Small Clean and Fun

The past several high tides have been a mixed bag of challenging waves at Langosta to closeouts at Casitas.  Laura and I have sessioned the estuary at Tamarindo at low tide a couple of times and was epic by my standards.  But today was the day of small, clean and fun waves.  Brad and I surfed Casitas which involved beautiful A frame waves which peeled in both directions. It was a fun filled afternoon of backhand attacks followed by forehand chasers.  It was truly an epic session.  The afternoon session involved Laura and I at the estuary during low tide and they were really fun waves.  The lefts were steeper, but the rights held their own and all in all an epic session as well.  Laura impressed me as she is getting that determination in her eyes and catching a lot of waves.

For those who do not know, waves have different shapes.  There are A frames, left handers, right handers and closeouts.  A right hand wave breaks to the right a left to the left.  When I say left you have to pretend you are in the water looking at the beach.  An A frame is a wave with a peak that peels in both directions which is great especially if there is more than one person on a wave because one person can go one way and the other person the other way.

Today a couple of neat and funny things happened.  Brad and I watched a dog that swam across the estuary to be with her owner.  The estuary can have a pretty strong current at times and can seem like you are never going to reach the other end so watching a dog doing this was impressive.  The dog also would try to swim out to the waves with the owner until a big set would come in and make her turn around.  Before we crossed the estuary, the boat guys asked us if we want a ride across the estuary, which costs about 1$, but I declined to which the guy responded, "there are crocodiles, and sharks, stingrays, oh and snakes".  Needless to say I am here writing this with a dollar still in my pocket and all limbs attached.

Over the last couple of days it has been eat, surf, eat, nap, surf, eat, sleep and repeat.  This is what I was looking forward to.  If I do this enough I think I could reverse my grey hairs.  On Thursday, Laura and I ventured to a Tamarindo institution the Taco Stop for a taco an some chips and guacamole which Laura raves about the guac and rightfully so.  It is a must when in town.  Last night after I decided to not surf even though I took my board all the way to the beach, which I thought was an impossibility the four of us went to Witches Rock Surf Camp for some happy hour.  If one does venture to this side of the world you have to eat the nachos as big as your ass accompanied with a few cold Imperials.  Other than that we have been eating in, mostly scrambles for breakfast,  grilled cheese for lunch, pasta or rice for dinner.  I am managing to have thirds at dinner.  The hunger that is built during the day is unbelievable.

On a random note my hair has decided to go it alone.  It has a mind of its own and though I have generations of straight hair in my family it seems to be doing its on thing.  Only time will tell what will happen.

Tomorrow the four of us are off to Avellanas, a beach a couple of km away.  It is Brad and Ashley's last day and we thought we would try something different.  It is an exposed beach break so it should be fun.  The village, if you can call it that, has a couple cabinas, a beach front restaurant and that is about that.  Lola's is the beach front restaurant which was named after Lola the pig.  This pig recently passed away and was about the size of a picnic table.  We will see if the menu has changed, pork chops anyone!

03-27-10