Todays Image • The 12 Apostles

The stretch of rugged coast dotted with beautiful beaches and backed up by rugged mountain peaks at Cape Town is considered South Africa’s most amazing landscape. Driving the coastal road you’d be hard pressed to find anything that compares anywhere else in the world.

This string of ragged peaks stretching from Cape Town’s Table Mountain along the coast almost to Hout Bay is locally called The Twelve Apostles and are geologically part of the Table Mountain complex above Camps Bay. The mountain range stretchesThis string of ragged peaks stretching from Cape Town’s Table Mountain along the coast almost to Hout Bay is locally called The Twelve Apostles and are geologically part of the Table Mountain complex above Camps Bay. The mountain range stretches almost 4 miles and consist of eighteen peaks not twelve as the name implies. From north to south the peaks are named Kloof, Fountain, Porcupine, Jubilee, Barrier, Valken, Kasteel, Postern, Wood, Spring, Slangolie, Corridor, Separation, Victoria, Grove, Llandudno Peak, Llandudno Corridor, and Hout Bay Corner. The average height above sea level is 2250 feet, compared to 3,160 feet for Table Mountain.

Hout Bay


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