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Garden Route

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Characteristics
  The Garden route is known to be one of the most beautiful and exciting parts of South Africa and the surf is excellent. It has its own micro-climate and often has different weather to the rest of South Africa. All year round you should find something somewhere but the best and most frequent swell comes in winter. (June - August) Starting from around Mosselbay and ending around Natures valley, this is one of South Africa's most famous holiday hotspots so you are garaunteed to find it crowded at the more well known spots during summer but most the crowds are at the holiday towns like Mossel Bay, Plettenberg Bay, Buffalo Bay, Vic Bay etc, leaving the other areas with fewer crowds. Loads of places to stay close to surf somewhere as everything is around the coast so just take your pick of a surfspot and book accomodation early! Takes around 2 hours drive from the beginning to the end so just look for where the best surf is, some of it is visible from the road. There are plenty of good pubs around aswell and the nightlife is crazy. This is where the best new years eve beach parties are!
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  Surf Spot Photo GPS Quality Direction Type Frequency Level
1 A Frames right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
2 Arniston right and left reef-rocky all surfers
3 Banzai right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
4 Bi Reef right reef-rocky experienced surfers
5 Brak River right and left sand-bar all surfers
6 Brenton On Sea   right and left sand-bar all surfers
7 Buffalo Bay (Bert rock)   right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
8 Buffalo Bay (Bowls)   right and left beach-break all surfers
9 Buffalo Bay (Murpheys) right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
10 Buffalo Bay (Opies) right and left sand-bar all surfers
11 Buffalo Bay (Oyster Banks) right and left sand-bar experienced surfers
12 Buffalo Bay (Point) right point-break all surfers
13 Buffalo Bay (Reef) right reef-rocky all surfers
14 Buffalo Bay (Rivermouth)   right and left rivermouth experienced surfers
15 Buffalo Bay (Rock) right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
16 Buffalo Bay (Wildside Shorey) right beach-break all surfers
17 Buffalo Bay beachbreak right and left beach-break all surfers
18 Dana Bay   right and left beach-break all surfers
19 De Bakke right and left beach-break all surfers
20 Diaz Beach right and left beach-break all surfers
21 Ding-Dangs right point-break experienced surfers
22 Dolfines right reef-rocky experienced surfers
23 Dolphin Point right point-break experienced surfers
24 Fish Boma right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
25 Gerickes (Scar reef) right reef-coral experienced surfers
26 Gerickes Point (Left) left reef-rocky experienced surfers
27 Glentana   right and left beach-break all surfers
28 Goukamma Rivermouth right and left rivermouth all surfers
29 Gourits Beach   right beach-break all surfers
30 Harolds Bay hidden Reef left reef-rocky experienced surfers
31 Hartenbos   right and left sand-bar all surfers
32 Herolds Bay right and left beach-break experienced surfers
33 Hobie Beach right and left beach-break all surfers
34 Inner Pool right reef-rocky all surfers
35 Jongensfontein right reef-rocky all surfers
36 Keurbooms right and left beach-break all surfers
37 Kleinkrans Beach   right and left sand-bar all surfers
38 Lagoon Wedge   right and left beach-break all surfers
39 Lookout beach right and left beach-break all surfers
40 Lourie Reef   right reef-rocky experienced surfers
41 Mystery Reef right reef-rocky experienced surfers
42 Noetsie (De Hoop Reserve) right beach-break all surfers
43 Outer Pool right point-break experienced surfers
44 Pathways left reef-rocky experienced surfers
45 Red Nose Rock right reef-rocky experienced surfers
46 Robberg right and left beach-break all surfers
47 Rondevlei Beach   right and left sand-bar all surfers
48 Sandpoep Shorey right and left beach-break all surfers
49 Santos Reef right and left reef-rocky all surfers
50 SCS right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
51 Spot 25   right reef-rocky experienced surfers
52 Storms River Mouth right reef-rocky experienced surfers
53 Struisbaai Back Reef   right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
54 Struisbaai Point   right reef-rocky all surfers
55 Swartvlei (Rivermouth)   right and left rivermouth experienced surfers
56 Swartvlei Beach right and left beach-break all surfers
57 The Heads right and left sand-bar experienced surfers
58 The Heads (Back Reef)   left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
59 The Heads (Rock spot) right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
60 The Point right reef-rocky experienced surfers
61 The Wedge 30  left beach-break experienced surfers
62 The Wreck right and left beach-break experienced surfers
63 Vallies Doom Shorey right and left beach-break all surfers
64 Victoria bay 36  right point-break all surfers
65 Vleesbaai   right point-break all surfers
66 Wilderness Beach right and left sand-bar all surfers
67 Wilderness Rivermouth right point-break experienced surfers
68 Yonders right and left sand-bar experienced surfers


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Surfing Season
Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
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Regular Swell

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Regular Swell

Regular Swell
Typical Swell Size
1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

1.5m-2m / 5ft-6ft

2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft

2.5m-3m / 8ft-10ft

1.5m-2m / 5ft-6ft

1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
Surf Equipment Boardshorts Springsuit Springsuit Springsuit Springsuit Springsuit
Water temp. 20°C
68°F
18°C
64°F
18°C
64°F
18°C
64°F
18°C
64°F
20°C
68°F
Air temp. 32°C
90°F
25°C
77°F
20°C
68°F
18°C
64°F
22°C
72°F
28°C
82°F
Climate

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comment by Anonymous, 2008-02-22 05:26:00

Water temp
hey guys, i am an aussie who is travelling to south africa this july, was wondering what wetsuit thickness i'd need that time of the year? cheers

comment by SA Globetrotter, 2004-11-19 08:11:57

P a r a d i se
This place is great all year round except during mid Dec to mid Jan. Even during this time you will be able to find a wavie that s not too crowded once you get familiar with the spots! As a Globetrotting Saffa I always look forward to go back and chill before I leave Africa again.

comment by surfachic@myjellybean.co.za, 2003-09-08 12:05:35

surfs's gr8 in wilderness,near george
i went up 2 wilderness 4 3 weeks, the surf swell there and in george is awesome!!! definatley gonna go again... perfect barrels, awesome beaches!really cool man!

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