First on our whistle-stop tour of Nicaragua was Las Penitas, a small pacific coast community 10kms south of the colonial town of Leon. Coming from snowy NYC Ben was kean to hit the beach!
We had a couple of nights staying in a little hotel, las Palmeras, only a few feet from the beach. Apart from drinking our way through several beach shack cocktail menu's and a lot of local Flora de Cana rum, we enjoyed chilling in the sun, eating lobster, meeting some seriously colourful characters (we won't forget Porter and his 'maid' in a hurry) and hitting the surf.
We took a morning surf lesson with some cool local guys who run the coco surf 'school', a shack on the beach that rents boards. There were some monster waves, but once we managed to paddle out, there was a fair bit of good surfing action going on. Ben was a pro - those summers in Watergate Bay clearly paid off! We fitted in a good day of surfing and finished, as usual, with a few war wounds but nothing a cocktail couldn't cure...
Apart from the sunburn. Due to a severe suncream drought in Nicaragua, Ben quickly turned the colour of his shorts! This was only the start, the next 10 days bought many more aches, pains, and injuries to us all... and lots & lots of laughs!
We took a morning surf lesson with some cool local guys who run the coco surf 'school', a shack on the beach that rents boards. There were some monster waves, but once we managed to paddle out, there was a fair bit of good surfing action going on. Ben was a pro - those summers in Watergate Bay clearly paid off! We fitted in a good day of surfing and finished, as usual, with a few war wounds but nothing a cocktail couldn't cure...
Apart from the sunburn. Due to a severe suncream drought in Nicaragua, Ben quickly turned the colour of his shorts! This was only the start, the next 10 days bought many more aches, pains, and injuries to us all... and lots & lots of laughs!
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