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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.
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]
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).
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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 ...
The tide pools are a popular hiking location, [4] [5] [6] and can be reached by the Flat Point Trail. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The trail access is located on road going from Saba's airport to Cove Bay . [ 8 ] The trail passes by the ruins of an indigo boiling house, that was part of a 17th-18th century sugar and indigo plantation (referred to as "Flat Point ...
With low tide at 11:23 a.m., the team was in shallow water on foot attempting to herd the dolphins back out to deeper waters, the group said. Up to 125 Atlantic white-sided dolphins stranded in ...
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore. These pools typically range from a few inches to a few feet deep and a few feet across. [ 1 ] Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide , as seawater gets trapped when the tide recedes.