We are currently anchored in an estuary. Bahia de Jaltepeque in El Salvador.
Arcross the penisula on the ocean side there is a pretty shitty surf break, but a couple times a week we will grab the surfboard and head over there with a couple of our friends that are anchored here as well and are surfers too.
Actually, they are surfers. I’m just a person that owns a surfboard at this point. If your friends with me on Facebook, you’ll probably know that I ended up getting six stiches in my lower lip last week in an incredible display of my surfing skills.
A week or two prior to that we all decided we wanted to go surfing somewhere with an actual/good surf break.
So we rented a van and driver. Loaded that up with our boards and headed up the coast about an hour to a little town called El Tunco, which is near La Libertad, El Salvador.
Our little group is quite the collection of surf/boat bums from around the world.
Tawn & I: USA
Christian & Jay: Chile
Darrin & Jodi: USA
Morgan & Petra: France & Sweden
There is also Gaston and Valentina from Argintina, and Paul from the States, but they did not go on this trip.
Halfway there some local farmers were protesting the fact that some large corporation left some sort of chemicals laying about and it was leaking in to the ground water and poisoning the farmers and their families. So we had to wait till that ended. I think we made it on the local news though. There were a couple news crews that kept walking by us and just filming us.
“Tonight at 11. Why were these gringos standing around sweating so much…..and how it might effect your family”
Made it to our hostel and set up camp by noon anyway and had time to go out for some surfing as soon as we got there.
We unfortunately did not take any pictures of the actual surfing. Sorry about that.
I’ll hit up some of the other crew and see if they can get me some of the pictures they took.
