About Cape St. Francis
Cape St. Francis is a village on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa, south-west of Jeffreys Bay, with a lighthouse on the point. Its surf spot, Seal Point, wraps around a rocky point and runs to the right as a surfer rides it towards the shore. The area became widely known after it appeared in a surf film of the 1960s that followed two surfers around the world, and the wave it showed is still spoken of as a perfect ride, though that wave is generally said to work only rarely. The best surf usually arrives in the southern winter, typically from around May to September, when swells reach the coast from the Southern Ocean. The area is quiet, with holiday houses, dune fields and a nature reserve nearby, and the water is generally cool.
This overview was written with AI and reviewed by a person. How these are written