East London, the only river harbour and the fourth largest harbour city in the country, retains a distinctly sleepy, small-town atmosphere and offers a friendly reception to the visitor.
Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The shore entries are a little rough but the area is very popular for the gathering of perlemoen (abalone) and crayfish.
Most of this coast offers tropical or subtropical diving. Water temperature rarely drops below 20 C, and then only in the south, and the visibility is usually 10 m or more.
This popular seaside resort offers some of the best diving on the south African coast with vast shoals of game fish and big groups of sharks congregating around Protea Banks.
Arena
Sodwana Bay is divided into a number of dive sites with names such as Seven Mile Reef and Five Mile Reef indicating the distance from the access point; the closer the reef is to the shore, the more po