World Record Attempts Get Blown Apart in Cape Town Surf

Nothing like a Cape Town wind (and Mother Nature’s black Southeaster) to turn your weekend plans upside-down. Which is what happened in Muizenberg on the weekend, when surfers tried in vain to set some new world records, although they still had fun.

Fish Hoek photographer ROBYN GWILT captured the photos on this page of the 2015 Wavescape Earthwave Beach Festival held at Muizenberg’s famed Surfers’ Corner…where festival participants had two main objectives, at least record-wise.

One record they wanted to break was the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’, where hundreds of surfers enter the ocean and try to all ride on one wave.

Another was the ‘largest bikini parade’, where women of all ages, in two-piece swimsuits, walk for a mile (1.6 kilometres) on the beach and are counted at the end of the course.

But the weather turned out to be breezy, cold, warm, cloudy, sunny, windy, drizzly, and then the same all over again.

A valiant attempt was made, but the “weather was iffy, and the water was blown to a froth with hectic waves from the Black South Easter that rolled in,” said Robyn.

“So they all called it quits and went to eat and drink coffee in the pavilion where it was all set up and waiting! A great day was had by all!”

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