BACK ON THE ROAD
Looking back to November 2021, the world was nearing the end of the worst of the Covid pandemic. People were finally being allowed to travel, as long as they had negative tests and the correct jabs! Finally, it looked like windsurf travel and photo shoots were possible, after a period of uncertain times. I was lucky enough to be invited on a trip to shoot the new North Windsurfing wave and slalom sails in Cape Town and I was looking forward to getting back on the road again. However, Omicron provided one final sting in the tail, which I definitely was not expecting. More about that later...
MISSION ON
I arrived in the morning in Cape Town after a direct flight with British Airways for a ten-day shoot, Pieter Bijl was at the airport to pick me up and take me to the house to meet up with the rest of the team in Milnerton. Everything was in place for an epic mission. We were given a brief that the brand wanted something different from the shots and video, and made a plan to head down to Cape Point that afternoon to find some unusual locations. I was sharing a ride with talented filmmaker and sailor, Adam Sims, and we exchanged all sorts of plans and ideas en route to the Point.
We were both upbeat as we were about to kick off the photo shoot. It had been a long time since I had been to South Africa, and the wild scenery of the Cape brought the memories of this awesome coastline flooding back. Adam had an idea of hitting a remote beach close to Cape Point to film lifestyle before we got stuck into some action at Platboom for the evening session. I kind of wanted to go straight into the action, but knowing Adam is a Cape Town regular, maybe he had a few tricks up his sleeve and this would be an awesome location.
CAPE POINT
This story is from the Issue 429 - November December 2023 edition of Windsurf.
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