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Surfing since 1977 and writing since 1981, Nick Pike has spent time on, next to and under the water. He writes sunshine journalism about the beach, surfing, fishing, salty characters and living the good life at the coast under the church of God's blue sky.
On heritage weekend we needed to make a family trip to Knysna in my wife’s Suzuki Swift.
Cintsa Dunes Resort offers a peaceful retreat immersed in natural beauty, where abundant birdlife and the unique ecology of coastal forest create a vibrant soundscape.
I still have the original invoice for my first ever custom surfboard from Jeffreys Bay Surf and Sail.
A particularly low spring tide reveals a vibrant underwater world teeming with diverse seaweed species at Gonubie Point.
An African proverb suggests: “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” Border Buffalo City Surfing has got the go-together thing working.
A local surfers paddle out for Andy Pitt will be advertised in the near future.
The Banyak Islands are a group of 99 islands between Similue and Nias off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia’s Aceh Province.
Daniel Emslie does not wipe out often. His make rate is very high. He is just that good.
Closest to solstice and equinox, spring tides are magnified, and if you catch a tube ride at low tide at Kowie East Beach during a winter solstice low spring tide, it might just be one of the best rides of your life.
Once again, it is a pretty large feather in our cap that excellence can and does come from KuGompo.
There is a dreamy little longboard wave rolling through Huletts and Left Overs just off Grannies Pool here in St Francis Bay as I write this.
Cape St Francis, Seal Point. First blood came a little late for the winning Border/KuGompo Masters surfing team last weekend.
I am ever so slightly in a state of shock and awe at the moment.
Big wave surfers Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker and Stuart Fowles made local history when they surfed the Buffalo City harbour western breakwall in 15- to 18-foot waves (30- to 35-foot faces) in last Friday’s storm while the port was closed to…
“We were all brave together,” Meeghan Heenop tells me about being scared out of her wits at the Surf Emporium SA Longboard Championships, but paddling out with her teammates anyway in giant waves at Jeffreys Bay Lower Point.
