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Life's a Beach The toy room. Every boat should have one!
Finally got down to our favourite possie in the Maldives; after a somewhat eventful trip that included a minor altercation with an anal customs official and nearly getting my camera confiscated. More on that here.....
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CYOH Surf off #2 wrap & results Float like butterfly. Sting like Bee.
The CYOH Surf Off #2 was yet another it for the CYOH crew. Some good swell pulled through into the Pipe on Saturday and the guys were all over it like bees to a honeypot. The Bakkers pulled off a double team effort. Check out the wrap.
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The calm before the storm....Thursday evening
Pipe 21 May '12 (Dirk) Yusuf going BIG
Still some nice clean swell in the bay on Monday. Thankfully the wind from the weekend boggered off. Super clean faces to do with what you will. Yusuf was going big all over the place. Tons of shots from Pipe, check em out.
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Boogers Pipe 19/20 May '12 (Luc) How do your knees survive this?
And just in case our booger bretheren were feeling left out from all the weekends action, Luc dropped in some shots of the sponge-dwellers taking on Pipe. No-one gets pitted more than a booger! Check out the shots here.
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Coupla peeps in the water!
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Watch your cars ou's Surf locks R450 @ Surf Centre
Eish, the lurkers have been at it again. Big Paul's car got broken into on Friday at the Millers carpark. The punks hooked a big dollop of cash, his laptop and phone. KAK feeling to come out the surf n your stuffs been swiped. Lucky his car didn't get taken too. Don't hide your keys on your car, the ou's watch you do it. Rather grab a surf lock and be safe.
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Pipe 20 May '12 (Stan) Wave of the day. Josh.
Some super shots here of the boys showing Pipe how it's done. Reckon Josh musta got the wave of the day with that clean as barrel. The Gypsey knows a thing or two about hooking the good 'uns. Check out all the shots here.
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Pipe 20 May '12 (Nick) Carl grabbing
Yet more lekker shots of Sundays surf at Pipe. Makes me super annoyed I didn't head up there to check. Saw Millers wind-shredded and just decided that was what the surf was like everywhere.
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Pipe 20 May '12 (Ryan) Lenton Launch
Scotty got beamed up at Pipe yesterday if the shots of him launching into the heavens are anything to go by. Seals was obviously outta control that he decided to venture back to the bay! Check out Ryans shots here.
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Pipe 20 May '12 (Dirk) Yip, this is actually PE
The swell pulled in as expected, but the wind kept things in perspective. Pipe was the go-to spot, with everywhere else been blown to smithereens. Some crazy ou's tried Millers, but got more bounce n bump than face. Go figure...
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Pipe 19 May '12 (Zane) Critical section
Stacks of shots from Zane's arvo shooting Pipe. If you surfed you should have a shot in this gallery. Perfect looking conditions for the CYOH comp, which meant the guys went big and went hard, as only the CYOH crew know how to do.
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Pipe 19 May '12 (Luc) Lip lasher
In between shooting Archie the Avo's seal, Luc got some good shots at Pipe. Amazing how Pipe can be cooking and all the other spots just aren't happening. Call it a kink in the coast or maybe a bit of an offshore canyon out there.
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Pipe 19 May '12 (Stan) Pipe does get good sometimes!
Stan took his bazooka lens down to Pipe Saturday arvo. Plenty of good surf on offer and lots of good surfers out there. Even a couple of shacks to be found as well. Pipe was definitely the pick of the day cos of the wind issues.
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Pipe 19 May '12 (Ron) Josh slicing a lip open
Ron got some kiff shots @ Pipe in only his second ever surf shoot. The boys obliged with throwing out some rad moves. Eish, Saturday was the day peeps. The much vaulted swell only kinda arrived on Sunday. Size was there, but so was the wind.
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Pipe 19 May '12 (Nick) ET phone home? Nah, ET smash lip!
