John Haan and I got the boat to Manzanillo for the second day in a row. The lineup was crowded and full of beginner surfers. It was difficult to navigate the lineup because guys were always in the waves down the line. Many of them ditching boards to go under waves instead of duckdiving. All of them were nice so it was hard to get mad at them. I got several good set waves and got another good barrel on the second ledge. After the surf session, we got a ride to Gigante and swam in to get lobster lunch. The lobster was amazing (again) and we swam back to the boat. The boat driver ask if I would sell him my Xcel rash guard. I told him that if he watched our boards while we got lobster, he could have it. Good trade. When the boat dropped us off at Playa Colorado, the waves were pumping. The fisrt wave that came through a guy got a long left barrel on a 6-8 foot wave. I took off on the shoulder of one of the medium ones and decided to kick out and get one of the set waves. I saw a few more guys get some long barrels and also saw a huge right come in down the beach where John Haan was. No one was on the right and it had a tube section that was 100 meters. I ended up getting a decent size set wave a few feet overhead and was happy to make the bottom turn considering I was riding my smallest board (6'0" CI Whip) that I had for the mellow shoulders of Manzanillo. John Haan got snaked on his wave in.
Two guys from Cali asked if I got a few shots of them the previous day and told them to come see what I had on my camera. I ended up having some great barrel sequence shots and a video of them. We gave them some of our Tona that we weren't going to finish by the next day (departure) and emailed them the photos. One went to USC and the other San Francisco St. All of us walked to Don Elroy's to get some pizza and fries. The bar was packed, busiest I had seen it in the last two weeks. A good mix of girls and guys. It was a fun night for the last night in Nicaragua.
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