At the moment I’m sitting in rainy Sweden and looking back at all these photos from Nicaragua makes me.. Longing for vacation again? The week at Mark & Daves in Nicaragua was like a vacation from the vacation. A house on the beach with unlimited beer, unlimited surfboards and unlimited friends.
We saw a video of a perfect beach break somewhere in Costa Rica. Since then we have been looking for it, and by the help of fellow travelers and surfers we thought we knew where it was. And it must be, right here. And it’s just as good, just as beautiful and just as awesome.
One morning we saw something break further down the beach, it looked perfect and there where no one surfing there. We decided to go try it out and of course we didn’t tell anyone. Wooohaaaa it was practically a wave that turned in to a barrel right away and barrelling all the way to the
When we came to El Tunco it was saturday and party everywhere, on the beach and the streets. We left cameras, wallets and everything else with value, just brought some beer and went out. Not so many tourist actually, more locals from San Salvador and man, the locals could dance! Felt like being in a
We were SO happy to hook up with Max, Pontus and Nick! Felt really crazy meeting them in El Salvador out of all places. Me (Linn) and Max have been to Fuerteventura together a couple of times, Pontus and I have been to Las Palmas and various places in Sweden and Nick traveled with me
The beach here is amazing. The only building on the beach is the restaurant which is a palapa/bungalow made of bamboo etc and easily could be taken down and poff, suddenly you would have an untouched beach with a beautiful wave in front of it! Kind of hard to find 2012. It’s the community who
This is how day of travel can look in Mexico. Searching for distant waves is part of the adventure and there’s a lot of them in this country. We slept in very basic accomodation on the beach for only a few dollars, surfed the evening offshore breeze and the next day we took the same
Linn got a pinkish, polished, Bing mini simmons with glassed on fins and a ceder stringer. No one really knows what color it is, it’s like a cameleont, sometimes it’s vintage golden, sometimes it’s yellow peach and sometimes it’s something else. When i surf it it’s yellowish, but when Linn surf it is always pink
Linn named her dog malibu after this beach so it was pretty cool to drive down and check it out. It’s super famous for being the most perfect longboarding wave in the world. Now one of our stickers are stuck on one of the trash cans, yey!
