I might be on a nice little island with some lovely beaches, but are any of them Blue Flag Beaches?
Well, actually, no.
While Mauritius is making efforts to achieve Blue Flag status for its beaches, and some beaches have the potential for it, there are no universally recognized Blue Flag beaches listed in the search results for 2025.
Although the water here is stunningly blue and appears to be crystal clear.
Back home, however, Cape Town is full of Blue Flags:
Yep:
- Bikini Beach
- Camps Bay
- Clifton 4th
- Fish Hoek
- Llandudno
- Melkbosstrand
- Muizenberg
- Silwerstroomstrand
As ever though, (some of) the locals are accusing the city of “paying” for the titles (that’s not how it works), complaining that their local beach (not on the list) isn’t very clean, or quite simply inventing weird reasons why Cape Town shouldn’t have any Blue Flag Beaches.
Ah yes, the old “orange urine” thing.
And that “continuous” issue.
You might want to see a doctor, Johann.
But I don’t think there’s much danger of that sort of thing, really. Let’s say that 10,000 people each urinate 250ml into the ocean. That’s a total of 2,500 litres of wee. And that sounds a lot until you understand that the volume of the South Atlantic is 160,000,000,000,000,000,000 litres. (That’s 160 million km3).
I think that’s going to be pretty diluted.
I think we’re going to be ok.
As for me – I’m going to take my chances with the Indian Ocean outside my door.
Happy Swimming!