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Catching crayfish at Dassen Island Place: Dassen Island, South Africa Tags: Island, dassen island, sailing, surfing |
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This tiny godforsaken island off the west coast of South Africa has some fond childhood memories for me. We used to sail here from the small coastal town nearby called Yzerfontein or from Cape Town.
The bay where the marker is is where most boats anchor for the night.
There used to be this crazy lighthouse keeper that would come on board your boat, drink all your booze (depth charges if you had whiskey and beer on board) and leave. He had one hand and the other was reputedly bitten off by a shark. He wore a black rubber glove over the missing hand that made it look more macabre than if he had no glove.
The northwestern point had what looked like a perfect point break that would peel off at about 12 ft. I was too young and chicken to surf it but I've always wondered if it's surfable.
Dassen Island is also infested with wild cats that eat the birds which affects the crayfish population which feeds on the bird guano. It's that whole ecosystem thing. ;)
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Not a place to be caught in a yacht, with a dead engine, in the middle of the night, by a cold front coming down the West coast. Lots of ship skeletons here. But great crayfish have been dived and trapped here.
Posted by: frank | Fri Nov 17 @ 6:31 AM