Amber Is The Color Of Your Energy Friday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

If you've ever surfed Third Reef Sappharua, then this is a familiar silhouette (#1)...  Mark the Poolman on his 8'8" cutting a perfect line on this La Paz right.  Mark and his crew go to El Salvador twice a year and have established an enviable rapport with the locals.  Always fun to watch him, both in the water and out...  Also quite the whiz at trivia...

Slightly smokey skies and 15 miles visibility.  Winds were steady onshore at 3.7kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temp was 52.5 and the water is 66.0, which feels quite toasty.  High tide was at 11:07am +4.3' and low tide follows at 11:07am +2.7'.  We have a variable swell mostly west at 260º at 2.6' and the surf was pulsing from 2' to 5'...  It would be small and then these mackers would come out of straight west and just clean up...  Looks like it's trying to do something.  Film crew is leaving Hermosa...  There might be someplace to park now...

In #2 the message is pretty clear!  The first question people always ask when they've heard you've been to El Salvador is, "Is it safe?"  Our experience has always been great, not that there aren't spots we wouldn't go to in San Salvador or South Central for that matter.  For the most part the vibe is more like that at the Surfer's Inn.  Of course then the Brazilians show up...  But wait...  For the first time in forever we ran into two groups of Brazilians who were absolutely great.  There were a group of women surfers at La Paz and they were enthusiastic and friendly.  Then at Roca Sunzal there was a group of about seven or eight guys who surfed together and were also very cordial.  Their main guy was a longboard champ from Rio and he went to great pains to make sure everyone behaved...

This (#3) is one of the walls of the Cadejo Brewery north of Sunzal.  The Cadejo is a mythical wolf/dog that sees everything in black and white.  If it's good he makes it better, if it's bad, he scares you into making it right...  Our beer connoisseurs said the brew still needs some work, but the concept of craft beer is new in El Salvador and to be honest we didn't try every beer...

Capitán Don Congrejo flashing across the face of this unwinding rope...  He repeatedly took off on the bigger waves no matter where we were.  At Bocanita he was so far back that he was almost taking off on the left.  He made it look like Backdoor.  At Sunzal he was always the farthest outside.  He didn't have to worry about anyone taking off behind him because there was no one back there...

Samba tonight.  The restaurant AND the dance.  5:30pm... 

✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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