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Wakeboarders carve through flooded fields of floating cranberries

EVER wondered where cranberries come from? With Christmas approaching a group of wakeboarders decided to find out, with glorious results.

EVER wondered where cranberries come from? No, us neither. But with Christmas approaching a group of wakeboarders decided to find out, with glorious results.

Red Bull's Winch Crew travelled to Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, for one of the most aesthetically pleasing wakeskating sessions you will ever see.

Cranberry Wakeskating
Cranberry Wakeskating


After the cranberries grow on the vine, fields are flooded and a harvester knocks the berries off to float to surface.

Cranberry Wakeskating
Cranberry Wakeskating





Floating berries are then dragged into booms and harvested.

Cranberry Wakeskating
Cranberry Wakeskating








Watch what happens when some of the world's best wakeskaters take over a cranberry bog.

Cranberry Wakeskating
Cranberry Wakeskating











According to Red Bull, no Cranberries were wasted, or destroyed making this episode.

Cranberry Wakeskating
Cranberry Wakeskating

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