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🇿🇦 Dolphin Beach, Cape Town

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Best directionSSE
Wind speed20–35kt
SeasonNov – Mar
Skill levelIntermediate
WaterFlat + swell
Ridden forKitesurfing

The 'Cape Doctor' arrives most summer afternoons, funnelled between Table Mountain and Lion's Head, and rarely takes a day off.

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Good to know

Getting thereAbout 20 minutes from Cape Town's city centre by car…
HazardsCan get seriously overpowered when the Cape Doctor is fully in — not a beginner wind on…
Best time of dayAfternoon, once the Cape Doctor thermal…
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