mal pais

Ok so outta tamarindo on a 8am shuttle after having dinner the night before in tamarindo with my friend from london sarah. Apleasant 5 hour drive down to near the tip of the Nicoya peninsula to mal pais surf camp. Didnt know what to expact but recieved negative text rfom pandora night before. complaining about...well everything from lack of walls to crabs on the beach. I couldnt have cared less.

Got there around 1 met P and a guy named ryan - from BC canada. surf that afternoon. First tho check ed out the accomodation which only was 3 walls. it was cheap tho and worked well. I was a little bit taken aback by the snake in the bush outside my open air room. but we came to an agreement. id love to know what it was - it was kinda green and yellow. extremely poisonous i hope.

i only took my longboard left the 70´s twin in tamarindo with sarah. but went down to 1 fin, man i was pulling cutback out there like i never had before. right in the pocket. nearly didnt happen when i got there i was tired and thought playa carment looked like fistral on a bad day. but needless to say we had mad sessions here twice a day for 4 days.

day 2 met a swedish guy named phillip. same birthday as me funnily enough. likes a lot of similar things to me but in his own super materialistic way. I mean talk about being obsessed with brand names. we´ve been butting heads a lot since. but have come to a deent understanding. we actually get on really well too, but nearly can to blows at one stage early on LOL. he keeps called me a soul surfer. patronising dick.

last monday night a big group of us went out, for food - well i met them later. and after a few cuba libres from the shotgun protected supermarket we made our way to the local reggae night. pretty good. smoked some local weed, danced a bit dranks some more kicke it on the back. then the rain came, and everyone dancing just got drenched in tropical rain. had such a good night.

we also went to a local tico nightclub on night about 15 of us packed into an american guys massive pickup truck, a dude that worked ont he vans warped tour hanging off the open tailgate. absoloutely nuts - hada fun night in santa theresa but not as good as the reggae night at the d&n open air club.

One other wicked highlight of mal pais was for $50 we rented a quad bike and drove down to montezuma. so much fun. found these mad waterfalls. made a couple of 30 foot jumps off too.

so me, phil and ryan hatched a plan to hire the biggest fuck off 4x4 we could find. which we got. a mitsubish prado i think. compared to that piece of crap corolla we rented it ate up the roads. We drove back to tamarindo for one night. picked up my boards and then headed down to Jaco - party central apparently. Appraently the road from mal pais to tamarindo is the worst in costa rica. so far i agree. we had to drive across about 5 rivers. i mean into the river, down in a bit then up a big bank. so funny. At on stage a bull tried to ram the car, then had second thoughts - lucily for our deposit.

so i drove the 300km to jaco...rolled into town around 3 and thats a whole new chapter.