September 25th, 2020

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Yes, as you can already see that the waves weren’t cooperating that great in the earlier part of of the day.

But the positive side was the lineup was practically empty. There were still some pretty fun little waves to ride out there, as you can see from Sebastian who’s from Southern California, but unfortunately had his last day here today. Not a bad way to spend your last day in Nica-Land, right buddy!

The only other person Sebastian had to share the waves with was Emiliano. And if it weren’t for running into Emi at the last minute when I was checking it, I would have probably just skipped shooting all together and postponed it util the PM session.

Glad I didn’t though. This could have very well been all we had to see for any surfing today as the cloudy sky was indicating some real potential rain at some point today.

AAAaaahhh look 3 makes the perfect number for a nice little surf report. Yeah Derek, get out there… let’s see some ripping brother!

Emi just toying with the onshore messy surf like it’s nothing!

We all know the lineup would be packed if it was as good as it was a few days ago. But hey…. somebody’s gotta walk the doggy’s right?

Pretty funny because I think this was really right around noon too!

Derek keeping his word and going out there and giving me some proper surf report material.

If you’ve been following all the reports Derek has been on since he’s been here throughout the entire lockdown, you’ll recall that he’s usually steezing it out on his super cruisy Fowler single fin. But make no mistake, you put a standard shortboard with a thruster fin setup under his feat and it’s like watching the WCT surf again after about 9 months of nada!

Emi definitely giving Derek a little run for his money in their “unofficial” friendly little mini heat, between two well seasoned surfers!

I wasn’t really keeping score because I only had a short little window to shoot today. But I bet you it was a close tie!!!

Looks like there was a bit of a paddle battle…. Emi and Derek, let us all know who took home the Jeep Wrangler!! Hahahaha

Oki, so as I mentioned in the intro, today had a little bit of a mix of stuff going on, so I ended up getting word that the evening session was looking pretty glassy and had cleaned up quite a bit. So as an added Friday surf report bonus, here’s my round two of todays report.

It may look a bit similar to earlier today, but I promise it really was cleaner and nicer!

Some new friends I made at the sunset time “glass off” hour, visiting from Brazil. I have’t seen a single Brazilian friend here for almost a year. It was nice to finally hear some Portuguese in such a long time.

The “one” who always has eyes on the water…. my umbilical chord to the waves. Yup, Mr. Derek gave me the call about the evening glass off and look how right he was!

Looks like he’s performing a birth or something about to get interestingly painful right about here on this crazy inside closeout! DUDE watch yo head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes!!!! Jaja

And this my friends is what we call a BANGER!!!! We all know the sunsets here are always typically pretty good…. but this here, this blazing gold encrusted cloud spread across the curve, getting eaten by the sea work of art was off the charts AMAZING tonight! And with that, I bid you adieu!! Dulces sueños mis amigos y hasta mañana ~