Two beach days behind.
Surfing here is amazing. Just picture this. A bus picks you up from the hostel at 10am and takes you to the Maderas beach.
It´s a very bumpy ride of about half an hour, but so worth it. There you can hire boards for 5 USD. It´s a beautiful beach break and it only takes about 10 seconds to get to the break - none of that walking for miles with a heavy board... The waves are about 2-3 foot, lovely waves, some surfers in water but never too crowded. When you feel like a break, there´s a "bar" on the beach selling cold beer and other drinks for 40p each, and the catch of the day grilled and served with rice, salad and fried plantains for $5. Or a bag of roasted cashew nuts for 10p.
There are lots of little crabs running around on the beach, and it makes very good entertainment. Ok, it´s a bit windy, the sand is blowing to your face occassionally, and the sand gets very hot at midday so it´s a bit painful to walk on it, but still, it´s pretty much a paradise.
aahh... but all this comes with a cost. That is, now after two full days on the beach and "surfing" , I look like I´ve been severely beaten up. Thursday was a very good day surfing wise, the waves were nice and gentle, lots of good long rides. I was using a 9ft longboard at the beginning and then changed to a 7"7 NSP (my all time favourite!!) and it was FUN! Friday was a lot rougher, and I made a mistake of taking the big and heavy longboard which definitely wasn´t a good choice for the massive and fairly choppy waves. After a few near-death experiences I gave up the longboard and changed back to the NSP, but the damage was done... I should really take a picture of my legs as they´re definitely a sight on their own right!
I´ve been hanging out with Claire and Will and some Dutch girls, it´s been really nice and chilled out. Bumped into the American bloke from my few days in San Jose, he invited us to a pool party at this fancy hotel on the hill. We went, and left very quickly after one drink. That place was just wrong! It just didn´t belong here. Not a 5 star resort like that, full of annoying drunken Americans, in the middle of so much poverty.
It´s funny how I keep bumping into the same people in random places... The three Aussies I was hanging out with in Puerto Viejo went gliding past me in a canoe in Tortuguero, and then we met again in Monteverde, on a ticket counter. When we departed in Puerto Viejo, everyone´s plans were still up in the air, so it was pure coincidence that we happened to go to all the same places... It was really nice to catch up again.
I´ve been so good when it comes to partying... well, I haven´t, at all. I´ve been such a little old lady on this trip. I get so tired by 9pm that staying up, not to mention going out, is completely out of question! Last night Sara the Dutch girl (she´s really sweet and just 19!) made us dinner and we shared a bottle of wine. I was up until 10pm, which is probably my record... I´m so sad. But I´ve been sleeping like a baby, 9 or 10 hours a night usually, regardless of the noise around me.
Leaving SJDS today, heading to Isla de Opetepe. My sunburnt face and bruised legs will thank me for that. I think another day on the beach would´ve killed me!
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