One of the best places to practice Stand Up Paddleboard Surfing is in the nearby Blue Hill reversing falls between Blue Hill Bay and Salt Pond.

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That’s where the incoming and outgoing tides provide continual moderate surf going in and going out. In the image above, we see a SUP-surfer trying the incoming tide there yesterday. here are more images:

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Only Maine has this kind of falls in this country, and there are only eight of them in our State, according to geological reports. Such falls occur when bedrock geology forms an inclined channel of an appropriate width and depth between two bodies of water, at least one of which must be strongly tidal, as is the Bay. There also must be the right height difference between the two bodies of water to produce rapid surges in rising and falling tides.

(Brooklin, Maine)

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