All right, some swell at last! Th ou's were frothing to hit the water for the 2nd CYOH comp at Pipe, as it's been a loong flat spell. Wind sorted itself out in the arvo, and it was game on. Good waves, good surfing, plenty photags on the beach. All good!
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Wanna share your wettie with this ou?
Rule no1...if you hang your wettie in the tree expect it to become part of the natural habitat. Meaning big-ass furry creepy crawlies like this eight legged arachnoid might just like the look of your 4/3 with sealed seams and super stretch. I mean, spidey's have good taste too. Clayton Truscott nearly had a close encounter with this ou which he discovered in his suit - and this after carrying it about on his shoulder for a good few minutes first! Lucky he didn't try put it on!
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A new local in town Archie at Avo's. By Gordon Munro
This ou pulled in on Thursday and has made Avo's rock his possie. He's kinda lost cos he's from the Antarctic, but the Bay World peeps say he's just fine, and will be off on his way soon enough. He seems chilled enough, but don't go pat him on the head!
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Sometimes it just ain't your day JBay doing it's thing
A mid-week "business trip" to JBay for Big Dave ended up not turning out quite as expected, despite the perfect sheet glass 4-6ft lines that were rolling through. Find out how good days can go bad, very bad!
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30 seconds with....Donovan Zoetmulder DZ @ St Francis. By Kody McGregor.
Bout time we get going with a few "30 seconds with..." interviews again. First up is Dono aka DZ. Him n Kody have been getting some schweet shots into the Zag lately, including a cover. Check out what makes Dono tick here.
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30 seconds with.....Grant Beck Grant doing his AI spray
Currently dry-docked with a bust leg thanks to a skateboarding mishap, so good time to catch up with the goofy shredder whilst he's not out in the water. He upgraded his local from Pipe to Seals a few months back, probably a good trade!
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The East Cape's best kept secret - a grinding left point, and it's just down the road.
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Sector 9 Speed Run (Stan) Speed blur. Renier.
Can't think of a better way to spend a flat Sunday arvo. The Sector 9 Speed Run @ St Francis was the bomb. Ou's hurtling down hills at 40km/h...and the rest of us jolling the kiddie slopes. Check out Stan's shots.
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How to bail like a pro... Chiro anyone...?
Plenty surfers these days have gone n got skateboards to beat the flat day blues. So boards we have, but do we know how to bail em? Maybe not, judging by the 2 bust legs so far this year. Local downhiller Renier takes us through some tricks of the trade...and how NOT to fall ya ass off when you skate.
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The Kulula Kooks
We used to think Kulula was Kool. Now we think they Kooks. Like the type that carry their boards fins forward, put their leash on in the car park, and then get in your way in the line-up. Find out why here.
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Pipe 4 April '12 (Luc) Jono shacked off his pip
Friday was a good sign of things to come. Some super clean swell heralded the start of what was to be a damn fine weekend of surf in the bay. Here's Luc's shots from the late arvo Friday sesh at Pipe.
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Casey amped for Aus...we'll miss ya! Pit hunter
Pipe kingpin Casey is outta here ou's. Swopping the bay for the land of kangaroo's. 'Tis with great sadness that we bid farewell to one of the Bays true characters. We caught up with Casey for a quick grilling before he bails.
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Pipe 5 May '12 (Dirk) Bruce smashing the lip
Thankfully the swell charts delivered, and we saw some fun waves filtering into the bay for a change. Perfect weather with light winds meant it was a tit day on the beach and in the water. Check out Dirks shots from Pipe.
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EP score 2nd at SA Longboards
Well done to the log riders for grabbing 2nd at the Champs. We also scooped 4 individual titles: Dane van Grenun (Juniors), Dylan McLeod (Masters), Duncan Scott (Grand Masters) & Greg Smith (Vets). Check out the wrap & all the results here.
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Skateboarding back in the day
Thanks to Gary Cooper for sending in these classic shots from Fishhoek & Claremont cement bowls back in 1978. Check em out.
