Puerto Escondido

Hi,

The first few days here have been awesome. our hotel is pretty much full with Aussies and a few Yanks. The weather is hot, similar to Bali but maybe even a touch hotter, you cant go down to the beach in the middle of the day because you will come back looking like a busted cheerio. The water is the warmest water ever, its actually a bit to warm.

The town seems safe, but we have heard a few stories so we still have to be careful walking around at night etc. All the Locals are super friendly and most speak no english and we speak no spanish so it is still interesting ordering food and stuff. The only things I know is ," keysera burrito con carne porfavour" which is " id like a beef burrito please" and " dos cervesa porfavor" which is " 2 beers please". But we have a phrase book and want to get better.

The food is really cheap and really good, you can get a meal with drinks and whatever and its usually about $5 Au each.

I had trouble getting a decent board for cheap. All the second hand ones were cheap but most had been boken about 6 times and the new board were like $600 US. I eventually found a new board at a pretty decent price.

Leah was hungover yesterday so A few other dudes and I hired a car and went 2.5 hours south to a place called Barra De La Cruz, which is where they had the Rip Curl Search Contest a few years ago. We got fun overhead waves and hardly anyone out. Its similar to the Superbank I guess.

Leah is going to get a surfboard or a bodyboard today so she can get some waves out the front.

Heres some of the pics so far:

Barra De La Cruz, really fun day.


This is the view from the top balcony of our hotel. Looking down at MexPipe yesterday morning
Its pretty solid. Not many guys getting the good ones.
Mexpipe. The wave is straighter than what i thought it would be. Need to get some fitness back
before getting out there.


Looking north from the top of the hotel.


This is our room.


hotel pool area.