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colder months. So bundle up in your 7mm wetsuit, try not to freeze your ass off in the
0°C water, and join the line-up. People do surf at warmer times of the year, too. Board
rentals cost about $30 per day, lessons about $80. Kejimkujik Seaside Adjunct provides
additional waves and the prices are similar.
Perhaps even more radical than surfing is kite-surfing, in which you cruise in, over and
out of waves using some cool equipment. Shippagan in northeastern New Brunswick is a
good place to try it. Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia is a great place to watch a
spectacular show of kite surfers flying along and over waves.
A new stand up paddle (SUP) option is now available in calm Malpeque Bay in PEI, a
perfect spot for beginners. Work up an appetite thinking of all those yummy oysters
growing beneath you.
Check
www.wavewatch.com
for wave forecasts for the region.
ADVENTURES IN SNOW-KITING
This will impress the friends at the next beer-up: tell them you went snow-kiting in
Newfoundland. Of course, it will entail actually going to Newfoundland - in winter -
but you'll be going to Corner Brook, near the renowned ski resort of Marble Moun-
tain, so you won't feel too out of place.
Snow-kiting is sort of a windsurfing -meets-snowboarding endeavor, and the pa-
tient folks at My Newfoundland Adventures (
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)
teach you how to do it, no
experience required. Just bring some very, very warm clothes for the half-day intro
lesson ($175) and off you'll zip across the tundra. (OK, it's not really tundra, but it's
cold enough to be!)
Skiing & Snowboarding
Atlantic Canada's best skiing and snowboarding take place at Newfoundland's Marble
Mountain (
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)
outside Corner Brook. It may not have the height of Whistler or
other top resorts, but it's lower cost with far fewer queues, so you get more time on the
slopes.
Marble has 35 trails, four lifts, a 488m vertical drop and annual snowfall of 4.8m.
There are snowboarding and tubing parks, as well as night skiing on Friday. The region
caters to cross-country skiers at Blow-Me-Down Cross Country Ski Park (
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),
about 10 minutes from the mountain.
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