Glen Beach
The tucked Atlantic-seaboard beach break at Glen Beach — a small, cold, wedge-y break between Camps Bay and Clifton.
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Our take
The tucked Atlantic-seaboard wedge — a small, cold, fickle beach break between Camps Bay and Clifton. Go if you're local and the banks are right.
The tucked Atlantic-seaboard wedge — a small, cold, fickle beach break between Camps Bay and Clifton. Go if you're local and the banks are right.
- Trip Role
- Quick Stop
- Ideal Stay
- A session
- Time Needed
- A session
- Best For
- Atlantic-seaboard surfers, cold-water surfers, quiet-beach travellers.
- Skip If
- Beginners, warm-water surfers, travellers wanting a reliable wave.
- Go If
- You're on the Atlantic seaboard and want the tucked, wedge-y beach break, or you want the quiet beach between Camps Bay and Clifton.
- Worth Extra Drive
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Why it's worth your time
A small tucked beach break at Glen Beach, between Camps Bay and Clifton on the Atlantic seaboard — a cold Atlantic beach with a wedge-y beach break that can hold a fun right when the swell and banks align. Glen Beach is the Atlantic-seaboard local secret: smaller than Camps Bay, steeper than Clifton, and a beach break that rewards the few who check it. For Atlantic-seaboard surfers it's the tucked option; for travellers it's the quiet beach between the two famous ones, with the cold-water surf that comes with it.
What we love
The tucked setting between the famous beaches; the wedge when it works; the cold Atlantic feel; the quiet.
What to know
Cold Atlantic — wetsuit year-round. Needs a south-west swell and the right sandbanks; fickle. The wedge is best at mid-tide. Parking is tight.
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