July 13th, 2022

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Colorados twin sister when she’s being naughty, appropriately named ‘Wallarados”. Still plenty of swell as you can see keeping people on their toes when those sneaker sets rolled through.

But really though, it wasn’t all walled up, I just liked that shot because it showed people scrambling to get out of the impact zone. This guy however was in the right spot and is seconds away from getting possibly one of the best waves of his life!

Another (spoiler alert – and there will be plenty more of these kinds of shots) epic day of waves!

Barrels, barrels and more barrels!!!

If you couldn’t find a barrel out there, I highly recommend going to your local optometrist as soon as possible; it was that easy to get shacked in shackleville today.

Jackson’s top turn 10 with his 20/20 vision!

Taking to the air is always a fan favorite, or at least I enjoy seeing the progression sessions always going down here at one of Nicaragua’s premier surf spots.

Not every wave is always ridden. But it is the ones like this that stings the most when you see nobody able or in position to take it. Look at all that perfection that traveled all that way across the South Pacific, and all those people out there to catch a wave like that, but it unfortunately went completely unridden. Still absolutely beautiful regardless!

You wouldn’t know it if I didn’t say it, but it was drizzling a good majority of the time I was shooting. I got plenty of shot’s but trying to find shelter along the beach isn’t so easy, so I have to play hide and seek with my camera under my shirt and still try and get the shots. Here’s B-dog walking back to his condo after a pretty fun late morning session.

Ok, so remember I promised you all a special little extra sum sum. . . so the word on the street was that the reef up the road was completely dreamy and perfect. I looked outside as I was about to sit down and write up my meager early day report and low and behold the sun had came out and of course I’m not going to skip out on some prefect waves if my friends are telling me it’s really good, so I went down for a second session. Hope you enjoy round two from today!

Super clean, offshore, sunny and WAY bigger than the beachie and only a hand full of amigos out.

Nolan nabbing one super bright and sunny frothy left.

He was killing it out there!

Every wave he surfed it with ultimate precision and flawless!

Another good buddy who also has a birds eye view of the joint, came out to play too.

The classic Cesar wrap around on his classic PD’s killer whale tabla.

Taking this one all the way in after about 4 or 5 nice turns and then it was right back to the compound and back to work.

Bear-Dog, sliding down this super buttery wave face and you can see how much speed he’s already got paddling into these fast moving little mountains of water out there.

Utilizing all that speed and cranking it super hard off the bottom. This was is a bit tricky (as in it’s completely different and needs to be surfed in a whole different manner than our other break just down the way).

A lot more water is moving around out there too than other spots, but Barry isn’t helping with keeping the conditions clean with all that water displacement. Just joshin’ homie! Love that huge gouge you’ve crushed into that section of the wave! Super sick!!!

There’s actually a whole lot more to just this one wave/sequence, but here is an important shot, because as yo can obviously see, he’s slamming on the breaks pretty hard. . . hmmm I wonder why????

AHHHH, it’s that inside bowl that loves a high tide and when it’s happening, you can even get barreled at this mush burger but still super playful wave!

Anyone up for a second or maybe even third session with nice clean lines like this?????

Derek was the other one out who made it a fancy five (the prefect number for any lineup really) Check out how late and steep this drop is he’s taking off on. Also, he was the only regular footer out there of the five. So it’s obvious you can see he’s going for the super late drop and back-dooring that right.

Yeah, he stuck the drop and now it’s time to kick in the rail work game…..

Now that’s about as stylish and actually a pretty darn impressive thing to do there on such a tiny little twin fin wrapping out that perfect roundhouse wrap. If you’re a surfer and have surfed this wave, you know how hard it is to even get into a wave here with anything under 6+ foot board with some volume. Lot’s of technical stuffs going on. But that’s my man D! Yeah buddy!!!!!

Anyone up for the high tide inside bowl section I was telling you about??? Hahahaha

Ok, time for some PR edumacational seriousness but fun stuffs! If you really want to give back to the local community, here’s your chance. Help CREA celebrate their success (which thanks to many of you already in past donations, which has helped them achieve many of their goals thus far. Right now you can help CREA by donating OR if you are here locally you can go and attend the event in person and help them out by purchasing a ticket the their event OR you can even donate online if you can’t be here, but either way, it always helps to give back to this community that has given SO SO much to everyone who’s come to visit this wonderful and amazing place that has given to each and everyone who’s visited Nicaragua. Here is a direct link if you wish to purchase tickets or to even just make a donation, any help is always GOOD help!PURCHASE HERE! Muchísimas gracias in advance 😉

In closing for todays surf report, I would like to say thank you to everyone who’s helped in one way or another the last few days while I was shooting like a madman while we had or I should say were very fortunate to have had all these amazing waves lately. Check back in as Mr. Chris will be your photo report host for the next few days. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the evening and hope to see you back here again mañana! Cheers ~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