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Check Fence back in the day
PE old timer Geoff Jones dropped us a mail with some classic old shots and a coupla words about how Fence used to be back in the day - with way less sand than we have now - which meant a lot more bounce off the wall...and better waves!
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Get your Zag - profile on Dennis, and some rad shots by Kody
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The local skate dawgs getting out the box as only skaters can. These taxi's are plakked on the cliff opposite the opera house as part of the Donkin art thingy...so why the hell not climb into one and take a pic!?
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Brett bitches - and scores! Brett leaping for joy after scoring 3 freebie boardies.
Ok, so sometimes it pays to have a good ol bitch! Local Brett Wood wrote to Zag bemoaning the crazy price of boardies. So Hurley decided to throw him a few of theirs to see whether he thought they were worth it. Check out his review here.
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JBay 23 & 24 April '12 (Jono) ...it's a looooong way down...
Jono pulled the trigger and packed his camera for a JBay mission earlier in the week. Check out his shots here.
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Let the whole thing buffer,first so go grab a cuppa coffee n come back n play it right through once it's loaded
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JBay 23 April '12 (Ron)
The swell arrived a day late - but no-one was complaining, cos at least it came! The rain had broken it up a bit, so was a wee bit vlam, but still decent size. Even the bay had some waves as well. Check out Ron's shots here.
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Pipe 24 April '12 (Ron) Blaine with a bash
The swell certainly pulled in on Tuesday - a day late, but who cares! Luckily the predicted east didn't quite pick up as much as expected, so most ofthe day stayed surfable with damn fun waves. Check out Ron's shots of Pipe in the arvo.
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Pipe 18 April '12 (Basheer) Josh boosting
Such a pity Spowy bailed overseas, he was such a good shaper. Here's Josh Saunders showing just how well his boards still go, despite being a good few years old. Check out the rest of the shots from Pipe here.
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Pipe 16 April '12 (Basheer) Grinding turn
Pipe's a favourite spot for a reason - with both the photags and the surfers. There's always something to ride, and there's always someone ripping to shoot. Check out Basheers shots here.
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Millers beach gone missing
The beach at Millers has gone AWOL. I've never seen it this rocky, or the dunes this damaged. Things aren't looking good for winter. Check the blog to read more and see more shots.
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Easter frames with DZ & Kody
Check out what Kody & Dono got up to over Easter at Cape St Francis. DZ charges and Kody pulls the trigger - a match made in heaven!
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The Ripping Van Rijswijcks One of PE's hot bro combo's
The Van bro's have only been surfing for just over a year, but they're ripping hard, with Alex just having won the u14 title at the Grom Games and Paul taking out the paddle battle. ML catches up with the lighties, check em out.
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Josh tunes "hi" from Indo "yah, the surf is kak hey!"
Josh Enslin shot us a quick note from Indo: "Waves insane here but you just a colourful fish in the sea here with no identity. Just shows how powerful the synergy is back home. PE, be stoked, what we have back home is insane and it takes travelling solo across the world to find the truth - PE KICKS ASS!!!"
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Broken Leg Chronicles - the End Happy to be home
Faye finally mind it home after having to slum it in business class the whole way back from Aus. See, there can be silver linings to any dark cloud!
Check out the final installment of the Broken Leg Chronicles, to see how Faye's coming along. Be back in the water in no time! |
How to throw tail like ET ET piloting above the lip
Working at 30,000 feet, ET can control the gnarliest of situations, and cross-uses this knowledge to dominate every swell that gets in his way. ET talks us through how to manage that sick feeling you get when you need to throw tail....
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Trekking the Wildside with Michal & co
Great to see the spirit of adventure isn't dead. Michal & co did a spontaneous trek from Seals to Oyster Bay on Friday arvo, camping overnight near Thyspunt. You know things are last minute when your sleeping kit consists of a boardbag! Check out their adventure here...
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Bruce's encounter with the dark side! Bruce getting shacked instead of smacked!
