Hello everyone, and especially the SurfHive Community! It's Jasper, the musical-surfer dad from Cape Town in South Africa.
Well, I went back to work last week. When the weekend came around, there was almost no swell to speak of, but the water was warm and the wind was soft, and I do own a 7'6 mini-mal board... so I headed off to Muizenberg for a quick 40 minute splash.
Muizenberg is Cape Town's most popular beach for learning to surf. The waves are usually very gentle and more suited to a longboard.
It is definitely the place in Cape Town that has the most diversity in race, gender and board-size! A lot of people enjoy the vibe so much, that they never seem to graduate to surfing the trickier spots around Cape Town - I'm fine with that! Hahaha!
This means that Muizenberg often is crowded when offshore. This got worse during the Covid years when a lot of gyms were closed and people realized they should have been exercising in the ocean all along! This means it is probably one of the only spots in Cape Town I will actually mention by name :)
Beginners will likely drop in on you and treat it like a party wave... Might as well just enjoy their stoke and hoot for them... a knee high wave is not worth fighting over!
This wave is so small you can hardly see that it is there! At least my shadow proves that I'm on my feet...
It's important to pick your line between all 300 of your best friends!
Look carefully and you will see a father and child on one board - ah, living the dream! Hopefully that will be me (and my little Madison) more often in a year or two!
If you look carefully at the saddle between the mountains, you will see it all burnt out from recent wildfires which are a big problem in our hot, dry and windy summers!
I think the people having the most fun were the ones riding unbroken swell on their long surfski kayaks out the back like this green one here...
Hopefully I have something more exciting to show you soon, but like the title of this blog, it was better than nothing!