Hanging off the bottom of the African continent and curling into the southern ocean like a crooked index finger is the Cape Peninsula. It’s a popular myth that here, on the fingertip of Africa, you can see a line where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.
We’re perched on the granite boulders of Miller’s Point, but there is no line in the sea. The real meeting point for these two oceans is actually a few hundred miles to the east, at Cape Agulhas. Even if there were a line, we wouldn’t be able to see it, thanks to the raging southeast wind that’s blowing crushed whitecaps across False Bay.
“There’s going to be some good runs!” shouts Thomas King, as our small crew strikes out from the lee of the protected bay…
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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, SUP World magazine 2019