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Secret Spots

Nicaragua “Secret” Spot Surf Report, August 26

August 27, 2010

The surf in southwest Nicaragua came down a bit today. The pointbreak was still dishing up some fun waves. Our guest Ryan from San Francisco, CA was enjoying his last day surfing in Nicaragua to the fullest, catching a lot of good ones way up the point. For the last half hour [...]

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Nicaragua “Secret” Spot Surf Report, August 25

August 27, 2010

Nicaragua “secret” spot surf report. The pointbreak was doing it’s thing and serving up slabs for those willing to push over the ledge. A 5 chile pepper day. Some real grinding, spitting tubes today.

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Nicaragua Surf Report, August 23rd

August 23, 2010

Playa Popoyo semi “secret” pointbreak provided some fun slabs today. We’ll give it 3 out of 5 chile peppers.

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Nicaragua Secret Spot Surf Report, July 9th

July 9, 2010

The surf in the Rivas province of Nicaragua was epic for several hours this morning/mid-day. We had very clean conditions and a nice, peaky swell wedging into some thickees! Only shot photos for 15 minutes; the waves were too good!! Definitely a 5 chile pepper day!

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Nicaragua “Secret” Spot Surf Report, July 1st

July 1, 2010

Popoyo Nicaragua surf report. We stumbled upon a rare sandbar that is usually unsurfed on the way to another spot. The sand has shifted a lot lately and this peak was providing uncrowded throbbing tubes all morning. The few who found it were stoked! The best waves and biggest tubes were [...]

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Nicaragua Secret Pointbreak Surf Report, April 12

April 12, 2010

Secret Nicaragua pointbreak was doing it’s thing today as the swell dropped a bit. We’ll give it 4 out of 5 chile peppers. Very clean, beautiful conditions and plenty of makeable tubes. We’ve got a solid crew staying with us right now, and it looks like the waves are going to bump up again tonight [...]

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Nicaragua Secret Spot Surf Report, March 24

March 24, 2010

NicaWaves crew left Popoyo this morning and headed over to a nearby secret spot. We pulled up to the beautiful beach and there was only two local expats out enjoying some healthy freight-training right tubes. A group of our guests are leaving tomorrow, and we were stoked to get them into some classic Nicaragua conditions.

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Surf Nicaragua – Secret Spot Surf Photos

popoyo nicaragua July 1, 2009

popoyo nicaragua surf, originally uploaded by Avant.Garde.

We left Popoyo Nicaragua and headed to a secret spot a little north. Here’s one of the photos from a May trip.

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Amazing Sand-bottom Pointbreak

popoyo nicaragua May 9, 2009

Had 4 friends in town. Two of them, New York city firemen had to catch a flight back to the states on Wednesday. There was a much-hyped swell hitting Thursday and Friday. We decided the timing would be perfect to hit a spot up north.
Sure enough, Thursday morning was firing. Lots of lengthy tube rides [...]

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Nicaragua Secret Spot Pumps!

popoyo nicaragua April 23, 2009

Nicaragua is currently seeing a large SW swell. With conditions coming together for a nearby Popoyo Nicaragua secret spot, we woke up early to head out to surf and shoot photos of a fast, hollow left-hand pointbreak. Upon arriving, I shot for about 45 minutes. Longtime Nicaragua local Jan Glenn of “Casa Ensueno” was the [...]

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