Surfing with Seals

Muizenberg beach

Today, finally we went surfing again! The weather wasn’t all sunny and fun, but actually in the water that doesn’t matter. It was pretty cloudy and drizzling now and than. But the waves were nice! I still can’t read the surf forecast properly…

Anyway we went! Andrea and her housemate Pauli came along and had a beginners lesson also. Karin and I had a lesson with Alfonso again. The tide was pretty much in, so we had higher waves than first time. But this time I stood at my first wave!

Arriving at Muizenberg we were told right away that there were whales in the bay and we could see them! Behind the little black surfers on their boards were bigger black parts coming out of the waves!

Oceanview from Muizenberg

As if that wasn’t amazing enough, I had an encounter with a seal on my last wave for the day. I saw the body-boarders besides me check the water with nervous excitement, than the something swam towards me: a seal! Literally right next to me he brought his head over the water, looked at me and went down again. I was so excited (and nervous, because, when there are seals there might be sharks) that I couldn’t even catch my last wave, but had to paddle out.