Surf Travel to South Africa
Posted by admin | article | Posted on August 21st, 2011
Arrival in Cape Town is overwhelming, is the first thing you notice the warmth and friendliness of the user. This country has been through so much in the last 30 years and has always been my dream to surf his foot on their soil, the waves caress his glorious shore adjusted daily. South Africa has some of the best and most consistent surf in the world has to offer blessings. In addition, the mild climate and you have a paradise for surfers. During the winter, is South African coast with almost endless waves and offshore wind farms because of the constant activity of the cold front in the South Atlantic. Just as a user entering a rainy Oregon, to find warmth and incredible surf, it’s a dream come true.
I was on the tour to understand the meetings in many areas of South Africa’s premier surfing, Jeffreys Bay, Seal Point, Victoria Bay, Beauty and Bruce and many other places that “crank” involved in winter. I collected after Dylan’s arrival and we were all excited to head out to the coast. South African surfers are always so happy, it is surprising and Dylan was no acceptance of this rule, and assured me that he had intimate knowledge of surfing in the area, and he was our leader. I also practically guaranteed that I to arrive at the appropriate places, if they are the best, it fell just short of advising me that he ordered the swell as well.
As we arrived at the guest house on the outskirts of town, I was on the other surfers on the circuit, which welcomes one or two days before arrival. Dylan whispered into my ear and told me with a smile, eager that the personal tour and that by limiting the number of people on each circuit guarantees that all of us is a great time. Like all South Africans, he is proud of the surf and country could not help me say it again for the fifth time he sure that I would have surfed a lot of African drums as possible. Umm …. I went to bed with this thought. My second day began with Dylan on a tour of a place Muzuimbrug, a place, he assured me, to learn the African waves. “Muzi” as we know, is known for its warehouse and very consistent waves and a-frame stretch of beach known. While Dylan has surfing lessons, where some students on the trip, I paddled on the rear to enjoy surfing in the morning glass.
After a hearty breakfast we set off on an orientation tour of the beautiful Cape peninsula, believed to help Dylan us, our influence in the area and we also had a visit to the Cape Point Nature Reserve and the cities of Cape Town’s most famous sights including a visit to the pebble beach where penguins wild joy of reading.
On the morning of Day 3 was an important year for me personally, I could not wait, our first stop was down a resilient Gouritz 65 meters. This is optional on the circuit, but it is strongly recommended to help you Stoked and ready for the adventure that awaits us, and I was game for it. If you later to the highest worlds of the trip plan, I recommend you this first, to get a feel for it! I did not opt ??for the more …
On the way to Mossel Bay, stop for a surfing session it was a choice of three breaks of indoor and outdoor pool and choose Ding Dang. Depending on conditions and your level of surfing guides lead you to take one of the most shells, and they voted for me just fine.
Inner Wave Pool breaks very close to the famous swimming pool of some of the rocks near the walls, when at his best and is usually surfed when OUTERS is flat. Outdoor swimming pool is large and heavy swell in the winter is usually solid, but surfed in clean and tidy, light west wind. Outer right hand reef break kitchen with a solid wall and a long journey. Ding Dang fun hotdog wave that works when the swell of the winter winds at Cape St. Blaise.
After surfing, we go on the road, the beautiful scenery as we enter the “Garden Route” is breathtaking and most of us sighed in disbelief at the sight and the panorama unfolds before us. Depending on time of year, apparently the guides can use group and diving for a couple of crayfish (crawfish Cape) on the way to dinner in the evening surprise, it was not the case for my tour, but I think that “It may be the norm .
It is up early for the best wave in the morning, and we all decided on a place called Buffalo Bay Point head – a wave very similar to Bruce Beauties me to be the highlight of the visit and was I that took as a trial event. The point is the superlative in terms of law by all accounts and before leaving the U.S. I reports on the many conditions that can be found here had been a day so you can find perfect 3ft.
That evening we went to another local surf lodge and zip in for the evening surfing! We are from a place I longed for since the first film to see Endless Summer – Bruce Beauties – it breaks down much more frequently than what is meant and means of know a long sweet paradise residents. When cooking Bruce is a point on the right scream freight trains along a jagged line of rocks. “Get ready to say gaping barrel,” Dylan said as he disappeared into the water, so the rest of us changed half run, and fall at every step of the others! It was like a film clip here, I was about to hit the surf on Endless Summer.
The next day I found it very difficult to get up, to be honest, three days of epic surf with one another only rarely, I could not finish … felt like my body and perfect surf fly yesterday. So instead of surfing, I joined the trip to see the rest of the group in a move some lessons on the beach and sat back to enjoy the wilderness that was to Portland and U.S. airports seemed only a forgotten memory. I could not believe that only 90 + hours I was crammed into a bus in Portland with a huge hit around the world longboard that moved. Now I have my head in the sand listening to the sounds of seabirds and the knowledge that I am totally at peace and have the best surf trip of my life. Sure, I surfed some great places, but for a surf spot I saw on a video a thousand times his son and then to enjoy it, it starts the movie was even better than my wildest thoughts of surfing in South Africa.
After a few more days of touring and surf spots like Boneyards, Super Tubes, trays, J-Bay, pipes, Albatross Point and it was time to start to head back towards Cape Town. Everyone on the track had been exhausted and tired, but now we were a family traveling surfers too tired to talk, but desperate for a ride over before the last Cape and we were not disappointed slowly leads us back to Buffalo Bay, and it was just as we left it, perfectly …
As we drove to Cape Town the next Dylan turned to us and said: “How about skydiving, paragliding – We can even dip a shark, if you want!” – “Close to you … we are exhausted” in a large choir, we all said the only thing you can say about South Africa, they are a friendly group and stoke of surfing is deeply rooted in the veins there.
The beauty of the tour was, I think of the people adds them together, made up of six surfers who are learning to surf for the first time and were with lessons every day for the rest of us, from beginner to advanced. We all surfed well and have experienced all the conditions first hand. We all had our own experiences and that is something we all take our memories and surfing – a surf trip incredible.