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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | Regional Classic |
| | experience | experienced surfers |
| | surf frequency | very consistent (150 day/year) |
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Wave |
| type | beach-break |
| | direction | right and left |
| | bottom | sandy with rock |
| | power | - hollow
- fast
- powerful
- fun
- ledgey
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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 | - SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
- East
- NorthEast
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| | wind direction | - NorthWest
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| | swell size | starts working at less than 1m / 3ft and holds up to 3m+ / 10ft+ |
| | tide position | all tides |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Anonymous
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Garvies Access |
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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. |
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distance | take a car |
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walk | short walk (5-15 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 |
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| week-end crowd |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
- rocks
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | 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. |
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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, 2009-09-10 17:26:39