South Africa September 2011

Long journey to get there but well worth it...drove down to Glasgow from Thurso, then flew Dubai and onto Cape Town.  Was met at the airport by my good friend Luke who I went to uni with in Aberdeen and who would be my host and tour guide for the next couple of weeks.

Luke and Clare have a sick pad overlooking the beach in Cape Town and the first week the swell was a bit slow, so I just surfed about a few beachies and went out on the town with Luke and Clare.

The second week of my trip the swell boomed; we boosted for J-bay and scored.  Really fun waves varying from clean to little bit choppy and in the 2-5ft range over the four days we stayed there.  We then returned to Cape Town for one night and up to Elands Baai for the swell right off the back of the last one.  We toyed with the idea of hitting that Namibia lefthander everyone is on about, but we would have only had one night there and the flights were expensive and Luke was keen to show me the waves up the desert where he plans to die.  Turns out the swell was a bit too big for Elands, we surfed a session there anyway as the swell was growing and it was still a great session.  We surfed another point further north in the afternoon and then finished at a secret lefthander in one of the photos below.

Jbay Bru - Boydie walking up to Supers

Secret Left