Beach
Muizenberg Beach
Long, gentle break where a woman first stood on a surfboard in nineteen nineteen.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town opens in 1919, when a visitor named Heather Price borrowed a heavy wooden board from two American Marines and became the first person recorded standing up on a wave here. You'll hear how the moment was photographed and sold on postcards, and how, after the Marines sailed home, the beach's surf scene fell quiet for decades before returning by the 1960s. Look for the jewel-colored bathing boxes on stilts further down the sand.
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