One of the world's most famous right-hand point breaks, long enough to blur the line between one wave and several, on a stretch of coast better known for its cold water than its tea.
The wave
Jeffreys Bay, on South Africa’s Eastern Cape, is built almost entirely around a single point break — Supertubes — regarded as one of the best right-handers on the planet, long enough on a good day to link several named sections into one extended ride. It’s hosted a world-tour event for years running, and the town’s whole identity, boardshops and all, sits downstream of that one wave. The water here is genuinely cold for its latitude, fed by the Agulhas Current’s cooler inshore counter-flows, and a good wetsuit is not optional.
Beyond the point itself, the dune-backed coastline and fynbos scrub give the area a quieter, more rural feel than its fame as a wave suggests.
The tea note
There’s no Chinese tea tradition rooted in this part of the Eastern Cape — South Africa’s own tea culture runs through rooibos, a completely different plant with its own separate history, and English-style black tea from the colonial era. What we’d actually pack for a cold morning at Supertubes is the post-surf side of this ritual: a warming, higher-caffeine red tea, poured once the wetsuit’s off and the walk back to the car begins, doing the job the cold Agulhas water made necessary in the first place.