Cabarete is a small, laid-back Caribbean beach village located only 20 minutes away from the Puerto Plata International Airport. Cabarate is on the northern shore of the island country of the Dominican Republic. It’s a perfect remote holiday destination for the active traveller. It has a hip ambience and a combination of relaxed and adventurous lifestyles that is just amazing.
The village of Cabarete is spread out across the center of a large beautiful beach with a calm lagoon behind it and then backed up great hills and amazing tropical vegetation.
With the low-lying hills behind the village causing a unique thermal effect to the location of the offshore reef at the entrance of the bay where the trade winds usually blow in. This combination of elements make Cabarate and awesome location for water-sports such as kiteboarding and windsurfing, but also for regular surfing at El Encuentro beach as well.
The sport of kiteboarding has taken off in the Grand Beach area. There are many people out taking in the high winds and warm weather. The sport is a fairly new sport that is seeing a surge in growth over the last few years especially in this remote Canadian location.
Grand Beach is located on Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. Being a large lake with consistent north or south winds, its an ideal destination for Kiteboarding. Riders can launch from the east beaches and enjoy riding up and down in along the shore in both winter and summer. There are many locations on Lake Winnipeg for kite surfing. Lake Winnipeg is a fairly shallow lake near its edges which provides a great environment to learn to kiteboard safely. View the interactive Google map of the Manitoba Kite Locations.
Accomodations and more information on the area can be found at the Grand Beach Tourism web site.
Video: Kitsurfing at the sand spit near Grand Beach in Grand Marais, Manitoba.
If your in Vancouver, BC and you are looking for a quiet Kayaking adventure, Bowen Island Sea Kayaking is an adventure for you. Bowen Island is just 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver, with a 20 minute relaxing ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay to Bowen, you are sure to enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
Once your off the Ferry you can rent your Kayak and take one of the many tours they offer. Some tours head north towards the magnificent mountain views of Whistler, while others paddle south to Apodoca Beach close to seals, eagles, and an undisturbed coastline. They ensure you will be given the necessary information to make your paddle in this beautiful location an experience you will want to repeat. Naturalist led Hikes can be added to your tour and follow a lagoon, a fish ladder and the Killarney Lake trail (2.3 KM).
Other tours include sunset and evening cruises, moonlight kayaking and adventures to surrounding islands Gambier Island and Keats Island.
Witch’s Rock Surf Camp is a great place to learn to surf and a great place for experienced surfers to find their waves. Witch’s Rock surf camp is located in Tamarindo, Costa Rica and offers surf vacations for surfers of all levels.
Located beachfront with one of the world’s absolute best learn-to-surf waves directly in front of the camp. The hotel has an ocean view from every room and many world-class surf breaks are very close by.
They have been around for over 8 years and just recently celebrated 50,000 surf lessons. They have been guiding surf tours longer than most anyone else in Central America and are simply one of the best.
Unlike other hotels in Tamarindo, Witch’s Rock Surf Camp was created entirely for surfers of all levels.
River Surfing is surfing on waves in rivers. The most common type of river surfing is on Standing Waves. Standing Waves do not change position. These waves are formed by the combination of fast moving water going over a drop or slope and the river bottom contours. The water goes down the slope or drop then comes back up to form the wave.
River Surfers face upstream and the surf boards ride on the face of the wave. To stay on the wave a River Surfer balances gravity pulling them down the face of the wave and the water pushing them downstream. The act of surfing on River Waves is very similar to surfing on Ocean Waves.
River Waves are everywhere! Any place with rivers can have waves. River Waves come in many different shapes and sizes from small mushy piles of white water to permanant barrels that can fit a standing surfer. Board sizes and shapes vary depending on the wave you ride.”
Web Site: Riversurfing.ca
Backcountry Snowcats is a Cat Skiing and Snowboarding operation hidden in British Columbia’s South Chilcotin Mountains just to the north of Whistler.
The weather here is colder and drier than nearby Whistler (30 kms away) but gets all of the same storm cycles. It snows on average 10m (32ft) of cold dry snow per season accumulating up to 3.5m (11.5ft) base, making the terrain prime for skiing and riding.
