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West Coast

South Africa
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Characteristics
  The west coast of South Africa is strikingly beautiful, sparsely populated, has freezing cold water all year round and is home to a variety of different types of surf breaks, mostly surfed in the Western Cape, leaving the Northern Cape somewhat unsurfed and rarely explored. Known for its long left-hand point breaks such as Elands Bay being one of the most popular, you do not have to travel too far in order to get relatively descent and uncrowded surf most of the year round. A perfect weekend getaway destination from Cape Town.
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  Surf Spot Photo GPS Quality Direction Type Frequency Level
1 Baboon Point 2  left reef-rocky experienced surfers
2 Baby Pipes 8  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
3 Bakgat 1  left point-break experienced surfers
4 Biltong Bay   left point-break experienced surfers
5 Boneyard CJ   right and left beach-break all surfers
6 Bullet Bay Point   left point-break experienced surfers
7 Bullet Bay Reef 1  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
8 Bullet Bay Shorey 3  right and left beach-break all surfers
9 Bushman Bay 6  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
10 Cape Death 2  right and left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
11 Cape st. Martin reef 2  left reef-rocky all surfers
12 Derde steen 2  right and left sand-bar all surfers
13 Donkin Bay 1  left point-break experienced surfers
14 Doring Bay 4  left reef-rocky all surfers
15 Elands Bay 19  left reef-rocky experienced surfers
16 Exposures 4  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
17 Farmer Burgers 4  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
18 Garbage dumps 1  right and left point-break experienced surfers
19 Gas Chambers 12  right and left beach-break pros or kamikaze only...
20 Gaweer 1  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
21 Groenrivier Rivermouth   right and left rivermouth all surfers
22 Heaven 8  right point-break experienced surfers
23 Hell 1  left reef-rocky experienced surfers
24 Holgat Reef   left reef-rocky experienced surfers
25 Holgatbaai   right and left sand-bar all surfers
26 Hondeklip Bay Reef 3  right and left beach-break experienced surfers
27 Kelp Reef   left reef-rocky all surfers
28 Kreef Reef 1  right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
29 Lamberts Bay 9  right and left beach-break all surfers
30 Langberg Point   left point-break pros or kamikaze only...
31 Marble shorey 3  right and left beach-break pros or kamikaze only...
32 McDougals Bay 1  right and left reef-rocky all surfers
33 Mossel bay 7  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
34 Olifants Rivermouth 1  right and left rivermouth all surfers
35 Paradise 3  right point-break experienced surfers
36 Pastures 6  left point-break experienced surfers
37 Pepper Grinders 3  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
38 Perfects no. 1 2  left point-break experienced surfers
39 Perfects no. 2 1  left point-break experienced surfers
40 Port Nolloth Reef 3  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
41 Pressure Point 1  left point-break experienced surfers
42 Samson's Bak 2  right point-break experienced surfers
43 Skulpfontein Reef 2  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
44 Sours   right and left beach-break all surfers
45 Stompneus Baai 1  left point-break experienced surfers
46 Stovepipes 4  left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
47 Strandfontein beachbreak 1  right beach-break all surfers
48 Suicide Reef 1  left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
49 Surgeons 2  right and left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
50 Swartriet beach 1  right and left beach-break all surfers
51 The Sanctuary 8  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
52 Trailer Bay 1  left point-break experienced surfers
53 Trekoskraal 1  right reef-rocky all surfers
54 Triceratops 4  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
55 Undisclosed 10  right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
56 Vredenberg point   left point-break experienced surfers
57 Wallekraal Point 1  left point-break experienced surfers
58 Yzerfontein 7  left reef-rocky experienced surfers


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Surfing Season
Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
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Occasional Swell
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Regular Swell
Occasional Swell
Typical Swell Size
< 1m / 3ft
1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft
2.5m-3m / 8ft-10ft
1.5m-2m / 5ft-6ft
1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
Surf Equipment Survival Kit Survival Kit Fullsuit Fullsuit Survival Kit Survival Kit
Water temp. 12°C
54°F 		15°C
59°F 		18°C
64°F 		18°C
64°F 		15°C
59°F 		12°C
54°F
Air temp. 35°C
95°F 		28°C
82°F 		20°C
68°F 		18°C
64°F 		25°C
77°F 		32°C
90°F
Climate

Dominant Swell and Wind Direction :
NW to SW

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comment by Anonymous, 2007-11-20 18:12:53

Weskus is LEKKER!!
Westcoast, what more can I say. Loads of kiff, consistent spots with all types of waves. From shoreys to pointbreaks, reefy's to SIC heavy mutant beasts. One of the top places in the world for surf considering how many good spots there are. I reckon theres deffinately alot more unchecked potential up here, especially in the Northern Cape. When i get time off work im cruising up here to find out myself.

comment by Anonymous, 2007-09-03 16:37:51

Very good waves here
I am from Chile and came up this coast last year for surf. where i come is good waves but in SA I have never seen so much good and quality surf, esepecially the west coast, so many perfect waves and little people. You are lucky to live here. I will be back.

comment by Paul, 2007-07-28 09:20:26

???????????
When is wannasurf adding in the rest of the west coast spots!!?? Atleast a dozen more have been added..

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