Popoyo Nicaragua showing a new swell and clean conditions this morning. The sun is shining bright today and some shapely swells are pulsing through. The best waves are going unridden, but we’ll have to give it 5 out of 5 chile peppers.

Popoyo, clean and peeling this morning

our guest Nicolas from South Carolina coming off the bottom on a nice one

outer reef had a few sets focusing on the deepwater peak

some rights peeling off the southside rocks of the rivermouth

fun looking in-betweener

outer reef thickee - check back soon amigos!

Popoyo Nicaragua offered several peaks this morning. Outer Reef Popoyo, Inside Corner of Outer Reef, Popoyo Proper, and the rivermouth peak all had surfers catching waves. The inside corner of the outer reef actually had the best shape with some throaty barrels coming in. There was a strange rip running right through the inside peak of Popoyo. It’s been pretty messy lately with a lot of bad winds and mixed up swell due to a lot of tropical activity nearby. Fairly glassy for a few hours this morning. We’ll have to give it 4 out of 5 chile peppers. Hoping the offshores return tomorrow and the crew will be on some fun waves.

bodyboarder taking the outer reef drop

outer reef corner, sequence 1

sequence 2

popoyo local Cristobal with another stylish backhand turn

Always nice to see the fluid style of longtime popoyo local Cristobal. Yeah Cristobal!

undisputed biggest wave snaker in Popoyo, peliguay, turning for an inside corner

If you come to Popoyo, keep an eye out for this Peliguay. He will drop in!

having a look at the inside corner of outer reef

he was getting a lot of waves

this one slabbed up on him

The bodyboarder was catching a lot of waves at outer reef and successfully made it through a couple barrels. There were two other surfers out first thing this morning, and also two other surfers out while I was shooting. One Brazilian fellow paddled out only to be sent back to the beach with a board broken clean in half.

Stay tuned for more surf reports. June has been an inconsistent month with a lot of onshore and rainy days. Hopefully July has something sweet in store for us!

Popoyo was showing perfect waves all day today. There wasn’t a need to go anywhere else today. Long walls and plenty of barrels were on tap, and crowds were light as it seems everybody is either surfed out from all the swell or went home last week because of all the rain.

local coming off the bottom

corner of outer reef looking enticing

our neighbor Schuyler coming around the section

fun fun fun

Popoyo Nicaragua showing a nice swell and perfect conditions today. We arrived in the morning to peeling walls at low tide. The offshores had finally let up a bit and the lineup was relatively uncrowded. A crew of travellers were getting barreled at outer reef at dead low tide! Popoyo locals Elvis and Samir soon joined them outside as the tide turned. I hiked down into a valley to get a new view of the outer reef. It was a beautiful morning. We’re eating lunch now and we’re going to another nearby spot with high hopes!

a beautiful nugget at outer reef

unmolested popoyo right

no takers on this inside popoyo left

Elvis manning up at outer reef

popoyo slab

doing the reef dance to outers

backsider on a nugget

a little exploring for a new vantage point today

Popoyo continues with super fun waves today with good conditions. We surfed three sessions at Popoyo. We’ll give it four chile peppers out of five. The crowd ranged from ridiculous to very uncrowded throughout the day.

outer reef peeling

our guest Kelly from Florida having fun on a single fin

our guest Zo from Santa Cruz, CA dropping in

Miles on a nice right

Been trading photos with good friend Donald Stone lately. Knowing the waves were gonna be good this morning at Popoyo, I called Donald so we could link up and shoot photos. His girlfriend said that he had left for Popoyo 15 minutes ago. Perfect! I left the house and was on top of the hill overlooking Popoyo in less than 10 minutes. Here’s what I saw…

manuel, perfect positioning at Popoyo

shooting the outer reef (photo: Donald Stone)

Upon arriving, I saw Donald surfing the left on the inside of Outer Reef Popoyo.

donald driving through a tube

It was a little smaller than Popoyo but a lot less crowded. Popoyo was a little crowded and very good.
But the real unexpected treat today was the outer reef. The swell we’re currently experiencing is on its third phase. The first phase was similar in size and a little more south. The period was up around 18 seconds and really lit up the area’s reefs and pointbreaks, while the beachbreaks were a little stretched out and closed. The second phase was smaller, similar in direction, but a shorter period, more like a windswell. It really lit up the area’s beachbreaks with super consistent, wedgy peaks. Today, the swell bumped up a bit and had that “magic angle” (loose lips sink ships, but that angle is somewhere between 180 and 230 ).

popoyo nicaragua-perfectly angled swell hitting the outer reef

Manuel, his brother Cabezon, and Jimmy from Surfari Charters were all catching some sick lefts.

popoyo nicaragua - manuel's brother, cabezon, charging backside

I saw a couple guys cross the rivermouth and approach the paddle out spot of Popoyo. They were carrying a couple sub 6 foot retro shapes. I wrote them off as just a couple of international beginner surfers. All of a sudden, they wereout the back taking off on some bombs!

Popoyo Nicaragua - two dudes from OZ paddled out on 5'8s. Sweet As!

Outer Reef is normally surfed at high tide, due to a couple areas of the reef which actually suck dry at lower tides. The angle was so perfect today that these guys surfed it all the way to dead low tide.

popoyo nicaragua - hiked into a little valley today to get a new angle of the reef. Hard to tell, but this wave is double overhead.