3 Weeks in South Africa, Surfing with Pratts & AndrewC

This url is https://stewart.sdsu.edu/0mystuff/2025_SAfrica/; Upd 16July2025

It has been rumored that J-Bay, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, is the best wave in the world. Glen and I are lucky that our neighbors, Ben, Fei Liu, Taihu & Ahnlon Pratt have visited there several times. Ben and the boys wanted to go again and we got invited to join them. The surfers will resolve the question on the quality of the wave. Kris wants to see a giraffe in the wild. So this will be "interesting".

Glen and I recently returned from 3 weeks in South Africa, 01-23June, mostly at Jeffreys Bay, JBay or J-Bay. My Google Photo Albums have been uploaded, but still working on my Trip Log. I started this list of Google Photo Albums as part of my PastBook entry, but realize I want to include maps and prefer to have albums in chrono order.

How many folks remember seeing Bruce Brown's 1966 doc , with the discovery of the "perfect wave" at Cape St Francis, So Africa? wiki

Recently saw online a nifty description of the J-Bay wave from Sean Tomson "Riding the Wind witih the King - Surfing Jeffreys Bay 2007; posted 13July2023; pdf, mp3, Sean Tomson brochure

Some of my pictures from this adventure - Giraffes at Buffelsdrift Game Lodge