
-34.20114, 18.45710
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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