100 Waves In Solitude (NE Canada) | “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”
Surfing alone is mostly a thing of the past. Unless you live in a place so cold and unforgiving there are only a handful of surfers. And then from this place you hop on a bicycle and travel even further away. This is exactly what RC Shaw did from Nova Scotia.
Sample:
“I live and surf in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, a tiny hamlet on the outskirts of Halifax on Canada’s Atlantic coastline. It is a land of half-inch thick neoprene and fog-shrouded cobble points. You would think I surf alone all the time. But solitude in the water is rare, even here. Internet forecasting and a growth of new surfers, unafraid of cold water, has seen to that. Even in Cow Bay—where a dozen surfers in the water constitutes a fingernail-biting “crowd”—the solo session is going extinct, a relic of the past. I am that unfortunate brand of hermit surfer who will pass up the best spot for a lesser one to surf alone. To find a long stretch of surf solitude, I had to escape.”
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