I was down at the V&A over the holidays, and this is the spot where a billion photo’s of table mountain are taken. This is actually about my 4th photo from that part of town, but despite this looking like the million other photo’s, they all have a flair of individuality.
More surf photos are to follow, the surf hasn’t been all that great recently. But I\m sure someone will disagree.
The surf last weekend was a little bit disappointing. The set waves were coming in little big at Llandudno, and they were closing out. This is normally not such a problem because you can always find one that peels, but check out the crowd! It was a zoo! A mate from the Surf Zone surf shop said he’d never seen half the people there, and it was insanely crowded.
Llandudno on a summer’s weekend is not a quite place – even after the school holidays.
There wasn’t much surf this day, but there were some waves at Queens, a surf spot at the bottom of Queens road in Sea Point. I have yet to surf it, but on it’s day it looks pretty potent.
Look out for the surf spot review int he future!
I did a little trip over to Milnerton, to see a friend, and whilst I was waiting I took a little photo of Table Mountain. Looks pretty good aye?
Here is a little photo from the New Years, looking down into Llandudno.
Well, it was a windy and wet night, and when I woke up there was wind and mist everywhere – not a recipe for a good surf.
So I went back to bed.
The weather is nicer now, clear and sunny, not a lot of wind b ut there is just a little bit there.
More surf checks tomorrow I reckon.
I braved the Llandudno Christmas crowd this morning, and luckily got there before 10am – so I managed to get a car park pretty easily.
I didn’t check the surf before I jumped in. I was expecting an hour paddle in a swimming pool, but Llandudno produced some nice little, about 2 feet, rights and lefts, with the wedge making things interesting.
The surf at Llandudno this morning officially breaks my one wave session streak I was on and I am happy to say that I surfed really well.
Here are the shots from the surf today. The waves were better when I got in, and deteriorated as the tide came in.
I had a fairly long surf at Glen Beach, but the waves were pretty closey outy, with rips everywhere. After about an hour and a half I think I had five waves or something stupid! This whole wave count/surf session ratio is getting pretty bad. I think I am going to check out Llandudno this morning.
On the way out of the surf I spotted this on the floor. It reads “LOCALS ONLY”. Personally I don’t feel Glen Beach is Localized at all. To be honest the banks have been pretty bad recently and the people I have talked to are convinced the banks have been bad for about 2 years now. Which would suggest that any local of Glen Beach would be a little bit coocked, surfing bad waves all the time.
I had another 1 wave surf at Rocklands today. I held out on my last one wave surf at Rocklands, mainly because the surf was too small to write in for, but today it was much better.
With 4 people out, and shoulder high sets, the waves were breaking quite nicely. Unfortunately, the sets were coming through every 10-15 minutes and they were only 1 wave sets. So in 45 minutes, with all the sharing of the waves, I only got one. One nice one though.
I’ll do a dedicated page on Rocklands next week sometime, and I’ll snap a picture too.
This is the first post about Glenn Beach. I drove all the way through Green Point, Sea Point and Clifton, but nothing seemed to have a wave.
Off the wall was too high, and nothing was breaking. Rocklands wasn’t working with a 1ft closeout. Queens was far too small. To be honest I didn’t catch a glimpse of Clifton.
Glenn Beach didn’t really have a wave either, but a dude at the beach said that Llandudno was heaving and not to bother.
The surf is getting pretty cold now, but the warm air temperature helps a bunch. Here is the pic from yesterday:
