Coffee Bay
The Wild Coast's warm-water beach break — remote, cheap, and the country's under-the-radar surf-and-travel town.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
Best for
Our take
The Wild Coast's warm-water surf pilgrimage — remote, cheap, uncrowded, and as much about the wild-coast edge as the waves.
The Wild Coast's warm-water surf pilgrimage — remote, cheap, uncrowded, and as much about the wild-coast edge as the waves.
- Trip Role
- Worth a Detour
- Ideal Stay
- 3–5 days
- Time Needed
- 3–5 days
- Best For
- Backpackers, surfers, slow Wild Coast travellers.
- Skip If
- Travellers wanting facilities, or short on time.
- Go If
- You surf and want the warm-water, uncrowded, remote Wild Coast break — or you want the Wild Coast backpacker edge.
- Worth Extra Drive
- 120 min
Why it's worth your time
A remote Wild Coast beach break where warm Indian Ocean swell hits a wild-coast sand bottom — the country's off-the-radar surf-and-travel destination. Coffee Bay's surf is beach break and the occasional point, warm-water, uncrowded, and set in one of the most culturally rich and scenically wild stretches of the South African coast. For surfers it's the backpacker-pilgrimage: cheap, warm, remote, with a genuine Wild Coast edge. For non-surfers it's the Hole in the Wall, the coastal hikes, and the Wild Coast itself.
What we love
The warm, uncrowded beach break; the Hole in the Wall; the Wild Coast edge; the backpacker-and-surf culture.
What to know
The road in is rough — a high-clearance vehicle helps. Warm water. Bring cash; thin facilities. Pair the surf with the Hole in the Wall and the coastal hike.
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