Guidebook for Paternoster

Cape Columbine and Lighthouse lies just 5km outside of Paternoster and covers an area of 263ha along the rocky stretch of coastline. This area was declared a nature reserve in December 1973. There are beautiful hiking trails and you can expect unforgettable sunsets right on the Atlantic Ocean. The reserve also boasts the last manually controlled lighthouse to be built in South Africa. Built in 1936, the Cape Columbine lighthouse is usually the first South African lighthouse to be seen by ships coming from South America and Europe. Standing on a massive outcrop of rock known as Castle Rock, the lighthouse is named after the barque Columbine, wrecked here in 1829.