Hash Point breaks at the edge of Taghazout village itself, which explains both its popularity and the fact that you can watch it from a café with a mint tea.
The wave
A right-hander with a forgiving shape, described by local camps as an easy introduction for surfers new to rocky breaks. It is consistent in small to medium swell and works best on the higher tides.
Because you can walk to it from anywhere in the village it is almost always busy. That is the trade: the easiest access in the bay, and the most competition for waves.
The name
Local lore holds it was named for surfers in the nineties who were too comfortably occupied to make the fifteen-minute walk up to Anchor Point and settled for the wave outside the door instead. Taghazout enjoys telling that story.
The crowd, honestly
Being the most accessible point in Taghazout gives it the highest ratio of visitors to locals of any wave here. On a good winter swell there can be a lot of people in the water.
Sit wider than you think you need to, take fewer waves than you want, and be visibly patient. It makes the difference between a frustrating session and a good one.
What it is good for
One of the better places to have a first session on a rocky right-hander, because the shape forgives and the paddle out is short. It also works across a wider swell range than the bigger points, so it is often rideable when Anchor is flat or unmanageable.