Nahoon Beach News Today

The East London Surf life-saving club, affectionately known as EL Surf, has announced the opening of the 2023-2024 life-saving season.

Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi....

Shake your sillies out, jump your jiggles and wiggle your waggles away on the beach at the Soul Dance, a “healing movement experience”. On the last Saturday of every month, people gather on Nahoon Beach and tap into the same frequency, wearing “silent disco” headphones and moving their bodies through the music.

Spring is either rising slowly like a cool, orange orb over the sea at Nahoon Beach, or shrieking in on the belching wings of Balthazar.

Community events with a social and environmental cause take on new meaning in a country awash with corruption, gangsterism, violence, official stasis and ineptitude.

Entries are open for the SPAR Daily Dispatch Fun Run which takes place on October 8, 2023. The event hosts a 4km and 8km route both starting and finishing at the Orient Pools, East London. Entries close on October 2, 2023 This meaningful run aims to show support for individuals with disabilities.

Ocean lovers used takeaway boxes to scoop up more than 400 red Smith’s swimming crabs that washed up on Nahoon Beach and returned them to the water early on Tuesday.

One Love Single Fin Surf Contest — I know it is quite a long time away but I am excited about it so please let me tell you about the spring single fin surf contest that is on the other side of this coming winter.

The River Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed is a powerful, earthy and harrowing story of how, in the early 2000s, a community in northern El Salvador fought together with international allies to prevent the Canadian gold mining giant, Pacific Rim, from destroying their country’s main water source, the Lempa River.

So you have had a ripping surf down at the sea and now you are starving, ravenous and the question is where do you get something to eat? Considering I had just had a few waves at Nahoon Corner, The Reef Cafe seemed like an easy choice and so close by, my feet were still wet when I walked in. What a pleasant surprise to see varsity friend Dianna and ain’t that just the joy of East London and the beach.