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You will not believe your eyes as you watch five waves breaking at once, peeling down the point in front of camp.
This point is especially amazing. On the average day it’s around waist high and a longboarder’s dream.
Smaller than this, it’s a longboard only wave (if you didn’t bring a longboard, you can use one of our 9’4” softboards, they are good boards, not flimsy).
It’s like Malibu but sand bottom and longer. Even at knee high the waves are surprisingly fast, perfect and fun, and can reel for a few hundred meters.
And it just gets more and more amazing with more swell. At waist high you can ride funboards and longboards out there. At chest high, the fish come out.
At head high and above you can ride anything out there, with waves up to 2 minutes long. This point is somewhat sheltered; the waves must wrap in 180°,
so it will be about half as big as an exposed beach break would be.
But the decreased height is made up in the speed, length and perfect shape of the waves. They’re not burgers, they’re fast and pushy.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect of this point is that the predominant winds blow offshore for most of the day, from about 10 a.m. till sunset!
The point, located on the west coast of Baja, actually faces east, with the waves wrapping in 180 degrees.
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The afternoon onshore winds, which turn other Baja spots into a wind-whipped mess, groom the reeling waves here.
This is one of the main reasons the waves are so perfect.
There are a couple more points about a 5-10 minute walk from camp, which are more exposed to swell, but also more exposed to wind.
They are usually glassy in the morning and sideshore in the afternoon.
They’ll be about 30 – 50% bigger than the point in front of camp, and they break over rocks.
These waves are also extremely long and have some punch and are more suited to shortboarding.
They need a moderate south swell to really turn on. With a small swell they are also great for funboarding and longboarding.
Swells heights during summer are generally between waist high to a few feet overhead. Once or twice a summer the waves get up to double overhead,
and become the stuff dreams are made of…a truly world class wave.
If this is out of your league, you can surf the point furthest inside where the waves will be much smaller and super super long.
As with any surf trip, we cannot guarantee waves, but from June through September is prime south swell season.
If you can have fun on a longboard, you’ll enjoy the waves no matter what the size.
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