Oh we've all heard about the East and West Coasts, but we have a North Coast too. And this weekend the surf was up. So the surfers flocked to the Great Lakes largest beach to ply their trade. All wearing partial wetsuits for the cold water. It's one of our nicest beaches, fine sand, going out for some distance to help bringing your equipment ashore.
Wind surfing is popular to get some more speed going and because the waves on this gentle sloping beach are not very high. Great place to learn though. Now a board is one thing to drag in, but with a sail on it, its even more work.
Here's a fully decked out wind surfer dude taking a stroll in the water. Maybe he's trying to test the water temp to see if he's going back out. The windsufers wearing extra gear, backbraces, gloves, water shoes, etc.
Now for the purist's with board only, they have to wait a little to catch a good wave. But then surfer dude's always draw a crowd of girls when they come in.
3 comments:
Great photos John!
Must confess that, despite having studied N. America for my school exams (OK! OK! It was 1954), I never thought of it as having a North shore. I guess we always looked upon the Great Lakes as being just that - lakes. We learn something every day.
Well I'm not even sure the other border states to the Great Lakes consider themselves to be on the north coast, but here, we are proud of our lake and we consider ourselves (regardless of school teaching) to be on the north coast.
Suppose we should contact our neighbors to the north in Canada and see if they consider themselves to be on the South Coast. LOL
But the tag line does have some meaning, with the St. Lawrence Seaway, shipping, ports, sand dunes, marshlands, and the size of the Great Lakes, it really does mimic a coast.
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