theinertia.com - The Iconic Bruce’s Beauties of ‘Endless Summer’ Fame Went Richter on June 3rd
Bruce’s Beauties is an iconic wave, but it’s a fickle one. And it almost never gets this big
You likely know the wave called Bruce’s Beauties from that iconic scene in Endless Summer. You remember the one: Mike Hynson and Robert August climbing a dune in coastal South Africa to lay eyes on one of the most perfect right-hand point breaks on Earth. It is, as everyone knows now, Cape St. Francis, and that scene kicked off generations of surfers hell-bent on exploration.
“From all the information we could gather, we figure it’s like this about 300 days of the year,” Bruce Brown said in the film. “The water was seventy degrees. The prevailing wind was straight offshore.”