Chantel is frying onions, Greg is flipping burgers, Lovayne is cutting tomatoes and rolls and Bonnie and Craig are circulating, hovering and helping. There are 150 burgers to go. The East London Surf Lifesaving Club is humming with young and old as the rain clears and a calm, washed, sparkling clean Friday evening sunset settles in.
Daniel Emslie has the bit between his teeth. At the time of going to press he was down to the top eight in the main event. This is a cut from about 150 of the best junior surfers in the world.
Point in JBay is a fantastic venue. A long gentle right hand wall peels down the rock fringed coastline in a format that offers surfers full opportunity to show their game to the judges. Surfers the world over dream of surfing JBay and recent Olympic competitors from Japan might cry if they saw our waves.