Flying Dutchman Funicular🚠

This guide to the Flying Dutchman Funicular at Cape Point opens with an odd flaw: an 1860 lighthouse built so high on the peak that cloud swallowed it for weeks at a time, defeating its whole purpose. It follows that failure to a specific morning in April 1911, when the liner Lusitania lost sight of the beam in mist and struck Bellows Rock nearby. You'll hear how engineers were forced to rethink where a warning light actually belongs, a question this cliffside railway climbs straight through the fynbos to answer. Step off at the top and look toward Dias Beach, the direction the old warning came from.