The southern coastline of Port Elizabeth is known as the Wild Side. It runs from Cape Recife to Schoenmakerskop and can become quiet stormy as it is outside the shelter of the bay and is open to prevailing south-westerley winds. It's rugged coastline and surrounding fynbos are astonishingly beautiful. This is the place NMMU biology students come on a school field trip as there is a lot of organisms living in the rocky shore. Apparently on one of these outings, they found a stranded whale shark. Not your everyday excursion, I would say.
The waves are quiet high and therefor a surf spot (as is the whole coastline around PE). I took some maps from http://www.surf-forecast.com to illustrate my descriptions.
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| Water temperature |
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| Wave height |
If you look closely at the horizon of the ocean, you should be able to see the South Pole. It's the right direction at least :0) And it's probably the closest I'll ever come to "seeing" Antarctica.
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| The South Pole |
The southern coastline of Port Elizabeth is known as the Wild Side. It runs from Cape Recife to Schoenmakerskop and can become quiet stormy as it is outside the shelter of the bay and is open to prevailing south-westerley winds. It's rugged coastline and surrounding fynbos are astonishingly beautiful. This is the place NMMU biology students come on a school field trip as there is a lot of organisms living in the rocky shore. Apparently on one of these outings, they found a stranded whale shark. Not your everyday excursion, I would say. 
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