Sandboarding and the Great Dune of Pain

A guy by the name of Dylan from Sandboarding Cape Town dropped a link on our page a while back. We contacted him and offered a write-up in exchange for an experience. So we trekked out to the dunes in Atlantis for a morning. We couldn’t believe what we found.

So, we don’t know where we’ve been all this time, but it turns out there is a massive Mad Max-like dune system just 20 minutes out of Cape Town. You drive down the West Coast road, stop in a parking lot, go over a small little hill, and there, laid out before you, is another world. How have we not known about this for so long? How do you hide a massive dune system from everyone? Not cool! In all fairness, it is almost completely concealed. Populating the dunes is a whole other subculture. Tribes of tanned and toned local kids with 4X4’s pulling trailers carrying quads and boards and braai’s. They sandboard, quad and drink all day in the blazing sun. It’s like a secret, sandy Utopia.

Dylan took us through the basics of sandboarding. We were doing well until we got bored with the little slopey slope and decided, while Dylan was momentarily distracted, that we hadn’t fallen over yet and were, therefore, way too awesome for baby slopey slopes and obviously ready for the biggest dune in the whole world. A grave miscalculation, we discovered, and although our sandboarding pursuits ended shortly after that, we had a great day regardless.  Check out the video below, and check out Dylan’s link.


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