Dive spots · pinnacle, reef

Pie Rock and Outer Castle reefs

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Depth
3-25 m
Difficulty
Advanced
Coords
Entry
boat, shore
Pie Rock and Outer Castle reefs
by Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; photo: Peter Southwood

Pie Rock reef and Outer Castle or Castle Blinder is an offshore rocky reef with a group of dive sites in the Castle Rocks restricted zone on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. This is a spectacular dive in good visibility, and large numbers of fish may be seen. Outer Castle is structurally, topographically, geologically, and by most other considerations part of the same reef, but was historically considered a separate site. Large granite corestone outcrops and boulders. The site is in five main sections, Outer Castle, Pie Rock North Reef, Pie Rock Southern Pinnacles, Pie Rock West Reef and Pie Rock East Reef.

Wildlife seal, steenbras, klipfish, sea urchin, feather star, nudibranch, anemone, sponge, ascidian, kelp, sea cucumber
Hazards boat traffic, depth

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