The backwash is slow and gradual, yet at certain spots we have excellent surfing conditions due to the high winds trafficking along the coastal lines. I live on the east side of the peninsula and so enjoy the warm water beaches. I usually walk to the beach and swim regularly. Even when it rains, I prefer to swim nude, letting the soft rain fall on my naked body as I enjoy the vast ocean facing me. Although we have a nudist beach known as Sandy Bay, on the west side of the Cape peninsula, most people prefer to swim nude at isolated spots along the vast untamed stretch of coastline here.
Fishing is also abundant here.
Cape Town is popular for the rare Snoek fish, only found in Japan. But the snoek caught here is a larger size. Snoek is a delicacy like the Nordic salmon, and it could be said it is the official Cape Town fish. Snoek is particularly being caught at the Hout Bay beaches near Simonstown, almost at the tip of Africa. Furtehr west, near to the Saldanah Bay region, crayfish are abundant.