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This excursion takes you to the most scenic outlooks in the Cape Town area to give an overview of the spectacular landforms and geology. Departs from CTICC to Signal Hill, Seapoint geological contact, Hout Bay, via Chapman’s Peak Drive to Froggy Pond (Boulders Beach), Cape Point and back to the city via Kommetjie and Oukaapseweg.

An initial overview from Signal Hill contextualises the city and its surrounding geology. Descending to the Atlantic seaboard, the tour visits the Sea Point Contact where mixing of granite magma and the host shale of the Precambrian Malmesbury Group was made famous by Darwin’s visit in 1836. Progressing towards Hout Bay Beach and Chapman’s Peak Drive the route passes through weathered granite, dolerite dykes and beautifully exposed mudstone and sandstone rocks of the lowermost Table Mountain Group (Cambrian/Ordovician). Travelling to the southernmost tip of the Cape Peninsula, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point Lighthouse will be visited. From there the route heads up the eastern edge of the Cape Peninsula to Boulders Beach to see the penguin colony. In addition to the geology, the trip will include aspects of landscape evolution, plants of the unique and diverse fynbos floristic region and the history of geology.

Field Trip Leader: John Compton                                                    
Start/End: Cape Town International Convention Centre                              
Departs: 09:00AM
Date: 1 day, Sunday 28th August 2016                                           
Price: R 1 400 per person

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