"They have no regard for the protocols of quarantine."
A group of surfers from Quebec have breached the Atlantic bubble and caused a ruckus among Martinque Beach surfers in Novia Scotia for refusing to self-quarantine after their six-hundred mile journey.
“They showed up on Friday and they just have no regard for the protocols of quarantine. They were out surfing Sunday,” local Archie Wilson told The Chron Herald. “They all paddled out together and they caused a bunch of trouble with some of the other local guys.”
For those late to the game, or unaware of North American COVID restrictions, the Atlantic Bubble permits free movement between Canada’s four Atlantic Atlantic provinces.
If you ain’t in it, you gotta register and isolate for two weeks upon arrival.
Another local, hiding under a bitch’s change robe of anonymity, said he called the Mounties on the group ‘cause when he spoke to one of ’em, the man admitted he was from Quebec but didn’t feel quarantine was necessary ‘cause his COVID test had come back negs.
Still, the Mounties came although, says Wilson, it didn’t matter to the visiting surfers.
“I went down to look this morning and they were all back in the water again,” Wilson said. “It’s just disrespectful to everybody – not just surfers. There are also a few elderly couples that live down there. If they’re going surfing they’re probably going to buy their beer after, too.”
The cops described the scenario of busting a dozen or so surfers as “complicated”.
“They’re not just going into a mall where there’s people. They’re on the water and depending on where that location is compared to where they’re staying there’s a lot of different avenues that we have to look into before we lay a charge,” Mounties Cpl. Lisa Croteau said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Heady days.
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Yeh Buffalo Trace is lovely. I really like Makers Mark too. I love bourbons. WT standard is just my regular straight or mixed.
My 7 year old son hangs out in his new German school with his girlfriend from Taiwan …. ….. that’s pretty close to having a Chinese Girlfriend ? ….. and while you’ve got the toaster on can you whip us up some Prawn Toast ?
Standard 43%. No point wasting 101 in a mixer. I’ve never tried rare breed.
And he just got another deal this week from the French Luxury Brand , Dior …..
No I am James …. and Wong is surfing for China .
Guaranteed it was Lahey or Bobandy called trying to stir up the shit winds.
Or perhaps Philadelphia Collins, that mustard tiger.
Cold and Dark but Ok …. Was difficult to come back after dreaming of spending my ailing years on some warm beach in the countryside , bringing up the kids on the beach and surfing whenever I wanted but life goes on …..and as one door shuts and another opens and as Darwin Suggested ADAPT OR DIE …. all good .
Change is not necessary because Survival is not mandatory
Your Welcome …. The pleasure is all mine ….. How is the winter season shaping up ?
There is a lot to be said for understanding the absurd in the pursuit of meaning or truth ?
https://youtu.be/T8XeDvKqI4E
Canadian problems seem so cute
Similar thing happened on Anglesey recently where FYI there is little by way of surf to fight over yet the fighting abounds. Some locals called the Heddlu on a nurse who works nearby & her husband who were out surfing. They had driven 30 mins to surf there which broke the current rules. It all got pretty nasty. Played out nicely on a FB comment thread
I need to believe there are still places in NS you can surf alone.
On another note, anyone watching the Nazare live stream?
Have it on in the background at work, and Kai Lenny keeps doing these cute 360 chop hops down the face. I wonder if that secretly annoys the other surfers.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
yea!
thankx for the headz~up!
i dig watchin’ it live, no more watin’ for “The Thrill of Competition, Thee Agony of Defeat”!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
^^^
Classic to now see some old surfin’ get some recognition on TV back then:
“The Human Drama of Athletic Competition!”
i remem’s alwayz lookin’ in our TV Guide to see if any surfin’
was scheduled to show in our livin’ room, every week,
hahaha…
My Boardriders Club in Sydney , EBC , has a very talented Australian Surfer ( former top 100 on the QS ) , now surfing for Canada ( There is another young star from Hawaii , surfing for them too ) ….. Like most of the kids who have come through our ranks, under the tutelage of The Godfather and respected older members , he is a most charming and polite young man ….. So it’s possible that all Canadian Surfers are not complete twats ….?
