According to intel, the country of Ecuador contains 2237km of coastline. A strategic use of an amphibious landing will be crucial for the success of the "Asian Invasion" of Ecuador. The following excerpt describes a training mission.
Mission Status: Completed
Spring break means one thing for me... surfing and beer. Last spring break I headed to San Diego and into Northen Baja, Mexico for a surf trip with my buddy Brandon and his friend Chris. What we noticed about surfing in Northern Baja was actually what we weren't noticing... a lineup (many people in the water lining up for the next wave). We didn't make it far down the coast last year and since then I've been wanting to return and explore more.
A year has past and it was time to head down there to explore. Brandon and I loaded up Liz's Outback (thanks polola!) with 5 surfboards, rations of food and beverages, camping gear, and drove 18 hours straight after work to the Mexican border.
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| Getting into Mexico was easy, they just waved us right through, no passport check, nada |
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| There are always these giant Mexican flags everywhere! |
It is now about noon, and we wanted to surf after driving all night, we get to our first surfing destination and...
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| it is flat, no hay olas :( |
We drive to 3 more beaches till finally!
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| we surfed and went to bed at 4:30pm... woke up at 8am the next day! |
In order to keep this blog relatively short, the rest of the trip included: surfing, lots of driving to another remote location, more surfing, repeat... also driving the car right onto the beach and camping, 2 night at Coyote Cal's Hostel, hanging with 2 cool surfing dudes from Oregon, touching a gray whale, meeting "Miguel the security guard" (story on that below), picking fresh mussels and did I mention? more surfing.
One story I do have to tell. On one of the nights, we were at a surfspot called Shipwrecks. We read in our surf book that it was not safe to camp here due to robberies. So pondering our options, we found an empty vacation home and decided to sleep next to the house (between the house and the brick wall) to hide from possible trouble. A few hours after we've been hanging out there (napping and drinking beer), it was about to get dark and a man walks up to us.
Man: "Do you guys have permission to be here"
Us: "No, we are sorry, we didn't know where to go, we will leave now"
Man: "Yes you should leave"
So Brandon and I are about to pack up our stuff and leave when the man comes back to us and tell us
Man: "You guys can stay here tonight"
Turns out he is a hired security guard who stays at this house a few nights a week since the owners live in California and only come down a few times a year. We ended up hanging out and drinking beers with Miguel. He invites us to come back and stay the next night as well, which we didn't. This was typical of our experience with the people in Mexico, very nice and sincere. Too bad people are so scared to travel to Mexico.
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| Empty vacation homes, we hid our car and slept next to the yellow house |
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| This is where we napped and were hanging out till Miguel the security guard came |
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| Surfing and camping at K58/La Fonda |
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| It was surprisingly hilly through Northern Baja |
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| beautiful Half Moon Bay |
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| Coyote Cal's Hostel in Erendira, pretty cool place |
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| Shipwrecks surfbreak obviously |
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| BT catching a ride, it was a small wave but I'm sure he still had fun |
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| Thats a large cactus! |
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| Gray Whale |
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| They come right upto the boat and you can touch them |
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| Beautiful, remote camping |
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| beautiful coastline north of Coyote Cal's |
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| we picked fresh mussels and cooked them up! |
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| Brandon, James, Ian and I |
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| Umberto the winemaker at Casa Vieja winery north of Ensenada |
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