Local ripper Bruce Campbell had a really scary encounter with a psycho road-rager lunatic whilst competing in the bike section of a multi-sport race out in St Francis over the Easter weekend. Check out his scary story....
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Seals 7 April '12 (Stan) Micheal on a smoker
Easter always bring the waves as well as the Easter eggs. Not sure which we prefer more? Maybe a chocolate wave? Stan got some shots of Seals yesterday arvo. It looks nothing like this today, pity.
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JBay 9 April '12 (Stan) Better than an Easter egg?!
Stan braved the elements to go shoot the waves going off their pip at JBay. A gaping shack sure beats a truckload of Easter eggs I suppose. A few local boys made the trip west, and heard that Bryan and Tertio were amongst those that got good waves.
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Kody watershots April '12 Luke getting pitted
Kody and the crew went missioning last week, and found some cooking surf. Some awesome shots of the guys lighting up, and hoping that a few of the A grades make the mags (Kodes of course keeps those under wraps!) Check em out.
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Pipe 4 April '12 (Lee) Slotted
Lee got some shots of the guys at Pipe on Wednesday arvo. Plenty of lighties getting their practice in for the Grom Games. And even a Seal popped his head out at the back of the line-up to check things out.
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GoPro Millers 4 Apr '12 (ML) Anne banking off the top
Decided to try out my homemade pole mount for the first time today. Turns out it's pretty tricky swimming about with a big pole. Anne, Taz and a coupla others smiled for the camera. Check it out.
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Pipe 4 April '12 (Cecile) Pete warming up for the Grom Games
Eish, what a lekker day in the bay. OK, so the waves were mediocre at best....but it was windless, sunny, and warm crystal clear water. What's not to like? Check the shots...
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The Broken Leg Chronicles
Check out Faye's blog to find out all about her hectic ambulance ride, a hot doc, some heavy surgery, plenty of nuts and bolts, drugs, bad food and good friends. Faye's on her way home to SA on Tuesday - so we wish her safe travels.
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Pipe 31 March '12 (Basheer) Popping wheelies
The swell didn't quite wrap round as expected - yet again the curse of the SSW swell direction. Still, a coupla fun waves about on Friday, and some leftovers on Saturday as well. Plenty of frothing groms in the water at Pipe, all getting their practice sesh's in before the BBG Grom Games this week.
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Kody's gallery ET slotted at the Fence
All good things come to those who wait goes the saying. Well, we waited... and then these epic shots from Kody finally dropped into the inbox. Same great water angles, as well as a few land shots to yin the yang. Check em out here.
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How to get barreled - by Warri
Warri has an amazing knack of finding hidey holes where you think none exist, and must certainly be the most shacked ou in PE by a long shot. Here Kody shoots the sequence and Warri talks us through his tube technique.
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Seals 18 March '12 (Stan) Keeping outta the sun
After the EP trial finished on Sunday, the rest of the regular ou's were amping to hit the surf and feast on the awesome waves pumping through. Stan stuck around to catch the action. Check his shots here.
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Pipe 18 March '12 (Luc) Serious gash on a wee wave
The phantom swell strikes again. Instead of 3-4ft runners the ou's had to deal with 1ft closeouts instead. But hey, the weather was mooi, the water was warm, and so everyone just had a lekker chilled day at the beach. Check Luc's shots.
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Faye busts her leg....noooooo!
Dang, we were follow Faye-mous Faye on her travels down-under competing on the QS and Aus comp circuit. But then she went and bust her leg skate-boarding, eina! Read on...
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1st EP Open trials @ Seals (Stan)
Check out Stan's shots from the 1st EP Open surfing trials at Seals held Sunday 18 March 2012. Stonkingly good surf wrapped round the point and the ou's were going OFF!
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Props to all the PE peeps! Gareth throwing out double thumbs up
Ay, PE's surf community are a special crowd. A few days ago we posted about local surfer Gareth Godwin being in a moerse jam. He had a slipped sic requiring surgery, but it cost R40k & he isn't on medical aid. The Boardroom donated a board at cost to raffle - and the 50 R100 tickets are snapped up already. Read more here.
