January 18th, 2024
Somewhere in Nicaragua
Hi everyone! Welcome to Thursday’s surf report from Panga Drops, specifically the French Fries peak. John paddled out on a 9ft Wavestorm and dominated the lineup.
Ahh! I think John might’ve missed a little barrel section here. Could you have squeezed in there?
There were two little local Nica kids hippity-hopping through the line-up. A nice mini-snap from the mini-surfer.
Decent body mechanics from Azulito on this crispy clean right-runner.
There you go Azulito! That’s a better top-turn! He still counter-rotated though.
John cruise or Juan Cruise?
Switch jump! John leveraging the extra length and width of the 9ft board to work on his gimmicky tricks.
And a regular footed floater to close the end-section.
Little blue with his “GRRR” face in full effect here.
Sometimes when the waves are small at French Fries, the best line on a longboard is simply cruising across.
Low, toes, twist! Excellent body mechanics from John during this cutback. Check his line of sight, trailing hand touching the wave-face, and lead hand coming up and around to match his line of sight.
Little Blue, what did I tell you about counter-rotating? Haha. Well John and Azulito were the stars of today’s report at French Fries. Tomorrow’s forecast looks like we’ll have lighter wind and a little more swell, so hopefully I can capture a few more shredders in action tomorrow. Thanks for checking in and have a good one.
RECENT REPORTS
Hello Wednesday, I checked Panga Drops mid morning and the wind was blowing pretty stiff and sideshore. Still plenty of swell in the water. @tonyzphotos reporting.
Happy Tuesday and April 1st. The sun was out, still swell in the water. Low tide was fast and hollow. @tonyzphotos reporting
Hello Monday, The swell continues into today with some cleaner conditions. There were some long waits, but for the few patient people in the water there was some glory to be had. @tonyzphotos reporting.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Hola & Happy Hump day Wednesday amigos!!! WOW, what a long day of surfing, sun and absolute fun from pretty much sun up to sun down. It was a marathon of surfing and shooting, which is the reason for the super late report. A lot of photos to go through… so hope you enjoy the..
Buenas noches mis amigos! Got in a late afternoon session, and the timing, I’ll have to say that the lighting was just right! Go ahead and peek behind that magic palm fringe curtain and see what we had for todays magic surf!
Howdy and Welcome to the Monday surf report! Things were pretty mellow out there today. Not a crazy big swell, but lots of fun and the right size for anyone who had the desire to jump in and catch a few…!