AUSTIN, Tex. — What if everybody had an ocean, across the U.S.A.?
A tentative answer to that question took shape on a recent morning in a giant artificial body of water within 160 acres of cactus-studded former ranch land here in Hill Country.
Every few minutes, about a half-dozen surfers paddled their boards into the shimmering celadon waves that approached. The surfers would then stand, turn and crouch to try riding the water as it crested over a reef and curled across the lagoon in head-high wedges before breaking, only to reform into mellow little rollers of the sort you might find in Waikiki.
Image: Doug Coors, the founder and chief executive of NLand Surf Park, said he would be happy to build a wave park in “every corner of every city.” Credit Drew Anthony Smith for The New York Times
