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Western Cape (Wes-Kaap), South Africa Surfski

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Platboom Beach - Kommetjie Downwinder

Main South Africa Page

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Locales

(Going West to East around the Cape)

Langebaan

Cape Town Area

Shuttle Services

Downwinds/Paddles

  • Milnerton
    • Lagoon Beach to Melkbos 21 km video
    • Lagoon Beach to Big Bay 11 - 12 km - The season for this run is best in the October-February months during South Africa's summer season. During these months the side shore winds tend to howl along the west coast of South Africa, making this a great spot for downwinders. Downwindfun, Downwindable, video1, video2, double SS video
      • Comment on standupzone by peterp about Milnerton run: “Beginners term the last 3rd of Milnerton run the Bermuda triangle as wind swell starts mixing with reflective waves off the coast and ocean swells. It can be quite disorganized but with practice the best guys fly through there”
    • Bay Surf video
  • South End of Cape Town (When you have SE wind (offshore) coming off of Table Mountain be aware that sheltered water near shore is not indicative of the conditions farther out which can be rough and push you away from shore.) surfski.info accident story
    • Hout Bay video
    • Oudekraal - Oceana (Oudekraal Beach - Freedom Paddlers Club/Granger Bay Harbour (parking?))13 km
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Beach at Milnerton Life Saving Club - photo Stuart Edmonstone (click to enlarge)

  • Kommetjie (west side of the Cape of Good Hope)
    • Kommetjie - Platboom 27 km D. Mocke video (with good narrative on run), Downwindfun
      • Reverse - Platboom Beach - Kommetjie video
    • Kommetjie - Olifantsbos Beach 16 km video Dawid Mocke “The Kommetjie to Olifantsbos is a relatvely unpaddled downwind route in Cape Town, mostly because conditions can get really wild. It's mostly a remote coastline, with reef breaks all along the way, so any bit of swell makes it quite a dangerous paddle; so it's not done often.”
    • Kommetjie - Scarborough Beach 10 km video
  • False Bay (east side of the Cape of Good Hope)

Cape Hangklip - Fish Hoek

Dawid & Jasper Mocke describe Miller's Run

“You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.” ― Hector Barbossa

  • (More False Bay)
    • Buffels Beach
      • Buffels Run (Buffels Beach to Fish Hoek) 22-23 km Downwindfun
        • A normal Buffels run you start at Buffels in the SE wind, a reverse Buffels you finish at Buffels from Fish Hoek in the NW wind
      • Round Trip to Cape Point 11 km (for a calmer day) video
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False Bay Reverse Runs (North to South) Millers, Buffels

  • With any of the “reverse” or toward the south runs, one has to be familiar with and know how to avoid or deal with West wind that can arrive off of the mountains and create a seriously adverse offshore push.

Reverse Buffels

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East of Fish Hoek in False Bay

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(East of False Bay)

Hermanus

Arniston

Witsand

Witsand area generally considered to be the whale nursery of South Africa

  • Breede (Breë) River Mouth video
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Knysna

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