NOAA Cruise Part 3-2: Mainland Mexico (equipo pinche gringos)

I know it sounds crazy, but Rodrigo and I wanted to surf perfect point break waves instead of scary, closed-out, windy, board-breaking waves so we kept driving south. We took a right at the Federale Inspection Station and found this really fun beachbreak--complete with tons of trash on the beach and 5 Texans out in the lineup. Surprisingly, the trash was terrible and the Texans were alright (ok, that was a bad joke). So, it wasn't a perfect point break, but it was a good warm-up session since I hadn't surfed in a month and a half. and they were the smallest we would find the whole trip.

We saw these waves... if we had seen them back here in CA we'd be all over it, but they were sub-par for down there.

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Now this is what I'm talking about:

A mysterious left pointbreak emerged from the mist... actually it was in the Stormrider Guide, so we knew exactly where it was.

More here and here.

We thought we would have to deal with banditos, while camping on the beach.

We were wrong. There was plenty of decent places to stay:

Even some more luxurious lodging

Downtown

We surfed a lot, warming up those muscles in these gentle left-handers for what was to come.

Oh yeah, there were sunsets:

While I was trying to take that last shot Rodrigo did this:

At the time, I was not pleased, but I knew it would be funny to talk about later so I didn't delete it.

 

The quarters were tight... and concrete

A sign.

 

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