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Camps Bay is an affluent Suburb of Cape Town , South Africa . In the European winter it is a hotbed of Europe an tourists as well as local South Africans down for a beach holiday. It hosts beach volleyball tournaments as well as a refreshing nightlife.

Camps Bay is named after an invalid Sailor , Ernst Friedrich von Kamptz, who settled there in 1778 .

The back of Table Mountain , the Table Mountain Cableway and the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range form a backdrop to the Camps Bay family beach. The surf is strong here and there is no resident lifeguard, but a rescue helicopter patrols regularly. The grass verge flanked by the Camps Bay tidal pool offers shady, wind-free barbecue spots. Trendy Shops, restaurants, a hotel, chemist, banks and police station are close to the beach.


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