“When we first started coming here, there was nothing,” says Mathieu – a sports coach who has taken the year off to help train his younger brother Benoit. “A few surf schools in shacks directly in front of the beach break, and a lot of fishermen who lived very simple lives. They would spend all night and all day on their boats, come in to drop off a haul, sleep a few hours, then head back out again to fish in the bay. The fishing business remains active to this day. A formidable break wall at the point protects a boat ramp from waves, but if you watch all day, you’ll see the fisherman have acquired some serious surf skills of their own, threading their way through the surf schools pushing beginners into their first whitewater rides, skirting their boats between the waves and occasionally even surfing them into shore.
