Top 5 Beaches in Cape Town
When visiting Cape Town, exploring all the major tourist attractions is a given. Visitors tend to forget about the amazing beaches in the Mother City. Here are my Top 5 favorite beaches in the Cape Peninsula.

Bloubergstrand | Bloubergstrand is a long white sand beach with a few rocky outcrops where black mussels are found. The Benguela current makes the water cold, but it is still popular with surfers and kitesurfers. The beach on the west side is known as Big Bay and is popular for the white mussels extracted there by a method known to the locals as ?jiving?. Big Bay has a 1-3 m (1.09361- 3.28084 yard) surf the majority of the year. There is also a small area at van Renen street that is a part of Bloubergstrand which has a tidal pool where I enjoy catching the small fish there and bodyboarding. 
Bakoven | Bakoven is a small beach on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, south of Camps Bay. At high tide the whole beach is flooded, so be sure to go at low or mid tide. Bakoven is sometimes called Camps Bay?s little sister, but it doesn?t have the constant hustle and bustle of its counterpart. With a sheltered beach, medium blue waters, kelp forests and rock pools it is a contrast to Camps Bay. If you?re sure-footed, you can clamber around the boulders there. I like climbing the boulders a lot and once I?m at the top I throw shells into the sea.

Clifton | Clifton has a set of four beaches which are regularly frequented by both ...