Cape Town lies on the Atlantic west coast where the water is chilly but the sand is hot and the beaches are more sheltered.
The drive from Cape Town along Victoria Road to the Sandy Bay provides splendid views. The popular resort of Hout Bay lies at the start of this drive while at the southern end is a breathtaking view of long white beach. The more appealing beaches are in the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, which are surrounded by more indigenous plant species .
This beach is backed by steep dunes and mountain slopes and the only way to get to it is a 20 minute walk from the car park or a clamber over rocks from the southern end of Llandudno. Narrow paths lead off the track, seaward to favorite sunbathing spots or inland to high sand dunes.
Sandy Bay lies some 18 kilometers from the center of Cape Town and can be reached by a winding, scenic road that follows the Cape Peninsula mountains through a number of up market coastal suburbs that cling to the side of the mountain and run down to the soft, white, sandy beach below.
Once beyond the fancy houses and hotels that crowd this sought-after portion of Cape Town, one opens out into a magnificent landscape that takes in the wooded slopes of Table Mountain on the one side and the wide expanse of the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
Wooded walkways have been built in some places to protect the vegetation or make things easier for visitors.
The greater Sandy Bay beach area comprises a number of beaches inter-spaced with massive granite slabs. Both are popular for nude tanning or swimming, although the latter is not too popular an activity as the water of the Atlantic Ocean can be pretty cold at times.
Wet suited divers may sometimes be seen diving from the main beach in search of delicacies from the sea and this is the only way one can stay in the water for an extended period.
The Cape of Storms, as she had been so inaptly named by the first sailors to round Cape Point, was at her absolute best.
Sandy Bay is popular with many of the nudists of greater Cape Town and one will find a good number of folk tanning nude on the rocky slabs or sandy beach over weekends and holidays, enjoying the sand between their toes and the cooling breeze that blows off the sea at that time of day.
They are of importance to the conservationists as it forms part of the Table Mountain Nature Reserve. Exotic trees that have invaded the area have mostly been cleared and the natural vegetation encouraged refilling those gaps.
It is also of historical importance as the original indigenous people who inhabited the Cape before the Dutch arrived on the beaches of what was to become Cape Town.
They wore skins from indigenous antelope to keep warm and dry during the wet winter months, but very little, if anything, during the summer days at the Cape.
The waves pound the white sand of the sea shore, dolphins and seals can still be seen surfing in the waves, and the breeze cools the bay in the late afternoon as the sun sets on what has been Cape Towns naturist jewel since time immemorial
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