Hi Everyone,
After finishing our time in Nova Scotia with a sucessful surf class for Kathryn with a group of Quebecois Army Combat Divers at Happy Dudes at Martinique Beach, we headed north for the icy waters of Newfoundland!
Nfld. was one of the places I was worried about getting fottage of. We had no prior knowledge of a surf community in Newfie, and didn't know if there were any surf spots at all. Keith from happy dudes mentioned something about Trinity Bay, and that was all we had to go on.
The gods of surf were smiling on us, as we entered the town of New Melbourne, glassy 4 foot waves broke for around 100 FT on some sharp-ass rocks. Kathryn set up our HDV camera, the Sony Hvr-Z1u, as I suited up and paddled into the cold atlantic for a solo session, scared shitless that I would end up on the jagged shoreline.
Success!!! I got a few nice little rides, filmed by Kat, and emerged unscathed.
Before leaving "The Rock" on our Ferrie back to NS, I wanted to set up our camera crane for a beauty shot of the westcoast of NFLD when the surf gods smiled AGAIN!!! Once again solo, kat shot from our 12foot camera crane as I surfed a small beach break at the JT Cheeseman Provincial park beach. Tiny waves on a deserted beach with HUGE POTENTIAL!!!!
This film is all about discovery and that's what we're doing! To my knowledge, there is NO surf community in Newfoundland.
I write from Carlottetown, PEI. We'll be catching some of the beach breaks on PEI tomorrow I hope, then to the Reversing Falls of Saint Johns, New Brunswick.
Paul Boyd
Stuff Productions
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