Cottons Point is the most famous of Robertsport's five surf breaks — a long, fast, peeling left that wraps around the southern tip of Cape Mount and can hold rideable shape for hundreds of metres on a good day. It works most consistently between May and October, when southwest swells funnel into the cape, and it is widely considered one of the best left-handers in West Africa.
The wave is suitable for intermediate to advanced surfers; the takeoff is fast and the reef is shallow on the inside, so beginners are better off at the gentler Fisherman's Point break a little to the north. Boards can be rented from the surf camps in town, and a small but skilled group of local Liberian surfers has emerged here over the last decade — many of them happy to take visitors out and show them the line-ups.