Cape Peninsula Geological Highlights Tour
08h00 - Meet and depart from the historic Simon's Town, travelling south along the M4.
Visit the beach at Froggy Pond, with its excellently exposed granite.
From there, travel on to a road cutting showing heavily weathered soils produced from the granite during a period in the Cape's history when the climate was much warmer and wetter.
Head to a high lookout point on the cliffs, overlooking a beach and a section of the Peninsula where a fault has caused a substantial drop in the landscape.
Continue to the Cape Point Nature Reserve and take a walk down to Diaz Beach.
On the way to Diaz Beach, visit an ancient deposit of limestone dating from the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.
Afterwards, go to the beach to view fabulous exposures of the Graafwater Formation of the Table Mountain Group.
12h30 - Enjoy lunch at the Two Oceans Restaurant, or as arranged.
13h30 - After your Cape Point visit, set out on a lovely scenic drive along the Atlantic coastline through the towns of Scarborough, Misty Cliffs, Kommetjie, and Noordhoek. Along the way, stop to explore specific sights of importance.
Past Noordhoek, drive along the famous Chapman's Peak Drive and enjoy excellent views of the unconformity between the igneous Cape Granites and the sedimentary Graafwater Formation of the Cape Supergroup.
The tour ends at the Sea Point Promenade, where you will visit the famous geological contact point between the Cape Granite and Malmesbury Groups that fascinated Darwin.
17h00 - Return to Simon's Town.
