Sea Point Promenade

This guide to Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town centers on Graaff's Pool and a legend about a low stone archway beside it: a wine merchant who supposedly dug a private tunnel from his cellar so his paralysed wife could bathe in the sea unseen around the turn of the twentieth century. You'll hear how a 1966 newspaper investigation tried to settle whether the tunnel ever existed, and the very different history of who the pool is actually named for. A good spot to weigh the story yourself: the archway at low tide.