SURFING: Spontaneous Friend Session!
Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa.
I once wrote a blog about how surfing with friends is a nuisance. I gave all sorts of reasons - you hang around waiting for them to arrive, they want to surf a different spot than you, etc...
Well sometimes it works out, and the spontaneous times are the best!
My friend Spike is usually land-locked in a little town about 2 hours from Cape Town. He messaged me yesterday to say he was in town for the weekend - I had to drive home from a work trip on the Saturday, so we made a plan for Sunday morning. Here, just after 8am, the summer sun is already shining on the sea!
We are at a local reef that I visit quite often.
Spike was having a blast - time in the water is rare and not taken for granted!
Another friend Max was able to join us...
He's also been missing his water time lately, as he is busy studying his MBA full time...
The water was warm enough for a "spring-suit" (short arms and legs), which is rare for Cape Town!
Duck-diving under waves is usually a chore, but at least it allowed for us to cool down in the summer sun - you can see a kelp seaweed frond on the left - most reefs in Cape Town have kelp, and sometimes it can be very thick to surf around!
Eventually a little crowd arrived to enjoy the morning before the wind picked up...
But we all managed to share the waves quite nicely! Here is my Point-of-View (GoPro camera in my mouth) of some of the ones I caught:
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Do people take leggys off a lot there? As there's nothing worse than getting tangled in kelp. We only get a heap of seaweed on the south easterlys - that drag from a legrope tangled in seaweed is a real - well - drag!
Funny, I haven't surfed in 24 hours and am already jealous of anyone else's water time. Week doesn't look great then I have a long flight and will be oceanless for about six weeks - please have some extra waves for me (and feel sorry for me, haha)
This spot the kelp is quite sparse - but there definitely are a few where you need to paddle out with your leash loose, more pulling on the kelp than paddling, to get through a thick bed of the stuff... you can then put your leash on in the deeper water...
Crazy!!!!!
You want thick kelp - try this place - https://ecency.com/hive-141964/@jasperdick/surfing-new-wave-of-august
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