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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | World Class |
| | experience | experienced surfers |
| | surf frequency | Don't know |
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Wave |
| type | reef-rocky |
| | direction | right and left |
| | bottom | reef (coral, sharp rocks etc..) |
| | power | - fast
- powerful
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| | normal length | normal (50 to 150m) |
| | good day | normal (50 to 150m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - North
- West
- SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
- NorthEast
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| | wind direction | - North
- East
- NorthEast
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| | swell size | starts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+ |
| | tide position | low and mid tide |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Peritel
Contributors (3)
They surfed this spot ! (8)
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Ouakam Access |
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Ouakam is a fishing vilage, about 6 km from the airport and 11 from Dakar the capital. It's a wave in front of the fishing village and a mosque. People are very friendly and happy given that the average income is about $1USD per day. It's really mystical wave. |
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distance | take a car |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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public access? | public access |
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special access | Don't know |
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More Details on Surfing |
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week crowd |
ok |
| week-end crowd |
ok |
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dangers | - urchins
- rocks
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Surf Business Directory listing (1/1) |
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Surf Photos |
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | You will lucky if you catch a wave because you need a big swell to get waves. Many people go to Senegal and only see the waves in their dreams because it's as all surfers say: "You should have be here yesterday"
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Overview |
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Atmosphere |
The atmosphere is very mistical because as you can see on the picture you are inside a cliff around a small typical West African fishing village. So it's completely different than most other waves. You also have the mosque right in front of you, one of the biggest in the country and with this line up when the swell turns the cliff which is just friont of you, it's just magic. |
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General |
It's just the best spot in West Africa, very fast and long very, not very deep with a little island of rocks and urchins just front of your take off, that's why I saw very good surfers come on holiday and not stay much in the peak because the rocks remind you all the time that they are at home !!! |
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Geo-localization |
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| Datum | WGS84 [ Help ] |
| GPS Lat. | 14° 42.83059' N |
| GPS Long. | 17° 29.50483' W |
| Precision | Approximate |
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GPS History (2)
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comment by Anonymous, 2008-12-02 21:37:13