August 16th, 2023
Somewhere in Nicaragua
Howdy everyone! Welcome to Wednesday’s surf report from Playa Colorado. Josh here behind the lens for the next few days. Today there were some surprisingly fun waves if you were a little patient in the lineup.
I like this guy’s confident approach on this right drainer! He is in Samurai form pulling into this tube with no rail grab! Bonzai!
He traveled for a little bit on this hollow right, but ended up getting left behind by the speed of the wave. I think he pulled into this right for the vision as opposed to hoping to make it.
Although today’s action mostly consisted of barrels, there were some mean hacks thrown down. This was the most powerful move of the day!
Oh here comes the throaty second section! When these north peak bender lefts come through they are reeealllly fun.
Although our hero took a very good line on this left, he was still a little slow with his pumping to make the exit further down the line.
Heyner Ruiz squeezing through this mini-mousehole 🙂
Finally we are seeing flickers of Colorados coming back to life! Hollow, but relatively tame barrels.
Need for speed! Although this wave was too fast, I bet our surfer just wanted to get a wave and some green screen time under his belt while waiting for the next corner.
I came back to see how the conditions had changed with the higher tide this afternoon, and there were no barrels, but it was super rippable. Did someone order a large vanilla shake?
One last vanilla belt spray shake from down South by the river-mouth to close today’s surf action.
This chica’s got it right! Get out and on the surf while the getting is good! I was surprised by the quality of the surf today, but we’ve all been a bit tube starved here, so I’m sure today’s surfers were thankful for the teaser morsel (today’s good mini-tubes). Tomorrow looks like it should be fairly similar to today, so be sure to poke back in, with hopes of more tube-time from paradise!
RECENT REPORTS
Happy 4th of July! The size of the surf dropped notably today. There were still good sets, but patience was key (again). Hard to believe there were no takers on this one!
Hey amigos! Welcome to Thursday’s surf report from Playa Colorado. I saw some of the biggest sets of the year today. There were epic moments, but it was still a bit slow between the high quality waves.
Hey everyone! Josh back behind the lens for a few days. The swell today is the largest it has been in about two weeks. It was still slow between the sets, but there were a few one hour windows and pulses.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Welcome back for the Tuesday surf report! Good news. . . we have some new swell energy in the water and it was a good old fashioned Nicaraguan barrel-fest for breakfast! Jump on in and check it out.
Greetings and welcome to another fabulous day of waves and beautiful sunny conditions here in Southern Nicaragua! If you like tropical blue water and waves that make your mouth salivate… then you’ve come to the right place. Enjoy ~
Happy Sunday Funday everyone! And what a Funday of a Sunday it was for sure! We had some really dreamy like weather and lighting out there this morning and as that tide for fuller and fuller it just got better and better. Check it out!