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Grant Beck - the bionic goofy foot Putting his best foot forward
Big news on the weekend was local ripper Grant Beck busting his leg up whilst bombing a hill. Kody McGregor caught up with Grant to get all the gory deets of the incident and to see how he was holding up. Check out the interview here
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The shady secrets of the reef.... Not called "The Graveyard" for nothing
Bet you didn't know your local reef was home to a bunch of sexual deviants!? Read all about the dodgy goings-on in reef land, and learn more about all the stuff you're standing on!
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The inside skinny on tides
Tides are just about as important as swell and wind when it comes to scoring good surf. They can change spots from mush-burgers to pit madness in the space of their 6 hour cycle. Know how they work, and you'll increase your hit rate.
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Pipe 7 March '12 (Dirk) Casey chasing caverns
And so the lekker run of swell continues. Wednesday at Pipe saw the wind switch in the arvo throw up some super fun bowls and more than a few pits. Check out Dirks shots here.
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CYOH hosts Africa Project premiere The boys having a quiet one
CYOH hosted Jason Hearn's Africa Project premiere at Chingada's last Friday night. It played to a packed house. Check out Jakes's wrap on the evening and some shots from Greg Ewing. You can buy the DVD from Surf Centre if you missed it.
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Millers 5 March '12 (ML) Watch this kid, she rips - Ashleigh Vaughan
After surfing for a total of 7 hours I decided to call it quits and go shoot a bit instead. Ended up with some fun shots of what was a pretty damn decent day at Millers. Check it out.
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Pipe 5 March '12 (Jono) Pit pilot heaven
If you didn't get barreled at Pipe on Monday it was only cos you didn't wanna pull in, not cos there were no shacks on offer. The local crew got pitted off their pips, and Jono caught all the action.
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Pipe 2 March '12 (Dirk) Dyl with a boost
Fridays at Pipe. Need we say more. Plenty of waves. Equally as many peeps. But all good. Only a few ou's got ridden over, and most of the time they deserved it! Rule #4 - paddle behind peeps when they on the wave. Check out Dirks shots here.
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Pipe 1 March '12 (Dirk) Boosting Bruce
Cape Town was 12-15ft....the bay was 2-3ft. Maybe the odd 4ft'r. Oh well, can't win em all. You could of course have braved the wildside, maar dis nog n ding. Dirk got some nice shots of the guys making do with sloppy seconds.
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Pipe 1 March '12 (Basheer) Up, up and away....
Luckily the light onshore wasn't enough to spoil the party. There were some fun lil ramps at Pipe and plenty of takers out there. Ou's are amping for winter, when the bigger surf, howling winds and freezing water will chase the pretenders away.
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Pipe 24 Feb '12 (Dirk) Bakerboy boost
These cos waylaid between my dropbox and Dirk's, but thankfully they found there way to me eventually cos some lekker shots in the gallery. As usual it's Pipe, never seems swell anywhere else in the bay.
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Pipe 25 Feb '12 (Luc) Jakes and the money shot
Luc got some smokers of the guys at Pipe last week. Jakes scores the win with this money shot. Luc's lost his ball - head, a $$$ thingy that goes on your tripod. Keep your eye's peeled for something that you have no idea what it is!
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Pipe 26 Feb '12 (Rodney) Neat lil turn
And still there were waves. Ok, so a helluva lot smaller than a few days back. But lekker weather, warm water, so not much to complain about? Although heard that Pipe was pretty chaotic. Guess we need the freezing winter to arrive & chase the kooks away.
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To the Kooks, the clueless & chops... Crowds = chaos. Know the rules of the surf...
Ok, so here we have it. Surfing etiquette explained. Now we just need to get the kooks, the clueless and the chops to learn the rules, and all will be well with the world! Some classic fails caught on camera!
