On the first weekend of August 2009, the Surfing Association of Nova Scotia (SANS) will be hosting its first annual “Back To The Beach Community Surfing Contest” on “The Reef” at Lawrencetown Beach. Click to see contest poster. Designed to be a fun community-based event, the contest will host two divisions – team and individual [...]
It’s becoming known as the Olympics of the Surfing. The International Surfing Association (ISA) welcomed more than 34 nations to the eighth edition of the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games at a press conference in Costa Rica on Thursday. “This is one of the only opportunities to see the best competitors from each country surfing [...]
It’s just after 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, and while this is prime sleeping time for most of his teenage friends, 14-year-old Peter Barbrick is busy painting the surfboard he’s built from scratch. Barbrick is one of 10 teenagers, mostly from the Eastern Shore area, taking part in the Nova Scotia Sea School‘s “Get Out [...]
Lesley Choyce, a well known local surfer, teacher, publisher and writer, has launched an ambitious new book called “Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future“. The book is a compilation of more than forty essays from leaders and influential thinkers from across Nova Scotia. In the essays, the writers provide their visions of the future of [...]
