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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	Baby Pipes	11			right	reef-rocky		experienced surfers
2	Boneyard CJ				right and left	beach-break		all surfers
3	Cape Death	2			right and left	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
4	Cape st. Martin reef	2			left	reef-rocky		all surfers
5	Donkin Bay	1			left	point-break		experienced surfers
6	Doring Bay	4			left	reef-rocky		all surfers
7	Elands Bay	19			left	reef-rocky		experienced surfers
8	Farmer Burgers	4			right	reef-rocky		experienced surfers
9	Garbage dumps	2			right and left	point-break		experienced surfers
10	Groenrivier Rivermouth	1			right and left	rivermouth		all surfers
11	Groot Trekoskraal	5			right	reef-rocky		all surfers
12	Heaven	8			right	point-break		experienced surfers
13	Hell	1			left	reef-rocky		experienced surfers
14	Hondeklip Bay Reef	4			right and left	beach-break		experienced surfers
15	Kelp Reef	1			left	reef-rocky		all surfers
16	Klein Trekoskraal				right and left	beach-break		all surfers
17	Lamberts Bay	9			right and left	beach-break		all surfers
18	Langberg Point				left	point-break		pros or kamikaze only...
19	Marble shorey	3			right and left	beach-break		pros or kamikaze only...
20	McDougals Bay	1			right and left	reef-rocky		all surfers
21	Mossel bay	7			right	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
22	Olifants Rivermouth	1			right and left	rivermouth		all surfers
23	Paradise	3			right	point-break		experienced surfers
24	Pastures	6			left	point-break		experienced surfers
25	Pepper Grinders	3			right	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
26	Port Nolloth Reef	4			right	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
27	Samson's Bak	2			right	point-break		experienced surfers
28	Skulpfontein Reef	2			right	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
29	Sours				right and left	beach-break		all surfers
30	Stompneus Baai	1			left	point-break		experienced surfers
31	Stovepipes	4			left	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
32	Strandfontein beachbreak	1			right	beach-break		all surfers
33	Suicide Reef	1			left	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
34	Swartriet beach	1			right and left	beach-break		all surfers
35	Trailer Bay	1			left	point-break		experienced surfers
36	Undisclosed	11			right	reef-rocky		pros or kamikaze only...
37	Vredenberg point				left	point-break		experienced surfers
38	Wallekraal Point	1			left	point-break		experienced surfers

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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

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Water temp.

12°C
54°F

15°C
59°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, 2009-04-04 16:14:14

get rid of all the fake spots
can someone maybe put up a list of all the fake spots that this jono kont has added? i dont wanna be spending my time and all that petrol money running around on a wild goose chase. thanks.

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.

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