“Durbs“…Robin Mousley on Durban vs. Cape Town: “This kind of paddling (Durban downwinding) has a different flavour to the downwinds that we do over here in Cape Town. The runs tend to be bigger and longer and fast and the water's much warmer than ours. We tend to be nervous of the surf when we go to Durban; when they come here they always exclaim how cold the water is!”

Downwinds

• Ballito
• Tiffs (Tiffany's Beach)
  • Tiffany's Beach/Salt Rock - Umdloti approx. 25 km video, video2, Downwindfun
  • Zinkwasi - Tiffs 30 km video
• Durban Point Waterfront/Point Beach/Addington Beach at the southern end of the “Golden Mile” of Durban harbor beachfront there is a km or so where paddlers traditionally put in or take out for downwinders along the beach that is “protected” (we hear not completely - maybe the beach is not so bad, but farther out?) by a submerged reef.

• Scottburgh - Winklespruit (Winkle) 25 km

Surf

• Durban area beach surf break video from Scottburgh to Brighton Beach race
• The Mound is a sand bank surf break offshore from Durban which can produce steep, fast waves when the swell is big enough Surfski.info
  • Surfing the Mound in a double, Surfing the Mound in a V7