Photographer's Reef

The dive site Photographer's Reef also known as JJM Reef is an inshore rocky reef in the Seaforth area of Simon's Town on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This site is at a depth which allows long dive times without decompression, is quite small and compact, with a rugged relief and interesting topographical features including several small caverns and swim-throughs, and has a diverse ecology. This is a good site for invertebrate photography. Photographer's Reef proper is a compact cluster of high profile granite outcrops and boulders with deep gaps and cracks, deep overhangs, and a few swim-throughs. There are other reefs in the general area, as shown on the map, but these are lower and lack the complexity of Photographer’s Reef. Geology: Granite of the late Pre-Cambrian Peninsula pluton.