10 TRAVELSOUTH AFRICA
About 24 hours, four films and two cardboard meals
later I arrived at Cape Town International Airport.
From there it’s a short half hour drive to the guest
house we were staying at in Table View, an area
right by most of the main beaches for wave sailing
and ‘the lake’ for freestyle is a mere two minutes
down the road. In order for all these spots to work
though you need the legendary wind, affectionately
known as the Cape Doctor, to blow through in the
correct south-easterly direction.
As we all woke up on our first proper day we were
greeted with cloudy, showery weather with a
north-westerly wind direction. To the uninitiated
this would seem a bad thing, however, due to local
knowledge we knew of a spot about an ho