My Own Surfing Thread!

[lowyder993s]

"Ninja Boarder!!!" Was Marcus w/ you?

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by JCF

Extra points here for imagination...Mason Ho's seems boundless ( review the clips at The Wedge ) ... right on the edge of nuts (in a very good way) ... the kid goes too - ha !

from rory pringle @ conceptblue on Vimeo.

Anyone familiar with this vid's music group/song?

[JCF]

gotta b Hendrix

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

"Ninja Boarder!!!" Was Marcus w/ you?

Ciao Jeff, yes Marcus was with me, so you could say I went surfing with a great white Austrian land shark

[9Thirty]

Ocean City, Md.

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by JCF

gotta b Hendrix

yes! Suspicious.

[Geary]

Well, we've had just enough snow at our place for a bit of hiking. Still waiting for a big dump or two ..

[tweezers74]

Love the pics of the snow! I am gonna go snowboarding after Christmas. Quick two day thing but who cares! I am riding!

[Bill Douglas]

Wow. Beautiful snow. Great pics

[Geary]

Perhaps this is the season for a Pelican snow "board meeting" ?

[Baz]

My friend "Big R" in Nicaragua.......local board maker and one of the area's best surfers....

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by Baz

My friend "Big R" in Nicaragua.......local board maker and one of the area's best surfers....

Where in Nicaragua is he? I was just there. Warm water, offshore winds, consistent waves...I just wish I could say small crowds.

Over Thanksgiving I did a trip starting in Playa Madera, Nic, stopping at spots heading south via San Juan Del Sur, Nic, Playa Grande, CR, Playa Hermosa, CR, finishing in Dominical, CR where a fellow Porsche Owner's Club friend retired.

Playa Medera, Nic



Playa Hermosa, CR...From my room!




Jaco, CR Jungle ride



Quepos, CR Jetty...Long board heaven.



Dominical Surf Shop.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Craig T

Where in Nicaragua is he?

Hi Craig.....nice pics! It's offshore just about every day there - if I remember correctly.

Here is where my friend stayed:

Hotel Chancletas - Aserradores - Nicaragua | Accomodations, House Rental, Surf and many other things | Welcome to our website

I stayed at a rental house in the Iguana complex at Colorados when I went - and here is what it was like the first day out front....



It was fun........until the boats arrived each morning then....it was crowded...

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by Baz

It was fun........until the boats arrived each morning then....it was crowded...

Oh, you went north, through Leon. I went SW from Managua.

I was caught surprised by the crowds. Madera was very remote? When we first pulled up the surf was glassy and 3"-4", but walled. Nobody was out. The lady at the surf hostel said it gets "peaky" at high tide. Tides charts are obviously no secret to the Nicaraguan locals. As the time came up they came out of the trees like ants. When the waves shaped up, the crowd looked looked the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier on a September Sunday Surf tour boats from San Juan Del Sur dumped off Gringos by the half-dozen at a time.

Low tide at arrival...


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[Geary]

The computer age did us no favors in CR .. For a couple years, we had it uncrowded at Pavones. Then the internet brought us wave forecasting, and packs of Floridians would fly in ($300 round-trip fight) and be on the beach a couple hours before the big swells would hit.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by Gears

The computer age did us no favors in CR .. For a couple years, we had it uncrowded at Pavones. Then the internet brought us wave forecasting, and packs of Floridians would fly in ($300 round-trip fight) and be on the beach a couple hours before the big swells would hit.

For sure. In the winter, it's actually less crowded at Oxnard Shores and other Ventura County beach breaks than it is at most popular Costa Rican beaches now. Rincon, Co Line, and other Ventura Co point breaks are zoos (far worse than the beach breaks), but Witches Rock, Roca Loco, Pavones, are just about as bad when they're breaking.

[Baz]

Just ran across this video...I have a personally signed TC poster hanging in my house....one of the best surfers ever.....shades of Jeff Hakman here. Hang in there Tom.....and good on ya Nick.....

[JCF]

All the talk of Slaters drop in this years Pipe Masters, great as it was, just made me think of those two waves of TC's.
The one when he played chicken with Derek Ho and then went on a second reef BOMB
...And then "The Snap" - greatest surf moment of all time IMHO

[Baz]

As the Shark Capitol of the World - we are currently graced by a visit from Katherine....a 14-foot-long, 2,300 pound Great White Shark

OCEARCH.ORG

[JCF]

Thanks for that link - that is very cool.
That's quite a trek in a month.
And even if it reminds me who's the boss I wish her good luck.