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A wide and uncrowded beach, good for windsurfers and kite boarders with a nice breeze most of the year.
Paradise Beach is a suburb of Jeffreys Bay in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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This area offers long stretches of untouched sandy beaches surrounded by protected nature reserves. Sightings of small buck, tortoises, a large variety of birds, rabbits and mongoose are part of every day life in this nature conservancy and the creatures are much loved by local home-dwellers.
J-Bay is well known for the huge quantity and the quality of shells that can be found on the beaches. A good book to use as a guide is The Sea Shells of Jeffreys Bay by Douw and Elise Steyn (ISBN 0620240083, Eldolise Publishers, [mailto:steynde@mweb.co.za strynde@mweb.co.za]). There is an annual Shell Festival in September and a lovely Shell Museum on the corner of Drommedaris and Da Gama Roads.
Wetsuit and board is supplied.
The history of surfing in Jeffreys Bay is displayed by way of newspaper clippings, articles, old magazines, ancient surfboards and lots of other interesting objects.