Oppie Weskus: Part 2

Yoyo's had fun waves everyday of our trip and we never even needed to go look for waves anywhere else. The swell was too small for Elands and the wind too strong for anywhere else. We had two or three sessions everyday and we were the only guys out there most of the time.

We went for a skate sesh in town. After finding and skating two smooth hills, we decided it was time to find something better. We found another good spot and started skating. Halfway down the hill, a cop pulled me over while Thinus and Coetzer darted to safety around the bend. "Goeie more officer". He tuned me that we were not allowed to skate in Lamberts Bay. "Ok dis reg. Ons sal iewers anders vind om te skate". He then replied by saying: "As ek julle vind, gaan ek julle voetter!" and drove down the street, stopped and wrote some poor guy a parking ticket. That was the end of our skate session. We headed back to camp for another surf and a braai.

Oppie Weskus: Part 1

We embarked on our journey up the West Coast early Sunday morning. The car had been fully packed the night before with a whole lot of food, a big ass tent, two dslr cameras, a GoPro and a bunch of useless supplies we thought might come in handy. Weather and swell forecasts were carefully analyzed for weeks. Everything was perfect for our second Weskus mission this year.


About an hour into our journey the roof racks decided that they were tired of holding onto our precious surfboards. We heard a loud bang and looked back to see our boards flying across the highway. Luckily there were no other cars around. The road gave our boards a good beating and most of them were damaged. We threw the boards inside the car and drove on.

We arrived at the campsite. We were greeted by a half asleep receptionist who was sitting outside on a chair, basking in the Weskus sun. She was grumpy and didn't really want to talk to us. As we paid, a cat jumped up on the counter and startled her. "Ooh jinne Sokkies!", she shouted at the cat in her weskus Afrikaans accent. The phrase stuck with us and was repeated way too many times throughout our trip.

After a quick surf check we quickly decided to set up camp at a later stage. The waves were pumping at Yoyo's. Fun clean waves with sick ramps on the inside. We used some of that new UV resin stuff I got from Natural Energy (It works way better than Suncure by the way) to quickly repair our damaged boards and then got out there.

End Part 1

Well done Adin!

Boland's Adin Masencamp took out the U13 Boys devision at the Hurley SA Junior Champs held at Point in JBay this week! Congrats Adin!

"Adin Masencamp (Boland), who had held the lead in the Citroën Highest Heat Score award for the first four days of the tournament, successfully defended his U13 boys’ title, finishing just ahead of arch-rival Ethan Fletcher (WP). Jose Faulkner (EP) took third and Max Elkington (WP) placed fourth."

Steffen Burrows aslo performed well all week and made the semi-finals. Boland ended up in fourth place just behind Western Province and KZN. Eastern Province took out the Freedom Cup.