Dalebrook Tidal Pool

This guide to Dalebrook Tidal Pool in Cape Town traces its century as a walled, tide-fed refuge from False Bay's currents and sharks, just around the point from a beach whalers once called Danger Beach. It turns to a single week in January 2023, when the City of Cape Town closed the pool twice after a sewage overflow tied to load-shedding-hit pump stations. A deputy mayor's warning and a father who learned to swim here as a boy both figure in, as the tide keeps filling the basin twice a day as it always has.