May 25th, 2019

Somewhere in Nicaragua

After arriving to the beach around 7AM, I was amazed to finally see the onshore mess was gone and the conditions went pretty much to glassy to light offshore.

Mark stoked to finally see some light at the end of the tunnel of endless rain and onshore winds. Also a great thing since it was his last surf day of his trip!

Woody, also a friend and long time visiting surfer with Mark taking a solid chunky one on the inside bowl at the reef.

After watching my two amigos swap waves for a coupe hours after sun up. I panned my camera down to the beach break to see this! I figured after I wrapped up shooting with my buddies, I might as well go see what all the hype was down that way.

Sure enough, it was CRAZY!!! Crazy barrels, crazy sandbars, crazy bebris in the water from all of the rainwater runoff… Ricky not dodging the barrel, but definitely trying to dodge a thousand little pieces of love that came all the way from Managua last night.

Some of the cleaner looking barrels looked a bit like this.

One of the other amigos (of the other two I was shooting earlier this morning at Pangas) is Kim, you can’t really see him, because he’s super slotted deep in this PC green room mini cavern. This also happens to be one of his favorite waves on the planet. Can you guess why???

It sure didn’t look anything like this yesterday or the day before that or the day before that. Glad it’s somewhat back to normal.

If you were out surfing today…. chances are VERY likely you got a sick barrel.

Off course if you’re 7’2” those barrels need to be about 8 feet. Parker opting for the rail game since the surf was only about 4-6 feet today.

I wish I could show you this sequence of Lesther’s 77 image sequence of this wave from today. Here he is about midway after the take off and he proceeded to get covered up for a solid more 40 frames or so. Then he punted a huge air reverse at the end and stuck it. It was for sure a 10!!!!!

Seth getting comfy in his favorite place, with a couple of onlookers ready to get some of their own.

I guess you can call this round two of the days sessions. NOT BAD and a lot of photos to go through that’s for sure!

There just wasn’t any way I was going to miss the afternoon session, so here’s how it looked after I came back after a little late lunch break.

To say today was good would be an understatement.

JJ was flipping out it was so GOOD! SIKKKKKKK air btw, buddy!!!!

Andy was on fire out there this afternoon. So many people were on fire! I’ll be going back through todays photos for a couple days from now, for sure!

Henderson putting everything into that bottom turn with hopes to get into the belly of that little beast!

Here he is again, different wave, but maybe his 100th wave from today none-the-less.

Dario navigating and putting into perspective with a little bit of the size we had out there on the bigger sets. Also showing how unfiltered the water is right now. Hope everyone took a nice long hot shower after todays sessions!!!

My mystery barrel surfer of the day goes to this lucky surfer.

Well, that’s about all I could squeeze in, since it was literally a marathon surf session of a day. It’s been raining again since the sun went down and it hans’t stoped since, but hopefully we’ll see the same if not even better conditions in the morning. Buenas noches ~Remember, even if you didn’t make the highlights you can always look at the link here for all theDaily Surf Shotsfrom each day, there might be a good chance you’re in there!AND don’t forget to follow us and always check out our current happenings on our daily Instagram stories hereNSRor my photography hereNica Surf Shots