The week that was…. – Featured Blog

Yeeeuw, what a week! Waves for days. Flipping good waves. If you didn’t get wet, feel sad. Very sad. Cos you missed it. And that sucks!!

You were spoilt for choice. PE was firing. So was JBay. And so was further west. In an hour n a half’s car trip you’d be able to hook countless clean green walls.

Loads of options to choose from in the bay, with pretty much every spot from north to south in the bay going off. There were long walls, grinding barrels or crunchy peaks. 

Crowds got pretty thick at some stages cos waves in November ain’t exactly a common occurrence, plus throw in some warm water and light wind days and it was every man, his dog, and the kitchen sink on occasion. Even the kitchen sink got waves though.

Matthew Botha decided to get a bit creative at Chomp rock – with a few acid drops – which might have to be called acid hops cos Chomp isn’t exactly high. Did succeed in making a few. Don’t think he would have been pulling the same stunt earlier in the day though…..

A few blustery days to deal with during the run of swell. You know when the spray off the back of the wave is 5x higher than the wave….then it’s a tad breezy. 

Two things to thanks for the epic week of waves – the super moon which threw out some huge tidal ranges which musta helped increase swell size. And Big Dave from Surf Centre. Who kindly made himself the surf sacrifice by going shopping with his wife in Cape Town for the week. Dave reports finding some great bra and pantie sets, and would much rather be looking for shoes and dresses than scoring macking JBay.

The CYOH crew held their 4th and final Surf Off series of the year at Sards over the weekend. Good waves, good vibes as always. Grant Beck scored the samurai stabbing rights by taking the win in the Open men’s.

Grant needs to take that samurai and hide in the bushes at Millers. Cos the skollies are running rampant there at the moment. Joost had his car nicked out the carpark there on Thursday morning. Kak feeling coming in from your surf…and no cabbie!

​Not only did they take his wheels, but more importantly his beloved vetkoek was in the back. So please keep eyeballs peeled for this unique board. And moer anyone you see with it. Cos Joost would really love to have it back.

The week got rounded off by a lekker weekend, with a few more waves and a whole lotta sun and kiff weather. Don’t you just love PE!?

Probably some of the biggest surf we’ve seen in the bay all year pulled in at the end of the week. The peak of the swell on Thursday arrived as usual with some gnarly wind, but it was rideable if you didn’t mind the blind take-off’s and 2ft chop, then it was lekker! 

There were some early lines on Wednesday before the wind came up, and a few leftovers on Friday morning after the gale had subsided. So certainly enough chances to get ya board wet if you wanted to.

It goes without saying that Jbay was off it’s pip. Plenty of peeps knew what was coming though, and there were some serious crowds at Supers. John reckoned he counted over 60 ou’s there at one stage.

Seals also had some good one’s, and the lighties surfing the Billabong Junior Series there were no doubt stoked to get some solid surf for their comp.

There is a ton of sand sitting in front of Bird Rock at the moment, and the swell direction and size was perfect to throw out some decent barrels on the bank. Just a pity that the wind was pomping else reckon someone would have a had a dib at it for sure. Pretty fickle as far as tides go, but it looks worth the wait.

Clubbies had some good one’s and Warri was making the most of them. Outside Clubhouse even broke for a while on Thursday, but the wind was just too crazy to give it a go. Talking about crazy….

Richard von Wildemann aka Chopper decided that the solid swell was the perfect opportunity to have a go at running the gauntlet of the Avo’s blowhole on his surfski. Local photag Dean Cothill captured the action on his drone. Check out the full video of the craziness on Dean’s timeline here:
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Everyone was in full-on moan-mode on Thursday when the wind arrived to ruin the party. Would easily been one of the day’s of the year surf-wise had it not been blowing it’s mielie off. The sea looked like it had a serious case of dandruff.

Stealing a penguin is one thing, but shooting a dolphin is just a whole ‘nother level of f*cked up. This poor dude washed up at Maitlands, and an autopsy done on Thursday confirmed it was a gunshot wound….with them actually finding the bullet still lodged inside.

​Bayworld has received reports in the past of commercial fishermen shooting at dolphins and seals cos the stupid mullets reckon they interfering with their fishing. The irony that it’s the dolphins frigging fish to start with is lost on those mullets. Hope the authorities somehow manage to curb the insane behaviour.

​The world’s gone mad.

Seals local Faye Zoetmulder is over in Indo scoring kiff Gland at the moment. Ex-St Francis local Ryan Payne got hitched in Bali and a bunch of the local crew flew over to celebrate with the newly weds. And seeing as GLand is just around the corner….

Introducing Car Park John beer-inspired ice-cream. Cos having a beer named after you is one thing, but a beer AND an ice-cream then you truly legend! It’s made from the wort of CPJ’s amber ale. “Wort” being the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer. John reckons it tastes epic. 
Nice one #Beershack #Beeryard