Sea Point, Cape Town

Sea Point is the only sea-side suburb of Cape Town with significant high-rise development and this, along with other factors, has made it a very popular residential area, or for investing in first or second homes and apartments. Neighbouring areas like De Waterkant, Green Point and even Mouille Point are easily accessible via the bus, or even on foot. The Main Road is thick with restaurants serving global. Adjoining Sea Point is Three Anchor Bay. The beaches along this stretch are in the main covered with mussel shells thrown up by the ocean, unlike the beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay, which are sandy.

Graaf's Pool, a beachfront tidal pool partially demolished in 2005, was the subject of a short film entitled "Behind the Wall", which contrasted the pool's origin story of Lady Marais, paralysed from the waist down from childbirth, whose husband built the pool for her as a private bathing area in the thirties, and the Sea Point gay scene, which adopted the pool as a cruising ground between the 1960s and the turn of the century.

Ships entering the harbour in Table Bay from the east coast of Africa have to round the coast at Sea Point and over the years many of them have been wrecked on the reefs just off-shore. In May 1954, during a great storm, the Basuto Coast ended up on the rocks within a few metres of the concrete wall of the promenade. A fireman who came to the assistance of the crew was swept off the wall of the swimming pool adjacent to the promenade by waves and was never seen again. The vessel was soon thereafter salvaged for scrap. In July 1966 a large cargo ship, the S.A. Seafarer, was stranded on the rocks only a couple of hundred metres from the Three Anchor Bay beach.

Graaf's Pool, a beachfront tidal pool partially demolished in 2005, was the subject of a short film entitled "Behind the Wall", which contrasted the pool's origin story of Lady Marais, paralysed from the waist down from childbirth, whose husband built the pool for her as a private bathing area in the thirties, and the Sea Point gay scene, which adopted the pool as a cruising ground between the 1960's and the turn of the century.

Sea Point is filled with locals from the area, Green Point, and Bantry Bay, but it also has a strong tourist population. Find the young and hip in this area, as well as a large working population. Everything from schools to nightclubs exist in Sea Point, drawing a large crowd of vibrant people.

One of the most welcome legacies for the region from the 2010 edition of the FIFA World Cup is the Green Point Urban Park, a new public space in Cape Town, located in the shadow of the city's stadium. It's free to enter and immaculately maintained, and has several points of interest to explore, including an urban gym, a playground and an educational nature walk for young members of the family.