Crawlin' In Nicaragua

[surfercook]

My first trip to Nicaragua is in the books! What an amazing week. Stayed in central Nic at a surf camp called SOLID from 12/3 to 12/11. Steps to the surf was a treat as was a consistent swell all week. No sup though and when I connected w/Creek and told him that he dubbed me "Crawler", which I had never heard before and made me lol! I shot over 100GB of raw vid and about 5 GB of hi res stills. So far I've been dragging getting everything edited and uploaded but here's a taste.
  I went w/my wife on Spirit out of AC w/a short lay over in Fort Lauderdale. ($300 round trip plus one piece of shared/checked luggage for $60 also round trip). No boards packed because I rented at the camp. Nice stable they had too. I was a touch worried I wouldn't be able to prone it for a whole week but I managed quite a few good waves every day for the whole week. Lucky me!
  They had a sup there but it was seriously THE worst sup in Nic! It was a molded plastic Lifestyle, "Freestyle" model. The same plastic your typical kayaks are made of. And to make matters worse it was missing both of it's generic plastic twin fins and one of the deck plugs so it took on water. It was near impossible to paddle straight. I only jumped on it the last day of trip because, well, I'm a sweeper! 
Links here to about 1/3 of the pictures I took. I still have to upload the shots I have from our trip to the city Leon, they are amazing.

https://flic.kr/s/aHskMEsZeK

https://flic.kr/s/aHskJ9Sybh

These are the four boards I rode and the "Freestyle" sup.

9'0" Stewart- 6" trailer w/side bites


7'2" Rusty "Piranha"


6'4" T. Paterson "Power Pill"


7'2" "Iron Hammer" funshape set up as a twin w/the center fin of the thruster set missing (quite loose).








Sunsets were stunning!

[NateNate]

Great pics, looks like a blast. Thanks for sharing.

[supthecreek]

Nice cookiemon.... looks great, even if you had to prone all week. 
Good week to leave this icebox!

[surfercook]

Here are the rest of my pictures.

El Transito beach walk north and City Leon

https://flic.kr/s/aHskN9EX9k

https://flic.kr/s/aHskJAYcjQ

[Wetstuff]

Cool pics Marc - glad you had fun.  ..it does make Nosara look like Carmel however.  No marxist rebels collecting tolls? ..how's the belly? 

Jim

[surfercook]

No marxist rebels collecting tolls? ..how's the belly?

lol, belly's ok. I stuck w/bottled water and stayed away from the tap water. Also the ice at the camp was made from bottled water. No rebels, everyone seemed quite peaceful thankfully.

it does make Nosara look like Carmel however

Not sure what you mean by this.

[SUPvol]

Very nice -- can you tell us what type of camera you used?

[surfercook]

Very nice -- can you tell us what type of camera you used?

Thanx for scopin', SUPvol. Here're da cams. The Canon belongs to the surf camp. The Panasonic is mine and I do frame grabs off the video.

[Wetstuff]

Cook'ster..  20yrs ago Nosara was in the middle of nowhere-soon Costa Rica but there was still wood-fired pizza, German food and plenty of gringos.  Your village looks waay primitive by comparison. (Carmel-by-the-Sea is where Clint Eastwood was mayor) Nice to see your wife shares adventure.  Mine talks about bus tours of Rome or a barge on the Seine.   Cheers.

Jim

[covesurfer]

Wow, looks like you scored mucho waves! Nice that you had a whole quiver of boards to ride too.  That 7-2 Ironhammer sounds like one I'd like to try. Thanks for posting, great shots!

[SpaceCoastPaul]

Great pics. Another spot to put on the list for the flat spells.

[surfercook]

Thanx SpaceCoast and covesurfer for checking out my kitchen once again. Love whippin' up a recipe every now and again!

Carmel-by-the-Sea is where Clint Eastwood was mayor

I knew about Clint and Carmel. He's always been one of my fav actors. Ever since my dad took me to See "Dirty Harry" when I was really young and told me not to tell mom! Nic is def a bit behind CR in development but it's on it's way forward.