kong



		KONG

			Meet Kong. The is the new wave I want to surf, out in the Lachines. And Kong is no joke. The wave is about 10ft high, and 50ft wide. Its steep, bouncy and surgy. Behind it, a series of holes, and undertows which are terrifying. I'm actually very scared! I want to surf this wave, but the consequinces are dire. The water downstream is so hard to predict, that even with 30 years river experience, I'm having a hard time figuring it out. But I want to surf it, and I've been scouting this now for the last few days from my Jet Ski, looking at the rapids behind and above.

			Here is another view of Kong. One of the problems is getting onto it. No way to swim on, and tow-in is going to be very difficult. The Jet Ski driver is going to have to know his stuff in whitewater, know how to drive the ski well, and be ready to make last minute adjustments - putting me on, getting out of the way, and then getting down afterwards to rescue me, because I'm going to need rescuing.

			You can see the big hole behind Kong, and off screen it doesn't get any better.



			And then we move over about100ft and we get to Big Brother. I'm not sure which wave scares me more, or which set of currents afterwards. Big Brother looks like it's more controlable once on the wave, and rescue will be faster and easier, I think. I hope. But getting onto it is going to be much harder than Kong. On each side of Big Brother, about 15 ft upstream are two holes. Deadly. Getting sucken into either on the jet ski will be disasterous. This makes the drop in hard, and rescue even harder. And then there is the urban legend of underground caves and tunnels. Sounds charming.

			Big Brother from above....

			And from surfers left...

			The wave is rideable from the extreme left of the photo to the extreme right.

			Big Brother seen as we cross above it at high speed on the jet ski. Weather permitting, drivers being found, this weekend I'm going to surf this beast.