The lighthouse in Jandia marks the southernmost point of the island. Many suspect the southernmost point of Fuerteventura, is the wild end of the island - the "Punta de Jandia". However, Jandia is the southernmost place on the island.
This geographic detail ensures that the stretch of beach in front of the Playa Matoral lighthouse can accommodate some of the island's best waves.
Clean little left waves on the beach in Jandia in front of the lighthouse
As different as the sea may look at this section of the beach, from the lovely mirror-like turquoise-blue bathtub to the stormy, wind-swept white crowns, to the perfect 2-meter-high, long-breaking water walls - these are the conditions that bring this surf jewel to life.
Let's start with the conditions in the summer and spring that supply Jandia with wind waves, which can be attractive even to advanced shortboard surfers.
The windshell described in the last article produces the larger waves the more south it meets the coast. At the entrance to the northeastern part of Playa Matoral, these wind waves are still gentle left-handers for a long time. At the southernmost tip of the beach, just in front of the large lighthouse, these waves become hollow, steep and fast and often even break tubes. A simple windswell can generate waves here on the right day and at the right time, which would otherwise be suspected on a reef.
Perfect righthand point break over sand on the beach of Jandia
But now to the waves, due to which Fuerteventura's south is considered an insider tip among surfers.
If groundswells are big enough or western enough, they can also reach the south of the island. The focus should be mainly on the direction of the swell, the better the more to the west. Especially the Hurican season in the Caribbean provides for many of these swells. If these waves meet the southern coast, then they do not do this frontal but laterally. Ideal prerequisites for a pointbreak.
And what a pointbreak Jandia (or by many also called "Cruz Roja") is - the wave begins to break gently and shoulder high in calm water and becomes steeper, faster and even hollow in its course. The end section can provide without exaggeration known point breaks such as Snaper Rocks or Kirra Point Paroli.
As icing on the cake, the wind in Jandia is actually always offshore due to the dominant trade winds;)
Tip:
Jandia is only 15 minutes walk from our surf camp and our office in Morro Jable. With one of our Beach Cruiser Bikes you are even faster. Ideal to let off steam after the surf course in the evenings.