Our friends Kate and Ceri from England decided to give it a try one day while we were still on the beach waiting for high tide.
The waves are good even a couple of hours before full high tide arrives.
Most other people just wanna relax on the beach.
This is the place we did all of our surfing through. Friendly folks and reasonable prices.
One of the things you have to be careful for are all the other people in the water.
Here's Ceri waiting for a wave. They were having some bad luck with wimpy waves that day.
Here goes Kate giving it a try! She just missed the wave.
Ceri was similarly having a spot of bad luck.
You're never far from the pelícanos.
This is just the weirdest photo ever. I have no idea what's going on here.
Kate almost catches another wave!
She just needs to hop up on the board and she's in (like Flynn!)
There she goes! w000t!
Of course, these little 6 year old kids put all of us to shame.
There are always lessons going on at the surf shop. The owner pays his instructors pretty well, and they're all friendly and helpful.
Pelican diiiiiiiiiiiiiving for lunch!
This pelican almost got crunched by the wave. He escaped just in time.
This is Kate about to get smunched by a wave.
This is Kate getting smunched by a wave. I have no idea what smunched means, but the word I'd normally use is misinterpreted in too many different dialects of the English language.
Ceri almost catching a wave...
You're never far from the pelicans when you're surfing here. It's pretty cool.
Ooops, Kate got another bad wave !!!
Ooh, that's a good one! She almost had it too!
There were a few Québecois out doing lessons today. The lady was having a great first try at it.
So was her boyfriend.
Kate caught another good one. Sweeet!
Oh noes! She's off!
According to Ceri, 13 people die every year from being conked on the head by falling coconuts. So be careful.
Surfing is very hard on the body. Our hands, after two weeks, kinda looked like we had leprosy or something.
Mine were no better.
Samantha looks like she took a good beating or two.
Another day we went out, a shrimp ship had come in and was selling the day's catch to boats coming up to it. Mmmm ... fresh shrimp.
Choco, the head instructor dude, was out giving a lesson today.
As were a lot of local kids.
Our friend Brad was out giving his hand at it today.
Samantha was out on a shorter board today.
Up on a wave she goes!
Down under the wave she goes!
On the road again ... !!
¡¡Aieeee!!
Brad going out again.
Megan gave it a try too!
This is the flying Aligator. It looks pretty cool.
There are always people out going and doing lessons, with varying degrees of comedy.
Oh noes! Faceplant into the wave!
Brad hitting another wave.
Here goes Samantha on another wave.
Uuuup .....
... and down!
Me catching a small one to start the day out.
Wave over, man!
Done! Time to go swimming!
Catching a wave!
Here we goooooooooo!
Oh noes! Time to wipe out!
Wiiipeee out!
Doing an eskimo roll to go under a wave. When they're this big, you don't want them crashing on you.
Alley was doing very well.
Time for a nap.
The owner's sun Sean was awesome. Made us look bad.
