A friend of mine recently contacted me asking if I would want to go camping for the long weekend, as we had both taken leave for the Friday. After weighing up the options, we decided that we would spend a couple nights at Kogelbaai (Koeel Bay / Cool Bay). Since Cool Bay is only 20…
Where to start… To understand why I did this, I guess it’s important to explain a bit of my past. My parents divorced when I was about 7 and my father moved to another town, and we (Myself, mother and sister) ended up moving in with my grandfather. My grandfather, Malcolm Ernest Alfred Berndt (or…
A bit of a delayed post on this, but still fresh in my mind – so why the hell not. During the first week of January I had my eyes steadily focused on Magicseaweed, which was predicting some insane summer swells for the Strand area on the 5th of January. When the day finally arrived…
In December last year I decided I was going to take up a hobby that was a lifestyle for me when I was younger, namely bodyboarding. I have a lot of memories attached to being behind a board in the waves, throughout all seasons and all weather conditions. The idea that man was meant to…