They are short term Canadians no? Once Olympics finish back to original nationality.
One Life , One Club ! …. but nationalities come and go ….and We are so happy for him and his decision to surf for Canada , as we are for our current CT surfer , Connor O’Leary , whose mum is a former Japanese pro surfer ( what a wonderful character and addition to our tribe she is ) and dad is Irish / Australian , who decided to surf only for Australia ……. Shane has three nationalities , I believe …. Australian , Italian and Canadian and it was an opportunity to elongate his career , create new opportunities and friendships, before returning to the books , and make the most of his diverse cultural background .
I can’t wait to see the Kazakh surf team composed of Hawaiians and Aussies.
My nephew could surf for Pakistan…. but he won’t after his grandmother , a former student at Harvard , who accompanied her husband during his role as The Pakistani Ambassador to Romania , Kenya and Australia , returned home only to be shot by her own people .( this is not a joke )
I see Mongolia has a team. Press conference in Hawaii as none of their team has visited Mongolia or likely knows where it is geographically. The Olympic spirit lives!
Just wondering , in your educated opinion , what
Pierre de Coubertin would think of the Modern Olympic Juggernaut ?
Likely disgust. I understand national training centres, paying athletes. Changing nationalities?
Non.
If we can all be from anywhere then the country that is willing to pay the most wins. The Gulf Emirates are doing this now in football and Olympic sports. When they buy the Aussie swim team my guess is that won’t go over well.
Aussies surfing for Mongolia, Hawaiians in Canada, both in Kazazkstan? C’mon.
You know there are so many athletes in recent times …….. who when they win are French or English or Swedish or German ……but when they lose are treated as dirty immigrants , who don’t know the national anthem and are stealing the spot of a true or real French , English athlete etc whatever that might mean ….. We have another example in Australia of the future Super Coach of World Surfing Glenn’ Micro ‘ Hall who once claimed , genuinely , that he would prefer to surf for Ireland , than dug holes for swimming pools for Australia … My kids are half German and half Australian and I don’t have a problem as an Australian if they choose either .
I have scant sympathy for some kid from Australia, or Hawaii who can’t make the home team and decides to sell his/her services to another country for a couple of years with a courtesy passport which then denies actual residents a chance. I imagine in their actual country of residence they have had taxpayer support. Then get older, others get better, off the CT, ok I am now a Mongolian! Non. Now is time grow up, get a job and get on with your future.
PSG has a number of players that make more annually than Slater had made in his career. If you surf enjoy it, but don’t think going to Mongolia, Canada or Afghanistan (yes really) is doing anything but delaying the inevitable which is actually working for a living. And facing reality as a young man or woman gives you a chance to get a degree or apprenticeship and move on.
Ok we will agree to disagree …… just remember these names from French Surfing in the 90s Mikey Picon from Marocco , Didier Pieter from Sénégal , Laurent Pujol from the USA , Eric Rebiere from Brazil and Christian Guevara from Chile .They all surfed for France and were integrated into the Fédération Française de Surf ……. all good humans whom I had the pleasure to meet during my passage in the republic
Aussies surfing for Canada, Mongolia or Afghanistan in the Olympics is frankly a cynical money grab at best, nothing more. I am not debating their humanity, just their actions.
Some decades ago I was a world class sailor in Finn class, now I am not. I imagine I have the financial resources now however that some country, given proper incentives (money),or lack of sailing knowledge (Mongolia) would allow me to sail for them in the Olympics. Would that make me an Olympic sailor?
Hypothetically Yes ……. but you have made a moral decision to uphold , your own personal Olympic Standards , which may seem old fashioned or outdated or even elitist to some . Note that I would do , as you , (but respect the decisions of others who follow a different path ) , having been brought up during a golden period of Australian Sport followed by an even more glorious period of Australian Surfing …. 76 to 91 ( until that upstart Slater came along . PEST ) .
