If you haven't been to Spike's Swell Course, you should, but if you haven't, here is the next best thing straight from the fount of occasional knowledge, writes his namesake.
Here's a photographic throwback way back to 2014 a rare summer big wave swell that came out of the blue, so to speak, to light up Cape Town's favourite or second favourite big wave reef.
Spike combines philosophy with wave science to help us understand the mystic creation of waves, and why they can be ridden when they eventually arrive at the shore.