Costa Rica for the first time

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surf playa negra. its sick

 

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Youre in luck as there are no reef's in Santa Teresa. You will probably be surfing La Lara or Playa Carmen which will work on any tide. If you are riding a shortboard go at low tide rising, if Longboard go whenever. If you need to rent boards go to Jobbies.

 

no reef. just lava.


4 miles north of S.T.

 

this is my li'l wifey in the "tidal pool" south of playa carmen. you got to get there early, before it get occupied. there a bunch of urchins and clown fish. it's a cosmic experience. the wife can't swim, and this place has big ass waves breaking just outside the shelf.

 

That pool is the size of a swimming pool for sure! cool view around it though trees growing out of the ocean. There are some other great pools if you go around the back side of Mar Azul toward Bowling Balls. Loves The Mal Pais and love that it is still relatively uncrowded. Im sure chich agrees

 

Last time there was when they put this up

there a lot of pissed off people. Except Jorge, he owned the field. He had a shower and a turdlet next to my camp in 01. 100 colones to use the shower. the wife and I would go in together and do out laundry. They sell a long bar of detergent we'd bring in and rub all over our clothes. He let young girls shower for free then disappear until they got out. When we were there a dog came down and spit out 8 puppies. 2 looked like St. Bernards and 6 like pit bulls.we got rid of them before we left. 2 on an island outside of paquero, 2 in Cobano at the restaurant next to the bus stop, 2 in Cabuya, and two around MP. the runt the wife fed by hand. we left it with a gringo 1/2 way between ST and MP. the last time there, we were going to the pizza place near MP and a light brown pit was sitting by the road. as we passed I saw him look at the wife and stared at us as we drove away. we went into the pizza(wood oven cooked) and a few minutes later the dog walked in and put his head in her lap.

that's her at Fernandos in Cabuya after the cops ran us off playa carmen. everyone wanted the fat gringo dogs.

 

That place now houses a couple surf shops, an upscale sushi bar, ice cream, coffee, T-shirt shop, and tons of shady docs. Pizza place is still there and does an all you can eat pizza on mondays. The Tico who owns like all of ST, older guy big cowboy hat and belt buckle, only guy with a helicopter, is actually starting to sell off some of the mountain land in MP....but the prices are nuts like 350 for a hectre, kind of sad I go there every year and every year it seems to get smaller and smaller. Still magical though for sure, Osa is still empty...so there is hope

 

I was offered 4 hectors for 10 thou. A powerful guy there was going to build me a tech school but my business fell onto me after the last visit. nomore trips to paradise after 05.

 

Man that sucks. Its gotten kind of weird down there in the last few years, they still havent paved the road, and the six hour drive from SJO diverts alot of people away to Jaco or Tamagringo, but now there are all of these famous people who have bought property there like Mel Gibson I think has been there for awhile but Bruce Springstein and Miley Cirus have places there now. The first night I was there this year I went for a late night walk and wound up talking to some guys around a pool, the next day I found out it was the band Rise Against. Strange demographic, very few locals still living there and its still like the wild west as far as crime goes, but you can surf everyday and its warm and still feels raw, so still paradise.

 

As close as it is to the equator the days are almost exactly 12 hours long everyday. Suns up at 5:30 and sets at 5:30, the sunset session is pretty brutal with the sun hitting you in the face but there is a new outdoor night club that kicks up around 5pm with the reggae music at Playa Carmen and while there look up and you will see 4sets of stadium lighting pointing at the break that they turn on sometimes and you can surf at night.

 

hey man, don't leave without having some pollo frito!

 

Dude, Playa Negra is in the guanacaste province of costa on the pacific side, so its just north of Santa Teresa. Not the Carribean side. Thought Id let you know.

 

Casado con piscado entero.

 

Ha! My wife had casado piscado tonight for dinner at l'as tortugas. I can highly recommend this hotel/restaurant. Low key, ecofriendly and rustic, on the beach. First time here, the localism caught me off guard a bit in playa grande. Tamarindo had a great vibe in the line up though.

Anyone ever hear of Tribal Adventure Tours? Met the owner in the line up and thinking of setting up a trip to witch/ollies/others. But I can't find any info online except for a Facebook page that was set up in dec. His business card seems legit but was wondering if anyone can verify?