Cobra Battery, Slangkop, Kommetjie, Cape Town, An Aerial View

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You could walk up to the block house on top of Slangkop by following the footpath from behind the Catholic chapel at the end of Rubbi Road (-34.143982, 18.332850), from directly below the Slangkop lighthouse (-34.147666, 18.320326), or from the Slangkop Road (-34.1608251,18.3423764).
The road below taking you to Witsands and Scarborough was built in 1925
You can see the radar observation post and the Cobra Battery, the army observation post was established at Slangkop during 1942, known as U.D.E.S. Cobra (Union Defence Experimental Station). The post was intended for visual observation and as a radar post for air and sea surveillance.

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You can do a series on abandoned WW2 buildings. Radar installation above Kleinmond. Lookout buildings above Hangklip. Canon bunkers at Steenbras River. Bunkers above Llandudno. Various cannon positions around Simonstown, Cape Town And Houtbaai. Before every last stone is carried away.