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Surfing in Devon

"Everybody's goin' surfin', surfin' USA in Devon..."Went surfing at Woolacombe beach over the weekend and found it to be every bit as good as in Hawaii. In fact, the waves were better - colder, but with a wetsuit on you couldn't feel it. I highly recommend it!

Free idea of the day - it struck me that the hardest part of surfing is the paddling out into the sea against the waves to where they break. It's tiring. If someone dug an underwater tunnel in some good surfing beach where you could then just pop out to catch a wave I think you'd be onto a winner. Surfers (at least the lazy ones) would flock to your beach. It may be a bit of a feat of engineering though. Perhaps if the eye-sore factor wasn't too much of an issue then something similar to a drag lift would do?

Photos are here.

Tags: surfing, Devon, photos