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Kommetjie, 30 kilometers
south-west of Cape Town, South Africa, is perhaps the
only town where you can wake up at the beach, visit a snake farm, take a
camel ride, enjoy lunch at a restaurant called 'The Croaking Frog', go
scuba-diving, and head for early evening surfing in world-class rollers,
all in one day. There on the Cape Peninsula, Atlantic Ocean waves
have had time to gather power and rise to full intensity. In
bays there, on a good day with wind assistance, the surf towers, curls,
unfurls, and crashes in even breaks.
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Jagged
mountains rear up in the distance. It was this dramatic, remote
place, and Sunset Reef in particular, that first drew Gerda Botha and her
son, Andre, who was competing in the South African Boadyboarding
Championships, becoming the youngest World Champion at the age of 17.
Gerda became enamored of the peace and harmony of the beaches, and happen
to see a "For Sale" sign on a beach property.
She and her husband, Andre senior, build their dream house there. |
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