Nice board. I recon old school usually means easy to catch waves. Not too much rocker - doesn't push water. And fast and fun down the line. Ah, swells come along sooner or later. Shame I can't can the stuff and send it to you. The waves over the last few days were such that some of the beaches have lost a lot of their sand :eek:

^^^^^^ okay where are the 65 other dudes dropping in on everything?

They're all here in Ventura. :mad:


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Former world champion Keith Paul from Oz.....

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I cant get over this photo.... its a dream come true, okay I would prefer a left but still... a wave like that and being the only one out? Not on this planet, at least not anymore.

Fly to Nicaragua or Peru and rent a car with a rack and follow every dirt road heading off to the direction of the beach. You'd be surprised how often you can be alone in good waves.

Or, for $2500 you can spend 5 days at a surf camp in Chicama. You won't be thee only guy there, but there's a lot more waves than people.

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I have been to Nicaragua and although it was not totally deserted it was fine with the 4 to 6 other guys we didn't know. Better than a car with racks we had double masted ketch and we sailed up the west coast of Nicaragua. Had some interesting encounters given we had technically entered the country illegally even if we never set foot on land in most cases. Always good to have a spare US twenty on hand for the local "police" and I use that word in the broadest sense.

I realize that is a still photo and that may not break all that often but one can dream. I used to go to Costa Rica back in the pre internet days and frequently we would be the only people out at most of the places we surfed. That all changed in the last 15 years.

Okay Craig, you got me with the lefts... Thats a ridiculous photo... where is it?

I say Peru

In a "masted ketch"! Sailing up and down the central American coast in a boat looking for waves is my dream. If my wife would just leave me, I would do that tomorrow and never come back.

I agree on Costa Rica. I have a friend living in Dominical and was going a couple times a year. Now Dominical is as crowded as Huntington Beach…Maybe worse. It's the same at Playa Grande and Playa Hermosa. Witches Rock looks like Rincon. All the local ticos surf now.

The photo is Chicama, Peru.

^^^ x3

The first time we surfed Pavones, it was around noon, and we had it to ourselves. The locals typically surfed in the morning & evening only. Before we left, we got a hectare overlooking the break, and for a couple years it was heaven.

Then came the internet .. The Florida guys knew the swell was coming 3 days in advance, and would be camping on the beach the night before the swell arrived.

Our view:
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