Beach
Camps Bay Beach
Curved granite-backed beach reached by a cliff road carved out by convict labour in the eighteen eighties.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town follows engineer Thomas Bain's 1884 order to blast a coastal road from Sea Point to this beach, and the convict labourers who cut it into the cliff by hand over three years. You'll hear about the tidal pool and palm-lined promenade added by resort booster James Farquhar, chasing a seaside dream borrowed from Brighton. It considers how much of this postcard view was built rather than found.
This audio guide was created using AI.