Snooker Bay
Arbroath Herald, Thursday 21 September 1905
There not much to please the eye about these hills—bare of all vegetation and interesting only from their positive ugliness. While gaily chatting we were suddenly, after a few preliminary jerks, precipitated from one side of the carriage to the other, and with thoughts of railway disasters awaited the climax. But it was nothing unusual; all in the run, in fact. Having regained our feet, we looked out to discover that we were running over part of a sandy beach with the Atlantic billows not many yards off. At best after passing 21 stations (a station for each mile) the names of which appear to be a conglomerated mass of Scotch, English, Dutch, German, and many other nationalities, and some demanding a great deal of patience and care in the pronouncing, we arrive at Snooker Bay, as Simon’s Town has been designated on account of the enormous amount of snooker (fish) which are always to be found in Simon’s Bay.