Clifton & Camps Bay — Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard Beaches

The Atlantic Seaboard (the coastal strip along the western side of the Cape Peninsula, between Sea Point and Hout Bay — the most fashionable residential and beach area in Cape Town): Clifton's four beaches (First, Second, Third, and Fourth Clifton Beach — the sheltered white-sand beaches in the coves below the Clifton apartment buildings, protected from the southerly winds by the granite boulders, with the waters of the Benguela Current (notoriously cold — typically 12-14°C in summer, cold enough to prevent swimming for all but the hardiest)) and Camps Bay (the wide beach below the Twelve Apostles, with its famous strip of restaurants and beach bars on Victoria Road) are the defining beach experiences in Cape Town.