Summer and Surfing?

It's a regular bitch, but summer is a bad time for surfing the west coast of Cape Town. The howling south-easter that makes it one of the premier windsurfing and kitesurfing locations in the world, makes for grim surfing. Days with swell and no wind are rare indeed, and all the sweeter when they do happen. I enjoyed an epic pulse recently - didn't last long, however - the wind came up and that, together with the damn northbound current, meant an all too brief moment of fun in the sun.

The good part was that the sands have shifted at Derdesteen again, and as of this moment (Dec 05/Jan 06), the waves are breaking nicely. The latter part of winter and the early part of summer Derdesteen was a place to avoid, what with waves barely forming and nothing to surf except a violent break 2 yards from the shore!