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By Alison Kühl
19/02/08
Ticket to Ride Volunteers spent the day with us on Thursday last week. We cleaned up the beds at Main Beach and then planted them up with Agapanthus and Dietes in the morning. In the afternoon we worked at Supers removing dead aloes, pulling out grass, cutting down some alien trees and general tidy up. 6 bakkie loads of rubbish were removed. The next visit from Ticket To Ride guys will be after the Billabong Contest in July. 20 volunteers make light work. Read more...
     
     
   
J Bay Fun Day
By Cara Sawyer
10/09/07		    
The J Bay Fun Day Memorial event was birthed after the untimely passing away of J Bay born surfer, Manfred Kuttig on 28th July 2003 at the age of 21. Mamfie, as he was affectionately known was a member of the local JBU Surf Club who initiated this annual event. Read more...
     
     
   
International organisations endorse Earthwave Global Surf Challenge  
By Life's a Beach Communications
26/08/07		    
The Earthwave Global Surf Challenge, an initiative created to showcase the global surfing community and its environmental concerns, has been endorsed by the International Surfing Association (ISA) and the Surfrider Foundation, two organisations who promote surfing and environmental concerns worldwide. Read more...
     
     
   
Kelly Slater and surfing philanthropist collaborate to keep Supertubes pristine
By Life's a Beach Communications
22/07/07		    
Surfing philanthropist Richard Brice from Cape Town hands a cheque for R10 000 to Cheron Kraak, secretary of the Supertubes Surfing Foundation, in Jeffreys Bay on Sunday while eight-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater holds the signed surfboard from his personal quiver presented to Brice. Read more...
     
     
   
Earthwave – The Global Surf Challenge World’s first global surfing event 02/09/07
By Life's a Beach Communications
05/07/07		    
Motivated by the immense interest in the record breaking attempt on the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’ in Cape Town in September 2006, the Kahuna Surfing Academy has challenged selected surf schools, promoters and surfing organisations in virtually every time-zone on the planet to try and break the record – all on the same day! Read more...
     
     
 
Developer Exceeds Restriction   'Upper' Surfers Point Upgrade
By Sipho Masondo
09/05/2007		   By Gary Drimmie
09/05/2007
Prominent Jeffreys Bay property developer Abraham Lamprecht has been accused of exceeding the municipal height restriction of eleven metres on one of his new buildings for the second time. Read more...   An ambitious project in progress to restore the Upper Surfers Point area to original condition and to mitigate the effects of many people using the area each day. Read more...