Around The World In 80 Waves

I met an American surfer who is my age called George in the bar last night. He is a yacht skipper who is looking to set up a fantastic holiday home locally and has returned to the area to see the lay of the land.

George knows the area well so as my copilot and navigator for the day, the two of us set of this morning to check out the breaks close to Dominical. 

As well as the local breaks we also went of the beaten track and climbed one of the local mountains in the Little Green Surf Machine.

To say we were pushing the envelope in the bug is putting it mildly. At one stage the car is kicking out sideways, its wheels are spinning on the loose rocks and it is certainly struggling to make it up the incredibly steep hill road. 

You can see two sections of the road here and after past experience I was wondering how wise some of the path that we attempted were in the Volkswagen.

However my car didn’t let us down and we made far better progress than you might have thought possible in it. 

At one point it really did get ridiculous and we wisely gave up there, but were able to look down on all the rainforest and coastline beneath us.

This was the view from the top which was simply spectacular and certainly made the effort worthwhile.  

We checked out some fantastic bays and this view near to the restaurant at the tip of a headland where we had lunch was probably the view of the day.

Whilst there we saw a Capuchin Monkey swinging through the trees and had a feast of fish for lunch. We also saw the delightful sight of a foot foot crocodile which had been killed crossing the road having it’s corpse ripped to shreds by vultures who had spotted an easy meal. No chance of bagging the raw materials for a free wallet or pair of shoes though because somebody had nabbed the skin already by the time we drove back.