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JEFFREYS BAY
-Home to the perfect wave-
Jeffreys Bay is a picturesque town situated on the coast of the Eastern Cape providence. Bracketed by a beautiful range of mountains and its world renowned surfing beaches. With its unique combination of beautiful beaches, endless summers, abundant shells, white gold (calamari) and relaxed lifestyle, its no wonder this town has become world renown.
This bay is the meeting point where the warm Indian Ocean current mingles with the waters of the cold Atlantic, creating unique conditions for an incredible diversity of marine life. Dolphins are an almost daily sighting with the southern right whale coming to clave between July and September putting on a show with their courtship rituals. Temperatures are moderate all year round along the coast, with rain scattered throughout the year. The summers are warm with a very temperate humidity level and winters are mild and pleasant.
Jeffreys Bay is designed for the ordinary, unhurried, unworried, sun-seeking, fun loving person. Locals reckon that Jeffreys Bay was known as the place of dreaming, and it’s easy to see why. This little town may well be called the heart and soul of South African surfing, with many legendary surfers still lingering on. It got fame for it's classic reefs and perfect point breaks with world-renowned wave quality. Talented surfers skilled to ride their boards in the tubes of majestic waves or just ahead of the great white rollers will tell you that the professional rate Jeffreys Bay is amongst the ten best surfing points in the world. Every year in July, Jeffreys Bay houses the Billabong Surfing Festival when surfers from all over the world come to enjoy these flawless formations of rolling surf.
Beside surfing, J-Bay offers a variety of activities. Down town you can pay a visit to several factory shops offering quality clothes for very interesting prices or to the Surf Museum, the Pinguin Rehab Center, the Shark Aquarium , board shape factories, etc… There are a number of small nature reserves and game parks in the area, such as Lombardine Game Park, Sea View Lion Park, where you get the chance pet the lion cubs while they are still small and harmless and Tisitsikamma National Park. Adventures Jeffreys Bay offers Sand boarding, Horse Trail, Mountain and Quad Biking,….As you can see, the opportunities are endless.
A little bit of J-Bay history:
The original inhabitants:
The south west coast of South Africa was originally inhabited by the nomadic San people many thousand years ago. They interbred with the Khoi-khoin tribes and became known as the Khoi-San. These peaceful people walked the coastline of South Africa, living off the sea and never claiming ownership to any place, and became known as the Strandlopers (Beach-walkers). Their beautiful rock art is testimony to this spiritual tribe that are the original inhabitants of our beaches.
The origin of the name “Jeffreys Bay”:
Numerous explanations exist about where the name Jeffreys Bay derives from. Some say that the name derived from one Captain Jeffrey when his ship was shipwrecked here and he literally stumbled across the beautiful area that was to become Jeffreys Bay. Another source says that the name was derived from a trader that moved here in 1850. Some always say that Jeffreys Bay was initially used as a harbor and trading post and was established in 1849 by one, a J.A. Jeffrey, a whale hunter by trade, originally from St. Helena. As time passed, Jeffreys Bay became a small fishing village and has since grown into the wonderful and world famous holiday town it is today.
Jeffreys Bay as surf spot:
Legend has it that the father of South African surfing, John Whitmore, discovered the waves at Jeffrey's Bay in the late 1950s as he drove up the famous N2 "Garden Route" between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on a business trip. As he stood in amazement at the side of the road looking at an as yet unmapped break through binoculars, it would have been extremely hard to mistake those ruler edged corduroy lines perfectly wrapping around a point, giving what could have been a 1.2 kilometer ride. From this day on Jeffreys Bay is known as one of the greatest surf spots and claimed as best righthand pointbreak of the world!!!!
-Home to the perfect wave-
Jeffreys Bay is a picturesque town situated on the coast of the Eastern Cape providence. Bracketed by a beautiful range of mountains and its world renowned surfing beaches. With its unique combination of beautiful beaches, endless summers, abundant shells, white gold (calamari) and relaxed lifestyle, its no wonder this town has become world renown.
This bay is the meeting point where the warm Indian Ocean current mingles with the waters of the cold Atlantic, creating unique conditions for an incredible diversity of marine life. Dolphins are an almost daily sighting with the southern right whale coming to clave between July and September putting on a show with their courtship rituals. Temperatures are moderate all year round along the coast, with rain scattered throughout the year. The summers are warm with a very temperate humidity level and winters are mild and pleasant.
Jeffreys Bay is designed for the ordinary, unhurried, unworried, sun-seeking, fun loving person. Locals reckon that Jeffreys Bay was known as the place of dreaming, and it’s easy to see why. This little town may well be called the heart and soul of South African surfing, with many legendary surfers still lingering on. It got fame for it's classic reefs and perfect point breaks with world-renowned wave quality. Talented surfers skilled to ride their boards in the tubes of majestic waves or just ahead of the great white rollers will tell you that the professional rate Jeffreys Bay is amongst the ten best surfing points in the world. Every year in July, Jeffreys Bay houses the Billabong Surfing Festival when surfers from all over the world come to enjoy these flawless formations of rolling surf.
Beside surfing, J-Bay offers a variety of activities. Down town you can pay a visit to several factory shops offering quality clothes for very interesting prices or to the Surf Museum, the Pinguin Rehab Center, the Shark Aquarium , board shape factories, etc… There are a number of small nature reserves and game parks in the area, such as Lombardine Game Park, Sea View Lion Park, where you get the chance pet the lion cubs while they are still small and harmless and Tisitsikamma National Park. Adventures Jeffreys Bay offers Sand boarding, Horse Trail, Mountain and Quad Biking,….As you can see, the opportunities are endless.
A little bit of J-Bay history:
The original inhabitants:
The south west coast of South Africa was originally inhabited by the nomadic San people many thousand years ago. They interbred with the Khoi-khoin tribes and became known as the Khoi-San. These peaceful people walked the coastline of South Africa, living off the sea and never claiming ownership to any place, and became known as the Strandlopers (Beach-walkers). Their beautiful rock art is testimony to this spiritual tribe that are the original inhabitants of our beaches.
The origin of the name “Jeffreys Bay”:
Numerous explanations exist about where the name Jeffreys Bay derives from. Some say that the name derived from one Captain Jeffrey when his ship was shipwrecked here and he literally stumbled across the beautiful area that was to become Jeffreys Bay. Another source says that the name was derived from a trader that moved here in 1850. Some always say that Jeffreys Bay was initially used as a harbor and trading post and was established in 1849 by one, a J.A. Jeffrey, a whale hunter by trade, originally from St. Helena. As time passed, Jeffreys Bay became a small fishing village and has since grown into the wonderful and world famous holiday town it is today.
Jeffreys Bay as surf spot:
Legend has it that the father of South African surfing, John Whitmore, discovered the waves at Jeffrey's Bay in the late 1950s as he drove up the famous N2 "Garden Route" between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on a business trip. As he stood in amazement at the side of the road looking at an as yet unmapped break through binoculars, it would have been extremely hard to mistake those ruler edged corduroy lines perfectly wrapping around a point, giving what could have been a 1.2 kilometer ride. From this day on Jeffreys Bay is known as one of the greatest surf spots and claimed as best righthand pointbreak of the world!!!!
To find out more about Jeffreys Bay, please come and experience yourself the magic of Jeffreys Bay with a package from Jeffreys Bay Surftrips.You wont regret it;)
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