Fun clean tubes coming through this location this morning. We had our first rain of the season last night, a healthy one at that. Winds are light offshore again. Waves should be similar all week long.
shacked
breakfast time
peaks up and down the beach
on watch
empty
Mike. photo: Gerald Acevedo
Playa Santana provided some fun wedgy peaks today. Wind was glassy to slight onshore making conditions very strikeable. Took shots for 30 minutes and our old friends and repeat guests Pat and Kali Emery were all over it giving it an old fashioned smackdown.
Pat and our surf guide Boogie – gearing up for getting down
Pat – high speed bank off the lip
Pat – going vert on the lefts
Pat’s wife Kali racing down the lefts
this fella picked up a nice tube on a right double up
Pat bashing everything in site and starting to look like an action figure
Pat smash #17 of the morning
Playa Santana was giving us the goods today. Plenty of tubes and rippable sections to be had and everyone was going off. Check it out.
that’s our good buddy Donald Stone halfway through a deep barrel
NicaWaves owner/operator Mike throwing a gaff. photo: Donald Stone
Santana local Darwin is just a wave magnet
going off early afternoon on the dropping tide
going off in the morning light too
our guest Atma got this shot of Mike from down the beach
another one of Atma’s shots of Donald setting up a nugget
Delaney on a fun one
Our good friend and NicaWaves homeowner Chal setting up his backhand attack
waves kept on coming in early afternoon. here’s mike with a drop wallet. photo: Donald Stone
Mike. photo: Donald Stone
we got a small group together to help out with the beach cleanup put on by Paso Pacifico. Thanks for your time Chal, Kai, Jon, and Justin!
we collected over 15 bags of trash from the beach road between Popoyo and Santana. There was a great turnout from the youngsters in the area with almost 150 turning up to sweep the beach. Thanks to Paso Pacifico and Dave from Rancho Santana for organizing this event.
Playa Santana provided fun surf in the head high range with strong sunshine and light offshores today. They were several people walking along the beach enjoying the weather, but few surfers in the water. Check out some of today’s action.
beautiful day at the beach today. here’s our guest Katrina from Norway cooling off while our guest Christian from St. Barths takes some photos
our guest Anthony was all over it, catching a ton of waves
Darwin was out as well. here he is ducking into a tube
Anthony again, just schralping this little left
Darwin laying down a nice layback carve
our buddy Mario showed up, stoked to paddle out
some overhead sets coming through today. tomorrow looking good, check back soon amigos
Popoyo Nicaragua giving up the goods all day long today. Plenty of overhead glassy walls and tubes coming through groomed by a light offshore wind. Crowds were very light as most local businesses have closed and most people have left town. We’ll be receiving plenty of swell the next couple weeks (see the Surfline long range forecast below). September has been an excellent month for surf, and hopefully the winds and weather will continue cooperating. Check out some of today’s action.
we arrived on the scene and were greeted by pristine conditions
our good buddy Cesar soon ran up the beach stoked to hit the perfect, uncrowded surf
he wasted no time pulling into some gems
our guest Victor from Pacifica, CA was out enjoying the clean surf
our buddy Brian is back and town and paddled out for a bit. Welcome back Brian!
our guest Alex from Costa Rica picking off a nice one. Pura Vida Mae!
one of the stronger Popoyo locals, Cesar always surfs hard and pushes the limits
Mike, your host/owner at NicaWaves paddled out mid-day to catch a few. photo: BVD
Mike slashing a frothy face. photo: BVD
We’ll be getting solid swell the next 2 weeks thanks to a recent series of strong storms tracking across the South Pacific. Hopefully the winds/weather will continue favorable. We’ll be remaining open the entire month of October and still have some availability, so send us an email if you’re thinking about coming down!
This hidden beach was producing some fun little barrels today. Check it out…
we arrived at the beach and this is what we found…
slabs running down the point
trying to pull back…
and going over the falls in the lip
unknown buddy dropping into a nugget
this girl was getting some of the better waves this morning
check back soon. the forecast is looking good all the way til the end of August!
Playa Santana offered up some fun little wedges in the chest to head high range this morning. We had a bit of onshore wind yesterday from Tropical Storm Ernesto in the Carribean, but everything seems to be returning to normal this morning with light offshore winds.
Andrew banking off a fun right wall
our friend Oscar from Peru puttting on the brakes
Darwin picked off this deep tube, one of the best of the morning
we’ve got a powerful XL swell arriving middle of next week
we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed while watching this system. It has the same forecast track as Tropical Storm Ernesto, who recently gave us a few days of onshores.
Playa Santana Nicaragua provided some fun tubes this morning on the incoming tide. Our guest Jordan from South Carolina just brought a water camera down and I swam out to test it out. Here’s a few water shots from the first try with the water camera.
our surf guide Boogie pulling in
Boogie alone with his thoughts in the green room
This peak was a little consistent. Saw Mario walking up the beach to another peak. He’s a human highlight reel and is always is in the right spot when the good ones come in. Swam over to Mario, and he didn’t disappoint.
Mario warming up
Mario pulling in a little drainer
Mario, pitted
Popoyo Nicaragua Surf Report. We had a moderate long period SW groundswell mixing in with a shorter period W windswell thanks to Hurricane Charlotta up near Mexico. Conditions were fun and light offshore. Lots of waves coming in from different directions.
empty perfection
our guest Melanie going hard on a late drop
some nice outside sets going unridden
you go high, I go low. Boogie and Pelibuey mixing it up
another beautiful day on tap today
our cook Julio showed up for a quick session before work
We cruised over to a nearby beachbreak and found fun wedges thanks to the peaky, short interval mixed swell.
we pulled up and saw our friend Mainer Jacamo pulling in this bomb
Julio was on a tear, ripping all over the place
Holly Beck was out and ripping too
Andrew picked off this tasty little nugget
Holly was pigdogging a lot of rights
Donald was shredding too
the kingpin of this beach, Mario, showed up and started killing it as usual