After a pretty horrendous stopover in sub-zero New york, which allowed us just enough time to get our yellow Fever Vaccinations for Brazil, we soon found ourselves in Mexico at a town called Puerto Escondido.
Puerto Escondido, which translates to "Hidden Port", is a small fishing town on the south coast of Mexico, the reason why we came here is because it is also the home of the Mexican Pipeline, one of the worlds best beach breaks. I have wanted to surf this place for a long time, and when plans were being made for this trip and I realised there was a window of a few weeks to go there, my mind was pretty made up.
Our days were spent waking up with the sun, surfing for 3hours, having breakfast and then relaxing in our casa or at the beach for 5 hours before going back into the surf for the afternoon glass off just before sunset. Usually cocktails and a beachside dinner would follow before retiring at around 9pm.
That was pretty much it for 18 days.
Every session would bring at least 3 or 4 broken surf boards to the shore and with some of the bigger days that number would easily triple. I even broke my bodyboard on one of the average sized days, something that could almost be seen as almost impossible. Proving just how heavy Playa Zicatela could be!
Ears: Oregon Bike Trails (aka Cayucas)
The Zicatela Lifeguards, these guys had it pretty cruisy, except for the American tourists. They loved getting my broken board off me too.
Watched the Volleyball Crew most afternoons, sometime it was hilarious.
Typical view in the afternoon.
The old Corona "from where you'd rather be" advert.
Chihuahua's were everywhere.
Hannah hated Mexico
The house on the hill was our neighbour, this beach literally being a stones throw away.
Looking the other way
Probably our favourite restaurant, not sure why.
The local kids were ridiculously good in the fun sized stuff, couldn't find them anywhere when it got big though!
Wide
Zicatela Beach
There's a reason this place is called Mexi Pipe
Me
And again
Me on a small day but a lot of fun!
And Again
Hannah loved these alien dogs - they were on the beach everyday. Now all she does is look up photos of them on the internet.
Our Casa for the 18 days. We had it all to ourselves which was pretty lucky.
There was a German Shepherd that lived on this balcony (like a guard dog), each morning we would walk past it on the way to the beach, sometimes he would be asleep with his paws over the edge. He didn't like being touched on those paws, much to my amusement.
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