More about Causeway Coast
NORTHERN IRELAND
Causeway Coast
"The Causeway Coast" stretches from Ballycastle to
Magilligan Point. Surfing frist started here in Easter 1963
when Ian Hill entered the water at Castlerock with a 'Bob
Head' board from Mawgan Porth, Cornwall. Three years later
a group of youngsters led by Alan Duke (to be many times
Irish champion) started surfing the Portrush/Portstewatrt area
and began travelling to the west coast where they met up
with othere surfers. For 20 years the number of N.ireland surfers
stuck at around 20. The advent of body boarding
open up the sport to younger age group and a
proportion of these youngsters progressed to stand-up surfing.
Today local surfers number about 120, mainly from
Portrush/Portstewart. A few travellers come up from Belfast
on the weekends attracted to both the surf and the night
life! "Kellys's in Portrush is the biggest Dance rave music & disco club in Ireland.
The main surfing season on the north coast is from mid August
to mid May. In the summer months the lows tend to be a lot
further south in the Atlantic and Malin Head tends to stop
swell getting round to the Causeway Coast.
But there is lots of new surfers likes Causeway Coast now
But be warned there is Big Waves
North and West Donegal
There are only a few coastal areas left in Europe where the possibillity
of finding perfect undiscoverd waves still exists. North and West
Donegal is one of these places! It receives so much swell that more
often then one's only real corncern will be the winds conditions.
These winds can often be very strong and they will generally blow
from the north and west. The relentless forces of nature have slowly
carved up the desolate coastine around Donegal, consequently little
protected bays and islands have become abundant. Such places offer
unlimited potential, all they need is time and energy to explore!
Donegal is sparsely populated due its harsh climate and inhospitable
landscape, accessability is therefore limited, Bloody Foreland,
Magheroaty, Dunfanghy, Gweebarra and Loughros Beg have been
surfed in the past, beyound these breaks you will very possibly be
surfing virgin territory.
Where to surf in N.ireland
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