Edinburgh will soon be home to the world’s first inland surfing resort - featuring Europe’s largest wave pool, luxury lodges and restaurants.
Set to open in September 2024, Lost Shore Surf Resort in Ratho will be Scotland’s newest premier tourism and leisure destination, with the 60-acre country park boasting a state-of-the-art surfing lagoon capable of generating up to 1,000 customisable waves per hour.
Images courtesy of Wavegarden/Wave Park (South Korea) and Armadilla
Music: Rock Surf by Music-Library, Creative Commons
Edited by Neil Johnstone
Set to open in September 2024, Lost Shore Surf Resort in Ratho will be Scotland’s newest premier tourism and leisure destination, with the 60-acre country park boasting a state-of-the-art surfing lagoon capable of generating up to 1,000 customisable waves per hour.
Images courtesy of Wavegarden/Wave Park (South Korea) and Armadilla
Music: Rock Surf by Music-Library, Creative Commons
Edited by Neil Johnstone
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00:00 [WAVES CRASHING]
00:04 For surfing, we're not really on the map.
00:08 I'm one of the first professional
00:10 surfers in Scotland.
00:12 And when you mentioned that you're from there, they're
00:16 just like, is there waves in Scotland?
00:19 How did you become a pro surfer?
00:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:50 Accessibility-wise, going surfing in Scotland can be
00:53 really difficult for some folk.
00:54 But Edinburgh's the capital city of Scotland.
00:57 You've got the wave pool right at your doorstep.
01:00 So it'll be a great opportunity for loads of
01:03 folk to get into it.
01:05 For us, it's going to be an amazing training ground.
01:08 And all the kids that are coming up as well, we're going
01:12 to be able to coach them in Lost Shore.
01:14 And yeah, it'll be a great training ground.
01:19 Yeah, it'll be amazing.
01:21 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:43 It's like a skate park.
01:44 You know, a skate park, you can practice over and over and
01:47 over again.
01:48 And in surfing, you don't really have that unless you've
01:53 got a wave garden or a pool like this.
01:58 It's really going to be like--
01:59 yeah, if I'd put it this way, if I'd had it when I was
02:02 growing up, I would have been a lot better
02:04 surfer than I am now.
02:07 It'll be an amazing thing.
02:08 Hopefully, we'll end up making it into the GB squad and going
02:11 to the Olympics or something like that with a training
02:14 ground like this.
02:15 I don't see why not.
02:18 Yeah, it's an exciting thing.
02:20 And I think a lot more people will be getting into surfing
02:24 after this.
02:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]