April 22nd, 2010-<\/p>\n
Hello, Was just cruising the interwebs and thought about you guys, thought I\u2019d drop you a quick note. I just finished reading the \u201chow it all began\u201d section on your site and realized I visited your camp only a month after you had started!!! Wow, at the time (November 2001), thought you guys had already been around for at least a few years\u2026 fooled me! We still have your original brochure in our photo album form the trip! Anyway, my wife and I were living in Whistler, BC at the time (24 year old snowboard bums) and just newly married, decided to travel to Costa Rica for 5 weeks of surfing and chillin (we joke that getting married was just an excuse to backpack and surf Costa Rica!), anyway, we hadn\u2019t done much surfing before our arrival, just a few days here and there over the last 5 summers in Tofino (located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island off of Vancouver\u2026 yes very cold, full wetsuits, hoodies, booties and gloves!). So before we arrived we decided one of the first things we would do, was get a proper lesson to start off our Costa Rica surf tour right. As we rolled into dusty old Tamarindo, (wow, haven\u2019t been back since but sounds like much has changed since 2001!!) one of the first things we saw was your rickety old surf camp\/restaurant. Perfect! we thought, we\u2019d planned on spending a week in Tamarindo, so we decided we get our accommodation sorted, get settled and come by the next day for a lesson. We were staying at a little place a five minute walk back up and across the road from you guys, so the next morning after stopping at that art gallery\/breakfast place kinda across an up the street from you, we stopped in and booked our lesson. Spent the morning with one of your crew (don\u2019t remember any names) in the small learning waves just outside your place. It was perfect, instructor was laid back but able to get the basics across to us in an easy to understand way, we were ripping little long board bottom turns (haha) by 9am! That morning set us up not only for the rest of our Costa Rica trip but for the next ten years of surfing good times. We spent that week surfing every day in the early morning, then chilling, exploring, eating, and drinking the rest of the day and nights away\u2026 we often utilized your gracious late night post drinking unofficial \u201cshuttle school bus\u201d after a long night of good times\u2026 thanks!! I have a couple photos from those late night trips\u2026 maybe I\u2019ll scan and forward a couple. After tamarindo, we spent the next weeks visiting the great surf spots around costa rica, ending up in puerto viejo de talamanca where on our first night my wife was bitten by a rabid dog!! After a speedy trip back through San Jose for some medical attention, we decided the best way to spend our last week would be to head back to where we started \u2013 Tamarindo\u2026 Many surf days and burgers at your restaurant later we had one of the best days of our lives, we were surfing perfect little evening swell on Tamarindo beach on December 14, 2001 \u2013 when while we\u2019re sitting on or boards floating just beyond the break quietly thinking about what a great trip we\u2019ve had\u2026 we witness a total solar eclipse\u2026 what an amazing finish to an epic trip and thanks for being a part of it. Glad to see you guys are still going strong and have a good philosophy going forward, keep it small, keep it fun\u2026 thanks again. Cheers, Ian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
April 22nd, 2010- Hello, Was just cruising the interwebs and thought about you guys, thought I\u2019d drop you a quick note. I just finished reading the \u201chow it all began\u201d section on your site and realized I visited your camp only a month after you had started!!! Wow, at the time (November 2001), thought you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_front_end_style_editor":"no","ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-stories","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/164.68.121.224\/wrsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}