Archive for August, 2010

Witch’s Rock Pirate Radio

August 28th, 2010

For those that love music, surfing, and Costa Rica, please read on. The surf engineers at Witch’s Rock Surf Camp are discussing how best to launch our own pirate Witch’s Rock Pirate Radio station. Our station will include fresh tunes that span many genres, from punk to bluegrass to hip hop to classic rock, all killer no filler. We will also host topics of interest to the surfing community. This includes surf reports and forecasts, …

surf trippin in Bocas del Toro, the Panamanian Caribbean

August 25th, 2010

I like to travel to various surf destinations, go surf, and then blog about it. I make plenty of mistakes and then help others not to make the same ones. When I like someone or something I like to support them however I can. Nobody besides me is paying my salary, so I find ways to pay the bills however I can. I offer a few surf tours here and there, I try out different …

WRSC Playa Coco : photos from September 2001

August 18th, 2010

For those of you unfamiliar with how Witch’s Rock Surf Camp was started, the short version goes like this: We drove a school bus from San Diego, California, USA to Playa Coco, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We rented an old shack of a house on the south end of the beach, bought the only boat we could afford, and opened WRSC in February 2001. I drove boats to Witch’s Rock and Ollie’s Point and ran our …

1 Week with LSD

August 11th, 2010

When Sean Mattison of Von Sol Surfboards gave me a 5’9″ Von Sol Shadow and told me to ride it and it would change my world, I had to believe him. He had proven to be correct the last time he gauged my surfing and got me riding a 5’9″ Hynson Black Knight Quad. But this time it was different. Where the Hynson rules the fish world, vertical top to bottom snaps or keeping a …