Dale Brook

The dive site Dale Brook is a shoreline rocky reef in the Kalk Bay area on the False Bay side of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This is the closest site for road access from most of the city on the east side of the peninsula, and is also accessible by rail (Dale Brook station). This site is well known in the scientific literature for a large variety of species, and it has been a sanctuary zone for a long time, but is seldom dived by sport divers. It is ideal as a snorkel site due to the shallow depth and large variety of reef life, and is a very pleasant scuba dive in calm conditions. Low and fairly flat sandstone reef. Reef is steep sided and flat bottomed, mostly bedrock with occasional boulders. Fairly free of sand in the inshore areas, but sand bottomed further out.