Going to ???

I`m still not sure where to go next. But I wanna leave today. Yesterday I went to Playa Remonso south of San Juan del Sur just to see a different beach. it was worth it just for that reason. The whole bay is a resort with a hotel but also holiday homes. There are also lots for sale. Developement is fast here in Nicaragua and some of the appartment houses look a bit displaced but they so far have avoided the awful high storey concrete blocks. Some of the developments are nice Finca style buildings.

But back to Remonso: The surf was small and a local surf teacher proposed to walk into the next bay Tamarindo (not to confsed with Tamarindo/Costa Rica). The surf was a bit bigger, but still small. The fish was still in repair, so I took the shortboard and I surprisingly got every wave I paddled for. Guess I now have a decent paddle power. It was fun and the bay was beautiful with no developements and access only by foot or boat. I took the watercamera with me, but uploading pictures doesn`t work at this PC. There were nice cactus trees.

Altghough the best forecast is still for the caribic i`ve just skipped the idea of going to Bocas. I am sick of travelling 2 days just to see the swell dropping and hearing the infoumous words: “You should have been here yesterday, 6ft offshore, just unreal”. So after picking up my repaired Board I wanna go to Leon, which many peaple have recommend to be the nicest City in Nicaragua (Grenada is prbably also nice, but a bit dodgy and many reported stolen wallets or cameras. From Leon I wann make some tours to a vulcano and 30 min away are also surfspots which are reported to be absolutely uncrowded (glad the most nicaraguans don´t surf). Just see if there is some surf. Otherwise I can make my way back to Costa Rica (where the surf should be slightly bigger). If no new swell is coming I probably just go to the northern part of the Nicoye although I rally wanna go to the south to places like domenical or pavones. But everthing step by step and the next will be Leon.

So last cheers from san Juan del Sur

PS: we had a good christmas with lot of partying, but I managed to get to bed early enough to avoid to bad hangovers and still enjoyed the next day surfing.

EDIT:

since my surfboard was not ready, I decided to stay a day longer in san Juan del Sur.  So this gives me time to upload some pitures from the trip yesterday:

Shuttle Ride to Remonso:

Playa Tamarindo/Nicaragua:

Cactus @ Playa Tamarindo:

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