Come taste divine fruits on opening day at Austin's new Wavegarden…
Did you hear? Yesterday was opening day at NLand surf park, North America’s first Wavegarden, and only the second of its kind in the world.
The pool, which is twenty minutes drive from downtown Austin, promises “steep performance waves” for ninety dollars an hour, “Playful whitewater waves” at sixty an hour or you can ride alongside pals on “Party waves”, also at sixty dollars an hour.
The prices figure about the same as Surf Snowdonia, Wavegarden’s first commercial pool in north Wales (35-to-45 pounds an hour for “advanced surfers”) although the water in Austin is a bath-like 80 degrees fahrenheit (26 celsius) and ain’t no need for wetsuits when the air’s hitting 87 or 30 degrees. A thoroughly pleasant equation.
A sharp-eyed BeachGrit reader, Mr Bill Kemble, was curious to see how many videos were made by happy pool users after opening day.
“Woke up this am, hoping to see the glory of NLand’s opening day ripping across YouTube. But only one (ONE!) video popped up.
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Prediction? they are gonna have to radically drop their per hour price–to even try and make this viable — the water looks a sick shade of brown…
It’s, it’s…..it’s completely fucking terrible. I mean truly fucking terrible, I can’t even comprehend it. Someone please tell me they can at least make it bigger? – Mind blown.
That good woman is the ultimate kook. So nice you have that in Austin, please don’t come to Cali, we are already over loaded with Kooks from texas riding sup’s and calling themselves surfers.
So Bad but it”s Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music with the wind blowing
Proof there is no God!
My goodness, I take back all that Texas talk. It really is true, Americans are getting not only fatter, but dumber by the second.
Is that fucking it????
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This is actually better and could surf into a wall
hang on, you got me. this video is a parody, right? pleeeaaaaaaase be parody.
Surfing is saved! Armageddon avoided, right? RIGHT?
thank you, God. thank you, ‘MUERICA!
“Does this not look like paradise?”
No ma’am, no it does not.
If you don’t like surfing with Americans now just wait until this new crop of Texans arrive.
Fucking DEEEEELICIOUS
Just watched too…holy shit, maybe the best thing on here all month.
H O L Y S H I T.. Watching this with the volume at 10 is freaking me out – the most psychedelic shit. GOD GAVE ME A BEACH. This can’t be the future we were promised.
Not for nothing but i am in the small majority of people who has gotten a chance to surf Wadi in East Dubai and that shit is 1000000X better than this shit. Why not build those everywhere? I love that wave. This wave looks like complete shit in comparison
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Fuck, human beings are unbearable.
Reminds me of when my parents told me Santa Clause didn’t really exist.
Also, I am NOT gonna complain about my 5 am dawn patrol tomorrow.
This whole thing is just brilliant.
One Kilometer is just over a mile haha, fuck me what a drug addict.
Texas!
Common core curriculum, dude, public schools in America are world class.
9:05 on is amusing.
so good. god delivered indeed!
It’s a fucking nightmare
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