Simon's Town Navy Days and other Simon's Town, South Africa Things to Do Tips

For many years this was a British Royal Naval Base. It is still home to South Africa's navy, and has regained much of its historic splendour and character.

My husband and I enjoy the Navy Days, when the navy do displays (airplanes do too, like the Buccaneer!), and allow us mere mortals onto their pride and joy... their ships!

Have you ever felt claustrophobic? We have!!! In the teeny tiny submarines.

To think that big men, much taller and possibly wider than me have to live in one of these for months on end, rotating their bed too, is beyond me.

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Between the naval town of Simon's Town, and on the way to Cape Point Nature Reserve, you will find Boulder's Beach.

A conservation area, it is primarily used for the preservation of it's unique and world-renowned penguin colony.

The jackass penguin (Spheniscus demersus) can be seen here at close range, in its natural habitat.

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These penguins enjoy the heat and the sand, not the ice cold. They are comical to watch and a pleasure to visit :)

We usually take a picnic and clamber onto one of the big rocks overlooking the beach where they are (Boulders Beach), and don't pay for this, although when we were there in February this year we took our bathing costumes and swam and viewed the penguins in the birthing area... saw loads of baby penguins :)

You can pay a fee and get up and close and personal with them, or climb onto the high rock near the car park and still get a pretty good view.

A must-see for the kids and adults alike!

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Address: Boulder's Beach, Main Rd
Directions: Boulder's Beach, Main Rd, on the way to Cape Point