3-6′ fading swell with some fun ones to be had when the set comes in. Â Sunny skies with light winds.
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Pavones Surf Report Feb 4, 2011
Surf's Up in Pavones
6-8′ and good shape. Sideshore winds building through the day. Super sunny.
Happy Birthday to Me!
2-4’+ Clean early with sunny skies and no winds. Â A little fast.
Hoping my birthday swell fills in!
Pavones, Costa Rica Surf Report
1-2′ great conditions with pinner surf. Â Sunny skies and light cross shore winds.
How it All Began – The Surf Trip that turned into our Surf Camp
In January of 2003, Ingrid and I quit our jobs, sold our cars and all our stuff, flew to California, bought a truck and a callen camper, tricked out the camper shell with new walls, a bed, cabinets, fans, lights, a fridge, and drove south on our Central American surf trip. We basically turned down every road that went to the coast, had a look around, and stayed and surfed if we liked it, and moved on if we didn’t.
We created a diary of our exploits and adventures covering a year and a half road-surf trip through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. We finally ended up in Pavones, where we set up and still run Venus Surf Adventures, a surf camp in Costa Rica far from the trappings of modern life (well, most of them anyway), in a bucolic, remote, jungle beach town.
We love it here, and this blog is the story of how we got here.
Yes, Pavones is a perfect wave
Smaller today, sunny again!
Had to run to town today, so no photos, sorry…
Sunny weather, fast waves
2-4′ fun waves but a little too fast today. Great weather again!
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Fun surf today in Pavones!
4-6′ clean and fun with sunny skies and light winds building.
The Plot Thickens
So we thought it couldn’t get any worse. It did. We took the truck to a transmission guy, who wouldn’t touch it until we had the engine fixed. We took it to the engine guy, and he says, ” Sell it. Don’t drive it.” Basically we need to buy a new truck, a new motor, maybe both. It can’t really get worse, can it?
Post stress meltdown
Ready?
January 15, 2003
We got our bags, finally, and of course the only bag that was torn was the board bag. 🙁 Â Luckily the boards themselves were free from harm. Â Today the sun was out, the winds light, but the truck misbehaving. We spent 2 hours in the DMV today and are yet unsuccessful in acquiring the title to our truck. It seems that the person who we bought it from as well as the used car lot she bought it from no longer exist. We need signatures from both these people for the duplicate title. Catch-22, or something more bizarre? Â The truck has decided that it does not like gas from the front gas tank, so were having that looked at tomorrow, as the transmission people won’t touch it until the engine runs well. Aside from that, everything is great!
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