Two new surf parks just opened!
Plus more wave pool news: Fireside repairs, Bahrain broke ground, Brazil city park renovations
It’s time to celebrate! Since last week two new surf parks opened to the public. We’ve also got some progress updates on a couple other parks and we even threw in a throwback for you this week. Let’s dive in:
1. Lost Shore Open and Barreling 🎉
Last week we told you to start planning your trip to Scotland but we didn’t anticipate such a quick turnaround for Lost Shore Surf Resort! Today on November 11th, 2024, they officially opened their doors to the public.
Sessions are available for all skill levels and when you book you will either surf left or right breaking waves for either a 60 or 90 minute session. Sessions are available at about £55.00 for 1 hour but the barrel sessions at £60.00 are filling up the fastest. Who doesn’t want to experience getting barreled on command?
As with most surf parks, session prices and scheduling will change as more people visit the wave pool. We will be tracking these updates on Surf Park DB Pro ↗️.
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2. Enefit Arena Open and Selling Out 🎉
Lithuania also got their first surf park in the form of a Citywave at Enefit Arena. They officially opened on November 10th, 2024 and they are already selling out fast. We were stunned to find out that they are allowing up to 60 people to book within a 90 minute session. At max capacity that means you get 1.5 minutes of surfing for 60 euros. As of today there is 1 spot left for one of their sessions this Saturday.
They aren’t wasting any time and we’re here for it! We’ll be watching closely to see if this model works in the long run and if other Citywaves adopt something similar.
3. River Waves Now in Surf Park DB
We have a new category ↗️ of surf parks on Surf Park DB: semi-natural river waves. These are locations where a dam has been built into a river in order to produce a wave at certain water volume levels. Most river waves we come across are naturally occurring and for that reason, free to the public. Dreamwaves has two commercial surf parks with semi-natural river waves operating in Germany and is aiming to expand to new locations.
4. Brazil Getting Another Public Surf Park?
The local government in Brazil’s capital city, Brasilia is hiring contractors to revamp the city’s park, Parque da Cidade. It’s bigger than Central Park in New York City and features camp sites and late night dance parties.
Part one of the renovation plan is to update the wave pool that was built there in 1978 and shut down in 1997. The original wasn’t surfable but the new wave pool will be. If things go according to plan Parque da Cidade will be the second surf park in Brazil that is accessible to the public. Most of Brazil’s surf parks are private or cost prohibitive.
5. Bahrain Broke Ground
The government backed companies building Bahrain’s surf park announced last week that construction is under way. The tourist destination will feature a Wavegarden Cove wave pool and the developers anticipate the park will be complete by 2026.
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While they haven’t released photos or video of the construction site yet, the hype, expertise, and government support for this park gives us confidence that it will launch successfully.
6. Fireside Closing For Repairs
In a little city called The Colony, in the big state of Texas, Fireside Surf is draining 350 thousand gallons of water. Their Citywave wave pool will be under repair starting Sunday, November 10th until March 2025.
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When it comes to surf parks, traveling waves get all the attention for being such an advanced technology but standing wave pools are powerful machines too and they come with their own complexity. Fireside has taken on the challenge of keeping these waves pumping.
7. The simplest wave pool ever
Back in 2008, 66 year old Australian surfer Fred Coblyn proved that wave pools don’t have to be complex. He developed a machine in Java, Indonesia that used a pulley attached to a metal gate to displace water and create surfable waves. Though the invention didn’t go beyond the prototype stage, it demonstrated that making waves doesn’t have to be land and energy intensive. It was easy enough for a group of kids to power the system by sheer excitement.
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See you in the lineup!