CR Trip Report

Discussion in 'Surf Travel' started by aka pumpmaster, Mar 27, 2017.

  1. aka pumpmaster

    aka pumpmaster Well-Known Member

    Apr 30, 2008
    Just got back and it was way too short. Rented a car from San Jose and stayed at the Marea Brava in Play Hemosa. Great place especially if you take the wife/kids. Mostly surfed Hermosa spots (the Terrazza, in front of the the Backyard, and various spots on the dirt road. Also Esterillos, and Boca Barranca.

    Sunday it was fun at chest to head, same for Monday. Tuesday a good swell hit with well overhead and clean Tuesday night and into Wednesday. Thursday and Friday were chest high and clean.

    Can ask for better conditions and a lot of the advise on here really helped so I will offer a little bit:

    Viva Hermosa and Backyards are really nice places to eat
    Have money ready for the tolls for the drive from San Jose (roughly 12 bucks and they take american)
    Take a decent first aid kit. Got a fin slice and should have had steri-strips and neospirin

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  2. mrz1

    mrz1 Well-Known Member

    148
    Aug 29, 2014
    nice pic...how were the crowds?
     

  3. UnfurleD

    UnfurleD Well-Known Member

    Jul 13, 2016
    Still a wayz before i head down there later this year. How was Esterillos? we were talking about staying at Hermosa too as base for the week, but a buddy has a friend's place in Pavones that we can stay at for free. so instead of Hermosa as a home spot, the conversation changed to Hermosa passing through down to Pavones, hitting up spots on the way. sounds like a lotta road, which i don't care for when on vaca. Good pic btw
     
  4. DawnPatrol321

    DawnPatrol321 Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2012
    Awesome, sounds like you scored!
     
  5. aka pumpmaster

    aka pumpmaster Well-Known Member

    Apr 30, 2008
    crowds were light. Wed monring a bunch of Cali guys came in for the swell but still wasnt horrible.

    Unfurled, free is always good and Pavones is a sick wave. Esterillos is fun but soft so not sure about what you are looking to surf,. Great LB wave but not real punchy like hermosa.
     
  6. red dog

    red dog Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2015
    Was in tamarindo few years back when 2 other Americans and I were caught inside. When I came up one of the fins went into the back of this guys head! You could see this 3 inch flap. Kinda looked liked the fin for a second! Thank god it didn't penitrate his skull! I saw him later in the week with a hat on and a lot more than steri-strips! MRI and stitches. Very lucky, it fugged up my surfing because this guy could surf and was experienced! I was alone on that trip which made it harder to forget! I've also been 200 ft from a great white attacking a seal but that hasn't stopped this hack, moron of a surfer!
     
  7. Zeroevol

    Zeroevol Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2009
    NICE!! Glad ya scored Pump!
     
  8. kidde rocque

    kidde rocque Well-Known Member

    Mar 6, 2016
    That pic looks like it's going off it's nut, glad to see ya scored.

    Getting closer and closer to finalizing arrangements for my 25th anniversary, and CR is currently at the top of the list.

    Being a first timer, I've got a few travel and surf related questions for you seasoned Tico vets. Don't wanna hijack Pump's awesome thread, so I'll probably start a thread here soon.

    Please be gentle with me
     
  9. nopantsLance

    nopantsLance Well-Known Member

    Aug 15, 2016
    Looks like a well timed trip
     
  10. nopantsLance

    nopantsLance Well-Known Member

    Aug 15, 2016
  11. Another Internet Surfer

    Another Internet Surfer Well-Known Member

    50
    Mar 27, 2017
    No waves were over 6 foot during this trep.

    No surfing either.

    Aldo Nova said Life is an internet fantasy.

    City nights
    Summer breezes makes you feel all right
    Neon-lights
    Shining brightly make your brain ignite

    See the girls with the dresses so tight
    Give you love, if the price is right
    Black or white
    In the streets there's no wrong and no right

    Outta site
    Buy your kicks from the man in the white
    Feels all right
    Powder pleasure in your nose tonight

    See the men paint their faces and cry
    Like some girl, it makes you wonder why
    City life
    Sure is cool, but it cuts like a knife
    It's your life

    So forget all that you see
    It's not reality, it's just a fantasy

    Can't you see what this crazy life is doin' to me

    Life is just a fantasy
    Can you live this fantasy life
    Life is just a fantasy
    Can you live this fantasy life
     
  12. sisurfdogg

    sisurfdogg Well-Known Member

    Jun 17, 2013
    Nice photo Pump! Glad you scored some Pura Vida.
     
  13. nopantsLance

    nopantsLance Well-Known Member

    Aug 15, 2016
     
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  14. Another Internet Surfer

    Another Internet Surfer Well-Known Member

    50
    Mar 27, 2017
    I' am very friends with several GTBLQ people and I don't appreciate the term, "***." SPecially when used in derogatory way.

    I will tell on you for that. WHo runs the ship around here? TAke me to him and I will stop this persecutan. If it contionues I will contact the organizations and have this place scolded properly by good authorities.
     
  15. aka pumpmaster

    aka pumpmaster Well-Known Member

    Apr 30, 2008
    I know the Hermosa Jaco area well so fire away.
     
  16. Barry Cuda

    Barry Cuda Guest

    Go spank your boyfriend, asshole.
    hahahahahahaha!!!
     
  17. LazyE

    LazyE Well-Known Member

    Aug 6, 2014
    Glad you scored Pump.

    Seems we have a new phagtroll. I only mean that in the nicest way ya rat. Piss off kook!
     
  18. Another Internet Surfer

    Another Internet Surfer Well-Known Member

    50
    Mar 27, 2017
    Lets see since I've been on here for what an hour?

    I have had several homosexual iinuendo remarks.

    What does that say about the people on here.

    You guys seem obsesses with the gays.

    And how old are you people? Throwin out "insults" like that doesn't really make you people that cool. Maybe if you guys are 12-years-old. Are you 12-yers-old.

    Barry Cuda. Is that some cleaver word play with the specie of fish. Wow, that's amazing. **** you must have studied at Southern New Hampshire University. I'm a Grand Canyon man myself.

    Oh Mr. Cuda laughing at your own attempts at comedy is in poor taste.

    You guys listen to anyone's stories on here, huh?

    This Pump guy sat on the beach watching five foot waves crash on the sandbar. Then he calls it ten foot.
     
  19. aka pumpmaster

    aka pumpmaster Well-Known Member

    Apr 30, 2008
    anybody who quotes Aldo Nova is alright by me