WINDMILL BEACH
South Africa
Windmill Beach is an easy dive site that is perfect as a practice site. The entry point is located on a sheltered, gently sloping sandy beach with no significant waves. Nowhere along the coast of South Africa entering the water is as easy as in can you walk into the water as relaxed as in Windmill Beach. The spot also attreacts snorkelers, free-divers and underwater photographers. Windmill's underwater world consists of rock formations, pillars, kelp forests and sandy bottoms.
Particulars
Windmill Beach is an easy dive spot that is accessible from the shore. Walk from the parking lot toward the shore and enter the water from the beach. Whether you come for photography, snorkeling, free-diving or to perfect your skill, your dive at Windmill will always be successful.
Warnings
Windmill Beach is een popular dive site and can therefore be very busy at times.
WINDMILL BEACH Features
- Nicknames
- Windmill
- Address
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Parking
- Sufficient parking
- Distance
- 100 m.
- Suitable for
- All levels, underwater photography, night diving, scuba diving practice, snorkeling, free diving
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- Free access
- Facilities
- None
- Water
- Salt
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive, reef dive
- Current
- Limited
- Visibility
- 5 - 10 m.
- Average visibility
- 6 m.
- Depth
- 10 m.
- Bottom
- stenen, zand
- Life
- Nudibranch, sea cucumber, small-spotted catshark
- Other recreation
- Boating, yachting, beach recreation