Shell Pool
A Port Elizabeth tidal pool at Shell — the warm-temperate Eastern Cape swim on the PE beachfront.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
Best for
Our take
The Eastern Cape's PE tidal pool — a warm-temperate beachfront swim, and the one Eastern Cape representative in the tidal-pool set.
The Eastern Cape's PE tidal pool — a warm-temperate beachfront swim, and the one Eastern Cape representative in the tidal-pool set.
- Trip Role
- Only If Nearby
- Ideal Stay
- A swim
- Best For
- PE travellers, swimmers.
- Skip If
- Travellers far off the PE coast.
- Go If
- You're in PE and want a sheltered sea swim, or you're collecting the Eastern Cape tidal pools.
- Worth Extra Drive
- 0 min
Why it's worth your time
A tidal pool on the Port Elizabeth beachfront at Shell — one of the Eastern Cape's characterful warm-temperate sea pools, a stone-walled swim on the PE beachfront stretch. Shell Pool is the PE swim: warmer than the Cape, cooler than KZN, and the Eastern Cape's representative in the tidal-pool set. For PE travellers it's the beachfront swim stop; for the Eastern Cape coast it's the one tidal pool in the atlas that isn't Cape or KZN.
What we love
The warm-temperate water; the PE beachfront setting; the Eastern Cape representative in the tidal-pool set.
What to know
Free. Warm-temperate water. Pair with the PE beachfront and the Donkin Reserve.