October 23rd, 2020
Somewhere in Nicaragua
Happy TGIF surfers! It was another day of fun waves, however the continued onshore pattern was among us. Luckily the morning has been producing more ideal conditions than any other time of the day…. so let’s see how it went today.
The water was super clean and clear, but the conditions would have you believing otherwise. Unknown dude taking off on a decent sized onshore crumbler.
The one thing that can be said about these onshore conditions is that the water is always so blue and clear.
The benefit of surfing when we have these reverse conditions is that almost anyone who comes here to surf expects offshore waves… so when it does happen to be onshore, like it currently is, it’s almost like anywhere anyone comes from to surf here. So it’s like home (for most), except more than likely you get to be in board shorts! Just trying to stay positive! hahaha
If you like to improve your surfing, try surfing in slop. Like this amigo here, who’s been surfing pretty much every day regardless of the winds, weather or crowds, which isn’t even really a part of the factor.
Glassy,… yes, if you happen to be on it early enough in the day. This is how it looks.
This onshore part of the season reminds me a lot of being back home in California, where it’s onshore more or less 3/4 of the year.
John’s from the East Coast, so I’m not sure how his yearly ration pans out from good to bad for back home. But all I know is he was absolutely RIPPING out there today!
Another thing I noticed is we tend to have better waves than any other contest spot per capita per waves on any given regular basis (meaning holding period). Today would be considered super marginal. Yet, look at this rippable wave. I love this place no matter what!
John taking off on a decent set wave on todays marginal waves. I know people back in CA who would be frothing, even if the Northern or Southern swells were divvying up this kind of juicey sauce at any well known spot along the coast there.
JS has really come a long way from skim boarding in the shore pounders on his boogie board to this….. 100000%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Style just cannot be faked. Look at that line and flow along with power of spray. Lots of things to come from so many talented surfer from here!!!
It looks like it may be like this for the rest of the month here in Nica-Land. But if you’re a dedicated follower, you know this is only temporary. So stay tuned and don’t get too discouraged…. I have a really keen sense of optimism for November. As always, thanks for stopping by to check the days surf and my goofy palabras! Much love ~
RECENT REPORTS
Hey amigos! Welcome to Thursday’s surf report from Colorados. I saw the waves turn on and off about 7 separate times today. The conditions were in constant flux. It just so happened to be that the best window of the day was when I took pictures around 1:00pm.
Hey everyone! Welcome to Wednesday’s surf report from Colorados. The waves were better by all measurable metrics today. It was still walled up and slow, but there were definitely some 10 pointers to be had.
Hey amigos! Welcome to Tuesday evening’s surf report from Colorados. The swell was bigger and stronger today, but it was very slow between the sets. I think the lack of a secondary swell combined with the sandbars not being in perfect shape made for long waits.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Hello everyone, welcome to Hump Day Surf Report. The wind is still not collaborating with us, it’s been raining every night and the onshore stays all day.
Welcome to the Tuesday surf report everyone! The waves have been going off for the last 2 days. If you caught yesterdays report you saw exactly what I am talking about. Today it was just a tad smaller with a little less consistency, but the conditions are still amazing out there!!
Peaks like this were breaking most of the time and with just a few local surfers having fun with them.