I suppose I lost my Olympic Spirit of amateurism , fair play and the importance of participation at the 76 Montreal Olympics , age 11 when , Australia had definitely not woke up to the fact that Red Army Soviets and Collegiate USA athletes were hard core professionals except by name .
I understand Aussies surfing for Mongolia, I do not respect them.
Taking advantage of a loophole in the rules isn’t my idea of fair play.
Can’t make it in the league 1? Head off to Canada or Afghanistan, get someone to pay your expenses for a few years. Grifters surf style no?
As I the French surfers who grew up surfing in Marocco , Senegal , Chile , Brazil and the USA who surfed for France in the 90s when the level in the Hexagon was way below what it is today …. I believe even today The Mignots , French Canadians from Mexico are currently surfing in your French Team as can Surfers from Guadeloupe , Martinique , the Reunion and Tahiti …. which leads to the question where is France ?
The EPSA( European Professional Surfing Asssociation … now WSL Europe ) decided in the 90s that non Europeans could not surf on their tour …. but this didn’t stop French surfers from Morocco , The USA , Senegal , Brazil and Chile plus the Dom Toms …. British surfers from Capetown and Durban etc etc
Two wrongs do not make a right although I will say the islands you mention are France.
Yo Jamie…. your contest regimen, whatever you call it, clubby stuff, really really made a deep impression on you bro.
I don’t think I’ve mentioned my little league heroics or getting a basketball scholarship and maybe mentioned my tennis scholarship, BUT, they are not something that come up. In fact, I don’t remember them fondly…
Ok, surfing is different. But did you enjoy free surfing as a kid? Is everything tied to comps?
You did well and are proud of your accomplishments and should be. It just seems as a casual observer that your surfing was woven with comp until you reached France and then you were unleashed and free. You loved surfing France, very evident.
Is that accurate?
I never thought I would be good enough to compete from age 10 to 18 … only started competing at 19 and made the main event of the second most prestigious junior comp in Oz after a year , but having competed at a high level in football and swimming it really wasn’t that hard to perform under pressure .Go figure …. An injury at 26 kept me out of the water for over a year , which coincided with a bad break up and lead to an existential crisis and somehow ended up in reborn in France ready to continue to surf love and live again …
Interesting. My sponsors wanted me to surf comps so badly… but they put up with me. We were interested in the pro tour as if it was an alien event. None of us wanted to surf comps and the guys I knew that did the NSSA were robotic system guys. Plus, PT And Ian made many unhappy as the “club” thing they were importing was not us. We were taught to hate each other, lone wolves on the prarie type deal.
The tour came to Malibu and I can remember so many people talking about disrupting it. Ben Aipa was confronted in the parking lot…. seem to recall a fight. One guy was going to snake every visiting pro. I remember saying hi to MR as I had met him in Angourie… he didn’t remember me, jsut a simple hello and I took so much shit at a party for it. All kinds of crazy talk, send em home in ambulances.
Now HB had the Katin and it was run during winter and it pumped. Orange County guys were more social so it didn’t matter. No small coincidence that the industry set up shop down there.
Early in my Oz travels, we stumbled upon a lifeguard competition. At first we were laughing so hard at competing lifeguards. Then the dory event began, we were lucky to catch it and it was so gnarly…. a story for another time.
I remember asking my friend how odd is was to compete like that and he mentioned the clubs everywhere. Like why the fuck did Snapper have a club and Kirra have a club? How could they be competitive, they lived in the same place?
Just interesting.
If Tom Curren had not been immediately successful, I don’t think that surfing would have become a big deal in the US as far as competing. Willie Morris, Wes Laine, Joey Buran, Jim Hogan, Brian Mc Nulty…. were literally anonymous walking down the street. In the lineup too or singled out as non locals.
