http://www.amcostarica.com/ Pavones is such a beautiful place with a crazy history. Been there many times and its the most beautiful place on the planet....oh yea and one of the best waves!!! Pura Vida!!!
Except for Matapalo. And Guacalillo. And Salsa Brava. I camped at the river in 01. great wave. gringo infested. Muh fuggers think they own the place.
dude never knew bout that guy. i knew weismenn went down there and screwed up a bunch of ****, but its crazy how much stuff went down there in the 70's!
Fowlie is the whole reason pavones has access....he is the original gringo that cut that place out of the jungle...look him up...interesting stuff
Oh yea. One of my favorite places too! The whole scene is a perfect..."I gonna chill and surf and repeat"!
Casa Siempre Domingo was owned by my friends parents and that's where he lived till he moved here to cape cod in 6 grade. They were (still are) buddies with bob Hurley, the mcgonagles, and a bunch o famos people. His dad was shooting there and Kelly slater came over and asked him to stop because he was shooting a video with some chick who didn't want to get photographed. He said if it was anyone other than Kelly he would have kicked them out of the lineup. This his house this his front yard
never beeen always go other locations less busy in central america. the wave looks awesome. how crowded is it really there say during a head high swell. are we talking 100 people in the lineup or 30? on average?
Hody, I have surfed pavones 4 different times. Never saw it super crowded. Always plenty of waves and opportunity to catch them. It's so spread out even when it's absolutely firing. It's worth the trip!!!
the most ive seen has been about 50 or 60 heads in the water but that was on a slightly overhead day. When it get above that its the scenario where you might be in a pack, but if a guys gets on a wave at least you won't see him again for 30 minutes.
Never seen 50+ at pavones... Maybe if you include very last section. I have surfed both epic (actual swells of the decade and sideshore struggling and soft...pavones kinda soft anyways) and not so epic with crowds in both conditions there. You can surf that place two different ways. Long game all the way or find "your" sweet spot and get a cycle going. I enjoyed both
I started laughing out loud the first time I caught a wave there, about the time I got past the cantina and figured out it would keep breaking for another quarter mile or so into the bay, and every time a section looked like it would be too fast, it would slow down and open up and I started laughing at the magic. The long game is a beautiful magic carpet ride. And I am regular footed. Then you could watch it on video at the Manta Ray at night. Is it still there?
LOL....did the same thing as I paddled back out after the first wave I caught. Looking back up the line laughing out loud and thinking this is frickin nuts....just a long, peeling, grinding, perfect wave created by mother earth. Had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreamin...5 hours later it was still crankin. Magical. magical, magical.... Pura Vida for sure!!!!
Was there in Feb of '95 for an out of season south swell. i was living in Hermosa when a friend came by with the then Surfline fax report callin for it. we stayed at the Cantina for $4 a night. surfed it from bigger than double overhead to overhead for 3 days with no more than 10 guys out. on the 4th day we woke up to people sleeping in their boardbags on the street, chest high and 50-60 guys out. ahh those were the days, before the internet blew shyt outta control.
magic indeed. got there in the dark and awoke to fog. peered outta my room at the Cantina to see lines cruising by in the fog. my friend and i paddled out from there caught a couple thinking it was sooo insane. then the fog lifted and we could see we were sufring way way inside. fukin pinchin ourselves. that first day there were only 3 guys out. life is good
