Highlights: False Bay, also translated as Fars Bay, Wrong Bay, and Wrong Bay, is located at the southwestern tip of South Africa, the Cape Peninsula in the west, and the African continent in the north and east. Because early sailors often confused it with Table Bay in the north, it was named "Wrong Bay". False Bay has a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers, cool and rainy winters, and strong northwesterly winds and storms are common and ferocious in winter. The mountains to the east and west of the bay are rugged and steep,