The Big Blue Experience

The Big Blue Experience's Oli Tuggey and his team were great hosts for a small but enthusiastic group of us last Tuesday. He opened his brand new shop doors last month in Newgale, after working out of various containers and sheds for 12 years.

Big Blue offers a unique choice to guests including kite sports (Kitesurfing, kiteboarding and powerkiting), surfing, kayaking, paddle boarding, powerboating (including courses) on the uber-exciting Powercat, and coasteering. The beauty of having this choice means that guests can be guided towards the activity which suits them and the conditions the best. So someone who wants to surf but the conditions are flat can take out a paddle board instead. If there's a mixed ability group of coasteerers (have I just made up that word?), the group can be split with an instructor per group and the powerboat overseeing them all. NB....a power boat ride across the bay is included in the price!!....Or maybe the guest would prefer to paddle across the bay, pull their kayak or paddleboard onto the beach and coasteer from there? 

I think Ollie is pretty unique in Pembrokeshire in offering the mix of wind sports he does; there are courses, equipment for hire or for sale and now with his new shop open he's confident he can offer secondhand equipment at all times as well as new.

Ollie also guided us round his website where there's loads of information about reading tide and weather forecasts. As someone who just about reads a tide table I found this really useful!

He even has a sparkly new coffee machine to warm up with!

Read more about The Big Blue Experience at http://www.thebigblueexperience.com/

Written by Helen Williams