RE: SURFING (ENG/POR): A winter storm creates that rare break again! BB🐝
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Oof, that looks like a nice little wave!
How cold does the water get down there? I just bought myself gloves for the first time, mainly for dawn surfs, but I still hate the hood - I probably just need a better one as every time I wipe out water rushes in.
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The camera on the nose angle is always deceiving - the waves were actually about head high + some bigger than that! (In one photo where the wave behind me doesn't look that big, you can see someone else's foot going over the top and you realize that it's bigger that it looks...)
Cape Town is where two currents meet - so the False Bay side is warmer - about 14-15deg C in winter up to nearly 20deg C in summer. The West side of the peninsula is where the Benguela current comes up from the Antarctic... it's actually colder in summer because the summer offshore wind blows surface water out to sea, allowing this deep water to rise to the surface at about 10-12deg C, which is really cold. Booties and hood, and still your hands struggle with the zip on your wetsuit afterwards.
Here in False Bay I tend to wear booties more for getting in and out over rocks than the cold aspect. On the West side it's usually for both reasons!
Yeah we are at 10 degrees down here currently! Icecream headaches at dawn!
It does look bigger in the landscape shots. Lush line up!
I don't know if you're into the cesspool called Facebook, but apparently it looked like this just a little later in the day:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1458907877747003/permalink/3459014257736345/
Facebook is fine for many things. It's how you use it. It wants me to join the group so I can't see the photo.
It looks like this... credit to Warwick Wallace, looks like he was there when the sun came out more...