For surfing the Cape has gentle shore breaks for beginners, 3m-plus monsters for experts only and a range between. Many surfers head for Long Beach but a number of reefs off the Cape coast produce lefts and rights that work on a south-east wind. Gary's Surf School in Muizenberg is a well established company specializing in professional surfing tuition and coaching. The school has been running for the past 19 years.

There are three possible breaks in Scarborough. A small righthander that peels along a rip channel in the left corner, a peak in the middle of the beach and a righthander off rocks in front of the car park. These spots depend on weather conditions. A clean West swell and light offshores turn on the car park.

The beach is more consistent. Reforming righthanders (having wrapped around an outside point) swing back into the beach and break on a sandbar alongside a deeper channel running along the rocks of the inside point section.
The rip keeps the sand out and on the sandbar. Gets perfect here, but a little inconsistent. For its size, its pretty juicy. Best at 2-4'.

The Scarborough point’s fickle left hand point needs the right conditions to work. A westerly swell is the first requirement. A light easterly is the second. A pushing tide is the third. These three don't occur simultaneously all that often, but when they do, it's the closest wave on the Atlantic side to an actual pointbreak, apart from Thermos.