Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between
granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located in the
Cape Peninsula, near
Simon's Town towards
Cape Point, near
Cape Town in the
Western Cape province of
South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay.
It is a popular tourist stop because of a colony of
African Penguins which settled there in 1982. Boulders Beach forms part of the
Table Mountain National Park.