Friday, July 2, 2010

Rustenburg to Jeffrey's Bay

Sign at Jeffrey's
Beach Music
Supertubes, it looked like this all day
Our view from the deck
Sunset after Port Elizabeth

So after the US lost, we decided that we didn't want to hang around to watch the Uruguay/Ghana match and started making plans for the coast. We took off early and took the 12 hour trek south from Rustenburg to Jeffrey's Bay. The roads here are pretty exciting and half of the roads were being "worked on" so we had almost an hour of wait time at each point where the roads were closed. Coming into Jeffrey's at sunset was pretty epic, the coast here is beautiful and a really welcomed change from the dry, smogginess of the northern part of the country. We stayed at an awesome hostel called Beach Music that is right on the point at Supertubes, which for those who don't surf is arguably the best right pointbreak in the world. Jeffrey's is a great little town and had some good restaurants and we took alot of walks around, enjoying the fact that you can walk around there very safely. Wednesday brought in a nice swell in the 6-8ft range. The wave is incredible, I got out in the morning with only 5-6 people in the water and got some amazing waves. It's so fast and perfect and it lends itself to going as fast as you can and throwing up huge spray on your turns. Got one great barrel and an amazing vision watching the offshore wind hold up the lip as it lined up down the reef for 100 yards or so, seriously amazing. The next day the wind picked up and we decided to head to a small town called Wilderness where some of Adele's friends offered up their beach house for us to stay in. Thanks Farny and Jacami! Really nice, small town about 2.5 hours to the west of Jeffrey's. We will probably hang out here for another night and then head across to Cape Town for the last week of the trip...

Road Trip Dance Party!