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St James beach is well known for its colourful Victorian-style bathing boxes, [3] tidal pool [4] and rock pools, which are popular with children. [5] Danger Beach, also in St James, is a well-known surf spot. [6] Most of the homes in the area date back to the days when the Cape was still a colony of the British Empire. [4]
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 1930s, and the Sea Point gay scene, which ...
Graaff's Pool is a public bathing area, tidal pool and notable landmark in the Cape Town neighbourhood of Sea Point, South Africa. The pool was built by Pieter Marais in 1910. [ 1 ] Marais, a businessman in the wine trade, built the pool for his paralysed wife who was bathed in the ocean daily.
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The local tides are relatively weak, and there are no strong tidal currents on the Atlantic coast or in False Bay. Maximum tidal range at Cape Town is approximately 1.86 m (spring tides), and at Simon's Town 1.91 m, with minimum ranges at both places of about 0.26 m (neap tides).
In addition, the SAS Pietermaritzburg, formerly HMS Pelorus (which led the D-Day invasions of Normandy) was scuttled in shallow water (20m) just off Miller's Point and the Portuguese liner Lusitania [4] (which lies in deeper water at Bellows Rock near Cape Point after running aground there in 1911) is also most conveniently accessible from ...