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Shark update Not our favourite sight
Went to the Beach Forum meeting this week, and whilst there caught up with local shark expert Matt Dicken to find out how the Great White tagging project was coming along. Check out the update on the shark situation in the bay here.
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Pipe 15 Feb '12 (Dirk) Bruce with a trademark snap
Lekker day, right up there on the kiff-o-meter scale. Thankfully a few waves managed to sneak round Cape Recide and into the bay so the ou's could get wet. Crowds were thick cos waves have been scarce lately. check it out.
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Pipe 11 Feb '12 (Luc) Matt with a trademark grab
OK, so it transpires that Luc had a bit of technology confusion and dropped the wrong shots into my dropbox...turns out these aren't of Saturday (cos it was horrendous, if you recall). But there's some amazing shots in here!
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Pipe 4 Feb '12 (ML) Bruce shacked
Love it when the weather peeps get it wrong. Was meant to be east...but instead we got light SSW most of the day. Some easterly wind swell filtered through and gave everyone something to bash. Check it.
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Pipe 4 Feb '12 (Nick) A Pipe pipe
Things improved on the pushing tide and Nick got some lekker shots of the arvo sesh at Pipe. Some super fun bowls to be had on the boils, and some goodies at the House. Check em out.
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Ang's Dec '11 shots The money shot
Ang and computers don't get on to well, which means I get her shots popped into my mailbox on a flash drive. Which then means I missed all her Dec shots. She got some goodies though, so check em out here. Better late than never...
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Pipe 13 Jan '11 (Dirk) Dane fin wafting
Dirk took the land-based option for shooting, leaving Nick to navigate the mayhem that is Friday arvo at Pipe. How no-one gets their pipped smashed out here amazes me, probably 50 peeps, plus big Dave on his tanker! Check the shots.
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Pipe 13 Jan '11 (Nick) Josh buried deep
Yet another tit day. Water still like your bath, so a perfect opportunity for Nick to swim out with his water housing and grab some lekker shots. Wouldn't say it was PE hey!?
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Understanding the Shark factor The REAL locals....
These ou's are a hot topic at the moment, with quite a few sighting recently. Check out the article I wrote for the latest issue of the Bomb surf mag all about the the apparent increase in sightings and attacks, specially the Great White.
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Leon Killian's scrapbook (1960/70's) Flawless Fence
Classic collection of old PE surf shots from Leon Killian, back when surfing first started in PE. Some flawless Fence - now you'll understand the truth behind why the baalies tell you Fence was so much better then....cos it WAS!
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Tracking Mr White Paddle lekker fast when you see this!
A Great White cruised past the beach at Hummies & Pipe yesterday. Ironically just last week Millerslocal chatted to PE shark researcher Matt Dickens about the ground-breaking Algoa Bay Great White Shark tagging project. Check it out here...
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Digging deeper into spot names Gary gave us some Fence history
Found out a lil more behind our spot names with baalies Marc Reid & Gary Cooper sharing a few stories, as well as bay historian Jennie Bennie giving us the low down on how Pollok and Shark Rock got their names. Read more....
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Denville naming mystery solved
Leon Killian has solved the mystery of how Denville's got it's name. Turns out that it was named after the first 2 guys to surf there, Dennis Buchman (the "Den" bit) and Neville Mandy (the "ville" bit). Leon was an original Fence locals, check out what he had to say about it back in the day....
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Classic Quote
"I feel bad for people who play tennis or basketball or football or whatever. Where's the adventure in playing inside the pianted lines? Can you imagine someone from the tennis club sneaking halfway around the world by plane, boat and rickshaw based on a sketchy rumour of a killer tennis court on the edge of a jungle that no-one has ever played on before? What we take to be normal isn't even part of the sporting equation for the rest of the world. And thank God for that"
Bill Sharp, organiser of the Billabong XXL, telling it like it is....
Bill Sharp, organiser of the Billabong XXL, telling it like it is....
