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Port Elizabeth

Provided by Vodacom, this cam is mounted on the mast that looks out over the beachfront close to the pier. The camera pans to various positions that give a good indication of what the swell is doing, and you can also use it to spy on traffic. Refreshes every three minutes. If you get the traffic, wait until it pans to the beach.

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+1 #17 Tanker 2010-02-28 14:31

Pritty kiff today Much to crowded

0 #16 Smurf 2010-01-30 12:42

I see the camera seems to be panning around to millers now but its getting most of the building into the frame. Not good.
At least thats what it looks like.

-4 #15 rip 2010-01-29 14:49

Yo guys,whats happening?uz kinda quite,surfs up

-3 #14 rip 2010-01-15 15:24

why don't just all the surfers come together ,club by and have a camera on the surfspots but it can only be seen by surfers who are so to say registerd(an elite group)

+4 #13 smurf 2010-01-14 21:17

Ah well doesn't effect me. If someone did set up a cam I wonder how long it would take before it got smashed?

Remember reading somewhere that surfers are selfish, well now I truly know why the person wrote that. Think I'm one of the most selfish surfers out there.

Think I'll put a cam up and then when the waves are good just paste some old "flat day" footage up.

+2 #12 P 2010-01-14 16:40

Surfcams need to be banned! The crowds are already unbearable with the increased accuracy of surf reports!

0 #11 paul123 2010-01-14 12:01

Its not that simple, you need a webcam, a suitable place to mount it, a pc to link it to or if you can get a cam with a builtin webserver, then you need power and you need a way to send the captured images over the internet to the webserver, to be displayed. thats usually done vir 3g.cellphone, or else the cam must be linked to pc that has internet access.Quoting smurf:

Does anyone have any idea how much a webcam would cost?
Who else uses this cam?
It would improve greatly if it was pointed more at millers and not the pier.

-3 #10 smurf 2010-01-09 11:41

Does anyone have any idea how much a webcam would cost?
Who else uses this cam?
It would improve greatly if it was pointed more at millers and not the pier.

-5 #9 Oliva 2010-01-08 18:42

If anyone is interested im prepared to host the website that the cam will be on

-3 #8 smurf 2010-01-08 16:39

Vic bay has a webcam so do many other spots. Me thinks it's just a matter of time before we get webcams put up everywhere. Overseas they seem to have cams everywhere. The other option is to befriend a local surfer that lives at the beach then you get them to notify you when there are waves.

+7 #7 Warrick 2010-01-08 15:59

Good call smurf. Oliva, consider the following: low res of the webcam doesn't really assist in knowing whether any of PE's surf spots are actually working or not, just a general indication of the Pier, Humewood, Denville and Fence have a breaking wave; only provides a NW view of Algoa Bay which doesn't give a good indication of the arrival of SW swell and to some extent S swell. By having the webcam pan further east we would not know whether pipe is working or not, we would simply have an idea of when S or SW swell has filtered into the bay. Dont worry, when the bay is cooking I won't be joining you at Pipe.

+4 #6 smurf 2009-12-30 22:07

I was going to set up a twitter surf report for the bay that was going to be updated daily with pics and all that and a new tweet if the conditions changed but, I was met with heavy resistance so I decided against it. Probably would have got bliksemed if i had gone ahead.

+3 #5 Oliva 2009-12-30 10:10

Surfers wont allow that to happen. Its gonna increase the crowd at the pipe which we dont want.

-5 #4 Warrick 2009-12-18 07:57

Fully agree with po10cy. Having the cam pan east to show Pollok beach would be most helpful and greatly appreciated by the PE surfing community I'm sure.

+4 #3 po10cy 2009-12-08 14:34

would be awesome if the cam could be moved to show clubhouse and pipe.

+4 #2 spike_wavescape 2009-11-19 15:59

the camera zooms in on the piers. Just give it a few minutes, screengrabs are taken at different angles. Looks like PE is cooking!

+2 #1 pOokie 2009-11-19 14:14

how must a person see these waves? the camera needs to zoom in some more so that us surfers can get a clear view of the wave

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