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Garvies


South Africa, Durban

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Surf Spot Characteristics
    Surf Quality
 wave qualityRegional Classic
 experienceexperienced surfers
 surf frequencyvery consistent (150 day/year)
    Wave
typebeach-break
 directionright and left
 bottomsandy with rock
 power- hollow
- fast
- powerful
- fun
- ledgey
 normal lengthnormal (50 to 150m)
 good daynormal (50 to 150m)
    Tide, Swell and Wind
 swell direction- SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
- East
- NorthEast
 wind direction- NorthWest
 swell sizestarts working at less than 1m / 3ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+
 tide positionall tides
 tide movementrising and falling tides
  Author: Anonymous
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Garvies Access
  Go to the bluff, go to Marine drive and drive North, turn into Sloane Street and drive to the bottom climb out your car and step onto the sand.
  distancetake a car
  walkshort walk (5-15 mn)
  easy to find?easy to find
  public access?public access
  special accessDon't know
    More Details on Surfing
  week crowd empty
week-end crowd empty
  dangers- rips / undertow
- rocks
  webcam url
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 Get in early in the morning when there is no wind or the morning breeze is blowing down the mountain. The beach has a very long strip so if there is a crowd on the peak in front of the parking lot just go to the next one. It gets very hollow on every low tide - super fun but fast and very powerful. It comes out of very deep wter and jacks up quickly. It is absolute perfection in a 4-6ft ground swell with low tide, no wind or a slight early morning offshore - Hard paddle though, no channels.
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  Atmosphere This is a great alternative from 2-6 feet if Cave Rock and Ansteys are crowded. It use to have the heaviest localism, probably, in South Africa, but things have changed here and people don't hang at the beaches anymore.
  General This one of the best waves durban has to offer. They tried to film here for the first search film but the locals got pissed.
 
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comment by Anonymous, 2007-05-21 23:31:51

World Class Wave!
I grew up living in town but surfed the bluff nearly every weekend and on public holidays. I surfed Garvies often as well...fun waves, fast running rughts and punchy bowling lefts. I only had one near run in ith a local...a guy dropped in on me and looked at me funny when we were paddling back out, then I dropped in on him and it was all better...early mornings are best!

comment by Anonymous, 2007-03-30 07:33:17


all over the world ...except Garvies:)

comment by daager, 2007-03-16 14:22:29

to garvies
What a cool attitude you have. I will hurt you and break your board. What awesome sentiments. Let me guess. You sound like you have a dead end job and one too many tattoos. I have surfed all over the world, being originally a town clown, and I have never seen anything as incredibly pathetic as your macho cretinous attitude. Grow up. Garvies will still be firing long after you're dead, and it will be a better place for it. These days the Bluff crew seems cool, unfortunately you seem to be living in the past...

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