- Camps Bay
Camps Bay is an affluent
suburb ofCape Town ,South Africa . In the European winter it is a hotbed ofEurope an tourists as well as local South Africans down for a beach holiday. It hosts beach volleyball tournaments as well as a refreshing nightlife.Camps Bay is named after an invalid
sailor , Ernst Friedrich von Kamptz, who settled there in 1778.The back of
Table Mountain , the Table Mountain cableway and theTwelve Apostles Mountain Range form a backdrop to the Camps Bay family beach. The surf is strong here and there is no resident lifeguard, but a rescue helicopter patrols regularly. The grass verge flanked by the Camps Bay tidal pool offers shady, wind-free barbecue spots. Trendy Shops, restaurants, a hotel, chemist, banks and police station are close to the beach.ee also
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Beaches of Cape Town
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