Nos dia 18 e 19 de Junho decorre na Praia do Baleal em Peniche o BALEAL SURF FEST II. A génese e conceito do Baleal Surf Fest surgiu de uma necessidade de consciencialização da comunidade de surf e de todas as pessoas que utilizam os oceanos e a sua infinidade de serviços na busca de [...]
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Limpar Portugal (dunas do Baleal)
No próximo dia 20 de Março 2010 dá-se a iniciativa Limpar Portugal. Na cidade de Peniche vamos limpar os sistemas dunares da zona do Baleal. Irá ser dada uma breve explicação sobre os diferentes tipos de lixo que encontramos nas dunas e os seus malificios tanto para o ambiente como para os organismos marinhos. Anualmente, [...]
NO a las Granjas Atuneras! (interlude with Sean McGonagle)
Almost every day I had the chance to talk a little with our landlord, Sean McGonagle, from Riviera Villas. Always with a smile and a nice word, soon I started to realize that besides a soul surfer he is also a electrician, a builder, a gardener and everything the place needs, always working in a [...]
Pavones (live motion picture)
I just wanted to leave some footage from this piece of paradise, so you can see it moving and alive. Pavones — The Myth Young Gun from Pavones — Noe Mar McGonagle The Facts About Dan Fowlie and Pavones http://www.thefactsaboutdanfowlieandpavones.com Enjoy! Mahalo!
Surf’s UP! (day 6 and 7)
Friday 4th of September Here we rise with the Sun, drink pipa (coconut water), eat sandwiches and fresh fruit, and drive off to find waves. As the forecast was showing the swell was rising and it was supposed to be some good waves today, we expected to surf Pavones for the first time today, and [...]
Guaymí (day 5)
Got up around 0600, no wind, no rain, sun rising, another day in Rio Claro de PAVONES. Surf wasn’t good and since yesterday PP and I didn’t manage to take any photos on the Indigenous Reserve while trekking up to come down the river on the buoy we decided to drive with the car until [...]
Head stitched up! (day 4)
The morning was spent laying low, not much happening, we knew that there would be no waves, so we stayed near the house, putting our stuff together, chatting, listening to music, reading, and drinking pipa. The only high troubled episode during the morning was when Henry told us that Friday there would be a championship [...]
Les aventures de Ramón (Princepezca), Pancho, and the EL Mighty Pelado – CAR CRASH!!!! (day 3)
Have you ever cut fresh pipa (green, watery, coconut) at 6am for breakfast? That is what I did today, just outside our house, pick them up from the palm tree and chop it open. This is one of the things Costa Rica has to offer that we cannot find back home. Soon after breakfast we [...]
Laurel – Pipas – Wireless – Casados (day 2)
I think it took me less than one minute when I got in the hammock to fall asleep, around 1600, only to wake up already in darkness with loads of insects bites, coming into the house I went to the bathroom to put some repellent. While I was doing this Tourita woke up and dashed [...]
The Long Road(s) to PAVONES (day 0 +1)
Friday 28th of August 2009 around 1900 I was wandering what happened to PP (Paulo Marques) a friend who was supposed to pick Filipe Tourita (another friend) and myself in Lourinha and from there we needed to drive to Madrid (700 km distance) where we would take the Plane to Newark (USA) and then San [...]