Loved watching this, reminds me of surfing the crayfish factory in the late 90's, The beautiful scenery, the spooky shark feeling in your thoughts, waters freezing, and getting tangled in that kelp while getting smashed by the waves, making a bomb and watching your bottom turns so not to hit the snapped off kelp sticking up. The whole place really made you feel alive. Cheers from NZ.
Ah tbh pipeline will give you much more of a beating and a hold down depending where you fall and proportional to the size. Like showcased here same size at pipe is close 2-3x the bear down and you will 100% get smashed on the reef it’s not a matter of if but where 😂
@@dreammaker9642 wow. Sounds like most Pacific island reefs or lava shelves. Cloudbreak is nice. Cocus Keeling in the Indian ocean. Reunion in the Atlantic. Etc. We're else you surfed? Ulu? Nah, that's not that heavy, IDK Indo on its day in pretty good, once over 8 ft.
@@johndoeyedoe you can’t really compare waves from pacific islands like Hawaii, Fiji or Tahiti because those waves not only are created by massive storms that hit near by they don’t bump into a continental shelf before reaching the coast. SA has strong waves for a continent because Antarctic storms are pretty violent and send swell our way but those waves first hit the continental shelf and the change in depth is gradual so by the time they reach a beach or reef it has lost a lot of power. When you take pipeline or cloudbreak it’s different story cause not only on some days 3 different huge swells could be hitting from different directions but those swells travel uninterrupted in like 1000+m of water union all of a sudden there’s a reef there. That creates some scary ass waves cause they just pop up and crash with all their might. Teahupo’o is a good example cause that wave comes from very deep and hits a wall, so when you near it or even on camera it feels like the ocean just rise all of a sudden and crashes down 😭😂 that being said Cape Town being so widespread has much more manageable crowds
@@dreammaker9642 The swells are generated from a variety of sources. Sure ain't a storm been hitting here on the 1-2 ft of water over the reef with a 5 ft wave. I live on an island in the south Pacific, continental shelf? You give yourself away.
Another epic video! Beast wave. Tommy Botha, multiple South African spearo champ says the biggest great white he ever saw was at Dassen Island, right in the kelp. Just thought I'd mention that 😆
This kelp is attached to the sea floor so I imagine your surboard skegs would get stuck on them! (I live down the road from Hawaiian Pipeline) Beautiful wave! 👍
It can get annoying but if waves there had the same power as waves on the NS doubt it would be surfable at all. Like if you had the hold down similar to Haleiwa added to the kelp yeah you better have a long breath but these waves let you go rather fast. Idk what y’all did to Haleiwa but that wave just angry af 😂
The thought of being tied up down there. That’s scary. I don’t know how many surfers have died from being tied down, Mark foo is one that comes to mind but if you all are doing what you love, be safe out there
I got caught in kelp before because when i fell off a wave, i went below the kelp and was borderline freaking out because no matter what i did with my arms, they would catch on the kelp. I think the the best thing to do is pull your arms in tight against your body and keep them close as you climb upwards toward the surface
We had the same kelp issues surfing in Palos Verdes, California in the 1980's, but sadly the kelp forrests were devastated by pollution and purple urchins, and have only partly recovered. Great snorkelling / bumpy surfing
I come from windsurfing. We're using weed fins when there's too much seaweed in the water. They also work pretty good against ropes between fishing buoys (haha). So why not using weedfins on a surfboard to surf through forests of kelb? The performance is quite ok even though those fins have much more rake. It's worth a try. Cheers from Hamburg / Germany …
Was thinking about windsurf weedfin too Or maybe those weird finless surfboard with deep / sharp channels under the hull? Such channels are meant to provide bite and drive and might let you glide over the kelp. A finless board scenario may not be that much welcome in a FCS promo video, though
The scenery looks like kokkerot but it's a left.. must be closer to cpt side. (I won't say in which direction). I'm a weskus local so I'm used to kelp. Getting your leash stuck in it in the impact zone always adds a new layer of fun.
I had the pleasure of getting my leash stuck while paddling into a set wave at ledge 😂 plus it clipped right as I was taking off didn’t even have the time to say WTF 😂
@@MarchonWestminster yeah Ledge and innerkom at low tides is beyond shallow 😂 hence why you can only realistically surf there at high tide but when it’s pumping it’s one of the longest left handlers you’ll find out there but gotta deal with the kelp. Quite popular with body boarders cause y’all don’t really have to worry about snapping and being out R2000-3000 😂
That is some thick kelp. I am a surf kayaker...finless.... and I purposely wait for minus low tides in the summer here in Santa Cruz Ca. At that tide the kelp is thick and the amount of surfers are few. My kayak glides over the kelp like it is not there. Are there surf boards that are finless that could skim over the kelp like my kayak?
Looks like there’s a bit of a right too, maybe not barrelling though ? Great stuff I was happy to see someone else in the water at the end , spooky place
Epic video. I cannot place the spot. Well filmed with tit bits of scenery. Cape Point, Scarborough, Witsand, Soet Water, Kommetjie - cannot place it? Throw us a bone here.
Not really, they can but they don’t like it much. Mostly 7 gills and sometimes raggies but you won’t really notice them unless you diving in the kelp forest. I actually had the pleasure to see a nice size gully or 7 gills swim off but had to surface to catch my breath lost it in the process, Im still bummed cause word on the street is if you follow them they tend to take you to more sharks 😢 I missed out cause my lungs weak, pure skill issue 😂
I don't surf that side much, but took me about 10mins to work out exactly where it is down to a 50 kelp head margine of error. Probably intentional to expose it?
Good old David the shill Attenborough? As far from legend as you can be. He shills for the heliocentric religion you were indoctrinated into without you knowing. You believe you live on a spinning ball in a vaccum, and that you came from a single cell oragnism, because of pricks like this. Heliocentrism came from the church, its the ONE WORLD RELIGION. Ohh yeah, he's a legend.
Rocked up here a few years ago to easily 50 non bathing 'locals' and 2 rangers keeping an eye on them ...left before i lost my wetsuit and car nevermind chancing the waters
