What's Your Next Surf Trip Going to Be?

Haha, when you get To meet me sometime, especially surfing? You’ll see I’m pretty easy to get along with and I’m just as stoked to see someone else get theirs as when it’s me. I truly do respect people’s breaks though so that’s usually not an issue cause it comes through in how I act and what I say and do. Also helps to have some beef and a dented up Neanderthal face

 

My advice is if the swell is good, avoid Domes on a weekend. It's a nice wave, and breaks when other spots arent, but it can become a bit "locked down" at least up by the jetty

but definately surf it...for me anyway, a trip to that area always involves a bunch of sessions there.

 

I’m actually gonna be there during the week, and I think Domes is on a no go list for me anyhoo lol.
Going to look at forecast day before flight and make a plan for where to go. I’ll only have 2 1/2 days of surfing so I will most likely find one or two spots and stick with them. And i appreciate the heads up btw.

 

Hahaha, that’s what I’m gonna try and NOT do, believe me!

 

Playa Don Antonio is on the north side of the point known to REAL locals as Punta Higueras. Morons (american slob surfers that are pretending to be "ex-pats" so you think they are cool) call it "parking lots". The parking lot is real--it is located next to a dumpy rat-infested hotel called Casa Islena - with that you can now find it. It is a very long beach with many breaks. The bottom is really a sand filled in reef. Start there a couple of times--you will have plenty of room,
A word about surfing PR--DO NOT WALK ON REEFS....EVER (exception entering and exiting water, no urchins.). Sea urchins suck; fire coral is worse. Swim in, if you have to. Swim in a manner to be called "shallow swimming", on the surface. Make sure you bring, wax, fin key......and TWEEZERS!!! in case you err and walk on urchin.

 

Only been to CR once. Right at the end of september. Dude i thought it was the best. It rained every day. But around late afternoon/dinner time. The days were gorgeous. Not only that but everything is green and lush in the rainy season. It's pretty. I was talking to a local and he was saying hote in the dry season, everything that is green and lush in the rainy season turns brown and dead. I couldn't imagine it.

Crowds were super light and waves were great. In my opinion, rainy season is the time to go. Waves are of course priority but it's nice when you get beautiful scenery to go along with it.

 

Thank you for that info Barry. And I have two fin bags I take surfing - repair kit, extra fin screws, Fin keys, tools, TWEEZERS, etc. along with extra fins.
Tweezers were for exactly that - pulling pieces of shells out of feet lol. I’m putting Higueras on my hit list.

 

Biggsy,
Second what B said regarding urchins. I didn't get them in PR, thankfully, but I managed to embed several in my heels in Barbados whilst surfing Maycocks. Then gf (a surfing doc, phew) was picking them out of my feet in the hotel room with nail clippers & a tweezer by bedside light bulb. Not the best of times.

Tweezers aren't enough. After my debacle in Barbados, I now pack a small kit of two types of tweezers, nail clippers, needles, sterile gauze pads, mini alcohol wipe packets & perhaps most importantly a magnifier. Whoever is picking those things out of your feet won't always have 20-20, you feel me brah

 

I agreed to go with my girl and her family to DR in late April. Her parents are taking care of expenses and I figured I might potentially score a little something.

Going to be set up 1.5 miles up the shore from Playa Macao. I’ll probably be able to walk to and from the break. Scored some really fun waves when I was there last December. Planning to bring my swallow tail simmons and a hybrid if there is any potential in the forecast. Hopefully it works in my favor.

 

1000% Yank! I have a kit I put together from Army days thinking, so I could conceivably pull a bullet or tie an artery if needed. Also an extendable little mirror from the mechanics bags of tricks. And it’s small as hell. Only issue is whether to check it or stow it. I guess I’ll find out.
Either way I’m stoked to get any info I can Man- I knowledge is power.

 

The extendable mirror has a whiff of genius to it, Biggsy

Gonna add one to my kit

 

Just dumb ole Biggsy here but Thank you Sir.

 

Packing today... leaving in the morning for the Leeward Islands. Forecast for the upcoming week... Mixed bag.

 

Perhaps....but it will be a WARM mixed bag. Have fun.
Don't forget to write us a postcard. Say "hi" to mom. Change your underwear every day in case of an accident. Be polite to strangers. Take your medications every day. And watch out for all them floosies down there- they carry strange diseases!! And take some penicillin with you!!
Bon Voyageeeeee!!!

 

What....is....that....?

 

Pretty dang cool dude, I'd buy one

Who owns that Takayama?