Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa. It was a long weekend of public holidays here in South Africa from Thursday 27 April to Monday 1 May, and we were able to join friends about 90 minutes away from Cape Town...
Our friends have a holiday house in a small town where the summer SE wind is offshore. The really cool thing is that the very next town 5 minutes away faces the opposite direction, where the winter NW wind is offshore!
In my last post I showed footage while the winter NW was still blowing and I had to drive to the next town.
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From Sunday, the summer SE wind came back and I could look around in the same town we were staying in...
There is a rocky point-reef set-up about a 2 minute walk from the house, but it took this guy ages to catch this wave... and then he had to stay high on the wave the entire time to avoid the thick kelp (sea-weed)...
I remembered the only time I had tried this wave about 18 months ago (I only had a cheap camera then...)
The kelp was constantly whacking against my fins as I looked around for the dry rocks sticking out the water... I made it quite far...
...but the kelp got me in the end! Hahaha! I was happy that only my fins got dinged and not the board itself...
I decided that the prospect of waiting for ages for a wave... only to bash up a board or myself... was a bit silly, and to look at the town's beach instead... On Sunday, the only section of beach not closing out immediately was a section where a rip channel ran out along the rocks...
You can almost see the wave fighting against the out-flowing current!
What was cool was that my wife, daughter and friends were enjoying a walk on the beach, so we actually have photos of me from another angle for a change!
photo by Rhonwyn Cornell
Photo by Rhonwyn Cornell - if you look carefully, you can see my camera being held by a mouth-mount...
And the Monday before we left? The swell had dropped away and the main beach was surfable with tiny glassy waves...
Here's my last wave of a lovely long weekend, past some kids happily bodyboarding in the sunny blue skies and soft wind... the soft wind is a rarity in this place!
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