MNANDI LOVELY, JUST RIGHT Mandi is a day resort with excellent facilities, including a large freshwater pool with waterslides, landscaped lawns with playground apparatuses, picnic tables and braai sites, as well as long, sandy beaches that are good for walking and fishing. Lifesavers are on duty every day during Blue Flag season, December to March and keep watch over a stretch of beach that is safe for swimming in the warm water. This beach also offers scenic views of the Wolfgat Nature Reserve’s limestone cliffs. Mandi was reserved for black people during the apartheid era. Its name can be translated as lovely, just right. A little way offshore is a rocky outcrop known as Kapteinsklip, which means ‘captain’s stone’. The resort was granted Blue Flag pilot status for the 2003 summer season and awarded full status a year later. It has maintained Blue Flag status ever since.
BIKINI BEACH A GEM AT GORDON’S BAY Bikini Beach lies east of Gordon’s Bay harbor and is rated one of Cape Town’s top beaches due to its excellent facilities, cleanliness and safety standards. It is sheltered from the wind and is especially popular among trendy teenagers and Stellenbosch students for sunbathing, swimming and socialising. The beach slope is steeper here than in the rest of Gordon’s Bay, dropping off quickly into deep water, so the waves are larger and more powerful, sometimes breaking as “dumpers’’ on the shore. Surfers ride the left-hand break off the harbour wall, ending up at the beach.
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