Mexico/Central America December
The Caribbean stretch around Costa Rica through Panama (i.e. Bocas del Toro) is a great option in December. Southern Hemi groundswells are generally smaller and less frequent this time of the year, though you may luck in to a swell event.
I'd recommending hitting up Central America, and keep a loose itinerary to chase swells to either coast based on the forecast.
I was there a similar time in 2000 and we had good waves most days up North in Baja on the west coast but found it pretty crowded with seppos....so much so that a few spots became a full on pain in the ass...didn't really score much once we crossed the sea of cortez until we got to Pascuales where we had a couple of nice days of pretty heavy beachies...then a few hit and miss days all the way down the Puerto Escondido which turned out to be really consistent...we had good waves from 2 foot to 10 foot every day for two weeks down there...
I've done Bocas around xmas a couple of times now, it certainly gets waves, pretty good actually and not too crowded, not when it was solid anyway. I hear the wave just over the border on the carribean side also gets very good. Its a fair traverse from Bocas (Carribean) to say Santa Catalina (Pacific), took us over a day by bus. Good luck, great place.
Hey Tux Pascuales had real grunt spent two weeks there (1987)must have seen 20 boards snapped, one bloke blew a ear drum got memories of the absolute floggings when at 6ft or bigger and a memory of a scary stand up barrels it was very consistent as was Rio Nexpa and Puerto Escondido.
Think if I ever when back I would head further south to the right hand points bit of a secret back in the day.
Thanks for all this. I was thinking Bocas might be the surest option but good to know it is worth keeping an eye on the Pacific too! Keep it flexible.
Yeah I thought Pascuales was heavy as...then I got to Peurto
Escondido certain held more size when it got big I surfed the left hander down the end of the beach with all the other chickens.
There is some incredible footage of Bruce Irons surfing humungous Pascuales around, worth a look. Fuck he pulls into some heavy heavy tubes.
Step offs though, yeah?
Thats the one
I haven't seen much footage of people paddling big Pascuales. I think because its so shifty
Hi all,
I've got 6 weeks late Nov-end of Dec in Mexico. Want to surf for 2 weeks. Not sure if the south will be worthwhile this time of year. Thinking about heading further south to Carribean coast waves. Anyone able to give me suggestions?
Shane