Article Continued Below“I think surfing has sort of exploded all over the world,” long-time surfer and instructor Antonio Lennert said. Unlike oceans, where there’s a tide, lake surfers are dependant on the wind blowing fast and long enough across the lake to produce waves. Belle-Isle is part of the Lake Surfistas community, a group for female surfers, and the 2016-2017 season was her first full winter surfing on the lakes. Now retired, he hits the water — Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, Lake Erie — “any time there’s waves.” “I’m probably one of the oldest guys that surfs in the lake around here and it’s good fun because you see how you can do against these 30 year olds,” Fregona said. “You don’t need to go to Hawaii, California or Florida or anywhere else to learn or even to come back into surfing,” Cavero said.

Source: thestar March 08, 2017 19:28 UTC