Simons Town
Simonstown is a quintessentially English seaside town with intricate Victorian wrought-iron balustrades and the flag-flying British Hotel dominating the main street.Alleyways lead up to whitewashed houses on the hillside, which overlooks a charming waterfront complex and the False Bay Yacht Club alongside extensive Navy buildings.In 1814 the English colonial governors of the Cape turned Simonstown into a Naval Base and it has remained one ever since. This is a nice little place to stop for lunch and wander about. I could not get over how English it felt. You can visit to the Jackass Penguin colony at Boulder’s Beach, a couple of kilometres out of Simonstown. Further along the road towards Cape Point you are very likely to come across the resident troop of baboons who rule the road and jump onto car bonnets to peer nonchalantly in.
