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.
It is hard for me to imagine a more delightful trio of pupils than our three Buffalo City surfers who have just received their call-ups to represent South Africa at the ISA world junior surfing championships.
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.
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