After quickly shooting in Quebec (one of my rides on the waves at Habitat '67, Left) by attaching an Eumig Nautica, Waterproof super 8 camera to the nose of my board and riding the rapids, we headed to Prince Edward County, Ontario. We were on our way to surf with Ben Chalmers, pro wakeboarder and Lake Ontario Surfer and owner of West Lake Wakeboard School.
I first found Ben by watching some videos of his lake and river surfing in Ontario on Youtube. He's a great surfer who has traveled the world and, more importantly for our purposes, he knows the surf spots on Lake Ontario and the weather needed to surf there.
We've been pretty lucky on our trip with regards to the weather for surf, and today (even though Ben says that the surf gets "much better", we surfed some 5-6 foot wind swells on Lake Ontario. I could barely believe I was looking at a Lake. Seriously.
We'll be stoping back by the lakes at the end of the week when we're hoping to get some predicted big lake swells. Lake Surfing Rules. (Below)
Great photos by Kathryn Ber!Tomorrow we're back in Montreal to interview Jean-Louise St. Arneault, the Quebec surfer who first showed me what was possible on river waves while surfing in Manitoba last summer with the ARSA crew. JL just returned from surfing all over Europe and in Munich, Germany, the supposed birthplace of River Surfing.
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