All gone (except for passport and creditcard)

That's the way it goes in those "save-to-travel"- countries: no cameras and no security, but then you come back to your room after 2 hours of surfing in the morning and everything seemingly of any worth is gone: laptop, camera, cellphone, binoculars, backpack, external disk, shavingmachine, sunglasses. Even the 7$ worth cap and my plastic bag of medicines. Means, there's not going to be an update for the blog in the next time because I neither have a possibilty to make pictures, edit them, tranport them on any medium or upload them with my computer. Sorry for you, guys.

Bouldercave III

Slowly we're progressing...
Despite if we have to dig out the holes again, because it was pouring down in the night. And as you can see they are deep and involve quite a bit of work to dig them out with the shell of a coconut

Today we cemented the L

In between got some treetrunks from the beach with everybody that was around (unfortunately, Matteo got cut out of the picture by the photographer)

and pierce the wooden panels with about 2 million holes for the holds

Bouldercave II

Unfortunately, for reason of lack of money and time, we had to postpone the mushroom and rooftraverse of the project until an unknown date in the future. So now it's going to be more of a boulderwall in L-shape. Maybe one day the rest is going to be added.

digging out (deep) holes and a little ditch

hammering stones and filling them into the ditch as fundament

for sure some breaks in between

and the phenomenal bed frame boarding

The Bouldercave

Got the task to build a boulderwall in between the mangotree on the left and the watertank on the right side of the picture with Matteo, a guy from Argentina. That way, I'm going to stay for free and still be able to surf in between. First-off the place needs to be cleaned an 30 cubics of leafs and sticks to be burned.

St Teresa

Just to give you an impression, where I'm sitting on the beach the whole time.

Nicaragua-Costa Rica

It's been a while since i posted something in the blog. Here a picture from the boarder-crossing from Nicaragua to Costa Rica. One thing I've learned: never cross the border around NewYears. The entrance to the immigration is on the right side of the building where the white bars are. The queue goes around the building until where I am and the same again. Waiting time for me was around 4 hours. People that came 2 hours later than me: about 7 hours.

Back in Costa Rica

For a while now I'm back in Costa Rica and I'm surfing most of the time. Because here you don't take anything to the beach here's a pic from a sunset on a waveless day. With a nice downpour on the right side.

Nicaragua

Beautiful landscapes, no waves

Bisse Surf-Art

Stood model for Bisse, a swedish fotographer and his art-project on surfers. Bisse came to the hostal and convinced everyone that was around to come with. In the end, all surfers have to stand in the same position in front of the same wall. I don't know yet what's going to happen with the pictures. There's nothing published yet from his side. I'm going to hand those informations in later.

first-off my picture:

and because the pictures seemed a bit sterile to us we convinced him to do a group-shot

Down-the-river

Went with Tyler, a riverguide from now Oregon, on a waveless day down the river. The original plan was to go down just the two of us. But the comercial boat had too many passengers, so we took two Canadians in our raft. Positive side-effect was that Tyler earned some money and I got to have some pictures of this trip

all pictures except the waterfall-pictures: Dominical Surf Adventures

at the beginning it was all easy:

then there was the step where we first went down...

...and then tried to surf it as a standing wave. But except for a boat full of water we achieved nothing.

a little break at the waterfall

here a sequence of our submarine

the Canadian then tried to ride the tip of the boat

and a picture of the winners

Sector Salamandra

Still a subsequent entry for Zarautz: In a bookstore in San Sebastian we found the new Boulderguide for Galizia. In it the Boulder-sector I cleaned at Monte Xalo next to  La Coruña.
picture: Totti Lingott

Panama II

On the pacific side it's beautiful aswell...

Vendee

A short yellowfoot-video of the week in Vendee/ France:

Panama

Island-exploring at the Caribean side of Panama. There was surf too, but no pictures of it

Costa Rica- Panama

The border-crossing from Costa Rica to Panama is still an experience to be made

San José

The first days in Costa Rica I had to wait in San José for my bags that Iberia lost somewhere on the way. What a luck there's barbecues. Whereas next to the ginormous fish the 5kg meat-mountain on the grill in the back looks pretty tiny

The Lolli III: testing phase

A by now already "all-time" test-week in Vendée was about the best what could happen to test the Lolli
all pictures Soso/ © Jo Meschede

Cabo Ogoño

It's no secret that the basques have excellent climbing. Therefore Totti and I went to climb at Cabo Ogoño

Descent to the start of the route

Start of the second pitch

at the second anchor

traverse in the third pitch

the last pitch

and the obligatory picture on top