Trump in a wetsuit?

You gotta love Bob. I first met him ages ago when he went around as Noddy and had the foulest mouth in the fleet. Being born and bred in Zeekoevlei, means he’s anything but normal. So after doing Business Science at UCT and hacking it out at a desk job for a whole THREE months; he decided there was more to life than 9-5 and a stable salary with medical and dental plan. What better idea than starting an adventure company (Revel Adventures) and get a slice of the insane tourist money pie coming out of Cape Town’s summer oven?

First up was sandboarding trips, mainly to Betty’s Bay. Build a few boards and put some posters up in backpackers. Load every one up in a kombi, show them how its done, pray to Jah that no-one gets hurt and whip out some sarmies and cokes under your gazebo when its lunchtime. Brilliant, but it’s a little pity that some dude thought of it first and still holds a large chunk of the market (note: no link to his website- Bob probably has a voodoo doll of him somewhere and it’s porcupined with rusty nails).


Looking for something to see him through the lean winter months, he added surfing to the repertoire. Snailman built him a clutch of longboards in his garage, Reef put a bunch of suits together and Revel now offered beginners surfing trips to Muizenberg. Good thing they were aimed at beginners, as Bob didn’t really know how to surf himself. He cottoned onto the idea of adding a tour of the Constantia winelands after surfing sessions and a great combo day was born (he knew didly squat about wine too!).


His latest is extended trips, over three days. Here we can see him in person with some customers, he’s claimed to have had some serious hotties over the years, but do we ever get any numbers (which he obviously has access to!)?


In between all of this the evergreen entrepreneur has had a few schemes; going to Thailand with an empty bag and returning with cheap clothes sold at +800% markups, making and selling Orgasmotrons(oh yeah!), the odd trip to the Med washing dishes on Oil Cartel Charter Boats and of course the infamous Clicks coconut candle endeavour.
Plan F has always been to go commercial with his much loved Home-Brew and try filling the gap in the market between Windhoek and brandy. But now, in true Trump style, Bob hatches Plan G:


He’s opening a video store in Vredehoek!
The business model seems fairly sound – large population of young urban professionals (yuppies, if you didn’t know where the term came from) in the area, with only Gardens Centre serving their need for the latest Scorcese box office hit. The naming rights went out to tender (for a sixpack of Home-Brew), and one of the working titles is exclusively technologically placed above for us. Who knows what goes into starting up one of these establishments (I’m skeptical Bob really does – what does one get for a kidney these days?), but there’s always the chance he follows the quick buck and starts offering some good quality artistic adult erotica, as we can see below.


Well we do admire the dude for taking the road less traveled, for having the balls to do what you really want to without worrying about the dire consequences and this project will definitely attract a little bit of interest. We’re also glad that there are enough wannabe surfers that keep Bob’s purple mini full of petrol and some spare change for the random round of mashie golf.