[1] It is a popular tourist spot because of a colony of African penguins which settled there in 1982.

Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.

Although set in a residential area, it is one of the few sites where this vulnerable bird (Spheniscus demersus) can be observed at close range, wandering freely in a protected natural environment.

From just two breeding pairs in 1982, the penguin colony[3] has grown to about 3000 birds in recent years.

[5] Bordered mainly by indigenous bush above the high-water mark on the one side, and the clear water of False Bay on the other, the area comprises several small sheltered bays, partially enclosed by granite boulders that are 540 million years old.