October 11th, 2010

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Yo Lance, check me out!  On the first morning of our trip, we decided to drag a few lines.  We caught two quick bonitos and then nailed this Wahoo!  He was about 40lbs.  You guys need to set up a Surfari Charters in Indo man – soooooo many fish just waiting to be caught.  We also got a huge Sailfish on our last day – and we weren’t even trying.  We ate this guy for 2 days.  Yum.

You know Mr. Brown was getting his.  This is barrel number 1,000,001.  Many of the best ones happened without a photographer.  Where are you Lucha???

The highlight of our trip was a session at Rifles.  Anybody who knows this spot knows that it’s pretty fickle and you are lucky if it breaks at all.  This day was well overhead on sets and FIRING!  I got the longest backside barrel of my life here – at least 300m.  It was unbelievable and made the whole trip worthwhile.  This is a shot of me on my second wave there.  I was stoked that Capt. Crunch stuck around and took a few photos this day.  It’s easily the best right I’ve ever surfed.

If it seems like we surfed a lot of Rights, it’s because we did.  In three weeks, I surfed two lefts.  The first was 1-2 feet and the second was head-high Macaronis with practically nobody out.  On this day I surfed for 6 hours straight.  It wasn’t the best Macaronis, but it was pretty damn fun.  This is a lineup shot of one of the surf guides from the land camp there.  How fun does this wave look?!!!

Here’s a cool shot of our boat.  She’s an 80′ wooden hull cruiser – built in the traditional Indonesian style.  Here name is the Mangalui – Ndulu which means “Wave Searcher”.  She was the perfect vessel for our trip and I have to admit, it felt cool to pull up to a spot in a pirate ship.

That’s all from here…for now.  Mr. Brown and I are in Bali at the moment – it’s flat today and tomorrow and we are enjoying tierra firma.  I think we are headed to G-Land for the next swell so please stay tuned.  It’s looking like a fun one.  This shot is from the deck of our boat.  It looks a little like the September Sessions cover.  If you’ve never been on an Indo boat trip, make sure you give it a go before it’s too late.  You won’t be sorry.

After been checking Pancho’s pics from INDO we are going to throw a couple of shots in from Nicaragua.  Waves were kinda fun down here and almost nobody was in the lineup.  It was running about chest to shoulder high on sets with nice offshore winds all day long.  Check it out!!!

You gotta believe us when we say that the lineup was almost empty.  Here is one of the many rights that rolled in with no takers.  It was small but nice fotm, so it was pretty fun.

When we got to the beach there were only these two guys out and a few beinners trying to learn on their own.  Here are Dave and El Pelon sharing a sweet looking peak.

Devin paddled right out front and was scoring some nice little nugget.  Check him out attacking this closed out section.

Some people think tattoos are sweet, or art, or just a way to have fun and spend some money.  Check out this dude walking down the beach, and showing us his map.

Hey ladies, it is not a good idea to fight your boyfriend.  But if he loves you he’s not going to do anything wrong to you.  Just give you some love!!!

Waves were perfet to take the big pangas out, and that’s exactly what Eberly did.  Check him out looking down the line, waiting for the right moment to rip the lip off.

Come on guys, do not let all these waves roll in with nobody on.  Make sure to make it to the beach tomorrow and if you can not make it, just make sure to check us back out!!!