Eight Blog: Road trip!!!

Yea Baby..Roadtrip!!! At 5.30 am we loaded up Bob with as many surfboards as he could take, filled our coffee mugs and set out to surf "the secret spot". Along on the trip apart from Alvaro and Wendy was Gilbert, the current reigning national champion of Costa Rica, and of course Leo, who is not even a meter tall and still keeps up with both Alvaro and Gilbert. Getting to the secret spot involves a 1 hour drive (if I drive that is, 40 minutes if Alvaro drives..) and a boat trip out to a cove in the middle of nowhere where the break is the most beautiful left you've ever seen (Alvaro is surfing it on the photo). I had no intention what-so-ever of surfing these giants however, but hung out with Wendy in the boat. Now you may be picturing me on the deck of a yatch leisurely sipping champagne while enjoying the view of the surfers... think again... Instead, I was holding on for life in the little wooden dingy while the crew ran rescue missions into the breaks to pickup surfers who had been bashed around. Holy *&^$%#@ crap was I scared! At one point we had just picked up a surfer and where about to turn the boat around when Alvaro, who was in the water ahead of us, started shouting like mad, pointing out towards the ocean. I remember thinking "this can't be good" as I turned my eyes to gaze in to a 10 ft breaking wave heading straight for us.. This is when you need a very powerful engine and nerves of steel, and luckily our captain had both. I could feel the mist of the break in my face as the boat just about cleared the wave and dropped down on the other side. The noice as it hammered down behind me was like thunder and my heart was threatening to jump out of my chest! I was pretty relieved when we hauled the last surfer up on deck and headed back to shore... Although terrifying, I did get to see the guys catch some amazing waves and my camera doesn't quite do them justice but pictures are posted on facebook.

After this mornings adventure I felt the urge to do something "normal" and "low-risk", so I cleaned the bathroom and did laundery, all while smiling to myself, remembering that I had been part of something spectacular today....