In June this year, Fluid Team paddler Craig Rivett was out in Cape Town visiting with his girlfriend. We hooked up for a few sessions and one mission was to Betty’s Bay. The forecast was for NW wind which limited our choices on the west coast so we drove out to the east coast to Betty’, about 100km out from Cape Town. Somehow, the waves weren’t as good as the forecast but we made the best of it anyway.

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In March this year Rein Hagenaars and Wendy van Rijn from Kanoshop in the Netherlands came down for a visit in South Africa. They first stopped in Cape Town, then drove up to Jeffery’s Bay and back stopping along the way for more surf action and then finally back to Cape Town. I managed to hook up with them and get a few sessions in.

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I’ve had my composite Element since December 2009. Since then, I’ve paddled it countless times and on the odd occasion I’ve been lucky enough to get my old man to take some photos of me when he’s been on his breaks during contracts. So this article is mainly a bunch of photos of me and not really an article as such. You’ll see some of the photos are really small - these are screen shots from video footage that was taken.

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In the beginning of this year I managed to meet up with Michael Schubert from Paderborn, Germany. He was here to do some sort of research for his studies at a hospital near to me and with him being a kayaker, we met up. Not having ever met him before, except via Facebook - it seems that’s a very handy way to network, and meet up with fellow kayakers.

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It was a Saturday just like most other Saturdays in the day of the life of my father, except that on this specific Saturday I had convinced him to don his wetsuit and take photos of me surf kayaking from the water. The prediction was for big waves and no wind - the perfect setup. Everything was set to be quite excellent. I wondered how big these waves would actually be.

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