Interesting parallel experience from different sides of the big P …. As for the beaches with two boardriders clubs … think Glasgow Celtic v Rangers
Reference is over my head brother.
It is fascinating topic though. My sister once described me as a wild animal. There was no way I would compete under any club, let alone team. I think Team sports in high school killed it for me.
We were more throw the shit in our cars guys and just camp out swells all over the state, super low key, clandestine and on the cheap. Can’t imagine at that time gathering at a close out to score points when a point was firing nearby.
P for Pacific and two clubs at one beach can lead to wonderful local derbys . I think Surfers from outside Australia have a strange opinion that Boardriders Clubs were like the Boy Scouts , when in truth it was more like a punk band combined with a Bikie Gang …. Competing was incredibly serious but a win meant nothing if you couldn’t cut it at the after party or Club Presentation Nights .
There are some wonderful descriptive chapters in Kong’s Biography which captures the wild club spirit , and the complete utter madness at , regional and state titles and pro am events in the 80s ….. more like a meeting of Hunter Gatherer Tribes , on Heat , with the finalists getting pulled aside by the organizers because they all turned up late ,to the final, packing cones in some seedy apartment , or jalopy together ….. It was not the NSSA .
Agreed. The place you grow up surfing at is what creates who you are as a surfer, not some technicality on a passport.
I agree with you on this C4 , I am fucking proud to be part of the Australian Surfing Tribe during the last 45 years even though I haven’t lived there much since 92 …… but if you were 20 something today, would you sell your soul for fun and profit ?
If Canadians were meant to surf, Jebus woulda made the water warm up there. I’m sorry. But the whole scenario is plain wrong. We have to build a wall. And the Canadian surfers are going to pay for it.
And then we can hire Paul Weller and the wonderfully exotic female singer from The Style Council …. to tear it down ?
I know you’re being sarcastic but the surfers weren’t coming into America, they were going into another province in Canada.
Next you’re going to tell me some communist lies about the Earth being “round” or something defending Santa Claw’s and his paedo-ring factory.
You know maple syrup is just boiled-down people? PEOPLE!!!
Say what you want but I highly doubt you thought MARTINIQUE BEACH was in Canada
But seriously.. the Quebexicans are the worst of the worst… at least the Brazilians party right and bring hotties with them. The Northerners show up in clown cars in their wetsuits after 4 hour drives, they have more campers than yogi the bear fans, and they leave their trash on the side the road. had one family – yes family – send their kid (probably 10 yrs old) down the beach to take a dump in the seaweed.. my nephew came to me and said “Uncle MMM, a kid just dumped on the beach” I walked out on the beach he was in the water washing his asshole in the midst of other folks, i followed him all the way to his parents and told him what his kid did. The dad acted like he didn’t know.. but he knew.. the guy never looked at his kid. nothing. gave him a doggie bag and told him to have him get it.. .. sent him to get it.. there are porto’s a street away.. seriously.. “many” of them just act like fuckwads… (just a note.. If you don’t want to be stereotyped, don’t act like a stereotype)
Sounds like something that would happen here in Flori-duh
Fucken degens.
For those who missed it last time..
Why do Canadians girls like to get banged from behind?
So they can watch the hockey game too.
Sounds like they enjoy a PUCKING GOOD TIME ?
Canada-Hockey and beer
Canadians, the worst dudes!
I have an announcement to make, this winter I will be going on any wave I want at martinque beach. There’s only a few mounties I won’t drop in on. No hard feelings just letting you know now.
Will they be riding bareback?
Here they are having a singalong , just waiting for your dickie , Se·ñor Toledo ……
“hiding under a bitch’s change robe of anonymity” I did laugh out loud or LOL as the teens say at that line.
Man he hates on the Nudity Shaming Devices!
Wednesdays and Fridays are my heady days.
What day is it? I’m having some wild turkey and sodas this arvo.
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Everyday ….Be Party Pete by Nature , not just by name !